As I’ve changed the layout the last week I also had to prune out some of the dead links specially in the link exchange/affiliates section. It was kind of shocking to see that of all the links I had when I first started this blog five years ago, only one blog link was still up and running.

I’ve been blogging since… 2002, back when I was in free hosts, then hosted on a subdomain, then finally had a domain of my own. I’ve met and got to know many individuals and personalities through the years. What happened to all my online friends who’s blogs I have been visiting? It makes me sad that everyone is gone and I’m the only one left. I truly hope I can find at least some of them some day and reconnect.

I guess there’s nothing left to do but go out there and make some new friends~

Oh, and… Happy Birthday to my brother!!!

It seems that the recent storm Basyang has wreaked havoc with more than its rains as most of Metro Manila experienced electrical blackout since the evening of July 13. I actually informed our office that I couldn’t be at work because we still didn’t have electricity yesterday morning. But luckily, we got our electricity back around noon.

Which I can’t say for the rest of Metro Manila.

Our office building, for one, didn’t have electricity so my leave for absence yesterday became null and void since our entire office couldn’t get into our building. So my mom and I used our time to go into one of the clinics in the malls to have her checkup. Lo and behold, the extremely long lines to the banks. It seems that the banks only got to open at around 3pm because of the blackouts. And here we thought there was some huge promo or giveaways. XD

I received numerous text messages from people asking me about news and possible suspension of classes because they were helpless to find out for themselves with no electricity.

There also seemed to be a dramatic increase on the number of people in the malls yesterday, probably due to the fact that most people still didn’t have electricity at their homes and preferred to stay at the malls where they could at least entertain themselves. I can imagine what fun it is to be stuck at home with no TV, radio, a cellphone that is about to die, and forced candlelit dinners. >.>

And today, it seems there are still a lot of areas in the metropolitan area without electricity. It this a bad omen for the new presidency?

There’s a distinct impression that I am looking around while standing still. And the realization is not because I’ve been standing still, rather, that I’ve hit the ground running years ago and never stopped running until now. I wasn’t even aware of it until now that things are standing still. Now that I have realized it, I am looking around trying to figure out where I’ve actually run off to.

And why I was running so hard in the first place.

I’ve run past everything years ago that now I have the time to look around, I don’t know where to go or what to do. Do I run or do I walk? Do I go forward, sideways, stray from the path? Though I can never go backwards.

Things that seemed important before don’t seem to matter now. Things that I never minded before take up most of my mind. How does one determine what is important?

I don’t want to go running anymore. I don’t want to walk either. I want to fly.

The main obstacle now is trying to find the courage to fly.