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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 Bohinc within hours on the same night, to the five-day Luzon-wide onslaught of Typhoon Ondoy, its record-breaking rainfall reportedly worse than Hurricane Katrina’s, killing more than four-hundred-and-fifty people, drowning crops and streets and riverside suburban villages, all testaments to the failure of systems economic, environmental, geographic, architectural, and ultimately, political, as all critical typhoon aid flooded not from the philandered coffers of government agencies but from the meagre pockets of middle-class civil society – bloggers and tweeters and GoogleMappers and call-center people and fringe NGOs and careerist presidentiables – as we’re reminded, once again, fresh from the restaurants of New York, that the Arroyo administration – being heartless – will never have our best interests at heart. September 2009 is dead. Let this be its joylessly joyful obituary.
"Undas" - Photo by Dennis Villegas. Some rights reserved.
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