Metro ATC

     There's a new mall in my area and it is really a great one!  Last August 18, I was invited to take part to the opening of the Metro ATC's department store.  Little did I know that the grocery area was already open to the public since August 11.  

     Metro ATC is a 44,000 square-meter retail store which is designed to ease the shoppers life by having your badly needed items found in the grocery area and the department store in one area.  I was able to experience first hand what it was like to be inside a great grocery which was able to combine both local and imported items which I use in the kitchen.  The grocery area alone is very pleasing to the eyes and really has a nice ambiance as well.  It also has a nearby food area for budget meals and for meriendas as well like Serenitea, NYFD, and Sbarro (soon to open).  Their gourmet area also serve nice dishes as well as sell some of the tastiest bread and pastries.

     I also liked their spacious comfort rooms which is found on the 2nd floor of the department store, it also had a lounge before it.  They also sell famous furniture crafted from Cebu courtesy of the Heritage.  Unique and very beautiful crafts that would really make your home both cozy and pleasing.

     Their electronics section also sell some famous LED TVs for 12mts to pay, these TVs are the ones that are only being sold for cash/straight from other malls.  Imagine being able to buy the same item for the same price at a much easier way! ^_^

      The Metro ATC mall is conveniently connected to the ATC mall and has a free underground parking.  Yes, you heard it right, FREE PARKING! ^_^  So come now and experience shopping at ease, come to the Metro ATC mall!

A very special thanks to Ms Tisha Timbang and Alex for the invite!

The Bourne Legacy

     Famous novel by Robert Ludlum's "The Bourne series" is revived in the cinema by the release of the new expansion of which I hope to be another trilogy, The Bourne Legacy.  Jeremy Renner stars as one of the trained assasins which is under the Bourne experiment.  In this film, not being able to read the books, I knew that Jason Bourne wasn't the only one which went under and is still undergoing the said experiment.

     Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) finds the rest house for the assasins in training at a snow covered hut and figured out a way to get out of the system.  But that was not the thing he needed, he also needed to take out the system in him as well.  He finds Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz), a doctor who survived the assassination of all the doctors involved in the Bourne project and convinces her to help him relieve from the drugs he needed to take.

     The movie was really entertaining and was a bit cut short, or I just really enjoyed it so much that I didn't noticed the time.  When it ended I was just confused with the climax that I had to say to myself "maybe there is a sequel to this?" because it was really a big cliff hanger.  The shots in the Philippines was great, it really showed the slums in Sta Ana area and also the crowded streets of Manila which made it outstanding with the chase scenes.  If you didn't knew the area, you be amazed to how they managed to go through the traffic so easily and also the side street chases that happened.  But if you knew all the places, you'd find yourself wondering how they were able to manage to be on another different area so fast ^_^

     I really loved the movie so much!  It was really funny when my fiance was looking for the shot of El Nido, I told her the last shot was it.  She went "but it really looked beautiful?", the movie shows the ups and downs of the Philippines but we should never ever get stuck with just the ugly part, we should also realize that there are also a lot of places in our country that are beautiful as well.

The Dark Knight Rises

     After 4 years of waiting... Batman returns to end his legacy in the film "The Dark Knight Rises".  Unfortunately I came in late by 15mins, but since I was able to see the long trailer of the movie with Bane and his men invading a plane, so I was able to get a gist of what happened with the parts I missed.

     The movie starts 8yrs after Batman's disappearance from Gotham, 8yrs after his friend Harvey Dent died, Gotham finally has enjoyed 8yrs of peace under the Dent Act.  And with the Batman, Bruce Wayne also decided to lay low and be on a recluse with which the fall of his business.  A new villain, Bane, finds about Gordon's secret and decides to resurface and take on the stock market hostage, and with it Batman is forced to return to Gotham.  He was able to stop Bane and his men but only to find out that his stock was his target and had it bankrupt forcing him to turnover his company.  Suspecting that John Daggett, his business rival, was working with Bane.  He turnovers his business instead to Miranda Tate.

     Alfred leaves the mansion after telling Bruce that he always envisioned seeing Bruce in a restaurant with a lovely wife (this part really gave me the chills).  As Batman is led by Selina Kyle to Bane's lair, he instead got beaten up by him and sent to the prison were Bane was able to escape, a prison that was always considered inescapable.  While Bruce was trying to recover and escape, Bane takes over Gotham, cutting off all bridges, trapping all policemen underground, making all the prisoners escape, giving what the rich have to the poor, and basically creating chaos all around Gotham.  All with the help of a Nuclear Bomb he had created as a warning to anyone who tries to leave Gotham or enter it without his permission.

     After months of training and trying to escape, Bruce finally was able to manage so by accepting his weakness.  He then asks for help from Selina, Gordon, Blake, and Lucius Fox to liberate Gotham.  While battling Bane, he then finds out that Bane wasn't the child of his former master but Tate was.  He eventually was able to stop Tate and was able to retrieve the bomb but found that they didn't have the capacity from stopping it to explode.  He then was forced to fly the bomb and have it explode on the sea, and since the Bat didn't have autopilot with it he had to manually fly it to a safety zone and have it explode.

     The film ends with all the people of Gotham knowing that Batman died for them, and with it they built him a statue as a reminder of the hero who saved the entire city.  Alfred, Gordon and Blake had a funeral outside the Wayne manor was divided to pay for the debt and the rest to be given to Alfred, the manor itself was turned into an orphanage.  Lucius finds after six months that Bruce programmed the autopilot on the aircraft.  And Alfred finds Bruce and Selina in a restaurant in Italy, as Blake inherits the Bat cave.

     The Dark Knight Rises is easily considered as the best of the trilogy, I enjoyed it from beginning to end without realizing that the film was almost 3hrs long.  It even reached $745 million + in gross profit.  Catch it while its still showing in your nearest theaters.