Well, it's 4am right now. I'm still doing my feature article which I should've done during the week long vacation we had because of the monstrosity that was typhoon Ondoy (international name Ketsana). Thus our sembreak has been cut short to one week. But I shouldn't complain. Others have lost homes, families, lives. My loss is nothing compared to theirs. I wanted to say good thing Peping (Parma) wasn't as harsh but then I realized Peping wasn't harsh on MetroManila but still was on the northern part of the country. Gad, these typhoons...
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The article I'm writing right now is about this single mother of 4 who managed to get through her husband's death by holding on to her faith. Before interviewing her, my friend and I also interviewed another guy with a very turbulent past that included gambling, sex, shopping, gambling, booze, gambling, gambling and more gambling. His story is how God helped him get out of his gambling addiction and in to his new life. Both of them are Christians, btw. The guy asked me whether I was Christian and my first answer was yes. Then I realized that for him, Catholics are waaay different from Christians so I had to correct myself. Then he told me I had to find my god. Hmm. I always thought Catholics were a more specific type of Christians but were still Christians themselves since they believe in Christ. I don't know. It's just weird having to draw the line between Christians and Catholics when we both believe in Christ and God and all that. It's not like Christianity and... Buddhism or something like that.
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2009 has been a "taking" year. It took away Edward the Hamster and our pet dog Fluffy. It also took away Vina's pet Cody. Then the two typhoons come over to the Philippines and took away hundreds of lives and thousands of homes. As usual, the corrupt politicians are taking away money from the people. Wtf is your problem, 2009?
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I was watching this documentary about the sun on the Discovery channel (while switching back and forth to the Disney channel which was showing a Lilo & Stich movie I had never seen before [a third one?]). It was very enlightening and also very scary. It made me realize just how dependent we are on the sun and how strong it actually is. And I would bombard you with sun facts but I know it would only bore you to death. So I'll just share the amazing insight the documentary had in the end instead.
Basically what it said was that we all came from the stars. If it weren't for the Big Bang, we never would have come to be created. Yes, we're very far down the line of creation that it seems silly to think we come from those balls of gaseous material. But if you think about it, it's true. And though it shows just how insignificant we are in the universe, it's kind of nice to think we're like the stars. Even if we are just stardust.
