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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Midweek unwinding
By Carmen Urbina
It’s Wednesday; midway to the much-awaited weekend, which means you may have nowhere to go really but you really want to go to unwind.
Oh, there’s the last-Wednesday monthly poetry reading you usually take part in but, man, this is the first Wednesday of the month and your little black book doesn’t even have an appointment to the dentist.
Your cellphone is silent, your email is empty, the chat room is lonely. No one is there to rescue you from your dire plea for some letting-the-hair-down activity, or maybe just some quiet get-together to iron out the kinks of office life.
Drinking by your lonesome only emphasizes your predicament, so you call an old buddy to ask if there’s anything under the sun for a Wednesday castaway like you.
Trust an old friend. Never forget an old friend for suggestions in an emergency like this (that friend has proven to be reliable in heart matters, too).
Cebu City has a lot of places to pick as easily as you pick lemonsito fruits from the bush. Not that the business of selecting the passable midweek place to unwind is a sour prospect, and even if it is, it can be sweetened by the company of a friend who will never leave you nor forsake you when you’re blue.
There are nearby mountain haunts you may have forgotten due to your long urban existence. Busay is another world, covered with a patchwork of green and pastel colors, and yet it is just a few hours' drive. Paradise can be reached at an affordable price.
Visit any of the flower farms there to refresh your jaded city soul. The farm owners would just be too delighted to entertain you with old world stories and theories on how to grow flowers. Ask them about the flowers and the bees as you wash your eyes with the beauty that only Nature can provide.
The call of the wild is irresistible, yes, but so is the siren call of the sea. Cheap and very near the heart of Cebu City is the South Reclamation Project (SRP) seaside. A contemplative you and your buddy can bring along some food and drinks (just be sure to be a good citizen by bringing a trash bag) as you watch people go by. When the day fades, and the colors of dusk emerge, you can discuss existence, reincarnation, girls and even how to groom a dog.
If that doesn’t unwind you, there’s Fuente Osmena Park for some quick shot in the arm. Don’t count it out as something too embarrassing to get caught in because it is a pretty decent place: public enough to deter hanky-panky and private enough to discuss matters like falling hair or lost love.
You don’t have to go there with a date-date, you know what I mean; but you can have a jogging date with your friend on a nowhere-to-go-Wednesday. After the jog, you can replace the lost poundage by gorging on fastfood in one of the restaurants that keep the area looking cheerful.
Now you’re really starting.
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