Thursday, July 08, 2004

Late this afternoon, a sudden heavy downpour of rain with strong winds prompted me to rush to the balcony and removed all our clothes outside. Worried that my daughter might get wet, I called her mobile phone but it was out of coverage area! There was lightning and thunder outside and I wanted her to take a taxi to go home for her safety.

Uneasy, I was preparing our dinner when buzzer alerted me. I went to the balcony and I saw her at the gate under the rain. I went back to the kitchen but she buzzed again so, I went back to the balcony to check what's going on. Confused, I was wondering if she left her keys. I got used with her buzzing habit before going up to let me know she's coming. But, when she buzzed again, I was then hysterical looking for my keys and then placed them inside a small plastic to protect breakage of key chain.

We're residing at the fourth floor and instead of going down to open the gate, we often throw the keys down to the ground floor and let them open the gate for themselves. We have learned this style from my mother when we first relocated in the building and we haven't make any duplicate keys yet that time. Since she has past the golden age and didn't like to go down, she threw the keys to us from the balcony!

To my surprise, my daughter refused the keys and instructed me to go down. I was hesitant at first but she was wet from the rain, so, I went downstairs and opened the gate for her. By then I realized, the maid of my neighbor had her key stucked and they could not open it from outside. Under the rain, I tried to play smart but, I wasn't able to remove it also until Raymond, the building maintenance, came from nowhere and assisted us.

While slowly going up the stairs (there's no elevator in the building), I was asking my daughter why her cell phone was off, I remember the frying pan with cooking oil was left in the burner. We hurriedly went upstairs and I almost pissed in my shorts from nervousness, worried to death we might burn the entire building!