One. Having had the opportunity to walk along a long stretch of the Commonwealth highway, it was odd that I didn't notice how the trees that were so abundant planted along the sidewalk around St. Peter and Ever (every few meters) started to dwindle in number as we got to the PM overpass and then to the Puregold area. I noticed this just recently when riding home with my dad. Too bad, I think the parts of town that lack trees are those most in need of more O2 and less CO2. And it would have certainly looked very pretty once the trees [that weren't planted] have grown majestic and beautiful (given that they plant the right kind of trees and not those palm trees they're so fond of.)

Two. I was reminded of a passing thought that crossed my mind one of those times I walked the sidewalks of Commonwealth Avenue. I thought of how disappointing it was that Filipino's couldn't differentiate trash cans from the chicken wire-like things that encircled the MMDA trees. From all my wandering around I found that most of the trees had that blue-and-pink wire around them (that in fact even have small plaques that say "Name of tree:_____; Date planted:_____; Scientific name:_____") and that at the foot of most of the blue-and-pink wire there was trash. Either people mistake these to be trash bins, (which is absolutely stupid because there's this TREE in the middle of their trash bin that's kind of hard to miss) or they're just extremely indifferent about the environment. I mentioned this to my father, and he said, well, it's better than them stealing the wire for "food on the table," which is a very good point (nothing to do with the environment, though). I guess Filipino's are less, uh, impoverished than I thought. @_@ That made me think: suppose the MMDA put the real thing (aka. a trash bin) beside every tree, would that mean people will actually start throwing their trash in the right place? Hopefully the trash bins would look more like trash bins than the chicken wires do.

Whatever.

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Singit lang, books to read:

Beauty
The Painted Veil
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
The Blind Watchmaker*
Identity
Lord of the Flies*
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* From my dad's collection! XD Let's see how I'll find it.