-HELLO EVERYONE! Just feeling lucky and excited! Been looking for a site like this, then here and now, IT'S HERE! FOR FREE! AND FOR & ALL THROUGHOUT MY LIFETIME SITE! oH MY! I like first to thank God for this event, if you will. Lord thank you so much! If this is the fulfillment of my prayerful request to you, with your infinite guidance and regulations, I will make this blogsite, with all my effort and talent, informative, beneficial, entertaining, educational, and whatever for anyone who logs on here, FOR FREE!
I am Ed E. Goodwater, of legal age, married, resident of the Philippines, of course, a Filipino. But why the GOODWATER thing! Like some of the good writers, which I'm just trying to emulate, though I do not categorically belong to their group because I am not really a writer, I, too, would like to use a pen name, an alias, an A.K.A., sort of thing to hide and protect my identity in cases where it will become the object of humiliation or other detrimental situation in ones own name when an inadvertent error of omission or commission had been done without any direct and outright intention to do so. This is the simple reason for that GOODWATER thing.
Meantime, that's all I have to say. When I come back, rest assured you will be reading some litlle, initially, materials of general interest to everyone. Thank you so much. Ed e. goodwater
Tomorrow May is over yet it’s quite peculiar we hadn’t experienced enough downpouring of rain that used to drive residents of the low-lying areas in Metro Manila in frenzy brought about by the sudden flash floods they used to encounter every advent of the rainy season.
The rain is quite late at this instance. For some moments in time maybe this must be a blessing for those low-lying areas dwellers. But surely not for very long! Like a regular cycle that comes and goes, and as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the rain will surely come whether we like it or don’t!
And mind you, because of the unprecedented long and very hot dryness or El Nino as the expert calls it, surely the rain would come by bringing along with it more than enough water that we need compensating for the long terrible heat El Nino had caused us to suffer.
Well, so much has been said about torrential rain flooding almost every city nowadays in Metro Manila and equally so about the precautions or preparations we need to do to avoid or prevent dismal consequences during these situations.
Reiterating them here wouldn’t do us any good. We are all fully well aware of them by now and reminders usually you and I are prone not to mind until it’s too late anyway! But my only advice for those who are still in this predicament is to vacate or abandon your below sea level dwelling place and move to a higher or safer site you can avail of while there’s still sufficient time and while the rain or typhoon is still regrouping, assembling associates and packing momentum somewhere over the oceans!
In moving to higher grounds you do not go there with just your common things and simple paraphernalia with you, but actually you’re about to move your whole household. So it’s not really that easy. Do it now. Just a friendly little admonition from your friendly goodwater724.i.ph. And do it for good! If you could!
This is not a case of a common ailment that can be dealt with an ounce of prevention taking a simple antibiotic capsule or what not. The flooding due to rain and typhoons in some places in our country is a perennial malady that has long so persisted for ages. The irony is the more we get to be modern and civilized the more we experience greater volume and deeper floodwaters.
Who can we blame for these! Among us still live careless, stupid, unscrupulous, crazy, if not barbaric individuals indiscriminately throwing, dumping and disposing garbage and waste materials at places they so unsparingly chose. Maybe we should need stiffer rules and regulations and stricter implementations to curb these bad habits.
The peculiarities of this month of May had brought some interesting as well as uninteresting things to mind. This time I noticed the agony and pain of those fragile plants and trees, shrubs and weeds, ornamental or not, trying to survive the heat. It’s a sorry sight to see some places used to be green and soothing to the eyes now has turned brown or parched and dried.
If these things could speak, we surely would have lengthy subjects to talk about, and surely the Bureau of Plants would probably have more than enough problem or complaints to tackle with. If only King Solomon is still alive today, surely too, I might be writing a different story. How I wish I could talk to them trees, plants, flowers and weeds just like him.
But I really did my duty giving those flowering plants, shrubs and herbs around our place where we live enough water, just like I do need it almost every 30 minutes during the peak summer heat. I don’t know if our home thermometers are faulty, but it doesn’t jibe or agree with the temperature as declared by the media sectors.
When the media declared 37 degrees celsius, it’s 39 degrees in ours. Or maybe the media does not cover the general over-all temperature of the country but just some specific places. Or maybe it’s really just a lot hotter in our place in Las Pinas City, for some reason or another.
The uninteresting things were the heat has always turned me lazy and unable to concentrate much on things I was doing or about to do. My composure is always bent on craving for some cozy cooler spot where I could lay my body down to sleep! And really never caring to wake up and tow the line till I felt the somehow cooler evening breeze enveloping my slumber tired body.
But now whatsoever, surely summer is over and let’s all welcome the rainy season with open arms and wash away all washables, if any. But let’s pray hard too, it really don’t wash out our homes.
goodwater724.i.ph
05-31-10
thank you Ed (i hope you don’t mind.. i am uncomfortable with Papa or Tito) and I am still taking you on that offer. 
I just don’t know when i can get to Manila though. I hope soon.
I have noticed that you have to quote the comments you receive here in your posts. I guess it is because comments here are moderated and you don’t know what to do so they appear below your blogs as original comments. I had trouble with this one too, before.
