Lost or Revenge of the Mall
Trinoma Mall
I have traveled around the planet but I have found no place on earth that hosts more massive shopping malls then Manila, Philippines. Even the names speak of enormity. Mega Mall, Mall of Asia, Power Plant, Shangri-la, the list goes on and on. It seems like no matter where you are, there is an enormous mall near by. They seem to sprout like mushrooms in a lawn sometimes seemingly quite out of place. Around them areas of extreme poverty cower in their shadows. Massive parking garages often abut the main buildings typically bursting at the seams with cars. The garages themselves are virtual palaces with parking floors coated in shiny epoxy and lights over the head of every space turning green when vacant, red when full. Women dressed in bellhop type uniforms with white gloves spend their days in the elevators pushing the button for you. Everywhere you look in Manila condominiums are rising and the malls all owned by the same development corporations, have isl