- published: 25 Jul 2015
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Itbayat is a 5th class municipality in the province of Batanes, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 3,069 people in 719 households.
The island of Itbayat is the largest of the three inhabited islands that compose the province of Batanes. It is also the northernmost municipality in the Philippines, located only over 200 kilometers from the southernmost tip of Taiwan.
While the church and civil government were already established in Batan Island mid 1783, its was only in 1855 that civil authority was officially established and the mission canonically founded in Itbayat. A mere pueblo during the Spanish regime, it became a municipal district when the Americans organized the province in 1909. However, in 1935, it became a municipality.
Itbayat is politically subdivided into 5 barangays.
The only way to reach Itbayat by a direct route from Manila is by plane. There is a commercial carrier that service flights to Itbayat from Basco, the capital of Batanes:
THIS WILL BE THE END OF YOU!
(Ladies and gentlemen, friends and foe’s,
this song goes out to all you fucking quitters out there)
How dare you stare at the ground when you
don’t even know which direction to go?
Are you really that anxious to drift life away,
and just give up on yourself?
You better dance to the beat of living.
Start taking control and take care of yourself.
Reach out for help if you’re falling,
We're in this together.
You’re in this alone.
Don't be proud enough to reach out for help.
She's on fire but her embers burn her bridges.
And she knows that she can’t walk on water.
Yet she tries.
For what is worse than to ask your friends for help.
And so she sinks to the bottom of the sea.
Burn out the eyes of the traitors face.
They have told their final line.
They have told their final line.
One more time we'll throw down our fucking fists.
To anyone who stand against us.
To anyone who disagree.
Stop chasing your shadow. You're in this alone.
You need to fight until your heart stops beating.
Don’t think for a second that you will be saved.
Hands down. It's over.
This is the end of everything.
And sure as hell i’m taking you with it.
I rather die with blood on my hands,
if my conscious is clean and my heart's been beating pure.
For what is living if you've already dead?
She's on fire but her embers burn her bridges.
And she knows that she can’t walk on water.
Yet she tries.
For what is worse than to ask your friends for help.
And so she sinks to the bottom of the sea.
We’re swimming and sinking,
We’re running and falling,
We’re breathing, not living,
We’re crashing down!
We hold the answers in our hearts
as we been singing times before.
We spend every breath to stand our ground