Spell TRAFFIC...EDSA!

Coming from a very productive meeting with the team never had any idea that after having fun...worst thing will happened.

According to google I will only be taking an hour and 16minutes coming from Shaw Boulevard going to C4 in Navotas.
With about 15.3 km distance.
But this commute was very far from what took place yesterday.
Try to imagine from Greenfield or in Shaw Boulevard to Navotas is 5 hours?! 😩

Coming out from Megamall with the team of Sir Chief a two hours plus meeting inside the cozy place of "Kuya J's" restaurant where we enjoyed having a very nice conversation and of course the must try versions of  their "Halo-halos!"

With Sir Clift Daluz, Maila Santiaguel, Andrew Nacino
At Kuya J's Restaurant

Kuya J's versions of Ube and Saba Halo-halo 

Looking at it very enticing, some say "instagramable" 👀.
Tasting it for the very first time was like a feel of calmness, the crashed ice was very refine. But far from the sweetness of the regular "Halo-Halo" that we used to taste.
I thought I wouldn't be able to empty it because the serving was really big.
At the beginning, all your attention will be glued on the "Leche Plan" on top of it.
But you'll be more surprise when you dig deeper because the sweet surprise of "Nata De Coco" and the real "Ube" taste was at the very bottom of it! 😋
A figuratively and literally coldness feel you will definitely experience!

But the reward we all got inside was I believe the exact extreme opposite of the "HEAVY TRAFFIC" I and most commuters felt that very moment.

Allow me to describe the exact scenario I got in yesterday.
The last time I experienced this was when the "Iglesia Ni Kristo" rallied on Edsa years ago.
And literally just crossing the stop light of Shaw Boulevard took me an hour.
Looking at it, it seemed that using your fingers you can count a very few numbers of vehicles luckily passed it when the green light is in go signal.
That was really tough! 😭
And when I think that I will get over it...there's more suffering that awaits us all who continuously access Edsa.
Even in common flyovers in Ortigas, as well as in Kamuning which I remembered spending 30minutes or more at that time also moving very slow. 😩
And even also crossing the intersection in the Quezon Boulevard was just exactly the same scenario compared to Shaw Boulevard.
That very long stretch gave us so much agony of waiting inside an ordinary non-airconditioned bus.
Too bad for the seat I had suppossedly for three people but I was with two literally big people...the outcome only half of my ass was seated. 😤
If I was bothered, I was also thinking several passengers who were standing that very very long hours.
And I can't also imagine the driver who's absorbing all the pressures of commuters now all agitated with the TRAFFIC!

Finally reaches SM North around 9m, I sweat alot and felt I was dehydrated.
I waved from the window at one water vendor and that 500ml of water saved me.
Got shocked I emptied the bottle down to its very last drop. 💧

The flow of the traffic started to normalize after passing Quezon Boulevard.
Literally, I came home around 10pm!
I was just thinking that I went from an out of town trip that very day.
But minus the pasalubong!

MAMIMILI KA SAKAY NG BUS O MRT?

Napakasaya ko kahapon kasi nga nakaabot ako sa office at hindi na late.
And I never tried riding the MRT dahil natatakot akong malate.
Nagbakasakali lang akong sumakay ng bus ulit.
And I came in 10 minutes earlier sa office.

I tried the same routine today and I tried convincing myself na magagawa ko ulit siya.
What discouraged me to ride the MRT today ay yung mahabang pila sa North Avenue na sa palagay ko kahit na may 1hour leeway pa ako sa kalkula ko kukulangin siya talaga.

Pero what bothers me nung madaan ako ng going to Kamuning...doon bumagal na yung takbo ng traffic at nakikita from the bus where I am grabe ang haba ng pila ng mga commuters.

Pero I still hold on to my faith and belief na baka naman dun lang at aandar na rin kapag papunta na ng Cubao.

Nakaidlip ako sa biyahe, pakiramdam ko mga 20 minutes din yun. Ang gulat ko paggising ko nandun pa rin kami going to Cubao. And nagpatuloy pa yun sa tansta ko mga 45 minutes bago totally nakalagpas yung bus na sinasakyan ko don.

Pero paglagpas namin ng intersection ng Cubao ganun pa rin usad pagong pa rin ang biyahe.
I began texting na sa kasama ko sa work sa condition ko.

I'm supposed to be in at work 10 in the morning pero...10:15am na I was still passing thru Annapolis.
So, I decided na bumaba na ako ng bus and kahit labag sa loob ko sumakay ng MRT para umabot ako kahit past 1030 na ng umaga.

I can't be going to work ng 11am sobrang late na yun. And to think na today may nag-leave na co-worker na need kong saluhin.

So yun nga I rode the MRT.
Grabe nakita ko pa yung sarili ko na lumipat ng kabilang pintuan ng bagon ng tren kasi nga sobrang puno na talaga.

Tapos sa loob sobrang siksikan. Hindi ka na pwedeng mamili ng katabi mo mabango siya o pawis...wala ka ng magagawa. MAGTIIS ka na lang.

Parang kanina kasi mapa MRT o BUS parang maiipit ka talaga sa biyahe.
Sa MRT mahaba ang pila at SIKSIKAN.
Sa EDSA kasama ng lahat ng iba't-ibang sasakyan...SIKSIKAN pa rin!

I hope we can END our MISERY on this.
What SOLUTION can we do to AVOID this or at least LESSEN the traffic.

Ang dami-daming oras na nasasayang sa BIYAHE natin araw-araw.
AND nagiging less-productive tayo sa work DAHIL PAGOD na TAYONG LAHAT  hindi pa man NAGSISIMULA ang ating mga TRABAHO.
BAWAS pa ang SALARY mo kasi nga LATE ka na NAMAN!