Plastic. They say it take years, or hundreds as most scientists claims to decompose. Less plastic is better. That is why, Make or Break is now trying to be plastic free whenever we shop.

Last week, I shopped on the mall for some supplies and after the cashier swiped my stuff on the scanning software, the bagger, took it and start putting it on their plastic bags. I said no. Just put my things on my eco bag. Some of them find it amusing, some of them thanked me.

Yesterday, I went to the shopping capital of the country (Divisoria). Most sales lady there finds it really amusing that I don’t want to use plastic. I have to stress a bit that my goods should not be placed on plastic bags, instead it goes straight to my eco bags.

Maybe to help spread the use of eco bags, I will make some eco bags and have it raffled here on Make or Break. What do you think?

October is fast approaching, and what does it mean? two parties for us. One will happen last week of October, one party on November 1st week. Two parties would mean payday advance loans for most people. But not for me. Thank goodness for my sideline and online jobs, I was able to save enough for the parties I am planning.

As mentioned, there will be two parties coming. One is a Ben10 party and the other one a Tink party. Ben10 party is a lot easier to plan as the celebrant does not want much visitors, just his friends. The only hard part on that party is mimicking ametrics, to be used as Pinata.

The second party is of course, for the little girl. Now with this one.. er.. I can’t tell yet.

Before I wrote this, I go through my post about ondoy and our experiences. It was not that bad after all. Two days without food and yet we survived. Days of cleaning, weeks of creating a new home. Months of recovering financially and almost a year of erasing our fears. But we survived, that’s all that matters. Maybe during that time it felt like the world has forgotten us. How can we not think that way? We only see water and fear (from our eyes and from the neighbors). There was no electricity, there was no news and the thought that our family was worried for our safety hunts us. But then again we survived and it has been exactly a year since it happened. We’re still here, we’re still living.

September 26, 2009. A day that will always be remembered in our history. It was Ondoy’s day. It was the day when nature pull us all back to Earth. And now one year after, are we Ondoy safe?

I had a glimpse of Boy Abunda’s The Bottom Line. He asked DSWD Secretary if the department is ready in case another Ondoy happened. And the secretary said yes. So I guess it is safe to assume that our government did not make sure that there will never be another Ondoy. So what did they exactly do? Buy over priced rubber boats? Prepare sacks of rice to be distributed in case of another flood?

“We are ready for an Ondoy part two. I am responsible. I am accountable. They just have to follow me,” said Ramos, a former commander of the Army’s elite forces (inquirer.net)

“We are ready for a [Tropical Storm] ‘Ondoy’ part two,” said Benito Ramos, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

See what I mean? They are ready, in fact we are ready too. We are ready for Ondoy part 2. Yes they are expecting another Ondoy but why should we expect if we can do something so that it would not happen again. It would have been better if it is:

We are not ready for another Ondoy, because there will never be another Ondy. We already took care of your sewerage, esteros and flood ways. We already took action to prevent another flood. We are not ready because there is nothing to prepare for.

Wouldn’t you love to hear that from our government?

But of course knowing how they always twist the truth, we still cannot expect that our government is ready for another Ondoy. I just wish, nature will understand, our president is new and he just came from another crisis (hosatge crises with a twisted truth). And another crisis will be too much for him.

The funny thing about Ondoy was some people really took advantage of it. Yeah, like rescuing her leading lady in a speed boat. Nice move. nice movie gimmick. still it was a flop. Just like our urban planning, flop, nothing more, nothing less.