AND WE WERE MORE THAN I EXPECTED
hmmm...and i'd like to say hindi naman marami ang binayaran. there were a lot of middle class schmucks like me out there at the corner of ayala ave. and paseo de roxas. i was expecting only a "handful" that would be made up of binay's hakot crowd. but i was mistaken.
malay mo something exciting will happen. at almost 2 pm, people started marching down ayala avenue from all directions.
i was supposed to look for my mother (which was next to impossible) as she was texting me her location and asking me where i was. she went there with a friend and her friend's husband after finishing their business in UP diliman that morning. i don't know what gave her the idea that i could find her in that sea of humanity. (see first photo above) as if she had a homing device attached to her or something.
it was quite lonely out there. now i know how my older sister felt when she went to the rally at liwasang bonifacio (the november rally leading to edsa 2) in 2000 by her lonesome. she was desperately trying to look for us but i was giving her vague and stupid directions, ergo, she couldn't find us among the thousands who went there.
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to keep me in a fighting mood, i bought a button pin that says "STOP THE EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS!" i pinned it on my shirt. my feet couldn't take it anymore (i've been on my feet since 8.30 that morning) so i decided to go home. poor me.
taken from the 25th floor of ayala tower one where tv cameras
and photojourns were stationed
i covered an event in makati that morning and decided to stay in the area the whole day malay mo something exciting will happen. at almost 2 pm, people started marching down ayala avenue from all directions.the avenue was still ok at quarter to 2 pm
starting to assemble
he said as long as the military does not take him away...
that's why i erased his face as courtesy
near the stage
i was supposed to look for my mother (which was next to impossible) as she was texting me her location and asking me where i was. she went there with a friend and her friend's husband after finishing their business in UP diliman that morning. i don't know what gave her the idea that i could find her in that sea of humanity. (see first photo above) as if she had a homing device attached to her or something.
it was quite lonely out there. now i know how my older sister felt when she went to the rally at liwasang bonifacio (the november rally leading to edsa 2) in 2000 by her lonesome. she was desperately trying to look for us but i was giving her vague and stupid directions, ergo, she couldn't find us among the thousands who went there.
"asan ka na?" she called me on the cellphone.anyway, there i was infront of the enterprise building, all alone. i couldn't bring myself to chant because -- i don't know. i felt bad i wasn't with anyone there. Other Half was at EDSA shrine because he thought people would proceed there. all he encountered was a throng of soldiers. or police. i can't remember what he told me on the phone. (jos ko asawa ko di nakikinig sa reporter. sabi na ngang sa makati lang eh
"malapit sa malaking pulang banner sa harap ng post office," i shouted back to her on my cellphone.
there must have been hundreds of red banners in front of the central post office that day.
)to keep me in a fighting mood, i bought a button pin that says "STOP THE EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS!" i pinned it on my shirt. my feet couldn't take it anymore (i've been on my feet since 8.30 that morning) so i decided to go home. poor me.
