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I was about to blog about my New Years Reso but decided against it to give way to a more pressing issue, the tragic aftermath of a super typhoon.

I was once a victm of a super typhoon myself. Our house was submerged to a chest-deep flood when Ondoy hit Metro Manila September 26 of 2009. I lost a lot, yes. I threw away about two hundred books, less than a hundred magazines and a couple of textbooks. The typhoon took away my television, component, washing machine, double-sized mattress, CPU, DVD player and a handful of clothes. But everything, the inconvenience, the destruction, ended there.

Imagine what the typhoon took from other victims. Others lost