Last week, the grandfather of my girlfriend had passed away. Her grandfather was really old enough and was known for being a good person in the place. My girlfriend wanted to go home to attend the funeral rites. It's a little bit far and it took 1 hr. to travel. I asked her if I could go with her and she said yes. We're planning about going few months ago. It is on the mountain, so, the place might not surprise me because I was born on the mountain too. But it was almost 12 years that I've been living on the town. I have adapted a different environment during that 12 years and I thought going back to the mountain would surprise me. On the place where I was born, few years ago, if we wanted to go to the town, we needed to walk for at least 1 1/2 hr. But that was few years ago. Today, if I want to go to the mountain, motorcycles would take me on the front of our house. Going back to my girlfriend's case. There are two ways to get there. 1. two rides, which means we need to ride a bus and stop at the neighboring town to the south and look for a motorcycle to bring us uphill, or 2. wait a bus coming from the city which route is directly to the place where we're going. We took the 2nd option... The place I am talking about is Mantalongon - a mountain barangay in the Municipality of Dalaguete which is located southward from Cebu City. It is called "Little Baguio" because of its climate which is closely similar to Baguio City. I was a little bit scared because I heard stories that going to that place is so risky - an accident prone area. This is all about the road carved on the side of cliffs. There's one particular area where the road is very narrow which is good for only one mini-bus.
This was written two weeks ago... I need to publish this even it is not yet done. :D
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.” ~ Andre Malraux
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