The Awakening
What a week that was, the week we woke up.
You see, Baguio City almost lost the Athletic Bowl, a 7 hectare property that includes the Pine Trees of the World area, the Monument of Peace Tower, the Php100,000,000.00 swimming pool that was built during the time either Mauricio Domogan or Bernardo Vergara was mayor (I get confused between the terms of the two because they switched positions in 2004), and of course that wide open space with the track oval, tennis courts and a basketball court to the sides, and bleachers almost diagonally across each other.
We were about to lose it for at least 25 years to foreigners, specifically, a Korean named An Hu Yul, whom we did not know at all (except that we later found out that Mr. An was a client of Vice-mayor Danilo Farinas in a labor case).
What you will read is an account of what transpired, how the people of Baguio are so awesome and where we will be taking this fire that was ignited in the people of this city in the clouds.
We just...
