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Up to now, it is heart breaking to see the impact of Ondoy’s onslaught on the lives of its victims.
Most of them have lost valuable belongings and many have lost their loved ones, unable to save their own lives or in the act of saving someone else’s life.
While most survived the catastrophe, they are still trying to pick up the pieces. Lucky those who have money to dish out and try to start anew but unfortunate those who have nothing left in their pockets but the will to survive.
People are in dire need of relief primarily from hunger…
If you have anything to share, monetary, goods or manpower, please reach out. It does not have to be extravagant because a forced kindness deserves no thanks.
Go to any relief operations center near you.
We need to help one another as the other countries have been hit by nature’s wrath, Ketsana on Vietnam and Cambodia; tsunami in American Samoa; and earthquake in Indonesia.

Plastic bags are always my problem after shopping.  Every time I’m done shopping, especially grocery shopping, I find it hard to just throw the plastic bags away so I keep them. The thing is, they are piling up and it becomes unsightly.

With campaigns on recycling and greener earth, I find it easy to find a solution to my problem.

Recently, I purchased a bag made of flour cloth from a sweat shop. It is one of a kind here in the Philippines since it came from a second hand store.

I carry it with me always just in case I feel the urge to grab important stuff from the grocery.  It really saves me from getting swamped by and the store from spending on plastic bags.

But the bag is kind of small and can only accommodate few stuff.

This morning before I reported for work, I grabbed a cup of coffee and Original Glazed donut from Krispy Kreme. As I was prepping my coffee, I saw this cute wash cloth shopping bag sold P100.  So I grabbed one. The size is just right for my groceries and it has a detachable  bottom support that would ensure proper placement of my loot.

Somehow, I am starting to feel involved in the green earth movement.

I went to DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs) in Manila to claim my passport. As I just alit off the jeep, a man asked me where the DFA was. I just pointed it using my lips then went on walking. He said, he thought he’s lost. I was thinking of warning him against fixers but I just kept my silence.

I got my passport in less than five minutes so I headed back to the jeep loading station. While waiting for my ride, I noticed that the man who asked me about the DFA was also there and I just observed that he (along with other guys) were positiniong themselves next to the people getting off the jeeps and asking them things. There I concluded that it is their modus operandi to play “lost” or “confused” to talk them into getting to their agencies for fixing. Then it occured to me that incident that I had when I first had my passport renewed a couple of years ago. I ran into some random guys telling me that they were sent away by the DFA guard informing them that the quota for passport renewal for the day was met already and they were asked to just go to certain agencies.

Admittedly, I fell into the bait and paid extra then that is why I promised myself that next time, I must get through the entire renewal procedure “unharmed”.

Glad I was able to get through it.