Alfonso Election 2010

It's Saturday afternoon and I am in Alfonso for 3 days now adjusting my bio clock(16 hrs ahead). I finally set up my internet access the reason why I can write this blog and hopefully write something interesting in the next 3 months.

I'm here to help out in my brother's mayoral campaign which I've done for the 3rd time since 2001. It is a hectic and stressful experience and for sure, this one will be most difficult but there's no turning back now. The campaign here in Alfonso is getting dirtier and I've already seen black propaganda from our opponent even though the official start date of the campaign has not yet started. I have to admit they are really good at it.

I just learned yesterday that our province of Cavite now has 7 congressional districts from 3 districts since 2007 election; meaning we will now have 4 more new congressmen having millions in pork barrel each. I think the Philippines is really going to the dogs considering how our politicans squander taxpayers money.

Since this morning, I have seen 4 people came in to my brothers compound asking for favors such as help getting someone out of the hospital, a father with her little sick daughter needing medical help, a young mother asking for recommendation to find a job, someone who asked for transportation fare. These go on everyday with people coming in and out of the compound.

The highlight of my day is a woman asking for advice when her husband was hit by a car and died. She settled for PHP50,000.00 because the driver of the car was poor and can only afford that much. Life here is so cheap actually it was about PHP4000.00 some years ago. I was told that it is cheaper if the victim died instead of being disabled.