Tuesdays and Floodwaters!

Xomi and I woke up this morning at half past six. I'm not used to waking up early. I usually sleep at 2 - 3 a.m. I have to work while the pretty-fanged-baby is asleep. My eyes were half-closed while feeding Xomi her Raferty's dry cereals. And good thing, she likes her new food. New to her taste buds.

After her bath, we played and watched the heavy rain pouring outside. The thunder roared loudly but Xomi didn't cringe or get scared at all. She just looked at me, and I gave her a smile. We took a nap while the rain continued to pour.

We woke up to pick up Daidy who got stuck in the road. It was flooding everywhere. We picked him up somewhere in Radisson Blu. The flood was knee-high somewhere in SM. We went to the port to pick Mama Lilia up. It was no longer raining; in fact the sun was scorching.

On our way home, the water somewhere in the SM area rose! It was waist-level! There were several vehicles which are stranded because of the flash floods. That was the first time I witnessed an aftermath of the rain in that degree! I can't remember a flood similar to that one. It only rained for less than 2 hours, and the gravity of it was immensely destructive.

We couldn't go home because of traffic. We ended up going to Park Mall for lunch. I was on my pjs, and Xomi was fabulous as always. I could easily pass as her nanny. I was holding Jep's hand while he carried Xomi to give people some notion that I was otherwise.

It was almost 3 in the afternoon, and we left home before 11 a.m. I didn't bring Xomi's survival kit; I was thinking we would only be gone for a maximum of an hour! We decided to leave the mall before Xomi started crying for milk. In the car, she was started getting cranky. We all knew it was time for milk; I ended up giving her something to nibble - siakoy!

The trip home took us 30 minutes, and before we got to the compound's gate, she already dozed off. The first thing I did before anything else was to prepare her milk.

Lesson learned: Never leave home on your pjs, even if you never intended to go out of the car. You’ll never know when’s the next flood/traffic will take you.