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 An
Open
Letter
to
Noynoy
by F
Sionil
Jose
Dear
Noynoy,
You
are now
swamped
with
suggestions
and
advice,
but just
the
same, I
hope
you’ll
have
time to
read
what
this
octogenarian
has to
say.
You
were not
my
choice
in the
last
election
but
since
our
people
have
spoken,
we must
now
support
you and
pray
that you
prevail.
But
first, I
must
remind
you of
the
stern
reality
that
your
drumbeaters
ignore:
you have
no noble
legacy
from
your
forbears.
It is
now your
arduous
job to
create
one
yourself
in the
six
years
that you
will be
the
single
most
powerful
Filipino.
Six
years is
too
short a
time —
the
experience
in our
part of
the
world is
that it
takes at
least
one
generation
— 25
years —
for a
sick
nation
to
recover
and
prosper.
But you
can
begin
that
happy
process
of
healing.
Bear
in mind
that the
past
weighs
heavily
on all
of us
because
of the
many
contradictions
in it
that we
have not
resolved,
whose
resolutions
would
strengthen
us as a
nation.
This
past is
now your
burden,
too. Let
us start
with the
fact
that
your
grandfather
collaborated
with the
Japanese.
Your
father
was
deeply
aware of
this,
its
stigma,
its
possibilities.
He did
not
leave
any
legacy
because
he did
not
become
president.
He was a
brilliant
and
courageous
politician.
He was
an
enterprising
journalist;
he had
friends
in
journalism
who can
attest
to his
effulgent
vision,
who did
not
profit
from his
friendship,
among
them
Nestor
Mata,
Gregorio
Brillantes
— you
may
consult
them. I
cannot
say I
did not
profit —
he
bought
many
books
from my
shop and
when he
was in
Marcos’s
prison,
your
mother
brought
books
from my
shop to
him.
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 Tinuy-an
Falls,
Bislig,
Surigao
del Sur
It was a
5-hour
bus trip
(2 hours
of which
was a
jack
hammer
ride
thru
very
rough
roads)
deep
into the
forest
heartland
of PICOP
or Paper
Industries
Corporation’s
vast
logging
concession
– at one
time
reputedly
known as
one of
Asia’s
biggest
timber
and
paper
mills.
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 Katrina
and
Ketsana
(Ondoy)
By
Carlo
Osi
WASHINGTON
DC,
United
States –
How I
wish the
words
Katrina
and
Ketsana
would
evoke
happier
memories,
such as
perhaps
an old
romantic
comedy
flick, a
favorite
television
show or
a play
about a
couple’s
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Dear Editor,
I enjoy reading your
web magazine, as it
gives us a glimpse
of what is happening
in Canada,
especially in the
Toronto area where
my relatives reside.
Plus, I can access
it anytime I want
to.
Thanks and all the
best.
Pete Sanvictores
Sampaloc, Manila
June 16, 2009
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