it's a mall world after all

my 6pm class today ended early so after making sure i've all the readings and books i need, i decided to drop by metrowalk and by me some dvds and possibly a bag. i did and dropped by shangri-la plaza right after only to be greeted, rather subtly, at powerbooks by


















affluenza.
managed to read 'til the introduction and t'was amazing how something so trite as consumerism can be retold as something so intertwined with every single cause of alarm or a headache or both.

my euromarketing teacher who dismissed us a few minutes past seven mentioned how the japanese are planning to put up an asiamall in pampanga or how mr. montinola and the sy's manage sm. that virus de graaf calls as affluenza is here, in the country, in trinoma, in farmer's, in metrowalk.

i always find interesting the argument that all this is a mere phase we need to go through, a bitter pill before we reach a certain maturity as a nation. but don't prescription pills not work for everyone?

what i'm saying is if america is slowly realizing that going simple, being less materialistic, measuring genuine progress indicators instead of gross domestic product is the way better way to go, can we learn from their mistake of having to go through that crap and just skip that part instead and you know, realize what the authors want us to realize: that the best things in life aren't things.

but then again, who could resist those dvds, or that bag with my name practically written all over them already?

lisnin to Being Alive from the Company

sortof readin The Other Path again. my LS126 teacher asks each of us in class to share what was the most recent book we've read and here i go saying it's this hernando de soto book that i've last read and here he goes saying i should give a report to class about the damn book next week 'cause hernando de soto "should be on our fingertips." he remembers me as hernando de soto and not as karl.

feelin kinda relieved. mama is in town. woohoo