Life in Philippines, as an ordinary middle-class citizen, actually sucks.. I am just too tired of leaving my house two hours before work everyday just so I could get to office on time, I mean my goodness, I just live in Metro Manila, and to be honest, I don’t need 2 hours just to get to work on time, but I had to, because I had to bare not only with the freaking traffic, but with also the buses (you know they have to stop at every corner and practically line up with the other freaking buses even if there really are not much passengers that are interested to get inside these hell-like vehicles), if I do take the MRT, I just might switch my face with another person, that train is practically going to explode, not of bomb but of too much passengers, that no matter how much I try to contain my small trash inside my bag and not to throw it anywhere, some 10 hoodlum will eventually throw theirs without care, I am also very very tired that whenever I turn the TV on for news, I just get dismayed, not only of the news, but also of the commercials and other stupid shows( can you believe that commercial, claiming that we are not number 1 in corruption, I think it was for a particular newspaper, then I guess we’re number 2 in corruption, and we should be glad with that?!?), I can’t believe I still watch TV.. That no matter how much hard work I do, just I could finish more work and move into the next work (to be productive, you know..) but then I’d be deemed weird by other officemates (to say the least), if not be pulled down because of other’s lack of work ethics (or efficiency?), talk about crab mentality..

At the end of the day it is not just about the monetary (yet it is very important and thus it affects all of us), but it is about the inefficiency and incompetency that I deal with everyday, imagine walking in an unwalkable, crooked sidewalk.. those little things that I’m too tired to deal with already, and why do I have to? I could opt to go somewhere else and not be like this..

i bet you must be interested in much debated open skies policy at Clark, i have a copy of Avellino Zapanta rants about it in my blog. You might want to read it.

But for pilots, the CEB GOOKongwei and Uncle Tan’s PAL really pay peanuts. That’s why we choose to fly for others especially for the rich Arabs where the pay is so much more handsome than Rico Yan, with per diem per month alone worth more than what PAL and CEB offered (consider last bargain).

kev

1. As with a lot of the people here, I believe that we have find ways to control the continuous population growth. Religion and Human Rights is one big opposition to this. I would guess that human rights activist would say that even the poorest should have the right to have as many babies as they want. But they would not think about the children’s right to eat well, live well, education…etc. Then they will blame the government for not taking care of the poor. Bad… They need to be learn simple cause and effects.

2. We can only hope to slow down the increase of population, but what will we do to the billions who are already living? Livelihood programs, things like that? Just find something useful for them to do, if they lack skills, give them at least basic education, enough for them to be factory workers or whatever.

Problem is, most people wants to take shortcuts. Even if they are not skilled, they would not want to take mundane jobs because they will be paid less, they would rather be drug pushers, holduppers, swindlers, because it takes less effort but gives more proffit.

3. We have a beautiful country, most of us know that already. Improving tourism will bring more tourists of course, meaning more money, more jobs for the provinces, so less people will look for jobs here in the metro and will end up being squatters.

4. For the politicians. Is it possible to let the constituents know of the proposed projects, inluding the budget and procurement of materials BEFORE they are actually implemented? I’m guessing it is possible, but this would lessen the income/kickback of some people so it is not implemented.

The discussion caught my attention and it makes me happy that there are people out there who are deeply angry about our country’s current situation.

In truth the only way we can change things is if we, the educated middle class, start participating in elections and making a stand. We allow the actors and actresses to run for office, we allow the drug lords to be elected and we allow the family of former dictators back into our country.

Unless some of us find our way in government to change things, our country will never recover from this disease of corruption.