The following is parts of a piece written by Seth Mydans from the New York Times, with my comments in between (in italics)… I think it’s an excellent piece that reflects how I feel too about what is going on in the Philippines right now…

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Coup plotters arrested, troops in the streets, excited crowds calling for the president’s ouster, soldiers and senators testing the wind and forming alliances.

The Philippines is at it again.

*** For those who do not know what’s happening, the Philippines is on the verge of yet another political crisis. A State of Emergency has been called by the President, after a coup – an attempt to overthrow her government.

On Friday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency, saying a coup plot had been foiled and demonstrations in the streets were banned.

Yesterday, police raided a pro-opposition newspaper in Manila. Several people were arrested for questioning, including a leftist congressman and a former police chief, and senior military officials said about a dozen young officers were lining up to turn themselves in before they could be arrested.

It is the latest in a relentless procession of political disruptions that have crippled political and economic development for the last two decades.

Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the Philippines’ shining moment, a foiled coup attempt followed by a huge popular uprising called “People Power” that drove former president Ferdinand Marcos from power.

Ever since, the country has obsessively tried to re-create that moment, assuring continued instability with seemingly unending coup rumours and coup attempts, and with repeated popular uprisings.

*** Come to think of it, the necessity of “People Power 2″ which was the movement to oust Joseph Estrada, the 3rd President after Ferdinand Marcos after he was charged with corruption, is just sad. First, Joseph Estrada was a movie star… Which is the evidence of what is inherently wrong with the Philippine population: most of them can’t seem to separate fanatasism from the necessities of responsible governance… Last election, Fernando Poe Jr, yet another movie star almost won the presidency, while Noli De Castro, a TV Anchorman won the vice presidency…

Now, a new catchphrase has entered the Philippine lexicon: “People power fatigue.” This nation of political romantics has sunk into a mood of weariness and disillusionment.

“I’m not getting emotionally involved any more,” says Sheila Coronel, the country’s leading investigative journalist.

The genuine People Power uprising of 1986 was led by Corazon Aquino, who followed Marcos as president. She was out in the streets again this weekend — again in her yellow dress, again rallying a crowd to oust a president.

It is a paradox.

*** It sure is. I’m going to bold the next paragraph cause it’s so insighful….

The restoration of democracy, and the democratic transition to a new president, were Aquino’s prime legacies. Yet, she has led mass demonstrations against all three of her democratically elected successors.

She blocked the first one, Fidel Ramos, from changing the constitution in 1998 to keep himself in power. She helped drive the second, Joseph Estrada, from office in 2001 in what became known as “People Power 2.”

Now, she is challenging Arroyo in the streets.

*** Cory Aquino could have be a national hero… an icon, but it seems to me now that she really doesn’t have a sense of what democracy truly is…

The president is as unpopular as any leader since polling began during the Marcos administration. She is widely accused of rigging her election in 2004.

Aquino says Arroyo should resign to restore legitimacy to the presidency, though it is not clear what would happen after that.

The net effect of the continuing demands for Arroyo’s resignation is to knock the country off balance once again.

Despite the president’s lack of popularity, Aquino has not rallied the huge wave of popular will that she did in the past.

However hard she may try to re-create it, this is not 1986, when nuns knelt in the streets to block tanks and hundreds of thousands of people rose against a dictator.

A survey in January by the respected polling agency Pulse Asia found that only 36 per cent of Filipinos now say they supported the ouster of Marcos.

*** Good for you.

Just as the original People Power was seen as a model of non-violent resistance, the letdown now is an object lesson in the limits and even the destructive effects of a popular uprising.

Columnist Amado Doronila, who once celebrated People Power, now calls it “a source of political instability that has undermined the strengthening of political institutions and democratic legal process.”

*** All it is now is a quick fix… Which it seems like is all Filipinos want… Wham bam People Power Revolution… Edsa II or is it Edsa III now? Or wait… Edsa IV! President is ousted. New President is installed. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CHANGES.

As it continues to chase the old elation of people power, the Philippines sometimes verges on self-parody.

