(Dec. 1988)
A strong and cool December breeze sung its way from the eastern wall of Intramuros to Gate 2 of the institute, harshly hitting my face while I briskly walked outward towards the half-opened iron gate. I stopped momentarily, squinted behind my eyeglasses, and faced to my right, where I could see those telephone booths lined up like giant, glass dominoes, the brightly colored red rotary telephones clearly visible inside even in the duskiness. One of the middle booths was slightly tilted backwards and had its glass door opened wide, dimly reflecting and at the same time casting the shadow of the bust of our institute’s founder, Don Tomas Mapúa, the first registered architect in the Philippines.
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