Nike from The Playground

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I was looking for a good pair of walking shoes that can sustain me walking around Seoul for our Korea vacation in May, and I was ready to already purchase either a pair of MBTs or Skechers shoes. Both have great soles that are soft, and yet provide good support, which is very important for somebody with a slipped disc.

Kim, on the other hand, was looking for a pair of shoes to use for playing basketball. He is currently using an Adidas Derrick Rose which I bought back in 2012 and only used twice (I just paraded in the court for the two instances that my officemates let me play during a sports tournament). However, since the Derrick Rose is cut quite low, it lacks support for his ankles while playing.

He brought me to The Playground, located near Imelda Avenue, along Marcos Highway in Marikina, as he saw that they had huge discounts for athletic footwear.

While he was meandering about looking at the Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour options, I ended up trying on shoes, only to realize that Nike has models that have similar support to MBT and Skechers.

I ended up getting a pair of Nike Kaishi in burgundy. And the best part, it was priced at PhP 3,595.00, and I only paid PhP 1,700.00 for it. Now isn't that a steal?

borrowed from Tokopedia

I would have preferred the pair in blue, but they didn't have my size anymore. Here are some pictures of the Kaishi in my mom's Bric's Sintesis carry-on.

I started listing down what else I needed for our Korea vacation. I am luggage-ready (separate post on this) and walking shoes-ready. What else am I missing?

Marcos Martial Law: Never Again by Raissa Robles

As soon as I read in an article that the copies of the books were available already in National Bookstore, I immediately went to the branch in Glorietta, which was just right across Park Terraces.

The book is priced at PhP 395.00. It is a very easy read. I've been reading it as a bedside novel, which is a challenge because the book is huge. 

As a student, I was diligent reading on the history of Martial Law. Although I was born in the early 80s, my family did not feel the effects of Martial Law at the time. My mother, though, had a coffee-table book on People Power which piqued my interest in the topic at an early age. In Ateneo,  I was lucky to have been taught by my teachers of what happened during Martial Law, and the thirst for knowledge on that era in Philippine history never lost its allure for me. I was fascinated by the excesses of the Marcoses - I used to have a copy of Some Are Smarter Than Others, and that book reported in depth the items that Imelda Marcos would purchase from abroad. It listed real estate, jewelry, shoes, clothes, paintings - quite fascinating, I tell you. I really hope that they do another run of that book again. 

In the day and age of information technology, it surprises me that millennials don't seem to have a clue as to what happened during Martial Law. This particular book gives you the story of the victims of human rights violations, the desaparecidos, and their families. 

It would be a good addition to every Filipino's library.