Goddess, I Am.

If you follow me on Twitter, then you’re probably one of the many people I’ve bored senseless with details and updates of our trip to Malaysian Borneo. Sorry about that. Some things just cannot be helped! I’ve been back in the Philippines for 6 days now, and I’m still reeling from the experience. It was that GOOD!

The Husband and I have been talking about taking a trip to the Borneo jungles for as long as we’ve known each other, but it was only this year that we really went for it. I always plan our trips, but never as carefully as this one. I suppose I was a bit apprehensive about going ‘into the wild’ that I just couldn’t leave anything to chance. So I planned everything from the obvious (accommodation, transfers, etc.) to the not-so-obvious (travel insurance, including Medicare part D plans). It didn’t help that there really wasn’t a lot of real information online on the places we wanted to go to.

All my hard work paid off, though. (If I may say so myself.) We had an epic holiday, we saw almost everything we set out to see, and we had some really priceless close encounters. I just wish we could’ve stayed longer because there were some things that we wanted to do that we just didn’t have enough time for. But, at least, we now know that we’re going to need a minimum of 15 days in Sabah if we’re going to go the whole hog.

We’re not done with you yet, Borneo! Not by a long shot.

I’ll blog some more about the trip once I muster the energy to edit my photos.

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Confession time! I never really knew what was going on in the world unless I read about it on Facebook or Twitter, or if The Husband told me. I’m even worse with celebrity news. I know, I know. It’s the Internet age and news is everywhere, blah blah blah. However, I open so many browsers for work that opening a few more just to read the news really isn’t something I would go out of my way for.

That has changed since I got Agrippa. You see, there’s a very nifty (and free!) app called Flipboard that makes the news so much more accessible to me. I get my news (plus my Twitter and Facebook feeds) in a fancy magazine-like interface, and it makes browsing for news so much more pleasurable.

Honestly, I can’t believe how gossipy this app is making me. Flipping through content just to see who bombed what and who the wireless cctv cameras caught canoodling this time is now becoming an integral part of my day.

I am such a dork, I know.

Practically all my life, I’ve never been political. I could never be bothered to care who was running what and when. Politics – especially Philippine politics – is so messy, dirty, and downright exhausting that it’s hard to keep up, so I never really bothered.

Until now.

I look around at the mess that is my country, and it’s impossible and undeniably selfish not to care. Now, more than ever, we need good, sound, well-grounded leadership, and I believe with every fiber of my being that there’s only one man for the job. That is Gilberto Teodoro, Jr.

I could list a thousand reasons why G1BO deserves to be the next President of The Philippines, but I think I’ve done and said enough on Facebook and Twitter for the past couple of months or so. And at this point, a mere hours before polling officially starts, I don’t think it will make much of a difference.

All I want to say right now – and pardon me for the rather worn-out cliché – is VOTE WISELY! Whatever does that mean these days?

I say it’s looking beyond your personal circumstances and thinking about what this nation needs as a whole. (And really, I’m not talking about how half the population now needs the best fat burners. This country’s needs are a lot more serious than that.)

I say it’s casting aside ridiculous emotions, and recognizing the ones who are deliberately preying on those emotions for no other reason than these are the only aces up their sleeves, the only thing that they can exploit to further their ambitions because they’ve got no skill and no accomplishments to speak of.

Finally, I say it’s voting for someone you truly and steadfastly believe in for the right reasons.

Tonight, I will say a little prayer for My President, My Country, and My People.

We’re being given another chance to do things right. Let us all take it.