OCTOBER RAIN

here are tiny specks of the october rain - some are drizzles, some, heavy continuing storms, unending, violent and unseen:

1. Tom Thumb - belittled despite my height, unseen despite my skin. they will know my worth soon enough. but not from the clutter this boring office makes. not from the evil beasts of suits and well-pressed blazers (one just incidentally passed by - the beast of all my jungle nightmares.) i am in drought, despite the unforgiving flood Ondoy created.


2. publication - followed blogs of word-driven acquaintances. i am not alone in the world after all - thinking of their words makes me sane. oh, when oh when can i write again. pro-bono writing stint, anyone?

3. advertising - finally sent an editted email to someone who might be the answer to my call. sir, kindly answer the soonest.

4. hunger - writing about the old place of misery, where both the broth and the spices speak of the dumaguete boulevard, of those once broken dreams.

5. release - the financial statements shall soon be released. finally, i could be free from the hunger Tom Thumb aches. never undermine a writer i tell you. never undermine.

6. survivor - outwit.outplay.outlast. interestingly enough, the philippine version outwits my initial apprehensions. survivor samoa, like previous seasons, is a must-see. when will russell be booted out?

7. celebration - my father will turn fifty in a matter of days. grand celebration, old man?

seven days. seven rains. some blissful, some desolate and unwarming - coming with or without warning. some...some..some.