What I'll Miss from Manila (Series) Labyrinth of Mall Escalators (Shangrila Mall, March 2003) Ubiquitous is the perfect word to describe shopping malls in Metro Manila. If you can't find one within 5 kilometers from where you are, change your locality. You are in a far-flung area of the metropolis. I'll surely miss it, for more than a month at least, and not a fresh organic market in Vevey on a Saturday morning or a brocante antique sale in Villeneuve will come close to getting in a mall and doing your idle wandering (aka window shopping), suspending weather (aka "magpa-aircon"), or a central place for human activities such as hearing mass, sleeping inside the cinema and visiting your dentist. Its a whole new world in itself! |
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