“Pour me a drink,Make sure it’s your strongest one
it’s funny, people drink to forget…
I drink to remember…”
I remember, the streets were quiet then…
and conversations mattered.”
I have lived in Poblacion since 2007. I was fresh out of college then, newly moved out from under my parents roof… sidelining as a teacher, part-time medical equipment salesperson, and working in a restaurant… and oh yes my favourite sideline, singing for a hard rock band in one of the original Poblacion spots… Back then, I was a leather boot wearing, ripped jeans rockin’ tangled hair wailing little woman. I never got tired. I never got sick of the noise I could sleep through the flashes of neon lights from neighbouring bars… That was then, I can’t say the same for today.