Where you've been (off blogging)

Been a while, actually more than a month, of pressing office work and tight schedules and targets, that kept me from spending (or allotting) time for blogging.

Last 26-Sep-09, that fateful Saturday was my birthday, but many will remember it for the flash floods that Ondoy brought us in a span of just about 6 hours, shocking every Filipino rich and poor, reminding us nature can indeed command absolutely anything, and not even your plush and fully-loaded SUV can withstand its powerful flood current. And so either we're drenched in water clueless or we're found in our rooftops hungry, desperately praying for Ondoy (or the scarier Pepeng) to go away. While we're lucky that my family were spared, I still couldn't believe that that Saturday actually happened. And so in little ways, I tried to reach out and help. More pressure at work and otherwise, but getting by.

Donated to Red Cross via text. Reached out to relatives and friends affected by the typhoon. Our fraternity chapter, celebrating its founding anniversary last Saturday, did so instead by offering volunteer work at Quezon City Hall, even sharing memorable *repacking* moments with Vice Mayor Herbert "Bistek" Bautista. Knowing that everyone wants to take part in donating, volunteering, and rescue work, is a multiplier effect we need that will hopefully help us recover from this calamity faster, and go back to normal.