(SPOT.ph) On August 19, Quezon City celebrates the 135th birth anniversary of the late President Manuel Quezon. This year-specifically on October 12-the city is also set to celebrate its 73rd founding anniversary. As city years go, QC is relatively pretty young. But boy is the city bursting with character!
If QC were a person, he or she would be an artist-cum-activist who enjoys history-based intellectual stimulation as much as he or she enjoys cheap thrills. Here are QC spots that will attest to that. Of course, they’re not all that QC has to offer, but they’re usually where you start when you start listing the best things about the city.
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The Quezon Memorial Circle, also has the mausoleum containing the remains of Quezon and his wife, Aurora. These days, the most high profile Quezon many of us know is the late president’s grandson, Manuel Luis "Manolo" Quezon III, the undersecretary of the current administration’s Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. Then again, the majority of Pinoys are still more familiar with his grandfather via the ₱20 bill.
3. Starry spots. QC is the home of TV networks. TV5, ABS-CBN, GMA-7, TV5, GEM TV, UNTV, Net 25, and PTV all hold office in the city. This is probably one of the reasons why there was once an attempt to brand QC as the "Hollywood of the Philippines." Fitting when you realize the city’s current mayor was a child actor and starred in the Pinoy pop culture favorite Bagets. Try hanging out at chow spots and eateries on Tomas Morato Avenue, along Timog Avenue, or Mother Ignacia Avenue and your chances of running into a Pinoy telenovela cast member or variety show regular increases dramatically. These avenues are in the proximity of the turfs of known arch rivals ABS-CBN and GMA-7. Fans also flock to ABS-CBN’s Pinoy Big Brother House, located at Eugenio Lopez Jr. (ELJ) Drive corner Mother Ignacia Avenue so spot artistas.
Here’s another showbiz spot worth visiting: Broadway Centrum in New Manila, QC. from where Eat Bulaga! the country’s longest-running noontime variety and game show is broadcast. Think of it as the place where Senator Tito Sotto is his fun, non-controversial self. If you want to think about him at all, just think of Broadway Centrum as the place where That’s Entertainment used to air from. Oh, please, you only think it’s baduy until you’re in the audience screaming for Vic Sotto to sing "Ocean Deep" or asking people if they remember where Lotlot and Monching used to hang out.
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Aside from UP, the Ateneo de Manila University, and Miriam Collage are also located in Diliman-both also known for their own brand of activism. There must be something in Diliman’s water that fires up social consciousness.
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