no show

the thought of a storm, a typhoon, a hurricane, a quake, a volcanic eruption, nuclear reaction, now a tsunami fills a lot of people with dread and trepidation. the situation in japan is truly heartbreaking. having experienced several typhoons in my lifetime, seeing, reading, hearing about natural devastations is no movie, it's no day after tomorrow or even 2012. it brings memories of those blackout nights when the wind was too strong, and you prayed that the swift, howling air currents would not blow off your roof or at least spare your favourite jackfruit tree in the front yard or the datiles/sarisa tree that stretches your power of calisthenics. we lost the sarisa tree from typhoon nitang in '84. it was irreplaceable, i could never climb another tree ever again. a decade and maybe a few years later, my former classmate's house, located at the cliff near the bridge, was swept off by yet another powerful storm. i always wondered what happened to her family.

it's not theatre when it's real. imagine being actually there. hope the nuclear radiation in fukushima would be contained and the people up north in the affected areas, in the evacuation centers, in the scourge of uncertainty, would have their food, water and shelter from the snow.