There was another bomb explosion in the city the other day, I forgot what day it was. About 14 people were injured, and all was left of the concrete bench where the bomb was placed were the iron skeletal rods that stuck out like broken bones. Good thing there was no one sitting on that particular concrete bench, he or she could have been blown into pieces like those shattered glass windows of the adjacent store beside plaza pershing where the bomb was placed.
I was at home during the time, it was around 7 pm when the bomb exploded and the first time I heard the news was from watching tv patrol, and it was almost 8 pm already, and I wondered how fast news travels nowadays and no one even bothered to tell me that a bomb had been planted, and had been successfully detonated in the place where I used to come to to buy hot nilagang mani, and we were one kilometer away from that place and I didn't even feel or hear anything at all, unusual, unlike that 2005 bombing where I felt the ground made a thud like a bomb had exploded and found out later that a bomb had in fact exploded.
So Metro Manila is in an alert of some kind because this type of incidents that we have down here in the south, aside from the war in jolo and basilan, might actually reach metro manila, while I saw in the news the security measures being initiated, how bottles of perfumes or every single thing that can be a possible component of a bomb, are confiscated and not allowed inside malls any more, and how security guards and the police are now pretty much well versed and up to date with what a bomb might possibly look and not look like. While everywhere people here walked the streets this morning in herds just like before and bought nilagang mani anywhere and everywhere they wanted to, whenever and whatever, and it wouldn't really matter anyway would it? I heard someone said sarcastically the other day, "mabait ang nag lagay ng bomba, dun niya nilagay at di sa maraming tao." and someone just today "may bomb threat daw? walang pasok?"
I was at home during the time, it was around 7 pm when the bomb exploded and the first time I heard the news was from watching tv patrol, and it was almost 8 pm already, and I wondered how fast news travels nowadays and no one even bothered to tell me that a bomb had been planted, and had been successfully detonated in the place where I used to come to to buy hot nilagang mani, and we were one kilometer away from that place and I didn't even feel or hear anything at all, unusual, unlike that 2005 bombing where I felt the ground made a thud like a bomb had exploded and found out later that a bomb had in fact exploded.
So Metro Manila is in an alert of some kind because this type of incidents that we have down here in the south, aside from the war in jolo and basilan, might actually reach metro manila, while I saw in the news the security measures being initiated, how bottles of perfumes or every single thing that can be a possible component of a bomb, are confiscated and not allowed inside malls any more, and how security guards and the police are now pretty much well versed and up to date with what a bomb might possibly look and not look like. While everywhere people here walked the streets this morning in herds just like before and bought nilagang mani anywhere and everywhere they wanted to, whenever and whatever, and it wouldn't really matter anyway would it? I heard someone said sarcastically the other day, "mabait ang nag lagay ng bomba, dun niya nilagay at di sa maraming tao." and someone just today "may bomb threat daw? walang pasok?"
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