My first trip to ilo ilo city was in May 1994. It was my first job as a teacher. I went there riding Negros Navigation, it was an eye opening experience and I told myself : "If this is what travelling for an average Filipino like me would be, I would never travel by ship again!"
I didn't use the toilet for an almost 12 hours trip, which includes lining up to get inside the ship to finding your "paid spot" inside the ship; up to finally exiting the ship with a grateful and relieved heart!
I was just thankful it was the time of pageants, and Miss Universe was live on TV. It was the time I came to know Sushmita Shen and Charlene Gonzales. That kept me up, plus the water on my feet God knows where that water was from.
I think I was praying the whole time. It was a strange place for me yet it was the reality for the many Filipinos from the south (the visayas) who work and study in central Luzon.
That memory of mine and the news of Sulpicio lines incident...
hmmm No wonder the school director travelled by plane while my co teacher and I, were on that "cheap" ride.
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