MEDIUM RARE Fire and Ice was a new color invented for a brand of lipstick years ago, when I would’ve been too young to use it. As my literature teacher might’ve phrased it, the name was a “reconciliation of opposites”— so who wants to kiss ice-cold lips? This isn’t about lipstick. Look...
MEDIUM RARE All eyes on the Office of the President: Who’re on his list of appointees who’ll make it to the cabinet? As PBBM stressed, the newcomers will mean a reorganization, not a reshuffle. Imagine the pressures bearing down on him. Whom to choose, and why? How many competent and...
MEDIUM RARE Meet Sassy and Kikay, modeled after the modern Filipina who wears extended eyelashes as part of her makeup, day or night. The dolls wear their hair long, like the skirts which, if you lift them a few centimeters, will reveal black silk stockings underneath. Sassy and Kikay live at #1...
Medium Rare For all our avowed love for and life-and-death attachment to our cellphones, what was so hard about meeting the SIM registration period of 180 days? As usual, the powers-that-be gave in to the clamor for an extension, so now we have 90 more days to obey a law that takes but minutes to...
MEDIUM RARE To quote a balikbayan Alex-in-Wonderland, “Some of your malls are much nicer than what we have back home,” home being the great United States of America. I remembered AiW upon stepping into the mall housing Samsung Performing Arts Theater in Makati last week. Another excuse to...
MEDIUM RARE As every culture vulture knows, Cultural Center of the Philippines won’t be alive with the sound of music, drama, and applause for the next two years. The 52-year-old lady needs a bit of cosmetic surgery to keep in step with performers’ demand for a home worthy of their talents...
MEDIUM RARE Among other things, he is a Papal Awardee for serving Mother Church through his charity works, as he is also well known near and far for his love of music (and unstinting support for up-and-coming musicians). He sings in church as regularly as he jogs around the ancestral home built by...
MEDIUM RARE Not a full moon, only a half-moon. It was a romantic enough touch to make Symphony at the Terrace memorable and, truly, one of a kind. But then Ed Yap, who deals in currency rather than music, is used to producing out-of-the-box events. A Christmas choral concert inside a church. Music...
MEDIUM RARE It’s a small world with big players and extensive influence. And not all that democratic. At their last election recently, 830 delegates cast their votes to represent 168 chambers. Cecilio Pedro of Hapee toothpaste smiled all the way to the top as president. He ran unopposed, which...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza To say that it began as a dream is to make the story sound like a fairy tale. But the rise of hybrid rice is a true story, as real as food for the stomach. As told by the man whose advocacy is to plant the right kind of seeds to make millionaires out of farmers, Henry Lim...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What a grand gathering of politicians and apolitical civilians, newsmakers and photographable, photogenic people — a convention-size party to mark JPE’s birthday, his coming-out party, so to speak, on his 99th Valentine’s Day! KPE, aka Katrina Ponce Enrile,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza One letter spells the difference between “zealous” and “jealous.” Would it be safe to assume that more people have died because of jealousy? Happy Valentine’s Day!, a national lovefest that has not yet been proclaimed a public holiday throughout a country whose...
