As of this morning, our little area here in Bangkal, Makati got power and phone lines back up. This was after dozens of trees have been cleared as well as a couple of really huge (as in tonnes!) of billboard steel frames crashing into electric posts and houses (including a bus in EDSA).
Lots of lessons learned here…
- I can bear living without electricity but a day without water, even just for taking a bath, is almost unbearable.
- It’s more comfortable to sleep in the car with the aircon, than sleep in a comfortable bed without one.
- Scented candles aren’t just for decorations.
- Even in times like these, people can still be very entrepreneurial — my brother was charging Php20 for people to charge their cellphones in the car and he made a few hundreds bucks out of it. Gas money!
- Don’t stock too much food in the ref — we had to cook everything on the second day. Adobo was the popular meal because it lasts several days without getting spoiled.
- It pays to have wifi accounts — thanks to my blog sponsors, AirborneAccess and Globe WiZ, I was able to get online for a couple of hours a day. And I thought Smart GPRS would have gotten its week of fame — naaahhh.
My car was practically my office the past couple of days and I couldn’t even get myself to post a snapshot of it here. *hehehe*
ughh renaissance sucks bad