Hello to all the readers of my blog. I apologize if I’m posting an entry that veers away a bit from this blog’s focus, but I need your support guys. You see, I have joined the OnAssignment contest sponsored by KLM for the prize of a trip to Toulouse, France. Being the wanderlust that I am, I just found it so hard to resist. But what really got my attention to join this contest is that writer contestants are being asked to write a topic about “Rediscovering Manila.” Yup, right up my alley there.
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3 years of urban roaming
It feels like yesterday since I mustered up some courage with the little that I know about the ins and outs of blogging to start this project that I proudly call “my baby.” Looking back, I cannot believe at how far I have come in this journey as I got to visit a lot of places in the city, learning things that I have known before, and most importantly, gaining a deeper appreciation of the city I have lived and have come to love even more. At the same time, I realize that even after such a long period, there are still places in this vast metropolis that I have…
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reflections on the Manila monsoon floods
Almost 3 years have passed since Metro Manila has last suffered from intense rain and flooding brought about the typhoon Ondoy. For those of us who have managed to have lived through that disaster, we have hoped that a disaster of such proportion would not happen again in our lifetime at least. But here we are at this point time, having managed again to live through another similar disaster, this time brought about not by a typhoon but by some strong monsoon storm that has ravaged not only Metro Manila but other parts of Luzon as well. It is a scene that has become too eerily familiar to us now:…
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A wildlife sanctuary in the city
In an era of rapid and somewhat unchecked urbanization, it is always the city’s open green spaces that are endangered the most. The case is no different as to what has been going in Metro Manila in recent history, as open spaces had to give to way to the needs of a city’s alarmingly overflowing population. But thankfully, there are bright spots to this otherwise grim story as efforts are being made to preserve and enrich the remaining green spaces in the city. For this entry, we will be visiting yet another one of those places known as the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center. Despite the name, it is…