Random Thoughts: Email to Friends

21 May 2005
(an e-mail to friends)
-I was shocked and deeply saddenned when I learned about the death of my colleagues. I was in Bicol when it happened. What happened to my co-geologists could also happen to me as my job requires a lot of travel. I am supposed to start a project with two of them middle of this month. It's in times like this that we are reminded of our mortality.

- I was in Bondoc Peninsula last week, and I saw the grinding poverty of the people in that place. No wonder, Bondoc is a breeding ground for communist insurgents.

-Banton Island in Romblon Province is a rustic oasis in the middle of nowhere. It's a three-hour banca ride from Romblon Island. A perfect escape from the suffocating life of Manila.