Let there be light
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
I don’t know if you’ve noticed how much darker it’s become at nights, out on Edsa, on other national roads, city streets, not to mention the much narrower district eskinitas and kalyehons. Especially so, when it’s raining.
It was while going to Ali Sotto’s birthday party, two years ago, that I had first noticed this. Katipunan Road, on the way to Loyola Grand Villas, still had the Ateneo de Manila and the Miriam College (formerly Maryknoll) on one side, but facing a whole lot of establishments that weren’t there yet when my children were going to school in the area. Pizza parlors and burger joints galore, a botica, more than a couple of banks with ATM machines, pero, wow, ang dilim.
The darkness struck me again, last November, on the way to Vice President Jojo Binay’s affair, at the Coconut Palace. And once more, when I visited Dolphy in his house, almost close to where Binay holds office, about a month ago. And, almost just recently, when I attended former Sen. Ramon Revilla Sr.’s celebration..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120330com4.html
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