inconvenience.

al gore's right. and it's all happening. i hope we could still do something!

i have to wake up at 4am later because i'm going to ateneo and bringing my sister to work at 6am. so yeah i'll be in ateneo maybe at 7am. yay for volunteer work! i'm excited. the DSL has been restored this afternoon so things are back to normal. it was so confusing to have only 2 smart bro usb modems when all 5 of us are looking for people, checking up on friends, planning what we could do, among other things. oh well. for now, my downloads can wait.

i'm a bit apprehensive though because while it's a helpful thing to pack goods, a lot of the relief goods that i see are wrapped in plastic. i saw videos of the assembly line in school, where they all put the goods to the trucks, and it's a whole truckload full of PLASTIC! i'm afraid that while we may be providing temporary relief, we might also be causing further damage. i hope the plastic bags that are being used for packing relief goods would also be brought to the proper recycling facilities afterwards.

my sister went to work today and since they have a telethon thing going, she wanted to also be part of the relief operations apart from the donations we've done. but then she backed out because according to her, the ones calling might hate the fact that their telethon representative isn't a celebrity. HEH. so repurposing news that they send to the international networks is already enough help for her.

my former yaya (the one i had since i was a baby) came here a while ago. they're already cleaning their flooded house and she was asking for drinking water because they had none. my mom gave her a sermon on how she should already move houses and gave her one of the 5-gallon containers of water. i hope she got back to their house with the water still on hand. that thing's heavy! and i'm sure she shared it with her neighbors.

one of our maids also went back to her house to clean things. when she got back here, she told us that there was an 18-year old boy whose body was there lying around, and that boy saved a lot of people at the height of the typhoon. when i went online, i saw the news about the said boy. sigh. our maid also said that last night, mar roxas and noynoy aquino were in their area to give out food. hopefully the food they gave didn't have labels saying it came from them, unlike manny villar's neatly labeled styrofoam. there were also corpses of kids, adults, and nuns all over the area, but they've already been placed in coffins already, thank god.

i remember having my own share of being flooded when i was younger. i used to live in marikina (as in, a block away from the river!), then i moved to riverside, pasig. i hope all my former neighbors are safe. when i was in riverside, i think i was around 8 or 9 then. our house got flooded and there was water on our 1st floor at chest level. when the water was rising, my yaya and my family combined efforts and put EVERYTHING on the second floor - the sofa, the fridge, the microwave, everything! my mom was completely single then so we were all girls then at home (although my yaya then's lesbian) and we were all freaking out. i even remember a HUGE rat that crawled on my foot before my yaya stabbed the rat and i saw a part of the flood water turn red. leptospirosis, anyone? we were all stuck there for 3 days because the water took that long to go down. tito was nice enough to give us fast food although i don't remember how he got to our house. we had a neighbor then who was a basketball player, roaming the streets, but since it's all flooded, it was only his head that we could see. he was tiptoeing then!

when i was looking at my planner, i saw the schedule for JEEP orals. JEEP=junior engagement program=working blue collar jobs for 12 hours. i'd rather have orals for volunteer work for the typhoon victims. this learning experience has so much more relevance. na-waley yung jeep experience bigla. pati yung FA101 NSTP, waley! although i hope the shopwise employees that i worked with are okay. also the kids who helped us gather pictures in the aklatan area. i hope they're all okay.

if you don't know how to fix something, don't destroy it. if you don't know how to fix the earth, why are you destroying it? sana wala nang makalat. OC pa naman ako and i'm really strict about order. if there's something i don't like, kahit ano (or sino. haha) pa yun, itatapon ko yun :| as in, go to hell. i'll see you there. waley!

for now i'm just glad that my friends are okay. some of them took a while to respond to our efforts in contacting them, but thankfully they've already replied/answered their phones and are safe. don't care na about the things you lost. we can help you get those back. i'm not ready to lose anyone. walang magulo.