Everytime i go to festival mall, whether it's to window shop or to meet kit and mike for a movie or stroll or visit the bookstore and booksale, i enjoy walking really slow on the covered path, sometimes even stopping, to watch the fishies as they swim the shallow parts of the pond at the front of the mall. When i passed by last tuesday afternoon to meet Kati i saw a turtle! A pond slider probably, with a shell around 8 inches in length. The many times i passed by that pond it was the first time i saw one there.

A different story this afternoon though. As tats and i were walking on the covered path, we noticed something strange. The pond was murky green, with a thin oil film on some parts. There were still fishies, and huge ones too! But instead swimming around they floated. Dead.

It was a heartbreaking sight.

I wonder where the toxic material came from. Tall corporate buildings stand around the mall. A market and a hospital hundreds of meters away.

Hmmm.