Update: Our friend Nella Sarabia’s shop survived the fire at the UP Shopping Center.
This morning I woke up to ten texts reporting a fire at Dilimall, the UP Shopping Center where my optometrist of 22 years, Nella Sarabia, has had her shop forever. As has been pointed out in the news media, this is the fourth fire on campus in the last four years.
The Shopping Center was renovated recently (and had a decent washroom for once). I was just at Dilimall last Tuesday to see Nella, and I tried to eat at Rodic’s but it was packed as usual.
Nella just replied to my texts to let me know that her optical was among the few shops spared in the blaze. Most of the stalls simply went up in smoke. Chancellor Michael Tan has announced that the stalls will be relocated around campus soon.
(Personally I feel like my history is being erased—no more CASAA where I used to have breakfast and lunch every day, no more Faculty Center where our Comp Lit classes were held because there were less than ten of us, and now no more Shopping Center where everyone had materials photocopied, printed and bound. If your thesis was among the casualties, I hope you have copies.)
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
March 9th, 2018 at 02:26
The first thing that came into my mind was Dr. Nella’s camera collection displayed in her shop. Good to know the shop was spared.
March 9th, 2018 at 03:09
UP Shopping Center where I had my CMT maxtoll haircut. Hihihi.
March 9th, 2018 at 13:44
Thank goodness!
March 9th, 2018 at 15:58
me: (heaves a big sigh of relief)
March 10th, 2018 at 23:19
Blessings–the GOAT in photocopying business…gonna miss their excellent (and very affordable) services. They will bounce back definitely.
March 11th, 2018 at 17:28
oh my goodness thank you! (got my first pair of glasses from her) and i am happy to know those tiny angels survived! isa ka dun di ba? :)