Agosto 28

Opisyal.

Lider.

Ama.

Bicolano.

Dios Mabalos, Jesse Robredo.

When water speaks, everybody listens

Once again, Water made a statement:

Whoever you are or how much your net worth is, celebrity or squatter, you are not spared from the wraths of nature. In that case, we are all equal.

Habagat struck majority of the Metro Manila area as well as neighbouring provinces and regions for almost a week. To date, almost 70 people were found dead and millions of properties were devastated. On top of that, legions of garbage are now piled in very strategic locations around the metro.

Seems we never really learn from the past. It’s like yesterday when Ondoy brought the same calamity to the same people.

As usual, the government will have to investigate while the news is fresh. Soon enough, we all move on and investigations won’t matter anymore.

After all, life is back to ‘normal’. We eat, work and die, with calamities every once in a while.

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In the mean time, Calamity spells Opportunity.

Celebrities can show they care by distributing relief goods and bringing the media wherever slum they may go.

And, very importantly, Premature campaigning at its best! In time for the elections next year, politicos would be giving out plastic bags of plastic-wrapped noodles and a plastic pack of rice to the grateful victims/evacuees. Of course, the plastic bags have faces and names in them.

What a noble deed?

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The Filipino is resilient. Too resilient that we move on very easily- enough to forget what disaster has befallen us and not learn any lessons.

Well. Some people do learn. As for me, the sunken Manila TV footage inspired me NOT to work there anytime soon. Or Never, perhaps.

But we will all move on from this, really. Even those whose loved ones died, even those who have seen right in front o them how the flood took away lives. They will move on.

That is the course (curse) of life. Sad but true- Sadly true, truly sad.

But hey, the sun is shining outside. I hope Helen doesn’t take the light (and hope) away.