Of Time and Hostage Drama
NOTE: Around 40% of this post is written in Tagalog.
Last week, when I had my oral defense in Philosophy, I was asked what my philosophy in life is. I remembered what my teacher said, “You can summarize your philosophy in a quote.” So I quickly said that time is very important (instead of time is gold).
My blockmates laughed when I said that. I suppose they laughed because they know that I’m very strict with the time. If it was set that we’ll have a meeting at 10 o’clock, expect me to be in the meeting place thirty minutes before ten. And I end up, most of the time, waiting for around 1.5 hours in the meeting place just so the people that I have to meet to arrive. I’m not the one whom you’ll wait for. In the contrary, I’m the one who waits. But I don’t say that I’m always on time, there are times that I’m late for an event or whatsoever, especially if there are factors that are way beyond my control.
For somebody like me, I can’t afford to lose time. Time is more precious than gold to me. Twenty-four hours is not enough.
I’m just so glad that it’s already our vacation. I’m glad that I have plenty of time to do things that I want to do. I have so many plans for this website, now that I have 1.5 GB of space.
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Have you seen the news about the hostage drama here in the Philippines? What a shocker! Thirty-one Twenty-six children and four teachers were held as hostages for almost ten hours! And would you believe that the alleged leader of this hostage drama, Jun Sucat, is the owner of the daycare center where these 31 26 children have been enrolled for a year? It’s very ironic isn’t it? What’s more, his motive for doing this hostage crisis was only that he wanted his students to have support for their education of at and housing for them and their families. To make it more ironic, he said, “I love these kids.”
What I can say is that what he did was wrong. There are so many other ways how he can get what he wants. But making this kids as collateral? That’s way too stupid. Pero siguro, hindi mo rin siya masisisi kase sobrang bulok na ng gobyerno natin. Wala na siya sigurong makitang paraan para makuha ang atensyon ng gobyero/media/tao kung hindi mag-hostage.
Kaso, grabe, nakakahiya talaga ang nangyaring ‘to, lalo na sa international community. Kaninang pinapanood ko sa CNN ito, nanliit ako. Sobra.
Isa pang masama, pati ba naman ito nahaluan ng politics? Siguro yung kay Revilla, okay pa. Magkumpare naman sila e. Kaso, Chavit? Bakit siya nandoon?
It was not clear however what SingsonÂ’s connection was with Ducat.
I’m just glad that this hostage crisis is over — after almost ten hours and no one was badly hurt.
If you want to know more about this breaking news, you may want to go to INQ.net, or even CNN.com, but mind you, the local media, in this case, is more comprehensive.
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Off-topic, back in February, I bought a Sun sim. Feel free to ask my number in your comments, and I’ll give you my number via email. I’ve decided to tweak the layout. Photo credit.
