Timeline
I wasn’t at Glorietta, thank you for asking. I was thinking of going there for lunch, but I was wearing these girly shoes I’d forgotten I owned because I’m always schlepping around in sneakers and you know how it is when you put on shoes you haven’t worn in ages, they hurt, so I didn’t feel like walking. Then I couldn’t drag anyone to lunch, and I thought everyone was at a shoot, so I went to the Coffee Bean in Salcedo Village and at 1248 Ricky called me from the gym in Glorietta to ask about lunch. So we ended up at Paseo Center, and Grace called at about 1330 to say a bomb had gone off in Glorietta. Then Lee texted at 1339 with news of the blast and I forwarded it to various people. It turns out Bob was at Glorietta when it happened but was evacuated, which is just as well because a blast at a mall is bad enough for our image but an American casualty would be catastrophic. At 1406 I got the gas leak theory, and from 1418 I’ve been getting apocalyptic news and conspiracy theories. So I was saved by purple snakeskin mules. I hope you’re safe wherever you are. (Yes I do know the problems of one blogger don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.)
It’s 1914, I’m watching the news on Channel 7, and police still don’t know what caused the blast. They’re ruling out a gas leak, and they’re saying it may have been a bomb. Really? Ya think? So 8 people are dead, more than 80 injured, and we’re not quite sure what happened, but police officials are telling the stores in Glorietta to stay open and the public to go on shopping. May I just say, WHAT? As if anything could keep Pinoys from going to the mall. On second thought that pretty much sums up Pinoy political life: Let’s pretend nothing happened!
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 19th, 2007 at 17:12
good to know you’re ok. i was actually in landmark when it happened, was the people rushing out of the mall….several injured people. this would rank as one of the scariest moments of my life…
October 19th, 2007 at 18:35
i was in landmark, first floor lobby (the one closer to glorietta, near the escalators going to the supermarket downstairs). suddenly there was a “boom”. initially, i thought that 2 vehicles crashed into one another in the street between landmark and glorietta. a few seconds later, people were already rushing out of glorietta, confused, panicky looking (landmark saleslady: bakit po kayo tumatakbo, ano daw yon?; person from glorietta: hindi ko alam, basta tumakbo na rin ako nung nagtakbuhan sila). i got out of landmark as fast as i possibly could without running. on the walkway near the ayala museum, i then saw a lady who had red skin on her arms, like it had been newly sunburned, and looking harried. she had a crowd around her, and apparently she was telling the story of how she got her injuries. didn’t stay to listen…walked back to my office as quickly as i could.
pictures of glorietta damage already posted in inquirer, abs cbn…
October 19th, 2007 at 21:47
Oh well, i was at LTO main, renewing my (over) expired driver’s license when the bombing happened. So when i got back at work, i immediately searched the net to get some news; apparently, all i got was the glorietta bombing back in 2000… so well, it shocked me more to be reminded of the first bombing (in which, i don’t know if i just forgotten about it, or didn’t really knew it happened)
Watched TV Patrol, Gordon showed up to announce the very names of the casualties. Help desk are also being put up for the families of people who were injured….Last death toll, 80…but some are still in ICU and in critical condition.
October 21st, 2007 at 08:38
Glorietta was open for business yesterday– and TV Patrol reported that they pulled out another body from the wreckage just last night! Scary. How can they be “business as usual” with dead bodies still around?!
October 25th, 2007 at 10:17
Hi Jessica! I saw you that day with a guy walking to Paseo Center. I always see you everywhere! Maybe we’re soulmates!
October 25th, 2007 at 12:12
Or else stalker and stalkee… :p.
October 26th, 2007 at 13:32
I’m gay, thank you.