Quezon City

I’m originally from Guimaras, then Iloilo. But I’ve been living here in Quezon City for the past nine years since I started working. I have to say those were unforgettable 9 years… I’m ready for the next nine…

I lived in QC for the first 17 years of my life. I decided to stay behind even when my parents moved to the province when I was fifteen. Still get to visit our old place every now and then.

My hometown. This is where i learned the best stuff in life.
I’d go back in a heartbeat.

I haven’t had much experience in QC but I’ve been there a bit. I prefer Ortigas or Makati but QC has a flavor of it’s own. I look forward to spending more time there when i visit Metro Manila.

City where I was born. I have no recollection of this place, but my parents loved it here.

I was born here.

it’s called the city of stars LOL

HOME! Though QC isn’t as beautiful as Palawan or Davao or Sagada, it’s still one of my favorite cities because I was born here and grew up here. I feel like I’ll never get lost in QC, and no matter how much I hate the pollution and traffic, it always embraces me back whenever I’m there. As they say, “there’s no place like home”. :)

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.. i had live most of my life here at quezon city, i wasnt made here by my parents,, hehehe, i wasnt born here,, but i studied and was raised here..since kinder, elementary, highschool, and college..

.. this is a big place, i bet you can locate most of the streets in manila but not in quezon city,, it has a lot of “looban”, you know, a house from a house,, confused?! just try to visit one slam area here and i know you’ll understand..

..i hate those people who doesnt want to label quezon city as the capital city of the philippines.. duh!! why would it not be? we have a lot of reasons here:

1. we have a lot of big malls, even new one
2. we have our own churches
3. we have our own sports complex
4. araneta center is located here
5. we have big hospitals
6. a lot of police stations
7. active fire stations
8. big schools and universities
9. quezon city circle
and
10. we have big brother house, the most popular house in the county,, hehehe.
what else do you want?!

..well i am proud of my city, proud of the whole philippines actually, they say this isnt a great country? , BE IN QUEZON CITY, i bet you’ll change your mind..

..trust me, i wont live here this long if i wasnt satisfied.. nice weather, convenient environment, and i have my boyfriend here,, what else do i need,, nothing!!! hehehe,,

just be here and i bet youll enjoy your stay

muah

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WORD OF WARNING: this is gonna be pretty long…

I lived here all my life though my relatives are already moving out of the country and my parents are trying to eject me out to Singapore or Canada. But for me to leavthis country forever? Not gonna happen.

I am fully admitted that it might be the dirtiest city in the world… but dangerous? hell no…

My prof shared a story with us last wednesday about about his flight back to the Philippines coming from Boston… It was normal for the person at the ticket booth to offer you an insurance for your baggage. But when he was buying his ticket, the sales person took a look at his destination and said “Would you like to avail of a life insurance?”... I laughed myself silly… As if a bomb goes of in this country every day. Lol…

I also admit that there are a lot of muggers here and opportunist… as with every city in the world. But it is only here where you see muggers who will say sorry after they mug you… I was mugged once in Katipunan and the guy said in tagalog “Im sorry but im really in deep shit right now… I really am sorry…” I ended up giving him my other hidden 500 bucks. Lol…

There are also drunks here at every corner… not just in bars. But sometimes its fun to hang around with them… just sometimes when they invite you over though… However I must warn you that their voices are off key most of the time especially when they are havin a go at the videoke machine… Really painful to the ear.

My former professor once accused the whole class one day of blindfolding our foreign or balikbayan visitors then shipping them off to boracay/pagudpod to enjoy the hawaiian-like beaches of the Philippines… So that they would not see the filth of Manila.

Ha! Come visit me and I will tour you, not in Boracay on a plane… but to Divisoria via LRT/pedicab(not the cab but the bike driven tricyles)/kalesa(three men carriage) or if its traffic in Recto… ON FOOT!!! hehehehe… Not to the malls visited by the socialites but to 168 shopping mall… Where everything is functional and cheap… As in bargain cheap… That you would even feel guilty of bargaining… But dont let that stop you from bargainin… Bargainin with the ‘tinderas’ is the wholepoint of going there… if they are selling at 200, start bargainin at 100… More of less, they will give it to you for 110.

And at night, we will partake in the discussion groups in Luneta… Right in the dead of night, rich and poor alike, they bring their mats/banigs to Luneta to play chess, debate, or just look up to the sky to stargaze.

Dirtiest city in the world? Most definitely!!!