I Lined Up For 5 F*cking Hours Just to F*cking Vote

hi. how was your election day? mine was f*cked up. only-in-the-philippines style.

we lined up at 3:30pm. cast the f*cking vote at around 8:30pm. that's five f*cking hours of doing nothing but watching the "volunteers" flaunt their short term authority towards the poor f*cked-up voters such as myself.

FIVE F*CKING HOURS MY FRIENDS.

it took that long because the PCOS machine in our precinct was failing. FAIL.
they had to wait for the technician to arrive before the voting continues. FAIL.
meanwhile the wise "volunteers" resorted to get-a-number-and-we'll-cal

l-you strategy that your suking telecom company you love to hate uses. FAIL.
they had to shout out the name of the voters and their corresponding numbers, one by one,
and had to argue with the voters every now and then hence wasting more time.

FAIL.

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but wait, there's more!

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so its time to go home.
but then we can not get out of the school because the gate was locked. by order of the principal.

we were trapped inside the f*cking school and its almost 9pm and we dont know how and when can we get out. that after lining up for 5 f*cking hours just to add one f*cking vote to people we don't personally know whose names we see every-f*cking-where. how f*cked up is that?

turned out the principal ordered to have the gate closed at 7pm, so that nobody not in line gets to vote after the cutoff time. makes sense. but how are the voters inside going to get the f*ck out of the school?

she pointed out there was supposed to be a guard at the gate to allow people to go out. the guard was nowhere in sight.

FAIL.

people outside were angry. they were trying to destroy the gate. i dont know why they're angrier than the people inside. they're not the ones who were trapped. probably because people inside were hungry.

a lot of shouting and gate banging went on for 15 minutes. i really thought there was gonna be a riot. the people inside even called the police.

a few crashes before the gate gave up, the guard who had the key showed up. he had colds. i can see light shimmering from under his nose. may god bless his soul. but still, f*ck him. he almost caused a riot due to negligence.

right after we got out, the police came.

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man, this country just bleeds FAIL.

except for Noynoy. he's winning. not far behind is Erap.

Dearest Maynilad

Here's our water situation at home for the last 3 consecutive days:

Monday. No water all day. Call center said there was wreckage in Baesa. Fine. Water flow returned to normal flow by 6pm. Baesa wreckage apparently overhauled.
Tuesday. Weak flow all day. Is Baesa still wrecked?
Wednesday. No water again. F*ck!

Reasons? I don't know. Based from historical evidence, this problem is 100% not 100% technical. We have all the reasons to doubt whatever explanation you give us. So now, let me shout out how I feel about you which I think is the only thing I can do.

You suck Maynilad!

I checked your website for advisories, reloading it for like 5 times because it is so slow it couldn't handle 1 visitor. I found nothing but a 2-month-old advisory, and your hilarious company profile.

Here's your "Vision".

"We are a world-class water service company committed to excellence and improved quality of life."

You are definitely not world class. You are not committed to excellence. You don't improve our quality of life. Maybe yours, but not ours.

And you call that Vision? That's a freakin' company description. Try using it on your friendster profile.

Here's your so-called "Mission".

"We will delight our customers with reliable and high quality water and wastewater services at fair price"

We are your customers and we are not delighted. We think you are unreliable. You just increased your rates. We are your customers who have all the right in the world to rate your service, and we say YOU SUCK.

"We will protect the environment to conserve our water resources for future generations"

Hooray for the heroic-sounding sentence found in every environmentalist website, and every boys comfort room.

"We will promote efficiency and productivity to enhance shareholder value"

Of course, it's not about us getting your water. It's about your business. Your profit. Your revenue. Your market value. Bullsh*t.

"We will attract and retain the most qualified individuals and enhance the personal and professional well-being of our human resources; and

We will conduct ourselves with integrity, honesty and accountability in accordance with the highest ethical standards in serving our various stakeholders."

I just called your call center. Your operator sounds like a bureau of immigration employee 30 minutes before lunch break. Enough said.

By the way, your website is not only slow, it's ugly too. Visitors beware.

I sure wish there is a way to switch water lines, but as far as I know, it's not possible. All I can do is call Maynilad a worthless son-of-a-bitch here in the interwebs to let the hatred out and make me feel better. Unfortunately, crapping feels much more better, but it's hard to crap when you have this crap.

Where's our water!?

Walang Tubig!

Mula nung lumipat kami dito sa Project 7, ilang beses kaming nawalan ng tubig. Dati, Manila Water ang linya namin, at wala kaming naging problema. Ngayong Maynilad na kami, bleh.

One time, ilang araw kaming walang tubig, kasi bumababa daw yung level ng tubig sa Angat Dam. Okeyy.. So mas importante pala yung maintenance level ng dam kesa sa maka-tae tayong lahat sa inidoro. Hindi ko rin maintindihan kung bakit ganun ang rason nila, tag-ulan naman noon.

Nabalitaan ko na lang na niturnover na daw ng mga Lopez ang Maynilad sa gobyerno. Ayun! Yun pala yun. Hindi ko maiwasan isipin na may kinalaman talaga ang gobyerno sa ilang araw na wala kaming tubig. Naisip ko baka niputol talaga nila yung linya hanggat hindi sumusuko si Lopez, at our expense! Kung ganun nga ang ginawa nila, ay talaga namang ang kukupal nilang lahat.

Ngayon naman, may advisory si Maynilad na mawawalan daw ng tubig Feb 7-8, mostly sa southern part ng Metro Manila ang maapektuhan. Aba'y Feb 9 ngayon, at nasa northern part kami. Asan ang tubig namin?

Tinawagan ko si 1626. Busy. Naka-15 ako na dial hanggang may sumagot. Sabi nila may wreckage daw sa Baesa, at pamonitor na lang daw. Pamonitor? Ano ito, ticket queue na may SLA?

Astig. Pag may ORA error sa production, parang life and death matter. Pero pag walang tubig, wala lang. I just hope Maynilad treats this matter as how we IT guys treat BSOD-like failures. Life and death. Urgent. Critical. Severity 1. Kasi parang wala lang sa kanila e.

Ang hirap ng walang tubig. Lalo na pag natatae ka na!

GMA. PNP. MRT. WTF.

Pustahan tayo mapapaWTF ka rin sa balitang to, lalo na kung isa kang MRT commuter araw araw.

Papalitan na daw si Lastimoso as general manager ng MRT. Nakakatuwa diba? Dahil alam nating lahat na wala siyang kwenta. Ang nakita ko lang na ginawa nya sa MRT ay yung request na itaas ang pamasahe kasi marami daw pasahero.

At ang papalit sa kanya? Pulis din. Si Berroya.

WTF!

Tanong para kay GMA, ano po ba kinalaman ng pagiging pulis sa pamamahala ng sistema ng tren? At ano ba meron sa MRT at puro pulis ang ginagawa mong boss dito? Ang kelangan ng MRT ay problem solver, capacity planner - an engineer!

Parang wala din mangyayaring pagbabago kung ganito.

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