Very Sorry Island Rose!
Here, I apologize for doubting the intentions behind Island Rose’s email drive to get contributions for Typhoon Ondoy.
Yesterday Dustin Andaya left a comment on my original article characterizing Island Rose’s promise to donate P100 to Ondoy victims as “maybe bad”, wondering...
Source: Technograph
The Long View: Ignoring plans has a price
The Long View
Ignoring plans has a price
By Manuel L. Quezon III
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:21:00 10/08/2009
In 2003, the New Zealand social and environmental historian Greg Bankoff published a map of Metro Manila, with grey splotches that he identified as the flood-prone areas of the metropolis, mainly Navotas, Manila itself, Pasay City, Taguig, and parts of Marikina. That map coincides almost exactly with one put together by Newsbreak and published on ABSCBNNews.com showing the...
Source: Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
PMT donates to Typhoon Ondoy, Pepeng victims
Members of the PinoyMoneyTalk (PMT) community donated P25,000 cash to the Philippine National Red Cross in support of the latter’s relief operations targeting the victims affected by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng.
The money, previously collected from...
[[ Click the title link above to read the full article. ]]
...
Source: PinoyMoneyTalk.com - Make Money Online, Stocks, Forex, Mutual Funds Philippines
The Long View: Postmortems
The Long View
Postmortems
By Manuel L. Quezon III
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:36:00 10/05/2009
I am a great believer in post mortems— “an analysis or discussion of an event held soon after it has occurred, esp. in order to determine why it was a failure,” according to one dictionary definition—and I believe we have a mixed record when it comes to undertaking these. Disasters tend to be so overwhelming, and the efforts to undertake rescue, relief and rehabilitation become so...
Source: Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
What I want to write about. [So long Ondoy]
I want to write about Ondoy (Ketsana) on how it got me stranded last last Saturday on the Ortigas MRT station and got me walking along the stretch of East Avenue, with most of its manholes open, on my way home. But hey, it's a week ago and and my Ondoy experience is no match (or should I say more fortunate)...
Source: A biography in polka dots
