Articles tagged with: Tacloban
MSF and Antibiotics
I DID go to the Medecins Sans Frontieres medical center yesterday, and it was a very good thing that I did. This sickness is not just a passing thing. I’ve been SOOOO sick. I’ve clearly picked up a nasty bacterial infection in my gut. What drives me crazy is not knowing where I got it from. Which dish was contaminated? At which restaurant? Which glass …
Dealing with Illness
I think I’m still a curmudgeon today, but I’m so weak that the curmudgeon is not surfacing very much. I don’t have the strength to be annoyed at anyone or anything. I appear to be an invalid. I was sick throughout the night – stomach cramps, enough gas to lift a hot air balloon, and chills. I don’t know if it is anything that needs …
Christmastime in Tacloban after Typhoon Yolanda
Despite a very pleasant Christmas Day, I woke up a curmudgeon on this December 26th. I went out to have a cup of coffee at a place that had recently re-opened, and I was annoyed immediately outside my room’s door by the horrific tinny sound pouring out of a young man’s cell phone. This young fellow works at the hotel and has his fancy smartphone …
Day 45 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Chatting with Manny
Sunday December 22, 2013
6:55 a.m. Tacloban, Philippines
Day 45, Typhoon Yolanda
Not proofed
I was chatting with Rene yesterday, and I got another element to the houseboy’s story. Rene said that the houseboy had gone back to his room to get some of his belongings. And that was when he was trapped there. This never came up in all the times I questioned this fellow about his story, …
Day 38 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Mass Grave at Basper
It’s Sunday, the worst day of the week by far. I say that because they take this “day of rest” thing seriously in the Philippines, and it is the one day of the week when I always have trouble finding food and water and other things. Stores and restaurants are closed, and after the typhoon, it will be even worse.It was raining quite heavily in …
Photo Post – Basper Mass Grave in Tacloban
Many mass graves were dug in and around the Tacloban area in order to deal with the thousands of victims of super typhoon Yolanda on November 8, 2013. These particular mass graves were dug inside a public cemetery at Basper about 12 kilometers north of Tacloban City itself. I did not know what to expect when I visited this place, but I admit I was …
Day 37 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Mass Grave at Basper, a Concert, and Mosquito Torment
The very first thing I did this morning (after taking a bucket bath, shaving, and battling mosquitoes) was to remove the back cover from my broken Kindle. The battery finally went dead, so I couldn’t use it to listen to music anymore. And I don’t want to throw the entire Kindle away as it is. If, by some miracle, someone were to fix it, they …
Day 36 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Odd Encounters in Seawall
It’s already the 13th of December, perilously close to Christmas. I was thinking that since it is so close, I might as well stay here in Tacloban for Christmas. In a strange twist, the typhoon has meant that I now know more people in the city of Tacloban than in most places on the planet. I already have two invitations to spend Christmas with families. …