Next to EDSA, the busiest thoroughfare in CUBAO is the AURORA BOULEVARD. Busy as it is with all those jeepneys, FX taxis, cabs, cars, and motorcycles plus occasional passage of buses. But it is busier with all the people that crosses it to go to the branching inner streets of Cubao.
Aurora Boulevard remains to be busy everyday. Busier during Fridays and Saturdays when people goes bar hopping. What is more interesting is that as you walk on the side, you get a flock of individuals around you. They are offering the most interesting product a sidewalk can offer.
"Psssst... Pogi! Gusto mong gumimik?" (Pssst... Handsome! Want to have fun?)
And I remained indifferent. This butch lesbian will come grabbing you on the arms.
"Bestfriend, lika na... Kita mo yun, maganda." (Bestfriend, come here... Can you see that, so beautiful.) And she points at this young girl wearing torn denim shorts that is so short you can almost see her undies... Hmmm that is if she is wearing any. that lesbian is but one of the people you get mugged on. she is a Bugaw or pimp. Either that or watch out for hands that may enter you pockets and then away with your wallets or cellphones.
I stayed silent and just gave her the talk-to-the-hand gesture. Then proceeded to eat in that usually packed Chinese fast food around the corner, adjacent to an old cinema showing films mostly by that... ahm... most prolific film maker of this time... GAV... who has a film made and shown every week there with all the never heard wannabes you see... Here films are mostly that to titillate the imaginations of every happy and gay guy who buys a ticket to watch in the rickety theater seats that must've been survivors of 3 decades without renovation.
