(and ends up a winner in both) “…Love has to cry…But need not die… Heart has to sigh…the test of time… We’re at the afterglow…and ‘though we both do know How far we are from the dawn… That second golden dawn…when love is true Still I’ll wait…I’ll wait for the second dawn and you…” Such…
Art authorities hold firm in their pronouncement that a person’s truest expression is through her dance and music…and ‘though the voice may imitate sounds but body language never lies… for dancing is the hidden language of the soul in either joy or pain.’ Then came Virginia Favila Alvarez… born to dance and raised to propagate…
Being an achiever doesn’t necessarily need one to be somewhat unapproachably recondite and stops being a woman. On the 16th day of June, 1944, a future humanitarian leader who could potentially uphold the values of Florence Nightingale was born to Ceasar Aquino Cajucom, a NARIC (National Rice Corporation) employee and Mercedes Buenaventura Martinez, an elementary…
Cebu City’s SM Cinema 1 curtains rolled up and the lights went off to herald Pilipinas Got Talent (PGT) Season 3’s regional audition that sunny Wednesday, May 25, 2011. It wasn’t surprising at all when there was a huge turnout of hopefuls since the Queen City of the South has been known as the bulwark…
Social analysts hypothesized the movies to be an art form imitating life but in most cases it seems that life’s mortal realities and its evanescent complexities make it the other way around. As such the movies depict the grandiosity of men’s limitless possibilities in confronting inevitable challenges for probable survival. Human existence when fused with…
Last Sunday, October 12, 2014, the Pan American Concerned Citizens Action League, Inc. (PACCAL) nailed it again when it pompously celebrated its 22nd founding anniversary with an alluring touch of class amid the grandiosity of an exhilarating ambience. Inspired by this year’s theme, “A Night in Vienna,” Ramada Plaza Hotel’s Grand Ballroom was magically transformed…
Sometimes, man, even already at the peak of his career, inevitably stumbles on something new that interests him more than what he’s occupied with or just to embark on an enormously challenging thought or it could be mainly to broaden his limitlessly growing resources. Career professionals attest to the fact that a man changes his…
The recent weekend enthusiastically set the Filipino-American community in a frenetic mode with a hullabaloo of invites and requests stirring the mid-social stratum in a frenzied whirl. The hustle and bustle of the compulsive invitations inadvertently turned the already overly excited situation into a more fidgety arena of simultaneously celebrated occasions with so little preparations…
Standing tall beyond his actual stature following the recent successful stage production of his latest play, prolific Filipino-American writer-actor-stage director Florentino Aquino Capili couldn’t contain his ecstatic sensitivity by merely sitting on his laurel enjoying the view from the top. Sans a much-needed respite the low-key playwright has his mind crowded with more ambitious ideas…
Meeting low-key law practitioner Arvin Gomez Amatorio for the first time would make one think twice if this guardian of the law is for real. Obviously, aside from being youthful-looking he’s sans the usual aggressiveness and brag-ish air common among the majority in his league. Dashingly donned in a pair of dark worsted linen suit…
“WHAT, therefore, hath God joined together let no man put asunder.” – Mark 10:9 This same sacred biblical line became a stern reminder about the seriousness of the union a couple entered, one that has aptly guided them throughout their married life. Taking the sanctity of the bond with resolute inflexibility and adapted their life…
Due to human’s innate nature in constantly striving to attain perfection and discover new methods and techniques to enhance their look, the continuing advent of the cosmetic business has tremendously increased in number that shrewd capitalists instantly found a gold mine in this thriving industry. Since its discovery thousands of years ago tracing back to…
Showbusiness has constantly been the microcosm of both society’s ideal and turbulent lifestyles. A great number of avidly idolized celebrity figures are treated like demi-gods by swooning fans while being sustained with the feeling of possessing that enormous sense of invincibility and the might within the palms of their hands. But a few hadn’t allowed…
From the Windy City of the American Midwest hailed one of the world’s greatest actor-comedians, Robin McLaurin Williams, cinematically christened simply Robin Williams. Born in one of the most populous cities, Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951, the prolific actor-producer-screenwriter ended his colorful life on Monday, August 11, 2014, by hanging at his home in…
The Philippine Fiesta, now aptly tagged Fiesta in America, has been consistently celebrating its cultural festival since its inception 15 years ago and on August 15 it’s turning a new milestone. Yes, the Fiesta is now 16 and having a debut…a quinceñera! In connection with the commemoration of the significant event, Fiesta in America deems…
