buhos

There are days na I can hardly raise myself from the bed or rouse myself from deep slumber. Maybe, yan ay dahil sa distance ng work ko from our house. Imagine I have to travel from Monday to Saturday(half day lang naman) from Cavite to Makati. At first I can hardly raise my head from the pillow, ganun!

my cluttered desk at work

I have often contemplated leaving Makati and work in Cavite near our home(of which I did job hunt, unfortunately karamihan grads of IT courses ang preferred, heheheee).

And there’s the horrifying traffic scheme in Cavite – daily travelers refer to it as “buhos.” Buhos works like this – Cavite’s traffic enforcers stop the Cavite bound vehicles at Longos (bottleneck area at the flyover sa bungad ng Emilio Aguinaldo Highway) and they let the Manila bound vehicles occupy both sides of the road. The Manila bound vehicles roar onwards like scurrying wildebeests (ngek, exagz!). Bohus for Manila bound or Cavite bound vehiclesmay last up to 5 to 10(?) minutes then the ongoing vehicular flow is stopped then yong isa naman. Kaya kung ang sinasakyan mo (Manila bound) at di nakalampas sa SM Bacoor ng quarter to 7am at pa-Makati ka well bukas ka na lang pumasok. 'Coz the vehicle flow creates a bottleneck traffic at Niog on to Talaba and again by the tollgate or at the MIA road parallel to Uniwide Sales Coastal Mall. Whew!

Fortunately, it seems that Cavite's traffic management partnered with the MMDA in the current road widening project along Emilio Aguinaldo Highway. The last time I looked the spray painted structures and "USLI" posters has reached Dasmariñas, Cavite. Yeeey!

Dora at the Alabang van terminal

Last December (2007) my family attended the wedding of my husband's paternal cousin, in Macalelon, Quezon. Our kids were excited. It's been so long since we as a family last traveled farther than Metro Manila or Dasma. Besides my daughter is still 3 years old, so she stays mostly at home, while my son is in the 2nd grade at Holy Child Jesus Montessori. Nowadays hubby and I had to synchronize our scheds with that of our son so we can all spend rare bonding times together.

So, we really were glad when my husband was asked by his cousin to let Joy be one of the flower girls and JB to be the ring bearer. Of course, the thought of my kids specially my daughter marching as flower girl and my son as ring bearer made us more excited of the event than our kids!

We took the van ride to Alabang from the Robinson's terminal. The kids were delighted when they saw the Dora and Friends Activity Center (Or was it a hill/mountain? A path winds up a structure made to look like a hill/mountain. The structure was decorated with Dora characters.) I took some shots of them while the van was being filled with passengers.