Greenhills Shopping Center, Shangri-La Plaza Only Malls Closed on New Year's Day?

Cropped screenshot from the Power Plant Mall website.

I took this photo last December 24.

Is it only this year that malls started opening on December 25 and January 1?  Except for Shangri-La Plaza, which was open on Christmas Day but closed on New Year's Day, it seems that the same malls open on Dec. 25 is also open on Jan. 1. In other words, all the malls except Greenhills and Shangri-La Plaza. Podium, on the other hand, is open on January 1 but closed on New Year's Eve. At least, that's what I understand, since the SM Malls poster says that the sked is same for all malls except as noted. Then it lists SM Megamall, for example, which includes a December 31 sked that's the same as the all malls sked. For Podium, there is only a January 1 sked. Does it mean that Podium has the same sked as the other malls on Dec. 24 and 31, or is it closed?  If the Podium sked is the same as the other malls', would it have been listed?

It's funny how Power Plant's holiday sked did not include January 1.

Another thing that I noticed is that malls don't have someone managing their sites and resort to using Fb to make their holiday announcements e.g. Market! Market. SM Supermalls even has a separate blogspot. Any blogger would know how to operate a wordpress or blogspot site. SM, all you need to do is train someone to update your site--use wordpress, for example, for easy use, then have a committee of approvers. In this Smartphone age, it would be easy to do this.

Also, does Ayala know that when you type Trinoma, you land in SM North EDSA, which claims that Trinoma has been merged with SM North?

Another thing that I realized, while doing this, that the "mall open" sources only refer to Metro Manila. Except Summit Express, which posted photos of each mall group. Not that easy to follow. My former co-agent, Ruby Ochoa, works in an Ayala Mall in Mindanao. Maybe she can tell me about her mall's holiday sked?

While malls have gone from closed to open, BDO has gone the opposite way and will be closed on December 31 and January 1. 6 years ago i. e. 1999, BDO was open on Dec. 31.

Anyway, below is the sked that I've mustered from surfing the mall sites, including their Fb pages.

Mall	Dec. 31, 2013	Jan. 1, 2015
Metro Manila
Alabang Town Center	10 am-6 PM	12 noon-9 PM
Araneta Center	10 AM-7 PM	12 noon-10 PM
Araneta Center dining	10 AM-11 PM	12 noon-11 PM
Bonifacio High Street	11 AM-6 PM	12 noon-10 PM
Eastwood Mall dining	11 AM-1 AM	12 noon-11 PM
Eastwood Mall retail	11 AM-11 PM	12 noon-10 PM
Glorietta	11 AM-6 PM	12 noon-9 PM
Greenbelt	11 AM-6 PM	11 AM-9 PM
Greenhills Shopping Center	10 AM-7 PM	closed
Lucky Chinatown Mall	9 AM-7 PM	12 noon-10 PM
Market! Market!	11 AM-6 PM	12 noon-9 PM
Power Plant Mall	11 AM-6 PM	12 noon-10 PM
Shangri-La Plaza	10 AM-7 PM	closed
SM Aura Premier	9 AM-8 PM	12 noon-10 PM
SM Center Pasig	closed?	12 noon-11 PM
SM Jazz Residences	10 AM-7 PM	closed?
SM Mall of Asia	12 PM-8 PM	12 noon-11 PM
SM Mezza Residences	closed?	closed?
SM MOA Entertainment Mall dining tenants	9 AM-1 AM	12 noon-11 PM
SM MOA By the Bay	4 PM-12 midnight	4 PM-12 midnight
SM Megamall	11 AM-11 PM	12 noon-11 PM
SM North EDSA	9 AM-7 PM	12 noon-11 PM
SM Savemore Nagtahan	7 AM-7 PM	closed?
The Podium	closed?	12 noon-10 PM
Luzon
Cavite
SM Marketmall Dasmarinas
Wet and Dry Market	closed?	24 hours
Pampanga
Marquee Mall	10 AM-6 PM	12 noon-10 PM
SM Savemore Apalit	8 AM-7 PM	closed?
Visayas
Cebu
Ayala Center Cebu	10 AM-7 PM	12 noon-9 PM
Mindanao
Cagayan de Oro
SM City Cagayan de Oro	closed?	closed?
Davao
SM City Davao	closed?	closed?
SM Lanang Premier	closed?	closed?
South Cotabato
SM City General Santos City	closed?	closed?

From their Facebook page.

We will be updating this post as we receive new data.

Lucky Chinatown Mall Open Tomorrow

Where do you go on Christmas Day? Tonight on TV5, Lourd de Veyra tells people who want to go aguinaldo hopping that tomorrow's rains will be light to moderate.

One Christmas Day, I asked my balikbayan friend and her husband where they wanted to go since the malls were closed.

I gave them 2 choices: Ateneo or the Pen for halo-halo. He said that he was open to halo-halo, if it was necessary. Ha!

