In the University of the Philippines in Diliman, there is this cafeteria, the only one, at the ground floor of the old faculty center building, named Katag Refreshment, more commonly known only as "Katag", where the arrangement of their tables and chairs is as "weird" as nothing I have seen in many cafeterias so far. There are about thirty tables, though, by memory, this is just an estimate. Each table has four plastic chairs with them. Sounds pretty normal, right? The "weird" part, again, comes from their arrangement, the way these tables and chairs are arranged and put together. The tables, they are rotated "quarter-way", or forty-five degrees, so as they appear to be, from the food counter, diamond-shaped tables rather than perfectly oriented squares. The four chairs go to each side of the table's shape, that's four. The dining sets of furniture are, for another weird fact, arranged too closely together, so closely near together that actually the back rest of one chair touches the other back rest of another chair from the table next. What is even more weird: people eating in Katag do not find this very arrangement inconvenient at all. If they did, then the management would have rearrange the place long ago! The people there just get along well with their ordered food and the order of their dining spaces. Isn't that weird?
This afternoon and in the recent past afternoons of the week, I had delightful times eating my regular order of baked mac and glass of Coke there. That was where I was before I walked my way in the academic oval to the film center today. There is a campus screening of the movie "Ilo-Ilo", and I cannot dare miss it. Also, the grove of Acacia trees at the right side of Quezon Hall has lost almost all their leaves, did anyone notice? Summer's coming.
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| Campus screening ticket for "Ilo-Ilo". |
