Filipino Microcosms

i went to bed last night at 1 in the morning, getting ready for the fieldtrip that was supposed to start at 7:30. Good god, our professor arrived at 8:30. Hell yeah, we waited for an hour, i should have slept for another 30 minutes or cooked my breakfast!

honestly, i don't wanna talk about the augustinian church nor the fort santiago. I just want to share how the huge MALL of ASIA became our target observatory for this specific issue, filipino microcosms. It was such a lame excuse for having us stay there! if we know it right, it was just a time for them to relax and get away of their respective officeworks. Anyhow, i enjoyed giving my feet calluses , strolling around the mall, eating ice cream and consciously blabbering about how the tycoons shop in the middle of the day.Too bad for me, i saw only 3 groups of what i could tell tycoons. Those with huge bags of nike, guess, and louis vuitton. whatta?!
Oh well, if i remember it right, it was in the second floor when i happened to lure about this stuff. Why in this world would you find all the expensive signatured stuff lined up in the upper floor and most specifically in the least exposed corners of the mall? why do mass-oriented boutiques line up at the ground floor? why do the most expensive restaurants and food services found at the upper level while fastfoods are found in the basement? I could just observe rich kids on the escalator pointing to restaurants such as gumbo while holding their venti starbucks coffee, cuddling their louis vuitton bags and wearing their guess shades. On the other hand, those who are on plain shirts and jeans are running around with their rubber shoes finding less seated fastfoods carrying their knapsacks and tinkering with their less-than-the-N-series nokia phones. From this point,those who are blessed enough start going up while those who aren't stays on the ground- a very familiar illustration of how the society works. Tycoons continue to stay at the top, lying in their beds of green and blue bills , splurging every thousand in luxury while the poor stays to be hopeful, gripping their coin purse and trying to figure out the best way on how to spend each peso wisely. What should we do to stop this? is there something we could do to help?

I am so disappointed that i could not answer these questions at this point because i know, i , too know that i'm in the verge of a crisis. Maybe i should stop philosophizing at this time of the day. It's just not to apt for me to do this. I guess it's enough that i finally realized this thing: being in MOA for 3 hours doing nothing is more likely 3 hours of philosophizing. NOw that makes sense.