slacker mommy files

Archive for the ‘Local Flavor’ Category

    It is now February 15 and there are about 82 days left before the 2010 presidential elections. Debates and forums are being held in these and those places, as well as public mudslinging and marathon speeches about political platforms and rehashed promises. Nearly everybody has an opinion on each presidential candidate, everyone has his own manok (bet), and everyone has …

    I am a bookworm. Any body who ever saw me in college would, for the most part, have seen me in more than one occasion, sitting in a corner with my nose deep in a book — mostly novels of the fantasy, gothic horror and sci-fi varieties. All of them, American or British novels. It was only this year that …

    It’s already February. There is only three more months, including this one, before the presidential elections. The time for forging promises has come. Politicians stand on their soapboxes worth millions of pesos and court voters for their say so. It may look like the same old story; politician gives out promises, politician breaks promises and politician sucks the nation dry. …

    It is the day before the last day of the national voter’s registration. I am a victim of my own procrastination that was why I was standing in line in heat and sweat, aiming to change my city of registration so that I don’t have to go back to Pulilan, Bulacan to vote for the 2010 Presidential elections.

    I have resigned …

    Today I went to Caloocan City’s District 2 Comelec Office to transfer my voter’s registration from Pulilan to my current residence. I left the house around 10 o’clock and went to City Hall. When I got there I asked the guard on duty where the Comelec Office. I was expecting to be directed to a particular floor in the building. …