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Forget the crappy title, here’s the story.

I have never been more alert mere seconds after I woke up ’til this morning. It was around 3, I only had more than an hour of sleep then when my Mom, kinda panicky, told me that there’s fire and that I should get my important papers and have it ready. I looked for my files after I took my external hard disk and made sure that it’s safe and then asked my father whether or not I should take the CPU out. He was calmer and told me that I shouldn’t do it just yet, the fire is across the street anyway, but we should be ready. Just in case.

Just in case, that was enough for me to not hunt all of my books so they would be safer. I made a mental note that time to buy a case for them all. I would never let anything harm my most prized possessions.

When I went to look, my heart went out to the people who were in tears because there were no firefighters yet and their houses were about to get burnt. I know these people, I practically grew up playing hide and seek, “habulan”, chinese garter, etc with them way back, even before I decided that my life should revolve around computers. Some of them, I know are part of the reason why we had a lot of brownouts before because of their having illegal connections, but I never dreamed of them losing their homes. What of the children?

When the first firetruck came, the people cried even louder not because they are relieved but because they became more afraid.

The firetruck doesn’t have enough water to put the fire out.

Perfect.

Good thing though another group of firefighter volunteers came more prepared. Later on, when all of the “excitement” wore off, I thought to myself, “why bother going to the scene when you know you’re not prepared, who cares if you’re the first?!”

Anyway, when I went upstairs to call my sister, I saw how big the fire was from our room’s window. I got afraid and asked “Why us? Why?” then I remembered that I’m past that and instead asked “What lesson do You want to impart?” Be more careful? Be thankful? Get up my ass and stop being lazy?

I know I’m not myself these past weeks, I feel depressed for no reason (or maybe because I miss my friends so much and especially this unfair gay guy. Come home already, will you?). Even work couldn’t excite me much. What a way to wake me up, huh?