Quezon. Maring. Kat.

Today, if former President Manuel Luis Quezon is still alive, we will be celebrating his 135th year.

In Quezon City, it is declared as Special Non-Working Holiday. If I am not mistaken, Quezon and Aurora Provinces is also on holiday.

Today is supposedly the day I should apply for my driver's license. Last June, I enrolled with SMART Driving School to learn how to drive. And they give free licensing assistance in LTO. But since it is a holiday, my mission has failed, 

Today is the supposed to be my rest day from work (that's why I planned getting my DL), but due to things we have to comply for the upcoming early registration for students (yes, I am working in the academe) I need to report to work.

Few days ago, PAG-ASA reported that there were two (2) low pressure areas within the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and there is a possibility to be a typhoon. Yes, the forecast was correct. Last Sunday, even though the LPAs were not that near the land area, they combined as one and become a typhoon. They named it as "Maring", following the letters of the alphabet. It has been forecasted that Maring will remain in PAR until Wednesday, 21 Aug.

Maring is located it think upper north east part of PAR when it was reported, and it is pulling the Southwest Monsoon, aka Habagat, which brings rain to land. August 7-8, 2012, the country also experienced rain and flood from Habagat, and today, we are experiencing it again.

Sunday evening, I read a Facebook comment that today's classes are suspended in all levels in Manila as declared by the City Mayor, Estrada. The frustration got into me, as the things we have prepared from last week will be wasted (at least for the first day). But nobody wanted for this to happen, so what we did was, face the reality that we need to push another session for the coming week. I haven't confirmed the suspension yet, until I visited DZMM's Twitter account, quoting Mayor Estrada announced the suspension. Ok, we have no choice but to follow, it is for our own good though.

It was raining the whole evening of yesterday til today. Non-stop. Overnight, the streets, avenues, main roads, boulevard of Metro Manila and nearby provinces were flooded. Many schools have declared suspension of classes and offices. Even government offices suspended their work. Some private companies also declared suspension of half-day. 

Flood here. Flood there. Flood everywhere. 

Gutter deep. Knee deep. Waist deep. Chest deep. Human deep.

Another terrible experience for the Filipinos.

Be safe everyone. God bless us all.

Before I forgot, today, my friend Kat is also celebrating her birthday, with that, a very very happy birthday Kat!

P.S.

There will be no classes and office operation tomorrow (August 20, 2013) in FEU (Manila, FEU-East Asia College, Makati) due to continuous rain. Classes FEU Diliman and in all levels in Quezon City is also suspended as declared by the City Mayor. Classes in FEU Cavite is also suspended.

Be safe Tamaraws.