REPOST: Back on the road...

Yesterday I spent the whole day waiting and going to and fro at Mitsubishi Diamond Motors, where I chose to have our car fixed by duly efficient auto-mechanics. Sapped by Ondoy's floodwater last September...that gave me a lot of whinings and sleepless nights since then. Mas madali pa siguro kung ibebenta ito but it was the least in my mind. I just wanted it fixed before tiny bits of rusting started to ruin the car and it's just unpardonable to see it depreciating day by day sitting idly in the garage. That [effing] computer box was the culprit and the price compared to surplus is really sky-rocket, too steep talaga. Pati servo-kit nadamay din. :( It's just so important pala talaga to protect it from getting soaked and wet. I didn't have any idea how to remove it from the compartment. If only I knew how then, di ko siya pababayaan talaga. Plus the Cobra alarm is damaged also and not working na. But thinking that, among other things, yung car ang pinakamahalang gamit ko sa bahay.I just grew impatiently disappointed when I shelled a lot of money but nothing doing. Ayun di na nagpakita sa akin yung mekaniko ko. Kasi naman nagdudunong dunungan. That's when I started browsing about the problem. I emailed na lang the Mitsubishi Motors and asked for help. So far, satisfied naman ako sa result because it didn't take a lot of waiting at nagawa naman agad yung problema. It's just so important pala talaga to protect it from getting wet. I didn't have any idea how to extract it from the compartment. If only I knew how then, di ko siya pababayaan talaga. Among other things, yung car ang pinakamahalang gamit ko sa bahay. Now am thanking for the swift action they have given me...the y are bunch of efficient, courteous and solicitous professional car advisers and auto mechanics. I only have superlative comments about them. Nothing negative I had and for this I bow...
Now of course it's still yet not the normal car I used to drive...naiba ang menor, matigas ang kambyo, was afraid while I was driving kagabe na the clutch might slide during the trip, plus the apprehension na I might lose my break...gosh...ang busina ko wala...the odometer still not functioning well. Everything was damaged talaga. I just focused on my driving talaga na sana umabot ako ng house na walang disgrasyang mangyari. Then I heard this tricycle driver blurted out "sisingit singit ka...ayaw mo namang umabante!"...natawa lang ako talaga kasi di niya alam ang sinasabe niya. I got my very 1st DL 1987 pa. At never pa akong na-ticket-an. Kaya alam ko na ginagawa ko. Isa pa ako ang nasa tamang lane at palagay ko kulang siya sa kalaman tungkol sa road courtesy and sa driving regulations. At wala akong siningitan kagabe at never akong sumingit dahil alam ko na by this time ang tamang pagtakbo sa kalsada. Wheeew! We went at Mitsubishi with a Honda motorcycle, so I drove the car while my son never left my side for backing me up. He then told the ill-mannered tricycle driver who shouted at me, "kasama ko yan, wag mong sinisigaw sigawan...nanay ko yan"...at tumawa na lang ang mokong. Bastos talaga. Mas maraming walang modo ata talaga ngayon. Really, some people are....! Eh half the size of the car na nga lang layo ko sa sinusundan kong car...which we all know na di advisable. Hay naku...kasi wala silang proper training, basta nakapagpaandar lang okey na.

Now I need to give our car a decent engine wash, another change oil, and the whole lot of care and all should be observed for safety reason. About how much I spent and will still have to shell out, I think it's enough to buy me another cheap second hand car.


And more power to Mitsubishi [Diamond Motors]...na super maganda ang treatment sa amin particularly kahit common people lang kami. Thank you kina Mr. Roy Aquino and Mr. Nemie Marcos...na very professional kausap at magagalang talaga sila and efficient. Salamat po ng marami. Kudos!

A reminder:
Learn how to drive defensively and effectively with these four easy steps. However, you have to remember that driving a car is a big responsibility. It is not something you can use to become popular among your friends and classmates. Once you are given a driver's license, you have an added social responsibility. You have to be very careful...for you and for others' sake too!



Published: 12/10/09 6:58 AM

Slumped on one's own hunkers!

REPOST: Remembering Ondoy...now we have Pedring (Nisat) and I heard by tomorrow another strong typhoon is coming to hit the country. Let's just pray that Ondoy will never ever happen again.

Typhoon Ketsana and or ONDOY...

