two weeks after ondoy hit, our subdivision was still underwater

material things are inconsequential. the floods have made my husband realize that it doesn’t make sense to buy a P300,000-living room set (we don’t own one) when it can easily be swept away in an instant by floodwaters. he realized that it’s useless to buy stuff [...]

i don’t know if those who were affected by the floods would be able to go back to their normal lives again. i don’t know what “normal” is anymore for them. many lives and businesses were ruined by ondoy and pepeng.
as of today, the main mode of transportation in pinagbuhatan, pasig is still the banca. [...]

yup. still living in a waterworld. reminds me of that apocalyptic movie…similar circumstances: the movie showed that they were fighting for scarce resources; while opportunistic bastards here are taking advantage of our desperate situation. a store here sells a 5-gallon mineral water for P160 whereas under normal circumstances i can buy at least 15 gallons [...]

metro manila is under a state of calamity. no-brainer.  80 percent of metro manila is submerged in our own filth. pasig-cainta area —where we are—is one of the worst-hit places in the metro. Other Half and i are lucky that the floodwaters didn’t enter the house; it only reached the garage and thankfully the cars [...]

after all the hoopla of proposing on wowowee, the much-publicized wedding preparations, the political ads—he then backs out “for love of country”?
i don’t think so.
Mar Roxas announced to the world that he is backing out so the heroes’ son, Noynoy Aquino can run for president. mar painstakingly lined up the adjectives, the adverbs and all [...]

reacting too late but here goes…
i don’t care if the $20,000-dinner was paid for by romualdez from his own pocket but their behavior was obscene for public officials whose constituents barely make ends meet.
austerity my ass? @#$%^&*
and we have a burgeoning budget deficit to plug. imagine, malacanang spent about P1 billion for these foreign trips [...]

i never thought Tita Cory would evoke something in me. but seeing all those people lining up the ortigas-edsa walkway going to SEC yesterday made me wonder: what does Tita Cory mean to these people, most of whom weren’t even there in the 1986 revolt at that same spot? what tugged at guts was sadness, [...]

“Almost alone among the countries of Asia, it has never been steadied by an ancient culture; its sense of itself, and its potential, was further worn away by nearly four centuries of Spanish and American colonialism. The absence of a spirit of national unity has also made democracy elusive. Even Jose Rizal, a political reformer [...]