When the people are fed being screwed over, they revolt. And one man took the cudgels for them. Meet Hitman 2025, the man that caused CEOs to take down their LinkedIn profiles now that the people are fighting back.
I do not condone murder but I cannot judge the people behind this either because millions of people had been fucked over by insurance companies.
I am just spent. It has been two straight nights of networking and chasing leads. I’m so depleted. At 1 am I was still working; I finished a draft but later I decided to pull out that story because of a recurring problem with one of the reporters in my team.
Wait, my brain is already shutting down.
Wednesday, I drove to Makati to check into Red Planet Amorsolo in Makati because I don’t want to be driving back and forth for two straight days.
After checking in, I fetched Kr and drove to Ortigas for the dinner-Xmas party of one conglomerate. Had to chase some leads and got some useful info. But the best part is I got to see friends from the industry and unexpectedly, I saw K, my friend from a rival news agency.
Drove back to Makati with some friends who hitched a ride. I still had to write stories until 1 am for editing in the morning.
I couldn’t sleep because of the amont of caffeine in my system. I only got an eyeshut at 3 am. 🥴 For some reason it was an uncomfortable sleep. Maybe it was the aircon. Maybe it was the bed—I don’t know. I was in between throwing the duvet because I was sweating and curling up under it because I was cold.
I may be experiencing perimenopause symptoms! 😱
Then I got a call from a source at around 7-ish. My brain was still cloudy at that time.
I couldn’t really go back to sleep after that. So I went back to draft more stories and have more calls. I was a few mins late checking out of Red Planet. The nice thing about that location is that there was a nearby authentic Chinese restaurant, which looked like its original clientele is the POGO workers.
Then I drove to Glorietta 5 to buy myself a black dress and work at Uniqlo coffee shop before jumping to Hyatt.
After I depleted my social battery late last night, I tried to keep still at the lobby because age really is catching up on me. I had to sit down before driving all the way back home. I wasn’t able to have coffee so it was a struggle keeping myself alert driving along SLEX.
I was just dead the rest of the day today. My noble plan to draft more stories today has died.
I wonder if this could spiral down into having a dictatorial government, just how Marcos Sr was able to orchestrate his 20-year rule in the Philippines. I have no idea how bad the opposition in S. Korea is behaving, since there seems to some kind of impasse at parliament.
But then…
The sudden declaration of martial law has raised concerns about its potential impact on South Korea’s democracy and civil liberties. Although the president emphasized the need to address threats from North Korea and internal instability, he provided little detail about the actions his government intends to take or how long the measures will last. It is also worth adding that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s wife has been in the news for engaging in corruption.
— they sound like the Marcoses. 🙃
S. Korea isn’t stranger to martial law since it has experienced it several times since the 1960s. So let’s see how this would unfold.
Meanwhile, the US has yet to see the fireworks to be set again by Trump 2.0 but the world is watching with bated breath.
Whelp! The drama ends.
Good for the parliament. Good for the people. Now the president will be impeached—even his own party didn’t support him.
And this will inspire a new K-drama. 🤣
But I hate to be the one at the desk at this moment since this crosses over EMEA-N. America timeslot with Asia, it’s rough being the one to edit news at speed. I was thankful in a way that I wasn’t chosen for that global editor gig because I just realized I don’t need that kind of stress.
I spoke to my friend who recruited me to apply for that job, and told her I might have done badly with the tests that’s why I wasn’t chosen. She said no, it wasn’t the test.
I think I might have quoted a too high salary 🤣.
I’m so busy, jumping from one call to another, jumping from one story lead to another. I was still sending emails at 8 pm…I still don’t feel the holiday spirit.
My brain is fried. Good thing the barbecue ribs I made was 👌if I may say so.
I made a dry rub first and left it to marinate the meat for an hour or so. Then I poured bbq sauce on it (the American kind) and then set it on the trivet inside my Instant Pot, added water at the bottom to create pressure. I set it on High for 25 mins. After releasing the pressure, I removed the ribs from the trivet and transferred it to my air fryer and added more bbq sauce to caramelize the surface of the ribs.
It was divine. It was perfectly caramelized on the outside but juicy on the inside. It was the falling-off-the-bone kind of loveliness so you don’t have to struggle with getting the meat out of a difficult cut.
I forgot to take a photo because we were so hungry. Twin I said she loved it, while Twin A finished her big bowl of rice.
I did all the cooking in between editing and calls.
It’s almost 4 am and I’m purchasing games on PS Store and that damned Sony still wouldn’t allow Philippines – based gamers to have its own PS Network/Store. I initially tried locating my region to Singapore, which worked initially for free to download games like Minecraft, Roblox, and SIMS4. But when I was trying to buy the ones that needed credit cards, I couldn’t register my credit card because I couldn’t change the billing address to Philippines. It stubbornly clung to Singapore as the ONLY billing country.
So I had to create an account again that is located in Indonesia so my Philippine-issued credit card will be accepted…
And guess what, it pushed through! I was able to buy games at a discount because it’s Black Friday: Final Fantasy VIII Remastered, God of War, Sonic Frontier, and WRC 10.
The annoying thing about being able to purchase from PS Store Indonesia is that it has limited games compared to Singapore. Final Fantasy VII Remake is still unavailable and you can’t play FF VII Rebirth without playing Remake because it’s a three-part saga. You have to start with Remake, then you proceed to Rebirth. Rebirth is only SGD 69 on Black Friday sale while it is being sold for PHP 14,000 here in the Philippines because it is a physical disc sourced from abroad! 😱 How ridiculous is this?!
I now have a time sucker in my hands. I now want to have a larger TV screen. 🤦🏻♀️ And I played WRC 10 until 5 am. I want to buy another controller that costs PHP 4,200. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
It’s almost 11 am, I haven’t done any cooking. 😑 Still in bed.
I jumped to one event to another just within Makati but I needed to drive because my street parking meter is running down and my car would be towed away if I didn’t move it. Anyway, I was able to accomplish two missions.
I attended an early Christmas party yesterday, too. Corporate Christmas parties start early because once you get past Bonifacio Day, it will be hell on earth. Next week will be carmageddon. Well, Christmas rush super heavy jumbo traffic has already started. No one will be happy to attend Christmas parties by mid-December, a time when everybody will be spending 5 hours stuck on the road.
Then I won a PS5. It was a super random raffle draw and it was funny because I’m lucky when it comes to things like this. Several Christmases ago, I won an iPhone 13 or something. When they were drawing the names, I told Twin I to do a raindance to drive luck our way. Lo and behold, we did win! I sold that phone and bought a new Panasonic fridge instead.
But this time, I am keeping the PS5 because my girls are old enough for this. Plus they can now control themselves; they know they can’t skip studying and doing homework just to play games.
I would have wanted a Nintendo because their games are more my jam but of course, a PS5 is also welcome. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Sonic, God of War Ragnarok… A long time ago I had my PSP loaded with Diablo but nooooo, it’s not for me. My carpal tunnel syndrome worsened with God of War back then so I sold everything to my brother—including all the games I had loaded it with (bought from Greenhills).
This time I have a more ergonomic controller and have a higher capacity box. But the PS5 extra controller and games themselves are expensive though… 😅
I was already in the Rockwell area (I edited stories while in their sort of food court) so might as well do my Christmas shopping for things I wasn’t able to get online.
Mission accomplished.