Weekend Adventure - Shaw to Cubao

It was the end of a work week and I was walking out of the office building to make my way home. It was 5AM on a dark, cool, Saturday morning and I had nothing in the books for the day, so I decided to do something I haven't done in awhile. In fact, the last time I did it was back when I was still in Eastwood, during the first quarter of 2012. I had my earphones on hand, so it was on.

I walked home from Shaw Boulevard to our house in Cubao.

I checked my phone and it showed 5:27AM. I plugged in my earphones and fired up the music player and I was on my way. Since it was an unplanned trip, I didn't know which way to go aside from go straight. Little did I know that there were detours I needed to go through [I jaywalked once (while crossing Ortigas Avenue), and was on the side of the road instead of the sidewalk on the road from Megamall to Robinson's Galleria]. I took some photos on the way, more like checkpoints as I go. It helps that one of my photo apps have the option to add timestamps.

 Taken as I was approaching Robinson's Galleria, Ortigas

I've made it to EDSA Shrine. A group of people was gathered to say the rosary and i slipped and fell while trying to find a restroom. Nonetheless, on to the journey at hand.

 

Corinthian Gardens. Shortly after passing Ortigas Avenue, this is the first landmark I saw so I took a moment and snapped this picture.

 

 The EDSA People Power monument, roughly a kilometer from the EDSA shrine found in EDSA corner White Plains Avenue, Quezon City.

It was a little past 6 AM while I was making my way to the Santolan MRT station. Good deal, two stations down, one more to go.

Not having eaten for the past 6+ hours and having forgotten to take along a drink, I decided to stop by Minute Burger for a quick bite. Man, these places are few and far between. I used to remember eating at either Minute Burger or Burger Machine during high school. Angel's Burger is just meh compared to the heyday of Burger Machine [they even had commercials with the Eraserheads song in it].

 The last picture I took around EDSA before I took a detour at Main Avenue and made my way towards SM Cubao and on to our house near Aurora Boulevard.

Just a little past 7AM and the Araneta Center and SM Cubao is within reach.

I reached home at around 7:15AM, clocking in at roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes including the burger break I took when I was near home stretch. I'll try mapping my route a bit better next time since I definitely don't want to jaywalk, and I'd like to keep myself more on the sidewalks with all the buses zipping by.