FOR MANY years, I have been spending the New Year in London, Paris, Holland, New York, Goa and Hong Kong. In Manila, I spend it usually with close pal Nedy Tantoco. But for the last nine years, it has been Boracay for me.
THE MERE mention of the world-renowned brand, Louis Vuitton, would bring in the town’s high net-worth but low-profile types. And they, in fact, came in droves for Louis Vuitton’s yuletide event at Greenbelt 5. The event celebrated the holiday season in a most unique way, transforming the store to...
CONTROVERSIAL HAYDEN Kho Jr. has shifted gears and reinvented himself as a businessman. Totally to the surprise of many, he has become a budding fragrance creator by coming up with his signature scent and eponymous collection of colognes. He held the media launch of his fragrances at Nuvo in...
IT’S THAT time of the year, dahlings, when everyone gains a couple of pounds. Since it’s also that time of the year when I completely pig out, here are my must-haves! There’s the to-die-for homemade Chinese ham (the only time of the year I dig into pork), prepared by international jeweler Liding...
LANI JUBAC SCHOOF, a philanthropist from Alburquerque, Bohol, and wife of business magnate German expat Hans Gunter Schoof, recently hosted a fab bash that turned back the hands of time and brought us back to the psychedelic era, dahlings. Those great, let-it-all-hang-out fun days of the 1960s and...
HEY, PALANGGAS, its Christmas time again, a time for giving and receiving. So let’s start with giving, dahlings. When giving a gift, don’t just pick up your stored fruitcake which you must have received last year. Unless it’s really reeking of brandy, then the older the better, palanggas. Try to be...
IT WAS a non-event that serendipitously turned out to be a totally memorable one, dahlings, as tons of our town’s namedroppables—from the hotshots of the political power set to mega business tycoons and fashionable society faces—flooded that excellent restaurant, Lolo Dad’s. They were there for...
MODESTY ASIDE, I’ve been invited to loads of mind-boggling grand balls, from the Monte Carlo’s Red Cross Ball to those in New York, London, Rome, Florence, Paris, Beijing, Sydney, Melbourne, Bali, Hong Kong, Singapore and other parts of world, dahlings. But the Philippine Tatler’s classy 9th...
