This post is dedicated to the Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) survivors in the Philippines and to “The Life Boat Project” of a group of women residing in Seoul who call themselves “The 601 Habit”.

“The Life Boat Project” aims to deliver fishing boats to fishermen whose means of livelihood was suddenly stolen and ravaged by one of the strongest typhoons to ever land on the planet.

“The 601 Habit” was inspired and motivated by a newspaper article where the fishermen were said to have asked for livelihood, instead of aid.

“How can we live if we cannot fish?”

 

In the midst of the rubble seen on the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, a group of fishermen braved the sea that left their family traumatized and destroyed their livelihood to ask for boats to start rebuilding their lives at the soonest possible time.

 

And so, the ladies behind The 601 Habit breathe life to “The Life Boat Project”. “The Life Boat Project” aims to provide boats to as many affected fishermen as possible whose means of income was put on hold because of the havoc wrought by one of the strongest typhoon recorded.

 

This project was inspired by the dignity that the group of fishermen from Northern Iloilo showed when they asked for the means to continue feeding their families, rather than asking for aid. They may not be rich but they have always been self-sufficient. They have not begged but this devastation has reduced most of them to begging for aid. The least that we can do is to give them back their tools to reclaim the dignity of their existence.

If you want to be part of this project, please get in touch with “The 601 Project” or you can donate through the link below:

Donate to “The Life Boat Project”

Donations will be transparent and can be checked in the Facebook page of the group.

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For Pinoys living outside of the Philippines, I think it is more practical to send financial help to get things started rolling once again… to rebuild houses, buildings and LIVES.

• Our people need the money to buy their needs. The people on the ground and the victims know what their immediate needs are.

• Sending in-kind donations will add to the logistical concerns of sending things plus negotiations for tax-free cargo handling.

• The affected Filipinos would not care much about the imported things. They need the basic necessities to survive and to start anew.

• And, we need to buy from our own stores and our own goods. We will not only be helping the most helpless victims but we are also giving our badly-hit economies a push.

We can send money to our trusted organizations or trusted persons who, we think, would be able to manage donations very well and make sure that financial aid is well-spent and has reached those who need it most.

But for those living in the Philippines who want to help and have the capability to do so, this is good guide:

Please follow this guide to ensure that we are handing out the people’s needs. We can’t allow unnecessary items to scatter around. There’s so much cleaning up to do.

I personally had to exert effort to make Halloween fun and filled with treats for the kids today.

After making sure they had all the fun and the treats they could have, I now have to go to an even greater effort to make these magically disappear:

Oh, the irony of it all!

The cold Autumn breeze started in the middle of October here in Seoul. And so, from that day onwards I would daily wait on this spot for my son’s school bus to arrive:

These October afternoons were cold… not nasty cold. In fact, oftentimes they were soothingly cold. Just right for cool sweaters and light jackets. And those were good days.

But a few days ago, I stood on the same spot waiting… wet and cold…. very cold. The sudden rain made the cool weather harsher… a reminder perhaps, that we should be ready for colder November days.

Tomorrow is the start of November. What pictures will it bring to a waiting mom like me?

Tuesdays are my son’s library day at school. This is when they should return last Tuesday’s borrowed book and get a new one. I usually urge him to return in advance the books he gets to finish before the due date but he opts to do it with is classmates.

He had finished a number of Geronimo Stilton books already and has borrowed some from school. But look what he got from school today:

I was surprised:-)… I planned on introducing the book series to him… but not yet. It didn’t occur to me that he was ready for it. He discovered the book with zero influence from me! Yahoo!

And boy! He really was ready for it. He was hooked on his first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. He repeatedly kept telling me, “Mommy, I really like this book!“. By the time he was finally convinced to stop reading, it was 10:00 in the evening and way beyond his bedtime. I checked his bookmark and he stopped on p. 122.

122 pages in one evening for a first-grader?

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Guest post by Thuy Vy.

My 3-year old charmer became sentimental and came up with a drawing. He told me he drew his Daddy, Mommy, Kuya and himself and the tall building is the hotel where we checked in on our Chuseok holidays.

The drawing was more precious to him than I imagined. I saw him sleeping with it days after he drew it!

I asked him why he slept with it.

“I miss my vacation and my complete family.”

Awww!

I don’t mind growing old:

photo grabbed from a facebook post