Around the Center

Araneta Center is quite quiet today. Most of the places are closed. However, it seems that not all is quiet and peaceful. I heard from the grapevine that someone in the administration told someone that i was asking for 3 million pesos for the domain name. How strange! Im not even asking for anything because i am not selling it. It looks like someone wants to get major christmas kickback from the administration.

People can be quite greedy.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I got this via email. I guess it got missent to the wrong domain name.

Being a denizen of Araneta Center all my life and after seeing all the changes, all i can say is that even if you dress it in a tuxedo, a monkey is still a monkey.

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Dear sirs/madam,

I would like to inform you about how you assign people manning your Ticketnet counter at Gateway Cinema. Last Tuesday, as early as 11:15AM, there is only one ticket counter that is open with a long queue of moviegoers waiting in line. I was there for the first screening of “Bourne Ultimatum” scheduled at 11:35AM. Your personnel assigned there started coming in one at a time and I was able to get my ticket around 11:40AM and was not able to view the beginning of the said movie.

I don’t know if this happens every day.

(sender’s name withheld)

Oct 12-14 is a x10 day for Shopwise here in Araneta. Card carrying members get from x2 to x10 points that day. I dont really know why. Perhaps they want to see how many of their clients actually care about the points but i for one didn’t buy anything this first wednesday but i’ll purchase all the stuff i need 9 days from now.

I think that its called smart shopping and not being stingy

Today, Aug 28, 2007, is the last day for the Cinemanila Movies at Gateway cineplex cinema 6. I got to watch two yesterday. 2 Days in paris and Persepolis. Each was for an affordable 100 pesos. 2 Days in Paris is a French film (english subtitles) that was quite humorous. It had great dialogues and plot. The story was about this couple who, on their way home from new york, stopped at the girl’s place in Paris for two days. We were laughing a lot in the movie. Persepolis is a french animation of the story of an Iranian woman. It was different than the first one. The plot was a little sad and filled with death, war and suffering. However, this movie had amazing graphics.

The five movies will be shown for the last time later. Hope you guys get to watch at least the 2 days in paris.