Summer Job

I've been working for this '94 Pisay graduate this past few days (thanks Cheska for bringing me on board :D). Other than the fact na we're being paid, the type of work I'm doing is something I really like. Haha. Essays, research papers. saya! Plus the topics are very interesting. Siguro the worst part of everything is the deadline (which I've actually broken twice).

The first paper I was asked to write was about Illegal Immigration in the US. Siguro the best thing I realized is that buti na lang the Philippines is an archipelago surrounded by large bodies of water and that we're an ocean away from the US or else we might see millions of Filipinos crossing the border to the US. As it is, (one option lang pede, visa overstaying) the Philippines is one of the top countries wtih visa holders who become illegal immigrants because they stay in the US indefinitely beyond the terms of their visa. Grabe pala. Thousands of Mexians cross the border everyday and hundreds die because of the harsh conditions they have to face to get across. Nakakaawa pero it's a fact of life there. Hindi pa nga yung mga super duper poor ung lumilipat e, un pang mga may trabaho naman at may pamilya. Sad na we see the same thing here in the Philippines. It's the middle class that's leaving this country. And a country without a vibrant middle class is a country doomed to economic collapse.

The second paper I got was about the diseases of famous rulers. Ang saya gawin nito! hahaha. Grabe pala. Sickness can really shape the fate of a nation. The third Roman Emperor, Caligula, had either epilepsy, encephalitis or meningitis seven months from the beginning of his rule and it turned him from a benevolent and compassionate leader to a cruel, egoistic and insane tyrannt who thought himself to be a living god! Ivan the Terrible was one of the greatest rulers of Russia who brought expansion and reform to the empire but his reign came crashing down because he caught syphilis and took mercury as the "treatment" aggravating his mental instability. Queen Victoria holds the record as the British monarch with the longest reign. It was in her era that the Industrial Revolution came to its zenith and the British Empire included India, South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand making it the foremost Global Power. But her grim legacy was the hemophilia gene she passed on to her children who later on married several members of other royal families in Europe. The defective gene penetrated the Spanish, German and Russian imperial families. Astig na the gene could have entered the British royal family if Alix, a granddaugther of Victoria, had chosen to marry a prince fo Britain instead of the Czar of Russia. Hemophilia was expressed in the only son and heir to the throne of Russia, Alexis. His parents focused so much on his ailment that they lost touch of their subjects, allowed a healer to gain influence in the Kremlin and caused the deterioration and final collapse of the centuries-old Russian Empire because of the Russian Revolution. Galing talaga nito. One single mutated gene transformed Russia from an ancient empire to the communist super power it later became! Ano kaya nangyari kung sa Britain pumasok ang gene at hindi sa Russia? Magkakarevolution pa kaya? Ang galing di ba?

So yun. We're currently working on another project. Hopefully, we don't break the deadline again. hehehe.