STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR
Yesterday was an adventure. Tito picked me up early to head to Raon to look for parts for a project of his. For those of you who don’t know Raon, It’s a street in Quiapo that’s a Mecca for cheap electronics, instruments and little knick-knacks that you wouldn’t find elsewhere normally. Of course there are also a ton of knock-offs that you have to be wary about.
Tito and I drove down to the SM Manila to park. We planned to take the car there and take the LRT. You see, we had no idea how to get to Raon. Well we did ask around and all we were told was to get off at Carriedo station and take a five minute walk. I was confident enough that we’d find it.
We parked and walked to the train. I haven’t taken the LRT in such a long time. Thank God it’s now air conditioned. It didn’t really matter as apparently we would be on only for one stop. As we went down the station, I noticed that we were near the Quiapo church. I was familiar with this area as I was here a few years ago looking for pirated DVDs (which I never found because of a police raid that happened right before I got there). Looking like fish-out-of-water (which can’t be good in that area), Tito and I started walking. They’ve fixed the area up. The main road was now a walkway, complete with their versions of outdoor cafes. Natch we picked up a few snacks to munch on while on our search.
“Which way do we go?” asked Tito. All I could answer was “Left?” Call it divine intervention or the Force but we ended up right at Raon. Raon was busy. Remember what “Diagon Alley” in the Harry Potter movies looked like? It was something like that. We went from shop to shop searching for the parts of Tito’s contraption, most of the time coming to a dead end. All the while I’m looking for a cheap guitar that I might buy. We worked the street and didn’t find anything we needed till we got to the very end. There was this one shop that could build you anything electronic. The walls had shelves full of electronic parts; all were arranged neatly in little drawers (reminds you of the wand shop in Harry Potter). Just tell them what you wanted and they’d put it together. Tito talked to the people there while I wandered around outside.
In the end he just bought some ready made pocket guitar amplifier and I had nothing. We walked back to the LRT station, and did a little search of the shops there. I finally found my pirated DVDs in the back of the mall you pass to get to the train. No wonder people go there for discs. It was three for 100 bucks. How can you resist that? I did. I didn’t find anything I liked. So much for that! I leave Raon/Quiapo empty handed except for waffle dog and a soda. Jay should have been with us. It would be good for his character. Either way it was all in all a good trip. (I did find a guitar I liked though it was back at SM. It was a copy of Tito’s guitar, only at 1/8th the price. I didn’t buy it. I felt stingy.)
TITLE: STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR - U2
Tito and I drove down to the SM Manila to park. We planned to take the car there and take the LRT. You see, we had no idea how to get to Raon. Well we did ask around and all we were told was to get off at Carriedo station and take a five minute walk. I was confident enough that we’d find it.
We parked and walked to the train. I haven’t taken the LRT in such a long time. Thank God it’s now air conditioned. It didn’t really matter as apparently we would be on only for one stop. As we went down the station, I noticed that we were near the Quiapo church. I was familiar with this area as I was here a few years ago looking for pirated DVDs (which I never found because of a police raid that happened right before I got there). Looking like fish-out-of-water (which can’t be good in that area), Tito and I started walking. They’ve fixed the area up. The main road was now a walkway, complete with their versions of outdoor cafes. Natch we picked up a few snacks to munch on while on our search.
“Which way do we go?” asked Tito. All I could answer was “Left?” Call it divine intervention or the Force but we ended up right at Raon. Raon was busy. Remember what “Diagon Alley” in the Harry Potter movies looked like? It was something like that. We went from shop to shop searching for the parts of Tito’s contraption, most of the time coming to a dead end. All the while I’m looking for a cheap guitar that I might buy. We worked the street and didn’t find anything we needed till we got to the very end. There was this one shop that could build you anything electronic. The walls had shelves full of electronic parts; all were arranged neatly in little drawers (reminds you of the wand shop in Harry Potter). Just tell them what you wanted and they’d put it together. Tito talked to the people there while I wandered around outside.
In the end he just bought some ready made pocket guitar amplifier and I had nothing. We walked back to the LRT station, and did a little search of the shops there. I finally found my pirated DVDs in the back of the mall you pass to get to the train. No wonder people go there for discs. It was three for 100 bucks. How can you resist that? I did. I didn’t find anything I liked. So much for that! I leave Raon/Quiapo empty handed except for waffle dog and a soda. Jay should have been with us. It would be good for his character. Either way it was all in all a good trip. (I did find a guitar I liked though it was back at SM. It was a copy of Tito’s guitar, only at 1/8th the price. I didn’t buy it. I felt stingy.)
TITLE: STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR - U2
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