Rest In Peace

Rest in Peace, Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il, who would have thought that after all that nuclear hype, you would just die from a heart attack while inspecting a train?

Rest In Peace, Sendong Victims

Al Gore did say at his Inconvenient Truth talk that water levels will continue to rise and that there will be more and more incidents of floods in places that normally do no flood.

2011 has given us our fair share of these occurrences. The Philippines is no stranger to typhoon and floods. It happens all the time, it happens every year. Yet, every time it happens, every time hundreds of people die, you just wonder why these lives are so cheap?

In some cases, the main cause of so many deaths is the fact that people just refused to evacuate. Of course in every disaster, there are other factors to consider such as poor infrastructure, warning systems, disaster preparedness, as well as illegal logging, the number of informal settlers in the area, environmental issues and weather changes.

Still, hearing about all these unidentifiable bodies, so many that they've already ran out of caskets and people are just making their own DIY caskets now. Its overwhelming, the thought that these people were… well, washed away, just like that.