POC Presents Year in POCus
2009, someone said was a “year of deaths and disasters”. While many were yet to recover from the devastation of the successive typhoons that hit our country this year, several more tragedies challenged the Filipino spirit and have left us wondering if there’s even any reason left to celebrate the coming Yuletide season.
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Vendettas apparently aren't entertaining when they happen in real life, when the people involved aren't as morally principled as V, the main character in Alan Moore's series of graphic novels and the Wachowski brothers' movie – and when the butchers' toll includes innocent bystanders.
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Pepeng forecasts. In the first days of October 2009, Metro Manila and several low-lying areas were still recovering from the heavy rainfall brought by the typhoon Ondoy. At the same time, authorities were on alert as typhoon Pepeng was threatening to add to the damage brought by the previous typhoon.
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September 2009 is dead. Let this be its joylessly joyful obituary: yet another testament to the failure of systems – the lone and true thematic tune of the year – from the positively positive critical turns in the Palancas undercut by the meaningless murders of local film critics Alexis Tioseco and Nika Boh...
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Cory Aquino’s death
A huge part of the month of July was devoted to Filipinos praying for the fast recovery of former president Corazon Aquino , who was diagnosed with colon cancer and went under chemotherapy in 2008. People also offered up healing masses and spread yellow ribbons in Metro Manila and t...
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