Trinoma mall

To all mall rats out there, checkout the newest mall in Metro Manila: TriNoma, located at the corner of EDSA and north avenue in Quezon City just beside the MRT station, right in front of SM North EDSA. If i am not mistaken, this is the exact spot peppered with tiangges & jeepney terminals during my UP days.

After lunching at SM Mall of Asia and shopping for pasalubong last Friday, Fil and i went to see this new mall out of curiosity and we were surprised to see something so new yet so familiar. Only about 2 weeks old (it soft-opened last May 16), it has the signature design of an Ayala mall. It is Glorietta and Greenbelt combined, sleek and spacious, with entertaining water fountains and a multi-level park at the center of it. It is definitely not your usual box-type mall but more of like a park where you can also just sit and enjoy a warm cup of coffee which is exactly what we did 'coz after surveying the place, we stopped for some coffee at the Coffee Bean. We also checked out the cinema. Nice comfy chairs they got there but, unlike the old-style cinemas we're used to, there are no comfort rooms inside. You need to go out to do your thing and miss 5-10 minutes of movie time.





















We left after the movie and outside, we saw the facade of the mall's elegantly-designed grand main entrance which simply says: TriNoma

Which made me ask this question: what does it stand for?
Triangle North Mall because it is situated in the North Triangle of Quezon City?
Triangle North of Makati in reference to the wholly-Ayala-owned commercial centers Glorietta and Greenbelt?
Triangle North of Manila as it says in wikipedia?
Triangle North of Makati/Manila as claimed by other sources not sure of what 'ma' stands for? hmmm, how about Marikina? teeheehee, pwede rin yan!

confusing ha, ano ba talaga? explain niyo sakin pls!

In general i like this mall and i am excited to visit again after its grand opening. The only downside is that while the mall offers a view of Quezon City and its landmarks, one annoyance to that view is, disappointingly, the squatters area in front of the Office of the Ombudsman. What an eyesore, tsk! tsk! I hope something can be done about it.

TriNoma will have its grand opening this December - a convenient place for meet-ups especially for people using the MRT, government employees in QC, TV network employees and a perfect tambayan for UP Diliman students and others. It will house not only fastfood chains and the usual retail shops but also fine dining restaurants and high-end stores. As they say, no need to travel to Makati. Its neighbor, SM City North EDSA, obviously smelling competition, is currently undergoing a major facelift and there's a plan to build an overpass that will connect both malls for the convenience of shoppers.

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