“She can be our next Miss Universe, the 3rd Miss Universe from the Philippines,” Mikey Gatal said of the Philippines’ Miss Universe bet, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach.
Since voting in Miss Universe will be realtime, an insider from Pia Wurztbach’s camp encouraged all Filipinos to tune in to the pageant’s live telecast tomorrow, December 21, 8 a.m., Manila time (Sunday evening in Las Vegas). Cable network StarWorld is broadcasting Miss Universe 2015 live.
AFTER waiting for more than 42 years and witnessing several near wins from 2010 to 2014, Filipino beauty-contest fans, many of whom weren’t even born
AFTER waiting for 43 years and witnessing several near wins from 2010 to 2014, Filipino beauty-contest fans, many of whom weren’t even born yet when Margarita Moran won for the country its second Miss Universe crown in Greece in 1973, are dying to see one of their own crowned as winner.
My husband and I have been married for four years now, and were a couple seven years before that. A perfect match I thought.
THE ONLINE auction of six Yoda chairs by industrial designer Kenneth Cobonpue to benefit Unicef’s children’s programs brought in a total of P8.76 million in just two hours last Dec. 16.
MENTION Bulacan and one gets the impression the whole province is dotted with candy factories and the Bulaqueños have made a pastime of eating dessert. But there’s so much more to the place than Bulacan sweets.
I DON’T do Christmas tables, never did. It was Mom. She cooked everything for our noche buena, and for New Year’s Eve, too. My only contribution was either an apple or a cherry pie, to add to her famous leche flan, for dessert.
LAST Nov. 20, we found ourselves in the Santa Maria Ballroom of Radisson Blu Cebu, seated in a room full of cognac enthusiasts, ready to be treated to a five-course dinner by executive chef Roberto Kunitz.
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