Taena naman. Buraot talaga kayo.
So everyone's been talking about that damn warehouse heist at DSWD. Yeah. Angy. But at the same time, I'm honestly too tired to be really angy.
I suppose it comes from being a shittastic victim myself. I mean our house is far from being fixed or cleaned and this household is just slowly wrapping up and starting to get back to normalcy and seeing something like this, seeing things that could have really HELPED a lot of people (maybe us) from tiding the next few days with some food and soap rather than tapping our already dry savings. Well... This is why a lot of people went to the TV stations and schools insteads. It's bound to get to nowhere if it passes through the government. Anything that goes to the government's gone nowhere anyway. I don't even know where my taxes went.
It takes me back to what happened two weeks ago, when our city mayor, Jun Bernabe, took the bloody small road that we have for his relief 'parade'. Apparently, some NGO (not even our OWN government) wanted to give relief goods to our community and the mayor had to run along, bringing over 20 cars who gave nothing but 5 noodles, a kilo of rice, and 5 cans of sardines. And not even everyone was given. Only those with 150 stubs, I think. They were done by three but the mayor felt he had to 'visit' the area. By 'visit', I mean, looked around the area with a photographer in tow. YES. Apparently, our government now pays for photographers to take pictures of their supposed charity missions weeks after the Ondoy thing.
My mother and I were stuck in a bloody traffic, just a block away from our house, because Jun Bernabe's driver refused to move forward because the mayor was still having his pictures taken with the community. Bloody hell. And these were not even releif goods from our government. It came from an NGO (who probably saw our community go under when it was featured in a news program on TV)
And to think that DSWD had this much things to give for people. I doubt most of these things came late because some of the items look like they're locally bought. More so, they used freighters that ship within a week. So bloody hell. God, honestly.
These things could have really helped, especially those who have lost EVERYTHING. In my circle, I can name twenty people who have nothing to hold. And yet they're back on their feet... with little or no government help.
It's kind of sad how we just know we're not going to get anything from our government hence we just moved on. I mean, most of us even used twitter and facebook to ask for help and not... some disaster hotline. It's not like we have something as efficient as a 911 in our country. I don't even know what's the emergency numbers for all these shit until this storm came.
I can't help but really shrug my shoulders now, pray to god we have more competent leaders come next election. Leaders who would act closer to the true heroes of these stormy tragedies: brave and unnamed, strong and humble.
I suppose it comes from being a shittastic victim myself. I mean our house is far from being fixed or cleaned and this household is just slowly wrapping up and starting to get back to normalcy and seeing something like this, seeing things that could have really HELPED a lot of people (maybe us) from tiding the next few days with some food and soap rather than tapping our already dry savings. Well... This is why a lot of people went to the TV stations and schools insteads. It's bound to get to nowhere if it passes through the government. Anything that goes to the government's gone nowhere anyway. I don't even know where my taxes went.
It takes me back to what happened two weeks ago, when our city mayor, Jun Bernabe, took the bloody small road that we have for his relief 'parade'. Apparently, some NGO (not even our OWN government) wanted to give relief goods to our community and the mayor had to run along, bringing over 20 cars who gave nothing but 5 noodles, a kilo of rice, and 5 cans of sardines. And not even everyone was given. Only those with 150 stubs, I think. They were done by three but the mayor felt he had to 'visit' the area. By 'visit', I mean, looked around the area with a photographer in tow. YES. Apparently, our government now pays for photographers to take pictures of their supposed charity missions weeks after the Ondoy thing.
My mother and I were stuck in a bloody traffic, just a block away from our house, because Jun Bernabe's driver refused to move forward because the mayor was still having his pictures taken with the community. Bloody hell. And these were not even releif goods from our government. It came from an NGO (who probably saw our community go under when it was featured in a news program on TV)
And to think that DSWD had this much things to give for people. I doubt most of these things came late because some of the items look like they're locally bought. More so, they used freighters that ship within a week. So bloody hell. God, honestly.
These things could have really helped, especially those who have lost EVERYTHING. In my circle, I can name twenty people who have nothing to hold. And yet they're back on their feet... with little or no government help.
It's kind of sad how we just know we're not going to get anything from our government hence we just moved on. I mean, most of us even used twitter and facebook to ask for help and not... some disaster hotline. It's not like we have something as efficient as a 911 in our country. I don't even know what's the emergency numbers for all these shit until this storm came.
I can't help but really shrug my shoulders now, pray to god we have more competent leaders come next election. Leaders who would act closer to the true heroes of these stormy tragedies: brave and unnamed, strong and humble.