In recent weeks, the debilitating political games have included talk of a bizarre alliance of the three former presidents — Aquino, Ramos and Estrada — against Arroyo.

*** How ridiculous is that? Have they gone out of their mind? Or are they just really really really STUPID.

The most recent coup attempts have degenerated into the comic, when a group of young officers seized a residential hotel in 2003; then into mockery, when a retired general seized a social club last December and proclaimed himself head of a provisional government.

*** My mom told me once that there was an Army Lt. Colonel who attempted a coup, and was caught. But instead of going to jail like he should, he became a senator instead.. I think I’m going to get tired of saying this… But that’s STUPID.

All this continues to divert Filipinos from the poverty, economic and social inequities, population pressures and violent insurgencies that are dragging their nation down.

*** Absolutely! Man, I wish Cory Aquino really knew what she was doing, or heck, even had a basic understanding of economics, maybe she’d see what her actions are really costing the Philippines.

There’s more in the article, but I’ll leave it at that… Needless to say, I am extremely disturbed by the Philippines, though, selfishly, I’m glad that I’m in Canada right now, and not there… Don’t get me wrong. I am proud to call myself a Filipino. But unfortuantely, it seems to me that there are too many of them who are only concerned about dragging themselves and the country down.

I woke up early for a Saturday… 9AM. Hehe. But there was a reason – I went to school to finish off an assignment. I didn’t actually do any *work* I just had to convert some files and then burn a CD, then hand in the assignment. That turned out to be a bit of a disaster… It all should have taken less than 30 mins (and that’s mostly walking around the campus), it ended up being something like 3…

I got to school at like 10:30 and promptly found out that my Amex doesn’t work in the parking machine. So yeah. that was ridiculous. I ended up parking illegaly (cause I thought it would only take 30 minutes). But yes. I then proceeded to wander the school trying to find the computer lab where my Tutorial is normally. I found out that it doesn’t open till 11AM… I finally called Emman to give me directions, which helped. But then there were even more problems in the lab. It wouldn’t burn my cd properly. And after 30 minutes – meaning I’ve been parked illegal for 1 hour by then – I was sure I was gonna get a ticket, I finally stopped trying and decided to just burn the cd at Josh’s house. Thankfully I didn’t get a parking ticket. That would have been my 4th since I started school. Anyway. Everything went smoothly after that. Josh came with me to school to hand in my assignment. He sat in the car so we were just able to park at the curb…

Anyway, I had the guys over after. We had some pizza for supper, and then played some ping pong for a bit. Then we got started on what we need to do at Emman’s dad’s birthday party. LOL. His mom called me at like 9:30 or so in the morning asking if I was coming, then telling me that his dad made a special request for us (TGIF) to do a special number… We’ve done this kind of thing before. We sang at Joanne’s debut… but what was, I think, the best that we ever did was this concert type thing that we did 3 years ago as a fund raiser for the Church’s Mexico Missions trip. We called it “Ninja Vanish”. It was a big fight scene that we choreographed (well, the guys choreographed it, I was working alot around that time… but they wrote me in it anyway… I was the Ninja, all I had to do was vanish… hehe).

Anyway, that’s what we had in mind for this.

Bleh. I didn’t practice much today. And yesterday. And the day before. I know the music alot better than when I first got it, obviously. But I really wanted to have it down pat by now… I only have 2 weeks from tommorow… and I have a midterm to worry about this week…

Meh. Ninja Vanish!!!

Ok, so today was my interview for Area Coordinator.. and yeah. Well there goes all of my confidence. Let me explain.

The plus side… 2 of the interviewers, Lora Tanfara and Kevin Ainey are both Recreationists that I’ve worked with already. In fact, Lora is on my resume as one of my references… And Kevin… Well I’ve known Kevin since I started working for the City almost 5 years ago. Anyway, that plus the Positive 3-way I got last year (in essence, a letter of commendation) and the letter that one of my kid’s parents wrote to my supervisors last year (that’s now in my records) would deffinately help. And… I helped out with training last year (both staff and volunteers).

