Living in the Philippines is a love and hate situation. This country boasts of a plethora of varied and wonderful flora and fauna, rich heritage and history due to the influences of many cultures who have set foot on this land and of course the 7,107 islands that you can explore.
However, we are also faced with a lot of uncontrollable challenges especially when typhoon season happens. For this year, it was estimated that 31 typhoons or bagyos will hit the country.
Currently, we are being challenged again by Typhoon Pablo (internationally known as Bopha) which devasted the Visayas and the Mindanao regions.
I empathize with the flight of those who are afflicted -- I have been in a similar state when Ondoy happened in 2009, leaving Manila in great destruction. Personally, my apartment was out of electricity for almost a week, the waters reach knee-high level inside the house and we were stranded inside our residence because of floods in the surrounding area.
