#selya

so sorry that this year’s sona coincided with ur day

(pic below is for research purposes)

i still don’t know why i did this except to curse gani. (listen to it here?)

featuring the songs (guess which chapter/s of el fili):

and basilio’s inner monologue:

[Sneak peak]

We were tasked to make a learning module in our Social Studies Education class, and the topic assigned to me and my partner is the corruption and ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos regime (some groups got the First Quarter Storm, the Declaration of Martial Law, People Power I, and many other topics listed chronologically).

Given the broadness of the topic, we settled on Imelda's wealth and focused on digging up whatever dirt we could find. In the end, the project was satisfying (we're proud of it). It turned out to be more of a magazine and character study in the guise of a high school learning module. I didn't expect that we'd be this engrossed in keeping tabs with the process of recovering the ill-gotten wealth (which remains to this day an unsolved case). Personally I was overwhelmed, even amazed, but overall felt betrayal. I knew of course of the corruption, the billions stolen, but I didn’t know there’s still so much more to uncover.