Love ‘kita,’ Cesar
Cesar Gaupo promised to attend the Lifestyle meeting of fashion designers last Monday to discuss our bridal show with Seda Vertis North. Instead, we attended his interment last Friday.
January 27, 2019
Cesar Gaupo promised to attend the Lifestyle meeting of fashion designers last Monday to discuss our bridal show with Seda Vertis North. Instead, we attended his interment last Friday.
One such is Dr. Jaime “Jimmy” Laya, the former Central Bank governor, education minister, UP dean, culture administrator (Intramuros Administration, NCCA, CCP), art collector, author and columnist.
In 2000, I remember, I was sitting in a meeting where a slide was presented showing the impending death of magazine publishing and the sure world dominance of the web.
The Ternocon at Cultural Center of the Philippines went one step further in promoting the national dress.
To have P1 billion more is a bit much.
Last Thursday over dinner hosted by Cultural Center of the Philippines chair Margie Moran Floirendo (aka Miss Universe), we had some juicy dish. We stayed glued to our seats in her living room, listening to Margie recount how she found the painting of her mother, which had been missing for 25 years.
When Matteo Guidicelli and Nico Bolzico posted a video in Instagram the last week of August—a funny/serious video of themselves (how else, from the two) —inviting people to a dinner the two would cook at the Guidicellis’ Da Gianni restaurant, the seats sold out that same day. The two promised to have pasta, pizza, gelato and wine pairings, and to work the grill for steaks.
We were amused by what a parent said over lunch: “Our parents’ generation lived through the world war. Our generation lived through martial law. Our kids’ generation can’t live… without WiFi.”
Why were we not surprised—that Filipinos, in Metro Manila at least, are tad short of going crazy over “Crazy Rich Asians”? It’s the talk of the town in a week that saw a rush of private screenings, including that of Philippine Tatler last Wednesday, where we went to at My Cinema at Greenbelt.
We don’t remember a time we saw people excited over stepping inside a newly delivered plane, as they were two Saturdays ago in Toulouse, France. Men get excited over cars, women salivate over new “it” bags. But planes?
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