Megamall

A big effort has been made with making the stores customer friendly with reading areas (the one in Megamall even has a "courtyard" area with potted plants and a fountain!) and a cafe.

A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains Sharon Bakar 2006

Megamall is moving us a few meters away from our original spot, so this time we will have a wall instead of being a 4-sided kiosk.

up and down Dean Francis Alfar 2004

Megamall is moving us a few meters away from our original spot, so this time we will have a wall instead of being a 4-sided kiosk.

Archive 2004-10-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

Today is moving day and the 3 Alfar family members split up to do their own thing: I had to go to work because of another client Annual Report presentation (which went swimmingly well) and to handle all the other business matters; Nikki handled the movers, heading taking stuff from 2 locations (and we're expecting the delivery of all the furniture pieces we ordered from Our Home in Megamall tonight); and finally, Sage spent the day with her Grams, doing all the stuff she does (running around, exploring new things, eating strange food).

Archive 2003-02-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

In all of this it's hard not to see the things I'm tracking in this blog -- Manila, Quiapo, and Green Papaya, and Megamall -- in Homing Pidgin.

galleon trade edition 2008

And the forms she has standing in for institutional structures -- the row of lockers at a high school, the rows of balconies at Manila's Megamall -- aren't even filled in or outlined, but rather left as undefined blocks of grey paint.

galleon trade edition 2008

Received this text earlier today: "Book sale at SM Megamall June 23 to 27, 2009, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Megatrade Hall 1, 5/f, Mega B"

A Text About A Book Sale (Updated) 2009

Received this text earlier today: "Book sale at SM Megamall June 23 to 27, 2009, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Megatrade Hall 1, 5/f, Mega B"

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

The two biggest stores are in Mid Valley Megamall (opened 2000) and I Utama (opened just a couple of years ago).

A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains Sharon Bakar 2006

But since I'm at Amcorp Mall right now and on my way to Megamall, and she's at the Curve today, I guess I'm not going to see her after all.

Shirley Shines Sharon Bakar 2006