u n e x p e c t e d !

On my last post last weekend it seems that everything was into their places perfectly, happily and problem-free.
BUT the next weekend Saturday to be specific it was so sudden that everything has CHANGED. The Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) hit the Philippines with its unending hard rainfall on the early Saturday until evening.

Saturday, September 26, 2009
I left the house around 5:30am to drive myself to school because i have classes at 7:30am for Chemistry, my major subject. While I'm on my to school i drive carefully because the roads was slippery and the rain is pouring, there was a heavy traffic in Magallanes that took my time, so arrived at my dorm 7:20am, i quickly grab my towel and took a shower then straight to our building i arrived 8:30am (it's not new to my profs that I'm always late. haha) but when entered the room i was shocked that there's only few of my classmates were present, by 9am we started our laboratory, i didn't know that my parents are calling me because the class was already suspended and asking me to go home urgently in Makati my phone was at my bag, after class i checked my phone and saw 23 missed calls from them and messages "gabby the class was suspended go home now so you won't be trapped in traffic" after reading that i asked my prof if its true that the classes where suspended she said she didn't know because where having a class and not updated with the current news. i tried calling my parents but i can't contact them (all of them) I entered my next class because of the 100 items quiz at 12pm my class is over i went back to the dorm to change my clothes and attend a practice for my P.E. final practical exam actually was planning to escape but i felt guilty knowing that all of them was there practicing and didn't care about the rain. So i attended the practice around 1pm my dad called me and said that it's better to stay at the dorm because the rain was pouring really hard and the main roads were already blocked because of the floods so i have no choice but to follow them. While practicing the electricity at the activity center was gone so my classmates started to worry then i opened the radio at my phone to check the conditions of other places particularly the places where my classmates live, we stayed at the activity center until 3pm hoping that the rain would stop and they can go home but that didn't happen and it became worst the wind started to blow really hard that breaks the windows on our school building, the plants in the plots were flying and the umbrellas was useless. They called their parents and inform that they'll just stay at the dorm of their classmates because the flood on the main campus (a 5 minutes walk away from the place where we are staying) was was already on shoulder line any kind of transportation cannot pass, while staying at the activity center one of my guy classmate went back with his white nursing uniform that turns into brown and a news that the water level was so high and it's safer to stay there and he also said that my three girl classmates didn't care about the flood and continue to go on up to the point they went up to the truck of RC Cola just to pass the bridge and safely have their way home we are so worried about them. After hours of waiting we decided to plan where will my other classmate can stay and decided to have eat first because since early in that morning i didn't eat ANYTHING, same with some of them we did a long walk at the rain without umbrella because it was broken already after a long walk all stores are closed we planned to go to SM mall just to buy something eat but we fail no jeepneys, fx or taxi are passing so i came up to the idea of using my car but everybody refused it's dangerous so NOTHING we go to our respective dorms with the classmates who will take an overnight with us. Two of them was with me Jhen and Fatima when we arrived at my dorm . i quickly look for some food there have biscuits, candy and juices i think it's enough for us to surpass our hunger but it's really different to have a rice and any food for dinner but we have no choice so after we fill our stomach we went to sleep but the sound of the wind and the strong drops of rain gives me more worries. I don't know what's happening outside, how's my family, friends, classmates and everybody and the question of why is my family stayed at Makati? It bothered me so much but when i got to talk with all of them that night i was relieved they were safe after the call i went to sleep.

