ATTY. BRENDA PIMENTEL
The Pasig River figured in Jose Rizal’s “El Filibusterismo” and it was through this novel that I first encountered this inland waterway. When I was in primary school I learned that Malacañang Palace where the President of the Republic resides is located along the Pasig River. My actual sighting of the river came a bit later when I started to work in Makati. I passed over Guadalupe Bridge from Quezon City where I used to reside on my way to the office. I did not find anything remarkable during those bridge crossings and I figure it was because during those days one just breezes through EDSA with hardly a minute’s chance of glancing at the river below. There was no traffic in EDSA then.