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Astralis for Lunch

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Mom loves Astralis and we love to tag along 🙂

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Merienda at Astralis February 14, 2009

Astralis by Diamond Hotel October 17, 2008 

They have an Executive Lunch Menu which I chose and I think is very reasonable and though the portions are small, I still need someone to help me with it.  I got the 3-course lunch

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Loved my appetizer, Melted Fresh Mozzarella with Grilled Shiitake

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My main was the Grilled Chicken Paillard

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Our friend had the executive lunch with me and his main was the Grilled Beef Tenderloin Stuffed with Emmethaler which looked like my type of dish!

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Then my dessert which was YUMMY!!!!!

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Other dishes outside the executive lunch menu

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This is Mom’s favorite dish in Astralis, also mine.  I need to remind myself that this is one dish Mom does not like to share so next time I have to order my own!  🙂

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AstralisPower Plant Mall

 

R1/Lvl. Power Plant Mall, Rockwell Dr. cor. Estrella St.

Makati City, Metro Manila

Philippines

 

(02) 890-7124

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Diesel SS’10 Campaign is a Shorthand for Bravery, Spontaneity and Saying “Yes”

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Why don’t you Be Stupid??? 

Visit Diesel Rockwell on May 1, 2010 and get a free BE STUPID t-shirt. Just wear any Diesel item, be it old or new, fall in line, and get a free t-shirt! Let’s all wear our stupid shirts with our heads held up high.

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When somebody says “don’t be stupid”, what they’re really saying is “Don’t have fun. Don’t be daring. Don’t provoke. Bury your sense of humour. Get serious.”

 

So we say: “Get lost. We’re with stupid”

 

Stupid is the liberating alternative to dry-as-dust cerebral (so called “smart”) and it takes courage, loads!

 

Stupid is the very word all those folk use to dismiss anything original and genuine.

Stupid is about having the guts to risk, to take on the new and inventive, however dangerous.

Stupid is about passion, strange sex, wearing the wrong thing in the right place, swapping roles trying something new, failing, trying again – and failing better.

Stupid is about giving things away for free, like we’re doing on May 1, for the sheer joy of seeing people happy.

Falling in line and wasting your time is stupid. But who knows what you can get from it!

So we ask you, Diesel is stupid and thoroughly identifies with it and lives it as the clearest expression ever what the brand is standing for. So we say Be Stupid!!! Take risks and live your life. 

Be Stupid calls out to each and every one of us. It’s the key to successful living. It’s about following your heart and not your head. You can’t outsmart stupid – so don’t try. Long live stupid.

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In the Philippines, Diesel is exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc. (SSI) and is available at Greenbelt 3, Power Plant Mall, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, and Robinson’s Place Manila. 

 

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Lu

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We watched a movie at Power Plant Mall and had dinner after at Lu which we truly enjoyed! We were only two so we were not able to order many dishes to share – so definitely we will be back to try the rest!

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The owners were there, Kris and Luis!  Thanks Chessie for introducing us.  It’s always nice to see owners in their restaurants, it’s the only way for the business to succeed because you know the owners are on top of things

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You can also email:  info@lu-restaurant.com for reservations 

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Bestseller appetizers which were recommended by our server and were both very good!!

Crispy Prawn and Shiitake Spring rolls 

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Quezo Fundido ( Chorizo and Cheese Dip ) 

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Truffled Mac and Cheese (and 5 Cheeses at that! )  – Miam Miam!!

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Lu’s Ultimate Pork Chop – Wow this was really good!  Kris told me she gets this only at Rustan’s Supermarket at Rockwell.  They are the only ones that can give this cut!  It is so tender and so good!!! 

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Lopez Museum’s Golden Jubilee kicks off this Feb 18

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The Lopez Memorial Museum turns 50 this month

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and anniversary activities kick off with the launching of the coffee table book

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alongside the opening of a cutting-edge exhibit, Threads: The Museum as Site for the Weaving of Tales.

Threads features contemporary artists Leo Abaya, Myra Beltran, Jef Carnay, Kiri Dalena, Ann Tiukinhoy Pamintuan, Claro Ramirez, Jean Marie Syjuco and Ann Wizer. Each artist has been invited to either craft a work taking off from their personal notion of the museum or to “cosplay” characters found in iconic works from the museum collection. Taken together, their works will speak on what museums do, as sites of remembrance and narrative-making.

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Threads: The Museum as Site for the Weaving of Tales

Threads at Rockwell underlines the museum’s commitment to move the institution forward by broadening its engagements outside its premises in Pasig and pursuing an openly interdisciplinary approach to exhibitions and programs. 

