One Filipina continues to inspire a nation in distress. Alex Eala is winning more than losing in the WTA tour. Although she seems to have shifted focus to lower-tier events, the competition is not weak either. Not necessarily top 50, but good enough to test her game and consistency.
So far she has asserted her place with strong presence. Thrilling, she flirts with defeat and comes from behind to win in razor sharp margin. Avoid calling this resilience though, the word so used and abused by the corrupt and the plunderers to justify their theft and robbery of what should have minimized poverty among the suffering and the dying.
But nature has its mysterious way to uncover the truth buried in impunity among the sinners and apathy among the aggrieved. Aside from the big mouth of a couple with bigger loot, nature haunted and exposed the ghost of flood control. Then the other night a powerful tremor awakened a people in slumber to the reality of sub-standard infrastructure. Nature is doing its part, but how many more lives should be sacrificed to jail the real culprit and the complicit. Nature nurtures, vultures devour.
Then there is Jessica Sanchez, the Filipino-American who recognizes her half lineage and embraces the culture she was not raised in. Her superb vocal prowess dazzled America in a diverse talent competition to vindicate her loss in a singing competition when America picked the American instead of the Idol.
Years later she picked the perfect song to prick American soul. With life inside, she sang live and brought the world to life with a song about its end. Such moving performance characteristic of Filipino singers, the most feared vocalists in the world but some of them are muted in dissent against greed and corruption.
Alexandra and Jessica, two women who inspire a nation about to expire. Both sweet but fierce when it matters. Alex grunts, Jessica growls. And the nepo rabies flaunt and seduce young girls to vanity and luxury paid for by a country of impunity and stupidity, exactly why it never gets angry, or sustain anger if any, its short people have the shortest memory.