arts and leisure
I covered a conference on World War II from 8am to 5pm yesterday. It was definitely far from the movies, music and all the other fun stuff I have covered, but it was probably by far the most fulfilling assignment I’ve ever had. It was like a crash course on history. I have never encountered real historians before and chatting with the them after their presentation was [wow, i must have turned into a geek overnight] just cool. From them, I learned chunks of history that only a handful is aware of (such as the one I posted in the bulletin board), and some chismis which would probably cause a riot when revealed 
Anyway, the whole thing turned out to be quite depressing not because I had to sit there all day but because it made me realize the country had such a rich culture before the war, most of which were destroyed when the Americans and the Japanese decided to throw in bombs and ammo perhaps to show who had bigger balls and all that stupid warshit they were at. We even had a gothic-inspired church (Sto. Domingo, i think) in Intramuros which was so magnificent it looked like the one I saw in Prague (San Vittorio or Vittus or something..I’m so bad at this). Anyway, the one in Intramuros collapsed during the war and its ruins were destroyed as well to give way to new buildings. That’s just really stupid cz here we are wanting to go to Europe to see all the ruins of war when in fact we used to have the similar things (btw, Manila was tagged as the Paris of Asia back in the early 20th century — that’s the 1900+ for you dummy!)….. aaargh!! basta!! it’s so saaaad.. tapos we have no sense (ok, I’m being a bit harsh here) at all of conservation and restoration.. we paint over centuries old walls of churches so they would look friggin’ new! what the hell?! lzxkdfjasklfhasjkfhskl;dh!! there.. im so pissed off.
Oh, and I also just watched a docu about a tribe in Sierra Madre (Children of the Mountains) that’s losing its lifeline because some capitalists are taking over the forests where they live. They do all these logging shit without remorse.
I don’t get it. Why do these people even get a chance to live? They should just turn into the most sensitive yet immortal grass so they can feel all the pain when somebody steps on them but they can’t die even if they are crushed into pieces. I wish all the people stupidly running the government get the same fate. Hah!! What a brilliant idea!! 
