My opinion on Cory's "sorry" remark.

I read in the newspaper a couple of days back when Cory Aquino was said to have apologized to Erap saying sorry and that EDSA 2 was a mistake. A couple of days later, news articles mention that Cory was just "joking" while making that statement.

Cory Aquino, being an icon of democratic freedom (especially duriing 1986 edsa revolution), in the first place, should not be making unnecessary and "jokingly" remarks especially during the time when the Philippines is in "turmoil". When people are confused who to believe in, and what to believe in.

As an icon, Cory Aquino should be prudent enough to think first, before speaking. She, as an icon and as a Filipino leader, should stand up for what she believed, and believes in. Being a leader, who lead one of the biggest revolutions in the country's history, and then in a couple of years... regrets it? Makes me, as a Filipino and citizen of this country, very disappointed. Is this where our country is going?

I went to EDSA II. Until now, I still believe that ousting ERAP was a very good and wise decision. I still like living in this country. This is where the family is. But ever since I was able to work and stay abroad for a couple of months, I still truly wonder, how come if they can have a pretty great country, why can't we have the same as well? They did it, then it shouldn't be impossible for us right?

work is giving me migraines

I have started this new work since last June, and have been enjoying it so far. However, for the past few weeks, it's just been so crazy. It's just so annoying to have to go through what we went through.

A support project has recently been transitioned to us and throughout the past 3 months, we've encountered issue after issue. This should've been just a support "side line" project, it should not take so much of our time, but it did! Especially last week.

Last week was terrible. We did catch up jobs, and when we finally succeeded with that one, that ended up updating a lot of our data (obviously) which showed up a flaw that the other source systems we were relying on changed their data (without us knowing) and thus resulted to users not being able to login to the application.

Add to that, that same weekend we had a release where we fixed the LDAP configuration, and now since they can't login, they're all blaming us that it was our changes that caused a lot of users not to be able to login. We keep insisting that it isn't, we've proven it, and now, they still won't give the sign off. They, the business are giving us headaches. We're trying our best to fix this application out, it's not that easy, and we painstakingly learned how to handle it bit by bit, and what happens? We get escalated. Sheesh.

HELLO!?!?!?! I ranted out to my colleague because after that weekend, I really felt so bad. So bad that I really wanted just to leave that project behind (of course I can't). Murphy's Law all the way that time.

Anyway, i don't know what'll happen. There are still a lot of issues to discuss, and I just want to get over it now. I hate getting emails related to this project.

I think I need a vacation.