Papa Ces

The flood water almost reached our living room. It was already that high and I couldn’t believe it was happening. Thoughts of Ondoy were flashing before my eyes and I was praying, “God, please… not again.”

Good thing the flood had receded back to the streets when the rains stopped about an hour ago. But what worries me is that it is starting to rain again and it’s getting stronger by the minute.

I don’t want to lift all our stuff again on top of our tables and including our bed. Ondoy proved that was useless but a flood that could reach our living room, I certainly do not want that too.

I bought a second-hand computer the other day. It’s actually just a CPU and it has Pentium 4 with 512mb of RAM. Not quite the latest and greatest when it comes to computing power, but it gets the j0b done for me.

I mean, I don’t use too much resources whenever I open my PC. It’s usually just a web browser and a word processor that I always turn on. Seldom do I use of Photoshop and even games. So I don’t really need a powerful machine just to help me get through the day.

That is something that most people should know. Choosing just the right specs for their computing purposes. Most computers and softwares today are too bloated, that you only use a very small portion of them in your daily life. You don’t need a powerful PC just to surf the net or even a full-blown word processor if all you do is write just a couple of letters or articles that are 500 words at the most.

I sincerely hope that computer and software manufacturers give us consumers an option of buying the right product for our specific needs. There’s no need to always get the most powerful thing they have.

…and I see the skies going dimmer. Could this mean it will rain? It must be. It should.

It seems that I’m hallucinating because who wouldn’t after all these weeks of intense heat and no rain, I would gladly participate even in a rain dance just to cool down these afternoons. And it has been extremely hot that right now I’m using two electric fans just to cool me down.

“Rain, rain go away, come again another day, little Johnny wants to play…” as a small child I used to love singing that nursery rhyme during the rainy season. But not today. I would change that lyrics to:

“Rain, rain come today, stay awhile for a few days, little MJ wants to chill.”

That last word sure didn’t rhyme. But I would love for a little rain today.

My back’s been aching for quite some time now. Perhaps it is because of the bed that I am sleeping in. I’ve longed been wanting to have a memory foam pillow but I couldn’t find one here in our area.

I have read good reviews about it and how it can alleviate neck and back pains. I think it uses a revolutionary kind of foam that ‘remembers’ the way your body shapes the foam so each time you sleep, your head and neck are always well supported.