GENERAL: The Ultimate Lifestyle Store For The Self Made Man!

Have you heard of General?! If you haven't been to C1 Bonifacio High Street to see this store, you must have been living under a rock. For stylish and classy men, this should be your "go to store" from now on. Let's just say, it sets the bar for STYLE. I gasped at the sight of the brands they carry.

Do you remember the artist named WHOOP whom I featured here during the DIMENSIONE Magis launch? Well he's responsible for these art installations above. GENERAL actually changes face every so often to feature artists of different mediums to coincide with the upscale but relaxed feel of the store. It's a feat I haven't seen from other brands. Then I took a closer look at the items they have on the shelves. I'm telling you, I was like a kid in a candy store!

This one's SPY+. A brand made popular during the mid 90's designed and created by achiever athletes and design freaks from California now gearing to some of the world's best technical eye wear. It's here in General, one look and you're hooked!

Cross Pens are as historical as my college life. I've donned one of these engraved wonders which signifies stature and class even at that time. They carry these now for smart executives who would want to see high quality pens that's sophisticated and stylish at the same time. Why not? I own one already :)

Gentlemen's Tonic Babassu Bergamot Pre Shave Oil, Aftershave cream, Foaming facial Cleanser, Classic shave cream and brush. It's all signature grooming products or the sophisticated man. If you've got taste, this definitely should be in your regimen. It's also got that woodsy tones as its fragrance, so for those who want something light and fresh, get it! I want to review this so bad! :)

 In a nutshell, they carry some of my favorite brands. Upscale yes, but very much worth it!

So for apparel, make sure you check out Lyle and Scott, Reyn Spooner, Victorinox, Boxfresh, Desigual, and Penfield.

Oh see this shoe on the left? I bought that ^________^

For shoes they've got Boxfresh, Olukai, Fitflop, Swims, Tretorn, Clae.

For men's accesories, they've got Bellroy, Brixton, Hex, Herschel, Laco, Sledgers, T-Tech, Victorinox and Cross. To each his own, and I've got to say I LOVE THIS!

Unknown to me, I didn't know that MINI Cooper had their own collection. It's all BRIT chic and the vibe totally coincides with the General store. I wanted the jacket and shirts. Heck I love the small MINI car too. Aside from that, MINI showed their latest campaign that evening.

Imagine a 6 foot duck on top of a MINI car, then it roamed around BGC quite a few times. Not asking why, but WHY NOT? Their tag line... NOT NORMAL. This duck will be also displayed on the General store until they change faces again pretty soon.Check this out!

GENERAL PH you have all the brands I love. For Men who want their lifestyle be as classy, easy and sophisticated... drop by their store at C1 in Bonifacio High Street. It's heaven I tell you! Congratulations to the Primer Group of Companies for putting this up! You have no idea how I felt when I was there. It was surreal! Thank you for getting all these brands in one place!

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Experience ESPN HD, SKY Broadband at SKY Zone!

I want my own HD TV! That's exactly what I got imprinted on my forehead when I visited the SKY ZONE facility at the posh Powerplant Mall in Rockwell. I had never seen channels so clear in my entire life! It was like everything was just next door and it was just a flat glass screen separating us. I didn't know we had this technology within out reach through SKY CABLE HD!

The thing is you can only experience this high definition cable TV viewing plus high speed broadband Internet through the SKYZONE Mall Blitz on May5-6, 19-20 at the Ground Floor South Court of the Power Plant Mall in Rockwell. The afternoon simply just awed me about how fast the connection was; it makes my office's high bandwidth connection be put to shame.

Just look at the comparison!

Standard Definition Cable Connection had slight delays and it was really showing pixelated parts. Although it showed quite a decent thing on HD TV something was definitely missing. Shouldn't this be crisp and vivid?  The game was there, (Thank God for ESPN!) but the people and the whole venue seemed too blurry, I had so many reservations about what I've been watching at home. Shouldn't HD be clearer?

Lo and behold my questions just got answered by merely looking at the side of the SKY ZONE area. See how human he looks like? He doesn't even have those pixels I mentioned earlier. It was crisp as a potato chip fresh out of the oven. Even on an angle it still had that feeling. Maybe if I watched "the ring" that time Sadako might really come out! Haha! It was really LIFE LIKE!

Even my blogger friends tried out SKY Broadband facility had a grand time downloading/streaming movies in a couple of minutes! We blog heavy in photos and didn't see it lag on the Mac computers there. You've got to experience it all to tell the difference. Imagine 112 Mbps! Good thing they are even planning to have them brought to different malls soon!

I love that they also offer ESPN on HD via the ESPN HD channel. Imagine those sports programs all on HD TV quality while in the comforts of your own home. Best of all, you and I could get the SKYCable HD's Box installed with up to 85% off the regular price. If you check out the SKY ZONE mall blitz facility you can get first dibs on ESPN HD's sports programs and what they have to offer this season. I'm sure you would want to experience all those NBA Games, Football and Golf programs seen on HD... as if you were there!

Other than that, there are SKY Broadband packages made up to 112 Mbps. There is also a promo called BIGTIME CHOICES that's got perks! Free Digibox installation for non Sky Cable Members, Free upgrade to SKY Cable HD plus 3 months viewing of ESPN HD and free SKY Cable Season pass for the Manny Pacquiao - Timothy Bradley fight this coming June! Just imagine how much free stuff you'll already getting once you are subscribed through SKY Cable and SKY Broadband, Cable TV and Internet has never been better!

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For more information about SKY ZONE Schedules

Visit their website

http://www.mysky.com.ph

Or simply call their Customer Service hotlines

381-0000

0917631000

You can even sign up for the 15day free trial on SKY Cable HD and SKY Broadband!

Capisce?!

Glam - High Fashion by the River

In the not so quaint Marikina River Park we went in and arranged this photoshoot with the C4. The Call Center Camera Club is pretty big and by the looks of it there will be more shoots with these equally good looking guys in the coming months. My Fashion Photography itch would definitely welcome this.

I'm not going to show you the whole set but I'm going to get you a glimpse of some of the shots I made and what I was trying to achieve in post processing. I've been a little haunted by low key shots these past few weeks so I'm trying to get high contrast brightened skin colors because I'm not much of a fan of over saturated skin. I guess in some way I achieved that but I'm experimenting with layouts pretty soon. The end result is a little on the white-vampiric looking side and I got to emphasize on better parts like the eyes and clothes. Obviously I'm not done with the whole set but this should be a good thing to start that off.

Showing you some new sets pretty soon! Stay tuned for that! =)