Pia Magalona, talent manager and widow of iconic Filipino rapper Francis Magalona, firmly believes that there should be a rethinking of priorities in the government so that damages worth billion of pesos during typhoons can be avoided.
She also thinks resilience is not enough to prevail over a calamity. This she stated in her Instagram page last week, just as Typhoon Ulysses brought much damage to Luzon.
“Prayers go out to our country, who’s been hard hit these past weeks… and still coming up… to our people, to know that there’s a difference between being resilient (when you bounce back from some, usually sudden, setback in your life, like being fired from your job or a breakup…
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