The heat is on and nothing can stop temperatures from rising. My attitude is, if we have to sizzle, let’s do it with style! There’s no more stylish eyewear to use under the fun, hot sun than Oakley. The glam eyepieces showed off remarkable innovation and revolutionary fashion at a recent affair to showcase their latest technologies.
In his 1949 classic book, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” Joseph Campbell talks about the final stage of a hero’s journey, the return to his home.
I wouldn’t hang that in my bathroom.” The remark has become quite infamous since one mortal made it upon coming into virginal contact with Onib Olmedo’s art. Bettina Olmedo herself overheard it early in her husband’s career as a painter, from a society matron who, like many at the time, bought a painting for one of two reasons, or both: as an ornament of interior decoration and as a coveted item by an artist in current demand.
Thalassa “Sasha” Gatlin Elizalde-Del Rosario is born lucky. She is an heiress twice over, being the sixth of broadcasting magnate Fred J. Elizalde’s eight children and the sole inheritor of her maternal grandmother, Adela Catigbac Salas-Gatlin.
Last April 20, my dear friend, Thalassa Mary Adela Gatlin Elizalde, daughter of Fred J. Elizalde and the late Joan Gatlin, decided to make it official. She exchanged vows with Robert Raymond del Rosario in a charming ceremony at San Sebastian Church in Manila.
I know this old kundiman by heart. Inay Aurea sang “Babalik Ka Rin” often. When I was a little boy, she would take me along to the house of her cousin after hearing Mass on Sundays. Tia Naty owned one of three pianos in town. She would play the piano and Inay Aurea would sing “Babalik Ka Rin” with a lot of feeling. Inay Aurea knew what loneliness was all about.
DURING THE next 12 months, Anne will enter a more serious and possibly even frustrating professional cycle in her life due to the powerful movement of Saturn. This could indicate an important turning point in her career. A favorable Jupiter trend from June 2012 is an excellent omen for her personal and romantic relationships.
Cebu is in the world map as an important center of finely made furniture. One of its innovative exponents is Heritage Muebles Mirabile Export at Soong I in Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City.
When the feast of Sta. Rita de Cascia comes every May 22, expect fashion designer Oskar Peralta to be there at San Agustin Church, attending to the carroza of the saint, decorating it with red roses for the procession after the 5:30 p.m. Mass. Oskar has been doing this for the past 40 years, since his client Providad Herrera told him about the devotion to Sta. Rita de Cascia in 1972. Oskar didn’t know the devotion would change his life.
It takes one good man in the presidency to get us at least hoping again, no small triumph in itself. It’s been a while since we had someone with the moral ascendancy to lead the fight against the national contagion, corruption and, its running complication, poverty.
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