The pace
here is so different... very much different from the chaotic world I left in
Manila yesterday. Just after filing my Petition for Review with the Appeals
Court in the afternoon, I hurriedly proceed to the airport to catch my almost midnight
flight to paradise.
Having
accustomed to the rat race of the legal profession and court room battles known
as "pressure cooker", I wanted unfamiliar faces, fresh experiences,
and a new self.
In El Nido,
Palawan, after wandering through its idyllic streets and looking out over the
beach from the balcony of a famous Cafe, I wandered westward towards the end of
the beach, hoping to savor the scene I had imagined - foreigners in nothing but
bikinis, beach side diners buzzing with conversation of languages I can barely
understand.
