ONE week to go before Independence Day, folks are preparing their longer-weekend plans. June 12 is a Tuesday, so why not extend the no-work days from Saturday to Tuesday, go back to work on Wednesday, then wait for the next weekend?
Continue reading …BLACK is not beautiful when the temperature hits the high 30s and the heat index – the effect on your body – is running in the mid-40s (C).
Continue reading …SHORT of locking up your garage with the car in it, how do we save gas as prices keep going up and the peso continues to drop?
Continue reading …The movie is more than its title suggests, but watch it for two reasons other than Bea Alonzo, Derek Ramsay, Paulo Avelino. Those two reasons are 1) Cebu as it has never been cinematographed before, and 2) Ricky Davao as you have never imagined him before.
Continue reading …UNTIL Rep. Cristal Bagatsing of Manila’s fifth district told us about her Balik Saya project starting off with a design competition for the best “baro’t saya” look of Maria Clara, how many of us would’ve bothered to guess that Ermita-Malate is the home of 17 colleges and universities?
Continue reading …NO phalanx of a dozen godparents or principal sponsors, not a single one, not even a secondary sponsor for veil, cord, array, whatever. No maid of honor and bridesmaids, just a trio of flower girls and two pageboys. No cleavage or miniskirt in sight, but of course it was a church wedding, even if a royal one. And except for the (borrowed) diamonds that crowned the bride’s head, the solitaire on her finger, the studs on her ears, and the bracelet on her wrist, I have seen more candlepower, or carat power, at many a wedding in Manila!
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