Thus, Asia’s Got Talent big winner Gerphil Geraldine Flores with but three Christmas classics – Silent Night, O Holy Night and The Christmas Song – enlivened, enveloped the vast mall with the spirit of the merriest season of the year.
This year short of the usual “giant” Christmas symbols with its simple golden tree, gift boxes and white reindeer, SM City Clark nonetheless scaled the heights of the season’s joys with the heavenly voice of Gerphil to the music of the Manila Symphony Orchestra, leaving everyone swooning early Sunday evening.
On the other hand, it’s a kid’s world of wonder at SM City Pampanga, SM City San Fernando Downtown and SM City Olongapo with Cartoon Network characters coming to life at the malls’ Christmas season launches.
Selfies, wefies and everything else in between were the order of the day with the The Power Puff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Dexter, and Mordecai, to name only the most famous ones.
The Cartoon Network Characters are available for a meet-and-greet happening from Nov 8 to 14, 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m. plus all Saturdays of December at the malls’ Event Center.
At SM City Pampanga, the Angeles University Foundation Concert Chorus regaled the mallgoers with a medley of Christmas carols.
Aeta children from Barangay New Cabalan were the recipients of gifts from SM City Olongapo, while those from tribes in Mabalacat City and Porac were the ones at SM City Clark.
For its part, SM City Tarlac launched “The Christmas Express,” a story of Santa Claus riding his train to deliver gifts to children around the globe from his workplace in the North Pole when suddenly the locomotive met an unexpected delay due to the icy railroad trail.
Five penguins rescued and helped Santa fixed his train and put everything back on the right track.
Yes, there’s no stopping Christmas, with all the joy, the hope, the love that it brings. What with the SM malls starting to spread the cheers.
