if you’re on the main highway

If you were  on EDSA, the fabled highway,

 going south or north…


Here it goes:

“bawal ang tao dito. doon ka sa bangketa”.

“bawal” means prohibited, not allowed.

“tao” means human being.

the exact translation: “Humans not allowed here. You go to the sidewalk.”

         …If you’re not human —  you are allowed.

…but…. if you could read the sign, presumably — you are human…

     well…you could be a software or an operating system of a machine that could read…but….

     you wouldn’t be ambulating this way if you were a software…

    (Filipinos understand what this sign means. “pedestrians not allowed here. use the sidewalk” — “Bawal mag-abang ng sasakyan dito. Sa bangketa ang abangan”.)

Other road signs on EDSA, already featured on TV: “Bawal tumawid, may namatay na dito” (“do not cross the road here, somebody has died here”) variation: “Bawal tumawid, nakamamatay” (“crossing here is prohibited, it causes death/ you could get killed”) 

 

Back to the city

Saturday afternoon, out of the citya.road.copy

a.cow.copy

This cow liked to be photographed, it kept looking straight at my camera lens, like it knew it was being photographed.

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That’s its/ his family, i presume

a.freeway.copy

Freeway, Sunday morning. My idea of heaven is a clear, smooth road on a cool, sunny morning.

[only because the roads in the metro are congested. In a traffic jam, you don’t control anything except yourself; although…. i like urban living, being near everything (…. i’m a native of this city), oh well, there are trade-offs]