Today I must plan my life anew. All the old concepts must give way to the new, objective and cruel tyrannies of the present. Painful but unavoidable. And I am deeply sad. But all the more am I resolved to be strong and resilient. I am getting irritable and sensitive....

The principal suspect is missing or hiding: This was the lead of the answered of the investigating agencies (The MPD [Manila Police District], the NBI [National Bureau of Investigation] and the CIS [Criminal Investigation Service]) whom I called to a conference at...

It is the sentiment of even those who bear no affection for me: That the rally yesterday at which the radicals kept shouting revolution and “Patayin si Marcos” and similar inflammatory cries proved my point that the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas...

The public debate on the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus still goes on. And the demand for my book on Revolution increases. Today too, Sen. [Jose] Diokno headed a supposed aggrupation of Concerned Citizens against the Suspension in a Plaza...

As usual the columns of Max [Maximo] Soliven and [Mariano] Querol in Manila Times are raving mad about my book and statements. And Sen. [Jose] Diokno heads a supposed massive rally of Concerned Citizens tomorrow at Plaza Miranda. Sen. [Gerardo] Roxas asks me formally...

I start to write a second book on my birthday. The momentum pushes me forward. And just like the first this is a book that begs, nay, demands to be written. It is the book of the third world, mostly Asia, Africa and Latin-America about which Western writers...

I am now 54 years old as of 12:00 PM Bongbong left at 8:00 PM tonight. He landed at Bangkok at 11:05 PM. We met the more than 900 mayors of Visayas and Mindanao. I signed the new Land Reform Code and its funding. The meeting with the mayors delegations by province...

Imee and Irene left by Quantas at 7:30 PM to arrive in London by 5:50 PM tomorrow, Manila time. It seems only yesterday that they arrived on their holiday. Last night we slept, at the boat after the party for the two birthday celebrants Bongbong and Irene. Finished a...

According to some insiders in the Supreme Court, the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus will be sustained by an 8-3 vote with Justices [Arsenio] Dizon, [Enrique] Fernando and [Fred Ruiz Castro] Castro dissenting. The decision is supposed to come...

I have condemned the first 14 books with the typographical errors on pp. 16 and 17. They shall be embargoed and kept as my mementoes of our first book in the palace. Although today we discovered some miss-spelling [sic]: on p. 57 Bonifacio is miss­spelled [sic]...