Wednesday Blues

I got up from bed with a headache and a lazy feeling. It's like when you don't want to go somewhere else but stay home. I ate my breakfast very slowly and decided to take a bath at 8:30am. At this time, I am suppose to be walking my way on the station to catch my 851 train to Yokohama. I finished preparing for work at 8:50. I told myself if I did not catch the train at 9:04, I won't go to the office anymore. And so I headed for the station, and the first thing that i check before I tap my Suica on the entrance was to look at the train's time of arrival, and guess what I can still catch the 9:04 train, as I was about to tap my Suica, an announcement came that there will be a train delay. So I thought its not meant for me to report to office today.
I hurriedly took out my cellphone and texted my Jovs to send an email notification that I will be absent. On my way home, I passed by a pharmacy to buy a medicine for cough and colds (seki and kase), buy some bread and kyat-kyat(mandarin)oranges and went straight home.
At home I texted my family back in the Philippines, for it's the only means I can get information of what's going on back there on Ondoy's aftermath. We still don't have electricity and phone connection. My mom told me that they are Ok although the water is still on waist level and she told me that my tatay was surprised to experience Baha because he is still in Saudi, working when we experience our home being submerge in water for two times. She also said that they have lots of foods because my sister listed their name in her company for recipients of food donations. My sister never fails to take care of my parents on her extraordinary way. She even texted me that she attempted to go to Pasig to check them and give them their needs but most of the streets are still unpassable due to flood. Going back to my mom, she said that she went to the bank with my dad to deposit remittance of Jovs to his parents and it was such a joy to ride on a boat floating in the flood =). And then the next text I receive was from my brother, he told me that I should not worry for they have lots of food, they even had a box of C2 drinking tea (oh how I miss C2) , and a box of noodles which also came from the ration of my sister's company. What's nice thing about my brother is that he is always looking at life in a bright perspective. He told me that they are just doing nothing now but to stay on our terrace and watch the different boats, which looks like vintas in his description, and how they manage our big dog latrel to go up 2nd floor because he cannot climb the stairs because all his life, he stays on his cage. and so on and so forth.. It gave me piece of mind that amidst the difficulties the flood gave my family, they are still looking at it in a very positive way.
I have read a nice blog that day which inspires me to do this blog. I found a link in that blog for the JDrama's One Liter of Tears. Its about a 15-year old girl stricken with spinocerebellar degeneration and how she tried to cope up with it although it is uncurable. I was really crying my heart out when I heard a ring on my doorbell, I was first expecting Jovs to see on the monitor but it was not him. It's our good friend Ron, who brought me a pizza, which came from Jovs, and an apple and a plastic full of mikan from him. He was startled to see me with swollen eyes, he thought I had a fight with Joven over the phone or I was crying due to some reasons but I explained that it was due to a very nice but sad movie.

It really made me feel so loved and blessed to have a thoughtful Jovs and a very kind hearted friend, Ron. I won't forget this day, for I feel so greatful. I ate 2 slices of pizza and 2 mikan for the night. After which I feel relieved and ready to go to work for the next day.