God bless the Philippines

all the political turmoil has turned the country's politics and economy into topsy-turvey. it's sad. the winning of Manny Pacquio brought pride and praise from the international community. in Google News, we were "the star". kasi astig tayo. and then the Ultra slash Wowowee gameshow stampede killing a lot of people and injuring hundreds brought the spotlight to the Philippines once again, this time in a negtive light. unfortunately, it was followed by the Leyte St. Bernard village mudslide, which buried the whole village into three stories high of mud and rocks one rainy day. this time it's the coup attempt and national state of emergency that brought us to the spotlight. again, in a negative light.

i don't care what people think. foreigners think that the philippines is such an unfortunate under developed world. unfortunate, yes. OH YES. under developed? OH YES, again. but again, i don't care what people think of the philippines. i just think that we need to right what is wrong with the system right now so that we can finally get on our feet and move on with economic development, national unity, and whatever that is needed in order to get back to the right track. but the sad thing is that i feel that our politicians or whoever are in power are using that power bestowed upon them by the people for their personal gains and hidden agendas.

i don't even know where to side anymore. i don't think that it's because i'm apathetic. i try to feed my feeble mind with whatever news there is on t.v. and read the papers as often as i can (and have Google News as my homepage). but you know... while it is a good thing to be updated with the current events, it breaks my heart to know what's going on.

GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES. we've come a long way. our heroes fought so hard for our freedom and if we can't free ourselves from our own grasps that is slowly choking our country, what will happen to the Philippines in the future? i think the worst kind of conflict is conflict among citizens of ONE COUNTRY. civil war is the worst kind of war because people who belong to one COUNTRY should cooperate and support each other not turn against each other and kill each other. but lets not go there. there's no civil war for the Philippines. i hope this ends soon.

Mau (an LJ friend) said it best in her blog entry:

"These people need to go back to kindergarten."

how sad-- to compare them with kindergarten kids.