Sigh

It's been a while since my last entry. I was too busy with work this past week. I really don't have anything to say now. I still have much work to do. By the way, the election day is coming near. Vote wisely, my friends! Teka, sino ba talaga si Wisely? Hahaha!

My Wishlist

While on my way to work, let me list down my wishes, all of which I hope would be answered. Here it goes:


1. Good health;
2. My own laptop computer;
3. Salary increase to have better chances of buying a laptop;
4. Broadband internet connection at home;
5. A nice, attractive, and smart me;
6. A handsome, delicious [hehe, talagang delicious pa eh], discreet, sweet, loving, and loyal boyfriend who stays;
7. An accepting family, so that I can be comfortable being the real me;
8. An accepting working environment for the same reason as in number 7;
9. An accepting group of friends for basically the same reason; and
10. A new place I could call my own.

So there. :-)

Can Joker Arroyo Give Hope to the LGBT Community?

Iboboto ko na s'ya. I will vote for him now (well, I mean on the May 14 elections).

This morning, on my way to work, the radio was tuned in to the radio program of Joe Taruc, and he was interviewing Senator Joker Arroyo who is aspiring to be reelected to the Philippine Senate. Among other things that he was saying, what caught my attention (alright, I was already listening intently...) was his opinion on the refusal of the COMELEC to grant Ang Ladlad's petition for accreditation as a candidate in the party list elections for the House of Representatives. He said that the COMELEC should reconsider its decision to junk the petition of Ang Ladlad. He said that the party list system was created in order to give the marginalized sectors an opportunity to participate in lawmaking. Ang Ladlad represents Filipino gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders, and the LGBT sector is undoubtedly marginalized. He also said that Prof. Danton Remoto, the head of Ang Ladlad, is an intellectual, being a professor in a leading university in the country, and has a potential of being a good lawmaker.

I have long been wanting to find time to write my opinion about COMELEC's refusal to accredit Ang Ladlad. I will try to write it when I have more time, but allow me to say that I'm saddened by Ang Ladlad's non-accreditation simply because it allegedly failed to prove national membership, among other reasons. I will have to read more about this matter so that I can write an informed opinion. But in the case of the LGBT community, whose members may or may not be out of the closet but undoubtedly scattered all around the country, do we really need to prove national membership?

I hope the Party List Law can be interpreted as allowing national representation as sufficient compliance with the requirement of national membership.

For now, I would just hold on to the hope that Senator Arroyo gets reelected and that he makes it one of his causes to fight for the rights of the LGBT community, just as he fought for other human rights.

It would have been better if the COMELEC had not disqualified Remoto's candidacy for Senator, on the ground that he is a nuisance candidate. I think he would have had a good chance of making it to the Senate.

Black Saturday

And here I am alone in the house, blogging and surfing the net, visiting the g4m forum. I still have so much to do later. My entire family's hearing mass right now. Am I bad? I just don't want to go tonight. I'll just go to mass tomorrow, Easter Sunday.