Flooding in Manila - As Usual!

I am truly glad to be back home, amidst the familiar sounds, sights and comforts of my town and home.

Listening to the evening news makes me even glad I am really, really home. Flood and more flood is all over the news - and yes, it's Manila again, chronically inundated by floods, perpetually unable to solve its flooding problems. It's a mess in there. Always have, most likely always will for the forseable future, unless, unless the Filipino people realizes that change is really needed - but that's another topic to handle.

EDSA, ahh, that boulevard of national prominence, from whence the Philippines would wake up from the constricting, suffocating arms of martial law, only to be embraced by the equally suffocating hold of its new ruling elite, really the same old power brokers, only this time, they are dressed in the new robe of democracy and whatever makes it even cooler.

Travelling from my hotel to the airport made me realize that EDSA is probably the worst major city highway in the Philippines, not to mention the ASEAN region. It's an embarrassing city road to be, for all its historical significance, it is badly maintained, poorly managed and even more poorly constructed. Potholes abound with regularity over the damn road! You can't escape it, not even from a new taxicab I flagged down. I don't know, maybe SUV's of politicians are better at masking its pumping inducing powers, making them unable to think that the road is in need of some serious overhaul!

Having had the chance to rant over my as usual uncomfortable sojourns everytime I am in Manila, I feel really, really glad I am home, and really, really glad I don't live in that place.