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Reflection on Typhoon Sendong

Sunday, January 08, 2012 by kidsturf
The shocking calamity that hit my Cagayan de Oro city recently has claimed many lives and properties. The images that the typhoon left us were horrible. I’ve seen houses and vehicles , big and small, overturned by Typhoon Sendong. I’m just thankful to God that my family was spared from the awful experience although I can’t help but be sad to see our properties destroyed. 

I can not dare to explain in detail what transpired on that bleak dawn of December 17,2012 because it still breaks my heart. Last week with my family we went to our house . I can not help but Thank God for sparing our lives. The whole family slept over at our mom's house with the tragedy struck. The original plan was I and my mom will stay home while my hubby and my sister will sleep at my grandma’s house since she was not feeling well that day. I just don't know why suddenly my mom decided to go to Villa Ernesto Gusa . My mom called my dad who was at Divisoria that time to go back to Balulang and fetch us . It was already 10 pm when we went out from our subdivision. We never expect that 2 hours after a flash flood would hit our place and claimed 10 lives in the neighbourhood. We greatly thank God that our housemaid was able to escaped out from the rushing and rising water through the sunroof in my room. She almost gave up because the water was almost at the ceiling and it was pitch black. Then she cried to God for help and miraculously the light of her soaked cellphone came out. She saw the sunroof and effortlessly was able to open the roof. In split –second she was able to escape death. There are lots stories of survival I have heard and I realized it was God who saved those people.

All I can say is that the Kagay-anons never expected this to happen. Really, no one knows what tomorrow may bring. Our lives are in the hands of God. We can only do so much to secure ourselves, our property, and our future. With the damage that the typhoon has brought my city, and as we move towards rebuilding our homes. I realized that real treasures are stored in heaven and that we must be ready always to meet our creator.

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News Clippings :

Friday, November 11, 2011 by kidsturf
 

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is planning to broadcast road traffic and flood alerts through electronic billboards along major thoroughfares in the metropolis.

MMDA general manager Corazon Jimenez said the e-billboards will be free of adsa nd will only feature flood and traffic information.

“Pagaaralan pa namin ito. Ilalagay ito sa footbridges para may advice on traffic, road reblocking, floods and weather update para sa kapakanan ng mga motorista ," she said in an interview on dzBB radio on Sunday.

Earlier reports indicated the e-billboards will be 8 x 1.5 meters and may be mounted on some footbridges as early as November.

MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino said the e-billboards will display information on flooded areas during rainy weather; and traffic advisories if the weather is clear.

“Ang purpose is to give public advisories," he said in an earlier interview. - VVP, GMA News
Insight of the article:
What are the effects of this event on our country?
- Broadcasting road traffic, flood alerts and weather forecast will greatly help all Filipinos to be aware of the latest information through Bill Board Broadcast. We all can be aware of the latest update in a flash. People on the road will be guided accordingly and can take necessary measures in case of calamity.

Reflection about the article :

- I believed that this project of MMDA will greatly benefit the people on the road which can not be
updated with the latest weather forecast. Instead of some sexy billboard parading on the road,
why not advertise something worthwhile like Road Traffic, flood alerts and weather forecast. I
hope we can have the same LED Billboard in our city.



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News : Government, communists to resume talks

Saturday, November 05, 2011 by kidsturf
MY SONS ASSIGNMENT :

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine government and communist rebels said Tuesday that they had agreed to re-start stumbling peace talks after meeting a special envoy from Norway, hosts to the protracted negotiations.
Chief rebel negotiator Luis Jalandoni said there would be fresh talks in Oslo next month after a Philippine government representative told him and the Norwegian envoy that Manila would free some jailed rebels.

Government negotiator Alexander Padilla said that while there was no outright promise to free the imprisoned rebels, the government was now open to the rebel demand that they be released before talks resume in late October.
Jalandoni separately told AFP: “Everything that was needed to direct the moves towards resuming the peace talks in Oslo in late October was taken up and agreed upon.”

Negotiations to end the four-decade insurgency stalled last month after the National Democratic Front (NDF) demanded the government free 13 captured comrades who they labelled “consultants” in the long-running talks. “The steps (agreed upon) will include the release of the NDF consultants prior to the holding of the talks,” Jalandoni said. The rebel negotiator said communist guerrillas would soon release four jail guards and were considering freeing a town mayor, all kidnapped in the past two months, but stressed that this was not a prisoner exchange.
The communists have been waging a Maoist campaign demanding political, social and economic reforms since 1969. Informal peace talks began in 1986. From a peak of over 25,000 fighters in the 1980s, the military and other defense experts believe the guerrillas now number less than 5,000.

Insight of the article:
What are the effects of this event on our country?
1. Communist insurgency is still a problem for our national security. Folks from the hinterlands are very much affected by this. If farmers cannot work properly due to insurgency problems, then our agricultural supple will be much affected.
2. People who live in fear cannot be productive, so does our nation. With this upcoming peace talks, we are all hoping that true political, social and economic reforms can be achieved.

Reflection about the article
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” There are a lot of things our nation can do when peace and order is achieved. “Improbable but not impossible”. As long as Filipinos will not stop dreaming and doing what needs to be done for peace, then I believe peace would not just be a distant goal that we seek but a glimpse of hope, a light that’s coming and lighting our path towards national unity, stability and development.
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