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I've been looking forward to my friend M's wedding since last year. She was one of my staff back in my previous job and we worked together for 2 busy seasons. She is very nice and hard working and felt like she was a younger sister. So when i got the invitation a month ago, i was so happy for her and her future husband C. They have been together for 6 years and so sweet. I saw that the church was at santuario de san jose which is good since i live a couple of minutes away. But when i saw that the reception was at glass garden i kind of hesitated because i've never been there, it's way further in pasig (almost sm marikina) and i dont know how to go there. But i wanted to go for M so the adventurer in me thought, "i will just wing it. I can just use a map."
My friend C was also invited and she is a good navigator so she was supposed to ride with me and lead the way. But she finally had a confirmed travel date to cleveland and left the country last month. Then another friend came back to manila for good and i found out he is also invited because he is a friend of a groom. Perfect i can just hitch a ride with him! Alas, turns out the wedding was at the same time as a convention that he had to attend. So here i am 2 days before the wedding with no date or companion and no clue how to go there. Finally i remembered another close former staff C was attending. So i called her and turns out she is going and does not have a ride. I offered that she ride with me and i can take her home since she lives near me. She doesn't know where the place is either but oh well i was fine as long as i had someone with me.
So last Saturday, i attended the wedding in greenhills and i met up with C. I have semi-memorized the way using google maps and the very simple sketch that was included in the invite, though i have doubts since based from experience, maps are not reliable -- they dont really take into account one way streets and while maps looks simple, the reality is that there are so many small streets that are not included. I was tempted to ask my former boss if i have "convoy" with him but since he's going via edsa, i wasn't so sure because again based from experience, i have been lost a couple of times in edsa because if you're not familiar with edsa, chances are you will miss the correct exit and it will be a long time before you can make a u-turn.
from greenhills, i know the way going to eastwood. i just went back to ortigas ave until i crossed robinsons galleria, the medical city, greenmeadows and turned left to e. rodriguez ave. based from the map, i'll just go straight until there's a dead end and i would need to turn right to marikina (turning left would be going to qc since i was hitched a ride with my friend before to go to ferndale qc). so far so good. when we reached the end of eastwood i turned right as expected and that's where it all started going downhill (as i expected from the start hehe).
you see, from the map, it shows that i need to go to the diosdado macapagal bridge then turn right to evangelista. i was thinking that plan b if i ever miss the hiway, i will take fvr road and just find a way to go back to evangelista. boy, i was so wrong! note that i have never been to this place so reading the map -- it didn't make sense to me at the time.
when i read the map, i could see that it's near sm marikina and lrt santolan, so with that in mind, while i knew that i had to take the bridge, i got confused because the sign going to the bridge says, robinsons metro east while the sign going to fvr road says sm marikina. and since it was a hiway, i couldnt slow down and i have missed going up the bridge so i ended up heading straight to fvr road. from there it was just a long and seemingly endless dark highway. my friend C couldn't help me either coz the maps in my phone was so slow to load we didn't know where we were until we reached riverbanks mall (!!) (looking back i realized my first mistake was not realizing that the address says pasig, not marikina, so even if it was near sm marikina, i shouldn't have followed the direction to marikina) and further down a. bonifacio. we stopped and asked a guard where evangelista is and he pointed us to a direction which we later realized was totally wrong and had we known i could have made a u turn earlier (ended up wasting a lot of time going back because of traffic).
so finally made sense for me to turn back and go back to the bridge. this time, i have forgotten that from the map, i should make a right as soon as i go down the bridge. i forgot to tell C to look out for a sign because at this time, she was also talking to someone already at the party for the directions. the girl who gave the directions was also very confusing, she said to take the bridge but go down not up (weh?? that's kinda contradictory right?) so when i went up the bridge and asking for the next step and by the time i went down the bridge, i took a right but i couldn't slow down because it was marcos hiway and there were so many cars. however, i did see the signs saying lrt santolan and i remembered the bride telling me it's near lrt and C, after speaking to the girl on the phone still didn't know where to go. i ended up driving straight but i knew something was wrong coz i know i should have turned right a little after the bridge. so again, i made a u-turn going back to the bridge for the second time.
now, the next mistake is totally my fault (hehe). when i made a u turn (it was a loooong stretch going back to eastwood!!!) i thought i was already back in eastwood when i thought i almost missed my turn so i immediately turned right and as soon as i did i knew i made another mistake. crap!! it was an early turn and i ended going to.. wait for it.. Qc!!! yehey!! *bangs head* had to look for another u turn slot until i found one near citibank libis so i did and for the second time, im back at eastwood where i was 40 mins ago (or even longer i presume!).
third time's the charm and after making so many u-turns i now knew where to go. so from eastwood, turn right then took the bridge then when i went down i focused my attention to the right and there it was! a sign that says, to glass garden. finally!!!! i turned right and went straight until i found the place!!! whew!!! i think i left the church a little over six and i reached the reception almost 8! i remember it was a little over 7pm when i made my second mistake and had i not gone to qc, i would have been back in less than 30mins. good thing was that i was with someone so even though i was lost, i was still calm because someone was with me. and another good thing is that there wasn't a lot of traffic. the place seemed too far but looking back, without the excessive u turns i made, it was actually quite fast to there because of the bridge and the hiway and less traffic.
funny thing, middle of the ceremony, C asked me if i will take her home, and i jokingly said, "after all that we've been through tonight, you think i will just leave you here? of course i'll take you home." :) and she replied, "oh well, let's just say we practiced how to go home that's why we were late!" hahaha!
so when we went home, it was quite easy coz we were there a couple of hours ago. i went back to eastwood then edsa then shaw blvd, dropped C off then finally went home. whew! what a misadventure! at least next time i have a party at glass garden, i know how to go!!!
here's a little souvenir from the party.. me and C! happy to reach our destination!
