Since the ‘70s and through the ‘90s, the Filipino slang “lakwatsa,” a verb —and consequently its noun or doer, the “lakwatsero”—brings to mind images of high school and college students cutting classes and having fun with their barkada in the era’s definitive hangouts. Given the said decades, the lakwatsero—at least in Metro Manila—would likely be caught red handed by their parents in the hotspots of Cubao, Greenhills, Ortigas and Makati. These are the places where they would “make lakwatsa” as kolehiyalas would say.
Conquering Mt. Apo