ORTIGAS CENTER
(picture taken from the 4th floor of Megamall's parking)
If the building of infrastructures can be a measure of a
nation’s growth, my country is racing to the stars. Everywhere I turn, I see skyscrapers inching to the skies, some of which are so tall – they seem to have
reached the clouds. Noticeably, the mushrooming skyscrapers are sprouting
everywhere as if the ground neglected for decades is finally fertile for
growth.
We complain incessantly about the traffic, but honestly, there are enough roads with elevated ones we appropriately call skyways that
are rising everywhere from the ground. I see a future where the entire length
of EDSA (equated with traffic) will be canopied by a skyway while the subway mass
transport system will be plying its underworld. With bad, undisciplined drivers, though
– no road will ever be enough for a booming can-afford-a-car middle class.
Often, I wonder why the more we build massive malls in the Metro, the more people there are to congest them, patronize their signature shops, and fill their restaurants and movie houses. Where are these people coming from?
Condominium towers that used to be meant for the rich and
famous are mushrooming everywhere, and the builders never run out of buyers.
Are Filipinos that wealthy, or are we just becoming newly rich
with the young and the restless leading the race to a good life in the first
century of the third millennium? I wonder…! Let no bad ‘next’ president spoil
your dreams. Let’s keep racing to the stars…
BONI (Mandaluyong)
(picture taken from the 8th floor of Shangrila's parking)
Pasay City Skyline
(Megaworld/Resort World)
picture taken at NAIA 1
Bonifacio Global City (BGC)
Pasay City Skyline viewed from SMDC office - MOA
Manila Roxas Boulevard (picture taken from MOA)
MAKATI CITY
