TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: More Makati Pictures, by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Thursday, July 4, 2013

More Makati Pictures, by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

It occurred to me that some people don't understand that Makati is a city that is part of Metro Manila. The name, Makati, means "place full of tides" or ebbing tide." Here are two links about Makati, Link 1, and Link 2.

I took a few more Makati pictures.

The top one is a picture of Ayala Avenue and in the background is the sculpture depicting President Ninoy Aquino's assassination in 1981 at the Manila International Airport.

This security guard has a serious assault weapon. I asked permission to take his picture, and like the guards the other day, he also posed for me.

Inside the Glorietta Mall annex

My friend Guia Lim and I had dim sum in the Shangrila Hotel and we had a great time catching up.

tags: travel, Makati, Manila, Cecilia Brainard, Guia Lim

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.