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Smart teams up with Deezer to offer music to mobile users
Smart Communications, Inc. recently announced a strategic and exclusive partnership with global music streaming service Deezer to bring a new kind of musical experience to mobile users in the country...
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Change is good
2014 is a time to change. For one, I stopped drinking Coke everyday and dropped 6 lbs. I never thought I could achieve this by not drinking Coke.I allow myself to drink Coke maybe once a week or less...
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Celebrate One Day Without Shoes with TOMS at SM Aura's Skypark
In 2006, American traveler Blake Mycoskie befriended children in a village in Argentina and found that they had no shoes to protect their feet.Wanting to help, he created TOMS, a company that would...
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Ronnie & Joe: a well-curated optical salon
My entire family has poor eyesight. I, for one, started wearing glasses in 3rd grade. In high school I switched to soft lenses, then hard lenses, until I had LASIK done at American Eye in 2003.Fourteen...
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For the love of Chanel x Tokidoki
I’m lucky that my cousin Keri found the Chanel bag I wanted in Guam. This is the hubby’s birthday gift to me.I love the bag and I wish I could afford to buy all colours!! It’s so beautiful!!Karl...
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Tried and tested: Cookie Bar's cookie shot glasses
I’m not fond of queueing unless it’s absolutely necessary. That’s why I didn’t bother going to Dominique Ansel the last time I was in New York. But now I really want to go, after seeing his creations...
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Where to buy affordable baby clothes in Manila
Buying clothes for baby girls is my frustration because I don’t have any.So when it dawned upon me that our family nurse Wanda was pregnant (believe me her belly seemed to just popped out one evening)...
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The heat is on!
After surviving last month’s mosquito infestation, here comes the summer heat.The hottest day in Manila usually begins on my birthday, April 30. I know because for so many years it’s been a concern of...
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Throwback 2004: Cholo, Chico and Delamar
I just started going through my past blog entries to see how much my writing has changed.When I started blogging in 2001, blogs were fairly new and not everyone had Internet.As Internet became more...
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Couplings and uncouplings
Kris and HerbertWhen Kris Aquino announced she was dating former actor and Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista, I actually thought they made a cute couple and thought that maybe they would last...
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Tried and tested: Palmolive's new body wash
1987 was a good year for fashion—but a bad year for hair—as you can see in this vintage Palmolive TV commercial.I really love the clothes—so me!!The TV commercial was such a hit, it launched the career...
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NAIA renovation update
This was the scene at NAIA last week. Street level is boarded upBusy at the other endMuch activity on the insideAnd….aircons are not working. Iwatas everywhere.So bring a fan in case this goes on until...
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Tried and tested: Delta vs. Japan Airlines
Dreams do come true—for some of us, later in life.It’s been my dream to go Japan as often as I can and as easy as flying to Hong Kong. Luckily I got my three-year multiple-entry visa after the Japanese...
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Hoodwink at SM Aura
From the founders of homme et femme (H&F) retail stores comes Hoodwink, a playful yet sophisticated store that caters to a young male demographic.Interiors were designed by H&F’s Mark (Jappy)...
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Watsons 3-day sale this weekend!
Having just arrived from Tokyo where I had to take care of kids, I still felt kind of bitin with my shopping.Luckily Watsons invited me to shop all I want yesterday to sample their three-day sale this...
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The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo
The Peninsula Tokyo may be heaven on earth, but for this trip I decided to book us at the Ritz-Carlton as recommended by my brother Dennis.We had also considered the Grand Hyatt Tokyo due to its...
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Christian gets a Japanese haircut
Our son Christian was clean-shaven when we first brought him home five years ago.But oh, he had a cute faceHis hair grew slowlyand he turned into this cute babyOne day we took him for a haircut at the...
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Japanese artisans at Univers this weekend
“You look cute mommy,” Ben said to me while looking into my eyes last night. I was wearing new glasses—a birthday gift from Michael Concepcion of Ronnie & Joe at SM Aura.I was wondering how the...
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Maleficent inspires MAC colour collection
We grew up knowing the story of Sleeping Beauty, but know little about the jealous, evil witch that wanted her dead in the first place.This May 30, 2014, Disney presents Maleficent starring Angelina...
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Limited edition Simpsons x Moleskine now at National Bookstore
To celebrate 25 years of the longest-running scripted show in TV history, Moleskine releases The Simpsons in a limited edition notebook collection.The notebooks have different debossings of Bart and...
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