The City of Makati, one of my favorite cities. Busy as it may be there is some silence in it as well.
Alarm will go off at 5am. Had to get up, take a shower, brush my teeth and go for a quick breakfast of bread and anything cold to wake me up. Should be off to work at around 6 am otherwise I will be very late.
Crowded as this small transport might be but something that had been very useful to me and to many people.
Will ride a tricycle to the jeepney terminal where i will take and thirty minutes to an hour long journey to the city of Alabang. Thirty minutes, nothing much to see outside the vehicle for most of the sceneries had been engraved to my eyes and even with my eyes closed, with just the movement of the jeep, i can tell where I am so i close my eyes and go for a nap. My destination is where most passengers will do as well get off the jeep and so I will have my cue to wake up.
The infamous Philippine Jeepney, serving hundred of thousands of commuters everyday.
Will get off from the jeep, sometimes ahead of the end terminal especially during mondays where most buses that I needed to take will be full. I will get off on a stop cross the street, walk a bit further into a gas station and wait for my ride. Sometimes there will be loads of people in the bus trying to get to work as fast as they can and so it is full like a can of sardines and sometimes it is empty. Up to this point I got two options and sometimes both things happen. If I would be able to have a seat I can take another round of nap time or if I am standing I'll just pick my mp3 player and put my earphones on and listen to songs.
It is yet another hour til I get to the MRT (Metro Rail Train) station which is like three floors up in the junction above the highway, where I will be taking the train sort of. It is much faster than the bus which also passes by my work place. At this point I should be able to have a train card with enough credits on it so I can just skip the line of people getting them and head for the train.
A view from the MRT Shaw Boulevard Station, with SM Megamall on the background.
Five minutes waiting, sometimes ten when I miss the first train. With my headphones on i can drown out the noise from the busy street below. Perhaps it is the reason why I usually have them on even now.
Waiting sometimes takes longer when the first station further down the highway has so many passengers getting on the train and hopefully it won't be full as the bus I had just taken. I'll then be on the train enjoying the scenery of the city of Makati and Pasig. From the Magallanes terminal the train will stop at Ayala, then Buendia and next one will be Guadalupe just before the Pasig river and then Bonifacio Avenue and the next stop will be mine; Shaw Boulevard station. Almost all MRT stations are up above the highway apart from the Ayala which is underground and Buendia and Bonifacio Avenue which is level to the ground.
Upon getting off the train, it will be a long walk and long climb down the stairs, which is by the way faster than the elevator and less crowded, I hate crowded places. On my fast walking I will take a look of the awesome SM Megamall, one of my favorite shopping mall which is situated from a distance and where I spend most of my Friday evenings trying not to get stucked in the traffic.
I'll get off the station and headed to another mall called Starmall where I will take my last ride to reach work. Destination at this point is Summit One Building. Where several companies also have their offices stationed.
Will have to fall in line for the elevator and race for it to the 24th floor where our office is.
This has been my life and every evening I took the same way back home, it's almost a two and half hour travel and for several months this has been my routine. God knows how much I miss the cities and the accessibilty to everything without relying much to anyone. Where you can just jump into any bus and just head off to nowhere in particular.
Life is like a journey, we just get on the ride and enjoy the ride wherever it will take us. Other people like us will get on the same ride and we will be able to know them as we cruise together but at some point they will have to get off and headed on their own destinations, places to make them happy and places where they can smile and cry and just be who they are. This is indeed a mysterious ride you will never know what will be the next stop. For in this life, it is the ride of our lives. . .
Thanks for reading!
Line for the day:
Me carrying a two and half feet cut trunk of a scotch pine on my back walking the Fox road with Manu who is carrying our saw.
"We are like in a zombie movie! Look, no cars and no one! With just our weapons; Saws!"
Crowded as this small transport might be but something that had been very useful to me and to many people.
Will ride a tricycle to the jeepney terminal where i will take and thirty minutes to an hour long journey to the city of Alabang. Thirty minutes, nothing much to see outside the vehicle for most of the sceneries had been engraved to my eyes and even with my eyes closed, with just the movement of the jeep, i can tell where I am so i close my eyes and go for a nap. My destination is where most passengers will do as well get off the jeep and so I will have my cue to wake up.
The infamous Philippine Jeepney, serving hundred of thousands of commuters everyday.
Will get off from the jeep, sometimes ahead of the end terminal especially during mondays where most buses that I needed to take will be full. I will get off on a stop cross the street, walk a bit further into a gas station and wait for my ride. Sometimes there will be loads of people in the bus trying to get to work as fast as they can and so it is full like a can of sardines and sometimes it is empty. Up to this point I got two options and sometimes both things happen. If I would be able to have a seat I can take another round of nap time or if I am standing I'll just pick my mp3 player and put my earphones on and listen to songs.
It is yet another hour til I get to the MRT (Metro Rail Train) station which is like three floors up in the junction above the highway, where I will be taking the train sort of. It is much faster than the bus which also passes by my work place. At this point I should be able to have a train card with enough credits on it so I can just skip the line of people getting them and head for the train.
A view from the MRT Shaw Boulevard Station, with SM Megamall on the background.
Five minutes waiting, sometimes ten when I miss the first train. With my headphones on i can drown out the noise from the busy street below. Perhaps it is the reason why I usually have them on even now.
Waiting sometimes takes longer when the first station further down the highway has so many passengers getting on the train and hopefully it won't be full as the bus I had just taken. I'll then be on the train enjoying the scenery of the city of Makati and Pasig. From the Magallanes terminal the train will stop at Ayala, then Buendia and next one will be Guadalupe just before the Pasig river and then Bonifacio Avenue and the next stop will be mine; Shaw Boulevard station. Almost all MRT stations are up above the highway apart from the Ayala which is underground and Buendia and Bonifacio Avenue which is level to the ground.
Upon getting off the train, it will be a long walk and long climb down the stairs, which is by the way faster than the elevator and less crowded, I hate crowded places. On my fast walking I will take a look of the awesome SM Megamall, one of my favorite shopping mall which is situated from a distance and where I spend most of my Friday evenings trying not to get stucked in the traffic.
I'll get off the station and headed to another mall called Starmall where I will take my last ride to reach work. Destination at this point is Summit One Building. Where several companies also have their offices stationed.
Will have to fall in line for the elevator and race for it to the 24th floor where our office is.
This has been my life and every evening I took the same way back home, it's almost a two and half hour travel and for several months this has been my routine. God knows how much I miss the cities and the accessibilty to everything without relying much to anyone. Where you can just jump into any bus and just head off to nowhere in particular.
Life is like a journey, we just get on the ride and enjoy the ride wherever it will take us. Other people like us will get on the same ride and we will be able to know them as we cruise together but at some point they will have to get off and headed on their own destinations, places to make them happy and places where they can smile and cry and just be who they are. This is indeed a mysterious ride you will never know what will be the next stop. For in this life, it is the ride of our lives. . .
Thanks for reading!
Line for the day:
Me carrying a two and half feet cut trunk of a scotch pine on my back walking the Fox road with Manu who is carrying our saw.
"We are like in a zombie movie! Look, no cars and no one! With just our weapons; Saws!"
Toooootalllllll zombie movie!!
ReplyDeleteSpooky!!