Huge storm + PAG-ASA = FAIL

I've been wondering, just what good does PAG-ASA do to the Philippines? I mean, what good is it for, what is its real job, and do we really need it?

See, come storm after storm, all they do is give out "updates". Updates which we clearly do not need. Just look how much the updates on PAG-ASA's web site helped the passengers and crew members of the sunken ship MV Princess of the Stars.

When the weather is sunny, the government agency is nowhere to be found, and is rarely heard from. They report of upcoming calamities right after a storm (like how they report this time that there are at least 14 more typhoons heading our way after Frank - yeah, right), and during a storm, they really can't offer anything of help to us because they're only human too.

If I see that the flood outside of my house is already neck-deep, and the winds of the storm has already blown off my neighbor's roof, what can PAG-ASA do to help? Even their so-called weather updates often appear to be nothing but lies. I remember back in elementary school that I had been assigned to do a weather report the next day. I cited one from PAG-ASA which said there will be a very huge storm in the upcoming week. Well, guess what, the storm never came. They are all a bunch of liars, I think.

So when I hear about them in the news, I cringe, knowing that these people get paid to do absolutely nothing but turn the loose nuts in the heads of the Filipino public who don't know any better. It's a good thing that majority of the people do what I'm already doing - which is ignoring PAG-ASA - but with the recent tragedy of over 700 lost lives, I wonder even more why the government agency still exists. Surely you notice this yourself, too, right? Don't you?

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The Shameful State of the Nation, Part I

Note: I couldn't be bothered to go outside of Starbucks to take this photo, but take my word for it - the tree you see in the background had a fellow tree standing right next to it just five minutes ago that got blown down by the storm. And the flood is more than knee deep.

It's raining. At any given time at any random point in the world, I'm sure there's some place where it's raining very hard, too. But in that place, does it also flood so deep that you can actually drown a grown man in it? Or whole houses, for that matter? This is one of the many things out government has overlooked, all while doing stuff that I don't even know what are.

I mean, look outside your window. Or don't, just tune in and watch the news on your TV. Oh wait, you can't, because there's no electricity. The power to your house just died because the power lines MERALCO has built are too weak to even withstand a Signal #1 storm. Is there where you let all your taxes go? OK, it's your taxes, after all, so I won't bud in.

But look, just look. Is this the Pearl of the Orient? Is this the place that you so proudly portray in commercials, DOT? How come I never see these floods in the commercials? Or the countless beggars and homeless folk? How about the thieves, kidnappers and terrorists? You are definitely doing it wrong, homeboy. This is not the right way to humiliate a country, no.

Whether you like it or not, the Philippines is garbage. Garbage citizens, garbage politicians. garbage children, garbage. We reek of corrupt senate members and congressmen, not to mention the shady businessess that manage to stay alive despite being explicitly against the law. The president is a joke, the people are stupid, this country is clearly headed nowhere but the dumps.

I may only be 20, but I have seen enough of this country to know that it absolutely and positively is a failure as a whole. If you want to go on living like this, well be my guest. I'm not gonna stop you. I'm happy enough with my life as it is. Right now I've officially just lost all hope on this country's "recovery."

We Filipinos now are a disgrace to our name. We're an embarrasment to our ancestors and a failure in front of the world. I'm not angry because of what's happening, I pity the country because it can't be helped. No amount of help can save it. And if you plan on asking for mine, screw you. I'd rather be sitting here and drinking hot choco.

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