In a week’s span, we lost two icons belonging to two disparate eras, and we’re lucky to have known of them in our lifetime—Dolphy who made society laugh at its foibles; Maita who made society fight its foibles. Never have two people been so different, it seemed.
Among the most low-key, unassuming yet hardworking people I know are the daughters—the heiresses-apparent—of some of the country’s most powerful fathers. Meeting them makes my job a lot more interesting. They’re a lesson in modesty and how not to wear the mantle of power.
It should be interesting to note the chemistry—if there is, and obviously there is—between President Aquino and US President Barack Obama. Even before Aquino’s visit this week to the US, the two heads of state have had casual encounters, if you could call them that, since Aquino was elected president.
If you found parenting a child to be the challenge of a lifetime—which it is, really—wait till you have to play parent to your parent. No school, no book, no social group ever prepares you for it.
I don’t even remember the last time I danced this much,” a girl friend said, in between huffing and puffing. Me, too. Must have been in the ’80s and the ’90s, we all said, but then we also went further back in time, to the ’70s or even the ’60s, when the band named Daddy Cool struck the irresistible disco hits of those eras.
Good or bad, I have this tendency to come away from a lunch or dinner remembering not the food we ate, but who said what. My memory for food is as bad as my memory for quotes is good.
There goes our young adulthood,” I text-messaged Emmie (Velarde, our Entertainment editor) right after I learned that Gov. Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez had died. This was two weeks ago. Now we’re really officially old, I wanted to tell her.
While everybody, or mostly everybody, will celebrate or pine for romantic love on V Day, last week we witnessed a more reliable kind of love: the love of friendship that spans a lifetime.
Didn’t President Benigno Aquino III (P-Noy) look like a 52-year-old teenager as he admitted before the news camera that he’s been dating Grace Lee? He seemed to be blushing, and had that bashful twinkle in the eyes. “Blushing?” he said. “Must be the lighting.” (News video? Lighting?) Anyway, whatever, he couldn’t mask the kilig.
We got an interesting feedback to last week’s story on high society heiress Suzie Madrigal Bayot filing concubinage case against her husband, Paqui Ortigas.
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