RANDOM THOUGHTS AT RANDOM PLACES
Hospital
This picture was taken at the Quirino Mermorial Medical Center outside of an operating room, last April 8,2015. I was there because my mother undergone a surgery for her breast cancer. Being at the hospital for almost every day last week, I observed a lot of things happening inside the hospital especially within the surgery ward. There is a very strange ambiance, work-culture and emotional atmosphere.
It is a place where personal relationship and communication is very important. Within any workplace, there are different kinds of work-culture and I observed that the doctors, nurses and other staffs within the hospital practice good interpersonal relation to each other because they are sharing a common goal for treatment, care and help for the patients. On the other hand, I observed how the lack of sympathy and unfrienliness of some doctors sullying their reputation.
When I was outside the operating room waiting for updates on my mother's surgery, I can feel the tension of the other people that also had relatives inside the room. I am also worried while I was there with my father who is groggy and sleepy by that time.The emotional atmosphere is direful. Gloomy hallways filed with people cries for their loved ones.
On the other hand, while I was walking on one of the hallways in the hospital, I saw this tarpulin showing the brief history of expansion of the place. It made me realized for once again how fast time flies and how fast our population increased. By examining how the hospital grew and how the building looks through time, we are really in the modern world now.Being this landscape is in the city or a central place it is understandable that the services can meet the demands of the consumers. The hospital grew because the population in this urban settlement grew. Knowing that there are now a lot of machines and drugs for the cure diseases and of people it shows innovation.
Though there are still some that believes with the traditional healing like the 'albolaryo' it is agreeable that it fades because of the discoveries and technologies that outcast them.
Malls
Whenever we needed a little time to relax, entertain and buy things that we want and need, we often go to malls. Personally, I findbit relaxing going to malls that's why most of the time when a so called "hell week" in UP is over, I go to malls neary place like Trinoma, SM North, Gateway and SM Cubao.
I found it very interesting when we discussed malls in my geography class and why malls are called "pseudo place" or a place that encourage people for consumption or spending money by giving us an illusion that other activities occur here. It is because in malls, we watch movies, play in arcade centers and purchase services in salons to pamper ourselves.
I was suprised when I went to Alimall and saw these people doing zumba. It was amazing how these kind of activities is also posible to be held at the malls. They were at the mall to be fit unlike most of us do what is called 'pigging out'.
In addition, in malls we also enjoy bonding with our friends, family and some couples even date here. Malls are giving us these activities which requires consumption because when people go to mall, it's like an unwritten mandate that you should have money and spend it because it's embedded in the landscape of malls.
In addition, in malls we also enjoy bonding with our friends, family and some couples even date here. Malls are giving us these activities which requires consumption because when people go to mall, it's like an unwritten mandate that you should have money and spend it because it's embedded in the landscape of malls.
Cyberspace
Last holy week, before I go to our province, I spent several days in our home with my sisters. I thought we might have a good time being together and might do a lot of chatting to each other which is really fun. :) But then, this is how the supposed bonding time together turned out.
This is what globalization has brought us, the growth of internet use that significantly affect our culture. Most of the people in our current time especially teens find life as incompletely without the internet.These digital devices changed the traditional life of people where in their personal communication is very essential but now, even in our little house, my sister even sends me messages through chat instead of just it right in my face.
Talking about the cyberspace what greatly interest me here is the growth of online shopping. Because we are in a generation that is techmologically savvy that even shopping can be made through online which is very different to our traditional way of shopping which requires effort to go to malls or supermarket and effort to walk around in order to find the things we need and want. Today, we can can shop anytime, anywhere which only requires choosing and clicking.
It is observable that Internet has greatly caused cultural change that harness the spread of English language, material consumption and leisure.
Rice Fields
Last holy week, while we were heading towards our province at Pangasinan, I saw this beautiful and refreshing view somewhere at Bulacan so I took the chance to capture such a perfect image.
Whenever we have a chance to travel towards the province whether towards my mother's place at Quezon or at my father's place at Pangasinan, this kind of views are what I am longing for. I am so glad that I had a break being in the city for I had the chance to breathe fresh air aand relax my eyes looking at green lands rather than being at the smokey and warm roads and looking at the high rise buildings.
This reminds me of what I knew in my geography class on how the places changes because of urbanization. I'm a city girl and I believe that behind the fact that in the city, there are high rise buildings in its contrast, people have higher tempers.There are wider roads but narrower understandings. Globalization and modernity has this promise to us that it will over us nicer, faster and efficient living but because these also, we one by one leave the thoughts of living simply and happy. For me, it is because the thought of contentment slowly fades because of the we urbanization has caused people to want the trend.
