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By Mommy Growing up on Dec 26, 2011 in: color, typhoon, Christmas, tragedy
As Typhoon Washi (local name Sendong) passed by the Southern Philippines last week, along with it came the monstrous rainfall that created fatal and highly damaging flash floods and land slides. Unprepared for what was coming in the middle of the nig...
By PInaywriter Unpublished on Dec 19, 2011 in: poem, love, tragedy
The lady looked beyond the banksWhere the water hits the rocksFlowing salty tears go downAnd joined the sea at onceHer sun-kissed hair flyingAs her soul stared dyingThinking that beyond this seaHer beloved holds with no gleeThe duty to save the count...
By Juan Republic on Dec 18, 2011 in: Cagayan de Oro, Sendong, tragedy, resilience, pinoy
Hundreds of houses along Acacia Street in Barangay Carmen were swept away by rampaging waters as the Cagayan de Oro River swelled brought about by tropical storm Sendong on Friday night. At least 58 people were killed and hundreds are missing after t...
By Juan Republic on Dec 17, 2011 in: Sendong, Pinoy, Cagayan de Oro, CDO, tragedy, resilience
Two residents and a rescuer hold on to a rope as they wade through waist-deep floodwaters in Cagayan de Oro City at the height of the flash floods that swept through the region on Friday night. They were the lucky ones. At least 200 others did not la...
By Juan Republic on Dec 17, 2011 in: Iligan City, Pinoy, Sendong, resilience, tragedy
Two women hold their children who were killed in the onslaught of Tropical Storm “Sendong” (international codename: Washi) at a village in Iligan City, on the southern island of Mindanao on Dec. 17, 2011. AFP...
By Juan Republic on Oct 7, 2011 in: noynoying, Noynoy Aquino, procrastination, idle, pop culture, politics, tragedy, pinoy, philippines
“Noynoying” Nine days after the onslaught of Typhoons “Pedring” and “Quiel,” President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday finally saw for himself flood-devastated areas in three provinces. We live in the age of internet and social media. T...
By A Green Sky Outside on Sep 27, 2011 in: Books, A View from the Bridge, Act One, Alfieri, Arthur Miller, tragedy
All right, this is me doing the entire internet community a public service. I have spent the better part of an hour looking for the script of Alfieri’s opening speech in Google, only to come up with summaries of either the entire … Cont...