Storm Crypt
The Last Time I was Here, I was...
...15 years younger. I haven't been on a plane yet. I was in college; I was dealing with Integrals, and control systems, and Fourier calculations, and a few classmates who's only forte was bragging -- and technical drawing, after the drawing classes were gone all they can do was look "cool"(aside from consistently dealing with failing grades) at least -- for the most of them; I only have 1% of the enemies that I have now, but I have more friends now though; No one has betrayed me yet; I have owned a film camera for three years when I last walked in this city; Dolphins greeted the boat as it approaches the city's port; There was less traffic; Some of my relatives told me the school in front of this obelisk is good, and it was even considered that maybe I can study here someday, but it was not to be; The only mall in this place was called Lim Ket Kai; I had a simpler life back then; The only money I earn is the bits of my daily allowance -- and the tuition fee refund I got from school; I was thinner, more physically fit, and maybe more deadly, and can outrun, out swim, outplay and out jump almost anyone I knew.
When I departed this city the last time, my relatives told me "balik balik unya pohon...", a Philippine dialect term for something like "come back here soon"... and now I realized, that "soon" was to be 15 years later. Times have changed now... and all those memories still percolating in my mind -- that was 15 years ago when time seemed to have been crawling all along. And the funny part of it is... all of my companions on this trip now were still in high school(probably elementary) during the time when I last came here.
Shot taken in front of the Ateneo de Cagayan campus on a fiery and spectacular late afternoon.
Cagayan de Oro City
Misamis Oriental
Philippines
The Last Time I was Here, I was...
...15 years younger. I haven't been on a plane yet. I was in college; I was dealing with Integrals, and control systems, and Fourier calculations, and a few classmates who's only forte was bragging -- and technical drawing, after the drawing classes were gone all they can do was look "cool"(aside from consistently dealing with failing grades) at least -- for the most of them; I only have 1% of the enemies that I have now, but I have more friends now though; No one has betrayed me yet; I have owned a film camera for three years when I last walked in this city; Dolphins greeted the boat as it approaches the city's port; There was less traffic; Some of my relatives told me the school in front of this obelisk is good, and it was even considered that maybe I can study here someday, but it was not to be; The only mall in this place was called Lim Ket Kai; I had a simpler life back then; The only money I earn is the bits of my daily allowance -- and the tuition fee refund I got from school; I was thinner, more physically fit, and maybe more deadly, and can outrun, out swim, outplay and out jump almost anyone I knew.
When I departed this city the last time, my relatives told me "balik balik unya pohon...", a Philippine dialect term for something like "come back here soon"... and now I realized, that "soon" was to be 15 years later. Times have changed now... and all those memories still percolating in my mind -- that was 15 years ago when time seemed to have been crawling all along. And the funny part of it is... all of my companions on this trip now were still in high school(probably elementary) during the time when I last came here.
Shot taken in front of the Ateneo de Cagayan campus on a fiery and spectacular late afternoon.
Cagayan de Oro City
Misamis Oriental
Philippines