Somewhere between all the family dinners and sleeping, I managed to get out of the house yesterday. I was supposed to meet Jobert at his house in Makati by 4:30 pm and since I left my house at 2 pm, I had enough time to wander around Makati and visit the shops I haven't seen in a long time.
~oh yeah, for those interested, here's the kouhaku site if you want to know who's performing on NHK during New Year from 7:30 - 11:45 (that's Japanese time, so if you're watching it here, subtract one hour)~
I guess it wasn't my day as someone was always blocking me when I passed by A Different Bookstore and Powerbooks. In the former's case, a dad was hanging over the shoulder of his daughter. In the latter, a lot of people are doing some reading and happened to be leaning on the SF&F shelf.
I guess the trip to Tower Records was interesting. At the ground floor of their Glorietta branch, there are some anime OSTs (Original Soundtracks) being sold. Of course they happen to be pre-sold (read: used) but hey, the price range is somewhere between P350 ~ P1200 and the CDs are still in excellent condition. Among the titles I saw was the YYH Battle Music, a Gundam ZZ two-disc set, Silent Mobius radio drama, Silent Mobius 2 OST, Gatchaman OST, Gatchaman OAV OST, a collection featuring Osamu Tezuka's works like Astroboy (Tetsuwan Atom) and Leo the Lion/Kimba the White Lion (Jungle Tantei), Dragonquest, Lupin 3 OST, an out of print Ranma OST, numerous Sailormoon soundtracks, and even more numerous Dragonball Z CDs. Suffice to say, I got one CD, the OST to Sailormoon S since I really love when Sailor Neptune players her violin, which is in one of the tracks. All for P350.
And I know I should stop buying people gifts but when I saw the Grand Theft Auto soundtrack vol. 1 ~6 at Tower Records (and later at Music One Greenbelt), I knew JM/Joan would love it. Of course me being indebted at the moment to a lot of people, I just got them Vol. 1. ^^ The CDs are being sold for P425 so if you haven't completed your collection... (hmmmm, I wonder how long before either JM or Joan will post a comment about this)
Since Jobert told me to meet him at his house at 4:30, I knew that didn't factor in delays yet. Still had time so I went to Greenbelt... once I figured out how to get there.
Anyway, Greenbelt was weird architecture for a mall. The groundfloor zigzags all the way and there's an escalator that leads to the parking and another one to the department store, which I assume is inaccessible from the outside. I had to look for another route in order to see the shops located at the mall's 2nd and 3rd floor.
An interesting shop was the hobby store there. Unfortunately, when I arrived, they were closed since someone was having a children's party. Drat. And I thought there might be hope I'd find a game of Mindtrap here in the Philippines. There's also a bookstore there but it smells of Bibliarch (in the Philippines, there are only really a few bookstores: National, Goodwill, Booksale, A Different Bookstore, and Blibliarch... everything else is derived from them) even though it has another name. They sell essentially the same stuff from the LotR books to this entire shelf on books on art and graphic design. The shop is also selling paints.
And of course, there's Music One at the 2nd floor. At least they have a World section, although didn't see much JPOP except for a title or two, mainly because it was released domestically.
Ran into Mitzi and her date, and later into Sacha with her date. Is it me or are all the cute girls taken? Either way, I'm doomed to the life of a bachelor.
Got home really really late (at around 3 am) since Jobert had to pick up the rest of the party (oh my God! I'm talking like I'm in an RPG), eat (which took quite long since the people in front of me ordered something like a dozen drinks and meals, aside from the fact that they were indecisive as to what to get), navigate to Dennis's home (where we played at the network gaming owned by his relatives), and bring us all back home.
~oh yeah, for those interested, here's the kouhaku site if you want to know who's performing on NHK during New Year from 7:30 - 11:45 (that's Japanese time, so if you're watching it here, subtract one hour)~
I guess it wasn't my day as someone was always blocking me when I passed by A Different Bookstore and Powerbooks. In the former's case, a dad was hanging over the shoulder of his daughter. In the latter, a lot of people are doing some reading and happened to be leaning on the SF&F shelf.
I guess the trip to Tower Records was interesting. At the ground floor of their Glorietta branch, there are some anime OSTs (Original Soundtracks) being sold. Of course they happen to be pre-sold (read: used) but hey, the price range is somewhere between P350 ~ P1200 and the CDs are still in excellent condition. Among the titles I saw was the YYH Battle Music, a Gundam ZZ two-disc set, Silent Mobius radio drama, Silent Mobius 2 OST, Gatchaman OST, Gatchaman OAV OST, a collection featuring Osamu Tezuka's works like Astroboy (Tetsuwan Atom) and Leo the Lion/Kimba the White Lion (Jungle Tantei), Dragonquest, Lupin 3 OST, an out of print Ranma OST, numerous Sailormoon soundtracks, and even more numerous Dragonball Z CDs. Suffice to say, I got one CD, the OST to Sailormoon S since I really love when Sailor Neptune players her violin, which is in one of the tracks. All for P350.
And I know I should stop buying people gifts but when I saw the Grand Theft Auto soundtrack vol. 1 ~6 at Tower Records (and later at Music One Greenbelt), I knew JM/Joan would love it. Of course me being indebted at the moment to a lot of people, I just got them Vol. 1. ^^ The CDs are being sold for P425 so if you haven't completed your collection... (hmmmm, I wonder how long before either JM or Joan will post a comment about this)
Since Jobert told me to meet him at his house at 4:30, I knew that didn't factor in delays yet. Still had time so I went to Greenbelt... once I figured out how to get there.
Anyway, Greenbelt was weird architecture for a mall. The groundfloor zigzags all the way and there's an escalator that leads to the parking and another one to the department store, which I assume is inaccessible from the outside. I had to look for another route in order to see the shops located at the mall's 2nd and 3rd floor.
An interesting shop was the hobby store there. Unfortunately, when I arrived, they were closed since someone was having a children's party. Drat. And I thought there might be hope I'd find a game of Mindtrap here in the Philippines. There's also a bookstore there but it smells of Bibliarch (in the Philippines, there are only really a few bookstores: National, Goodwill, Booksale, A Different Bookstore, and Blibliarch... everything else is derived from them) even though it has another name. They sell essentially the same stuff from the LotR books to this entire shelf on books on art and graphic design. The shop is also selling paints.
And of course, there's Music One at the 2nd floor. At least they have a World section, although didn't see much JPOP except for a title or two, mainly because it was released domestically.
Ran into Mitzi and her date, and later into Sacha with her date. Is it me or are all the cute girls taken? Either way, I'm doomed to the life of a bachelor.
Got home really really late (at around 3 am) since Jobert had to pick up the rest of the party (oh my God! I'm talking like I'm in an RPG), eat (which took quite long since the people in front of me ordered something like a dozen drinks and meals, aside from the fact that they were indecisive as to what to get), navigate to Dennis's home (where we played at the network gaming owned by his relatives), and bring us all back home.
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