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All Saints Days is a Catholic holiday observed in many Catholic countries. It is also an official holiday for Filipinos. The day we remember the dead usually by visiting their gravesite to lit a candle and pay our respects. We can not help it that they are dead and that we miss them.

Besides for those related, let us also remember those who were lost during the last two typhoons that passed our way. The circumstances by which they had become victims to and reflect on what had we contributed to help our neighbors on calamities like in a flood or landslides. What have we done to help prevent such terrible sacrifice of human lives and property?

Another typhoon; Mirinea or locally named Santi, is here in the country and while we can not do anything about Santi’s arrival but pray, we definitely can help see to it that the overflowing rain water drainage is properly in place and functioning. Properly dispose and help reduce our non-biodegradable waste so it does not clog the drain or smoke toxins into the air we breathe.

Heed the geological warnings from government scientists and engineers. Or, help monitor government funds so that they are really spent to build quality infrastructures to protect us – the population. Even if we perceive this kind of help as puny, this city needs all the help it can get from its people.#

Extend period for voter’s registration
It is a human bad habit to procrastinate and rush or panic at the last minute, even more if one is Filipino. It was terribly bad service for our local Comelec to have been given only one biometric machine and so limited resources to process new registrants and reconfirm voters’ registration. It seemed there was a sudden surge of enthusiasm to register or an under-estimation of the number of new voter-registrants that the local Comelec had to be limited to only 300 people to be processed per day in October.

So much so, that when the lone machine brokedown everyone was helpless. It was a good thing that the local Comelec allowed an extension to make up for that breakdown. It was rather more a disservice to the voting public to have extended it only for less than a day. It would have been more sensible to have extended it another two weeks or so to give more time, especially for the unread, uninformed and the new registrants to be processed. At least, it would reduce the anger and temper of a long line of registrants who had to be there at dawn – as early as 1:00 a.m. just to get a number in the queue and then still miss getting registered. Please make a request for an extension and disseminate the information thoroughly. The local press has been helpful and supportive to the information drive.# nordis.net