Finally, she’s home
FASHION maven Clint Holton P. Potestas takes a break from fashion and delves into the life of a woman who’s come home to stay.
From Alegre to Calanggaman
THE sunbeam ricocheted from the stark white sand to our faces as we breathed in the salty sea air. We were in Calanggaman Island, a paradise to any beach lover. Mr. Tsuguro Dobashi, Alegre Beach Resort & Spa’s Japan coordinator (he has been so for more than two decades) was simply in awe....
Yellow roses and fairy tale endings
ROCK music lover Jigs Arquiza interviews the queen of sexy house music and realizes he still believes in happily ever after.
Quijano: With This Ring, You Say What?
Aileen Quijano Bottoms up
NOW ladies, put your hands up! A guy friend wants to know what that ring on your finger says. Did a man just heed Beyonce’s call and finally “put a ring on it”? Are you now married, engaged? Or could it be that you just have fashionably good taste in...
Hollywood dream
HOW does one make it in the international modelling scene?
Clint Holton P. Potestas interviews a young lady who took the plunge and made it.
Back at Buyong
TWO weeks ago, my dad and I found ourselves back at Buyong.
It was a Sunday, early in the morning. And there we were to our complete surprise back at the beach that we had spent much of my childhood in. Every weekend actually, growing up.
Diamond girl
Rei “Rockstar” Sarmiento takes a break from the rock scene and immerses herself in social work, side by side with a beautiful jewel.
In Cambodia, her name means diamond, but what she does for the benefit of others makes her shine even brighter inside and out.
What not to do when the world is ending
Pami Therese Estalilla
You look out the window, and it’s happening again. The sky is falling, the cracks in the ground are getting bigger and bigger, the dead are walking the earth.
All the things you’ve seen in a hundred Apocalypse movies that usually seem to begin somewhere in...
High Explosive
Clint Holton P. Potestas takes us on a blow-by-blow encounter with the dynamite boxer from Bohol.
Not even a bunch of school bullies would ever dare to taunt Reynaldo “Boom-Boom” Bautista, or they would end up bruised by a millisecond touch of his fist. His elementary teacher wasn...
Driving force
BUSINESS is booming for this young entrepreneur, as Jigs Arquiza discovers.
“I like cars, and I like joining car shows,” 25-year old Paul Yu comments, as we were driving around in his white Mercedes Benz CLK320 coupe, and then adds, “I have a couple more cars coming in next month...
Body beautiful
PEOPLE know that slim is in. For this reluctant winner, it’s not all about winning, as Clint Holton P. Potestas discovers.
Not even her six-inch stilettos made a sound. She walked in the room quietly, all dolled up for her first pose before the camera, but not a single word was...
“Adult” Reading and Non-required
I’VE been feeling very adult lately, just having finished reading my very first, cover-to-cover, non-required, non-fiction history book—all within less than a week.
Flights of Fancy
THERE are all sorts of names for us, the fantasists of this world, and some of them aren’t too flattering.
We come in varying shapes and degrees. There are the hardcore geeks who speak fluent Elvish and go to cosplay conventions.
Please, Dad
AS SOFT winds sweep away the daysI look back on life through a haze.Remember playgrounds, parks and friends,In childlike gaze that never ends.The laughter in a game of catch,Shall memory ever attach...To innocence in youthful eyes,Catching the ball to Dad’s surprise.I recall my first bike, first...
Voice next door
FOR some people, music is a bridge between two cultures. Join (Clint Holton P. Potestas) as he meets a young man whose love for music overcomes differences.
A gift of a miracle
WHEN I was growing up, I used to have this notion that miracles only happen to people who are saints or those who would be one someday. It’s like a calling from God. Little did I know that a miracle would happen to me.
Top talent
"Life is not short," he declared, in a soft-spoken manner, with American accent, when I commented about wearing too many hats at the age of 19 - singing, studying, and then possessing that one desire of starring in a motion picture, among several other activities, and dreams. Too many to mention...
Moving Back, Moving On
FOR the first time in more than ten years, I find myself finally, finally back in Cebu.
Maybe not for good - not yet, at least. But certainly for the next one or two months. Before I leave it, again, and this time to pursue "further studies" abroad, which comes really in the form of a...
Here comes the bride
SOMETIMES, it is possible to have it all - or at least, nine like-minded gilding thinkers say so. Ladies, if you must, take your men on a little trip uptown, and see for yourself how that one precious moment becomes oh-so-perfect, oh-so-romantic.
All the single ladies, put your hands up....
Just like Honey
Join Lorna Jabuen as she gets to know a surf bum from Down Under-turned-television show host in Cebu.
EVERYBODY calls her Honey. And she loves it that way.
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Southern charm
(Clint Holton P. Potestas interviews a Cebuana making waves in Manila.
Streets with no names,lines without end
WE'VE seen it many times, many places: streets with no names, lines without end. On this nameless uncertainty are our cities built.
The Limbo of Lost Ideas
Pami Therese Estalilla
Hey, Joe
Clint Holton P. Potestas shares a halo-halo with a guy who endorses pizza, among other things.
“Halo-halo?” he asked me if I’d like to have some of this authentic Filipino dessert over a luncheon buffet of Asian cuisine at Café Marco.
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Mane event
“I WILL shave my head,” asserts Anna Fegi, the Cebuano diva who started as a theater singer in a university before joining the mainstream music industry. She is referring to her natural curly mane – almost like Dianna Ross’s – that defined her image, apart from the voice that has now brought her...
