Last Sunset of 2009 as seen from home











(As seen from my bedroom window)

(As seen from the second floor of the house)

At sunset today, I tried to catch the last rays of the sun in 2009.

I know that we have seen so much tears, fears, deaths, greed, lies and more lies in 2009. And we have also seen the best of the Pinoy – braving the flood waters, losing one’s life in saving others, standing up for the truth even if it meant losing one’s freedom and economic means, putting aside a lucrative career to push a cart and educate the less fortunate children (being hailed as the CNN Hero of the Year was a bonus), a woman judge accepting the case against a tyrant with equipments like backhoes and chainsaws and uzis and machine guns (well, we still have to see the beginning of the search for justice here)...

In 2009 we lost a beloved figure in Tita Cory, we also gained a reluctant Presidential candidate who has the values Tita Cory instilled in her brood – Noynoy Aquino.

Personally, in 2009, I went through a wringer and what pain it brought me! This made me realize that no matter what I do, when people have formed a judgment of who I am, and these people have the power to decide on my fate, it is still up to me to accept their decision or not. Standing up to POWER has its consequences and yet this made me stronger and more practical in looking at the world around me.

May 2010 be kinder to us, bring justice to those who have been wronged, and put a new President who cannot be bought, who cannot be bribed, who does not seek only a military solution to any problem in the country, and who honestly thinks of the country first before anything else.

MABUHAY ANG PILIPINAS!