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THE HIKER’S PALACE on top of a hill along the North Diversion Road (Arao Ave.) at the western part of the Rotunda in Barangay Dao has for some years been part of my early morning routine.
Like other members of the Pagadian City Hikers and Joggers Club who come to the Rotunda with motor vehicles to hike or jog around its about 500 meters cemented pavement, I park my own vehicle at the Hikers Palace’ ground. I don’t really need a ride to the Rotunda since my place at the western part of Arao Avenue is just about a kilometer and a half away or a good 15 to 20 minutes walk depending upon my pace. Yet, setting out early, usually 15 minutes before 5 a.m. I usually ride on my motorcycle to beat those barking canines along the way that had earlier made me bolting terrorized to search for rocks to defend myself from their fierce assault. After a 40 minute to an hour walk or jog is through, club members regular converged at the palace for coffee and chatting. Time really travels just so fast and as one meaningful line of an old love song says, “Time waits for no one, it passes you by”. And as some quantum physicists postulate, time is merely an illusion. Whatever, all that I know is that the significant events in my life in the last couple of decades have piled up so rapidly as if propelled with the speed of light that honestly, I have failed to keep tracking. And one so important matter I lost track off is the true character or mental mould of my children’s offspring, which I and my better-half are happy to say there are already 8 of them to date. Lately, I felt I was suddenly awaken from slumber, when my first born Ilang-ilang confided that her daughter Sam Tyra has refused a party on her 11th birthday and instead asked to feed the street children. I was almost shocked in disbelief and for a moment I was dumb-founded for I never had it coming, not from this shy, very polite and quite pretty and intelligent little girl whose only virtues that I am aware of is thriftiness and intense desire to learn and be top of her class. Of course it is yet too early to call since Sam Tyra at eleven has still a long way to go to achieve her goal and cherished dreams in life; however, as born out of experience, changes on a person’s character in the early years are quite insignificant upon attaining adulthood. And this I can say, that I have never been so proud in my all life well knowing that despite the many shortcomings I have in my social obligations there’s someone along my direct descending line who has a genuine care for the down-trodden. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYRA. Last update : 08-05-2008 14:39
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