I am not sure if these kids are playing or sorting cards. A biker illuminates the ground to help them some minutes before the sun has set on the horizon.
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From afar, the GSIS Building looks like a cruise ship plying calm waters. Designed by Jorge Ramos, its easily recognisable tiers levels were inspired by the rice terraces of mountains of the Cordilleras.
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Maragondon town has a series of mountains that when viewed at an angle make out a figure of a lying woman. Collectively, the mountain range is called Bundok Buntis (literally, pregnant). Somewhere in its wooded slopes, Philippine revolutionary leader Andres Bonifacio was assassinated on the order of a political rival.
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Below them is a bustling fabrics market where sellers stand close to each other and buyers try to haggle prices. Up here, they hope to stay away from the dangers of virus infection likely to be lurking down the busy market street.
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One can only imagine in this run-down building the bustling activities that once were running especially for a government insurance office.
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Life continues in a pandemic lockdown. This vendor waits on a sidewalk to sell his commodity while seated on a tricycle for which a driver (not pictured) also waits for a passenger.
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Whatever the present generation sows, it’s always for the next generation to reap. Pictured is a detail from a monument made by Eduardo Castrillo in commemoration of the 1986 People Power Revolution which now is on its 35th anniversary.
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Work must go on despite the pandemic. Good thing they are shielded from the blazing afternoon sun.
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Filipino revolutionary Macario Sakay was given his only monument in Tondo (now part of Manila), his birthplace, a century after his execution. Branded as a bandit, he fought Spanish and American forces at the turn of the 20th century. The is made by Benjamin Mendoza and is installed in Plaza Morga.
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Smoke billows from a streetfood grill. The aroma penetrates the facemasks into the noses of hungry customers.
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They search for crabs hiding between rocks of the Manila Bay coastline a few minutes before sun down. If lucky, they survive another dinner for the night.
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Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss is about two ex-lovers rekindling love as they rehearse for a play. She (Missy Maramara) and He (Tarek El Tayech) give another shot of their aborted affair that ends with a discovery of themselves. This was from a production by Repertory Philippines, and was directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna.
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