Threads  at Rockwell Tent takes off from the title of Lopez Memorial Museum’s commemorative book and overall anniversary theme, Unfolding  Half a Century:  The Lopez Memorial Museum.  It launches the series of events marking the institution’s 50th anniversary celebration.  Loosely taking after a UP College of Fine Arts exercise called “Paintings Come Alive”, Lopez Museum will engage a mix of individuals to ‘cosplay’ characters found in iconic works from its collection as well as animate or embody their notion of what museums, as sites of remembrance and narrative-making, do.

The works and artists pairs are the following:

1.    Leo Abaya’s Generator  is a video installation playing on spinning/unraveling thread/fabrication using archival footage of the museum’s opening in Pasay as well as objects in its trove; it is interactive in the sense that a museum official will be asked to set off a kinetic sculpture that in turn activates video.

2.    Myra Beltran will perform Mi ultimo adios, a 6-7 minute excerpt from Itim Asu: 1719-2009, a modern ballet that references Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo’s El Asasinato del Gobernador Bustamante y su hijo, the anti-clerical flavor of El Filibusterismo, and the agential power of artists.

3.    Jef Carnay’s Tipped and Empty Pockets make up a tandem of installation  and performance depicting the character in Danilo Dalena’s Jai Alai series, Talo.

4.    Kiri Dalena’s  Watch History Repeat Itself is a video installation using images taken from the Lopez Library archive as projected upon marble and soil.

5.    Ann Tiukinhoy Pamintuan’s The Family Affair and Pie Chair are functional handwelded galvanized wire sculpture lounge pieces that evoke the need for bonding and converging physically.

6.    Claro Ramirez’s Industrial Totems are three totemic sculptural pieces invoking history, lineage and memory in light of the museum’s turning 50 years old. Consciously evocative of the underside or unfinished nature of creative practice, Industrial Totems underscores how birthing the new begins with what is old and perceived as used up.

7.    Jean Marie Syjuco’s work called Where are we now?… Where do we go from here…? metamorphoses the two female figures in Juan Luna’s Espana y Filipinas into Barbies ascending toward a video projection of images suggestive of cultural imperialism.

8.    Ann Wizer’s Extra ORDINARY combines found objects made out of trash woven into tapestry and garments coupled with sound elements.  Her work takes off from Jose Tence Ruiz’s Topless Victorian. She also collaborates with Jean Marie Syjuco’s piece for Threads.

At the Rockwell Tent, visitors will enter a pared down environment reminiscent of New York-underground/warehouse happenings.  The Tent, while fitted with staging accoutrements will evoke a rough unfinished space that strongly suggests a physical encounter with the material and process of art/culture-making.  The Tent itself should be looked upon as one large installation that simulates how Lopez Museum has morphed from a site of static display and hanging to one that reckons with how the contemporary viewer consumes information and multisensory stimuli—that is in the non-linear, self-propelled, endlessly nested cross-referencing that is best visualized by imagining computer users dealing with simultaneously open windows/tabs and hyperlinks pointing to other hyperlinks.   

 Highlights of these performances and installation pieces will be exhibited at the Rockwell Power Plant Mall North Court from February 19 to 25, 2010.

  Parallel to this is the exhibition, After the Fact at the museum’s premises in Ortigas Center, Pasig. The exhibit evokes recollections of past exhibitions as well as a purview of future directions of the Lopez Museum. It features key works from the museum collection and works by Gaston Damag, Antipas Delotavo, Imelda Cajipe-Endaya, and Keith Sicat.

 Fifty years have passed since Lopez Museum’s doors first opened and sought a public for its trove of what was then loosely imagined as Filipiniana, presumably material proof of what was held in common or at least tenuously marked off what was and was not Filipino.  This half-a-century post-ness brings with it notions of evidence for re-consideration, looking back and ultimately, moving forward.  After the Fact is given to questions such as:  What and how did we do?  Then what?

As ‘after’ summons appropriative gestures and attempts to establish lineage and a re-collected past, this exhibition assembles remnants of what has transpired, what is present in the collection, and what is perceived as needing attention if the museum continues to aspire to a wider breadth and substantive depth in the working narratives that its exhibitions and attendant public programs present. 

This particular project also brings two artists loosely associated with Philippine social realism into the physical site of this museum which has much more popularly imagined as a home for art produced by Luna,

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Hidalgo

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and several generations of modernists. 

