Escape From the Mall
Two cats in Little Tokyo, 7 September 2009.
An hour later, as we walked around yet another condominium model unit, it occurred to me that apartment hunting in metropolitan Manila could become your social life. In places like New York it already is. You’d get to see a new place each weekend, decorate it in your head, imagine living there, and create an entire alternative existence for yourself. It would be a literary exercise, and it would take you out of the mall biosphere. Unless the condo happens to be on top of a mall.
Escape From the Mall in Emotional Weather Report, today in the Star.