Another day in Makati
The old triple whammy. Earthquake followed by typhoon followed by coup attempt. Do you know of any other countries where coup attempts are staged from luxury hotels? No doubt many are planned in hotels, but their soldiers are in the field not in the coffee shop. True, the Peninsula has very good halo-halo and arroz caldo. I have a dinner scheduled in that area, so I asked my friends if we were still on for 7pm. Their replies:
The Cynic: Dapat tuloy. Bunch of kids.
The Romantic: Yes, of course. Hopefully she’ll be out by then.
The Pragmatic (even when depressed): If the traffic is bad, I could walk there.
The Been There, Done That: Yes.
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November 29th, 2007 at 13:46
Agree, wonder why his coup has always been held at 5 star hotels in makati. susan enriquez had just reported that functions scheduled at the pen ha been cancelled. I hope the press don’t swarm you to ask if you are there to show your support later tonight
November 29th, 2007 at 14:14
Sigh! Cowards. This Trillanes person used to at least amuse me, now he’s just disgusting. No matter how valid his grievances are, there is just no excuse for his methods. Why is it that in “rebellion against the government” the first thing that comes to their mind is put in wreckless danger utterly innocent civilians and private establishments that have nothing to do with whatever they are fighting against? The participants being young at the time, I just charged Oakwood then to pitiable naivete but this cravenly & moronic repeat years later is nothing but pathetic. They were juvenile then, still juvenile now. And criminal.
November 29th, 2007 at 14:35
there’s nothing like another coup to bring the pinoys out of boring rainy thursday.
November 29th, 2007 at 15:00
text i sent to a friend: kung sa oakwood nga wala namang sumuportang tao feeling ba ni trillanes may dadating ngayon?
reply: you know vain people.
November 29th, 2007 at 15:04
They’ve been called many names (juvenile, morons, crybabies, etc.) since they staged their PR stunt but one that left me in stitches and a good description of their cause (whatever that is): poop. As in excreta in the vernacular.
November 29th, 2007 at 18:28
High drama again today… ending with an APC smashing the hotel lobby. I held my breath wondering whether it would try to squeeze itself in the elevator door. Trillanes and company should have waited a while longer. Only in the Philippines could they come up with a show like this. It needs a major script revision. The high-budget sets didn’t help to make up for the melodramatic speeches and bad casting. Gringo, at least could make it more action-packed, and actually influence the stock market. After this episode is forgotten within the week (or maybe a month), nothing will really change. The left and the right-wing will still go for each other’s throats. The “people” meanwhile, still won’t be able to tell the difference between the two.
November 29th, 2007 at 20:54
hahaha! i love ur friends…
November 29th, 2007 at 22:52
some journalists were arrested. arroyo shows she means business.
http://www.pcij.org/blog/?p=2085
i remember coup attempts used to be more fun, like the one in 2001. a party atmosphere.
November 29th, 2007 at 23:27
So, Mr. Trillanes has done it again, huh. I understood him, even sympathized with him and with our tired, underpaid troops during the Oakwood thing. But what is his point now? Maybe he thinks that Philippine hotels make excellent cover and refuge for plotting an uprising, and, should they be cornered, an impenetrable yet expendable fortress of resistance, not withstanding the risk of casualties and damage to infrastructure not his? Point taken. Except that in the end, the little boy calls it quits and goes home proving nothing. Boy, that front door is gonna cost you big time.
November 30th, 2007 at 00:07
I was in Makati area the whole day today; Preparing a lot of stuffs for an event at Tiffany Salcedo, going to Citibank for a meeting at Paseo, going to a bank to Buendia, etc etc…IT WAS RAINING! Cabs are playing semi-gods.
And at the other side of the fence, people were plotting a coup? So you really think people are ready to get wet with you?!
November 30th, 2007 at 07:13
trillanes is a turd. always was, always will be.
November 30th, 2007 at 09:21
I was surprised (shocked even) that there were no politicians attempting to get in the hotel to start negotiations with the mutineers/coup plotters/destabilizers. It would have been major media exposure for them (2010, here we come!).
November 30th, 2007 at 11:21
And all that in the name of patriotism. If these people are indeed our saviors, then we really are screwed. As a British playwright once wrote, “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.â€
Also, if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Para sa sambayanang pilipino, indeed. What a load of bovine ordure. Leave us out of it, thank you very much.
December 2nd, 2007 at 23:09
i so love your work…and your readers too! :)