Room accommodations in luxury and boutique hotels lining the so-called “golden mile” of Roxas Boulevard that stretches 4.6 kilometers, from Manila to the border of Pasay City, are sold out in time for Pope Francis’ visit to the country later this week.
American R&B/hip hop singer-songwriter Chris Brown is “willing to refund his talent fee” for failing to show up at the New Year’s Eve countdown concert at the Philippine Arena last Dec. 31, Mike Pio Roda, the talent agent who negotiated the artist’s contract, told Inquirer Lifestyle.
Despite their initial impressions of each other (he found her “grumpy,” she thought he was “serious”), David Zuellig and Dr. Hazel Paragua ended their blind date dinner 10 years ago on a promising note. They spent the evening talking till the restaurant closed for the night.
I’m in my early 50s, married to a foreigner, and we live in a country both not our own. We’re into our second marriages. He has his own kids but is totally disconnected from them. I have my own two, but he refuses to have them live with us.
IT’S A NEW YEAR, a new beginning. It’s a new you. The past is over and you’re not like what you used to be.
Apart from the visit of Pope Francis this week, people are talking about the surprise hit movie “English Only, Please” starring Derek Ramsay and Jennylyn Mercado, and Vice Ganda’s one-on-one with President Aquino. When you hear the staff of the hair salon small-talk about it, then you know people are really interested in the subject.
As 2014 came to an end, balletomanes had a beautiful surprise when beauty queen-turned-culture advocate Margie Moran Floirendo and Isabelle Garachon, the wife of the French Ambassador to the Philippines Gilles Garachon, alternated as the stepmother in Ballet Philippines’ “Cinderella.”
Now for some good news. Believe it or not, Manila was shortlisted, alongside megacities Paris and Tokyo, among the 10 best cities in the Design Awards 2015 of Wallpaper Magazine.
Do you remember the moment you were sure of what you loved the most in your life? What it was you were willing to live for and die for? What it was that gave your life meaning? Or, paraphrasing Rev. Elizabeth Braddon, what it is that makes your soul sing?
I was able to get off from work for two weeks and go on my abbreviated version of Around the World in 15 Days. My itinerary? Paris–New York–Miami–New York–Manila.
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