Ningas Cogon

September 25, 2007

So the semester is ending and I hate it. It's always the most horrible part of the year when I cram my papers like mad, and since I'm not a fan of coffee, I imagine I'm doing this gig the worse way. I haven't slept at all the other night and I'm still groggy—hello, 35 citations while my classmates just had no more than ten! Why am I OC about reading every godbegotten thing about my topic? I've been turning to food to make me feel better (read: popcorn and siomai yay). And I have a test later. Shit.

 
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A contempt for the public (Part II)

From the configuration of the new House, it seems as if everyone will still have to go on learning how to cope privately. The same elite belonging to dynastic clans are still in the same position. There are people like Aurora Congressman Juan Angara⁸ who, who has at last count 106 House Bills sponsored/authored under his name.⁹ Most of these bills are of national significance, such as bills on the increased allocation on scientific and technological activities, on the continuing education of college teachers, various agricultural and ecological concerns and others. Second District Representative Judy Syjuco¹⁰ has filed 56 bills, a majority of them also of national significance.¹¹ If we base our evaluation solely on their prolific and nationally useful bills, then we can say that we need more congresspeople like them.

 

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