By Fredolin Pagdilao Aguinaldo - Mandaluyong City
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Cebu is branded as the most livable City in the Philippines. The Queen City of the South boasts of famed Cebuano hospitality, faith and renowned scenic spots. My family have chosen the right place when we decided to spend our vacation last week-end: its rich cultural history and landmarks; the downtown tourism activities that have amazed tourist and local alike; and it's thriving trade and industry through its various businesses a First-World City in the Philippines that you really want to visit on your next vacation.
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Day 1
Armed with my over-heated debit card to conquer our Cebu Adventure aside from those green-bucks I brought along with me from my work location in Doha, Qatar - Our Cebu adventure, a journey to the unknown, abruptly starts when my wife Evelyn and my daughter Anna Mae hurriedly packed their bags 'coz of a flight manifest that was wrongly reviewed the day before. In order to avoid flight cancellation, I then opted to drive them to the airport myself though I was not so sure about the route.
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Undoubtedly, it was a mistake on my part because as soon as we joined the main gate outside of our resort-type condo compound at California Garden Square in Mandaluyong City, heavy traffic snaked as far-as you can imagine. Thought my grand-vacation eagerness was slowly turning-sour because of this dilemma, I had to concentrate on my driving to avoid untoward incidents that might cause major disruptions to our grand-vacation this year. It took us some time to navigate and reach the U-turn slot going to Global City, Taguig with all the traffic congestion, a 25kph drive was then slowly moving towards the business center of Makati until just after the overlapped bridge-way near the domestic airport in Pasay City. I was about to turn-right into an open slot but my wife Evelyn just in-time told me that it wasn't allowed and besides MMDA personnel is manning the cross-road near-by that might-again award me a violation ticket. I then followed the traffic towards the International Airport road until such time that a round-about gave me space to turn right towards the terminal 3 of the new domestic airport building.
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Going back-home wasn't easy either, I then decided to take the route towards Mc. Kinley road and joined the traffic at EDSA near the ABC shopping complex in Makati towards the on-going construction of SMDC's Light Residences bounded by EDSA and Madison sts. (near Boni Ave., Mandaluyong) and passing through the underground bridge near the mixed complex of Robinson shopping mall. I then changed clothes at back in Mandaluyong and drove our CRV to Espana Towers located in Espana Boulevard, Manila where I have to temporary-park to the rest of our stay in Cebu City. To reach the domestic airport for my flight, a taxi cab came to the rescue - where my Cebu Pacific airbus aeroplane is waiting.
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