10 Insider Shopping Tips for the SM 3-Day Sale

MANILA, Philippines – While shopping at the always hotly anticipated SM 3-Day Sale guarantees a good deal, there are even better bargains to be discovered – if you know where to look and when to shop. Here are 10 insider tips (you wish you knew before!) to help you navigate your way through the upcoming sale this weekend at selected SM Supermalls. Read on to get #AllKindsofWin!

1. Start early to get first dibs on the best sale items.

The first few hours of a big sale is a goldmine. The best marked-down items are yet to be snagged and if you’re lucky, they still have them at your size. And you can breeze through the checkout counter in no time. Shopping at 0% panic and stress level, yes?

2. Load up and enjoy a good meal before the shopping flurry.

Make sure you have enough energy to sustain you from rack to rack and from shop to shop. Among the great dining deals available, Pizza Hut has something for frenzied shoppers with their 2 Family Pan pizzas at 50% off only during the SM 3-Day Sale.

3. Shopping during the first 2 hours gets you more discounts.

Get an additional 10% off on top of the existing discount when you shop with your SM Advantage card during the first 2 hours of the SM 3-Day Sale on Friday at Forever 21, Uniqlo, Ace Hardware, Toy Kingdom, Watsons, The SM Store, and other SM Retail affiliates. Also open to BDO Rewards and Prestige members.

4. GC rewards when you shop on a Saturday and Sunday.

No time to shop during the Friday rush? Don’t fret as the SM 3-Day Sale also has something for the weekend warriors. Every P5,000 single-receipt purchase rewards you with a P200 gift certificate from SM Supermalls and doubles your raffle coupons.

5. Stock-up on fashion basics and upgrade your wardrobe with key pieces.

Time to do a closet overhaul. From casual staples such as tees and jeans to dresses, jackets and shoes for the office, you are sure to find them among the selected marked-down items up to 70% off from SM Woman (The SM Store), Forever 21, Uniqlo, Apple & Eve, Girbaud, ForMe, Collezione C2, Unica Hija, Jag and Primadonna among others.

6. Time to get that eyewear you’ve been eyeing for

Prices of eyewear, watches and accessories incredibly drops during the SM 3-Day Sale. Oakley, Celine, Quicksilver, Nike, CK and Fendi are just some of the eyewear brands at 50-70% off from Ideal Vision. Timex also offers select watches at half the price.

7. Get a new pair of sneaks at 50%.

Use your spanking new trainers as motivation to get you started on your gym membership. Or for the fashionistas, we’re sure you’ve heard that sneakers are the new flats. Sportshouse is offering 50% discount on select running shoes.

8. Take advantage of the 5% additional discount for appliances.

5% off on top of the existing discount is big savings when you shop for high-ticket items such as appliances. Just show your SM Advantage, BDO Rewards or Prestige card to avail of this shopping privilege at the SM Appliance Center during the first 2 hours of Friday.

9. Just flash your SM Advantage Card for hassle-free parking.

Parking spaces are reserved for SM Advantage, BDO Rewards and Prestige members during the SM 3-Day Sale. First come, first served, as usual, so it pays to be early. Best to be there a little before 10am, just a few minutes before the mall open

10. Best weekend to schedule a much-needed pampering session.

Select beauty and wellness services offer deep discounts and irresistible packages during the SM 3-Day Sale. For instance, body scrubs, diamond peels and eyelash extensions at 50%-70% off are offered. So it’s really best to start shopping early and cap it off with a relaxing pampering session.

Visit the SM 3-Day Sale this Friday to Sunday (May 15, 16 and 17) at SM City Bacoor, Baguio, Batangas, Consolacion, Naga, Novaliches, San Fernando, San Lazaro, Santa Rosa, SM Center Las Pinas, SM Megacenter Cabanatuan and SM Megamall. Share your best shopping finds online, use the hashtag #SM3DaySale and tag @SMSupermalls on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Per DTI-FTEB SPD permit nos. 8057, 2900, 7957 & 7071, DTI-NEPO permit no. 021 and DTI Batangas permit no. 115, series of 2015.

