Sun.Star Weekend | Saturday , August 6, 20112CCHERRY ANN LIM Managing Editor, Special Pages and Features

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RALPH RHODDEN C. CAVERO Graphic Designer

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CLEOPATRA’S beauty has wooed the world for centuries. But have you

ever wondered what her beauty secrets were? She existed in a time long before spas and dermatologists did, so how did she ever go about it? Cleopatra already had an inkling of what are those that can be beneficial to one’s skin and over-all wellbeing — some of which are the minerals found in the Dead Sea. It has been said that her lover Mark Anthony conquered the Dead Sea for her be-cause she wanted to get hold of the rich minerals found there. To put it bluntly, the Egyptian queen whose beauty was known to be unsurpassable wanted her very own mud bath.

Two for beauty:or, how two friends are changing the

face of beauty treatments in Cebu

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When Ana Corominas tried it out for herself, she knew she had to bring the wonders of the Dead Sea back to Cebu. In her visit to Israel, she soaked herself in what is known today as the “most natural spa” in the world. After seeing that she liked the effects it had on her skin, she brought home some Dead Sea-based cosmetic products.

It wasn’t long before Ana and her longtime friend, Chai Cerna, decided to open a stall with these products. Although there are various Dead Sea treatment product brands in the worldwide market, Chai and Ana were most impressed with Dead Sea Spa by Avani.

“We started selling Avani in the I.S. Christmas Bazaar at Marco Polo last year,” said Chai. “Since then, we had a small group of followers. They would order from us and we would deliver it to their homes.” The Dead Sea Spa by AVANI stall at SM was only opened on July 27, 2011. It is the first of its kind in Cebu.

Ana and Chai have been friends since their high school days at Saint Theresa’s College. Today, Ana is in the taxi industry while Chai is connected with Pioneer Life. Their “belief in the product” is what drove them to delve into the business. They themselves use Avani and can attest to its benefits. Ana admitted, “I’m very OC when it comes to skincare,” so her customers can be assured that their product is definitely worth it.

It would also be unfair to say that the Dead Sea treatment should be filed under cosmetics alone because it can also be used on patients with skin ailments. Ana and Chai have clients with skin asthma who have been satisfied with the products’ effects. Furthermore, according to DeadSeaIsrael.Net, “the mud of the Dead Sea is recognized as a good stimulant of blood circulation.” It can supposedly aid people with hypertension.

What sets it apart from other cosmetic and skin care products is the fact that its ingredients have been extracted only from natural elements. The Dead Sea has an “unusually high” amount of minerals in it. Among the minerals found there are Potassium, Zinc, and Magnesium. Potassium is primarily responsible for regulating the skin’s moisture while Zinc is a vital mineral that aids in stimulating collagen renewal. Magnesium, on the other hand, relieves the body, reduces the skin’s aging process, and helps in the retention of fluids.

With Avani, the sulfuric smell of the Dead Sea has been stripped off, and has been replaced with pleasing scents such as pear apple, milk and honey, and citrus vanilla.

“You have to try it to believe it,” said Ana. They have a small testing area in the stall where customers can try for themselves what the product can do for their skin. Ideally, the body scrub or the mud should be on for about 15 minutes, but the testing only allows having it on for about 2 minutes. Nevertheless, one can already notice the significant changes - the skin becomes firmer and smoother - nearly close to the kind of skin you can imagine the gorgeous Cleopatra would have had.

Facebook vs. Google+Facebook is finally meeting its match in the form of Google+. Both have

similar features as far as social networking is concerned—so which one do Internet users prefer? Here’s what they have to say for now:

“I haven’t actually used Google+ that much. I heard it’s “more than just a social network”. When I got the invite, my friend even told me that I wasn’t “cool” because I didn’t know what it was. Well, if cool means having another distraction, building a new friend list, and spending more time online than I already do, I think I’d rather stick with good old Facebook.” – Sam Despi, Graphic Designer

“I’ll go for Google+ because it’s cleaner, though I still use Facebook because it’s where my classmates upload and share notes. I have always been with Gmail. When they had Buzz, I also “buzzed”. I have always been a Google fan and I believe there’s more to see in G+.” – Sarah Nengasca, Law Student

“I prefer Google+ because of their “Circles” feature, greater privacy control, no spam, and no jejemons.” – Roviel Villa, Student

“I visit my Facebook more often. Although Google+ looks interesting because of its novelty, it is still too quiet for a social networking site. I only have few friends there and so I don’t essentially feel the ‘online community’ thing in it. But Google+ is still a social networking baby-- given sufficient time, it might just give FB the goose bumps of being ‘thrown out’ as the most-visited site.” – Rachelle Sindo, Sales Producer

“I still prefer Facebook for now because there are still more people there. However, Google+ is a breath of fresh air from spams. In terms of features, they’re almost identical.” – Mayang Jimenea, Researcher

“Facebook for now. Google+ is not yet ripe, but it has a huge potential.” – Sinjin Pineda, Blogger

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THE genre mash-up of “Cowboys & Aliens” is more a mush-up, an action yarn aiming to be both

science fiction and Old West adventure but doing neither all that well.

