baguio blogging
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
so, baguio now has wifi. not at my friend's place but someone else's (to you i.t. people, yes it's robbing bandwidth but i'd rather call it keeping updated -- we're not downloading anything big anyway). and perhaps, with the cordillera mountains in the background and the jesuit villa as our neighbor, this is the best place to blog, so i'm typing on my friend's computer right now.
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as a child, baguio has always drawn condescending statements from members of my family -- it's polluted, haphazardly planned, overpopulated, architectural mishaps, yada yada yada. despite the wonderful experiences like horseback riding around the city, walking to mansion house and back up again to felipe, i still imbibed the negative perceptions of baguio from other people. (and to think, my lolo has a place in a nice portion of this city.)
but ever since my trip with friends to baguio city last year, this place has revived it's lustre. one just has to see a place through the eyes of people who love the city despite everything. more than that, i guess i just found something real about this place -- that it has become more than a vacation spot. it has become a second home of sorts. (caliraya was my second home but it seems that i have moved on from that stage in my life; i still work there though.) it has come to a point where i am doing major renovations at my friend's house. i've helped clean up, rearrange furniture, paint a wall, fix & grout a mirror frame and tore down some ugly cabinetry in between the kitchen & dining room and rearrange furniture. if you hear someone making a ruckus in mirador hills, most likely that's me. and if ever you pass by the house, you'll probably see one satisfied person doing carpentry work. and i thought i lacked the skill for this.
indeed, good things are coming out of this place. i'm learning and doing new things. i'm finding new competencies that i never knew i had. furthermore, i'm having good realizations (both related and unrelaed to cleaning house). i tell you, baguio is one heck of a place.
posted by lex @ 9:54 PM,
