Written by: seigfredtristan on August 30, 2010

My sincerest and deepest apologies to the victims of this atrocity. I am praying for solace and i’m sending my compassion to the families of the bereft.

One of the many things that makes me concerned with this incident, as every Filipino blogger in the world wide web who is passionately promoting Filipino – either food or the people, is the inevitable landslide of destruction this will cause (or has already) on the pillars of what we tirelessly build. This one incident will definitely bash every building block of sentence, letter and word we have assembled with care on what able limb (or brain cell) we have just so to see some sort of ambrosial figure about the Filipino or Filipino food in my case.

I am now telling myself that; Filipinos usually look to the bright side of every unfortunate event. But the bright side on this one is a small hole at the end of what seems to be an endless trek to the light. Ironically, even though every friendly race would say this is an isolated case, every Filipino has been isolated since the hostage taker took his first step in the doomed bus.

And to be distinctly redundant, this has definitely ruined whatever good is there in the word Filipino. Take for example the effort of the Philippines’ Department of Tourism – Kulinarya Food Tours. Good luck to that. Click here why. Hopefully, not one country will second the motion.

What I’m more concerned with is the world’s current not so curious interest in the Filipino, or the Philippines in this case. It seems that whenever there is something “news worthy” about the Philippines or Filipinos, it would  be about Manny Pacquiao… other than that it would be about any terrible deed that a Filipino has done from his corner of the world.

I will not iterate further on the story of the Philippine’s Bus Hostage Crisis. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, the main news spread of the Philippines are still on it for a few weeks now, full-on cover with all the blame-game hand-balling. And while the Philippine government is unable to chew  this event since it was first served cold on their laps, the unceasing, recurring diarrhea that this issue has splattered on the internet has made the whole world vomit. See some clips about it in YouTube here, here and here.

I have been staring blankly into space for more than 10 minutes before I wrote this sentence. I felt all the rocks landing on my back. I will just have to leave you with this clip.