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In After the Fact,  Antipas Delotavo (Nature of the Beast) and feminist Imelda Cajipe-Endaya (Musmos  and Tarana)  underscore what may have been eclipsed in the unfolding of various stories that have been articulated within Lopez Museum over the years. 

Alongside their work are multimedia interventions from the one-time and still ambivalently diasporic practice of Keith Sicat (Cinemosaic)  and Gaston Damag (Rin-Nawan), the latter specifically highlighting, to this mind, still another gnawing gap in narratives woven within the museum as generator of knowledge, that is, particularly about notions of indigeneity and origin lacing the complex relationships between lowland and highland cultures in the Philippines.  These still relatively muted voices emanate from continuing re-explorations of the Philippines as thrice occupied territory unto our present days of unbridled deployment of Pinoy human bodies across over 200 countries around the globe as of recent count.

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In as much as there is truly no escaping what has passed in attempting to move through the present and future, After the Fact hopes to approximate a subtle homage of cultural production that is not so facetious that it only gets helplessly entangled in paeans to itself.

What started as the personal collection of the late Lopez Group founder Eugenio H. Lopez Sr. has evolved into a trusted and well-loved Philippine institution. In fact, the Lopez Memorial Museum and Library collection now ranks as one of the finest in Asia. 

Since its founding in 1960, the fine art section has grown from an initial collection of 19th century masterpieces consisting of 36 Juan Lunas and 182 Felix Resurreccion Hidalgos to include modern and contemporary pieces. The library currently counts over 19,000 Filipiniana titles by 12,000 authors, rare books, maps, manuscripts and literary works. With the institution’s digitization project and conservation laboratory, it provides quick and convenient access to materials while ensuring that these are preserved for future use.

Over the years, the Lopez Museum has always been committed to move the institution forward by broadening its engagements outside its physical structure, as well as pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to its exhibitions and programs. For more info, contact Fanny at 631-2417.

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Manila Mirrors

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FOCUS ON THE ARTS:  COLLECTIONS SERIES –  MANILA MIRRORS

Hinahanap-hanap kita, Manila. Admit it – there’s nothing closer to our hearts then home. For the third leg of Powerplant’s FOCUS ON THE ARTS: COLLECTIONS SERIES, the Filipino’s love for art and home will be pushed to the fore, with this leg of the FOCUS will be geared towards one of the highest forms of human expression, with a special premium on the sights and sounds of life in Manila.

Purveyors of both the old and new schools of art will be convening at the Power Plant Mall from August 31 to September 6, 2009 to celebrate Manila in the best way they know how. Here’s what you should be looking out for:

 

Gallery Launch

To kick off the weeklong festivities, Power Plant Mall and Figaro Coffee will be holding a gallery launch for all the participating artists at 7 p.m. on August 31 at the North Court of the mall.

 

Manila Defined: Jeepney Art

What better object to identify with the hustle and bustle of the metro than the iconic hunk of metal we all love to hate – the jeepney. What’s more, who better to put a twist on this icon than the leading name in our country’s pop-art royalty?

Francisco Motors Corporation, the company behind the birthing  the legend of the Philippine Jeepney, will be teaming up with nationalistic pop-art pioneers Team Manila to put a new face on the oldest workhorse on Philippine roads. This creation will be displayed in Power Plant Mall’s North Court starting Monday, the first day of a week’s worth of exciting events.

On the Saturday of the same week, the jeepney will again be the center of the attention, as the eponymous Saturday Group – a renowned collection of painters mentored by Philippine art greats Malang and Bencab – will be holding court with a painting session featuring the Team Manila-styled jeepney with models glammed up by M·A·C makeup artists (another new brand to watch out for in Power Plant this coming month) as their main subject.

 

Eye Manila: an Exhibit by Team Manila and Lomography Embassy Manila

In addition to making their mark on this installment of the FOCUS series with their uniquely stylized jeepney, Team Manila, along with their lomography arm – Lomography Embassy Manila, will also be holding an exhibit of their works at the Power Plant Mall’s R1 Corridor.

This exhibit will run from Monday, August 31 to Sunday, September 6.

 

Coffee Art– an Exhibit and Workshop by Sunshine Plata

Painting curio sensation Sunshine Plata will also be pitching in her own share of creativity for the FOCUS series, as she will be holding an exhibit of her aromatic visual masterpieces – her paintings are made of coffee! – at the mall’s Archaeology area from August 31 to September 6.

To culminate her exhibit, Sunshine Plata will be holding a coffee-painting workshop for kids of all ages (maybe even those who are children at heart!) sponsored by National Book Store.

For more details or queries about the event, please call 898-1702.

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