I haven't been using this blog for a long time now. I don't know how to continue posting here anymore. I had this blog during my teenage years. It has all the craziness and vulnerability of my younger days. I would like to preserve it as such. This blog will always be special. But I had to move along and so does my blog. I have a new one up. You can visit it here.

Wonders and Wanders

I don't know what to think anymore. Logic seems to be draining out of me. Technically, I am a physicist. I am now a magazine editor of a science journal. All the books that I've read, all the scientific articles that I've written and edited, and all the scientific laws I have studied seem unreal at the moment.

I am not the religious type of person but I can say that I have enough faith in me. As a scientist/physicist, it is always hard to come into terms with both sides, which are a part of me. However, at the moment I simply want to be just an ordinary person who feels fear and remorse.

Then he went on to say to them: "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another pestilences and food shortages; and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs." Luke 21:10-11

After Ondoy struck Metro Manila, causing 277 deaths, then comes a large tsunami at Samoa that caused 119 deaths. And just a few hours later, a powerful earthquake terrorized Indonesia, causing at least 75 deaths. And now another typhoon that is about to enter Philippines is threatening to become a supertyphoon.

Typhoon, floods, quakes, and tsunami -- all these happened just within a few days! It makes me wonder, is nature finally getting its revenge?

Read the sources below:

Ondoy death toll rises to 277
Death tolls at 119 in Samoa
Powerful Indonesia quake kills 75
Pepeng threatens to become supertyphoon
Typhoon, floods, quakes, tsunami within days
Flooding photos
Flooding photos 2

Since the calamity (Ondoy) started, I have been firm in my belief that this is not the right time to be pointing fingers at anyone. I think it is easy to put a blame on the government and anyone who may have played a role in all these. I thought it's a waste of time. And that we should be helping each other to get back on our feet rather than ranting about our worthless and heartless government.

Well, I was wrong.

Right now I want to point fingers. I want to blame the government. I want to curse them. I want them to rot in hell. I want everyone who has been involved in the waste of every taxpayer's money to die a slow and torturing death.

Why?

A report from the Business Mirror has made me more aware at how ruthless our government is. Apparently, the flooding has been foreseen more than 30 years ago by a study conducted on areas in Metro Manila, according to architect Felino Palafox Jr. It could have been prevented.

Read the report here.