Fiesta in America (FIA) launches the first ever international beauty and talent search this side of the eastern seaboard in connection with its 16th year of celebrating the grandiosity of diverse culture, trade exhibits, business to business networking plus world-class entertainment. Young male and female hopefuls of different ethnicities ranging from 18 to 25 years…
Away from the bustling hubbub of the asphalt jungle where the “predatory struggle” for survival seem unbounded and the tiring restlessness of the daily grind exists exuberantly, a multitude of medical doctors and related practitioners in the field find Toms River, New Jersey, an idyllic township in Ocean County about 70 miles south of Manhattan…
The road to success has always been hurdled with enormous encumbrances and impediments to test one’s endurance and capability to survive. We’re all brought to this world destined to bear what’s in store for us. The critical challenge for continuous existence only extenuates after putting in an empowering amount of persuasive assiduousness and wholehearted dedication…
Ramada Plaza Hotel’s multi-functional Crystal Ballroom was instantly transformed into one huge Disco Club vividly reminiscent of the glorious era of psychedelic prints, frivolous gangs, and funky music which were then regular fixtures at Silahis International Hotel’s Stargazer, Intercon’s Where Else?, Hyatt’s Isis, Philippine Plaza’s Lost Horizon, Manila Garden’s Another World, and other venues of…
The past weekends saw a long roster of significant occasions, cultural events, and social celebrations which, if seriously considered, could have definitely occupied much of one’s precious time. As they say, there were so many social occasions but so little time…and there were even more significant things to concentrate on than merely socializing. But such…
Compassion and resilience are just two of the many outstanding traits that distinctly embody a true-blooded physical therapist. Connately endowed with these enviable qualities plus being well-credentialed and ably experienced while being confidently competent, Elizabeth Bulosan Divinagracia has been on top of her career as a physical therapist for eighteen years doing nothing but honing…
Last Saturday, June 7, the 158th day of 2014, I woke up to a rather smoggy morning but the murky weather was no match to my self-decreed over-powering cheerfulness and dexterity. Before I went to bed I had already a mental scheme of what to expect and how to face the following day with remarkable…
IN the realm of our family-oriented society, mothers are generally recognized and more often given credit and ultimate importance than the father. No matter how involved and a good purveyor the father is, the mother still unconditionally gets most of the recognition. It is evident even in terms of national celebration honoring their unprecedented stature…
If one would measure a man’s intellect mainly based from Sir Francis Bacon’s popular quotation: “Reading maketh a full man, Conference a ready man, and Writing an exact man,” easily his barometer would lose tract to completely size up an overly knowledgeable and renaissance guy like Mike Alvarez for aside from being an exceptionally proficient…
Current social dictum motivates women to burst out of their shells and land a career of their own giving rise to the ever-growing number of mothers who augustly cope with the irresistible demand and forcible mandate aside, of course, from being conscientiously driven to augment existing family resources. Motherhood, for modern-day women, has been presumptuously…
If there’s but a single Philippine festival touted as the ultimate in grandiosity, magnificent in its scope, profligate in its opulence, and glamorous in its style, easily, that would be the most-awaited annual celebration of the Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May), ostentatiously culminated with a luxurious pageantry of beauties and fineries aptly dubbed as…
THERE is something strange about the gravitational and magnetic forces that attract a child towards his mother than how intensely it is with the father. The reason could obviously be due to the biological relationship and literally from the umbilical connection that gives them that sort of direct “line” for instantaneous link. And why is…
THE Sounds of Manila (SoM), a US-based all-Filipino show band aptly tagged as “Ambassadors of Philippine Music,” finally raised the bar of their decade-long musical supremacy this side of the east coast when they formally launched their much-awaited CD during a live concert simultaneously celebrating Cecile Azarcon’s 35 years of writing and composing timeless original…
THE chaotic, vexing, and perplexed world has relied principally on medicine for betterment and considered medical practitioners instruments for healing. But according to the Jewish physician-philosopher Malmonides, the physicians shouldn’t just concentrate primarily on treating the disease but the point of concentration should rather be on the patient suffering from it. In contradiction to such…
With the many significant events that occurred on April 12, 1944 (a Wednesday), the NYC premiere showing of the American feature film based on Lilian Hellman’s play at the Fulton Theater, “The Searching Wind,” overshadowed the rest of the occurrences mainly due to its lead stars Robert Young, Sylvia Sydney and Ann Richards who were…
