i believe in GOOD

i believe in good because GOD is good :)

i woke up with a backache. AGAIN. the sleeping in fetal position must stop. i thought i wasn't going to be able to wake up and stand up straight this morning because it hurt so much. but i had to drag my lazy self for my 8.30 am class. in hopes of getting to class on time, i took the cab when i couldn't hail an FX on the way to school. only, i took a cab halfway to save money (yeah right. like i saved taking a cab halfway!). so anyway, my point of telling this story is that i picked up a wallet that somebody left at the backseat of the cab. i was hesitant at first. to pick it up or not to pick it up? then i remembered the time when i dropped my wallet in a cab losing 4000 pesos that i had saved for months in hopes of going on a shopping spree before freshman year of college started. so i know how it feels to lose a wallet along with your important ids and all. i took the wallet and checked phone numbers which i could use to call the owner. the wallet is really tattered and torn. no kidding. plus, there isn't money inside. just two 5 peso bills that they stopped making already and a 1000 Indonesian currency note. it's still inside my bag. i'm still debating whether to give it back personally to the owner after calling the number or like Bea had suggested... just have it snail mailed to be safe. my professor pointed out that the wallet must have already been stolen then the thief took the money (which is why it's empty) and left the wallet in the cab. it does make sense doesn't it? so now i'm scared! what if this guy will think that i was the one who stole the wallet? sheesh.

in Professor Mateo's class, she started by asking us about what are stand is regarding the wiretapping scandal and the president's situation. i'm sure you have ideas about the Philippine's present political situation. everything has gone haywire, if you'd ask me. i pity the Philippines. once again, we're attempting to oust a president. and then what? who will become the next president? the whole system is corrupt itself. don't you see how history is repeating itself over and over again? and that this people power is a cycle? it worked twice. people are attempting to try it again to oust yet another president.

when professor mateo asked the puzzling question: SO WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE SOLUTION?

we all had different answers but the most interesting of all is TO WIPE OUT THE OLDER GENERATION. HAHA. yes! like The Great Flood or maybe mass killing of twenty-somethings and above to clean the system and maybe start anew. then again, this is UNdoable, of course. the idea may be impossible but it's the closest to the perfect solution. the majority of political figures will be corrupt eventually because politics is a MUD BATH. you enter it clean with no intentions but to serve your countrymen and then what? you see how easy money is. you become a megalomaniac. you start aspiring for bigger and bigger things. so the system will be corrupt again.

it's really sad. i don't know what else to say, except that i really hope this hoopla ends really soon. this scandal/impeachment attempt isn't painting a pretty picture of the country at all.

my whole day went well aside from the tattered and torn wallet still inside my messenger bag and another incident which i will talk about in the following paragraphs.

i love my urban studies class. it's a three hour class where we discuss about Local Government Units in the Philippines. it can give you a splitting headache but it's interesting to study LGUs, really. plus, Professor Karganilla is such an animated professor. he talks about the Local Government Code, the Philippine Constitution, and anything related to urban studies like it's the most interesting topic on earth! plus today i sat with paolo m., tal, and paulo p. it's always fun to sit with these guys. laugh trip. HAHA. the whole class is fun, actually. lots of laughs. perfect way to stay perky when you're dead tired and all you want to do is crawl under the covers and hibernate.

my father picked me up again from school at 6pm. when i got to the car, i put my book bag on my lap. he suggested that i put the bag on the backseat. he picked up my bag and threw it at the back. i left it there and off we went on our way home. halfway home... i got dizzy so i reached for my bag at the backseat to check my glasses. to my horror... IT WASN'T THERE!!!! i got more dizzy because i knew i was dead meat. my mother was going to kill me either by:

a. strangling me
b. beating me to death
c. psychologically torment me
d. yell at me like there's no tomorrow

so i pretended to sleep because i didn't want my father to notice that i was already in panic. when we got home, he just dropped me off because he was going to meet my mother at a restaurant where they were having dinner with some relatives. i was depressed by then. i didn't know what to do! my mind was racing. i loved those pair of glasses!! plus, it would be a hassle to get another one made and pay for another pair! when my sister came home i told her all about it. kuya John offered to take me back to school to look for the glasses which i was sure i left at school inside my last classroom. so off we three went back to school at 8pm!!! when i got there... i ran to the classroom and it wasn't there anymore!!! i wanted to cry! i told my sister i was really sad. we talked to the guard and the guard helped out but the janitor he asked said he didn't see anything.

on the way home, kuya JOhn suggested that it probably fell in the car on my way home. something inside me told me that it was there and i became happy again. i was praying and praying the whole time since all the commotion started. when i got home, my parents were already home so i had to make an excuse when i got the car keys from my father. my sister and kuya John helped me search the car and lo and BEHOLD!!!!!

IT. WAS. AT. THE BACKSEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it fell there! it must have fallen when my father tossed my book bag on our way home! oh wow!!!!

i believe in good! i believe in good karma! what goes around comes around, right? i believe that GOD listens to our prayers!!! i believe in the power of FAITH. :D

thank you apple! haha! we were texting each other the whole time and Pao for confirming that i didn't leave it in class because he saw me put it in my book bag.

phew! thus ended my most grueling night ever. it nearly gave me a heart attack!