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MY friend lost her grandfather late last year.
NO stressor pops a vein quite like driving in the metro, where a supposed dance of courtesy is actually a shoving match of aggression and a game of inches.
IN the spirit of Labor Day, let’s talk about work—but without touching on any of the actual labor, of course.
Fourteen years have passed since the idea from singer Rachel Alejandro to make nutritious food as accessible as fast-food meals materialized into The Sexy Chef, now one of the metro’s top diet and healthy food-delivery service.
MUCH has been made of the Filipinos’ sunny-bright personality that is often radiated in quick smiles and easy laughs. Foreigners testify by it, and global surveys reflect the trait, one of the latest being the 41st Annual Global End of the Year Survey of US-based poll firm Gallup International in January, which ranked the Philippines as the third-happiest country in the world.
THE innate sense of humor of Filipinos and the character limit of Twitter are a match made in social-media heaven, a pairing that, for the most part, serves as one of the few bright spots in the increasingly toxic online space with its serving of quick and hot bite-sized bits of pure comedy.
SINGAPORE—About 15 kilometers northeast of the iconic Merlion Plaza, within Safra Punggol, a five-story lifestyle hub nestled in verdant surroundings and the sound of whistling wind and bustling leaves, a robot would like to know your preferred pizza.
“PARANG hindi ka nga nagpu-post, ’no,” a friend told me some years ago after noticing my social-media habits, as if she had finally sighted the rustling bush from which I was hiding in for so long.
There was something amiss about Kevin Love’s play last November 5.
MORE than carving out high-profile careers in local entertainment, showbiz power couple Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera shared two more reasons why they hold TV close to their hearts.
Jimmy Kimmel wrapped up his opening monologue at the recent 90th Academy Awards by announcing that a Jet Ski awaits the winner who’ll give the shortest acceptance speech.
DEPENDING on whom you ask, the exhortation “follow your passion” can mean nothing more than a hackneyed eye-roller or a life-altering mindset.
Leigh Nash was still a baby the last time she was in the Philippines, but not really.
ROSES are red, violets are blue. This Valentine’s Day, try something new.” You see, even the corniest clichés can be given a new spin with a little effort. The same applies to your plans this Valentine’s Day. So, cancel your order for a bouquet of red roses, keep those picnic basket and mat on the shelf, and go for something different this year to keep things fresh and exciting, for a more memorable day of hearts
TWO former Philippine chiefs-of-state were at hand for the recent launch of the 2018 Philippines Yearbook, in which they are championed as “Faces of Leadership.”
How many online videos have you skipped on or songs you didn’t play, or games you had to quit from because of capped Internet access? This Year of the Earth Dog, be as free as a pup, and let loose on a field with unlimited Internet plans through Globe Telecom’s returning and upgraded version of Go Unli.
‘Roses are red, violets are blue. This Valentine’s Day, try something new.” You see, even the corniest clichés can be given a new spin with a little effort. The same applies to your plans this Valentine’s Day. So, cancel your order for a bouquet of red roses, keep those picnic basket and mat on the shelf, and go for something different this year to keep things fresh and exciting, for a more memorable day of hearts.
There’s no particular time in one’s professional life when the mind gets clouded with questions, which, in itself, don’t take any specific form either. The dispiriting doubts, the perturbing worries, the paralyzing concerns can creep in anytime during one’s career, and range from practical to existential, from the whys to the hows.
SOMETIME between July and August last year, Peejay Yambao shot an e-mail to French jewelry design house Les Néréides.
IN a recent forum at the Mind Museum in Taguig City, 100 public high-school students were asked to point their fingers at the stage, and to whirl it clockwise. The speaker plucked one student from the bunch and invited him onstage, while the rest continued to draw a loop.
FILIPINO visual artist Raul Isidro doesn’t see an absence of life from the grayness of boulders. He sees a canvas.
‘DON’T underestimate what we can do in one year.”
“If basketball is the greatest thing I’ve done in my life, then I’ve failed.”—Kobe Bryant
EVERY year since 2009, Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg has been posting his yearlong goal, which he calls a “personal challenge,” to “learn something new.” The trend started with wearing a tie every day.
A MENTION alone of “Mimosa” to not a few people who live in and around Pampanga elicits episodes of fond memories, from spending childhood vacations in one of its residential villas to hours-long golfing sessions on weekends.
Stories meant to spark inspiration fill out this page every week, and each entry I file for this corner is aimed—or so is my intent—at keeping true with that theme of hope and self-empowerment.
Here’s a trivial confession to start the year: Never have I seen a movie on the big screen without peeping at the projector.
A FRIEND told me that he witnessed multiple reunion parties in a restaurant recently. The people came in all ages, he said, and from all walks of life.
Mitzi Joyce Uy-Chan was 23 when she left her corporate career.
TWO collegiate sporting events over this past weekend welcomed not a few alumni back home.
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