The filmmakers – and there are a lot of them, among them director Jon Favreau, 11 producers or executive producers including Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, plus half a dozen credited writers – start with a title that lays out a simple but cool premise: invaders from the skies shooting it out with guys on horseback.

For all the talent involved, they wound up keeping the story too simple, almost simple-minded, leaving a terrific cast led by Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford stuck in a sketchy, sometimes poky tale where you get cowboys occasionally fighting aliens and not much more.

Based on a graphic novel from Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, also a producer on the movie, “Cowboys & Aliens” has Craig doing the stony-faced lone rider thing to such stoic extremes it borders on blandness. Ford is similarly constricted

in a stereotyped role as the tyrannical overlord of a Western town, though his unfailing charisma does imbue some spirit into his underdeveloped character.

Really, the only clever thing about “Cowboys & Aliens” is the basic idea itself. The Western trappings are mostly dull, the aliens and sci-fi elements are unimaginative, and cramming them together is not enough to make them interesting.

As the story opens in 1875, Craig’s amnesiac Jake Lonergan wanders into the dusty New Mexico town of Absolution with no clue to his identity and bearing a strange metal bracelet on his wrist. Within minutes, he begins running afoul of the town’s leaders, crossing the cowardly son (Paul Dano) of local baron Woodrow Dolarhyde (Ford), then tussling with the sheriff (Keith Carradine) and his deputies.

Just as it looks as though we’re in for a showdown among a band of greedy thugs and decent townfolk in need of a hero, spacecraft swoop in and start snatching people right off the streets. Six-shooters are like firing blanks at the

speedy ships, but Jake’s wristband comes to life, and he gradually learns how to use it as a weapon to fight back against what the villagers initially assume are demons.

Dolarhyde leads Jake and a posse in pursuit of the creatures, accompanied by the mysterious gun-toting Ella (Olivia Wilde), who knows more about these beings than she lets on.

Other than seeing the two blended together, there’s nothing here that hasn’t been done far better in many Westerns and science-fiction flicks. The aliens are anonymous monsters, and the human folk are cardboard types like those you’ll find in any Western.

The action plays out against grand, gorgeous landscapes captured by cinematographer Matthew Libatique, while the visual effects are standard

stuff, save for one impressive explosion.Sam Rockwell gets to toss out

a few funny lines, and Adam Beach manages a few moments of pathos as Dolarhyde’s main hand. As the sheriff’s young grandson, Noah Ringer is there to broaden the movie’s kid appeal but doesn’t really add to the story.

Though Ford is pushing 70, it’s odd seeing him relegated to second billing in an action movie. But Craig’s role is the sort Ford might have done if “Cowboys & Aliens” came 20 years earlier. Craig’s probably the better actor of the two, but Ford’s a true movie star, and it’s easy to imagine a livelier film if Jake had more of that Indiana Jones rogue’s charm and less of the tightly wound menace Craig has made a part of his take on James Bond. (AP)


short reviews

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audiosyncracy

Life in a DayThis fluidly paced documentary

consists of video that regular folks from around the world shot on a single day – July 24, 2010 – then uploaded to YouTube. After more than 80,000 submissions totaling about 4,500 hours from 192 countries, this is the entertaining result. Yes, it’s a small world after all – everyone gets out of bed in the morning, everyone eats breakfast, everyone drinks coffee, etc. Much like last year’s “Babies,” “Life in a Day” conveys the pretty obvious sentiment that maybe we’re not so different from each other. (AP)

The Bo-Keys not only extend the venerable Memphis tradition of recording instrumental rhythm & blues, the multi-generational band also employs several veterans who played on the original Stax and Hi label recordings that the Bo-Keys emulate.

