Oh here is my pineapple in a pot...I do appreciate pineapples more now...never knew they took long to grow...
I woke up to the narra's fragrance, and looked at them in golden sunlight just after sunrise. Bye-bye Narra tree, after 8 exactly years! They do bloom at the same time...like these on Inchican Road...and further up, in St. Scholastica's Westgrove campus... So have you seen/smelled any lately? How about in the UP Diliman campus?
So we chose to move up to the hills...far from the highway now regularly jammed on weekends...away from the commercial areas...never mind their convenience... But now the two big developers have joined together to create even more of the same up there too. Saw the forest bulldozed...very very very sad. And yet in the future, I know I will patronize it. Or even be a tenant. Surely, an asthma attack after twenty years of clear lungs...may be related to the construction around. And what about EVERYONE now having respiratory problems. It's not just the pollen, I say. For former Manila residents maybe it's even being used to the cement dust and THEN experiencing pollen. I used to hear about "Green Lungs" in the city of Kuala Lumpur every day. Not once have I heard it here. Just because we are not prone to the smog from Indonesia, or are not in a valley like KL is, does not mean we do not need the "green lungs" too. Bye bye birdies.