Conspiracy Theories

False Sense of Security

For a few weeks now, I've been planning to post something about the worthless yet annoying security procedures in LRT, MRT stations and all of the shopping malls.

Recently, several walk in metal detectors were installed in Glorietta. Amusingly enough, the metal detectors were beeping almost all the time, to the point that the security guards are just ignoring them. Not to mention the improper use of those hand-held metal detectors. Most security personnel use them as a stick to poke through bags. What an expensive BBQ stick.

Well, just poking through someone's bag doesn't really work at all. I don't think they even have any idea what they are trying to look for. It only causes unnecessary delay and extreme annoyance to most passengers or shoppers. Plus the fact that bombs are not made out of metals.

False sense of security, as I call it.

Until now, I still could not believe that a bomb did explode yesterday despite of all the attempts to establish this false sense of security. This should be an eye-opener for the mall owners, our police force and normal people as well.

Conspiracy Theories

Upon learning that there's a possibility that it was a bomb. I immediately thought of theories behind this gruesome event. If this was done by real terrorists, they would have chosen a better target, Glorietta 4 perhaps, where most people would be having their lunch. Or maybe they just didn't want to kill too many people.

Like some people would think, this event might just be a diversionary tactic of the current administration, to shift the issues from "Malacañang Cash Gifts" and impeachment to something more serious like national security or terrorism.

Another one would be, this might have been planned by anti-administration groups to destabilize the government. Very similar to the Rizal Day bombings during Erap's administration, which ultimately lead to the fall of Erap's presidency. Some groups have claimed that it was orchestrated by GMA's camp. And a little over a decade ago, FVR used the same methods to control Cory's administration as well.

Whoever did this and for whatever reason, we will probably know in the coming days or in the coming months. Who knows, we might already be seeing the face of the mastermind on the news.

Laziness Always Pays Off Now

Yesterday, an explosion occured in Glorietta 2 instantly killing several people and injured several hundreds more. Earlier that day I was planning to have lunch at Yoshinoya, pay my credit card bill, then go to Park Square to buy some PC component.

An hour before lunch, Jasmine decided to have lunch with me instead of her officemates. Cheann also decided to join us for lunch, and tagged Erik along. Because Glorietta is to far from their office, we opted to have lunch near their office, World Topps.

The service at World Topps was unusually slow that time, we waited for more than 20 minutes before they served our orders. By the time we're done eating, it was way past 1PM.

I started walking towards Glorietta then Park Square to get the component. But then I got a bit lazy of the long walk (From PBCOM to Park Square) so decided to return to the condo instead. A few minutes later, I got a text message from Jas telling me not to proceed to Glorietta because there was an explosion.

A few minutes more, Rajah came. His hair was white due to the debris from the explosion. He was at the 3rd floor of Glorietta 2 when the explosion occurred. He's lucky he wasn't harmed.

I'm also lucky enough not to be there that time. I can't imagine what could have happened if I didn't have lunch with Jas, or the food came a few minutes earlier, or I didn't get lazy.