Days in Manila

I am kinda lucky, 2 months ago I had chance to visit our neighboring country, Philippine. I was quite sad as they don'tt know well about Indonesia though we are neighbor. They know Singapore or Malaysia better than our country, I guessed because there are so many Philippines work in those countries. But, anyway, Philippine still part of ASEAN.

Philippine is the largest Catholic country in South East Asia, we can say this is the stronghold of catholic in Asia. Do you know that philippine use to be moslem long time ago. it is quite interesting as now 90 % of philippine people are Catholic.

I was surprised though their airport is worse than Jakarta. (we should proud at least we are not the worst :-) ) they have really good city with a lot of skyscrapers all around the city. I stayed in one of the city centre here called Pasig city or ortigaz business centre to be precise. you can find any convenient store everywhere in any part of the town. On the way from the airport to my hotel, I looked at the gasoline price, I was shocked that we are better country but gas price is cheaper than the price here. the price is 55,65 P (about 12000 IDR). So for me it is good that we put a rule to banned any big cc and luxury car to have ridiculously cheap gas. This rich Indonesian people don't deserve any subsidized gas, it is like they drink the blood from the poor.

I also found really interesting mode of transportation that we should have such long time ago, MRT !! and on thing that made me even more shocked is the fact that it was made by Indonesian Company !!!
The city also have cute and beautiful transportation such as tricycle and Philippine Modified Jeep called jeepney. The jeep that is made from used Jeep from WWII.

People of Philippine generally are beautiful and friendly, but still, like another big metro city in the world, you really have to be careful, there are small number of robbery and touting.

I visited one of the bigest mall in the world called Mall of Asia, it is Huge and have a lot of things inside.
I also tried Philippines cuisine in one of the restauran in it, the culinary is not that different with culinary in Indonesia, especially with the culinary from North Sumatra. But, there is one interesting food that you will not find it everywhere, it is called Balut. The food made from egg with unborn chicks in it. Yikes !!! it was my respond when I looked at it, but my friend pushed me to try it. mmmm "it is not that bad", I said.