yup. still living in a waterworld. reminds me of that apocalyptic movie…similar circumstances: the movie showed that they were fighting for scarce resources; while opportunistic bastards here are taking advantage of our desperate situation. a store here sells a 5-gallon mineral water for P160 whereas under normal circumstances i can buy at least 15 gallons for only P100.

water has not receded yet and remains the same as yesterday. but things have become worse today as i read on facebook that some crocodiles in the nearby park are “missing” (i.e. gone from their cages/ponds/whathaveyou) and subdivisions in the vicinity are warned to take care when going into floodwaters.  a child from 3 houses away from us is still missing. details are sketchy so i don’t know yet if they already found him/her. water at the main gate of the subdivision where are now is still chest-deep.

been trapped here already for 3 days and counting. we’re running low on food. but we’re still very lucky considering a colleague in the newspaper industry lost her house and the only things she was able to save were her kids, laptop and cellphone (yah, a journalist would not part with her laptop). other colleagues came to her rescue and they already bought food, clothes, blanket and searched for temporary shelter for her family.

we’re very very lucky compared with hundreds or thousands of filipinos who are now suffering more because of The Great Flood of ‘09. our troubles are so trivial compared to theirs.