Battle City

Metro Manila is infamous for its terrible traffic. Trips that suppose to take twenty minutes will continue to an hour or more particularly on peak hour. The best solution to solve this problem is to buy your own chopper! Naahh... get your own car! Wenk!...

or better yet take the MRT (Metro Rail Transit). It is the fastest method of transport along EDSA. This service can hold approximately 684,000 people a day since it operates from 5:30 AM until 11:00 PM every day.

My new job requires me to report in Makati from Monday to Friday at nine in the morning. My goal everyday is to wake up at around six to catch the train by seven thirty since I stay in Don Antonio Commonwealth Quezon City and I must wrestle with hundreds of people just to be able to get inside the train station.

Can you handle that? Just imagine how bad it is 'cos the fragrance of a newly bathed body will surely disappear when you start rubbing those sweaty commuters!

Although it is milder in the morning as majority of them have definitely took a shower before leaving their house. This is quite a big challenge for me because I have a very sensitive sense of smell. I can even detect a spoiled food from a mile (exaggeration I know... but I tell you it's really sensitive).

I usually access the Quezon Avenue station since that is the nearest station from my place. But one time I rode a wrong jeepney and it took me to GMA Kamuning station. It will take forever before you can get onto the train if you will try this station because the train is usually full by the time it reaches that terminal. So I went to the other side of the rail to catch the train there and went back to North Avenue. That is the trick, if you want to be on the train first, be in that station so you can choose your comfortable post. Thank God I was still able to reach the office on time.

So tired... see those bags? Very tiring.

Two days ago, a group of security guards together with their bosses took over our place in Don Antonio Heights and declared that area as a government property. We were ordered to leave the building within the day and we were harassed by disconnecting our electricity and water lines. These people were authorized by the rapacious city mayor. This city manager with an attitude problem was a former slapstick actor.

So now I need to have a place where I can stay. Yesterday I went to my former land lady in Makati to check her boarding houses. I was hoping that she would show me a vacant room for myself since I can't share a room with anyone unless that person is my wife. Some of the all-male rooms have vacant beds but I really cannot sleep in it. I admit that I am quite picky when it comes to choosing a room. I am sorry for that but I only want to have a clean and decent place. And of course, privacy is important don't you agree? Do you think you can relax if you see some used clothes of your roommates hanging around the room and your bed looks like a sanctuary for bedbugs? Haha! I don't think so.

Life is really hard in this city and I really miss home in times like these. Consider yourself so lucky if you have your own place to stay and probably you haven't tried the MRT yet 'cos you have your own car. I may not have these things right now but I still hold on to God's promises that He will never leave or forsake me. I believe that if I have God, I have everything I need. Easy Ron, as what Shawn Mullins said that everything's gonna be alright, rockabye, rockabye.