Imagine this — a calm morning along the Manila Baywalk. The air still, the sky perfectly blue, the kind of day where the world feels untouchable. Then, out of nowhere, the horizon bends. The sea seems to disappear before a dark-blue wall rises in its place — higher than the palm trees, higher than the buildings. People start shouting, frozen between disbelief and panic. Someone yells “It’s coming!” and the sound of the ocean turns into a low, deafening roar. The wave hits the harbor first, flipp