Author: AA Patawaran
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What you are I was, what I am you will be
It’s a new world and, once this pandemic is over, it will be a newer world. Maybe today’s young are nothing like the young of previous generations. Maybe, we should leave them alone.
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It was a year in hell, but is it too soon to laugh at 2020?
Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones drop Death to 2020 on Netflix over the holidays and deliver what seems to be a bad joke.
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Like marigolds in the desert
Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, Pantone 2021 Colors of the Year, highlight hope at a time it is most needed.
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Could You Be Messiah?
In this year ender, we remember one of the shining lights of Philippine theater Freddie Santos through the words of some of our leading artists whose lives he touched.
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The Christmas give-and-take
A ₱5 million donation doled out without thought or sacrifice is so much less meaningful than one single peso received by a truly humbled heart.
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What’s ahead in 2021?
Here are some heartfelt messages from industry leaders that should remind us to bring with us and keep with us a lot of faith, a lot of hope, and a lot of precious lessons learned as we emerge from this year of constant challenge. Happy New Year to all!
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24 hours at the Pen
Now that staycations are allowed, why not book yourself a room at a Covid-safe hotel for a day or the weekend to dust yourself off, stretch, and get some air?
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12 Special treats for Noche Buena
Recommended food for the biggest feast of the Christmas season.
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Breaking News: Santa’s quarantined in the North Pole
If 2020 were a watch, it would be a Swatch.
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How to dress up for the holidays during the pandemic
In this honest conversation, Filipino designers count the ways.
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You got the [holiday] look
Relax! At least that’s a common refrain from the Filipino designers we have consulted to help us figure out the look of holiday 2020, a historic year, one we would remember as “the year that never quite happened.”
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Zac Sarian planted the seeds we could grow into the future he believed we deserved
If you don’t know Zac Sarian, you don’t know the future.
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Weekend reading: The simple pleasures of Iloilo
Albeit with masks and shields, armed with alcohol sprays and hand sanitizers, the Ilonggos are up and about, the streets are abuzz with barbecue stalls and all manner of vendors peddling delicacies such as bibingka, pulot, and other edible curiosities.
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Ben Chan defies the pandemic
Resolved not to cancel everything, the retail pioneer launches the first ever digital show for Bench.
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Christmas uninterrupted
Long live the many unique traditions of the Yuletide season in the Philippines.
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A child, a child shivers in the cold. Let us bring him silver and gold
It’s Christmastime and, though my memory of warm Christmases remain vivid, I feel I now must be prepared emotionally, psychologically for the season or it will pass quickly and I’ll miss the show.
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It’s Christmastime in the cities
We asked key people behind some of our favorite hotels, wonderlands of hospitality, oracles of holidaymaking, what they have in store for us in this merry, merry season.