My friend C was also invited and she is a good navigator so she was supposed to ride with me and lead the way. But she finally had a confirmed travel date to cleveland and left the country last month. Then another friend came back to manila for good and i found out he is also invited because he is a friend of a groom. Perfect i can just hitch a ride with him! Alas, turns out the wedding was at the same time as a convention that he had to attend. So here i am 2 days before the wedding with no date or companion and no clue how to go there. Finally i remembered another close former staff C was attending. So i called her and turns out she is going and does not have a ride. I offered that she ride with me and i can take her home since she lives near me. She doesn't know where the place is either but oh well i was fine as long as i had someone with me.
So last Saturday, i attended the wedding in greenhills and i met up with C. I have semi-memorized the way using google maps and the very simple sketch that was included in the invite, though i have doubts since based from experience, maps are not reliable -- they dont really take into account one way streets and while maps looks simple, the reality is that there are so many small streets that are not included. I was tempted to ask my former boss if i have "convoy" with him but since he's going via edsa, i wasn't so sure because again based from experience, i have been lost a couple of times in edsa because if you're not familiar with edsa, chances are you will miss the correct exit and it will be a long time before you can make a u-turn.
from greenhills, i know the way going to eastwood. i just went back to ortigas ave until i crossed robinsons galleria, the medical city, greenmeadows and turned left to e. rodriguez ave. based from the map, i'll just go straight until there's a dead end and i would need to turn right to marikina (turning left would be going to qc since i was hitched a ride with my friend before to go to ferndale qc). so far so good. when we reached the end of eastwood i turned right as expected and that's where it all started going downhill (as i expected from the start hehe).
you see, from the map, it shows that i need to go to the diosdado macapagal bridge then turn right to evangelista. i was thinking that plan b if i ever miss the hiway, i will take fvr road and just find a way to go back to evangelista. boy, i was so wrong! note that i have never been to this place so reading the map -- it didn't make sense to me at the time.
so finally made sense for me to turn back and go back to the bridge. this time, i have forgotten that from the map, i should make a right as soon as i go down the bridge. i forgot to tell C to look out for a sign because at this time, she was also talking to someone already at the party for the directions. the girl who gave the directions was also very confusing, she said to take the bridge but go down not up (weh?? that's kinda contradictory right?) so when i went up the bridge and asking for the next step and by the time i went down the bridge, i took a right but i couldn't slow down because it was marcos hiway and there were so many cars. however, i did see the signs saying lrt santolan and i remembered the bride telling me it's near lrt and C, after speaking to the girl on the phone still didn't know where to go. i ended up driving straight but i knew something was wrong coz i know i should have turned right a little after the bridge. so again, i made a u-turn going back to the bridge for the second time.
now, the next mistake is totally my fault (hehe). when i made a u turn (it was a loooong stretch going back to eastwood!!!) i thought i was already back in eastwood when i thought i almost missed my turn so i immediately turned right and as soon as i did i knew i made another mistake. crap!! it was an early turn and i ended going to.. wait for it.. Qc!!! yehey!! *bangs head* had to look for another u turn slot until i found one near citibank libis so i did and for the second time, im back at eastwood where i was 40 mins ago (or even longer i presume!).
third time's the charm and after making so many u-turns i now knew where to go. so from eastwood, turn right then took the bridge then when i went down i focused my attention to the right and there it was! a sign that says, to glass garden. finally!!!! i turned right and went straight until i found the place!!! whew!!! i think i left the church a little over six and i reached the reception almost 8! i remember it was a little over 7pm when i made my second mistake and had i not gone to qc, i would have been back in less than 30mins. good thing was that i was with someone so even though i was lost, i was still calm because someone was with me. and another good thing is that there wasn't a lot of traffic. the place seemed too far but looking back, without the excessive u turns i made, it was actually quite fast to there because of the bridge and the hiway and less traffic.
funny thing, middle of the ceremony, C asked me if i will take her home, and i jokingly said, "after all that we've been through tonight, you think i will just leave you here? of course i'll take you home." :) and she replied, "oh well, let's just say we practiced how to go home that's why we were late!" hahaha!
so when we went home, it was quite easy coz we were there a couple of hours ago. i went back to eastwood then edsa then shaw blvd, dropped C off then finally went home. whew! what a misadventure! at least next time i have a party at glass garden, i know how to go!!!
here's a little souvenir from the party.. me and C! happy to reach our destination!
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