…and my country also rises

If cursing can kill, many would drop dead. We curse to give vent to our frustrations in the street. People notice the traffic but hardly know what causes it. Yea; they see the works but hardly the bigger picture. For the daily commuters, annoying digs, gigantic trucks ferrying construction materials, and huge cement mixers are a daily piss-off of their lives. They’ve got no choice but to embrace the pain with determined resolve. Hardly do they notice structures inching to the clouds and roads leveling up 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th in a mesh-work

of urban sky-ways. Looking upward to these sky-high buildings gives you neck pain so why bother when you have a train to catch or hurdle for a jeepney ride.

If you are an OFW or an occasional visitor to Metro Manila, you are overwhelmed by the transformation. The traffic is nothing new. It is everywhere else in the world, although traffic is not created equal…it is a traffic jam just the same. I am ever so fascinated by the cropping of marvelous structures everywhere I turn. When I saw the video of ASEANA City on YouTube, I thought of it as someone’s figment of imagination. 

ASEANA CITY

Amazingly, buildings are engineered not one building at a time but simultaneously. Money seems to be so abundant these days that colossal structures mushroom at the same time as if they are playing to the same tune. One moment, I walk through or drive by an empty lot, and a year or two later, an imposing mega structure towers over it. It boggles the mind how buildings are constructed so fast; it is like…the rise of my country happened overnight.

Bonifacio Global City

ROCKWELL

MAKATI CITY

ORTIGAS CENTER

McKinley Hill

ALABANG

MANILA

NAIA 3 / RESORT WORLD

MOA

OKADA

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