Here are my “OMG” moments of 2011. They’re not earthshaking. They neither changed the lifestyle scene (we ran the Top 12 Lifestyle stories of 2011 last December 30) nor were talked about, but I’ll nonetheless remember 2011 for them, culled from my lunches, dinners or casual encounters.
It really is more fun in the Philippines! This year, instead of traveling abroad to welcome the New Year, we marveled at the fireworks along the pristine white beach of Boracay.
As an avid reader of your column in the Sunday Lifestyle of the Inquirer, I am amazed at how contradictory a society the Philippines is. I am a resident foreigner in this country, and it perturbs me how rife the level of denial and hypocrisy is. Case in point, your latest column, entitled “Amazed at illicit relationships among OFWs.”
In June of 2011, while our family was (fortunately) gathered in one place (in Bacolod), we took pictures for use in our usual photo card to be sent out in December.
Imagine my delight when I got a text that read, “Pls. come to my birthday @ Lusso in Greenbelt 5. Intimate gathering of my close friends.”
What I didn’t realize until recently was that servants grew old, too, not just me! And that their aging cost a lot! You see, my husband died recently. He had been sick for eight years, which necessitated a lot of hands on deck. But suddenly I was by myself, and they were just too many.
Elsa Chaney, in her article “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” gives a comprehensive layman’s discussion of the feast of the Epiphany, which we celebrate today.
Samsung’s Smart TV is no ordinary boob tube, and Cebu’s leisure class can attest to that after seeing for themselves what the LED D8000 Smart TV could do, at the exclusive viewing party held at Cebu’s hottest nightspot, Maya Mexican Restaurant and Tequila Lounge.
The Cebu Chapter of La Chaine des Rotisseurs marked its 18th anniversary with a grand gala held at the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel. Presiding were Honorary Consul of France Michel Lhuillier, who heads La Chaine in the Philippines, and his wife Amparito Llamas Lhuillier, head of the Cebu chapter.
At the beginning of every year, I try to find a word that I hold on to like a peg for the rest of the year. Let me correct that—I don’t go searching for the word, it manages to find me.
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