Coincidence

I’ve been receiving year-old emails on my handheld, no thanks to a technical problem at Smart.

I received a copy of one story I filed in early April last year. It was about the promotion of over 20 generals. I mentioned Brigadier General Danilo Lim in the last paragraph, since he was promoted to one-star rank, I mentioned the higher-ranked ones last.

Now, Lim is on trial for allegedly leading the February coup and the other officers in the article haven’t been in the news since their promotion last year. (I am posting a picture of Lim’s alleged cohort, Marine Colonel Ariel Querubin, taken during a pre-trial hearing last August 14.)

I also received an article dated April 21, 2005. My slug read: “Arroyo claims breakthrough in MILF talks.” Seventeen months after I wrote that, the talks have bogged down and the MILF said it is ready to go to war.

Who would have thought?