It’s the 51st anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law, the one that allowed the Marcoses to stay in power, absolute power, for almost 20 years. Many have been imprisoned and killed. Social media, with the careful machinations of Cambridge Analytica, erased the atrocities the Marcoses have committed against the Filipino people.

That’s why they’re in power again, ransacking the country again with billions of “confidential funds” appropriated in the national budget. Those confidential funds could have gone to government hospitals, to the patients in charity wards of the Philippine General Hospital, Lung Center of the Philippines, National Kidney and Transplant Institute, and Philippine Heart Center.

But guess what? Their budgets were cut to make way for these so-called “confidential funds” that do not go under the scrutiny of the Commission on Audit.

The last early breakfast for my 7th Grader for the week. Whopeee!

Sigh. It’s hard raising tweens/teenagers. The moodiness, the dramas…it’s hard to explain now. I am emotionally drained because I had a heart-to-heart talk with Twin I. I thought she was mature enough to understand things.

I have a bumpy road ahead. 😩