Happy Hallow’s Eve (Hallow E’en, or Hallow Evening or Halloween)! We don’t really recognize that as a holiday here in the Philippines (we observe All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day) but because of Western influences, certain residential upper middle class subdivisions celebrate it … Happily, in L.A. and other places, it’s a popular merry festivity. (shot by Myra last year)
(i think this is a old, “pre-christian” tradition that found its way to America etc etc.)
i’ll be back in a bit; out for a short, little run in 30 minutes…ta-tah
flash floods! there are flash floods on the streets where i went.
No. i did not take a picture.
well, don’t know what the advice is when in a flash flood. when you have to walk through a flood, make sure there are no drainage openings where you have to walk; sometimes, it helps to watch someone ahead of you walk, or, if you have a long umbrella, you could use that and “stomp” it (not stomp, use it like a cane) to detect and make sure the ground you would step on is not an open drainage opening. people actually get killed in the city when they fall in those drain openings. when driving through a flood — i don’t know what the advice is: but — i do not stall, not stop, not enjoy the scenery, the water will get inside the tambutso (muffler) and you will conk out…when going through a flood, you’re just trying to survive, not in the mood to play amateur photographer.
just hope the pedestrians understand and forgive you for the splash — there is no choice…sorry po..
(still consider myself lucky).
xxx
updated. and…
shot ten minutes ago. The sun broke free! after two hours of torrential rain, it came through the flash floods! – only in the Philippines. (back to shooting again, done with work, started 1:30 am, Francine Prieto and Bobby Yan were talking by Skype to a Filipino mechanic abroad who works on Japanese cars, slept for 30 minutes at 12 noon, beat all my deadlines, wala ba kayong mga kamay…!? done.)
