Fresh Start

Enough wallowing in fear already.

My close call along C5 seems insignificant compared to how fellow Filipinos have been traumatised by Ketsana and Parma which inundated the country's capital and farmlands and decimated the homes and properties of thousands. The two powerful typhoons also dumped record-high rains that left in its wake hundreds who died from drowning and in mudslides.

This past month I watched these terrible events happen on TV from home where I remained safe, warm and dry. I feel fortunate to have been spared yet a little ashamed to have been inconvenienced by just a brief power interruption throughout the storms. For this I thank the high heavens eternally.

Alongside Rustan's Fresh supermarket, where I occasionally go for grocery.

Underground pedestrian walkway in the premier city of Makati.

My son's favourite mall and condominiums in Eastwood.

A ray of light this dark month: rescuers and civilians who risked their lives to save the lives of others. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost everything and who must overcome so much suffering in order rebuild for a fresh start. Om.

Thanks to Manuel Quezon III for the images.