It's still raining...

It’s still raining… I wonder when it will stop. It’s not that I want it to stop because I don’t. I just wish there’s no thunder and lightning at night because I can’t help worrying about the electricity. I was awake until 2am. The sound of thunder was terrible last night. It’s like rolling rocks about to fall at the rooftops. My mind began to wander and I thought about the end of the world. I asked myself, what if the thunder is not a usual thunder; what if it’s the sound of heaven opening up with legions of angels and Jesus is coming down to judge the living and the dead? Surely I will go to hell, I thought. Sigh, I wasn’t idle when I was thinking of those things. In fact I was working on some designs. The rains are brought by series of hurricanes currently plaguing the Philippines one after another. The other one, I just heard, has left, and now another one is coming. I don’t listen to the news since the newscasters talk like everything is a serious matter and it’s urgent, even when the news is about entertainment and showbiz, LOL. I don’t like high-pitched voices, and newscasters here do that on purpose, maybe to keep the viewers’ attention. The rain as of the moment is strong, but it’s not like cats-and-dogs kind of rain. Surely, though, it’s causing hassles to drivers and people who are out in the streets. Speaking of streets, I’m amazed that our streets are not flooded yet. Strange, it used to get flooded with just little downpour. Now I can barely see through the glass of my window. The rain is getting stronger and stronger. I think I should fix myself a glass of hot chocolate. Yummy!

Storm and Earthquake

I woke up very early today… It’s so cold… It’s still drizzling outside. I guess the storm hasn’t left the country yet. At least the streets are not flooded. Where I am, a little bit of rain will cause waters from the creeks to rise resulting in flooding our streets. Yesterday we experience an earthquake with the magnitude of 5-9. I refused to be scared when that was happening but later I was told that Philippines have the same plate as Japan, and we all know that Japan experienced terrible earthquakes that claimed millions of lives. In the past, there was also a terrible earthquake that had happened in Baguio here in the Philippines. I think that was back in the 1990. I was very small then but I was watching the news. The headlines were all about the earthquake there. Many lives were lost. When I visited Baguio with a friend and his family, I guess3-4yrs ago, we went to places where the victims of that earthquake were placed temporarily. Many people claimed that they’ve seen ghosts of the victims there. But I don’t believe in ghosts. We experienced lots of disasters here in the Philippine but I really hope and pray we won’t experience a disaster beyond our means to cope as a country. This storm that we are experiencing now is nothing compared to the previous storms we have faced in the past. I like this kind of storm. I like the cool breeze it brings, the scene of damp streets, and the sound of rain pouring. To me, it’s very relaxing… A hot chocolate is the best to drink in this kind of weather, yummy!