7. Security Guards are well armed, and everywhere

And I mean everywhere, at your local mall, bank, Max’s restaurant, even Jollibee’s:



I read somewhere that the current ratio of these guards are 750 citizens to 1, and the government wants to increase that ratio to 500 to 1.The streets are already teeming with these men in white uniforms, and some of them carry around a lot of firepower.


(don't ever get caught with a broken tail light here...or else.)

And get this. Whenever you enter any sort of building at all, even your local mall, you’re required to go through a metal detector and be patted down for security reasons.




Once again, another case of what may be normal in one place, but not another. Something like that would never pass here in the States.

“Lolo always said when in Rome, do as the Romans do. You’re not trying to do that at all!”
-ES