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Police said a new set of security guards arrived at the Stradcom Corp. building around 6 a.m. and tried to takeover the building.

Radio reports said that the new set of security guards claimed they have a court order for the building’s takeover, but the old guards resisted.

Footage taken by ABS-CBN News showed the new set of security guards forcing their way into the building. The new guards attacked the old guards with truncheons until they successfully occupied the establishment.

Policemen arrived only after the new guards have fully taken over the building.

Around 7 a.m., a team of policemen from the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) arrived, but they were not allowed to enter the building by the new set of security guards.

Superintendent Constante Agpaoa, chief of the QCPD’s Station 10, was later allowed to enter the building and talk with the leaders of the guards.

Lawyers of the 2 groups arrived later at the scene. Agpaoa immediately met with the lawyers and started the negotiations.

As of this posting, negotiations between the 2 feuding groups and the police were ongoing. — Report from Francis Faulve, ABS-CBN News

According to the Saffir-Simpson damage scale the potential property damage and flooding from a storm of Megi’s strength (category 5) at landfall includes:

• Storm surge generally greater than 5.5 metres (18 feet) above normal.
• Complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings.
• Some complete building failures with small utility buildings blown over or away.
• All shrubs, trees, and signs blown down.
• Complete destruction of mobile homes.
• Severe and extensive window and door damage.
• Low-lying escape routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the centre of the storm.
• Major damage to lower floors of all structures located less than 4.6 metres (15 feet) above sea level and within 460 metres (500 yards) of the shoreline.
• Massive evacuation of residential areas on low ground within 8-16 km miles (5-10 miles) of the shoreline may be required.

Whoop whoop! Bring it on! My camera is fully charged, my phones are all charged so I have flashlights should the power go off at night.

In some instances, it seems much longer than 7 months and in others, it seems as if it is less than 7 months.

My life here with Ian, our children and my new family has been fantastic.

Thank you Ian, you are and always will be my princess.

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I love timelapse videos of clouds forming and I can not help but stare out my bedroom window as I have a lovely view of the sky where most of the large clouds in the area form over the sea.

As a test to see how and if I can make a timelapse video, I have made one of the sun rising this morning. I set up the camera at just after 5am and started recording. An hour later at 6pm I stopped recording and started processing the video. My initial idea is to take approximately 60 minutes of video and compress it to approximately 60 seconds.

Here are a few stats of the video for those who are interested:

Total length: 63 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 720 x 1280
Video Format: MTS
Raw Video File Size: 4.2 GB

I converted the video from MTS format to Avi format using the Divx 4 encoder maintaining the quality and aspect ratio. This was mainly so that my video editor could read the file. MTS format files are high definition videos recorded by my camera. Converting it to an avi allowed me to load it into my video editor.

Final Video Details
Total Length: 48 seconds
Video Speed: Approximately 13x
Aspect Ratio: 400 x 720

At around 7pm, the rain hit manila and the sky covered with clouds. Over time the clouds changed diection as the storm dragged over manila.

At 9pm the electricity went off. It had already been off before for twenty minutes, but this time it did not come back on. With no air conditioning, I jammed the door open. I didn’t want to open the windows as they could have been ripped off or smahed.

I managed to fall asleep sweating. I woke up at around 1am to a very loud sound. I went out onto the balcony to see what the noise was. To my supprise, there was a tin roof blowing down the street.

The only recording I got was before the storm really hit. Once it had hit, I did not want to take my camea outside in case it was hit with some flying debris.

The next morning, the streets were filled with parts of trees. The entire outside of my house was splattered with pieces of leaves from the trees. I have never seen anything like it, but with around 22 storms hitting Manila every year, I expect to see much worse storms.

However I already had all this. But it’s just been topped by ian searching for a shop that sells Wild Turkey which is a Bourbon whickey that I love. Ian has even found a european resturant, but I don’t like it too much cause there are too many white assholes in there on most days. However, they serve wild turkey, so the white fuckers are almost bareable.

Ian my sweet, you have topped yourself. Just when I wondered if I could love you any more, you answer my own question.