Coping with power outage and calamities through communication and technology

     Typhoon Glenda, known internationally as Rammasun, had her little visit in the Philippines the other week. You could say that it was completely the opposite of pleasant. In fact, it took us all by surprise when the typhoon started to ravage our towns and cities. We all thought that it would be just like another typhoon, but man we were wrong. I got bewildered when the roaring winds came barging on the windows in the middle of the night. It was such a great shock to the people, especially those living in Southern Luzon. Guess what else? It left over 5 million people in the dark after it knocked down (the) power supply in several parts of Metro Manila and other provinces. 

     With the electricity gone, a form of communication was lost. Even phone signals were hard to find. There was no other way of communicating with people in other ares, unless you'd willingly travel the road with the typhoon raging on. The power outage bored the crap out of me. I needed something entertaining to keep myself busy. Playing board games was an option, but no one wanted to play with me. So, I resorted to talking with my family, including our dog, and reading lots of books - a stack of 'em, even if I had to seemingly cook my face in front of a candle just to be able to read in the dark. Those were the only forms of communication that could take place in my sole situation. We all blabbered the time away. I most certainly also did enjoy reading where all the contents of the books became alive with a hint of my imagination as if it was communicating with me.

     Well, that was that and no more could have been done with my lazy ass attitude. The typhoon had its nightmare to unleash but it also had its perks. People got to communicate with each other physically to relieve boredom and share their stories. It's times like these when we remember the greatest way of communicating.

       

Communication Evolution

          Hi there. Can you understand what you're reading at this very moment? If you can, then let me be the first to congratulate you. WE, YOU are a major part of the evolution of communication. The reason you're able to decipher these words is a pure product of a life-long innovation brought about by ourselves. People have continuously been developing our way of communicating without the slightest idea. I bet it took more than a century to get to the language we're working with right now. More and more unexpected things are drastically coming our way. Boy, I wouldn't be surprised if we could communicate with aliens by tomorrow.

          ENGLISH - the universal language. Finding out about its dawn sure was a fun thing. I'm guessing you've all heard about the Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and the Homo Sapiens, whom we possibly may have been from [theories]. As early as these years can go back, surely there was some kind of communication going on between these early people. I'd like to point out that they, in my opinion [mainly based on cartoons & movies], had been communicating with each other by means of big, loud, gruff groans accompanied by somewhat body gestures. Imagine yourself as an early wo/man, back then if you were hungry you'd probably be saying "Oo-ee-au-oo-coonga-unga" while doing really weird gestures which include your hands on your stomach and frantically doing tiny jumps around like a monkey happily eating a stolen banana, like how I do. One more thing that I really love pointing out involves the use of English and its proper grammar usage. I'm not mocking people here but, in general, Filipinos really do have a sense of humor when it comes to (using) English and it really pisses me off whenever I hear people speak grammatically incorrect. People nowadays (warning: ghetto language over here -> the words "be like") be like "I'm feel so anger right now at this very moment" or "She make me threw the trash on outside" trying too hard be classy, NOT. I'm telling you right now to stop or I'm gonna bitchslap you so hard, you'd be mistaken for that demon in Insidious, you know, this guy...

          Communication really has evolved a lot since the beginning of time. Thanks to this evolution we have come to the languages we have now. Though it does separate countries, I think it's best to have diverse languages for it would act as a challenge in uniting people around the world. With that said, I have always known the universal language alongside my mother tongue, thus the elongated flowery words and the desire to write more in this entry. Accents have developed together with these changes. I'm sure Filipinos with the rough "R" are also scattered in abundant. Have them read the words "What can I do for you?" and I'm sure you'd get a "Uwat ken I do porr yu?". I'm not hating though, it's actually kind of amusing how people actually are the main cause behind the communication evolution. Tomorrow, we might have ridiculously nose-bleeding Filipino fluent English speakers and by next week, all other languages may have been eliminated, except for one.