We saw more people we knew in Divisoria than in Makati on the day we went. There was Honey crossing the street clutching her bag with driver in tow; Patty walking through the plaza at noon; Marga haggling with leather bracelet suki. As times are getting harder, could Divi be the new Greenbelt? Purchases included 100 meters of white craft paper (P255), glass beads that looked like pewter (P45), laboratory glassware in Bambang (P320). Spent less than a thousand pesos and came home with a carload of items. Most expensive item was parking!
Best part was the metal baton I had been looking for over Christmas that cost about P1,600.00 in Park Square but was out of stock was all over 168, but called a "pamukpok" and costing P120! Please see picture with tindera displaying "pamukpok". And a BB gun was available in the same stall for P350 with pellets! My God! An even better idea to hit the buses with. But the gun looked awfully real, and the movie in my head went of with a scene of R shooting bus driver window, then bus driver shooting R with real gun... so that was the end of the BB Gun idea.
Lessons learned in Divi: when shopping in 168, demand the "wholesale price" and when making tawad on the street, bring it to at least half of the price the tindera gives you. It really helped that Dodong was walking with us, R insists he has a homing device attached to me. He can find me within a one kilometer radius, and this is in the heart of Divisoria.
Is..did I tell you I went to Divi with Cris Cang Mon before I left Manila? Picture us 2 and 1 skinny friend in a pedicab(we're talking 300 lbs at least riding in it) and the skinny guy pedalling with all his might..straining like he was going to die. And all because we wanted lunch in Presidents and so we hired the ride. It would have been faster if we walked..and he even had to go up the incline of a bridge. At one point this man from nowhere started pushing our pedicab from behind.."tulungan ko kayo". We were laughing so hard it was the perfect ending to my Manila trip.
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