The Road to 40 Day 76/365: Drive by and drive through

The sun hasn’t come out since the week started, and the trend continued today. But at least the floods have gone down in most areas.

Vino woke up late again, so he had a late breakfast at around 10:30am. We were doing well with the Roblox game the night before so we decided to do it again after he ate.

The object of the game is to survive for 99 days, but you can go beyond it. You start with a camp, which you should maintain by keeping the camp fire alive. For food, you can hunt wolves and rabbits and cook them in the fire or harvest berries and carrots for quick eats.

Over the course of the game, you can either get stronger hunting (spear), tree-cutting (axe), or fighting (guns). You can only move in the daytime though, as a deer terrorizes the night. At times, enemies will come to your camp and fight.

It seems complicated, but you’ll get the hang of it in time. However, as you get better, the longer you survive, and hte longer you play the game. We reached Day 115 before we both died in the game. It was already 3pm.

I was planning to go back to my mom’s place to check out things I left and some Bicol goodies. My sister said she’d have it sent to me, but I thought it would be better for me to check it out myself because I didn’t know which ones were still there.

Our village was featured on the news earlier in the week because some residents have used whatever they had at home as makeshift boats to navigate through the flood.

It wasn’t a common occurrence before. While the main road does get flooded, it’s only knee-deep at most usually. For big storms, it goes up to the waist. However, the recent stretch of rains isn’t even a huge one, just a continuous and consistent drop of rain.

It’s a bit alarming, and I don’t think the substandard multiple-door apartments allowed in the village is helping.

Thankfully, the flood has subsided as of this day despite the rain still pouring. It was also a good chance for me to bring the car out after a few days in the parking lot. It’s a manual, and I felt it drove a bit different right after we passed through flood in the morning of Vino’s birthday.

However, it was fine in the afternoon, but I still wanted to get some heat into its diesel engine.

There were no classes and some government work was suspended, so there wasn’t too much traffic out. It took about 45 minutes to get from BGC to Cainta while driving cautiously because of the rain and wet roads.

I checked stuff and packed most of my things in the house. We actually bought a plastic cabinet where we put some of our clothes so that when we visit the PH, we don’t have to bring so much. I took most of my clothes from there to bring to the hotel so that I can just choose which ones I can leave behind later on.
My mom didn’t go to work, so at least we were able to catch up a bit on how things are going to unfold over the next few days of our stay here.

After I got my goodies, I told Christian that I had some to share with him so I dropped by to share the stuff with him. He comes from the same province as my dad, so we enjoy similar tastes in food. Whenever I get a chance to share some of the Bicol goodies, I let him know.

He was on his bike and Vino didn’t want to get down from the car, so we just had a really quick chat. I did get some smoked fish that he wanted to give Che, so it was a productive tradeoff.

At this point, Vino and I have not had lunch yet because he kept saying he wasn’t hungry. I told him he needed to eat something, so we drove by McDonalds.

Vino has a fear of vomiting in the car. It’s an experience that’s similar to vomiting from drinking too much. But while we drunkards drink again at the next opportunity, Vino remembers the feeling and tries to avoid things that could trigger him – sitting in the middle, eating or drinking, and he even avoids using his tablet when he feels he is getting dizzy already.

Still, he has to understand that not everything can be close like it is in Singapore. In the Philippines, sitting in traffic for long periods of time is a norm, so when hunger strikes, you have to be ready to eat inside the car.

The drive back took a while longer, but we reached in time for me to still cook dinner for us. I bought some ready-made stuff for quick meals like today because of the limited utensils we have. I got the salt and pepper liempo from Purefoods and cooked some adobong kangkong.

Che got home at around 8pm, and a little after eating, she we all played Grow a Garden for a bit. When Tia was available to play, the three of us played the survive for 99 days game until late.

I guess this is co-op game is going to be a norm for us now.

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