target place: Mayon Volcano in Albay Bikol Philippines
target date: january 31, 2007
rationale: to see for myself how true were the news and rumors about the burying of cagsau ruins from the volcano's mudflow brought about by a strong typhoon that visited the Bikol region sometime in October 2006.
companions: my nephews Peping and Buboy and his girlfriend Rosalyn; and aris and his entire family.
Images:
cagsau ruins at the picture background was still intact, not one sand nor gravel from the raging mudflow coming from the slopes of mayon volcano landed on it! but its surrounding communities of barangays all over Daraga Albay were totally ruined and buried.
the cagsau ruins... was it spared by God for it was the only living memory of the thousands and thousands of people who perished inside its church when your major eruption occured years and years ago?....
where are you? why are you hiding in a vast of clouds in the sky? why don't you show up and reveal your beauty and grandeur just like the day when i came and visited you last year? are you ashamed of yourself now? are you ashamed to show your self and all the beauty in your perfect cone because you feel so much guilt about what happened to your people, to their houses, to your lush green vegetation around you? They all perished and now are under the mud that you allowed to flow... How could you do such a horrible thing? How could you allow such to happen? Don't you want anymore tourists to come over and marvel at your perfect cone and the beauty that once surround you? Do you want your people to go back and languish again in poverty and in misery?
look at what you did to thousands of people's lives around you? Is this what you wanted? that a giant cross be erected at such beautiful scenery emanating from your mystery to keep reminding us how cruel and dangerous can you be amidst your grandeur and beauty?...
look at what you did to your people's houses?
look at what you did to your trees and beautiful landscapes?
look at what you did to your bridges and your beautiful crystal-clear rivers?
look at what you did to the tourist businesses that were flourishing around you?
with all these surrounding destructions and wreckage you caused, what were only left were sad and horrible sights and echoing sounds of your people's grief and lamentations for losing their loved ones, for losing their properties and houses, for losing their source of living and means of survival, and for losing their confidence and faith in God...
I really do not know now if i can still be proud of you....maybe i should just forget you and stop adoring you...
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