A view of the front of the
Quezon City Hall compound from inside the Quezon Memorial Circle. I call this 8-lane road the
wild, wild west (imagine trying to cross it!) and is the reason why I love Mayor Sonny Belmonte for creating the
pedestrian underpass which links city hall with the memorial park. Of course, there's no way to hide that huge
eyesore of an unfinished building behind city hall. Architect Reena of
Reena's Thoughts said that she heard that the developer has a pending case in court over this building because Quezon City has a law which states that no structure at a given area around the
Quezon Memorial should be taller than it. I've looked at the memorial, city hall and the eyesore from afar and I think she's right. City hall's tallest building is shorter than the memorial but the unfinished building is definitely taller than the memorial. Now I want to know who in city hall gave the developer a permit to build in the first place.
I recently found out that My Manila made it as a finalist in the Best Photo Blog nationwide category of the
Philippine Blog Awards! Whether I win or not, I'm just happy to have made it that far, especially considering the fact that many of the finalists are professional photographers or serious hobbyists. For me and my itsy-bitsy camera to be counted among them is a great honor.
I hope you can visit all the finalists but if you only have time for one, then I highly recommend the blog of
Dennis Villegas, my favorite among the ten (yes, including mine—if I were a judge, he'd be the winner). I don't know who he is or what he does but his photo essays are an amazing, though very gritty, look at Manila.
