Sunday, July 20, 2014

Coleman (cooler) saved the day!

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It took 5 days for Meralco to restore our power supply after #GlendaPH badly hit Tagaytay and the rest of CALABARZON and NCR.

Luckily for us, sleeping at night was not a problem because of the cold weather. The dark also gave us the perfect excuse to sleep early (very early, in fact, we were at bed before 8pm!)

I almost did not miss the electricity and really didn’t mind another two to three days of brownout if not for the food we have in the fridge. Good thing, though, the typhoon happened mid-week and by the time #GlendaPH hit, our stock in the fridge was already halfway-gone. But we were feeling the need for the fridge by Day 2 of brownout due to the opened can of butter (we use canned butter), bottle of mayo, and a few kilos of meat (chicken & pork).

That’s when we decided to bring out our Coleman 45L cooler which we bought last May to use during summer outings. I was, at first, hesitant to buy it but after either losing or misplacing each of the the styro coolers we bought every time we go on outings, I finally said it’s time to ‘invest’ in this cooler.

It proved to be a wise ‘investment’ not just for summer outings but during brownouts as well! It saved our meat, cheese, butter, and other spread from spoiling!

Coleman 45L cooler. P3,125 at Coleman Store in Alabang Town Center.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Unli Buko! (Post #GlendaPH Update)

How are you, guys, during and after #GlendaPH?

We are just too glad #GlendaPH spared our house from its wrath & fury! I know a lot homes were not as lucky. Some lives have been lost too and I am one with their famiy in sympathy.

Our mini-farm, however, is a mess post-Glenda. Smaller vegetables like pechay, sitao, mustasa, and sili were all destroyed. Most of the eggplants, however, and the papaya trees survived. We were also lucky that the three coconut trees surrounding our house did not fall on us! My Dad had a sleepless night when #GlendaPH came for fear that the nearest coconut tree would fall on us due to the strong winds (and ‘strong’ is an understatement here)!

They (the coconut trees!), did, however, give us their fruits without us exerting too much effort in harvesting them (it is always a challenge to think of ways to harvest from our coconut trees!) As you can see from the photo below, #GlendaPH gave us about a hundred  or so coconuts — whether macapuno (we have one macapuno tree), niyog or matured coconuts perfect for coconut milk (Bicol Express, here it comes!), or young coconuts perfect for buko juice which I now drink with my every meal.

Sometimes, nature has its way of telling us that there is something good that can come out of the worst situation.

I’d like to see it that way.