If you want comments to appear automatically after a reader or a visitor posts it, Do the ff steps:
1. Log in to your Iph account
2. Click the link that says “Turn Edit On” in the upper left corner of the page.
3. Click “Settings and Comments”
4. Click “Blog Settings”
5. Under Comment Settings, check the box that says “Allow people to post comments on the article” then click “Update Options” to save your settings.
Comments should be automatically posted after that.
But if you want to keep your comments moderated, you can approve the comments easily by doing the ff steps:
1. Log in
2. Click “Turn Edit on”
3. Click “Manage Comments”
4. A list of unapproved comments will be shown. under the column “Action” select between “Approve” or “Delete”. Confirm your selection when a box pops up. All approved comments should appear on your blog afterwards.
I hope this helps.. Have a great day Ed. Am looking forward to reading more of your posts here.
Posted by yeyey at June 6, 2010, 10:12 pmTo Yeyey:
I had no idea you're from Bacolod! I thought you're just around the vicinity of Metro Manila! It's amazing we're virtually ocean apart!
But thanks a lot for the visit. Now you knew I'm from Las Pinas City.
My offer about your HD remains as is. Certainly you will get to visit Manila on your business itineraries or pleasure escapades one of these days, just don't forget to bring it with you and please do get in touch when that happens.
The pleasure is mine and truly I'm honored too getting acquainted with a multi-talented lady like you. yet so humble!
But please, I prefer you call me Papa Ed or Tito Ed. It's much too formal, I feel much older, and I'm damn uneasy being referred to as Mr. Goodwater! Hehehe!
Thanks a lot to the web giving us this "one-click" link.
Take care and God bless you too Yeyey.
Posted by goodwater724 at June 7, 2010, 10:52 pmYeyey:
Yes, I like it very much, you calling me Ed.
You're right about that, I was the one entering the comments, esp. those related to the blogs. Because I really don't know about those promptings you just quoted me. I'm really quite scared or worried I might ruined the whole postings so I didn't bother exploring my site for those things.
Anyway, I will not really post any comment that would put myself in jeopardy. So the current set up I'm doing is supposed to be just about fine. Only it's quite tedious, have to check my emails every now and then for comments for approval. But only those good comments are being sent to my emails, so far!
The bad ones or not-necessarily-good comments are not sent to me anymore, though there is always a note from those emails saying "9 other comments waiting for approval" but I don't know where to retrieve them. Until just now you educating me about it.
But so far those comments posted there are just COPY/PASTE from my emails. So with your promptings, now maybe I will be eased of those troubles. I really want it just like that clicking "Approve or Delete".
You're really a friend for telling me these! You've been there ahead of me, and professionally at that! I'm trusting you so much. I was thinking our server i.ph would give me some information, like you gave, and was up to now waiting for it. Now no need for that! You've done it.
Well, if you're just a mile away, I could go there right now and treat you to a Chow King Esp. Halo halo. No, more than that, to a special dinner at wherever you want na "Turo-turo". Hehehe! Joke lang Yeyey! Sa choice mo siyempre!
Okay thank you so very much! I hope this information you laid here will help other new blogger like me.
Posted by goodwater724 at June 8, 2010, 12:22 amHi Tito Ed,
I think you’ll get the answers to this peculiar weather cycle problem from a couple of documentaries I recently watched.
Try asking Dex if he can download a couple of films for you. One is Food Inc. and the other is An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.
Watch Food Inc. first, then the next. You’ll find out how far away we humans have come to fool around with nature.
Posted by jay at June 12, 2010, 11:11 amTo Jay:
Thanks a lot Jay! Will surely do that, and yes, please don’t stop giving me tips and other information like this. Regards to Mommy and your kid!
Posted by goodwater724 at June 12, 2010, 11:47 amAll comments are moderated. Your comments will not appear here unless approved by the blog owner. Thank you.
Right you are Mr. Goodwater! i really just cannot understand why, after all what our country has been through from all those typhoons, some of us still haven’t learned the lessons they taught. Talaga lang po sigurong matitigas ang ulo ng mga pinoy no? Here in our place (i live in Bacolod by the way), summer has definitely bade goodbye. The past few days has been beset with heavy rains, accompanied with very strong winds. if i didn’t know any better, I’d say it’s typhoon season already..
and then there are the long, daily brown outs and the stifling humidity. Really frustrating since i can’t seem to get any work done (i do freelance jobs online).
Anyway.. thank you for the visit and the kind comments on my blog. I’d be a fool not to grab your offer and the chance to have my disk fixed.. i’ve kinda given up hope already, though i still kept the disk. Now if only i know exactly where you are…. punta po ako agad if you’re in the neighborhood
And speaking of foolishness and absurdity.. you could see my blog is full of it.. hehehe.
Happy to know i have a namesake.. I hope she doesn’t turn out to be a psyche case as i have
I am so much pleased to meet you Mr Goodwater. Take care and God bless.
Posted by yeyey at May 31, 2010, 11:08 pm