food poisoning and kris aquino

i've been down for the count for one whole day. imagine a whole day of stomach pains, lbm, and fever. had to miss very important meetings. the one weekend where high angle training is cancelled and i am forced to spend the friday at home.

anyway, national news has been held at bay because the front page has covered the story of Kris Aquino and Joey Marquez. Our country is in too sad a state that people are more interested in what happens to kris aquino rather than what happens to the economy or whoever's not telling the truth in government. i still find it sad that a lot of influential people vote for connections and not for what's right.

people, rich and poor alike have the loyalist mentality. people are so into their candidates that they blind themselves to the fact that their candidates have done so many crimes against the country and against humanity. it makes me wonder how the blind following started. for rich people, they become loyalists because of the power struggle... apparently even if the current administration is in power, these people loyalists vote for still have some hold on the government.

somehow the power issue justifies loyalism in the rich, but i don't understand how the uneducated masa can be loyalists. what do they get from being loyalists, anyway... maybe it's the false promise and the one-time assistance that they received from these people (which the masa pays for via taxes, anyway).

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smoking

i received an SMS from my hunny last night. she's apologizing for smoking five cigarettes last night. i'm pretty disappointed. i have to talk to her about it... probably write her a letter so as to better let her understand how i'm feeling.

that's all for now.

MARS Attacks!

recent meteorological events show that mars is the closest it's been to earth in about 7000 years. it would take about the same amount of time for the same thing to happen again.

doomsayers say that the proximity of mars is a bad omen, that bad things will happen. meteorologically, the weather patterns could be affected, but last night was the first time i heard about the planet affecting people psychologically and mentally.

Hunny and i were talking at Tita C's house with Tita G. That was after an hour and a half of grueling Meteor Garden at the PEAK.

Anyway, they said that the proximity of mars brought about so much confusion in people that everyone ended up fighting and no one could understand each other. This was partly the reason they could come up with why Hunny and I had our first major fight last Friday night, which was resolved Saturday afternoon... after a long time of relaxing and introspection.

I believe that the zodiacs have a way of influencing a person's characteristics and maybe their personality, but i don't believe in blaming everythign for it. i believe in the strength of one's person that one can overcome what others believe to be fated. it's the same as the nature vs. nurture argument. we are destined, somewhat, to be what we already are, but who we choose to be is up to us.