The Philippines may be known for other things but I feel it is the city of brands. First thing at the airport, we were received heart-warmingly by Mr. JM Hook, the president and the CEO of Industrial Advancement Academy of the Philippines, and his team with his green, black, and white color paletted academy's brand taglined, "Learning Today succeed tomorrow".
I felt happy seeing his academy logo as it resembled my Dzongkhag brand logo's color palette. This was the start of making me feel at home in the Philippines except that my home is one-stored.
After a mile, on the massive building, I saw the Philippines' tagline, "Love the Philippines". As is its tagline, the country has provided us meaningful and real-world experiences in just two days.
Next in the training center, as well as the lodge, the V hotel, we were provided with traning materials, and one of them was a pouch. On it was written "Manila" taglined "Be local". This again also gave me the contentment of feeling close to my Dzongkhag as it somewhat matched our in-building tagline, "Believe in Locals".
The following day after the lessons on strategic marketing, our kind and cordial host took us to explore Robison Mall. The mall housed renowned international brands.
I know about many popular brands but for the first time, I saw, touched, and smelled all the branded items; the vesarche scent, H&M, Gap, UNIQLO, Polo, Zara,and Rado items.
However, with the limited Dollar 💵 in the pocket, be it in Bangkok or the Philippines, even after comparing the prices of the commodities in Ngultrum, the purchase remained indecisive, for we had to save for buying the cat eyes, jades, and pearls.
We rather scanned branded malls, looked at the price tag, placed the items back, giggled and murmured to ourselves that these were for billionaires and we would bargain the best at Jaigoan.
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