Sunday, May 20, 2007
Week Past 05/14-05/20/07
Wed night 05/16 I made a reservation on line for my parents' flight to MN from CA. It'll be the first time that they'll be seeing our new home since we moved here in Prior Lake from Farmington in October last year. Tickets:$864; gasoline, food and other incidental expenses:$$$$; reunion: Priceless. Their arrival date is Fri 06/08.
Sat 05/19 was Garage Sale day at the Wilds as authorized by the Wilds Homeowners Association from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Fri 05/18 was pre sale day so a number of homeowners started to display and sell their goods. Some of W's staff who are starting their "long term" assignment dropped by our home after work and checked out the sale especially for home furnishings. They were able to buy items at a bargain. But W just gave some of our things. Now that's what I call a steal... with the owner's consent. I even gave a spare bulb to Med's who got the lampstand.
Mon 05/14 is election day in the Philippines. Senatorial, congressional, governor, vice-gov, mayor, vice-mayor, councilor positions are all up for grabs. It's well and good that it's over and done. Politically motivated killings will now cease. The Philippine Daily Inquirer counted the tally at 147 deaths since the political campaign started 14 January. Deplorable. But its lamentable and insane that in the final phase of this electoral process a victim would be a dedicated teacher who was just performing her duty of safeguarding the ballots. Its not even part of her job description when she applied for the teaching position. Seeing the anguish of her 12 year old son in the front page of a paper as she was being buried just breaks your heart. What is going on in his young mind? I cannot understand why our polticians would bribe and even kill just to get elected to the office. Is it really worth it, the power, influence and pork barrel? Talk about the character of these people who are about to assume office if they are willing to go that extent. And we expect them to lead. Ironic and sad that as the only pre-dominantly Christian nation in Asia the kind of people we put into office to be our so called leaders worship mammon.
