MEDIUM RARE Ten months to prep a wedding, from the finest detail to the grandest gesture. Sixteen years to turn from sweethearts to an affianced couple, finally to Mr. and Mrs. Sixteen years? Time enough to grow a family, but Darv Diaz and Bianca Angala wanted to be sure, very sure. Were their...
MEDIUM RARE In the midst of a shortage of food and water, we’re wasting and throwing away food and water. ‘Tis summer, and as usual the National Water Resource Board’s primary source of water is to multiply its reminders for us to conserve water. What happened to the water released from the...
MEDIUM RARE Forget your K-dramas. Walk away from thrilling, gory, violent crime serials. Documentaries are interesting but not all of them are fun to watch. Introducing Philomena Cunk, if you haven’t met her yet. She’ll make you cry when you laugh, and laugh when you should be crying. All...
MEDIUM RARE It’s the end of an era when the good sisters of St. Paul University, one of a handful of schools offering bachelor and doctoral degrees in music, opens its doors for a concert, “the first time in three years,” according to Dean Raul Sunico. Opening-night honors on March 15 went to...
MEDIUM RARE If detectives and crime writers go by the cliché, “cherchez la femme” (look for the woman), when they’re trying to solve a crime, bankers and economists go by the rule to “follow the money.” People with a nose for money understand that the trail begins with how money produces...
MEDIUM RARE As Fr. Jerry Orbos used to say, three rings are the hallmark of married life. Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering. As all other priests will tell you, suffering underlies the human condition. It’s like saying you cannot escape suffering if you’re human. Catholics are reminded...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What’s wrong with our education system if the little ones need as much help as their teachers? A convergence of factors political, social, economic, and environmental could explain what is now arguably a generational issue, but did things become difficult in the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Why is it called “suggested retail price” when a violation spells a stiff fine of up to P2 million and/or a prison term of 12 years? As a battlecry, SRP cannot defend consumers from rising prices, even when they understand that the costs of production, distribution,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It’s been four years, counted Boss ECY when he welcomed guests to MB’s 123 rd anniversary cocktails. Four years since the pandemic disrupted our lifestyles, it was time to renew acquaintances and make new ones. When First Lady Liza Marcos arrived sans fanfare, she...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Don’t look now, there’s one more Chinese festival coming up. Sen. Imee Marcos was right, greeting the Year of the Rabbit with her Chinese friends and neighbors in San Juan on Jan. 22 and 29, as if in preparation for the coming of spring on Sunday, Feb. 5, day 15 in...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There will be 150 million of us by the year 2050 – it’s flying toward us at the speed of a jet plane. By that time, warns Jun Palafox, “we will need 100 new cities, otherwise existing cities and emerging metropolitan areas will be congested worse than Metro Manila...
The Manila Hotel’s romantic Champagne Room turns into a crystal-and-silver forest for magical times at Benjie Yap’s birthday Images by NOEL PABALATE CRYSTAL GARDEN The Champagne Room setup designed by Manny Samson You have to hand it to bon vivant Benjie C. Yap. His parties always reflect his...
