UP is just plain majestic. No place else in Metro Manila can beat a Sunday morning in its Diliman campus, when the admin closes the Academic Oval from vehicles officially transforming the place into the most relaxing public park in town. Me and Zsa was there to jog two Sundays ago, after doing three rounds in the Ateneo campus. Of course, it too was beautiful, but it seemed more lonely, more "artificial" so to speak. The trees were bigger in UP and the air was way cooler. There were families having picnics, fathers teaching their sons how to ride a bike, a group doing tai-chi or kung-fu, small girls playing tag under the shade of the magnificent acacia trees, hunks jogging in threes, college friends who I recognize but pretend not to, a guy in his 40's playing golf in the small patch of green beside the phallic Carillion (I didn't know there were holes there), and a weird guy taking videos of me and Zsa and God knows who else.