In Silence

The silence is deafening when one can’t find the right words to say
Or just too stubborn to voice them out loud.
Is it pride or cowardice?
It is hard to say but can be both.
Just let the time pass by and handle the future on its own
Though what passed by won’t come back anymore
Glad there was silence to keep me sane.

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Responsibility

I was riding the bus last Sunday and like always, if there is an available sit, I chose to sit by the window so I can watch outside. It was raining that day but I noticed a street sweeper was still busy doing her job. Questions came to my mind.

Do we really need that many street sweepers to clean our streets? Here’s the logic to the question.

If people are responsible enough to throw their candy wrappers, cigarette butts, plastics, papers, etc. on provided garbage bags or cans, do these street sweepers be on the streets even if it is raining? That in order to earn a measly income not even enough to buy medications, they are risking their health?

As Filipinos, should we not be ashamed of our actions, throwing our garbage anywhere?

Should the people in the government be proud to say they’ve lessened unemployment rate when the only job they can provide for the many unemployed Filipinos is street sweeping?

Checking Emails…

I woke up this morning and found some new emails…

• I got an infraction for inappropriate language. Why? Not reading and understanding post clearly… well, I thought it is for using foul language, glad it is not.
• paid to read email worth $0.01… well
• 2 friend requests from another program.
• Paypal email saying I got payment. Just in time for paying another service I badly needed
• subscribed expired domain list
• expired domain profits newsletter
• learning Japanese podcast for the day
• some spam emails that got deleted right away

That’s what my inbox has collected since I logged off 6 hours ago.

Which One to Write

Have you experienced writing from an idea then while writing, another topic comes up and you want to also write about that? Then, another idea keeps on drumming up on your head that before you realize it, you already have too much topic to write on and that you’ve created too many drafts. Yet, finishing them all is not possible because you don’t know where to begin and how to end. Or, it could be that there are many beginnings but the body seems to start another topic.

So, which one would you finish first? The original idea you wanted to write about or the thoughts that came out from that original idea? Which one would you publish first?

Oil Prices on $61 a Barrel

I had a glimpse of the newspaper headline today that says “Oil Plunges to $61/barrel” so I thought of checking the history of oil prices in the last few months. With a record of $147 a barrel in July that caused the rise in prices of gas, LPG, goods, commodities and fares, the oil price has gone down to more than 50%.

With such drop in prices, consumers (including me) expect that there will be a noticeable price decrease. Unfortunately, the cost of 11-kilogram LPG is still at about Php650.00 instead of the previous less than Php500.00 per 11-kilogram cylinder. Fare, goods and commodities have not decreased. Some goods and commodities are even predicted to have price increases due to the incoming holiday season. Oil prices are slashed by mere Php1.00 to Php3.00 per liter.

Some of the reasons cited why oil prices can not have an immediate decrease are the cost of the available stock is higher, that the oil companies are still trying to gain their losses, and reimposing of tariff. These are reasons which are hardly understood by most common people. What they do understand is that when there is a news of oil price increase, local oil prices immediately follows. But, when there is a price decrease, it takes sometime before a price decrease is implemented and that even if the previous low price is surpassed, the oil price will not go back to the level or lower than before.

As to when the price decrease becomes noticeable, it is a wait-and-see game.