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[rosefiassahra]

Hi

Wow, it’s been over a year since I last posted here. A lot has happened. And I don’t even know where I should start.

We’re in 2020 and I can’t say this has been a great year. Not only for me but everybody else. Ever since the year began, many things have happened all over the world. From the great fire in Australia, the eruption of Mt. Taal in Philippines, death of Kobe Bryant and company on a helicopter crash, the COVID-19 pandemic and now the BLM movement, also throw in the Anti-Terror Bill movement in the Philippines. Crazy year. Add in my JMM ganap. Ugh.

Honestly, I’m at the point where I don’t know anymore where I stand. Everything just doesn’t seem to go right. I just go day by day stuck in a loop but still hoping one day everything will clear up. Someday, everything will fall into its place. In shaa Allah.

3 months, almost, into this Community Quarantine stuff, I only thought about going back to writing now. Lol. I had a lot of time but didn’t think of writing in Tumblr again. But I’m hoping before I get busy again, I can write as much as I can. Have many things to share - my trips and my cookings (yep, I started to learn how to cook).

Hope everyone is safe! Stay at home please. And practice social distancing.

[rosefiassahra]

Of TRIPS: Intramuros, Manila (2)

My next stop was Baluarte de San Diego Gardens which houses a bastion. Its history tells us that it was integrated into an older fort with cortina or curtain walls, built from 1591-1594. The bastion is a protruding structure with facing flanks built along the cortina. The purpose of its projection was to ensure a clearer view of the cortina for the artillery - in order to prepare against invaders. The bastion has two parts; face (which projected outward) and flanks (connecting the face and the cortina, or the curtain wall).

I paid for the entrance fee which was about 100 pesos (it includes your map and info guide to the whole area).

The garden has some cool stuff inside like artillery (yeah, it seems to be a thing around the area) and some old historical stuff such as tricycle, fountain, etc.

Then I walked up to the next level of the garden to find the bastion itself! I saw this in one of the old movies I watched, they had a fight scene here, I couldn't remember the title. And it was just cool to see it irl!

Then I walked around, sat in one area to rest my tired feet and mainly to just watch the view of Manila around me. I’ve never really sat down and be amazed about Manila since I’ve lived there for 6 months during my review school and all I could think about was the traffic. Meh. But really, it was just nice to be able to breathe some clean air (I hope) and observe some greenery inside the city.

When I was done with my sojourn, I walked around some more until I finally descended in another part to explore. And I found more. Here are some photos.

To be continued in my next post...