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Exquisite Manila's Summer Clearance Sale: May 8 to 18 at the Serendra Branch and Eastwood Branch

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Exquisite Manila Eastwood Mall Branch (2nd floor in between Washington and Richmonde Hotel) and Serendra Branch will be having a big summer sale from May 8 to 18. Strictly cash transactions only. Exquisite Manila will also be raffling off items to three lucky customers. All items are guaranteed authentic, pre orders for hard to find items are highly welcome.

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Her Unbecoming Behavior

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Sometime ago, Hyper TV Personality (HP) quietly returned to her home station after leaving it for greener pastures. However, when her new station decided to cut down on its personnel, she had no choice but to humble herself and return to her previous network. Lucky for HP, the network welcomed her with warmth and she was given even a spot in its cable station. Thus, in a short span since her return, HP received so many blessings.

While HP projects a stern and serious image in front of the camera, she also has a feisty side that she projects when she reacts to issues that are too controversial. This feisty side, unfortunately, is not confined to the walls of her network only. Contrary to the sympathetic image she projects in her on cam appearances, HP can behave in a way that disregards the welfare of other people around her.

When a Close Relative (CR) of HP was hospitalized, all they did was complain. The nurses had to bear the brunt of the ballistic mouth of HP. Well, HP should actually be happy because her loud complaining resulted in the alleged suspension of the nurses. The nurses apparently did not respond immediately to the call bell of CR, which caused HP to make a scene. Incidentally, CR was not even calling the nurse for something urgent.

Sadly, with all her blessings and a second chance at her previous network, HP opted to unleash her undesirable attitude towards ordinary folks. Instead of continuing to be humble, she is behaving the opposite. With this incident in mind, one should not be surprised at the way she behaved in a recent event. Moreover, her reaction after being exposed should not be surprising as well because her network is very sensitive to how its personalities behave.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. – William Penn

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Letter from a Reader: 'PBA Player's Wife Verbally Abused and Humiliated My Children in Public'

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Dear Fashion Pulis,

I certainly hope this would merit your attention. The wife of San Miguel Beermen player Marcio Lassiter - Jerlyn  Abasolo Pangilinan Lassiter - never heard of her name until one frightful Sunday afternoon, on Mother’s Day, as we were celebrating the occasion with my two daughters, Maureen (27), and Aika (26), niece, nephews and three young grandchildren.

From my unit at the 11th floor, I rushed to the swimming pool after receiving a message that someone was quarreling with my daughter, Maureen. Upon reaching the 8th floor of the amenities area, I immediately called the attention of several security personnel to escort me to find out what was happening at the pool.

I came across a family headed by an old woman I presumed was in her 70’s talking to my children. Maureen was trying to explain patiently about a misunderstanding. The old woman and her family seemed reluctant. I asked my daughters how everything started.

Pointing within a distance to Jerlyn Abasolo Pangilinan Lassiter, a woman who was ranting on her cellphone.  Maureen told me she had been accused of taking photos of this woman. She overheard her say to Maureen’s cousin,” What the f*** is her problem?”

 Maureen showed and handed her phone to Jerlyn to prove that she was only taking “selfies,”  but that  woman brushed it off and angrily responded, “I don’t want to see that! What the f*** is your problem? Ano, your nose must be bleeding already!”

She said that in front of my grandchildren, ages 8, 3 and 2 years old. My 3-year-old granddaughter was crying out of fear. But that woman continued shouting arrogantly, "What’s your unit? Ano unit nyo? Tignan natin kung sino ang mas powerful dito. Tignan natin kung sino tenant ang papakinggan dito!"

Jerlyn Lassiter was on her cellphone when I walked towards her direction near the female changing room. Security barred me at few feet length when I called her out to explain what she  just did. At this point, she became agitated and reluctant to face me. I demanded that she come out and explain.

She shouted angrily, “You’re stupid! B*** Ka!”

I was shocked, but shouted back, “Stupid ka rin!”

