The MV Princess of the Stars..Another unexpected sea tragedy..

A passenger ship MV Princess of the Stars has sunk off in the waters of Romblon, Philippines on Saturday. Gov't officials said they saw Sulpicio Lines' Princess of the Stars capsized. The ship may have approximately 700 passengers and crews. It's traveling in the rough seas amid a fury typhoon when the engine failed. Hundreds are feared dead. The typhoon has killed at least 141 people and 255 people are missing, most of them fishermen. The massive ferry which was built to hold about 2,000 people, flipped over about a mile off the shore of Sibuyan Island as typhoon Fengshen pummeled the Philippines.

While it is a tragic accident in its entirety, it could have been avoided. We all know that the Philippines is composed of 7,107 islands and traveling by boat is the most common means of transportation. There were a lot of questions to be asked..Why were they permitted to sail on that very stormy weather? Weren't they aware of that strong typhoon? They risk the lives of those 700 people..without thinking that they have families waiting for them..longing for their presence.. What's the role of PAGASA and the Coast Guard. This issue is hopeless..It all happened in a just click.. and the only thing that we can do now is pray.

We may not be there to help comfort the family of the victims but we can sincerely offer them a prayer for the deceased, their surviving families and hope for the betterment of the situation.

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A Great Honesty..

Despite of all the calamities and problems we are facing now, There are still big Hope for us and Good deeds that deserved to be rewarded.. Alexander "Stitch" Latag another filipino hero..He's working as a waiter in a restaurant in a Mall. While cleaning the table, he found a plastic thinking it was just a garbage but to his surprise, it has a money worth P1M. What he did was find the owner and honestly returned that big amount of money and for this, he was being rewarded a hundred thousand pesos. A big blessing for a job well done! I was wondering.. How many of us could be like Alexander? With this high prices we are experiencing now and great demands in our daily needs, I'm sure a lot of us would decide to keep the money instead..and use it for our own needs..But for Alexander he is a truly an Honest person his first instinct was to find the owner and give back the money.

Alexander gave us another reason to be proud of being a Filipino! (Are you?) well, not all Filipinos are bad. Although Filipinos has gained bad image in other countries, but let us not generalize those feedbacks.. there are still those who we could consider “Good Samaritans” those that has a good heart that could be trusted with pure attitude towards his job, and others. I still hope he could touch others heart with his “Great Honesty” I hope and pray for more Alexanders to come and that this short story could leave a big dot in our hearts and mind. Maybe this could remain as a great lesson for all of us..

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom” by: Thomas Jefferson

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