I went to this place in Alejos corner Retiro in Laloma, QC this afternoon to check it out. In order to get there, I have to ride a jeep in Blumentritt st. down in the Blumentritt LRT station. I have heard of Blumentritt so many times, including its namesake. Tim Tayag, during a stint in Lakbay TV, even went there to eat some puto.
The section of Blumentritt between Avenida Rizal and Leonor Rivera Street is crowded with pedestrians and outdoor vendors. There's an existing jeepney route there but because of the cramped space, that particular section is now one way. Imagine Blumentritt minus the pedestrians, the vendors, the trash; it really has a lot of space. I wonder why that part came to be.
Probably the root cause was the line of squatter colonies which used to occupy a stretch of the old PNR line (now demolished for the PNR rehabilitation). Mismanagement, poverty, bad aura coming from the design of the LRT Line 1, mixed zoning (industrial, commercial, residential), and bad governing from past Manila city mayors had but reduced Manila's former financial center (all areas surrounding Avenia Rizal) into a polluted, poverty-stricken urban jungle!).
I'm still hoping that by the time that whole PNR line (Northrail and Southrail) is fully rehabilitated and modernized, good development will come to these areas such as Blumentritt.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Things That I Wanna Do, Things I Wanna Learn
There are some things that I wanna learn and there are some things that I wanna. And yet I can't, that's the problem. I don't wanna say for the nth time about factors and all those :toot!: why I can't seem to do what I wanna do.
What's most ironic is that people around me were able to do those stuff :waghhh:. As I write this I just realized that I've already said all my "hinanakit" on a previous blog post so try to look on that.
Things I dream to have and hold and learn:
1.Own laptop (either mac or windows)
2. Learn photoshop and harness its power to use its full potential
3. Finally have myself my own professional SLR camera and and learn all of its hidden secrets (My dad used to have a Nikon SLR since before I was born. But he had it sold a long time ago).
4.Be good at personalizing my own website
5. Unlock the secrets of Multiply
6. Join a group of talented people (other than MMx, I'mcurrently eyeing DLSU Pops Orchestra)
7.Possess good skills in drawing (gotta read that book about good drawing my mom gave me last christmas)
8. Learn the basics of photography (gotta reread "DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: tricks of the trade" all over again :):) )
9. Tap the hidden mysteries of Dreamweaver once again (Florante and Saladin again)
10. Nawala hehehe
Photoshop Pictures (made before the previous album was posted)
proto-version and it still sucks....I really do need to remember what I learned. grr....
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