Cureless

From Naked Truths, Conrado de Quiros’ latest column on Inquirer.net:

Just as well, at least Hayden Kho can always say he believes in transparency and parading the naked truth. Not so the prominent people who screw us by pocketing our taxes and hide the evidence by screwing the whistleblowers some more. Not so the prominent people who get caught in tapes, even if they do not make those tapes themselves, plotting to screw the voters and who apologize later but not for the crime, only for being caught. Not so the prominent people, the emperors and empresses, who like to believe they are wearing the finest clothes in the world when they are in fact running around stark raving naked. And Revilla calls Hayden Kho the sickest man alive?

Lately, talks about scandalous videos on Philippine celebrities Dr. Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili, and the involvement of actor-turned-politician Bong Revilla on the issue have been frequenting Plurk, among the many micro-blogging platforms in the web.

And this graph tells it tall.

Plurk trends: katrina halili, hayden kho, scandal, bong revilla

Notice the steady steep mark from around May 16 to 19. How interesting!

It was my biggest purchase in 2008 and yet, still will be the biggest in 2009. My housing loan got approved last month and it was only today when F & I were able to sign the bank documents (being co-borrowers and co-mortgagors).

Just when I thought I could finally start paying the loan on July, it turned out only 80% got approved. This means I still have to pay 10% of *that whole amount* to the land co. And only after that will the bank release my loan. *facepalm*

I was quite expecting the loan deficit. But 10% of *that* distributed into a 5-month payment scheme would tender me not just broke but bankrupt.

If I wouldn’t borrow from anyone else, I would have to say goodbye to my “life savings”, which I thought I have wittingly invested in the military cooperative.

Now, if you think you’re sooo blessed and will be willing to share your blessings to a poor soul, I would gladly accept your PayPal donations: jiyoru@gmail.com

Surprisingly though, dealing with the real estate agent this afternoon, considering I took 2 hours off work, wasn’t as bad as before. Perhaps because I seen some gestures of support from F. (And the lighter mood was perhaps because we found amusement in the bank officer who didn’t notice the snot on his left nose. Hurhur!)