i am no longer afraid of quiapo. which is something to be proud of since i'm known to have a fear of the place. in the dire situation that i would find myself in that place, i will call you up crying. but that was before. every now and then, i find myself in quiapo. my first awareness of it happened when i got my first nbi clearance. for the next three years, i would find myself there every now and then looking and finding all the most unusual and cheapest things you could think of. from accessories to other anik-anik to dvds (shhh..) to angel wings to almost everything. i have grown a liking to the place with it's mediocre manila chaos and danger. the one thing i still can't do there though is take a picture. something i;ve been really wanting to do. it's a haven of photo ops. but you'll probably lose everything you came with if you dared. and i'm not that brave yet.
the one thing lacking in that place though is a good coffee spot. not that it's something you'd espect out of it. but it would be nice to get a good coffee after scourging the perimeter of the church for the best bargains. although it would be hard to find a spot for such a business in quiapo. every other space is spoken for. that's what happened to me today with aj. we went around quiapo looking for the good stuff and when we we're tired from all the searching, we started looking for coffee. we ended up searching in the dapitan area for such a thing. but we came up short-handed. after having dinner at wendy's, i guess we were still craving for coffee. we walked through half the perimeter of UST looking for one. and what do you know, we actually ended up in u-belt. all that walking sent us to a small coffee shop catering to college students by the san beda area. it was actually good coffee. and pretty cheap. but then, most of their clients aren't working yet.
i ended the day here. close to home, writing about my day and hoping i won't be late for my morning class tomorrow.
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