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Yesterday marked the 2nd birthday of Ondoy. I could still remember that faithful day like it came fresh and hot off the oven on how I had a nice date with my then-boyfriend inside a mall and we had no idea that a storm is brewing outside the building because we thought it was only one of the occassional doownpours of the ber-months. We were having a nice lunch and decided to go home when LO AND BEHOLD, the flood's rising waist length and the currents are very strong it could make a car drift and hit a post. My jaws dropped to the ground that time. It was just a drizzle when we went inside the mall. And then the flood after 2-3 hours of strolling inside. Paranoid as I am, i already had my final destination scenes pictured in my head. The flood was waistlength for my boyfriend so that counts my level as chest-length. There were no means of transportation and I was dire worried about my then-apartment since with the water level that high, it surely created havoc inside the house already. So we opted to go and not stay inside. We dared the flood and heavy rain and went against the current. The hell with leptospirosis and other debris-i-dare-not-know-what-or-i-will-faint. Since I am short and I'm made up of 40% muscle and 60% fat, I found it difficult to maneuver with the current and so i got carried away by the current and hit a post. So much for Ondoy.


Yesterday, another storm made me remember Ondoy. Strange, for a girl like me who doesn't have a television in her new home and doesn't have any idea if there's a storm except when the rains would last for days, I remembered Ondoy. It happened when I am on my way home. The rain was not that hard but the winds are very harsh it would make a tree kiss the ground and the roofs flying in a whirl of wind. But that was just a normal storm for me. Not enough for me to remember the name. But then, when the rain poured hard, accompanied by the cruel wind, which blows infront of you and you get wet all over even if you have an umbrella over your head, you tend to protect yourself by putting the umbrella infront of you instead putting it over your head so that the rain won't make you look like a wet cat (in this case, it's cat since i love cats) and that would make you see nothing infront of you. as in ZERO visibility. and then i hit the post. that made me remember Ondoy. Thank you Pedring. Happy Anniversary. It's a storm when i hit myself to a post.


and that's my weather report.