The woman behind the President’s vision
She was destined to be an optometrist the moment she came into the world, thanks to her father and paternal grandfather.
June 9, 2013
She was destined to be an optometrist the moment she came into the world, thanks to her father and paternal grandfather.
At 78, Virginia Romero has seen quite a few battles in life, but her latest still rekindles the passion of her younger years.
With the start of another schoolyear lurking in the next corner, what else can you do but savor the last days of summer?
Bali has often been described as Paradise Found, and when we first visited in 1997, the island was all that. One of the stickiest images I took from that time was the sight of prepubescent boys and girls bathing naked in the river, unmindful of the gawking tourists in the passing buses overhead. The laughter was pure mirth while the frolicking recalled the rough and tumble childhood games of a more innocent era.
There are two ways to attack a buffet. There’s the standard way: just go down the line from soup to salads to cold plates to hot plates to dessert. (Booooo-ring!)
For someone who traffics heavily in the realm of love lives, Marcelo Santos III rues the fact that he doesn’t have much of one. The 22-year-old first-time novelist and online video sensation says he doesn’t have time for romance, no matter that his surprise best-seller is titled “Para sa Hopeless Romantic.”
Kalayo has variously been described as playing “experimental,” “contemporary,” “folk,” “fusion,” “world” and “roots” music, but “music without borders” is probably a better description.
Do you have election hangover? I do. Have the campaign posters, placards and other campaign eyesores been pulled down? The victors may be too busy celebrating, and perhaps the losers couldn’t care less. They all should lend MMDA a helping hand, don’t you think?
It’s barely 7 in the morning, but already, the white-haired, barong-clad chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has slipped quietly into his office, a couple of bodyguards trailing him. Another workday has begun.
“Are you ready to change the world?” 30-year-old Mally Roncal asked her would-be business partner, Don Petitt, in 2002 when they were about to start the now-multi-million dollar business empire, Mally Beauty.
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