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| Kuya Ernest & I after some basketball games with some locals |
Contrasts:
The predictable daily sunrise and sunset VS the unpredictable perennial mega-smoke belcher and active Mayon Volcano.
The threat of
a low-probability but high-consequence major eruption forced the local
provincial government to to be the “most disaster-prepared” in the country. The claim of the local officials is not without merits, as per our own
opinions based on our own observations.
But Legazpi
City itself, as the regional administrative capital is arguably the seat of
atrocious severe corruption in the poor Bicol region in Southern Luzon. And as
we will write about in the future, severe corruption in the region brought
about greater hardships among a million families and caused deaths far more
than Mayon Volcano in the last 50 years...
With ten
thousand and one serious violent and or big-time criminals they pro-actively
protect or host, we were subjects of misinformation campaign by the rogue
elements of the intelligence-agents of a government agency. Spoiling the wonderful experiences we had with kind and loving new acquaintances and friends. And forcing us to leave
the place.
This is
counter-intuitive – to announce that we’re departing from a place and moving
when it’s not a safe thing to do for endangered individuals like us. They have
vandalized our published articles too, though we’re not sure about this yet. You
idly earn billions-a-year in combined
kickbacks, ‘di na ba kayo naawa sa amin? Nice moves sirs!
