Archive for the 'Talk About the Weather' Category

I Should Have Consulted Google Maps

Unlike 5 months ago when traveling to Manila was part of my day job, today was different, I started hating the long travel time and the El Niño heat adds up to it’s inconvenience. Since my tenure in a Quezon City ended, I seldom go to Manila, the last time I went to Manila [...]

A Taste of El Niño

Yesterday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) recorded this year’s hottest temperature in Metro Manila at 35°c and yet the summer is just starting.
It was really hot yesterday, I went to SM Dasma to pay my bills and do some other errands, the moment I got out of the air-conditioned mall, I [...]

Partial Solar Eclipse Today (January 15, 2010)

The first Partial solar Eclipse for the year 2010 will happen later today, January 15, 2010, an annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun’s light.
According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration [...]

Ondoy, Pepeng and the Filipino Heroism

Typhoons and other calamities are not new to us Filipinos, we have been plagued by such in the past, but last weeks blow was something that hit us hard.
Typhoon Ondoy brought so much rain, for less than 12 hours, Ondoy poured the amount of rain equivalent to 30 days, this is according to PAGASA.
After Ondoy’s [...]

The Panic That Typhoon Ondoy Created

After the devastation that typhoon Ondoy brought to the metropolis, everybody seemed to acquire some level of paranoia (or panic attack). Just this afternoon, we were dismissed early from work, news reports have warned about the incoming typhoon Pepeng, according to the reports, Pepeng is much stronger than Ondoy.
I left the office at 4PM, [...]

Ondoy and the common man

I was trapped in the house for 2 day because of typhoon ‘Ondoy’, wala naman akong espesyal na lakad maliban sa naka-schedule na meeting ng high school batch namin. But weekends for me is time to relax and for a while leave the office environment behind me.
My jaw dropped after seeing how enormous Ondoy’s [...]

Who’ll Stop the Rain?

It’s summer and raining, what more can be ironic than that?
I’ve been planning to wash my clothes since Saturday, the sun was up on that day but I missed doing the laundry because some jerk messed up with my schedule. Sunday was church & boxing day (nobody messes up with that), so no wet [...]

Hot in the Philippines

Summer is definitely here, I felt uncomfortable the whole day, it was hot today compared days that passed. I checked on my Google Sidebar to check the temperature and it was hot at 33°c. The data on the sidebar is being supplied by Google from the nearest weather monitoring center (either the Philippine [...]

The M/V Princess of the Stars Tragedy

Typhoon Frank left the country devastated, with almost 300 deaths, thousands homeless & flooding all over the country. Seventy of these death were brought about by the sinking of Sulpicio Lines’ M/V Princess of the Stars near the island of Sibugay1 Sibuyan in Romblon. As of the latest accounts, there were at least [...]

Bagyong Frank

A few minutes after arriving home from a wedding shoot in Alabang, I was hearing strange sound from outside. It was 11PM & I can feel that Typhoon Frank is just around the corner.
As far as i can remember, typhoon storm signal no. 1 was raised over Southern Tagalog Region last Friday & the [...]