TYPHOON GLENDA

July 25, 2006

Last night I took Donna to Ichiro Salon to have her hair fixed. This is actually the other half of Ichitosh Internet Café. She wasn’t too happy the way her hair turned out.

Early this morning Kong Naring sent me a text message waking us up saying they were on their way to work in their tricycles but it was knee deep in flood waters in front of the barrio chapel so they turned around and decided not to proceed to work. I told him we’re still sleeping and I’ll text him back later.

All through the morning Donna kept waking me up afraid our household will get wet. I told her it will be fine and that Paking will never let that happen. It was actually the noise of the rain on the roof that finally woke us up at around 10 am!

After getting showered up we headed to the site. Only my nephew Joven, the painter, made it. We got them some food and then we took off and had lunch ourselves. We went to the SM Clark Hypermarket and got me some fruits and stuff. Then we went and got a rotisserie chicken and headed on home.

I sent Jack a text message asking how they’re doing and if their house is flooded yet. She said it’s about ankle deep on the street in front and that they’ve already taken stuff into the upstairs section of the house. I guess Glenda’s left the Philippines. But it might be another one that’s dumping all these rains.

July 27, 2006

Today we took Apu Sito, Father Bobet and his assistant Fer to lunch at Fortune’s in Angeles, below Robinson’s in Nepo Mart. We had some quality time together before, during and after lunch. For some reason, priests have a lot of good and meaningful things to say. I wonder why?? We discussed everything from poverty to relationships and of course our decision to retire early. Apu Sito liked what I had to say about marriage and relationships in general, so much that he said he’ll use it for his homily!!

It barely rained all day, the sky was cloudy and the sun never did shine, however. I don’t think we’re out of trouble yet as far as the rains. Just as soon as the sun comes out, we should be able to install all the washout finish for the driveway. The garage is all done, all that needs to be done is for the guys to treat its floor with acid to clean it out. Rommel said the installation of the spandrel should be completed by Tuesday next week, the day our windows are scheduled to be delivered. I’ve instructed Armin to schedule the installation of our laminate flooring for next week as well. The closets for the bedrooms will be delivered this Saturday. We wanted them delivered soon because they’d only fit through the windows while the windows have not been installed. The ceiling all through the house has been finished as well. They’re working on finishing the doors right now. There will be a lot done in the finishing phase of the house within the next couple of weeks. Not sure if I’ve mentioned it in previous blogs but the steel fence in front have all been delivered except for the service gate. Once they’ve installed and welded all of them into the posts, we should be able to let Indo go and he wouldn’t be leashed as much.

I'm having a hard time posting pictures again. Better luck next time I guess.