Basyang’s wrath and mine HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 07/19/2010

Basyang’s wrath and mine

HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 07/19/2010 A floating body of a man, bloated as it is washed to shore, does not make a good Lola Basyang storyline. It is, in fact, a terrifying scene worthy only as an insert — meant to shock, in the next installment of Shake, Rattle and Roll. But in real life, it was a further reiteration of what had been Basyang’s impact on battered Luzon, which a couple of days before, was a ravaged picture similar to a war zone, with twisted metals, flooded streets, damaged homes and small barge ships and boats stacked like a deck of cards. It happened again, a year after we have made our resolve never to let typhoons get in the way of our very simple lives, claiming lives and hard-earned properties; a year after typhoons “Ondoy” and “Pepeng” left big scars in our memories, in just a couple of days before we were to remember the 20th anniversary of the massive July 16 quake, when we saw more death and destruction, which needed years for us to forget and move on. And then, Basyang. Basyang was not as massive as Ondoy and Pepeng, its impact not comparable to the previous big quake, but it being the first typhoon of the year, and with a new president at that, only highlighted where we are lacking, and what abuses have been committed by the past administration that it deserves our middle fingers, if we could not whack their heads off with a baseball bat, as a seething actor Mel Gibson imagined doing to his Russian wife..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100719com6.html

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