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| A call for help in Tacloban City--- from lifestyle.inquirer.net |
I haven’t
written anything in my blog for the past three weeks. I think it’s because I feel guilty
writing about beauty, fashion and my kids when so many of our country men are
suffering, coping with loss and devastation after Yolanda .
I am sure we all did our best to help, donated, prayed and cried with
those affected by the strongest typhoon ever recorded in the world.
I didn’t feel it was appropriate for me to keep posting
OOTD’s, food pics and shallow stuff
in any type of social media.
I think Yolanda changed all of us somehow. The images of destruction and
despair, stories of anguish, hope,
and heroism will forever be remembered.
For millions of Filipinos, the world as they knew it ended
in the morning of November 8, 2013, and they know that recovery and any sense
of normalcy will be a long time coming.
I will admit it here: I’ve never been a believer of Pnoy; I
never bought into his “kayo ang boss ko and no wang wang” philosophy. I always saw him as someone who is weak, never worked a day
in his life, an affluent and vengeful
spoiled brat who is obsessed with statistics and his public image.
I’ve told my husband countless of times the past weeks; I’m
sure he is almost sick of hearing
it. That this COULD be Pnoy’s time to prove his non-believers WRONG . This is his
time to shine; to rise above it
all, to show he is the BEST leader. The ONE we have all been waiting for! I am
very open, wanting and waiting for his shining moment. PNOY CAN TURN me INTO a BELIEVER!
Sadly he failed miserably, this is all based on my personal opinion. I feel he turned the tragedy yet again
into a POLITICAL thing where it’s ROMUALDEZ –MARCOS versus the AQUINO, PAPOGI of his presidential bid in 2016
and proving yet again his apparent
lack of leadership, capacity and experience. Imagine blaming a WIPED OUT and
stricken local government of not doing its job!
I will not go into specifics as we’ve all read political commentaries from all sides regarding these matters. I read somewhere and I truly agree that never since the time of Marcos has the Filipino nation been divided and polarized when it comes to personal belief, up until now.
There are a lot of things I cannot comprehend and begin to
understand. One of them would be why a lot of the relief goods are STILL here when people in the
hardest hit areas are STILL hungry and suffering where they are . A girl from my husband’s office was able to
send clothes and groceries to her relatives in one of the farthest barangay in Tacloban THRICE already!
She said her relatives only received
relief goods from the government ONCE since November 8. Yaya’s sister from Ormoc received relief
goods only TWICE since the typhoon hit. She said they are no longer waiting for
help from the government since it will never come.
I wish my boys will not grow up the way I did… always hoping, wanting and
asking for CHANGE and a BETTER life for each and every Filipino.
This is our home, this is the only place my husband and I
choose to raise our children. We
have no plans of leaving and you will never hear us say there is no hope here. FILIPINOS are RESILIENT we
will RISE above whatever life throws us! We’ve heard it a million times; but RESILIENT is still the best word to
describe Filipinos everywhere! I truly believe; where we come from everybody is
a HERO and now a SURVIVOR! There is HOPE and we will prevail...as FILIPINOS
always do.
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| YOLANDA devastation--- from http://historicphilippines.com |
