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  • The Day My Country Stood Still: A Typhoon “Ondoy” Aftermath Video by: Glenn Omanio

    Today, I am featuring another heartbreaking video from Glenn Omanio, this time, with a new set of photos and Asin’s classic song “Masdan Mo (ang Kapaligiran)” (Look Around You) playing in the background. Definitely a must-see. Also see, the first video here. This video hits two birds with one stone — that of disaster-preparedness and…

  • Ondoy Victims Missing Persons List / Database

    I laud GMaNews.tv for this new project development in support of real-time collaboration and database access. I would like to share the wonderful news that their Ondoy Victims Missing Persons List / Database is now online. This is the kind of vital information that needs to be disseminated as quickly as possible and to as…

  • Sidelining Politics for A Greater Cause: Helping Victims of Typhoon Ondoy

    You know the figures by now, I’m sure. With over 200 killed, 42 still missing and 2 million people affected here in the Philippines (damage to agriculture and infrastructure estimated at a whopping P4.79B) , 11 killed  in Cambodia and 41 still in Vietnam, Typhoon Ondoy (international code name Ketsana) is no doubt a modern-day…

  • Ondoy's Wrath Came So Close To Home

    I stare at this screen perplexed. All along, I knew there weren’t any reports of injuries, much less, of death in my barangay. When I went to the barangay hall Sunday morning after the waters subsided, I was told the evacuees, most of them, if not all, were already back home tending after their damaged…

  • Ondoy’s Wrath Came So Close To Home

    I stare at this screen perplexed. All along, I knew there weren’t any reports of injuries, much less, of death in my barangay. When I went to the barangay hall Sunday morning after the waters subsided, I was told the evacuees, most of them, if not all, were already back home tending after their damaged…