So yeah, list of good stuff… now on the point that really brought my confidence down is this. When I interviewed to be a Coordinator, they were interviewing something like 15 people for 11 positions. Gave me roughly 2/3 chances to make it. Well here… for AC, they’re interviewing 14 for 5 positions… That’s down to just over 1/3! I was pretty confident last year that I could beat out 5 other people to make it. But 10? And I know the people who applied too… At least I can make very good guesses as to who applied. And I’m pretty sure that most of them have more years than me. And on top of that, I’m pretty convinced that I did really bad on the “Scenarios” section… *DOCUMENT!!!* Always Document! Ghar. Something I kept forgetting to mention… And this time around, they weren’t giving me hints either… I still remember for my interview for Camp Coordinator, the interviewers kind of led me on a little bit…

Anyway, we’ll know next week.. For now there’s nothing much else I can do about it. Bleh.

I don’t get it. Don’t they know that people just delete the crap that they send out? All Junk Mail is is a waste of my time… It takes me about 3 seconds to identify junkmail, highlight all of them, then delete them for each of my emails (I have 3) each time I check them (which, can be up to 3 times a day… let’s say 2 a day on average). That means everyday, I spend 18 seconds to delete junk mail… every week, 126, every year, 6552… Which means that for the 6 years I’ve had internet/emails (and there was a point when I had like 5 emails, some of them, the free email kind which get ridiculous amounts of junkmail), I’ve spent 109 Hours and 12 Minutes on Junk Mail. That’s almost 5 days worth… That’s even stupider than the Ku Klux Klan (see the post below).

Ok. I had the Mormons over again today. Which was cool. Those guys are so nice, but then what else would you expect from LDS (Latter Day Saints) Church Missionaries. I’m learning alot about their beliefs, which is helping me frame my responses. Sometimes I kind of feel bad (especially days like today when it’s like negative 10), almost like I’m leading them on… But I did make it clear to them when I agreed to meet that it’s purely for curiosity. That and I’ve talked about having gone to Capernwray (Bible School) quite a bit. It does seem that (amazingly) they don’t know too much about other Christian denominations. But then I guess we’d be even cause I don’t know much about Mormons. Anyway. I gave them my latest Romans assignment (the one from my LTS Year), which is, as I explained to them, is kind of like my “Mere Christianity”… Mere Christianity is CS Lewis’ book which explains the basics of the Christian Faith stripped of denomination-specific doctrines. So yeah. That’s what that Romans Assignment is to me (of course *alot* more basic and with less detail…) It serves two purposes… one that they understand where I’m coming from, and can give me explanations about their faith accordingly… And of course the other is to serve as a witness to them about my faith…

Anyway, I guess that’s the highlight of my day. Other than that, I finished my Visual Basic Assignment (Printed out and everything…) Now I need to go to UTSC to make an executable program out of my code… and of course at the same time, hand it in (after I burn it onto a disk… I’m sure they have CD-Rs in the computer at school… hopefully). Oh and I need to buy some 9 x 12 Envelopes to hand in the assignment of course. Just one of the idiocies of the ComSci program at UTS… My friends tell me how stupid they are about things like that… My assignment *has* to be handed in using 9×12 envelopes… It *has* to be handed in to the *right* slot (there’s three of them) for the *right* TA (there’s also 3 of them). At my PoliSci Class… In fact all of my classes at St. George (the main University of Toronto Campus), they just let us bring it to the lecture and drop it in a box…

Meh. I practiced my music some. Actually alot. I want to have those pieces down pat by Sunday… In between all of that, I also watched Men’s Hockey at the Olympics, went grocery shopping, and did some laundry. Fun day!

That reminds me… yesterday I had lunch with the college kids of TGIF (and Laura Wiebe) at Pizza Hut… All you can eat lunch.. oh yeah! Man I think I ate a whole medium sized pizza… plus the pasta and garlic breads too… It was great. Then we came back to my place to play some Settlers of Catan and watch the Women’s Hockey gold medal game. Yeah Canada! Then I took em home and… what else, practiced my music.

