For a long while, Makati, particularly the central business district area, has been perceived as a stuck-up type of place, where you can’t expect to see “fun” except in the malls located in the CBD. While this is understandable given its stature as a business district, it deprives this part of the metropolis a unique character, other than a dull, grey district that is deprived of “fun” and color…in a literal and figurative sense. Things have changed recently when the Makati Commercial Estate Association decided to give a vibrant atmosphere to an otherwise uninteresting area as it hired a bunch of street artists to decorate some parts of the district,…
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Mobile Retail Redefined: The Globe Gen3 Store at Greenbelt 4
We Filipinos just love our mobile phones. And that’s pretty much a given, despite the headaches our telecom companies have been giving us for a long while now. Along with this is an evolving savviness that Filipinos have for mobile technology these days. And if connection issues are not enough, mobile companies are finding themselves racing to keep up with the changing trends not only in mobile technology but also in the digital lifestyle of its customers. One company is making an effort to meet this challenge as Globe reopened its store in Greenbelt 4, transforming it into a completely new experience in digital lifestyle called the Globe Gen3 Store.
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Roundup Bits: Things “Going” On This Week
So many things have been going about these past few days around the metropolis that it is proper to do another edition of the Roamer’s Roundup. This edition is packed with many interesting stories around the city; check them out below for the lowdown.
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A Tale of Two Book Warehouse Sale Events
August seems to be a favorite month for bookstores here to do their book sale events. Not sure why it’s so. In any case, these events and next month’s Manila International Book Fair mark a particular season here that time of the year that bibliophiles look forward to each year. And make no mistake there, bibliophiles are not a small, insignificant demographic. A visit to these events would elicit at least a surprise and a realization just how much of underrated sector is the bibliophile sector. And actually, the Urban Roamer did just that: a visit to the two major book sale events happening this month.