A Survivor's Tale:

[ILuvDetailing]

good to hear that you and your family are ok, its the most important thing...

You'll bounce back

[Helios]

Inspiring survivor's tale, sir N. I wish I could handle ordeals like you could without breaking. I guess it has to do with your experience and maturity, faith perhaps?

[Elroi]

good to know that you & your family are safe. there will always be "storms" that we have to go through in life. what's important is you weathered the "storm" and remain standing after...

a true sign of a...

[skyglider]

grabeng pagsubok yan sir niky. pero i know malalagpasan mo din yan.

to borrow a quote from one of tsikoteers...

" What doesn't kill you, would made you stronger".

[baludoy]

keep your chin up bro. it's obvious anything thrown at you, you can handle

[cutedoc]

nakakatakot nga, actually its more of fear for the family, your childrens welfare and safety...

imo, if your place floods rally bad on heavy rains, transfer your location if you cant transfer, predict or pulse it when there would be a strong rain, pack your things and proceed to your nearest comfortable hotel(with generator for convenience) for thouse whi have thei family and kids, apart of your saving(tuition, home needs), there are also something called emergency savings and this will fall undee this occasions

[niky]

Actually, naging complacent nga ako. I have fire extinguishers for fire (But the last house fire was too strong for our hand-helds, sadly), first aid kits, etcetera... but it's been so long since we've had a flood, I'd forgotten to keep things handily packed.

Can't transfer the building... it's an apartmenthouse serving the school, but once I get the money, I'm buying a house.

RE: Carmona: diyan nga galing yung flood. GMA ka nalang, even though it's a bit further through traffic... it's very high up. Our school there suffered only wind damage (pero tanggal ang lahat ng bubong) so as long as you bolt the roof down tight, you're okay.

RE: Business: My extended family owns the school (I own probably 1/50th of it... but only after the previous generation passes on) and my Mom, Dad and I own the printing press. It's a small operation, but it means a lot to me to keep it running.

RE: Experience: Well, besides what's happened to my house...

-I've had a car drowned in flood... twice.
-I've been batted about the head by frat-boys... ten hits, ten stitches.
-I've had tear gas cannisters flying at me as I walked to school in the middle of a protest rally. (Damn ****ing radicals... puro mga madre pa ang nadale dun sa gulong ginawa nila!)
-I've had guns pointed at me.
-I've been beaten up by six foot tall Chinese basketball players... just kidding... but their defense was so tight, it felt like they were beating me up.

I guess I must be Popeye by now.

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But really, I'm kinda happy that things aren't so bad. We're going to clean out the house a bit later, but for the meantime, I'm sitting here in the office in muddy shoes, shorts and an old T-shirt. Haven't trimmed my beard in a week. I've got cuts all over. I look like I just walked in off a Survivor Episode, but I don't mind... I've got airconditioning.

[theveed]

Experienced 7ft flood din 6 years ago or so, nung year ng Cherry Hill, until we moved out of Cainta 2 years ago, any trickle I hear sa roof gave me creeps of flooding...

[niky]

Utsa... you lived there? Scary stuff...

I'm looking around... halos chest level yung watermarks sa mga ibang building namin. I can imagine that the water was probably ten feet deep in the lower lying areas of our town.

Sobra talaga ang damage. We're starting class again on the 16th. Kawawa ang mga students... ibig sabihin noon, no sem-break.

[russpogi]

I'm really glad to hear you and your family are well Sir Niky!

[theveed]

No I didn't live there (phew hehe), but that year was really bad, I was living in Cainta then...

[the_wildthing]

Glad to hear you and your family are ok man.

I once woke up in ankle deep flood waters, but considering the apartment was already 6 feet above ground, it was scary sh*t. But I was single then and had very few possessions (except my precious CDs which happened to be on the damn floor).

Good luck man.

[niky]

Thanks guys.

My wife is insanely happy at recovering her CDs, but she was in poor spirits because her scrapbook was nowhere to be found last night.

I'm posting pics of the school tomorrow. It's really bad, but it looks like we might not have lost quite so much equipment...

[vhenok]

You'll get over this Sir Niky....

And you are still blessed coz you have your family with you!

Di naman Niya tayo bibigyan ng mga pagsubok na di natin kayang lampasan....

Keep the Faith Bro!

[bajumbo]

Thanks guys.

My wife is insanely happy at recovering her CDs, but she was in poor spirits because her scrapbook was nowhere to be found last night.

I'm posting pics of the school tomorrow. It's really bad, but it looks like we might not have lost quite so much equipment...

A very good professor of mine once told us in class that he had a plan in the event of a disaster like fire... He told people in his household that incase of the disaster the first thing to save(other than yourlives) would be the photo albums kc raw ung appliances, damit madali palitan kapag nagkapera. Pero ung mga memories that came with the decade old pictures di na mapapalitan... Very, Very Priceless...

Yung mga photo albums niya nakalagay sa iisang cabinet ready to be moved.