Hostage Taking – August 23 2010- Quirino Grandstand, Manila Philippines

Everyone’s talking about it.. Mehn, I was sleepin the whole time yesterday and woke up around 6pm, thats when I heard the news. Thanks to the cab driver who turned his radio on while I was on my way to work. Damn, Im feelin sick in my stomach just realizing how the drama ended.

Just the recent Yahoo post says 9 were confirmed dead from the bloody hostage crisis yesterday. And these victims are Hongkong nationals who just went to the Philippines to tour. Now the Hongkong govt issued top-level black travel alert for the Philippines which ofcourse is a total downfall to our country’s tourism.

So I think Ive heard enough of people’s opinion on this. Ive been monitoring Facebook updates from the time I logged in 20 hrs ago and a lot of FB users post “extreme disappointment” to their status messages.

People are Mad about :

How the police screwed everything up. Their lack of experience and slow reaction. I heard tons of this.
How the media got involved, reporting stuff resulting to a more agitated hostage-taker.
The govt high officials
The President, for his poor leadership *which I think is irrelevant, coz they just couldnt set aside political issues for now, its not a question of leadership, its about people’s lack of understanding *

Its all been done, lets just hope that as a nation we can get over this and correct whatever mistakes we have when it comes to implementing policies and procedures *in whatever sense* Our country’s in a bad light right now and its sad to hear reports putting us on a hot seat. Im crossing my fingers on us.