Bus

Where's your favorite place to sit in a bus?
Mine is the back corner, either side.
Why?
Two things:

1. I can easily spot a robber or some suspicious jerk way before he commits something terrible (if ever I spotted one, that's my cue to get out. No need to be a hero. No one remembers a dead hero, let alone an unknown dead hero).
2. It's a good perch to observe people.On one side, a young couple had their hands all over each other, conveniently ignoring several middle-aged men ogling at them. On the far side, a yuppie (probably call-center agent) banging his head to the beat of "soldier-of-fortune", eyes closed and head swinging every which way the bus sway. A couple of college students giggling at every picture they took of themselves with a DSLR (apparently it's the new thing after Ipod and Jejemon, will blog on it some other time). On occasion, an ambulant vendor would sell their wares (from candy to peanuts to mineral water to loads; everything seems to be sold in convenient sachets/packs) and a few "preachers" and teens asking for "love offerings". And also, depending on the time of the day, you'll get to ride with yuppies fresh from an all-night gimik to seaman applicants waiting for the nth time for their interview/deployment to college students cramming to study for their exam.

It is now the new jeepney. Whether new or second-hand junk from Japan/Korea, euro compliant or doomsday machines of death, it managed to become part of the new Manila landscape.