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March 10, 2011

March 09, 2011

España Avenue, Manila

Quezon Memorial tower, Quezon City España Avenue, Manila España Avenue, Manila UST Main Building at sunset Our classroom at break time Our classroom at break time A page from my Civil Code 'codal'

On my way home last night, our bus got flagged by an MMDA traffic enforcer for allegedly taking in passengers while in the middle of the road. The bus did slow down somewhere along Quezon Avenue in front of Santo Domingo church, but the bus driver protested that no one really boarded the bus. What an excuse, I thought. But the moment the traffic enforcer started bossing around and power tripping, I switched side. Napaka-salbahe pala talaga ng MMDA sa mga bus driver. No wonder bus drivers and traffic enforcers see each other as mortal enemies.

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March 2, 2011

Ordinary bus

Ordinary bus to España from Commonwealth

I’ve been taking the ‘ordinary’ bus to school the past three weeks. ‘Ordinary’ buses are what people in Metro Manila call buses that don’t have airconditioning. They have the cheapest fares, and they are most usually the fastest among public utility vehicles (PUV’s).

Yesterday, the bus I was riding to school got ticketed for overspeeding along Commonwealth Avenue, a road known as, aside from being the country’s widest avenue, the killer highway–(it has been declared a ‘traffic discipline’ zone since the beginning of the year precisely because of this). The bus got held up by MMDA traffic enforcers for around fifteen minutes before it got ‘released’. Then it resumed speeding through Quezon Avenue!

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May 5, 2009

From Miag-ao, Iloilo to Culasi, Antique

Since the GASC (General Assembly of Student Councils) was able to select the new Student Regent in just a day, everyone had an extra day off to leave UP Visayas earlier and to go to Guimaras or to Iloilo City or to wherever they wanted to go around.

Some of us decided to take on a friend’s offer to visit their town of Culasi, Antique. Little did we know that Culasi, Antique was a good four to five hours away from Miag-ao, Iloilo. That northern part of Antique is actually closer to Caticlan and Boracay already than it is to Miag-ao. The bus also has to pass through some mountain range which separates Antique from Iloilo, or from the rest of Panay for that matter. The tallest mountain in Panay Island can be found in Culasi, Antique, by the way (sorry, random information).

It was pretty easy to get a ride to Culasi. After lunch, we just had to walk a few hundred meters to the highway from the UP Visayas campus and wait at a pedestrian shed for buses that regularly ply the road from Iloilo City to Antique.

I think I’ve mentioned it a few years before when I took a bus from Infanta to Manila, but I really have a penchant for taking long, open-air provincial bus rides–all the wind, the sights, sounds, smell, and the people gives for a relatively authentic traveling experience.

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