Ok. Well I think I’m gonna practice my music some… after CSI of course.

… from “Romans – The Reason Why” (ie, my Romans assignment)

The reason why I believe in Jesus Christ is that He is faithful and true to everything that I am and hope to be. He loves me “warts and all”: despite my imperfections, despite my disobedience and despite my unfaithfulness. His grace and mercy abound far more than I could ever imagine. And the only way that I can respond to this is that I can’t. I can’t find salvation in myself. I can’t even be truly human by myself. It takes Him in me – his continuing work in me – for me to ever come close to His expectations. This was a mystery for so long. But now it’s revealed. It’s in me. It can be in you. Christ in us, the hope of Glory! Wow. Thank You, Jesus! “Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.” (Romans 16:25-27).

Yes indeed stupid. Incredibly stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

And I mean that in it’s literal term. As in, they’re dumb. Slow. Retarded… (I’m not trying to be obscene now or anything, I’m just trying to make my point with synonyms.. LOL). Kind of like the Flat Earth Society who are at least the “good” kind of stupid, you know… just… kind of naive.. Not hurting anyone (except me, with the headache I got trying to figure out exactly how they planned to prove that there’s a flat earth).

Honestly. You’d have to be really dense to *truly* believe in that crap that they (back to the KKK now) put out. It makes no sense at all!

Meh enough with that. I’m watching this thing on skinheads and KKK on A&E right now… all because I can’t sleep. I dunno why, cause I had a pretty tiring day… I went to church this morning. hehe. duh. I went to the 9AM, which no one else apperantly went to (no one, meaning, none of my friends.. who mostly went to the 11). But meh, I enjoyed it, it was a communion service. Then I went home for a bit and practiced my music for the last coupla times. And then I went back to church to hook up with the guys so we can eat lunch. Well typical that we didn’t get out of the building till pretty much 1 (service ended at 12:30). And I had rehearsal at 1:30. We went to SinoPino for lunch where I ordered at like.. 1:05, got my food at 1:20 and I had to leave at 1:25… meaning, I got to eat about 4 bites before I had to go.

Rehearsal was alright. There’s some cool people in the orchestra, even though most of them are high school kids. I found out that I practiced the wrong stuff… :S Rob (director) left me a note on the music, which I apperantly ignored. Anyway, it meant that I sucked during the rehearsal, but it also means that I’m less nervous about the music now… not as hard as I thought… not as many as I thought. It was really nice hearing all the parts together too. So yeah, that was cool. Meh. Fun fun.

Heh. Stupid KKK.

It’s one of those days you know. I just feel great. Yesterday, I was let out of work early. That was really funny too, cause I was talking with Sarah in the Fitting Rooms earlier, about how we’d like to get off early (cause we were listening to the hour’s read and we were down in sales). Anyway, I just happened to be up at the front doing a phone check when Alka asks me when I’m off.. I was like “well 4 o’clock, unless you’re cutting shifts” hehe. She asked if I wanted to go home early, and I said yes, cause I had a 5-hour shift (The way breaks go at Old Navy, if you wokr less than 3 hours, you don’t get a shift. 3.25 – 5.25 hours, you get a 15-minute paid break… 5.5 – 6.25 or something… you get a 30 minute unpaid break. Any more than that, you get 2 15-minute paid breaks and an hour unpaid). Anyway, in my opinion, getting a 5-hour shift was about the worst shift, cause you only get a 15-minute break, which usually ends up like after 2 hours of work (meaning, I have to work 3 more hours after the break)… which makes my feet hurt. So yeah, she left me off and Sarah was mad cause they weren’t cutting shifts of the Fitting Room people (I was covering the fitting room while she was doing go-backs… but I wasn’t scheduled for hte fitting room. In fact I haven’t even been trained for fits).

Hmph. All that to say, that it works out really well cause I really wanted to go home and sleep. Cuase for some reason, I couldn’t sleep the night before ’til like 4AM then. Again for some reason, I woke up yesterday at like 8:30AM. And I didn’t want to go back to sleep cause if I did, I would never wake up in time for my 11AM shift. So after I bought a pair of shorts and got my paycheque and all.. I went home. Actually I got home after I deposited my cheque first. But pretty right when I got home, I went to bed.

