Well, I am very fortunate to have met a Filipino woman.” This admission of US Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr. about his romance with a Filipina, came at the end of our interview, but it was well worth the wait, if only because that must have been something the whole town was waiting to hear.
ON THE EVE of their wedding, the groom called up the bride, a bit worried. He was hoarse, he said, from all that practice, and wondered if he could get back his voice in time for the wedding reception.
The moment we heard “Careless Whisper” being sung/screamed— its notes borne by the pre-midnight wind from inside the house to the street where we were getting out of the car—we knew that this would not be a run-of-the-mill event.
Over dinner last week, we finally got the full story on how Rajo Laurel and friends got to hook up with Sarah Jessica Parker when the style icon visited Manila a month ago for the SM Aura Premier opening and to do the SM Love to Shop campaign.
It’s interesting to know what global style icon Sarah Jessica Parker brought home to New York last Friday, from Manila. She got some world-famous sweet dried mangoes and some stuff from Kultura, the contemporary Filipiniana store of SM.
IT DIDN’T happen like in the movies or the way you thought it would happen—your father saying a tearful goodbye to your mother at her deathbed, then bringing her to her final resting place, and finally retreating into a period of grief.
Some thought for the week: since women who have been or are being linked to President Aquino—whether or not there’s really a relationship or it’s just a spin job—end up doing product endorsements, why not give a percentage (small lang naman) of their endorsement fee to a project or NGO for the alleviation of poverty? For a social amelioration cause.
Apparently this has been going on for some months now, but so quietly. CVCLAW, the law firm otherwise known among bad-news consumers as “The Firm,” has been hosting gastronomic dinners for its top clients the past months.
Will she emerge from her coma? We have gotten all the medical answers we possibly could. We are content and grateful for what our doctors have done and continue to do.
Our lunch table last week had a curious, if odd, votation—are you “Team Cristina” or “Team Gigi”? The unexpected social electoral exercise was triggered by the take-no-prisoners battle royale last week between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Sen. Alan Cayetano at the Senate Hall.
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