While wandering the Philippines and I have always known this but it always strikes me as odd that it is a third world country and it has an amazing number of malls and luxuries; an interesting irony, that though all of this is within reach a majority of its people cannot enjoy these “things”. It makes me wonder about how wasteful I am at times and though it makes me want to do things and get things done I am afraid that at times those “feelings” are short-lived… so perhaps I can instill in my children the same “feelings” of wanting to change… we’ll see how that goes… =)
I was able to wander Baguio for a bit this was my first trip and it was beautiful and also a break from the heat in Manila. It wasn’t as “cold” as I was led to believe but I guess if you’re used to cooler climes then it wouldn’t be as cold. There was a festival going on at the time we visited the Panagbenga Festival. Needless to say because we never made reservations it was a bit difficult to find lodging. We finally found a place City Lights I think was what it was called. It was neat and inexpensive, the only drawback was the common shower and toilet facilities and we found ourselves hawking the bathrooms the following morning and competing with 2 other rooms for the facilities.
I had made contacts previously but other than my friend Ossie you can check out his flickr photostream here. He was one of my first contacts in Cebu that introduced me to the incredible amount of women wanting to post for photos. So if you stay tuned I will have more photos from my trip to the Philippines and especially to Cebu.
I was supposed to hook up with a model named Sophie in Manila but because of one thing or another we were unable to, but I will try to again the next trip to the Philippines.