well, today, we went to Asia Pacific College which is still in makati. and to let my parents allow me to go there, i have to say that my friend has a car and we'll ride there. well, yeah, my friend really got a car but me and my friends didn't ride there. instead, we commuted to the venue. i suggested the idea since one of my friends haven't experienced riding the LRT so i told her that we'll ride it and she was sooooo excited. hehe...
on our way there, we got some pictures at the LRT station to make the moment more memorable for my friend. we were like foreigners there and seems like we aren't from that city. LOLs. it's so funny though. hehe... even when we're riding the LRT, we didn't stop taking pictures. and when we reached the EDSA station, we went up to the bridge to MRT station and went down from there.
this is the next part. when this jeepney passed in front of us, the person sitting beside the driver was calling for passengers. unluckily, that place was a "no loading and unloading" place so he was shouting for us to get in the jeepney. however, we didn't got the chance to ride in it. so we walked a little farther and someone called us again. it was the very same person who was shouting a while ago. but this time, i never knew why he was shouting. suddenly, he shouted "hindi ba kayo sasakay??!" and threw the stick he was holding. well, i thought that: "why are you asking us? we didn't even know that is illegal on that place to unload and load". anyway, we hurriedly got in the jeepney and told the driver to bring us down to Asia Pacific College. the driver was just nodding his head and charged us 11 pesos. so, we thought that "is it that far from there for him to charge us that much?". anyway, we rode it. While riding on it, we saw an airplane landing and thought, "is the school that far that there's already an airplane terminal?". when we reached the end of the route (Taguig), we were shocked to know that we passed through APC already! and all those times that he was nodding his head, he never knew where APC was. grrr... the nerve that driver got!
so he transferred us to another jeepney who brought us back to the place where we started! can you believe that??! it's like we paid 11pesos for nothing plus another 7pesos for the ride back! grrr... anyway, we were so disappointed with that driver that we got this hard feeling for him and told all the passengers on our 2nd jeepney about what happened. i could really kill that driver for bringing us that far and robbed us of our 11pesos!
well, we rode another jeepney to bring us to APC. whew! alas we arrived at the place! and our hair were so disordered that we looked as if a cyclone passed through us. LOLs. we looked that horrible when we entered the campus.
the seminar was ok, it was just like our Auditing Theory class. though the seminar would be ending by 5pm, we left the place at 3:30pm. haha!
since we went out that early, we have to walk and find where we could get a jeepney. walk and walk and suddenly, it began to drizzle and it's time to panic! we don't want to be soaked wet. and there were these two among us who saw a police car. the first one asked where we could get a jeepney while the other told the police men "kuya, pahatid sa sakayan ha." haha! it was funny though. so, all 11 of us plus 3 policemen were packed in the police car. just imagine that! 7 of us were at the back of the Toyota Revo car, 3 in the middle with a police man and 1 was in front with 2 police men. it's really funny because even when we're in there, we never stopped taking pictures. hehe... the police men were even joking with them. (seriously speaking, i don't wanna trust police men in the Philippines, and i think that they're asking or joking with us to get some infos... i really don't want to trust them!) and they brought us to a half full jeepney and all 11 of us went in there. of course, we thanked the policemen first.
oh, by the way, along with us were 2 girls who hadn't experienced commuting from one place to another. hehe... it was really an experience for us.
and while riding back on the LRT, we never stopped taking pictures. hehe... and we were laughing so hard.
i just loved the simple adventure we got today! it was way so different than those that i had been doing all my life. overall, it was a great feeling! i never experienced anything like this before....
Posted at 7/25/2008 8:38:25 pm by
shekinah14
