Monday, September 28, 2009

Typhoon Ondoy

I've never seen a real big flood in my life until I finally came face to face with one last Saturday. I took a video of the flood with my camera phone so I can show it to my sister as a proof. She can hardly believe how big the flood was. Thank goodness our apartment is on the second floor and the flood didn't reach our floor but I got a little scared since I'm all by myself. My sister is at work that time I told myself that if the rain won't subside there's still a chance that the water might go up. I'm just really blessed that it subsided before evening and my sister got home safely. 


We had no electricity for more than 24 hours, that was from Saturday afternoon until before 5 PM yesterday. Manong guard said the water motor will be fixed today, I hope so. I heard it drowned after the flood. For the time being our water supply is coming from the ground floor tank. We only use reserved water so it's a must to conserve. I hate complaining because I know that there are less fortunate people out there. On a sad note, I think it will take a long time for our country to completely recover from the wrath of Ondoy, but we have to keep our hopes up.



Saturday, September 26, 2009

Bad Weather

I'm not sure if it's just coincidence or just the weather lately that every time I'm in the mood to write something, it's rains or a storm is coming up. 


I can't help but wonder sometimes if my writing invokes rain or something. I read in the news that Ondoy is the name of the tropical storm. There's flood outside and we are on the second floor. When I was a kid my family lived in a house in Quiapo, Manila wherein flood is our constant visitor so I consider myself lucky that we didn't experience that anymore growing up in Antipolo. 


I took a video of the flood using my cellphone so I have a souvenir of Typhoon Ondoy visiting when I saw a cat stuck in the gate downstairs. I got worried it might drown so I decided to come to its rescue. I can't stand seeing a living creature looking helpless like that. I know it may sound odd but I almost called our Manong Guard to rescue the poor cat. 


We lost cable signal again because it's still raining badly. In my opinion, Sky Cable is better off without their Digibox because we have nothing but problems since they hooked that thing up. The signal gets interrupted while in the middle of watching something important. Sucks right? 


I didn't sign up for overtime this week I'm just really tired. I had split off this week it's like I never had off at all. 



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