Unforgettable Encounters

July 24, 2011 (Sunday night):

Quezon hall

• We, Wilbert and Ace, together with our blockmates, Daniel, Vigel, JC, and MJ (coincidentally the Group # 4 + Euan) went to Quezon hall at UP Diliman to attend a film showing and evening vigil for the next day's activity, PNoy's 2nd State of the Nation Address at Batasan.
• It was slightly a rainy night so the organizers changed the venue to Vinzons hall also to accommodate the placards, and other paraphernalia needed for the so-called SONA ng Bayan.
• There we met kuya Mico, a member of the Center for Nationalist Studies. He welcomed us and let us help cut the materials (particularly for the mask, see picture below)

Pasista, Inutil, Pahirap

• We had a somewhat educational discussion about the said activity. We learned many things like the disadvantages of foreign investments and how superpowers control the economy of their neo-colony. Some of the Anakbayan activists told us about PNoy's useless projects. One of those is the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) in which 8 out of its 10 contents talk about the Public-Private Partnership. Also stated in that plan is about the free market and how it became a failure. Another project is the CCT or the conditional cash transfer where the government took a huge amount of load from the Asian Development Bank.

• Afterwards, we watched a short film entitled Ang Sandaling Sadya nina Lire at Isa (Lire and Isa's Unforgettable Encounter, hence the title of this post). The film is about the children named Lire and Isa who met and known each other's talents on their way to a barrio to send a message. They eventually discovered the real troublesome community they live in where revolutionary forces are in control. And to that, they should be responsible enough to be conscious of their acts.

Ang Sandaling Sadya nina Lire at Isa

• We then went home at quarter to 11 PM. The next day, Vigel, Andrea, Euan, and Patrick joined the march to Batasan to watch and know the truth about our nation's state.