Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

The other day we got some pancit from Savory and headed to my mom’s house for lunch with my brother’s kids. Then suddenly, we decided to go to Antipolo with my mom, hiring one of the fx taxis parked in front of the house. Finally! Trevor has been curious what it was like in Antipolo.

Anyway, the primary reason for going to Antipolo is to have a look at what’s happened to this small plot of land owned by the family in a fairly low-cost subdivision not very far from the church. Below is a photo taken by Trevor of me on that small plot overrun by grass, weeds, trees, some dog shit, and a bit of garbage.

The place is actually quite pleasant, with a nice view across Sumulong Hi-way, but of course, not a match for what we’ve seen in Bohol!

Then we visited the church (now Antipolo Cathedral), and then decided to go to Hinulugang Taktak. I can’t remember when I last visited there, must’ve been over twenty-five years ago. The place is now very much developed, but the falls is still quite impressive. I took a photo below.

And here is the declared national historical shrine’s park development plan.

As we didn’t plan on staying long that afternoon, we didn’t enter the park, but we could see that it has numerous picnic areas and there is a large swimming pool right across the water falls. Such a kind of development style actually reminded me a bit of Lake Geronde in Switzerland, which also had this (smaller) swimming pool right next to the lake.

On the way home, Trevor wanted to take a photo of the Our Lady of Fatima University. Here is a photo of the building.

And here is a photo of the name of the university - with Edward and myself.

On the way home, we also passed by the new SM mall in Marikina - again, sporting that horrific box architectural design by SM - but this one was slightly different, like it was on concrete stilts because it was built just by the Marikina riverside.

It was overall a very pleasant trip, a bit spontaneous, but my mom enjoyed it - and so did Trevor. At least, finally, he got to see the place.

Now, we’re preparing for the second sojourn to Bohol!

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