Life According to Me

Before you proceed and read, please respect my opinion as I do yours.

I want the old Baguio City back, the one that most people only talk about but haven’t really experienced. I want Gimbals Music Lounge, Shadow, Spirits, L7, Alfredo’s and Viper back. I want to be able to walk the streets in the wee hours of the morning and not be afraid someone might rob me or worse, rape me. I want to go back to when it was fun and yet safe. I want to be able to go on gimmicks again and not have to worry about where to go because the crowd would be my type of crowd, you know, awesome people with good breeding, not some lame ass gangsters trying to prove their awesomeness by igniting fights. I want to be able to get drunk with only 50 pesos on hand, it has happened. Okay, so the last one is probably never going to happen again.  

I am all for change, but it’s so nice to see some things haven’t changed, like this old man for example. If you’re from Baguio then you know that this old man has been on the same spot in Session Road for the last 25 (or more) years. He’s been there ever since I can remember. He’s still there today. Isn’t that amazing? He still looks pretty much the same, except for the hair, sometimes he has shorter hair and the clothes. I took this picture earlier when I picked up Chakai from school.

I am Nadezna Joanne Cases Dominguez-Fallarme. I was born, raised, educated and have married in Baguio City. I probably will die here as well. But inasmuch as I love Baguio City, I know that change is inevitable.

You can’t tell your child to stop growing, can you? And even if you do tell them not to grow, they still will. It’s basically kind of the same.