Her next rebuttal, “ Oh yeah, is that the only English you know? ”

I was taken aback by her gutter language. I told security to record everything she said and prepare an incident report.

I went back to my daughters who were still explaining to the family that it was only a misunderstanding. The family, still angry and unconvinced, as the grandmother rudely said, “ Nauna kami dito!”

I told my daughters to pack up their things and we should just leave the premises. But not without my youngest daughter who retaliated sarcastically out of frustration, “Thank you for letting us use your clubhouse.”

My daughters tightly hugged to comfort each other. It was a very traumatic experience for us.

Jerlyn Lassiter has crossed boundaries. We had been insulted. She threatened my children and traumatized my very young grandchildren. I know the trauma would be there for a long time. What happened was clearly child abuse.

I would like to say that it is most unfair for us residents to be continually subjected / exposed to people like Jerlyn and her family who have such disturbing, disgusting and threatening behavior. Their conduct is simply incompatible with and contrary to the values enshrined in a supposed to be decent condominium living.

I hope this will serve as an example to all people like Jerlyn Lassiter with atrocious, uneducated and abominable attitude that they are not above the law, especially on child abuse and slander.

Jerlyn Lassiter, crossed my boundaries and traumatized my children/granchildren under the following violations:

CHILD ABUSE

RA7610

(1) Psychological and physical abuse, neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse and emotional maltreatment;

(2) Any act by deeds or words which debases, degrades or demeans the intrinsic worth and dignity of a child as a human being;

(5) Circumstances, which threaten or endanger the survival and normal development of children.

SLANDER

Penalized by Article 358 of the Revised Penal Code, slander or oral defamation is libel committed by oral (spoken) means instead of in writing. The term oral defamation or slander, as now understood, has been defined as the speaking of base and defamatory words, which tend to prejudice another in his reputation, office, trade, business, or means of livelihood. (Villanueva vs. People, G.R. No. 160351 [2006])

Thank you, Fashion Pulis, for publishing my letter.

Respectfully,

Ms. Belle Enriquez
Board of Trustee, Children’s Rights & Welfare Advocate
Para Sa Bansa Foundation, Inc.

Belle Enriquez
Vice-President for Finance & Logistics
Para Sa Bansa Foundation, Inc
CEO, Organizing for Action, Network, Inc

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Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel Marries Same Sex Partner

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LUXEMBOURG, May 15 (Reuters) - Luxembourg's prime minister married his civil partner on Friday, becoming the first serving leader in the European Union to wed someone of the same sex.

Xavier Bettel, 42, and Belgian architect Gauthier Destenay were among the first men to marry under a new law, which came into force in the Grand Duchy in January and made it the latest on nearly a dozen EU states to allow gay marriage.

Greeted by scores of well-wishers outside city hall after the private ceremony, the couple, in dark suits and ties, waved to the crowd. Bettel, a liberal whose election 18 months ago ended decades of conservative rule in the traditionally Catholic country, hugged Destenay and said: "Luxembourg can set an example."

Fellow youthful EU prime ministers Charles Michel, 39, of neighboring Belgium, and Estonia's Taavi Roivas, 35, attended the civil ceremony conducted by Bettel's political ally and successor as mayor of the city of Luxembourg.

"I came to the wedding of a friend. It's a great moment for him and I had to be present," Michel told Belgium's RTBF radio.

Bettel, a lawyer by training, publicly came out as gay in a radio show seven years ago. Destenay, already his boyfriend at the time, had still not come out.

"I didn't get up one morning and said, hey, I'm gay," Bettel told a television interviewer in 2013. "When I hear people say that we are sick, it's not a choice."

He became prime minister in December 2013, ending 19 years in power for Jean-Claude Juncker, who now heads the European Commission in Brussels.

Five years ago, Johanna Sigurdardottir, then the prime minister of Iceland, became the first serving government leader in the world to marry a same-sex partner. (Additional reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek and Alastair Macdonald in Brussels; Writing by Robert-Jan Bartunek; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Robin Pomeroy)