Wiped Out

Typhoon "Ondoy" wiped out my video files, pictures, memorabilia last Sept 26 :(

I am still hoping I'd be able to recover some of them. I know, it's going to be a desperate attempt to retrieve archival stuff, especially if you saw for yourself the creamy mud that the disaster left behind. It didn't spare cracks, spaces and even seals!

The day after the flood, I told myself I'd have to delete this blog and remove "nostalgia" from my vocabulary. There were just so many things that I've kept all these years that I had to throw away. My journals, yearbooks, photo albums, Betsy Clark stationery, grade school Hello Kitty trinkets that I got from Book Stop Greenhills in the 70s, cards, letters, concert tickets, video tapes, and a whole lot more. Wala ng senti-senti, nosta-nostalgia. It will only prevent me from detaching and will leave a pile of muddy, moldy, smelly things at that I probably won't touch anyway. It eats up bag ladies like me and fills up storage space with collections that I might just have to painfully throw again when the next disaster comes (knock on wood). Ayoko na.

Now, almost two months later, here I am trying to connect to the past and looking for souvenirs... or things that I was supposed to have scanned or video captured and posted on this inactive blog. Of course, aside from all my precious homevideo files, there's this footage of Janice de Belen saying God was with her and Aga, the Nailclippers singing Billie Jean on Discorama, grade school photos of my classmates at the canteen and dusty kickball field at St. Paul Pasig, . Most are gone, or there at Provident, rinsed post-Ondoy but probably being eaten up by mold and moisture by now.