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.
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Six Years and Still Roaming…
Just like that, it has been already 6 years since I first started the Urban Roamer. It’s no exaggeration to say I never expected to see what started out as a simple, inconsequential (as I thought then) venture would go this long and this far. And now that the Urban Roamer is 6 years old and counting, my work on this little “venture” is now the longest job tenure I have ever held in my life. And that says something, I suppose.