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Haha, I didn't mean to post the above with the aborted spelling and no contents but I must have been so distracted I accidentally pressed "publish post."

What could have distracted me yesterday? I can't even now remember. Maybe it was Jun Lozada and his "revelations." Is he for real? I guess he is because he does not pretend to be holier than thou, admitting even to what Miriam Defensor "accused" him of: getting an insurance for himself paid by Philippine Forest Company from Insular Life, with his wife as agent. Besides, what could he possibly gain from coming out in the open? Possibly, harm for himself if not his family. will there be another methane-induced explosion anytime soon like there was when the ZTE-NBN thing exploded some months back? What does that make of us Filipinos?


This a.m. as I read about his press conference in the newspaper there was a quotation ascribed to him, about what a lowly farmer (in economic terms) said when he asked that farmer why they didn't harvest the guavas and sell these to earn some money. What the farmer said struck him, JLo (that's what FG calls him, he said) said. The farmer answered, "Those are for the birds." So that farmer is not lowly at all, he is high up in the totem pole of kindness. He thinks of feeding the birds, when he himself seemed not to have enough to dress well: his shirt was torn in some parts, JLo said. the ironies in this world abound.

The other day, as a friend and I spoke, she mentioned wanting to live in Batanes which is famed for the simplicity of lifestyle thereat. A few weeks ago, when the contestants in Eat Bulaga were those who had proven their honesty, the jackpot question was "Where is Honesty Cafe where people just get coffee, pay and get change without anyone watching?" The answer, of course, was Batanes. One time on TV when the province was featured, the jail was shown. It didn't have a lock and had only one inmate. Sometimes, it was empty. UTOPIA. There's a joke though about Batanes. Or is it true? The winds there are so strong, one doesn't find chickens in the province.

I almost forgot, as I devoured the accounts on JLo, I was reminded of The Sound of Music when the von Trapps where sheltered by the nuns or more accurately, shielded from the soldiers who were out to get them. The furtive arrangements the La Salle brothers and the nuns made for Lozada were pampelikula...