The Wanderer and His Shadow

Uncomfortably Numb... Fairweather Blues...

I just came back from a Olongapo - Subic in what I could say as my first out of town "vacation" since the accident I encountered in Dinalupihan three months ago. Oh, I passed by the place where I was hit by an 18-wheeler truck. I got to think why death spared me that night.

Looking at the place, I got to reminisce on the scene that rainy night where everybody was rushing to go back home, and we were there at the middle of the road causing a lot of delays due in our small highway. People gathered immediately after the accident and told us stories of how three nuns died few days ago at the same exact spot where we were hit by the truck. Also, some tell a story of how their loved ones died at that spot too... it seems there a lot of nameless people dying in that place everyday. Crazy how people are aware of how the section of the National Highway there was poorly constructed, and yet, nobody is doing anything about it... Shall we wait until our loved ones get hit before we do some action? Is there no budget? We see construction and drilling of roads that are still in healthy condition in Manila everyday, how come we can't do construction in a small section of the highway where it evidently deteriorated with age. Is the budget more important than life itself? Or is it because those lives that are killed are just nameless people? Funny how those in the high offices who are supposed to serve us serves their own self interest above the public.

Talking about government.. the mere fact that they promote ocw's is a manifestation of how they value money more than relationships. I'm honestly against sending our talents to various countries to be "slaves". Instead of focusing how to get more people go abroad to send more dollars for our country, why not focus on creating more jobs internally, develop tourism as an alterantive to promoting working abroad since our country needs those $$$? The more people going out of this country, the worse our society will become.

Enough of our government... =) going back to Subic...Well, it was just a quasi vacation. I was there for some work... some hard action. I was looking for money but it seems I spent more than what I have found but the trip was fascinating. I stayed at my favorite place.. Legenda Suites, where I just noticed (after staying there for almost 10 times) that all their rooms are elegantly similar. I love the place due to the fact that it's far away from the commercial area. It's an isolated place where you could enjoy solitude (in the company of bats and monkeys:), and relax at the mountain breeze and quiet air before going to bed.

The day went by so fast that I didn't even notice that it's already today. I'm exhausted from the drive. The North Expressway was fascinating. I got to San Fernando exit from Manila in 30 minutes from the usual 1 hour drive before. It comes for a price though.

Here are some of the pics I took... I'm not anywhere in those pictures ok? :)

posted by Pat @ 2:52 PM