Sunday, September 27, 2009
We woke up 5:30am we decided to prepare our things and go home i texted my dad first informing him that I'm going home then he replied that he'll just fetch me so i inform the two girls that's with me that i'll be fetched then we'll just drop them to their houses, we went out to check for an open stores to have something to eat, unfortunately, all are still closed we waked a little to check the main road if its passable i saw jeepneys then i said "YEHEY! MAKAKAUWI NA KAMI!" then i saw them U-turning after the chinabank then we asked the traffic enforcers why they are taking u-turns they said the the flood on the main campus onwards up to the bridge was still in waist deep when i heard that i thought of "huhuhuhu. how can we go home I'm so hungry. :( my last meal was friday dinner huhuhu" so i texted my dad right away that the road to my dorm was still impassable then he replied and asked if there's a way we can pass up t the bridge then i asked the tricycle driver and he said yes but still we have to walk we just agreed then he sent us to the destination we walked and walked and walked until we reached the street to the main road then i was SHOCKED of what i saw F L O O D thigh deep OMG! i don't know what to do many people are still passing the streets despite of the flood so now it's the decision time! We GO through that flood but still gabby is pasaway, so i thought of a thing that can help us cross the street without stepping at the road with flood i saw two men at the end of the wall it's like a firewall of the house the width of it was 7inches (my estimate) yeas it was very dangerous but facing the flood is also dangerous so GO i climbed up there and my classmates followed then we crossed after crossing using the wall next is we use the jeepney just reach the opposite road YES JEEPNEY BUT NOT the place where do people sit we across using the ROOF (imagine how deep the water is) then after that we have no choice but to face the flood but it's already on knee deep so GO with the flow by that time i forgot that I'm hungry the only thing in my mind was i need to go home! then we walked through the gutter so were far from the flood we walked for an hour that experience was really different something like what's happening in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" where it's like the end of the world but the difference was FILIPINO was still wearing a smile on their faces like rejoicing they're still alive and safe even though their material things was eaten by the flood. WELL, WE'RE PINOY! While walking
we saw 3 dead people. CREEPY. floating coffins. tons of trash. mud. reversed position of brand new cars same with the old ones. animals on swim. Styrofoam boats. floating beds. and a LOT of people evacuating from Valenzuela because of the incoming supertyphoon PEPENG just to be safe they conquer the flood then leave their flooded place. then WALK WALK WALK WALK WALK WALK until we reach where my dad is waaaaaaaahhh! DADDY i hugged my dad as tight as could awww then again WALK WALK WALK until we reached our car my dad parked near a subdivision of the rich people the flood there was up to the third floor the cars was full of mud, their gates with
trash and the expensive appliances broken. We reached our car then we accompanied my classmate we're she will be fetched. then YES! WE WENT HOME! i missed then soooooooooo much!

WE DON'T KNOW WHEN WILL NATURE DO IT'S REVENGE, MAYBE TOMORROW.. NEXT DAY.. IT WILL HAPPEN ON THE DAY WHEN WE LEAST EXPECTED IT. IMAGINE TYPHOON ONDOY WAS ONLY SIGNAL #1 IN MANILA NOT EVEN A SUPERTYPHOON BUT WHAT'S THE RESULT? THE RAIN IT POURS WAS A RAINFALL OF 5-6 TYPHOONS. SEE HOW THINGS CHANGE? PEOPLE CAN CHANGE ALSO BUT NOT THAT FAST BUT IT CAN HAPPEN SLOWLY.
-TRY TO MINIMIZE SMOKING AND END UP NOT USING IT ANYMORE
-RECYCLE THE PLASTICS, DONT BURN IT!
-DON'T CUT THE TREES, PLANT MORE!

AND A WHOLE LOT MORE! IT'S BETTER TO MAKE A LITTLE CHANGE THAN DOING NOTHING!

BUT TYPHOON ONDOY ALSO HAS AN ADVANTAGE!

BAYANIHAN is a Filipino term taken from the word bayan, referring to a nation, town or community. The whole term bayanihan refers to a spirit of communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective.

PINOY's bayanihan reigned DURING and AFTER the said calamity.
FILIPINO SPIRIT at this situation no one is rich, poor, artist, private citizen, politicians, kids, adults, ALL ARE VICTIMS!
and ALL ARE HEROES. small or big help, no difference you helped others! It was really nice seeing PINOY'S showing their wide concern about their KAPWA-PINOY!

One unique attitude of PINOY? We can still SMILE despite of the what happened and PINOYS never forget to say THANK YOU!


SALUTE FOR THE FILIPINOS! GREAT!