Project 8 Quezon City: Where Tricycles Outnumber Trees and the Air Smells Like Childhood Trauma – Inside Project 8, Quezon CityWhere Youre Either Family or in Trouble
Bohiney Insight into Project 8, Quezon City
Inside Project 8, Quezon CityWhere Youre Either Family or in Trouble
1. Tricycles form their own government and enforce curfew via muffler noise.
2. Kids here grow up with thicker skin and stronger calves.
3. There are at least six people per household, five of whom dont live there officially.
4. Every driveway has a story and a parked motorcycle from 2004.
5. You havent lived until youve been chased by a drunk uncle during fiesta season.
6. Gossip is transmitted via laundry lines and side-eye during merienda.
7. The barangay hall doubles as wedding venue and moral tribunal.
8. There are more extension cords than trees.
9. You can smell whos cooking sinigang three blocks away.
10. Teenagers rebel by enrolling in ROTC ironically.
11. Stray dogs here obey no one and fear nothing.
12. If you hear fireworks, assume its either a birthday or a breakdown.
13. Kids play basketball on cracked pavement with an audience of lolas and skeptics.
14. You cant walk 10 steps without saying Tao po.
15. Every streetlight flickers to the beat of your anxiety.
