In 1970 I saw world-class soccer played in Bangkok, when world champion Brazil played against Manchester United in an exhibition game. The Thais were nuts about soccer. As soon as the Brazilians entered the field, the huge Bangkok crowd burst into a standing ovation.
Everyone wants to be in love and, more importantly, to stay in love! After celebrating two decades of Valentine’s Day as a couple, my hubby Dennis and I have evolved into a romantic pair minus date nights.
Ninety days after “Yolanda,” Ormoc is slowly coming back to life. I ended the workweek with a quick trip to the seaside sitio of Lawis in Albuera, which is 40 minutes away from Ormoc. Our company donated the first 10 of 20 boats that we had committed to the fisherfolk in our adopted community.
Opus Dei members from all over the world are expected to gather in Madrid, Spain, on Sept. 27 for the beatification of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, successor of Msgr. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei who had also been beatified. It was Portillo who became the first bishop of the Opus Dei personal prelature.
The first month of the year has been a period of reeling and healing. I missed my deadline for this column a few times because work was crazy, and I somehow couldn’t find the energy on those days to write something or share something of myself in this space.
I recently learned that my friends of more than two years are not really my friends. They told me themselves that they really don’t see me as a friend; that they can’t be friends with me and that they only go out with me because it’s always my treat.
“There are very few things I regret in life, and one is selling real estate,” my father would say. I think I know what he’s talking about, for it still hurts, however long it’s been, whenever I pass by a piece of property I’ve bought and sold. To the injury is yet added the insult of the price for which I parted with it. Boba! I hear myself say in self-rebuke as I go to the masochistic extent of computing how rich I’d have been if I had held out longer.
Radyo Veritas is holding its traditional Mary and Saints exhibit until Feb. 8 at the second floor of the Entertainment Center of SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City, in which one of the items on display is the blood relic of Blessed John Paul II. This is the blood gathered during the operation of the pope after he was shot on May 13, 1981.
Before anything else—it is homecoming day at the College of the Holy Spirit. We opened the centenary with a bang early last year. It was colorful, boisterous and nostalgic. I expect it will be that way again today as we close. I just know it will be a grand celebration.
Harlan + Holden sticks to its aesthetic of soft and easy silhouettes that move fluidly with a woman’s body.
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