Louie

I recently moved to another beat. This is the fourth time I am writing about a new assignment. Why am I always moving? Let's just put it this way. When people leave or get sick, someone else has to get the work done and that someone in our cluster is me.

Just a short background. In January, I was assigned to cover the Department of National Defense and local government units after being assigned to NEDA for six months. In April, I was asked to cover the House of Representatives. After three weeks, I was left with local government units. In August, Defense was given back to me. And now, I have a new beat which include the Department of Labor and Employment, Department of Health, Department of Tourism, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Education, Depart of Public Works and Highways, Red Cross, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and (drum roll please) the Comelec.

This time around, I think I will be staying in the beat for a longer time because the elections are approaching. First  time for the country to have automated polls and I will be writing about it. Pretty cool huh? The not so cool part is that I am not a registered voter yet. Ok. I can feel it. My cool factor instantly disappeared right after writing that sentence. My mom said that I really have to register because it would be weird not to since I will be writing about it. I know that. I was supposed to go today but couldn't, no thanks to typhoon Ondoy. I will have to do it next week. The deadline to beat is October 31 and doing it at the last minute does not sound like a brilliant idea at all.