- We went to Garuda office, packed our things and the next day, on 19 Oct we flew to Jakarta, we left some things with my very kind ex-boss who live near the airport -

The flood story has turned into a nightmare for me. On the 20 Oct I still saw pictures of my house with only 50 cm of water in front of it. And some friends also informed me that the building was still safe.
On 21 Oct morning the situation was more or less the same. But on the night of 21 Oct the nightmare came. The water almost reached the bottom part of the old aircon which is still installed in my bedroom. How my heart broke to see it. And to see other parts of AIT campus which are also submerged... to remember my happy days in that house, in those rooms... in that campus... how my boys' laughter had rung there.... how Tio learned to walk, to play, to ride bicycle there....
now we have no home to go back to... our things, though not much in monetary value but choked full with memories, are gone.... the water is expected to stay for around 4 weeks... and after that what? we can't possibly stay in that house... farms and factories are submerged... diseases will spread....
I still don't know what to do... I love my house.. I love AIt .. I love Thailand... and I'm not ready to leave the little piece of heaven that I had enjoyed for the last 12 years...

Till now, even the sight of Thai products (Tipco juice, Glico, etc) and fruit (longan, etc.) reduce me into tears...

- pic of my lovely home in its sad condition... the one at the corner, ground floor-

Thailand has been flooded for months this year. The first impact we felt was that our maid asked to go home earlier since there was news that her house would be flooded in another 2 hours.

We thought we were safe, it was in another province. We invited her and her son to stay with us in case they had to evacuate. But turned out that we had to evacuate ourselves

We had been keeping our belongings and moved some to papa's office which is on the 2nd floor, but not all and not yet ready to evacuate. A Thai friend called that Friday night 14 Oct and told us that a water gate broke, AIT and TU issued evacuation orders. So in panic we packed our things and moved to a serviced apartment in Bangkok (which turned out to be very nice, better than my expectation ;))) the kids have also been enjoying our stay

AIT was safe that night, so the next day we went back to AIT to get some more things, wash our clothes and back to Bangkok. The next day we went outing to Paragon and Villa Market. The next day we stayed at the apartment. The next day papa went back to AIT to get some more stuffs as the situation got worse around AIT. AIT is still safe (no water) till now but the areas surrounding it are already inundated. So we don't know for how long AIT will stay safe and if we are inside we won't be able to go out should we need something

Timothy has runny nose as usual, but Jeremy got sick with cold. The night before he cried so much that we got worried. Then last night he vomited and has been having blocked nose and cried again

We'd looked for apartment which is more affordable for 1 month stay in Bangkok. But now there's the news that Bangkok governor said Bangkok has 48 hours to prepare for flood
So we decided to go to Jakarta for 2 weeks