it's nice to know you love the philippines. the thing is, you were making sweeping generalizations in your earlier posts and made it seem it was that terrible. like all chinese people get kidnapped. and that even affluent neighborhoods are rife with crime and every expat will eventually be robbed or killed. which is definitely not always the case.

i have my own definitions of seeing makati deserted though. it may be a lot different now than when i've worked there because yes, you can now see some people around ayala ave. on weekends and holidays. but they will never match the hordes of humanity descending from their office buildings at 5:30pm on weekdays. just those call center workers smoking outside in their breaks