Timely advice to single ladies: Attend your high school reunion; you just might find a new love there. Ask former Social Security System president Corazon de la Paz-Bernardo, who married high school classmate Enrique V. Bernardo, President and Commissioner of ANZ Bank in Jakarta, Indonesia, 51 years after they graduated from Rizal High School, once the world’s largest high school in terms of enrolment.
Stripped down to basics, falling in love does not cost a centavo. As the song goes, money can’t buy you love. Money however comes annoyingly and firmly into play when a couple decides to take the relationship to the next level and take the plunge.
Every day, around 8,000 to 10,000 pieces of at least 17 types of exquisite, handmade chocolate confections roll out of the Chocolate Room at the famed Peninsula Boutique at the lower level of The Peninsula Manila. With flavors such as milk, white and dark ganache, vanilla, raspberry, caramel mocha, milk honey, white honey, hazelnut ganache [...]
Cutting edge 3D technology is putting new meaning to the phrase “true to life.” Because of this latest evolution in the viewing experience, images can now be seen in three dimensions – height, length and depth – such that you are tricked into believing that you can actually reach out and touch those people and [...]
The “silver” market in the Philippines is turning out to be a gold mine just waiting to be fully tapped. For one thing, the number of senior citizens or people 60 years and above is growing steadily, from an estimated seven million this year to close to nine million by 2015. And for another, these [...]
Escalating prices of petroleum products, horrendous traffic as well as high toll fees have all made it less likely for real estate buyers these days to consider investing millions of pesos in homes far from where they work and play and where their children go to school. And the loss of single-detached homes in the [...]
Filipinos are known to be a fatalist lot, believing that what will be, will be, and that somehow things will work themselves out. But they don’t always do, as many homeowners, entrepreneurs and large corporations have learned the hard and very expensive way. Because of major events beyond their control – including fire, robbery, theft, [...]
Blame it on the Filipinos’ heightened interest in cooking shows and on the mushrooming of culinary schools all over the country. Then there’s the twin phenomenon of OFWs and budget airlines that has exposed Filipinos to travel abroad and their palate to a varied cuisine. Thanks to these factors, there’s been a slow but steady [...]
Finland’s Nokia Corp. is still the world’s largest mobile phone producer and remains the dominant brand in the Philippines, with an estimated four of five Filipinos owning a Nokia device. But such dominance is being mightily challenged. Nokia is feeling considerable competitive pressures from all sides, as it no longer has a stranglehold on the [...]
Smoking kills. Everybody knows this, including hardcore smokers who can’t get through 10 minutes without taking a puff or two. The question then is, why smoke at all, considering all the damage that it can do to one’s body, from wrinkles to yellow teeth to emphysema and lung cancer? Not to mention the fact that [...]
Is it possible to breathe new life into a 150-year-old, making him hip and young again? Apparently, as some of the country’s retailers have realized to their delight, as all kinds of products that feature Jose Rizal have been flying off the shelves in time for the National Hero’s 150th birth anniversary today. Hope Tang, [...]
