Comments on: Northern Luzon needs your help!

By: karl garcia

karl garcia — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:40:56 +0000

the twitter updates are on the side(slaps forehead)
and it has been there for a long time, i was just not paying attention until after hearing complaints about the moratorium of not tweeting anything except the typhoon and its aftermath ;and this thing about how insensitive people from ncr are, that i have to read older entries just out of curiosity.

sorry, this is the last time i bring this up.

By: karl garcia

karl garcia — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:03:47 +0000

i donâ€™t know about tweets because i donâ€™t tweet.

I read the link above about twitter updates and i now have a basis that information dissemination was done via all channels possible.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:21:37 +0000

“Typhoon Pepeng might have eliminated the CPP-NPA in Northern Luzon.” – supremo

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May be wishful thinking. But it probably didn’t do them any good. Although I don’t expect it to be on the same level as the 2004 tsunami, which dealt a mortal blow to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka. That precipitated the steep decline of the Tamil separatists in that country.

By: supremo

supremo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:37:32 +0000

Typhoon Pepeng might have eliminated the CPP-NPA in Northern Luzon.

By: karl garcia

karl garcia — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:58:17 +0000

the title of this blog is Northern Luzon needs your help.
The date stamp was October 9.

it was a result of passing the message from bloggers from or with families in the northern part luzon like marocharim and some others.

manolo lives in manila and made an initiative to disseminate information.
many people read this blog even without having to comment.

manolo links his blogs and articles at facebook, so it will reach more than a thousand. then passing the message can go on.

i don’t know about tweets because i don’t tweet.

just a friendly reminder.

i watch tv, and the lack of coverage claim is not accurate.

i agree that most of metro manila got most of the coverage, of course their management and key staff are there, mas madali.

i understand west coast is 3000 miles from the east coast and people do make distance as an excuse,and lack of resources or exhausted resources. di pa nga umaabot ang tulong sa ibang parts of laguna.

3000 miles so far yet so near 300 or even 30 kilometers so near yet so far.

parang coast guard lang yan eh nung lumubog ang princess of the stars nasa maynila lahat. it is a logistical and distribution problem. The will to help was there but they can’t come on time.
during typhoon Frank nagkataon me warship na malapit galing hong kong. they were in r and r there so most of the relief goods they gave were bottled waters na naka stock na don. Choppers? they are all in the visayas and mindanao, me isa pa yata dito.

By: supremo

supremo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:37:35 +0000

Jane,

‘Why is that the Filipino twitterians were able to constantly twit about Ondoy…’

Maybe because MOST Filipino twitterians are from Metro Manila and surrounding provinces like Rizal and Laguna.

‘thus making it to the trending topics yet are unable to do it when Pepeng hit?’

It’s called free will.

By: pilipino

pilipino — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:18:19 +0000

“Like for example, while people in Baguio and La Trinidad would tell everyone that strawberries comes from the the Strawberry farm of La Trinidad, the media will continue to say it is from Baguio.”

It’s just like some Fil-Ams in the Bay Area would say they are from San Francisco instead of from San Bruno or Burlingame. My classmates in college who were from Visayas would say they live in Manila instead of in Paranque or Caloocan. People tend to point to the more well known territory.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:16:49 +0000

To make my point even clearer:

Why is that the Filipino twitterians were able to constantly twit about Ondoy, thus making it to the trending topics yet are unable to do it when Pepeng hit? After Ondoy, Filipinos twitterians resumed twitting about their new cellhpone, how sweet their BF’s text was…to think of it that these very people were too pround to claim that they have the bayanihan Spirit? Where’s the bayanihan Spirit now? Only a few good Filipino souls know the meaning of it, but they don’t go parading about it.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:06:51 +0000

‘In the same way, Baguio, being the summer capital and playground for some of our rich and powerful, will probably get much more attention and aid than say, Buguias, Benguet.
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True, to think of it La Trinidad suffered more casualties than Baguio and anywhere in the Cordillas. The media is blamable here, too for their inaccuracy and love for inaccuracy for the sake of selling news. Like for example, while people in Baguio and La Trinidad would tell everyone that strawberries comes from the the Strawberry farm of La Trinidad, the media will continue to say it is from Baguio.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:01:44 +0000

Pepeng was more destructive particularly in terms of wiping out infrastructure: at a time also when world community and domestic resources nearly at breaking point due to compounded tragedies everywhere. The volunteers for Ondfoy were already physically, emotionally, financially exhausted;

I understand but I’m not even talking about money or physical material. When Ondoy hit manila, all blogs and tits were everywhere; bringing attention to what happened in manila. When Pepeng hit Northern Luzon as Manila was recuperating from Ondoy, Filipinos were twittering how delicious their cheesecake were. To think of it a lot of Northerners twitted for help with regard to Ondoy aftermath. When the north needed help, people twitted about their brand news whatevers, they blueberry cheesecake…Clearly, it is INSENSITIVITY toward regions outside the Greater Manila Area

Exhaustion and lack of ‘resources’ is a poor excuse. Earlier this year wildfires ravaged North, Central, and South California but there were no excuses despite the State having BILLIONS of budget deficit; and other states too came for help despite them, too, being financially challlenged. People would make the distance an excuses: but how far is the East Coast from the West Coast? California is even bigger than the Philippines. It’s just LACK OF WILL in disguise. Say that 40 million Filipinos have twitter. One twit could make a difference, bringing the attention of the world to the devastation of Northern Luzon. Imagine in California: there are people trying to fight the fire and there are those trying to contain it and there are those who stand near by residential areas in oder to protect the people. And this did not happen once, but everytime California faces a great wildfire. There are no excuses, just actions..especially this year where the devastating la brea fire just happened a few months after the Jesusita fire; and a few weeks after the La Brea fire happened the great wildfire in LA county. There’s the problem with Filipinos: full of excuses. ighting a fire is not easier than rescuing people from a rvaging typhoon.

When Pangasinan was ravaged by the same intensity by the storm — where there were no electricity for a month! — few years ago, it was just announced in the news, hardly help from Manila.