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Before I wrote this, I go through my post about ondoy and our experiences. It was not that bad after all. Two days without food and yet we survived. Days of cleaning, weeks of creating a new home. Months of recovering financially and almost a year of erasing our fears. But we survived, that’s all that matters. Maybe during that time it felt like the world has forgotten us. How can we not think that way? We only see water and fear (from our eyes and from the neighbors). There was no electricity, there was no news and the thought that our family was worried for our safety hunts us. But then again we survived and it has been exactly a year since it happened. We’re still here, we’re still living.

September 26, 2009. A day that will always be remembered in our history. It was Ondoy’s day. It was the day when nature pull us all back to Earth. And now one year after, are we Ondoy safe?

I had a glimpse of Boy Abunda’s The Bottom Line. He asked DSWD Secretary if the department is ready in case another Ondoy happened. And the secretary said yes. So I guess it is safe to assume that our government did not make sure that there will never be another Ondoy. So what did they exactly do? Buy over priced rubber boats? Prepare sacks of rice to be distributed in case of another flood?

“We are ready for an Ondoy part two. I am responsible. I am accountable. They just have to follow me,” said Ramos, a former commander of the Army’s elite forces (inquirer.net)

“We are ready for a [Tropical Storm] ‘Ondoy’ part two,” said Benito Ramos, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

See what I mean? They are ready, in fact we are ready too. We are ready for Ondoy part 2. Yes they are expecting another Ondoy but why should we expect if we can do something so that it would not happen again. It would have been better if it is:

We are not ready for another Ondoy, because there will never be another Ondy. We already took care of your sewerage, esteros and flood ways. We already took action to prevent another flood. We are not ready because there is nothing to prepare for.

Wouldn’t you love to hear that from our government?

But of course knowing how they always twist the truth, we still cannot expect that our government is ready for another Ondoy. I just wish, nature will understand, our president is new and he just came from another crisis (hosatge crises with a twisted truth). And another crisis will be too much for him.

The funny thing about Ondoy was some people really took advantage of it. Yeah, like rescuing her leading lady in a speed boat. Nice move. nice movie gimmick. still it was a flop. Just like our urban planning, flop, nothing more, nothing less.

First day of the year.. and before we finally say goodbye to 2009.. let me just give you a recap of my life..as a mom, as a blogger and as a woman. 2009 has been really friendly to me, except for one little tiny bad experience we had during Ondoy, I can say the year was awesome, heck, it was one of the best year!

For one, I did not have a major problem last 2009.. and if there has been any.. we or the hubby always find a solution to it. We did experience the wrath of Ondoy but we all came out of it alive and unscratched. Yes, we lost almost all our things (but not my mega blocs!) but a lot of people helped us made in acquiring more than what we lost.

The year has also been the happiest for our family. 2009 and we had our first ever baby girl in the family. We are delighted, happy, ecstatic and most of all thankful for having her. I cried million of tears when I learned that the baby I was carrying is a girl. I never thought that day would come but it did.. it did in 2009. And yeah, before the year ends, she was with us, celebrating Christmas and New Year. Our princess.. our baby girl.

I found my niche..no, not in blogging.. but in life.. and that is to blog.. har har.. seriously, I found my circle.. the marce club and many other bloggers that I got to know and developed a certain closeness. That is one thing that I am most thankful about, finding real friends amidst geographical locations. Founding one that can make you laugh and can relate to you in so many ways and yet you haven’t even seen each other personally are just great. To the marce club.. I hope our relationship will not end in our sites.. and even if Mr G would take our Prs away, we would still be friends.

Aside from acquiring a lot of domains, one thing that am thankful about, in my blogging career is the fact that I won in Philippine Blog Awards for Family and Living category. Having recognized in a field that you love is overwhelming. Blogging about my family is my passion and when they say I am the best for that.. I am happy!

And this year I wish for more opps and more blogging friends and more time to blog..LOL
HAPPY NEW YEAR!