First thing, my knowledge of amphibians is extremely limited, so the creature I referred to as a frog could well be a toad (Named the Rhinella Marina) but whatever group it aligns it’s self with, it’s loud. Most of my knowledge of frogs comes from an old 50-60’s TV show called The Buster Brown Show […]
A sad year end in Mindanao!
As everyone knows that some part of Mindanao was totally damaged by typhoon Pablo in the beginning week of December. We went to the area a week after the typhoon hit. It was my first time seeing a typhoon hit area. I’ve been hearing from the news and seeing on TV how bad the places […]
People do care!
Last week I went to the grocery market to shop for the goods that we are going to take to the typhoon victims of Typhoon Pablo. Me and my niece wanted to buy lots of water in a bottles of different sizes and also lots of crackers. In the store if you just get a […]
I am dead tired, but a lot of people have food & water (Updated with Video)
Yesterday was quite a day for me and my family! Yes, it was 12/12/12, the last “repetitive” date until the next century, but our day involved a lot more than that. Actually, we spent the past 5 days or so preparing for yesterday! It all started on Saturday, last weekend. I got the idea that […]
Pablo was an unwelcome Christmas visitor
Christmas 2012 is quickly sneaking up on us, just a few weeks away now. Unfortunately, though, I am seeing a lot of negative similarities between this coming Christmas and Christmas of 2011. If you recall, last year, Mindanao got hit very hard by Tropical Storm Sendong in December 2011. Tropical Storms and Typhoons rarely hit […]
Of Course, When It Rains.
Why is 90% of all roadwork done during the rainy season? The National Highway at the end of my street was being worked on in July, when they removed the asphalt from the road. Then of course they disappeared for August and September as we were inundated with foul weather and no work could be […]