September 11th, 2006
Disadvantages of Being Alone
Last Saturday, I was all alone at home. While doing my homeworks upstairs, at around 8:30 in the evening it started to rain hard. At first I was quite calm, hoping that the "mini-dike" at home would be enough to block the flood from coming in the house. However, after 1 hour and 30 minutes of raining, I saw how the first floor of the house was filled with stinky, muddy flood. I even saw a rat running, trying to save his life, looking for a high place where he could stay. At that very moment, I suddenly felt that I want to be out of that house. I wan to be back home, wherein there is no flooding like such.
That was the first time I experienced this. Witnessing how the living room is filled with water is very traumatic. I'm scared also because in less than hour the whole first floor was filled with approximately 3 inches below the knee deep flood. What if the flood will gets higher? What will I do? Should I turn off the main switch of the electricity? What will happen to me? Is it highly possible that there will be fire? Will I experience like the ones I saw from the television, that I was being fetched by the helicopter to evacuate? Should I call anyone, the fact that I know they wouldn't be able to help me? How about my things? These are only some of the thoughts running in mind while I was at upstairs trying to concentrate with what I am doing. Siguro para sa iba OA ako mag-isip. Pero kasi nung nasa Pasig pa ako, isang beses ko lang naranasan na bumaha ng matindi. At nung panahon na yun, hIndi ako mag-isa. Tsaka inaalala ko rin kasi yung matinding paglilinis na gagawin ko pagkatapos nun. Alam ko sa sarili ko hindi ko kaya mag-isang gawin yun. But I somehow managed to calm down when my cousin called. Although we both know that right now we can't do anything about it for the moment, It felt good that somebody did try to make an effort to ask how was I.