Anyway, it was my first time to go to Lucky Chinatown Mall last Monday. I was just thinking that Eastwood would probably be open on Dec. 25, because of the call cenuhs.

Then I realized that Megaworld also owns Lucky, so I looked at the mall hours sign closely.

According to Pinoy Money Talk, Eastwood City is open on Christmas Day. And so are other malls like Alabang Town Center, Bonifacio High Street, Glorietta, Market! Market!, MOA, Power Plant Mall and Trinoma. It seems that the only big mall that's closed is Greenhills Shopping Center. There was no mention of Aura and SM North's Dec. 25 skeds.

Now, is Lucky Chinatown Mall worth going to?  I was there for a Mann Hann lunch and saw Daiso, UCC and other stores that you see elsewhere. Except for an ice cream stall that I had not seen before.

Dr. Harvey Uy's Binondo and Makati Clinics

Drs. Harvey Uy and Sheri Liquete, the anesthesiologist.

My friend, who, with her parents, were Harvey's patients in Asian Eye Institute, wanted to know what his clinic hours are, and urged me to blog them.

The new name of all his clinics is Pacific Eye & Laser Institute.

Yesterday, its first day, I was the sixth patient in the history of the Makati Surgical Center. It is located where The Spa used to be, at 50 Jupiter St., Bel-Air. The eyp interactive map is here.

From Kalayaan, I turned left to Makati Avenue, turned left to Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue (because you can't turn left on Jupiter St., contrary to what someone not connected to Pacific had advised me), turned left on Paseo, then turned left on Jupiter. It's a few buildings down on the right. Parking is ample, but with tricky curves. DFC parked in the closed building at the corner before it.

Pacific Eye & Laser Institute calling card.

I almost hit a curve, if not for my co-IRB member, Atty. Bernard Kaw, the first time I tried to park in the basement, so the last time I was there, I parked in BBQ five buildings away on false pretenses, so I have to be creative--again--the next time I go there, if Pacific still does not have valet parking.

Anyway, from Jupiter, the best way out is to go towards Makati Avenue, turn right at Polaris, turn left after Anzo, turn right at P. Burgos, right at Kalayaan, right at Amapola, follow the road until it becomes Rockwell Drive.

Dr. Harvey gives Dr. Sheri and me a tour.

Going to Makati Med, the best way is turn left to Nicanor Garcia from Jupiter, turn right at Gil Puyat, turn right at Zuellig Loop (I think, it's the street before Ayala Extension), turn right at Malugay, cross Sen. Gil Puyat to Tordesillas. The rightmost lane was long, so I took a right after H. V. dela Costa, turned right to Leviste, turned left to Rufino, crossed Ayala, turned right to dela Costa and parked in the parking lot on the right, at the corner of Geronimo and dela Rosa. (The Google Map seems to be missing Geronimo).

I thought that this was going to be the Lasik room. Laser room?

If you take the rightmost lane, you can turn right at dela Costa, cross to Ayala to Geronimo, turn right at Amorsolo, follow the road until you reach Makati Med, turn right up to the driveway for valet parking. The parking building entrance is after the driveway, and the entrance to the parking lot beside Makati Med is after the parking building entrance. Both are almost always full, so I've resorted to parking at the treeful parking lot on Legazpi Street. From dela Rosa, turn left at Rufino, turn left at Legazpi Street. It's on the right. Walk to Salcedo Street at the right. turn left at dela Rosa until you see Makati Med, where there's a side entrance.

Anyway, Harvey texted me today that he is in Makati on Wednesdays and Fridays, 8 to 5. He is in Binondo Mondays 9 to 5, and Thursdays, 2 to 5. His Binondo clinic is on the Ground Floor, Pacific Center (formerly Pacificbank), 460 Quintin Paredes St. Dr. Sheri's husband told me that it's near the old Dragon Seed, Jollibee and Red Ribbon. Dr. Sheri and I know people who are excited with his Binondo clinic, as it is quite near where they live or frequent.

He is at St. Luke's Quezon City on Saturdays, 8-5, Room 611, South Tower, Cathedral Heights. When you enter St. Luke's from E. Rodriguez, Sr. Ave., it's the building on the left. The last time I was in St. Luke's last month, in the evening, so I parked at Cathedral Heights. I went up the driveway, then turned left to the parking building.

The appointment numbers for all clinics are 890-01-15 or 0917-8749202. The email address is appointment@pacificeye.com.ph. For St. Luke's Quezon City, the appointment numbers are 411-41-12 or 723-01-01 loc. 2611. I tried to access pacific.com.ph and got their login page.

The only clinic which will have an optical shop is Makati. The optical shop will open end-January. Across his Binondo clinic is Crystal, an optical shop owned by ex-AEI optometrists who he said I would recognize.

Incidentally, my previous post on his clinic still got 20 out of the 123 views yesterday.

Except for the calling card photo which I scanned today, all photos were taken yesterday at Pacific Eye Makati. I tried to access the website and got to their login page.

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