I woke up around 9PM and watched some TV, then I practiced some piano… then I went to bed early (by which I mean 1AM or so). And then I woke up this morning, and I was just… feeling great!

I finished reading the 3rd book in the Corps Series… 8 more books and I’m done. I don’t think I’ll keep going though… maybe 1 or 2 more books, then I really need to concentrate on school work. I plan to actually do some reading during reading week (ain’t that grand?). Plus I need to finalize my Visual Basic Assignment for my ComSci class (which requires a visit to UTSC). I’m gonna have to go late at night, so that parking is cheap… Then I have to finish my PoliSci paper, ideally before March (it’s not due until the 20th of March). Yeahh I can be a keener sometimes. But it mostly has to do with the other papers I need to write later on, which is kind of freaking me out. Plus, this paper, even though it’s supposed to be the longest (at like 5k words), is actually the easiest ’cause I finished all the research already (also meaning that it’s the easiest to procrastinate on). But yeah, I have 2 other essays which need some serious research on it, so I really need to get this one done.

Uhm. I’m commited to practicing this music for at least 3 hours today… which means I still have 2.5 hours to make up. I’ll probably do another 1.5 before I go to work, then I’ll do the last hour before I sleep. Tommorow I’m going to do 4 hours of practicing, cause I just don’t know how much more will be expected of me (I’m supposed to get even more music on Sunday).

Phew. Ok. back to the Olympics.. then some more practicing.

So I picked up my music for the orchestra today. It was a bunch of loose leaf sheet music, and a small uh.. how to describe it. Binderish book… at first glance I was like. Hmm, this isn’t bad. I thought the small binderish book only held one song, so I was like, ok two songs to learn before Sunday… And probably a couple more that they said they’ll be giving me later on. Plus these songs are for Easter which isn’t till… looking at my Outlook Calendar… Oh sweet. April 16. Ok that’s not so bad. But anyway. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the small binderish book actually held like 15 pages or so on it, double sided. It wasn’t just one song, but the score (for the Piano) of a whole Cantata. And I was like. Crud. But that was before I realized that Easter isn’t until April 16th. I think this is doable.

Anyway. Earlier today, I got a call from the City. Horay! I got an interview for AC – Area Coordinator, which is a promotion from my current position (well my last summer’s position) of Camp Coordinator. Sweet! I think I’m going to buy a car. And probably a new computer. But we’ll see about that. The only reason right now that I really want a new computer is cause I want to play the games that I bought (Call of Duty and stuff…) But meh, I have my dad’s laptop for that. We’ll see how it goes.

Uhm. I think that’s about it for the day. Reading week has officially started for me. Yay!

So. I was eating a piece of bannana bread like… well like 5 minutes ago. And I was looking down at the butter and I thought. Hmm. That could taste good. So. I grab a butter knife and I spread some on. And whaddaya know. It was good! Then I sat down and I started thinking. When did I add “Have a Heartattack” to my list of things to do before I turn 21? Hehe. Oh why do the unhealthy stuff taste so good!

Speaking of a list of things to do before I turn 21… That’d be a good idea. But wait, I turn 21 in just over 8 months. And wait. I still need to get my full G (In Ontario, Driver’s Licenses go G1, G2, then full G… Right now I have a G2 license, which is practically a full license. Except when it expires, I have to renew to a G1.. Which means I can’t drive by myself… so yeah… I need to get my G). Anyway. Maybe a list of things to do before I get married… Hehe. Meh I think I’m gonna sleep.

Well, I had a virus scare earlier, which prompted me to email everyone on my mailing list (freaking 400+ people, lots I haven’t even talked to in a while, and lots of emails too that I’m sure don’t exist anymore… I should clean up my address book, but I’m too lazy). Oh and of course my Blogger email (the one you use to post things on your blog by emailing it) was on it too, so for a litlte while my email was up here… But I deleted that already.

