everybody wants to rule the world

the world, well our world over here, has gone mad (again). 30-50 military officers undergoing trial for failed coup attempts in the last couple of years (yep, one of them has just been elected senator) walked out of court and holed themselves up in one of the most posh hotels in this country's commercial district. they are trying to enjoin everybody else to join their cause- which honestly, is a lost one. even the weather is not cooperating. for most of us corporate slaves it just means work is suspended for most of the afternoon. and some of us now need to contend with possible crisis situation and save at any cost our business operations.

tumultuous times of our lives, dear ian. this is the country you have gone back to and which you will soon leave. but i do not envy you. earlier, as we were discussing contingencies- even when we know on the other side of this city and other parts of luzon, visayas and mindanao people are plotting (reds, black & white, greens, oranges, and the whole fuckin rainbow coalition)- we laughed at this. it seems a military uprising is just another one of them things that make us pinoys. people who can laugh at dead ideals and the lives that have been given us.

would i choose to be someone else? maybe a european perhaps or even japanese, if i had a chance? most probably not. i have done crazy stuff just because i could say "hey, i'm from the third world, what do you care?" or met crazy people like me just because i'm interesting with my stories of pasig river overflowing or eating large snakes cooked in pineapple or thumbing my nose at smelly expats or losing myself into a trance at car taillights during the rush hour.

dear ian, you will not forget me. unlike this mutiny in makati today, i won't be just a passing disturbance in your everyday. i will be like the first EDSA revolution - forever remembered as the one true thing. the nostalgia of it drive people like trillanes to relive it and believe it can't be right to just have one moment of a beautiful thing. but you only do get to have just one. what do you do then if you find yourself in that moment? i would like to believe you will drown yourself in every second, gorge its every detail, and live like you will never be the same again.