View From City Garden Hotel, Makati City

Manila - Buildings, originally uploaded by jsigharas.

Despite being jet-lagged for the first day and a half (Manila is 15 hours ahead of Vancouver), the humidity (a shower is needed immediately after exiting an air-conditioned building), and the simple act of walking down pedestrian un-friendly streets (it can best be described as passing through an exhaust pipe packed with crazed motorist and no sidewalk space), the city of 10 million-plus hasn't diminished our productiveness at all. We met with Boots Herrera, via a short tricycle ride, for a book launch at an Italian owned space called Alliance de Francaise de Manilla. Boots then graciously takes us to two gallery openings and a photo exhibit at a well-designed shopping center called Fort Bonaficio Global City in Taguig City.