Comments on: You’ve Got (Junk) Mail…

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:16:17 +0000

Ron, it’s one of our smaller branches, it just has spectacular almost double height ceilings and an unusually large frontage on two sides of the space, it’s why we chose it. Seaside will take a couple of years to get going so we just needed a presence but not a very large space. Having said that, our first weekend was rather busy since we treated all mall employees and SM staff to a PHP59 lechon meal, that is well below cost. A bueno mano giveaway with the (intended) result that many folks in the mall know exactly where we are located now. :)

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:33:11 +0000

O.T.

MM, from the photos I saw on FB, SM Seaside Cebu branch looks great! I like the high ceiling and the very wide entrance! It’s quite big space you got there. Is it the biggest Zubuchon?

By: millet

millet — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 05:06:36 +0000

footloose, romance doesn’t go out of style…that song’s one of our favorites.

By: erehwon

erehwon — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:51:35 +0000

Footloose, your comment led me straight to YT to seek out the inimitable Nat King Cole singing that song once more.

By: Footloose

Footloose — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:21:23 +0000

Gee, Millet, that brought back the lyrics of a song current in my time but which might have already flitted away during yours:

Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while apart
I’m not alone in the night
When I can have all the love you write

I memorize every line
And I kiss the name that you sign
And, darling, then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart

By: millet

millet — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:30:14 +0000

six months before my wedding, I had to go to Japan for six weeks to do a training program. my then fiance’ wrote and mailed me a letter a week before i arrived there, so that i received his letter on the day i arrived. he continued to write me every single day I was there, and my participants and staff got wind of it and teased me and watched me check my mailbox every lunch break. of course i wrote back everyday. too.

to this day, those letters are among my most treasured possessions. it makes me wonder how one young lovers these days can save text messages or emails in a fancy box tied up with a satin ribbon.

By: Betchay

Betchay — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 03:29:07 +0000

Ha!ha!Ha! Yes, very 70’s. And what about chain letters? :)

By: ami

ami — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:17:50 +0000

In my circle of friends, even email has gone obsolete. We now message each other over Viber.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:26:00 +0000

Marj, I agree, handwritten notes trump a text or email any day. To this day, for certain things, we still write handwritten notes/thank yous… and we insist that our daughter, a millennial does it as well.

Ron, thanks, can you tell that quietly we have been CRAZED. That branch opened a week or so late, but I really like the way it looks! Next stop, Manila. Fingers crossed on that one… :) Permits have taken 2-3 months longer to obtain in Makati than in Cebu, and we aren’t done with them yet!! But then again “change was supposedly coming…”

Betchay, were pen pals a 70’s thing? OMG, I haven’t heard that term in eons. And I think mostly girls had pen pals, I certainly don’t remember any boys having them… is that sexist or what?

Footloose, I still have a pear wood pen rack on my desk, with a couple of good writing/fountain pens, though I have to admit, I am using them less and less… but they look good sitting there keeping me company while I tap away on a keyboard of a computer.

Leticia, hahaha, I absolutely do NOT read other peoples mail, but I figured the post it was posted for the public to see, so I peeked. :)

By: Marj

Marj — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:43:36 +0000

I’ve always loved the nostalgia brought by hand written letters, cards and postcards. The idea that a lot of time is spent on writing them (with the occasional corrections or two hahhaha) is leaps and bounds from the textspeak and wrong gramming prevalent on emails and social media posts. Nowadays, it never fails to make my day when a parcel i ordered from an online shop will contain a small handwritten note of thanks – and yes I continue to hoard them ^_^