The band’s first album in seven years, “Got To Get Back!” highlights contributions from players who toured and recorded alongside B.B. King, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, as well as trumpeter Ben Cauley, the lone surviving member of the Bar-Kays from a plane crash that also took the life of Otis Redding. Known as

an instrumental group, the new album showcases several soul and blues vocalists who span the ages, including William Bell, Otis Clay and Charlie Musselwhite.

Perhaps it is the participation of so many veterans, or perhaps it is the passionate zeal of band leader Scott Bomar, but for one reason or another, the Bo-Keys present a muscular yet spare sound that captures the grit and grease of classic, horn-driven R&B. Where many revivalists pale compared to the originals, the Bo-Keys would have fit right in next to legendary Memphis musical crews the Bar-Kays and Booker T. & the M.G.’s. (AP)

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: On the title track, “Got to Get Back (To My Baby),” Otis Clay growls and roars against a rousing brass backdrop, charging through the pumping track with a sweaty ferociousness reminiscent of the late Wilson Pickett.

The Bo-Keys, “Got To Get Back!” (Electraphonic)

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When fifteen-year-old Minke Van Aisma travels to Amsterdam to care for the dying wife of a wealthy man, she has no idea what adventures await her. Within hours of his wife’s death, her employer proposes marriage, and within days the couple has set sail for the oil fields of Argentina. They settle in the rough coastal town of Comodoro Rivadavia, where Minke eventually learns that her husband is not a successful trader, but a morphine producer. The future that seemed so bright takes an even darker turn the morning their toddler son, Zeff, is kidnapped. Soon after, morphine production is outlawed and her husband must immediately emigrate to New York. Already pregnant with their daughter, Minke has little choice but

to wait for the new baby’s arrival, then follow Sander to America, and leave her firstborn behind forever. However when she arrives in New York and discovers that her husband has betrayed her, she takes her daughter and leaves him, finds work as a seamstress, and vows to return to Argentina and find her son. How she manages to find her child, and how she takes her revenge on the people who orchestrated his abduction, is a triumphant tale of personal sacrifice, determination, and love. A sweeping saga that crosses three continents – from the opulent life in Amsterdam during the 1900s, to rough living on the Argentine coast, to the impoverished life of a recent immigrant to New York – A YOUNG WIFE is a journey no reader will forget.

A Young Wifeby Pam Lewis

BellflowerWith its mixture of romantic road trips

and homemade flamethrowers, a meet-cute over a cricket-eating contest and a brutally bloody climax, “Bellflower” is the real crazy, stupid love. It’s mesmerizing the way Evan Glodell’s film changes. You know something horrible is going to happen because flashes of it flicker before us at the film’s start; they don’t make sense but they establish an inescapable tension. Still, “Bellflower” lulls you in with the natural rhythms of its sweetly idyllic, hipster love affair, only to morph into something disturbingly dark and violent. It happens so subtly, you won’t believe it occurred before your very eyes. (AP)

Going for a visit to the coldest region in the world is completely an utmost adventure and for some, it’s where they do for a living.

One good movie that shows a glimpse of the life in Antarctica, “The Chef of South Polar”, a heart-felt Japanese film comedy about a chef together with his team members base in the South Pole for a year and how they cope with each other with food, laughter and ice.

“The movie setting is below freezing point and I’m sure it’s really difficult living there. The characters in the story had to give up their comfort zone, but nevertheless they were able to survive despite their differences as they learned to love each other just like family. It’s such a good film! worth the wait!”, says Christell Tudtud, St. Theresa’s College-Cebu (STC-Cebu) student who patiently waited in line to watch the movie.

Another student, Bj Pangilinan from Cebu Institute of Technology-University (CIT-U) shares, “I find the film funny seeing how they kill time in Antarctica just to survive boredom. It also proved how happy the Japanese are and how they love food which relates to us Filipinos.”

On the formal opening of this year’s Japanese film fest or Eiga Sai last August 2, 2011, featuring “The Chef of South Polar”, Ayala Center, Cinema 4 was filled; leaving a good memory of Japanese values and culture among Filipinos.

“Iciest Exploration”by Rheyanne April Ordesta, St. Theresa’s College-Cebu


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While it is hard to live as the jack of all trades, at any rate it is not impossible to be a master of at least two arts. We learn how a fine Chinese chef easily transforms into an ace of something no one might even consider he would be in just a snap of the fingers.

Chef Duan Lu Ming came to Tea of Spring, the famous Chinese restaurant at Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa, to share his excellence in cooking. If there is any question as to whether cooking is an art or a science, he might just be the one to offer an answer to that. He proves it to be a science through his thorough process of creating his culinary jewels and, nevertheless, bears out the artistic side through his enthralling food presentations.

