"the sky ain't clear. the sky ain't blue. but i will still blabber and so will you." lame... =)
i did something yesterday that i have not done for quite sometime - not turn my computer on in the morning. surprise, surprise, i was able to accomplish a number of houseworks because of that! i didn't turn on my computer until 8:30pm. first thing i did was check on bb8 dish and joker's - two bb8 sites that give updates. then i checked my emails, and went to my usual sites. i ended up going to bed at 1:30am when i intended to at 11pm. oh well...
it was grey, cold and wet yesterday, as it is today, though not as cold. i think we will see rain, on and off, the entire week. good thing i mowed the lawn before the rainy days started. i'm still a long way off from accomplishing the things i set to do this summer. so what else is new...?
we have exactly two weeks until school starts. uggghhh... he will be in 9th grade, the first level in high school. we have a school orientation tomorrow night, and i hope that goes well for him to kick off (what i hope would be) a good start. on thursday morning, he has an appointment with his endocrinologist, then spend some time with his 6th grade principal in his former middle school, to visit and maybe help her with some school stuff. monday morning, we will meet up with his guidance counselor to go over his schedule. then monday pm, he has his therapy session.
my brother called earlier from manila. he hasn't called in quite a while. said he will call again in the weekend so i(we) could talk to my mom and dad, and my sister. everything is fine with them. said it is also raining there constantly, which is causing a lot of havoc (as usual) on everyboday. there are times when dep ed suspends classes when all the students are already in school. it is hard when that happens because they don't have the school buses like we do here, to bring the kids back home. there are privately owned mini vans that parents (who can afford) contract to take their kids to and from school. but like i said, only those who can afford have access to these vans. some parents would pick their children up from school but most kids would travel back home, on their own, and usually through flooded streets. this happens every single year for as long as i can remember. i used to be one of those kids who trudged through the flood waters just to get home.
i'm already beyond outraged by this, and the many other incompetencies of the government. i am more saddened and disheartened by the state my country is in right now. the conditions, political and social, are as bad as ever, if not worse. but the saddest part is seeing my countrymen divided in so many ways. there is a part of society that has this sense of apathy where they no longer question the social and political injustices that pervade their existence, and seemed to have accepted that this may be the norm. then there are those who have this sense of complacency, who seemed to be unaffected by it all as long as they (and their families) are not directly touched by the social and political injustices around them.
i don't know if i'm being hypocritical about all these. maybe i am... because i view these deplorable circumstances from afar. when i hear about these things, i rant and rave, cry and feel outraged, and yet, i do nothing beyond these feelings. i feel helpless. sometimes, i blame my countrymen for not doing anything, for being complacent and apathetic. but then again, i may be just like them. but where do we start? what do we do? i feel rotten every single day i watch my country unravel from afar...
