Unbelievable!

Friday, Sep 9, mom and I went to pick up M at school then went to M's gymnastics class. On our way, there was a thunderstorm that seems to come out of nowhere. Thunder and lightning, winds were kicking in, rain started pouring. It lasted about 30 minutes and just as swiftly as it came it was gone.

The streets were flooded and Mom said that back in the days, when it would rain that hard, she and dad would jump in the car and drive around. I remember when we were kids we would be so happy when streets were flooded. Washing! Washing! we'd chant.

We stopped by the kebab place to get dinner and I got a call from G. He said that the landlady called about the powerline in front of our house. He got disconnected so I thought maybe we don't have electricity in the house.

As I entered the driveway, I was surprised that G was parked in the middle of the driveway, I parked at the designated visitor's area and started walking to the house. What I saw was something that I was not expecting. There were debris everywhere. Pieces of what looks like a roof was on the ground. One of our neighbors was talking to our landlady and G was on his cell phone looking all stressed.

The roof of the back part of our house was all gone, blown off. The debris everywhere, that was our roof. M started crying, she was worried about her toys. I didn't know what I was feeling. All I know is I don't want to go inside the house, I didn't want to see the extent of the damage. G said that with the roof being gone, water got in our house and it looks like everything in our bedrooms got wet.

Mom said that she needs to use to bathroom so we went inside. I just started crying when we got inside the house. The beds were wet, the carpets, it looked like everything got damaged. We started talking about what we need to do. We packed for the night and started moving stuff that are important. The landlord offered a part of their house to store some of our things that didn't get wet.

The next day, we came back to get the rest of our stuff. The damage wasn't to bad. The carpets and the beds got wet but we've been meaning to buy a new bed, so no big deal. The carpets, we can just get it cleaned again. The rest of the bedroom furnitures were fine. The living room didn't get wet and that's what I'm most thankful of, if the living room got wet, we would bo looking at a bigger damage.

Right now, we're still staying in a lodging facility on base. The landlord said, hopefully everything will get done by the end of the week.

Finally, I got a mini iPod.

I've wanted an iPod for so long but I kept telling myself that it's too much money. Then, I thought a mini would work but I still thought it's still a lot of money. I guess a shuffle would work. It's compact and affordable but G said it could only hold so much. So, I've been debating between a mini and a shuffle. I guess G got tired of listening to me weigh the pros and cons that he got me one for my birthday. It's very pink!

I'm so in love with it. Now, I don't have to take my bulky cd case whenever we go on a road trip. I still need a car kit so I can recharge it while on the road and also an RF transmitter so I don't have to buy the casette adapter. Hmmm... need more money. I also need the dock with speakers so I can listen to it in my bedroom.

Since I don't want to buy more accessories, I've been browsing around to see if I can transmit using the iMac, seems like I need to buy the airport express to do this. Why can't people just make something that is everything without buying more accessories! I would love to see that. Like a portable gameboy or playstation that is also a phone, at least 4.0 mp camera, holds 6 gb of music, gps, and a pda, the size of a packet of gum. And most importantly, affordable, like 200 bucks!