It's been a month since I last went birding. That was in Kota Kinabalu. Since then it had been a series of unfortunate setbacks that more or less confined me within the walls of our home. It's not that my wife and I haven't been going out. It was just that those outings were mainly to church on Sundays and to run various errands (grocery shopping, laundry, taking our car to the shop, etc. etc). Then there were days of constant rain parenthesized by hot, humid weather. As if these were not enough, the current economic problems in America caused the value of the dollar to dip making my already meager pension to shrink even more. Please note that generally speaking, birding isn't cheap here in the Philippines. Most birding places are at some distance from our home which means 1) consuming lots of gasoline (the price of which had gone up lately) 2) paying toll fees and 3) eating out. With that scenario, our financial situation even got further dented by the costly repair on our vehicle - something we later realized could have been resolved in a much cheaper way. *Sigh* Lessons learned though. Going forward we will never have our car checked at the "casa" (the dealer) again.
Pardon the rant. I just needed to get those out of my chest.
Due to the above stated reasons, my birding activities had been put on hold or rather restricted to my hard drive. With no light at the end of the tunnel yet, it seems. Weather is still fickle and the dollar apparently continuing to plunge. Between my morning and evening prayers here I am trying to battle the onset of ennui thru the aid of my computer (thank God for the internet!). Passing the time watching some quotidian k-pop music videos in between my visits to Facebook and Google+. Or occasionally watching those English-subtitled Korean drama series. (Oh Lord, what has become of me?)
Things better start changing soon.
Or I might change my name to Hu Em Hai.
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