It’s National Filipino Food Month. Here are two ways of the many ways to enjoy our country’s rich gustatory offerings. Dine at Tatatito In February, MC Wilson Food Group,
Actor Tony Labrusca was simply cutting hair back in Canada until he decided to change the landscape of his life by going back to the Philippines.
The summer season has officially begun. Have you started writing your summer go-to checklist yet? If not, may we suggest going local? The Philippines is one of the world’s top
What is it about surprise parties that make them so difficult to keep under wraps? At one such recent “surprise” party to mark a significant milestone of a friend, the organizers’ elaborate and carefully orchestrated charade unraveled and failed to get off the ground.
As a young girl in elementary school at Maryknoll (now Miriam College), we were given little “blue books” which portrayed Ecclesiastes 3, the passage “A time for everything,” in photographs. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens,” the passage began.
It’s Balikbayan season, which means, aside from an influx of See’s chocolate, squeaky white trainers and giant plastic tubs of cheese balls, the long-haul-weary Pinoys who have stepped off trans-Pacific or transcontinental flights are in search of a taste of home.
“We wanted Duty Free Philippines to be on par with other global retail stores around the world, but still with a Filipino touch.” This was how Lorenzo “Enchong” Formoso III, chief operating officer of Duty Free Philippines, explained the reason for the latest renovation of the Duty Free Philippines Fiesta Mall in Parañaque.
The emotions of coming home are strong, even though I was here only two years ago. That first glimpse of Manila by night always takes my breath away. The city may be sinking with the rest of the country with debts, overpopulation and bad publicity, but outside my plane window, this brightly lit Pearl of the Orient looks just like any prosperous city in the world.
“Only in the Philippines!” Has this expression always had a bad connotation? More importantly, do we say it in exasperation; or worse, in total resignation like the rest of them?
One sure way to lure us out of the comforts of our castle, which is what home has become at the homestretch of our lives, is a call to lunch for a homecoming classmate.
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