It’s been raining consistently every night, after every consistently torrid afternoons. I went home late last Friday. Not because I stayed out late but I got stranded for an hour during the rain because I didn’t have an umbrella. Waiting under a dark shed for an hour can be creepy.

I was channel surfing one afternoon when I came across a set of documentaries on IBC 13 hitting on the World Trade Organization. I was a little surprised that such documentaries were airing on a government TV station, knowing how much of asskissers our policymakers are to foreign financial instutitions that force us to liberalize our economy.

You may watch the documentaries at Make Trade Fair. One of the documentaries is about the Philippines and how our rice farmers’ livelihood is being killed with the importation of cheap rice. If I may add, this is just one of the many examples of how free trade has been killing our local and/or infant industries and how it has kept many of our countrymen in poverty.

Here are some interactive animated diagrams that explain how unfair the current set-up is at the WTO. Once you’re convinced that we have unfair trade policies forced upon us by the rich countries, sign the online petition for fair trade. Also, please stop electing and supporting current politicians whose debt and loyalty apparently belong to foreign financial institutions than to our poor farmers. And don’t support a proposed Charter that will institutionalize these conditions!

I haven’t had much time to blog lately. I’m often too tired to spend too much time online, so all I get to do is a little surfing and bloghopping. I’m posting this for the sake of updating! Hehe.

Surfing around Multiply, I came across Raf Dionisio’s page, a classmate from high school, who recently posted some pictures of our 2002 2003 class field trip in Enchanted Kingdom. I know, it probably just works for people who were involved but it really does give me a feeling of nostalgia… (Though, it’s not as if it was that long ago).

I actually blogged about it here and here. Gee, I just realized how amusing and convenient it is for me to look back. I have been blogging since first year high school!

Here are some stills from Prech and Pie’s thesis short film shoot last Saturday. My entry on the film’s first day shoot is here. I wasn’t able to stay for the entire duration of this shoot since I had to accomplish my Commmunication Research 101 field survey in Las Piñas. Some of the photos weren’t taken by me.

One of my wisdom teeth has been growing more and more the past days. Unfortunately, I don’t think my mouth is big enugh for another molar. The tooth has portruted out of my gums and is tearing part of my mouth apart so it could grow. My god, it’s so painful. Eating has now become an excruciating task. I can’t chew since I chew on my gum tissues when I use my molars. It’s hell. It’s depressing too, especially when I’m hungry and I see food. I have just been eating watery goto and watery oatmeal. I also can’t even open my mouth to talk properly.

Anyway, before my backlog grows longer (I haven’t been updating much, I know), here’s a bunch of pictures from last Friday afternoon. I was with Con, Kim, Ayeen, Christer and Patty at Coffee Way.

POST-SCRIPT (September 2, 2006): Picture of me courtesy of Patty Lazatin.