After spending long weekend stucked at home, I walked in at the school lobby, clocking in at 8.55 a.m., two hours later than we were allowed to. Rain has stopped pouring this city but it is very likely to return soon. Water level outsite my 'kompleks perumahan' is still stagnant at knee-high.
Banjir or flood in Jakarta started at the wee hours of Friday morning, 2nd Feb after continuous raining few nights earlier. Later that day, water has started coming into my housing area and soon our roads became rivers. At night, it looked like our house was built on water:-like those water-villas in PD-(what was the name of that resort,huh?Avillion?) Only that we can't get out of our own house, stucked with no electricity and water!
By Saturday, we were literally almost out of food supplies and water to drink- and worse- money! We had to borrow money from our maids (who just received their salary from us) and our neighbours' maids to buy some food and formula milk for our kids.
On Sunday morning, we woke up, surprisingly to discover that the rivers outside our home has disappeared. We finally managed to get out of our area and shop for food supplies at Carrefour.
The rivers came back on Tuesday and disappeared again this morning. Sounds funny,eh? We are still waiting to resume our life as usual as this flood will come and go for at least another week. I longed to be able to jog around our kompleks with my daughter besides me, cycling her Winnie the Pooh bicycle. And it felt like months since I last strolled in my fav shopping malls doing what most ladies n mommies like me do best-shopping!
~everyday is a new journey~
