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Please be advised and informed that the whole stretch of Evangelista St. from EDSA (Jollibee & McDonald’s area) up to its end at Arnaiz Avenue (Pasay Road) in Bangkal, Makati City will be closed to vehicular traffic starting 1200H of Saturday, 21 Jan 2012 until around 1800H and on the following day, Sunday, 22 Jan 2012 from 0800H until around 1700H to give way for the different events scheduled in celebration of the Town Fiesta 2012 (in honor of our Patron Saint San Ildefonso).
Needless to say: AVOID driving within this area at all cost during that weekend! It’s better that you will roam the vicinity of Bangkal, Makati City walking rather than bringing your car with you. I tell you, even the side streets will be closed during these days.
I was tasked to play the Clavinova during the 10PM Christmas Eve Vigil Mass at our parish last Saturday, 24 DEC 2011. While waiting for the 8PM mass to finish, I took out my camera and made several façade shots of the church, the bell tower, and the Parish Center. What caught my attention in clicking shots of the Parish Center is the fact that the priests left the convent’s chandelier lit (on) and flood lights directed towards the church reflect on the five-storey building. Here’s the first shot I took of the convent (top most floor) of the Parish Center (zoom not applied):
Then here’s the other shot with zoom applied (I made an err of not setting the ISO to 3600):
To my surprise just last night (the 26th) while viewing all of the photos I took during the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was the faint silhouette of a person that appeared beside the window of the convent. I swear, there was nobody there when I took the shots (and to know that all of the priests are downstairs busy preparing for the Vigil Mass).
Is there really a ghost at our Parish Center, particularly at the convent?
Last night at around 2115H, I decided to buy ten (10) orders of Pork Siomai and two (02) orders of Black Gulaman for takeout at Chowking Evangelista, Makati City branch. Timestamp in the receipt was 2122H. Some 45 minutes later, my order is still not delivered, thus I made a follow-up to the crew. Makes me wonder how many minutes does it take to dish out 30 pieces of Pork Siomai from the steamer – 1 minute ++ per piece? Err!
Another 05 minutes had passed, and finally my takeout has arrived. I checked if everything is in order but to my surprise, the package contains the 10 orders of Pork Siomai (packed in a single styro box) but with only one (01) dish of chili plus around three (03) packs of Toyomansi! How in this world will three (03) packs of Toyomansi be enough for 30 pieces of Pork Siomai?! I asked the crew for additional packs of Toyomansi, and true to how slow their service is, it took yet another 05 minutes!
You see, I usually get this much of orders from this branch almost every week. And last night’s experience is relative same to my previous experiences with this branch. It is rather usual for me to hear customers complaining on how slow their orders are being served from this branch. Do the math of how many minutes had I spent waiting for my orders in that branch?! I should had done composing 10 blog articles only if you had WiFi there.
I do hope that the Chowking HQ will do something with this franchise branch to better shape up (or ship out) the soonest possible time. Mang Inasal had just opened their branch a block away from where this Chowking branch is standing from.
[UPDATE 15 JUL 2011]
The Chowking Area Manager called me up this morning explaining the possible cause for the lousy service at this branch. According to her, the franchisee decided to close the branch effective 26 JUL 2011, thus some of the regular personnel manning the store were no longer reporting for work. In my opinion, shouldn’t Chowking Corporation be closing this branch as early as possible to avert any further damage to their reputation?
As confirmed by the MMDA Metro Base, Number Coding (UVVRP) in Metro Manila is lifted starting 30 Mar 2010 — except in Makati City. Safe driving to everyone during the holidays.
