Saving Face
I haven't watched TV for weeks now. Haven't read the papers, seen or heard the news. Plus,we brought our TV downstairs last Sunday for Nicky's videoke birthday party. We did not take it back until last night.
Nicky borrowed Angku's Globe 3G to be able to surf the net, so he was busy doing other stuff than watching TV. So we hauled our TV back upstairs, tuned in for news and voila! 80% of the GMA News' show was all about Arroyo's pagpapamudmod ng pera last Thursday in some Malacañang meeting. We tuned in to ABS-CBN and we saw the same thing. Literally, walang ibang laman ang balita. Save of course for the seemingly mandatory kidnap/rape/death/crime news in the program. Of course, though we did not get to watch/see/hear the news for long, we got the gist about the administration's new adventures.
Today, past lunch, Glorietta unfortunately faced a tragic explosion. Our messenger was on his way back to the office from Makati at that time and he sent an SMS to our admin personnel that he's stuck in a really bad traffic.
A few minutes later, my officemates were talking about it already. They were even searching the net for photos of the said 'bombing'. One officemate was even chatting with her mom over YM, while her mom was relaying what's on the news at the moment. A friend sent me an SMS, saying that it was probably another cruel admin plot. Saying that it was a way to upstage the other news (which was ang pamumudmod ni Gloria ng pera).
For me, my friend's assumption (that the government had anything to do with it) perfectly made sense, but if there's any truth to it, 2 were dead and 70 were injured, and it's a very cruel way to save face.