Everyone here in our community is busy cleaning their homes from the enormous bulk of garbage Ondoy has left after that great flood has breached neck-deep last Sept 26th and 27th. It was a calamitous defeat for everyone...including me and my family. On that fateful day, I had to find an easy access for my mtg earlier but to my disappointment , every way was so shin-deep flooded already until I resigned and went home right away. I just stayed in my bed and from time to time I looked outside how deep the flood had reached. I scurried away with funky knees to transfer my car immediately after my good neighbor texted me that half of my tires has already dip in running floodwaters which happened to be right beside her windows. And so I jumped out to save it. I saw a place where it could be safer. But an hour-long after I went home the water surged in through the bathroom and laundry sewer so...it was very very quick until just a ruler length was left visible of our perimeter fence. We were then forced to stay at the 2nd floor of our house, good thing...if not we would be swimming to cold murky water... no food no water except the big bag of Pic-a my dau hide in the closet. I saw many young snakes swimming to find their own niche. My son saw long adult snake swimming in the flooded vacant lot.  It was a relief that my dau was in San Sebastian for the Sports-fest. I told her not to go home since there was no way she could make it home because the flood current was already surging and most of the passengers were trapped and stranded. It was a relief also to hear that the faculty decided to house stranded students and fed them for two days, first at the gym and the 2nd day they stayed at the convent. What worried me that fateful day was when my son went home walking under the rain with his gf and left alone to look after his motor bike that has been stocked at the main gate where flood was waist-deep already and the current was strong too...and from that time on I never ceased to pray to see my son alive. I was hopeless to save my car from the flood but please spare my son and give him back to me was all I could utter in my silent prayer. The next day after heaving a heavy sigh of longing, he arrived home unscathed. Praise God! He has a lot of stories to tell. Only at this event that I took notice that we have had no existing [fire] exit to be used during emergencies. What if the flood like what happened in Marikina came to the point that residents like my niece, has to break and forced the steel window open just to make themselves safe and free to go to higher place? You're lucky if your house has second floors and luckier indeed if you have the third.

I can't find the exact words to describe how we felt exhausted hoisting all important furnitures, things and the likes just to save them from the surging flood. We have this one plastic box full of new gadgets I saw floating on water...some if not all pretty bandboxes of my daughter full of trinkets, knick knacks, mementos and some what-nots...sigh...were thrown into garbage already. I really can't imagine this things will happen in just one flick. Now after all those cleaning and washing, and everything, we all are galumphing due to too much exhaustion.

Rescue operations for Cainta residents...

Floating on Marikina River...

Stranded on rooftop...

And the aftermath...

Willie interviewing Eric...

Like toy cars floating...

What comes after this? We have nothing to hold on to...except our faith... no one is spared from calamitous event like this that can wipe us out in an instant. We're left to pray and leave everything to fate and God.

PS/I saw this Kevin Costner starrer several times and I just remember this fiction movie because of what me and my family and the whole victims as well, have gone thru from the wrath of Ondoy. Maybe this what will happen in the future if we won't stop throwing caution to the winds...let us be more responsible...help, save and protect the earth.

Waterworld movie [1995]

POSTED: 10/02/09 4:38AM

At long last....

And am keeping my fingers crossed. I just can't wait 'til it's done...and back to it's good running condition.

At long last!

And am keeping my fingers crossed. I just can't wait 'til it's done...and back to it's good running condition.

Still [half] heartbroken

I still wish to have our car fixed one day and have it test drived. Ondoy had ruined a lot of my home furnishing,appliances, gadgets gone warped and including our family car that is still resting in the garage because the computer box was soaked in flood water. I was the only one at home during the surging of water, stunned and didn't know how to pull the cb and the battery out.  Now every time I see the car there waiting for mechanical resuscitation, I am truly heartbroken...but what is more than worse compared to others who have lost their loved ones due to that raging calamity. Well...  it's only a car...at least we're still complete unlike those who have been in agony losing someone for the rest of time. And have gone shot to the curb indeed!

PS/ By now...I sure hope they're already picking up the pieces...

We're still blest!

Hitting rock bottom...

We have so much to be thankful when this strong typhoon Quedan headed toward Japan's territory [Melor] but am not happy though since I love the country so much. The country who have embraced me during my stay there because the people are so warm and so hospitable contrary to some notion, not mine. They are so respectful and that's the main core of my praises. I have had so many nice memories during my three long months of stay there, hoping to get another extension but due to unavoidable circumstances I left in haste with heavy heart. Part of my heart was left there. I love the panoramic countryside blending with their comprehensive view that simply screams the country's well developed and high end technology and booming financial success.

Going back, compared to Japan, financial-wise our people specially in the poorest of the poor areas...they really can't keep up during this kind of havoc. Really Ondoy slammed part of the country with so much force and agitation. This was the very first time I have ever experienced a great deluge...and I said to my mind...the story in the Bible about Noah is something to be scared of. No one will be spared during this kind of catastrophic destruction. Well...nothing we could hold on to but ...faith. Increase our faith, nurture it and have a good grip.

Still looking at the positive side of it with funky knees...

When the water was still less than a foot deep, I hurriedly took my car where there wasn't enough flood to sink the tires...but when I unwillingly left the place, I glanced at this big tree [like a pine or spruce or whatever] and it daunted me something...I said to myself, what if this tree fell because at that time the wind was getting stronger. I just left and with silent prayer wishing it would be safer. When I learned the day after, the tree beside my car fell down but to my amazement it didn't fell on top of my car. Imagine, it went to the other side. Now am still thankful although it needs a lot of repair. What worries me is the computer box, that am sure was soaked to floodwater. Anyway, my problem is so small compared to others who have lost lives or their houses were swamped away. Although I have lost a lot of things, still I feel blest!

Saw this video and I couldn't believe to what I saw...just like toy cars...


Now my car is in need of a lot of repairs to be done, and be able to restore it in good condition [crossing my fingers]. Change oil, I think twice to be done to ensure not even a drop of water is left, same with the gas tank...flushing and sump pumps needed. And thorough cleaning like engine wash and many more. What I need is...the budget first...whoah, everything is up twice including the labor cost! Wheew!