Saturday eight o'clock in the morning, clear skies and a bit humid already. But here in the Philippines, this kind of weather had been God's answer to many Filipinos' desperate prayer for sunshine and dry ground as the country experienced almost two-weeks of non-stop rains. And although we are located in a city province which was not hardly hit by the monsoon rains, we felt for those Metro Manila residents whose homes and streets where inundated by tons and tons of garbage at the onslaught of this week's heavy downpour. So, waking up this morning to see my daughter taking photos and videos of her latest Saturday fun-time activity had been a clear indication that we're expecting a fine sunny weekend. My daughter's contagious smile and the smell of freshly cooked rice greeted me as I stepped out of the veranda. So her headline goes that she was able to cook rice in her new set of miniature clay pots successfully and her matching earthen kalan worked just as go...