Here Comes The Rain Again

March is fire prevention month in the Philippines. Beginning in the month of February, very few rainfall is noted all over the country and by March, it would be summer and dry for two to three months, except for mountain areas where rain is plenty. Due to changing weather system and global warming we got a lot of rain in February. That is a very cool thing because I love rain and thunderstorms!

Due to changing weather system and global warming we got a lot of rain in February. That is a very cool thing because I love rain and thunderstorms!

However in some parts of the country, there is too much rain that cities and towns were flooded. Roads were impassable and landslides cost the lives of some.

I found our office cat near my table dreaming the rain away. Sheesh! I wish I were in the comfort of my own bed, too! I would never say, "Rain, rain go away, come again another day!"


These rain-and-cat photos were taken today at the office with my cell phone (not so good) but I just could not resist snapping the cat and rain away.

(Yellow flower on top was photographed in my garden after a rain.)

Forgotten People

The sea gypsies belong to the Badjao tribe in the Southwesternmost part of the Philippines near the borders of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Their copper-toned skin and sandy-colored hair glistened against the hot, tropical sun. They are some of the forgotten people in the Philippines, but they carry fascinating stories with them.

They are excellent pearl divers.

Living in houseboats, newborn babies were thrown into the sea as a form of an old ritual. Babies learned to swim before they could even walk or talk.

They have no gods and are known to be pagans. They worship the sea who gives them food and life.

They mimic the cries of the dolphins, the sea their playground and domain.

They do not have any education and they counted their ages by the full moons.

They decorate their teeth with gold and diamonds.

They are an all-time delight to the local and foreign tourists who endlessly snap away their pictures.

(Photo shows Badjao kids swimming for the coins I tossed to them while on a ferry trip back to my island.)