My Ketsana Experience

Had a vacation last week @ manila to visit my family and to meet up the yearly vacation of our father from Nigeria..talk things out and our first meet up in nearly 3 years.. He's working there as an aircraft mechanic for almost 3 decades. Since I graduated there in 2007 I never had the chance to get back in Parañaque, I missed the people there my friends, schoolmates and relatives..the environment and the memories.. Was so excited coming back there. I had a great time with my relatives and friends there, it felt like I was gone for 10 years there, new things happened and some friends left, some stayed.. I also had a great time with my family she and kids Jameeka and Trevor. They have grown bigger since they left Davao last August.

As Saturday is approaching Sept 26, friends and cousins were planning to have a great night out.. All was set until Friday night when the heavy rain poured all over Metro Manila and was well aware that a typhoon is visiting the shores of the country. We didn't expect too much attention that night but when we woke up Saturday morning It continued to rain, actually it never stopped since Friday night and this time the rain is causing too much discomfort and after hours of non stop rain, it resulted to floods around the place. The house there never experienced flood inside but this time it went through and in a matter of minutes the first floor got flood out, since it has a 2nd storey, we had the chance to save all the electronic appliances from the 1st floor before it the 1st floor washed out..but on my relatives place, the story was different.. Floods used to flow there everytime a hard rain occurs but the worst did come on that day because no electronic appliances were saved as the whole house was drown by the flood, doors and windows broke and all the things from the clothes and pictures sank out in the flood. Lolo and lola and my couzin renz tried to save stuffs but the water was raging so fast that they didn't had the chance to brought anything except their own. Cars around the neighborhood also drowned and my auntie cried out in tears as her brand new car also drowned from the monster flood. Our place was just beside the NAIA and it was the first time it flooded that high as reaching the tip of the roof. I went there sunday and the whole place is messed up, the water's gone but it left a devastating outcome.. people were all busy fixing their house, the appliances and all stuffs, washing clothes and after a day or two everything was almost clean and fixed. Its a experience that our place will never forget. I was there when typhoon Milenio came and it wiped out metro manila through its raging wind but typhoon Ondoy has its own weapon of destruction and it is through water.

Here are the actual images during our place is sank by the water

Persuasion: The demon's plan

In MJ's final words

"The game of basketball has been everything for me.. My refuge, my place Iv'e always gone when I needed to find comfort and peace. Its been a source of intense pain and source of most intense feeling of joy and satisfaction and anyone that you can ever imagine its been a relationship that evolved overtime and its given me the greatest respect and love for the game. It provided me the platform to share my passion with millions in a way I neither expected nor could I ever imagined in my careeer. I hope that its given a millions of people witout a touch the optimizm and desire to achieve their
goals through hardwork, perseverance and positive attitudes.
Although im recognized with this diminised honor of being in basketball hall of fame, I dont look at this moment as a defining end to my relationship with the game of basketball, this is simply a continuation of something that I started A long tym ago. One day u myt look up and see me playing the game at 50. (laughing crowd) Oh dont laugh never say never.. because limits like fears are often just an illusion."