Blogging, Typhoon and Everything that Came in Between

I haven't updated my blog in ages and now that I finally had the time, I feel I had to write about what I have been doing the past month..or more so what have been happening the past month - personal or otherwise....

On Work - my pre-schooler students for tutorials, are the cutest....They never fail to make me laugh with their funny antics...Just look at how they goof around before our sessions...

[Marchie the little boy on the right passed his first interview for big school.....I am soo proud...][Apple cinnamon cupcake that made Kyle(above) soo happy]

Other than the kids, I have also been so busy with my grade school tutorial students...End of September was their first trimestral exams, and I stayed long hours at the tutorial center making reviewers and I did one home tutorial session as well...And it was also my finals in school...Hectic...Toxic but fun......until September 26 came....

Typhoon Ondoy(intl. name: Ketsana) - this was a Saturday, September 26.. Supposedly the last day in school for me, it was finals and it was dark and gloomy early in the morning...But I was able to go to school..Come lunch time, our classroom was already flooded and I have received text messages from my friend and sis that typhoon Ondoy has hit Manila and most of the major roads are already flooded...We were stuck in school, we parked my classmate's car in a mall's parking space, we left our stuff there and had to walk through the flood which was up to the waist to get home or in my case to get to where my sis was, to pick her up because she got stuck in traffic and the vehicles are no longer moving...I've never seen Taft avenue that flooded...It was like a river already...

[there was supposed to be a center island along the avenue, but it was no longer visible]

When I met up with my sister, she was already too hungry, thanks to the toblerone white, my classmate gave me at least it eased up the hunger, and it gave us enough energy to walk through the flood again..We had to get near a mall, because there are hotels beside it..Looking for a place to stay was tough..We were literally dripping while inquiring inside the hotel lobbies. My relatives from the province have been calling us asking how we are because the area where we lived was all over the news..My sister and a friend, who were at our home that time, already told us not to go home anymore because the flood on the road was already too high, it has reached up to the third floor of certain establishments and hospital around the area...A lot of people are being rescued on the roof of their houses because that's the highest point they can get, as the waters have already gotten inside their houses. We were lucky to have found a hotel to stay, the only room available..And as soon as we checked in, I ran to the nearest mall to buy some dry clothes..And lucky enough also that our house has not been affected by the typhoon and that all of us are safe. Some footage's of the typhoon can be seen below..


The next day, the sun showed up for a while, and some flood water have already gone..I felt bad for friends who have been hit by the flood, one friend had to stay with us for a while, because the place she was staying have been devastated by the flood...some co-workers have been terribly hit by the flood as well, donations have been accorded to them already...