Manila has got to be my favorite city in the world. And it's just sad how sometimes, one feels that this city is severely disillusioned with itself. The city used to have charm. But it's really frightening to see how the metropolis had let go of itself, trying to cover up the dilapidation with eye-hurting billboards, "modern" structures that just don't add up, government "city planning" that really isn't working. The end product feels like an old hag wearing bad make-up. Or a cover for a cheap, pirated dvd.
Shameful. Disappointing.
Thankfully a friend recommended this amazing blog and I couldn't be more happy to be able to reminisce and remember the things that made me fall in love with this city.
Nostalgia ManilaI'm not asking that Manila become the new Paris or New York. All I'm asking for is for the old glory of the city to be reinvented for the new century.
1 comment:
It's awesome. I like it.
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