Getting an eyeful of the food served, though not yet for the mouth, serves a fascinating sight for every food lover.

One is easily enticed by his exquisite dumplings from squid to crabmeat and spinach to prawn to fried shrimp. Of course, it would be a mortal sin if siew mai was missing on this dim sum list.

At age 31, Chef Lu Ming has the remarkable look of a young bachelor, which he actually is. He has become a well accomplished chef from China World Summit Wing in Beijing and he came not just for a fun visit but to train some locally-based cooks so as to spread the wondrous gift of his dim sum.

By the looks of him, he might appear to be just another cook. That would be

the notion until he grabs a seat and a handful of dough on his table. Just when you thought he was to whack the dough, you have to change your mind and take some time to decipher what he was doing. He was actually showing off another side

of him as he drifts off to his really more artistic side, making him a more interesting subject.

I might have missed to mention earlier, but one of the first few things to notice upon sitting on the dining table was a miniature doll, which as you go along and ask people around you will find out that it was in fact a miniature Buddha. One was for long life and the other was for prosperity and wealth. I am talking about that because that is what he plans to make out of the rich dough.

Other than being excellent in cooking, Chef Lu Ming has proven himself victorious in invading the artistic world of sculpture. When he sits down and works on his craft, he seems to lock himself away from any distraction to make certain he gets every detail right and

precise. When he finishes, bravo! I can’t seem to say anything enough to describe the art.

Sculpting was just a hobby for Chef Lu Ming, though he learned it from a mentor with whom he was most alike in the two aspects. Quite a fantastic legacy, I should say. He has even joined competitions and won awards for just that hobby. Do not be surprised to know he had also done the same skilful job with fruits through carving. As he puts it, sculpting is a common art for the Chinese and being one himself it is not much of a wonder why he is great at it.

Sad to say, he is not here to stay. This artistic chef is here only until August 14. Nonetheless, his inspiration and his gifts of both sculpture and food will remain unfading until the time he comes to visit again.

Arts of a Chefby Cherry Claire Petiluna

Animal Awareness Pearl Night launch with DJ & model Nicole Chen at LUXX, VUDU

LUXX at VUDU and Escade Entertainment bring you the much-awaited launch of Pearl Night in the Philippines on Saturday, August 6 at 9 p.m. Pearl Nights aim to bring international and sexy glam to Philippine nightlife through events that feature high-profile international model-DJs with terrific skills. Debuting in Cebu, the launch party is set to be an exhilarating journey featuring Asia’s first female international model DJ, actress, newly-appointed ambassador of Celebrity HTC Sensation Phone, Monster DJ and basically all-around media entertainer NICOLE CHEN dishing out the sweetest and hottest ear and eye candy.

But this is not 25-year-old Nicole Chen’s first time in the Philippines. As Miss Earth Singapore 2007 she represented her country at the pageant held in the Philippines and won by Jessica Trisko of Canada. Since starting out in 2010, Nicole has fast made her mark with her signature Dirty Dutch mixes, electro-house and mashup sets, earning her a steady stream of followers across Asia. Her career as a DJ has taken her all around Asia, and to New York, Melbourne, and parts of Europe, where she has played at festivals, clubs, exclusive events, launches and openings.

What started out as a hobby and the occasional gig at exclusiveVIP parties has since evolved into a promising career for Nicole who has opened for big names like Steve Aoki, Benny Benassi, Seb Fontain, Felix the House Cat and Johnny Vicious. As Nicole would say “I want to move crowds and I want to do that through my music.”

Nicole is a stunning mix of talent, beauty and skill with a burning desire to communicate with the audience. Catch this celebrity model DJ exclusively at Luxx, VUDU at the Crossroads Arcade in Banilad. (PR)

Curious kids and kids at heart filled Parkmall’s Atrium West during the Animal Awareness Week last July 12-17, 2011. Everyone enjoyed watching the different animals put out on exhibit. They all had a chance to see animals that are not normally seen every day. Thanks to the help of those who participated like the Crocolandia Foundation, Inc., the Cebu Arachnida Society, the Cebu Gecko Society, the Asian Beta Alliance, the Cebu Pitbull Club, and Parkmall’s premier pet shop, the Marine Aquatics.

