With all the funfare about the supposed to be Coup last week, the President placed the entire country under a State of Emergency (Proclamation 1017) — sounds familiar, especially to those who are already alive when Martial Law was declared by Marcos.

Some luminaries and known Arroyo critics had already been arrested since Friday, including Prof. Randy David.

Over the weekend, the Palace also asked the media (TV, Radio, and Print) not to cover events that may spark the masses ideology.

Yesterday, the Daily Tribune has been placed under the control of the government, citing reasons that the paper promotes ideas for the public clamor to go against with the government.

My question now is this: When will the government start censorship of the internet, the Pinoy Bloggers in particular? When will this stupidity end?

With just fifteen (15) days of being inside the house of “Kuya”, one of the “housemates” already had quit, another one already told “Kuya” her intention of going out, and another one is about to face her superiors for being in AWOL from the service.

The idea of the Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) is great, but it really degrades the idea of family — the Filipino Family, in general.

To be continued …

It’s been barely less than a month since the tradegy at ULTRA, where around 70 lives perished, just yesterday a mudslide was trigerred at St. Bernard in Leyte. As of this writing, around 30 bodies has been recovered from the mudslide already. What really shocked me and my officemates last night (when we saw the headline in CNN) was the fact that around 1,500 are still missing and are feared to be dead by now.

Let us all pray for the souls of those who perished in this calamity, and for the safety of those who may still be alive and had survived the catastrophe.

On my schedule yesterday was to attend the Windows Server 2003 R2 at the Shangri-La Hotel Makati City. But, I was advised Thursday night that my office needs something to be submitted to the upper management by Friday. I was in the office as early as 0600H yesterday just to finish that thing early and be able to catch the event by lunch time.

I left the office at around 1200H. Wow! Traffic was everywhere! I reached home at 1400H, too late for me to catch up at the events in Makati. Sayang, I think I missed a lot. :(

As of this writing, there are seventy (70) confirmed deaths as resulted by a stampede at the ULTRA early morning today, 04 February 2006.

These people are lined-up at the gates of the football field to watch and participate in the 1st anniversary of Woo Wow Wee (did I get it right?), wherein lots of cash and goodies will be given-away.

For me, no one else is to blame but the government! Only if the government generated enough livelihood and jobs, then people will not gamble their lives falling in line for a contest like this one.