Miss China crowned Miss World 2012, in China
Miss China won the coveted title of Miss World on Saturday, triumphing on home soil during a glitzy final held in a mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert.
August 19, 2012
Miss China won the coveted title of Miss World on Saturday, triumphing on home soil during a glitzy final held in a mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert.
One of the first erotic novels that made an impression on me when I was in grade school (hey, I was precocious, and my father was liberal) was a novel by then best-selling writer Harold Robbins, “The Betsy,” published in 1971 and set during the heyday of the automotive industry in Detroit in the roaring ’20s.
As the yuletide season nears, the bazaars begin! Haven’t you asked yourself: Why so many bazaars? And what makes one better than the other?
I’m not interested in fragrances per se,” says perfumer Francis Kurkdjian. “It’s simply a way for me to express myself.”
Zest Airways is the best way to fly to Shanghai (which is the new Hong Kong for shopping and sight-seeing) at a base airfare of only P1,448. There are four quick steps to getting onboard its new jets.
How do you make a good, generous heart part of the makeover? Problem is, you can’t. At one chi-chi lunch, the women were talking about this high-profile socialite (she became such after marrying into wealth), who was the talk among hair and makeup stylists.
It was a scene straight out of a movie. It is 1975. My mother and I are visiting her friend who has just given birth at the Makati Medical Center. I am 10 and my inquisitive nature has me heading for the hospital nursery.
Cebu’s most elegant wedding in years took place the afternoon of Aug. 11 at the Metropolitan Cathedral. It was filled with a well-dressed congregation, most of whom were relatives and close friends of the couple, Kaye Luym and Javier “Javi” Sala.
Just 17 and done with two years of finishing school in Spain, with a side course in France and travels across Europe, I was back home for revalidation by my paternal grandparents.
Anger is an emotion. Like smoking, it may be dangerous to your health. Unexpressed anger festers and can eventually kill you. Some think it is a normal human response that simply needs to be managed. The Roman lyric poet Horace called it “a brief lunacy, a momentary madness.”
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