Naker = Naku + heller.

I am quite literally and figuratively, drowning in work. Yes, been too busy even to drop a line or two on this here blog. But now that I'm here, might as well do so.

Today, I played a couple of hours of badminton, and no more knee pain, YAY! Finally, although, I'm quite cautious now, and I refrain from overdoing it because that 5-day-barely-walk-stuck-in-bedrest nightmare is something I'd rather keep in the past. I don't want to ever have to deal with that kind of pain again. Ever. Although I have to admit, I'm a little rusty. I will get back on track, I'm on it.

Been noticing that gas prices have been up lately and it has landed on the big 50. This is actually a major pain because when I trek out to Manila, I consume a lot of gas, averaging maybe around 5 to 6 liters per roundtrip. This oil price hike is crippling and down right annoying, plus with all the traffic that I have to go through? Ugh, terrible.

Let me air my grudge on TRAFFIC. See there are two ways down the mountain from where I live. One straight through Mandaluyong/Ortigas/Libis and another through Marikina.

Yes, just two routes. ONLY TWO ROUTES.

And on both of these routes, somebody had the brilliant idea of fixing waterworks, expanding roads, building sidewalks ALL AT THE SAME TIME. So both routes are heavily clogged with traffic as one bottleneck follows another. It's such a nightmare because before all of this chaos, I had already memorized the previous waves of off-peaks so that I avoid the traffic, and now I'm just always stuck in the middle of it. Whether I travel in the dead of the night, the slow morning hours, it's always, ALWAYS traffic. In fact, for most days, it's so painful that I'd rather stay at home, or in the confines of the mountain where I live rather than trek out to Manila.

High voluminous never-ending, making-my-legs-cramp, kill-me-now traffic is just too much for my brain cells and electrolyte balance (hello, hypokalemia). Don't they ever coordinate with each other? Don't they understand how difficult it is for the locals to move about if they don't consider the amount of traffic they are causing? This is why disasters are ill-managed in the Philippines. Government bodies NEVER coordinate with each other. They forget that their constituents depend on them to acknowledge that they have to work together in serving the people.