eh ganun talaga (it's the way of things)

It's the way of things.

Instead of feeling safe, whenever a uniformed person comes around, what wraps around our hearts is fear. (There's no talking to them. You ask, What violation? They answer, Basta meron. You try to reason, they say, You should be thankful we're not taking your car. The fuck - well, at this rate, small mercies indeed.)

It's the way of things.

Instead of making things more efficient, people in office charge for the most ridiculous things. (They say, If we give it to you, soft copy, it costs around four thousand. Bring a CD. With hard copy, it's eight thousand. You say, but it's available for download from the website. Your website's ridiculously slow. You ask if it's the same thing. Yeah, they say, it's the same. You ask, Then why are you charging for something that we can get for free anyway? They say, It's policy. Eh ganun talaga.)

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It's the small things that get to you, and you know something's really wrong when you're better off living without ever having to talk to government agencies and law enforcers. I pay my taxes properly. Why can't you guys just do your jobs properly so that I'll never have to feel horrible whenever I look at my tax deductions every two weeks? =(

To top it all off: I don't even know if falling in line come May 10 to cast my vote will ever change things. It's too terribly early to be this jaded, but then you do one right thing for this country, the next thing you know, you're getting a libel case for it.