Anyway, I don’t think it’s anything serious. Even thought technically, my virus scan still hasn’t fixed it, but I at least deleted stuff out of my registry already…

I left work early on Thursday, and my shifts for Yesterday and Today were cut… I’m still alright with my elections money, but I’m starting to think (after 2 wholly unproductive days) that I probably shouldn’t have agreed to having so many shifts cut. For one thing, it’s simply more money… Better working to earn the money than sitting at home and reading (I reread the first book of the Corps Series, called Semper Fi… That would be my 5th time reading that book), and I’m now going through the second book, Call to Arms which I believe I’ve only read 3 times.

Hmm… On Friday some Mormons came to my door, and I invited them for a chat on Tuesday. I’m sure that’s going to be interesting. Today (Saturday) I spent alot of time doing chores, amazingly. Did some Laundry and cleaned my room… especially my closet. I’m scared at the number of clothes I have. I’m not sure it’s normal for a guy to have that much clothes. But then again I work at Old Navy…

Anyway, back to why I don’t think I should have let them cut so many of my shifts. Well for one thing, I could have used the extra money. I think I said that already before. But now too, they’re always going to be coming to me if they need to cut someone’s shift. I feel a bit alienated from Old Navy. I don’t feel like all my friendships there are superficial and I really didn’t get to know anyone well at all… well except for Leanna, kindoff. But I haven’t even seen her in a while. I really should contact her. Oh and Suhganha (I’m pretty sure that’s not how you spell her name), who I was trained with. I think it all really started when I didn’t go for the Christmas Kick-Off… I kind of perceive that as a real bonding time among the staff… meh… Oh I forgot Jason, but he quit like a month after we all started working. But I got to know him some, mostly cause he was in kind of the same situation as me (a few years “behind” in University… except he started his program over, while I went to BC).

Hmm. I’m taking so long on this, I don’t think I want to even get into some of my favourite things… (I’m cutting my nails… again… between sentences. I’m cutting my nails again – I just cut them on like Wednesday – cause while I was cutting a hang nail on my index finger on my left hand – I ended up cutting the rest of the nail. I was going to leave it, but then I realized that my nails had grown enough that it would be really noticable… hehe).

Oh yeah, I was watching the Much VJ Search today. Man I should have gone for it! LOL. I wouldn’t even have been the chubbiest there… lol. Doubtful I would have even made it to the top 20 (which was immediately cut to 10), but hey you never know. I’m alright in front of a camera… I think. But some of those people are annoying. And there isn’t even a pretty Filipina girl on it (I’m not sure if Larissa is Flip… but even then, she’s not all that cute). So I don’t think I’ll be watching the rest of it.

Meh. That’s it for now… So much for Part 2… Maybe tommorow.

listening to MercyMe – Spoken For
verse “Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.” – 1 Kings 8:61

Here’s a list of things that I just like. There’s no particular order or genre. Just things that come to mind that I really enjoy… Enjoy!

