On Typhoon Yolanda

I get angry at many online comments and apparently our president putting the blame on the LGUs. Don't they understand that the storm affected everyone, even the people working for the LGUs? Some of them even died. How can they put blame on people who are at the same plight as everyone else? Yolanda is unlike other storms where only people in flood prone areas were affected. Yolanda washed away a large percentage of the region affecting everyone, no matter where they lived, how rich and powerful they were. Right now, these people are just people -- starving and desperate for help. 

If our president isn't interested in helping out, then step back and let somebody more willing and competent do it for him. I'm sick of his excuses. I'm sick of him shrugging off this disaster like it was nothing. It's even a bigger disaster now because people are dying not because of the storm but because of his lack of response.

I have never believed that humanity in its nature is bad but our fellow countrymen have resorted to despicable acts to survive because the lack of response even empathy from our government has deprived them of the basic things that defines what it means to be human.

I believe in a God that shows mercy and I believe in a God that picks His people up after a beating down. I believe that God blesses his people. But how could the blessings flow if the specific people who are supposed to be the channels of His blessings are a few steps short of being the spawn of Satan? I'm just thankful that God always finds a way to show his compassion and that is through the aid shown by other countries and private individuals.

You know what really drives me to the edge is how these politicians are taking advantage of this dreadful situation for their greedy and selfish political ambitions. It's disgusting.

My dad is from Leyte. He lived first in La Paz and then in Tacloban. It was his hometown that's why it has a special place in my heart. We visited last year and I fell in love. It was rich in culture and history and everyone was really nice. It's sad to see it washed away. It was heartbreaking to see my dad's hometown being wrecked and devastated. Leyte wasn't just some place in the Philippine map for us. It was the setting of my dad's story. It was where all his sad but surprisingly funny stories happened. It was our second time visiting last year but it was our first time that we really got acquainted with it. I even considered relocating. I am happy that I got to experience Tacloban again but three of my brothers and my sister, will never get to. All they will have is the memory of our first visit which wasn't really a great one.

Despite of the disaster, I know that Leyte and all other affected provinces will slowly but surely rebuild itself. We, Filipinos, just need to stick together. We'll get through this.