Give In To Give Up To Give Out: Helping Monsoon Victims

- August 19, 2012, Sunday.

- Our high school batch representative Charmeuse invited me around a week ago to help out with the distributions of donations to the monsoon victims. Our batch would be tying up with a higher batch for this small project.

- I was glad that some of my high school classmates gave in to my request of "additional manpower." They were all eager to help the monsoon victims, and it was the least we could do since most of us did not give up some things to donate. Well, I could say that time was what we "gave up," just so we could help out.

- This morning at around 9, we assembled at Starbucks, and waited for Charmeuse' instructions. Our batchmate, and Charmeuse' high school classmate, Jackson, was also there to help out, and serve as one of our drivers.

- We first went to the higher batch's batch representative's parking to help load the trucks and cars with the buckets fill with relief goods. Then, we headed for a longgggg journey to an almost hidden community in Fairview.

- We held out the donations, and gladly the people were well-facilitated by the community heads. It did not take long before the donations were fully handed out. It was also a time for both batches to mingle and have some interesting small talks.

- After handing out everything, we had another long trip back to Manila. We were surprised that it was already around 3pm, and we still hadn't eaten lunch. Well, we left a bit later than scheduled, and we also got lost on the way, so maybe that'll explain why.

- We arrived at Lucky Chinatown Mall at around 3:30pm, and had a quick lunch at Bon Chon. My classmates and I had a celebratory karaoke session at Quantum, so we could sing our tiredness out. I think that backfired since our voices were now also tired. Still, we were happy.

- We all went home after our hour-long karaoke session. Although we were tired, giving in to a request, giving up time to help, and giving out donations to help our fellow countrymen seemed to be a good way to spend one of our long-weekend days.