2:30 AM
Actually written
on the new year 1971
I am reviewing the contingency plan for the proclamation of martial law if the occasion demands it. This is OPLAN Bukang Liwayway.
As we were gathered to await the new year, I was a little sad that I and all these otherwise intelligent people wasted our precious time on empty ceremony.
I wondered whether the year 1971 would usher in an authoritarian government in the Philippines.
During the mass, I prayed God for strength, wisdom and guidance. For I knew I would have to make awesome decisions this year.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.
Entry is misdated as 1971.