1. Days like today when I could sit around and do nothing (but of course I didn’t do just nothing… I read a book… for enjoyment… not for like school or anything)
2. I would have really liked a day like today if I was sitting on a beach somewhere doing nothing (by which I mean, reading).
3. Listening to music on long drives or subway/bus rides.
4. The sound made when I catch a baseball with a baseball glove.
5. Hearing the crack of an apple when I bite into it.
6. I LOVE AMBROSIA APPLES. Oh they’re so freaking expensive… but man! They’re amazing.
7. I also really really like eating. Especially Pizza Hut Meatlovers Pizza
8. Salisbury Steak (basically a burger pattie) or just regular steak, with my special mushroom sauce and rice.
9. I really like Bacardi Rum… hehe.
10. I like the idea of opening a nice cold beer and just sitting down and watching tv… just the idea of it of course (I dunno I guess I think it’s such a man thing to do), but the problem is, I don’t like beer that much.
11. I like the feeling when I win the final hand at a sit-and-go tournament on Score Poker… Haven’t done that in a while. It’s so weird too cause the last like… 5 tournaments I’ve played, I placed top 3, but not a single game winner…
12. I really like playing poker. And Settlers of Catan… And Monopoly. Hehe.
13. I like playing the piano. Just sitting down and playing.
14. I really like the guitar. I think it’s the ultimate instrument, cause it’s so portable and still such a good accompaniment instrument… wish I could actually play good.
15. I also think that the Ukulele is a cool instrument!
16. Hmph. I like that feeling I finally finished that crazy long essay, or when I walk out of my last exam during the examination period… Even if I think I did bad, I just like the preasure off, and knowing that it’s finally off my hands…
17. I like cutting my nails… Especially when I’ve let it grow out a bit…
18. I like the… about 5th or 6th day and the 3 or 4 days after that, after I buzzed my hair. It’s the perfect time, when I my hair is not so rough, like when I just finished buzzing it, but also not so soft that it doesn’t feel cool when I rub it.
19. I like rubbing my eyes. It just feels refreshing.
20. Ohh, speaking of refreshing feelings… Well first, I like the feeling after I just finished showering (except during the winter when it’s crazy cold after the shower is over)… but also, I like the feeling of… uhm. “release” Hehe.
21. Speaking of winter, I really like seeing snowy landscapes… *Just seeing* I really hate it when it snows though, cause i have to shovel the drive way, or clean the snow of the car before I can go anywhere, or walk through snow and freeze my feet.
22. I really like just sitting for hours reading Wikipedia… What I do is while I’m reading through a topic I like, I open up windows with topics that come up that I’m interested in too… So basically it’s just chain reading topic after topic, until I wanna go to bed or do something else.
23. I like reading a good book.
24. Good books that I like reading include almost any WEB Griffin novels, or any John Grisham….
25. I’ve read all of John Grisham’s books… and I’ve reread over and over (the most is 3 times over) certain books by WEB Griffin. Specifically this one series of books that he wrote called the Corps, which is about the Pacific War in World War 2. I also really really like (in fact, as much as I love WEB Griffin’s books, this is my favourite) Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6. It’s such an amazing book. I find I can’t really get into alot of Tom Clancy’s books… But the ones that I do, I really really enjoy.
26. I also like other more “intelectual” books… like David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and The Count of Monte Cristo…
27. I really like war movies. I pretty much like reading or watching… or whatever, anthing about war.
28. Of war movies, my favourite has to be Band of Brothers (ok it’s not a movie, but still…). Then there’s Saving Private Ryan, Dirty Dozen, Blackhawk Down, Tears of the Sun, U571 etc. etc.
29. I actually really enjoy going to a theatre and watching a movie.
30. Oh and of course who doesn’t like watching TV? (I know I’ve said alot of “intelectual likes” already what with the encylopedia and novels…) My favourite show of all time is deffinately Friends. Then Simpsons, JAG, CSI, Law and Order (most of them… SVU mainly tho)… oh that’s my other passion… Law stuffs.
31. I really like KC Concepcion (to the left). I don’t even remember how I found out she existed since I’ve been in Canada for so long (she’s Sharon Cuneta’s daughter)… But man, she’s gorgeous. If I can’t marry her, she’s definately my paradigm for a Filipina Girl… Other Paradigms are… Kate Bosworth… Jessica Alba… and Ciara.
32. I like the idea of being in the Philippines… But actually being there… Not so much. I’m just really spoiled by the comforts of being here in Canada.
33. I liked living alone (my parents were away for a month so I lived alone for most of that time), but being in such a big house by myself got kinda boring. But I did really enjoy the feeling of independence when I was alone… I really hope I can do that… that is, move out on my own before I get married… not after, like my parents want… hehe. It’s a Filipino thing! I have cousins who are in their mid-20s and they’re still living at home. Oh Capernwray doesn’t count, cause I was living in a cottage with 5 other guys!
34. Uhm.. Ok I’m finally sleepy. Which is my last one. I like sleep!

I think I’ll continue this list sometime. As for now, I want to sleep…