i really have no idea that this storm falcon will gonna marked my day. as in. wala! i know it's rainy season, for a busy person, its time to bring umbrella, jackets and slippers..in short, ready yourself to hassle but i really have no idea i'm gonna meet falcon personally.. and bonded with him for a long period of my time.
office hours ended up @ 6pm. heavy rains and mini floods were with us. in my mind, it's just an ordinary rainy days, til i got numbers of text msgs telling me to take care and find other ways aside from taking magallanes route. flooded road here yah! and so i realized, i'm on a serious case...needs serious attention.
to begin with, i started mentally planning my route home. as norm, my way is to take prc jeep going south, luckily, magallanes was closed as expected. i have no choice but to go north tru mrt. i was blessed that i was surrounded with hp men, who protected me all throughout. i didn't had a hard "balyahan" moment in the mrt because of them (if iver it'll be my first time) that's why i'm super thankful that i was with them. pila palang sa mrt naku naman.. hay sabayan pa ng powerwind ni falcon. however, we never stop laughing despite the fact that we all felt the intensified falcon storm. thanks to nas james mon sam and the rest of hp men..thank you sobra for keeping me company. haha.. i knew i'm gonna face the real challenge after i rode mrt. parting ways na. magkakasubukan na kami ni falcon. ayayay...i decided to hit boni way. i just thought that this place is the best alternative way for me. besides its so accessible and i'm kinda familiar.
to make the long story short, i got stranded for more than 3hrs in boni station. all drivers refused to load passengers due to flooded area along mandaluyong. to be honest, i really have no intention of riding any kind of public vehicle that time cause i know it'll be useless. completely useless. i wasn't ready to swim at all and i don't want to accept challenge that involves floods as much as i can. so my options are: #1 call for help, ask someone to pick me up, preferably via motorcycle so we can hit some shortcuts. #2 stay in any hotel/motel/lodge/ for a night. #3 going back in the office or just stay in mrt vicinity (makiki-ondoy moment lang?).
i was so blessed that i won the option 1. papa approached my direction immediately. he picked me-up and we found some shortcuts to avoid flooded area.. i don't know if it is right to call it shortcuts when in fact it took us so long on our way home. haha. i got the chance to took some photos of some mini flooded roads that we've been through.
after 30 minutes or less - finally, we'r home safe! and before i forgot, i also took a shot of my greatest armor in facing falcon. my wonder jacket, my bonggang-bonggang waterproof tote bag and my astig tsinelas. thank you all.. you'll be loved.
and this is my very last shot on my dirty feet, tho i didn't tried to have a single step on flooded area, still my feet caught some raindrops and mad-drops. hahaha.
deep inside, i am so happy because this experienced of mine was filled with realizations that i am so blessed in so many aspects. i may not consider this as worst as ever because i know there are so many who really experienced the real worst of the worst.. and the only thing i can do for them, is to pray for their safety and for them to have enough strength and courage to face this kind of challenge. have faith and we can get over falcon and any other difficulties.
"f" is all we need
