Two things struck me yesterday and I kept thinking about them for ages.

On the journey going downtown, I happened to notice the the passenger capacity written on the jeep stated 14
As I looked across I counted the number of passengers squeezed onto the seat at 6
Then I counted the passengers squeezed quite tightly on my side at 5.

Now, I might not have the narrowest of hips but in truth I was very far from being the largest. Most of the passengers were females and it struck me how much larger people had become since I first visited the Philippines.

I honestly don't think that we could have squeezed in 14 passenger. Probably only 1 small one at the most.

In the shopping mall I deliberately took note of people's size and to be honest there's a lot of very overweight folks here in the Philippines now.