Through the help of friends who lent their resources, Parkmall was able to exhibit animals like the huge albino Burmese python, that easily became a favorite because everyone could just touch and take photos of themselves with it, then there was the small crocodile that challenged the kids’ bravery and encouraged them to be bold enough to touch it, then there were the huge pit bulls and german shepherds that were very friendly around kids and the camera. There were the cute geckos, the very colorful love birds, the fighting fish and other

different species of fish exhibited by Marine Aquatics. The tarantulas and the scorpions caught most attention from the mall goers and the children since they are not normally seen as pets.

Everyone present during the Animal Awareness Week indeed got a dose of information and interesting trivia about the different animals displayed. Those who were not able to witness the event shouldn’t feel sorry though. There will be more of these to come. Only at Parkmall, where excitement never ends.. (PR)


Kids these days. They’ve got more gizmos than Inspector Gadget, and they know how to use them too. Some of my friends’ children are less than three years old and I’m willing to bet they know how to navigate these I-things better than I can. If, back in the day, we had tubig-tubig, shatong, and Chinese garter, today’s young’uns have Plants vs. Zombies, Fruit Ninja, and Angry Birds (also a lot of adults, but that’s another story for another day).

They also seem to have a lot more of everything, but they also have a lot less. It all comes down to one thing- most of them don’t think books are cool anymore.

Who can blame them, really? For starters, there’s so much else in the world with a lot more fizz. When you’re young and distractible, fizz may be the only way to hold your attention.

What they don’t tell kids these days is how much more fizz there is between those seemingly dull sheets of paper. What they can now see and hear on their computer, television and movie screens, the children of old used to

only be able to imagine. Possibly because there wasn’t much of an alternative then- but when you reconsider, imagining is so much more than seeing. What’s there, after all, is there. You, of course, can still use your

imagination to fill in the spaces, but there’s nothing like using it to leap from roof to roof.

That’s hardcore fizz for you.So we, the children who grew

up equipped with little else than imagination- implore the mothers and fathers and uncles and aunts and godparents and grandparents of the present day – give your favorite child a book. Give him a book you loved when you were his age; give her the book that made you see the world a little differently than before. Give them classics and mysteries and the books that you read under the sheets

with a flashlight.Heck, give them the books you read now. It’s never

too early or too late. Never underestimate the power of a child to understand certain things adults may not, and to invent and inquire about the things that they don’t.

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The Subject of Deviationby Jan Patrice Lim

One of my favorite teachers in the university blurted out a few days ago that she wanted to become a writer the moment she retires. The thought of it just fascinated me, for since from the moment that we’ve met, I didn’t find anything in her ways that would tell me she wanted to become one someday – there was not a tinge of a writer in her; she looked more like an Einstein to me.

Everything was a blur after she said those words and I did not quite understand the new lesson that she explained a few minutes after. I just sat there and beamed to myself like a lunatic, wishing she wouldn’t call my attention to show my solution on the board, because really, I’ve been doodling and not solving – thanks to what she had just expressed.

The topic of the gang’s discussion changed to movie marathons a few minutes later, but then she managed to hear our discussion, proclaiming that reading books are a lot better than watching movies. She started to enumerate Dan Brown’s books a few seconds later, praising how amazing a writer he is, and I just gaped at her while she did: she sounded like a stranger at that time. All these months I’ve been imagining her sleeping with a textbook full of calculations and graphs, and it never occurred to me that she would dare sleep with Dan Brown. It just didn’t make any sense.

Well maybe it did in several ways, because Brown also wrote a novel which starred programmers and code-breakers and the likes, yet I still couldn’t help thinking about the things that she’d said.

“My high school dream,” she even added, referring to being a writer.

I was about to say, “my elementary dream” (relating to education and not the dream being simple), when I got hold of my tongue, and stayed mum. Thoughts inside my mind raced.

Why go for it now when you’re… older than before? Why not chase after it years ago when you’re younger?

If it had really been your dream, why on earth have you taken another path? Why are you a professor when you’ve dreamed to become a writer instead? Why bother to share it to us anyway, especially to me, when you probably have an idea what I’m going through these past 2 years of my life since you’ve been with me on those years?

I wanted to ask her these things, get all the depression of being a writer too out of my system and shove it in front of her face, and I’d probably get answers if I could just conjure the guts to speak up to her, but then it dawned on me that maybe she has her reasons. Probably the

opportunity of a scholarship showed in front of her doorstep, luring her to take a course far from her dream. Or perhaps she just had no choice back then but to take a course that would give herbetter-paying jobs than being a writer – because reality-wise, writing is one of the poorest professions in the universe. Or maybe she was pressured to take a course that her parents like, since a few parents

in town do so. Personally, I had my reasons too. Most probably, maybe she felt that it seemed to be

the time to go after her dream and not for others’. It’s like giving yourself a chance to go to a place you’ve always wanted to go, thinking it’s about time you do, considering you’ve been working all your life on something for somebody else. It is payback time, you tell yourself.

