BACK IN FIGHTING FORM

Hello blog fans and my apologies for the sudden disappearance. Not that nothing significant has happened but on the contrary, thinks have been happening at lightning speed that I hardly had the time to write down my random thoughts.  I can't believe my last post was still last year on the velada or Old Girls' Day at my high school alma mater the Assumption Convent and here am I again about to attend the next velada this August. Of course, this year is extra special for us Assumptionistas because of the cannonization of our Blessed Marie Eugenie at the Vatican which I sorely missed because of the elections.  But that's getting ahead of  the juicier stories which happened before the cannonization.

As you know, I am in the middle of an electoral protest as a result of the massive cheating which happened in our province of La Union particularly in the town of Rosario. i filed for a petition for revision of ballots so as to be able to open once more the ballot boxes and find out the truth as to who really won in the last elections.  What a surprise to see ballots with similar handwritings not just in one precinct but surfacing in other precincts. there were also ballots with distinctive marks and some precincts with no ballots at all or ballots were torn in half with the other half missing.

i was all ready to accept defeat  as i have stated in all my discourse if the elections were clean but i guess i was naive to believe it was gonna get any close to being clean. and so this protest.  i am determined to see this through and i am still ready to face defeat if that is the decision of the court but one thing for sure, there will be people who will be accountable and must be sent to jail. i wonder how can some of our teachers be part of this sham when they are suppose to be the educators of our children, the future leaders of our country. how can they gamble their retirement benefits for a small amount of instant gratification? What a sad commentary.

on a happier note, i am ecstatic over the decision of the Supreme court over the case which i filed back in 1999 against ABC 5 reversing the Court of Appeals decision and affirming the NLRC decision.  After seven long years, the supreme Court saw the merits of what I was fighting for and I feel vindicated that indeed, what this network is doing is against public policy and a circumvention of the law. Justice grinds exceedingly slow but the sweet smell of victory makes the long wait well worth it.  

and so i'm back… although on second thought, i never really left. nag meanwhile lang…. hehehe!