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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Only a few people may understand what's written beneath. Don't feel bad if you don't get it... it's an overblown analogy that created its own world.

A tribute to old times... :)

Of Love , Life and Lanes

By Nikki, Mades and Jess

Inspired by a 3 hour drive from Ateneo.....bahala kayo mag-interpret... but this is just all about lanes and roads. Hoy, bruhang conspirators! Paki-edit, dahil medyo sabog...

If there’s a thing every driver should know, it’s the rules of the open road. Moving through traffic has always been a problem for most drivers… usually because of other cars blocking their way… road blocks… police.. MMDA’s… jammed traffic lights… dark tunnels… light tunnels…. And of course… the thing that holds them all together… THE LANES.

Every driver always has to question which lane to take going to a particular destination…Some of your friends, for example, would want you take the Alabang lane, particularly because it’s been there practically as long as you can remember, is always open, and seems to always be there…. It’s a guaranteed fact that you’ll be well taken care of in the Alabang lane and the fact that your friends has a weird attachment to it maybe considered a nice bonus… but then, what your friends doesn’t seem to notice is that the Alabang lane, well… isn’t a lane at all… but a flyover.

Maybe the reason particular friends continually sermon particular drivers to take the Alabang lane is because of a biased attachment to it. Maybe it’s because they’ve already built a perfect little world in their weird little heads about you driving in that particular lane forever… which is a sad fact because the lane they keep on referring to isn’t a lane at all… but a flyover. Maybe the reason why crazy cars such as CUJO and a particular silver civic honda are confused is because the Alabang lane seems such a good flyover. It carries you through muds and floods and the skyway always leads you to it with a guarantee that you’ll get home safely… but a flyover… will never be a lane… as much as some would want them to be.

But then what’s the alternative? The Pasay lane? Friends have continually warned me about passing through Pasay. It has always been quite a dangerous road, with many other cars passing by. You may be lured to think that you’re the only one going through Pasay road, but there are tunnels and intersections open to other cars. Kung dadaan ka na at traffic pa, wag ka na magbayad… magnakaw ka nalang. No matter how many police and MMDA’s you place to patrol Pasay, there’s a certain thing that makes it think that road rules truly are meant to be broken….
But then, Pasay has this weird thing of showing up in strange moments. In months that you have not been passing there, you’d suddenly get a newsflash that Pasay, apparently has a new car passing by, which is weird because for each day you’ve been watching the news, Pasay has always been pretty dormant….

Isn’t it weird for Pasay to show up in the news to inform certain drivers that it has new cars passing by??? I guess some lanes really think too much of themselves…

But enough about things in the south, I think some cars wouldn’t be able to take another sermon about road rules. What’s up with the car in Subic lane??(<------si becky ito) It seems things are really going sMoooooth…. Iba na talaga kung maraming police at MMDA sa daan, kahit hindi naman nagrun ng red light ay bibigyan ka pa rin ng ticket. ("I didn't do it"---> yeah right) Well, it seems Subic lane is pretty much happy and contented with its light atmostphere and monkeys and tarsiers patrolling. Except for a certain rumor, that it once merged with one of its fellow lanes that was deconstructed and shifted to the States, certain cars are really in tune, kahit medyo cracked na yung headlights. Other cars better think twice, coz mahirap na sumingit pa sa Subic lane, hindi lang police at MMDA ang nakabantay, may metal chained cones pa.
But let’s face it, certain cars really would not forget about PAST lanes. Past lanes have a way of clinging in your head like an old barnacle… an old barnacle who has a hyper history and have weird impulses in genuflecting in the big gate in front of a huge crowd…. Somehow, this weird barnacle has become part of your instinct; you couldn’t do anything but just REACT a certain way everytime you literally pass by it. Of course, if we’re talking about a trip to Memory lane, one wouldn’t ALSO forget certain lanes that got shifted off the high school track a little too early. How could CUJO forget this lane? Smooth asphalt… hard strong…ahem…. Road infrastructure… nicely painted yellow lines…. It surely is a good looking lane... that it’s designated to many pet names such as BPP and DDG. Pinag-aagawan nga yung picture kahapon eh. Pano ba naman yan.
But let’s shift our conversation to a particular silver civic Honda, which, and I’m sure everyone will agree, has gone through many intersections and world glitches to last a lifetime. Some past lanes the driver passed through, have only revealed certain tunnels now, which, if you consider the time span, is a little too late. But you really have to admire how certain lanes keep their tunnels hidden, no matter how brightly you shine your headlights at it, some lanes really tend to have an extra secret closet to keep their dirty skeletons, ngayon nga lang lumalabas eh... tsk.. tsk...buti ilang taon na ang lumipas..

Other lanes of course, have tunnels that are there in full view. You could almost reach the other cars if you wanted to. It has also revealed glitches that could really have gotten certain cars broken, which is a sad thing for the lane started off really well, putting up billboards to entertain you in the highway and many other lane decorations to put up an enjoyable ride.
Well, certain lanes have gone international and seems to be making up for glitches in the past, which isn’t wrong and really wouldn’t hurt considering it gives off a high amount of toll fee, but certain drivers should still be careful… and of course, open it’s mind to other routes and possibilities… DMTG drivers, after all… deserve the ultimate best.

mades [ 3:02 PM ] 0 happy lost cabbages