What’s hot and what’s not in cool, cool Baguio City Philippines
Whoever said, “The Truth Shall Set You Free!” was absolutely right.
The Filipino is now finding his voice, long silenced by Marcos during Martial Law. We thought we got our voices back after Marcos fled, and started singing with discordant voices in the decades after — democracy, economic prosperity, freedom of the press! We went wild in the 20 years after Marcos, basking in the new-found freedom but not really knowing what to do or where to go.
Last year, I decided, for the first time to try and remember all that happened from my point of view in the first show of People Power in the Philippines.
I know, I know, I am prolific today, this being my third post, as I wait to leave for Manila, to attend my paternal grandmother’s 96th birthday party tonight.
My grandma’s being “alive and kicking” at 100 years minus four is something to ponder. Of course her being in full possession of her faculties is simply phenomenal! Ok, maybe a little deaf but too vain to wear her hearing aid. A little blind, too, but there’s no osteoperosis here when she gets up from the wheelchair that tires her less, and stands to her full regal height of 5 feet 8 inches (what if she was really 5′11” and shrank?).
A old friend of mine, Martin R., at a chance meeting in Camp John Hay a few years ago, once remarked that their company, Benguet Corporation, had a solution to the water shortage in Baguio City, but that the city was unwilling. He would not say why.
I asked him then where they would get the water, and he said that the dried up mines now serve as reservoirs so they did have the water and were hoping to put a pipeline to Baguio.
Great news for all those coming up to watch the Panagbenga 2008 Parades to be held on Feb 23 and 24!
You do not have to rush back to work on Sunday, February 24 because, unlike last year, Gloria Arroyo has declared this February 25 a non-working holiday, changing her mind from a previous pronouncement that it was to be a special working holiday.
