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The last time we were at the mall, we checked out some kitchen knives at the Henckels (corrected link and spelling) shop. There were some knives on sale, I don’t remember if they were Victorinox, but I do remember that they were going for 50% off.
In the kitchen, I don’t use too many knives. I [...]
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TriNoMa is a mall owned and developed by Ayala Land, the same company behind Glorietta and Greenbelt in Makati. As to why it is a triangle, Wikipedia has the details including a physical description of its location.
A mall is a mall, shops are shops and the restaurants at TriNoMa aren’t that different from restaurants in [...]
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The times when we had no househelp and my kids had to do their share of the dirty plates, they always complained that the plates were too heavy. I used to buy plates from the Noritake factory in Marikina and the rest are things I picked up here and there — more often than not, [...]
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I admit it. I’m a cheapskate. What I can buy from the nearest tiangge, I will not buy from boutiques. If a 500 peso blouse with a Korean tag fits, I won’t give the gorgeous blouse from Vida Doria another look.
But when I buy my bra, I splurge. Without guilt whatsoever. For those of [...]
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Last Sunday, July 1, was the last day of the mall-wide sale at the Power Plant Mall. I didn’t know there was a sale until we were in the area and there were all those street signs pointing to the sale. We weren’t even planning on driving all the way to Makati that day. We [...]
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I don’t remember the last time I went to a shopping mall where there was an ongoing mall-wide sale and bought nothing. I don’t think it ever happened before. Well, until last Sunday. We only had time to eat, have coffee and watch Transformers.
My daughter Sam enjoyed herself immensely though. Taking photos.
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Sam was born in 1992, the year of the infamous 16-hour-a-day brownouts. The brownout problem was not solved until over a year later. Needless to say, we lived in the company of mosquitoes. Nenuco mosquito repellent lotion was our friend. In fact, considering the number of bottles we must have bought even after Alex was [...]
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There are four kinds of footwear in the Philippine market: locally made, legally imported foreign brands, export overruns and imitations.
The first two are self-explanatory; the difference between the third and the fourth are explained in my op-ed column today. I actually intended that article to be my first entry in the Mothers as consumers series. [...]
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We haven’t been to the mall in months. I can’t remember the last movie we saw. Because Speedy will be out of town for five days for his company’s annual conference, when Sam suggested seeing “300” yesterday, I didn’t give Speedy the chance to say no even though the past two weeks had been very [...]
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