As is the common practice, countless psychics and fortunetellers are making many brave and bold predictions for the New Year. They would claim that they have correctly predicted events the previous year, so there is no doubt that their new predictions will come to pass as well.
Personally, I have a couple of problems with this notion.
First, nobody remembers in completely the many predictions of most psychics, much less the onbes who made correct predictions. I particularly hate the ones who announce that they predicted certain events -- the 9/11 attack being one of the favorites -- after said event occured.
Another thing is that many of the so-called predictions are not far-fetched, unforeseeable predictions but are actually expectations. Case in point, predictions of terrible storms that will hit the Philippines. Every single year, there's always a prediction about a big storm claiming the lives of tons of people. Don't want to sound harsh here, but duh! For a country that gets an average of twenty tropical storms a year, is this really, really, REALLY a great prediction? I'll make a prediction now then: there will be at least one storm hitting the Philippines between May and August. How's that? :))
Well, I guess there's only one way to weed out "real" and the bogus psychics: list down all of the said predictions online, say, in this blog -- or any other blog for that matter -- them review them next year.
Funny thing, though, I have not seen many online predictions lately for the coming year. Fishy? Nah... Maybe the TV networks are simply too lazy to update their sites. :))
Anyway, I managed to watch one episode of TV Patrol on TFC and I remember distinctly a prediction about Philippine President GMA and her spouse; GMA will remain healthy throughout the year but the First Gentleman Arroyo may be hospitalized sometime next year. Sorry to say I forgot who made that prediction. Anybody saw that?
Ah hell... I'll just post more 2009 predictions stuff as I get them... :)
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