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boyspacefriend

Traffic Meditations

Jul 27, 2006 01:59

Here is a metaphor for our times:

Tonight a normal fifteen-minute trip on EDSA from Ortigas to Makati turned into a three-hour slog through the rain and traffic. The reason?

A grand religious gathering was held at the Sanctuario de San Antonio, church of the perfumed and bejeweled. It is a 'healing mass' presided over by some foreign preacher, and ( Read more... )

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antipatikalen July 27 2006, 01:06:14 UTC

good god.

i'm glad i wasn't home.

hehe, on a sidenote, this is something my dad would say.

boyspacefriend July 27 2006, 03:29:20 UTC

Being stuck in front of a fricking church full of dignitaries for an hour gives you lots of opportunities to ruminate.

antipatikalen July 27 2006, 05:46:23 UTC

haha it sounds like a wasted opportunity for prayer too. haha just kidding.

yay! i'm going home early because i'm sick today! =) hahahaha. the joys of MC or medical leave in sg.

fuckcommunism July 27 2006, 01:35:39 UTC

and on the other hand, many a time have the same roads been created into a "chaotic mess" by the other end of the spectrum.

and oddly enough, in many of THOSE times, I seem to remember you saying something similar about the 'state of our nation'.

"Fucking activists."

I guess traffic DOES make for some pretty deep insights.

boyspacefriend July 27 2006, 04:10:09 UTC

They're still fuckers. They're ALL fuckers. That's the state of our nation, right there. :)) To the shitheap of history with all of them.

no wonder timteego July 27 2006, 01:54:28 UTC

gee now I know why it took so f-in long to get home. I spent the roughly 30 minutes trying to get from the office to EDSA - and another 45 minutes or so to make it to ortigas.

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Re: no wonder timteego July 27 2006, 05:06:44 UTC

yeah going towards makati was hell. hahaha poor you.

Re: no wonder boyspacefriend July 27 2006, 03:27:41 UTC

At least it was only an hour for you. Imagine leaving the house at 7 for dinner at 7:30, and making it there at 10:30 instead. Grabe talaga.

celestialsiomai July 27 2006, 02:59:48 UTC

nice.
lol, where'd you hide "jologs"?? just found "countrymen". hehe.

boyspacefriend July 27 2006, 03:25:55 UTC

Shhh. I'm equal opportunity, I hate both ends of the spectrum. This is elite bashing mode. :P

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boyspacefriend July 27 2006, 07:07:36 UTC

I know, I know. I'm socially sensitive - I hate everyone. Haha.

random_axe July 27 2006, 05:29:01 UTC

lol, fifteen minutes from Ortigas to Makati on EDSA is hardly what I'd call normal, but three hours??? In other countries that would warrant a class-action lawsuit.

But it's true though - whether the antics belong to the unwashed masses or the "perfumed and bejeweled", it's the middle-class Filipino in the G-Liner that gets fucked over.

boyspacefriend July 27 2006, 06:59:15 UTC

What can I say, I drive fast - EDSA is a highway, after all. Haha.

Not that I'm sympathetic to G-Liners, their drivers or their owners - but there's something wrong when commuters spill over from the sidewalk, two lanes into EDSA, waiting in the rain for a ride home.