“But life should never be about where you are going. It should be about where you are now. Because there is a risk that when you do get there, it won’t feel right,” a friend once told me during one of my I- don’t-like-this-course-and-I-don’t-think-this-course-likes-me-too moments of my life. He definitely had a point there, I think. Sometimes a little change of routes could lead us back to where we’re really headed.

I’m currently taking up Computer Science and we (the course and me) are quite in good terms. I wonder how it’ll take me to become a writer someday.

popquiz

1. Which Shakespeare play has the following characters Trinculo, Prospero, Gonzalo, Miranda, Antonio? 2. Bianca Lawson and James Van Der Beek were together in which TV show?

3. Which Greek Olympian is the goddess of fetility and agriculture?

4. What “F” is the longest bone in the body?

5. Which transformers character is a 1974 Lamborghini Countach LP500S? He is very brave, but also reckless and tends to use dirty tricks to achieve victory. He also carries a rocket pack that allows him to fly for short periods.

6. In which state is Yale University located?

7. Which 2003 Adam Sandler movie does Dave Buznick come from?

8. Amid the civil rights movement, Crayola voluntarily renamed their no-longer politically-correct ‘’flesh’’ crayon to this color, also the name of a fruit. What color is it?

9. It is a seven-day festival in the tradition of African harvest festivals, that honors the family. It was first celebrated in 1966, what international holiday is this?

10. MTV made its debut on 12:01, August 1, 1981. What was the first video to be shown?

Answers: 1. The Tempest 2. Dawson’s Creek 3. Demeter 4. Femur 5. Sideswipe 6. Connecticut 7. Anger Management 8. Peach 9. Kwanzaa 10. “Video killed the radio star” by the Buggles


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Bordello’s, Cebu’s only Victorian-inspired lounge and music hall opened last Saturday, July 30 with a special media- and friends-only bash. Located along A.S. Fortuna, the new lounge features great interiors as well as great music. Entertainment that night was provided by popular Cebuano alternative band Pandora, with DJ Marvin Evangelista spinning in between sets.

Going Victorian

Choy Abanes, Janet Bercede, Banilad baranggay captain Dyan Bercede-Abanes, TV Host Blinky de Leon, Mandaue vice-mayor Glen Bercede and Joseph Bontilao

DJ Marvin Evangelista (far left) with Pandora

Sun.Star’s Fiona Escandor and Patty TaboadaRenato and Mike Pesci

Kim Maitland-Smith and friendDexter Alazas and friendCynthia and QueeniePandora rocking Bordello’s

Sun.Star’s Chico Fuentes (far right) with wife Eden and some friendsPandora guitarist Lorenz with some friends

Veranda, part deux

Chevrolet party

The chefs of AICA

Caroline Po, Jerry Uy, Glen Saw, Warren Go, Enrison Benedicto, Peter Po, Ari Lee, Mark Garcia

DJ CarlowRex Crystal, Tanya Mangguerra, Chiqui Crystal, Jojo Mangguerra and Dennis TingJojo, Jan, Mike and Jake

Chef Vance Borja with birthday boy Renault Lao

Sun.Star’s Roselle Reyes with Charles Osmeña

DJ Funk Avy (with Pink hair) with his girlfriend

The Maria Luisa branch of The Veranda opened it’s doors to the public in an informal launch last Saturday, July 30 with an intimate get-together composed of special friends of its board of directors, headed by entrepreneur Renault Lao. DJ Carlow and special guest Manila DJ Funk Avy played hip-hop music all night long. At midnight, the attendees broke into the birthday song for Renault, who turned 36 on the 31st.

Chevrolet held an intimate get-together at the rooftop of Harold’s Hotel for its partners, colleagues and special friends to celebrate the proposed Chevrolet branch in M.C. Briones, Mandaue City last Wednesday evening, August 3.

Franklyn and Emily Ong with Margo Jimenez

Emmanuel Ong, Sidney Po, Abby Cua and Paul Chuanaco

Emmanuel Ong, Franklyn Ong, Albert Arcilla and Sidney Po

Katch Cachin, Leonardo Bolico and Kenn Lim

Doreen Dy with friends Vincent and Lorraine Sabarre

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