Where can you find good stuffs for a cheap price? But when I say ‘good stuffs’ I’m not saying that all are working because along with low price comes low quality. Where can you say “I want to go there” but when you’re already there you’ll say “Let’s leave this place”? Nowhere else (for me) but in the ultimate one-stop-shop—Divisoria.
But even if there are many people who want to go to Divisoria (others called Divi/DV) some still are not aware of how to go to the place and where exactly it is located. Divi can be found in the not so good, not so bad town of Tondo which can be found in Manila.
Divi is the place to be when you’re in a ‘I want to go shopping but I don’t have money’ mode; when it’s almost Christmas time and you have many friends and relatives and so, you feel obliged to give gifts because “It’s better to give than to receive”; when your mother gave you money to buy nice clothes at a mall but instead of buying something, you’ve done partying and gimmicking and of course your mother expects you to have new clothes so you will buy nice clothes for a cheaper price.
Other people I know buy stuffs in Divi and then when they got home, the stuffs they have bought are not working anymore. Like wrist watch, pens, etc. Even though the price is right, the quality of the stuff is absolutely wrong. So maybe one could say: “Don’t judge a thing by its price”
I personally always get irritated when I go to Divi. Yes, shopping for lower price is fun but who would have fun when the crowd there seems to not have learned to say “Excuse.” They just walk straight and they don’t care if they are hurting somebody. So tendency is, when I get hit, I hit someone also. Take note of the golden rule: “Do not do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you” I know I’m wrong but I’m hurt, you know.
Anyway, when you’re at Divisoria at a peak shopping time like before Christmas, you can define what the real meaning of ‘crowded’ is. It’s as if the people there can risk their lives in that crowd just to buy things for their loved ones. Or may be, it’s as if they can risk their lives in that crowd because the things there are cheap and that they have so many loved ones.
There are also many malls at Divisoria like 168, Tutuban Mall, 999 and other number mall. And when you get in to the mall you can see many Koreans, Chinese or whatever their nationality is. Its like the owners of stalls at the mall are mostly foreign and that their staffs are Filipinas. As ironic as it seems, we are in the Philippines but the ‘boss’ at the stalls were foreign and Filipinos are serving for them. Irony at its best.
One thing I can’t understand about that place is that it is called “China town” I really can’t understand why. And I don’t want to know why. So if you want to know why, Google it.
Point is, Divisoria is a good place to be to shop at a cheaper price but one should also know that not all things you buy there are worth the price, the heat, your stress, your energy, your sweat, your effort and everything. But sometimes, there is really that thing called “luck”. So, if you’ll go there, good luck.
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