I always love the presentation of all Gaita’s products- whether it be for food, for table setting, for flowers or simply just packaging her food items
Gaita now sells products from Kaibigan Farm in Bukidnon! All the products are planted and harvested by the men and cooked by the wives
Organic Tablea
Organic Peanuts – comes in 4 flavours
Love Gaita’s notepad. Did you know that Gaita loves cats?
Plus she has two more cats so a total of three 🙂 I follow them in instagram 🙂
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I am so happy to meet another young entrepreneur, Kim Lim! Many businesses come about because we love a product and want to make it available in our country. That is the story about Cocorose London in the Philippines. Kim told me that she was pregnant when she was in London and she was looking for a comfortable shoe to wear
She discovered Cocorose, she bought many pairs and now it’s available in the Philippines!
I love ballet shoes and these ballet shoes are different from the others because
1.) you can fold them!
2.) The classic line is also made from lambskin leather which is similar to what Chanel, Lanvin, Balenciaga and other luxury European brands use
3.) They are the only shoe that offers heel, sole and arch cushioning
4.) Handmade discreet full soles are made with non-slip material, giving you a feminine yet sturdy grip on the ground
I love the packaging! The box is so nice you won’t want to throw it! It comes with a bag where you can fold the ballet flats and put it inside and then put in your handbag
The new Spring Summer collection is already out
Available at Rustan’s department stores – This is the display in Rustan’s Makati Ladies shoe salon
Aside from the new collection being out, there are new features in the newer shoes.
The new shoes have a continuous or full sole 🙂
The new shoes have a more sturdy sole
Loving my new pair of Cocorose ballet flats! They are so comfortable!!
Cocorose also has a stand alone shop in Glorietta 5
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Paris returns!!
Several years ago, in 2007, Jigger presented to us for the first time, Century City. When we listened to him and when he showed us his presentation, I remember very well I told him that I felt we were in Disneyland 🙂 The presentation was so high tech, it felt like we were entering a ride in Disneyland. I also say it’s Disneyland because in their company- among the siblings together with Tito Joey and Tita Hilda – they will make their ideas come to life. Sometimes you may think that the idea is out of this world and something you think is not possible – but they will make it happen! That is the kind of person our friend, Jigger, is 🙂 He will get what he wants and he will make things happen! That’s why we love listening to him and he can go on and on….. and don’t underestimate him because it will come true
Who would have thought that Paris Hilton would ever come to the Philippines and design a Beach Club?
Congratulations Century Properties on the launch of the Paris Beach Club at Azure. I was on the wrong side so this is their back 🙂
It’s beautiful!!!!
By the entrance is this beautiful vertical garden!!!
Congratulations Jigger and May!!
I noticed that though the presence and support of the entire family is there in every launch, they do not try to take attention away from their sibling. If it’s Jigger’s project, they don’t try to grab attention and take centre stage from Jigger. Same with Marco, if it is Aqua, Marco is centre stage. I do not know if they do this purposely but it’s something I noticed and I admire them for this even more because I know all of them get a lot of attention from the press, from friends and family
Tita Hilda, Carlo and his very cute son Mattias and Tito Joey
Who would think something as beautiful as this can just pop out of the South Luzon Expressway? It’s beautiful!
Interiors of the Beach Club. Heart2Heart loves the pinks 🙂
The hallways changes colours!!!
Third Floor
The Spa – still under construction
Game Room
Jigger thinks of every detail! The girls! They have to be pretty 🙂 What the girls are wearing
Full force security all over the place!
Wifi username and passwords made available when you register
The launch and party continued in the pool and beach area
Marco and Jackie Antonio spotted by the pool
Beautiful view of the beach club from the pool. The lighting in the development is done so well!
As the party starts, we are about to leave 🙂 And we heard we missed Paris Hilton who was a DJ for the evening and we missed the beautiful fireworks
Nice to see Robbie Antonio on our way out
So happy to see Nurse Kim manning the photo booth!!! If you put #parisreturns in instagram, your photos will be printed and you can pick them up in the photo booth on your way out! COOL!
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Looking forward to another art event by the Museum Foundation of the Philippines! It was nice to hear about the upcoming Art in the Park from no other than Trickie Colayco Lopa
And Nanette Reyes. This year, it will only be a one day event but it will cover the whole park including the area of the Salcedo Market and it will have longer hours. And there will be a total of 58 exhibitors versus 43 of last year so there will definitely be lots of new things to see this year!
Jomike Tejido who is part of INK and does artwork for children’s books
Will have an installation called Elly Riders. Watch out for them – you can ride them and they are also cabinets and drawers 🙂
Beautiful Maxine Syjuco of Art Lab is an artist from a family of artists 🙂 She will also have an installation of mixed media
Osie Ocampo, owner of Pablo Gallery, put up a new gallery called Suez and Zapote. It’s a collaboration with Team Manila which opened last year and they have prints by young artists
Flo by Fran Alvarez
Untitled by Pergy Acuna
Beatrix Syjuco
Bagong Daan by C del Mundo
Old Jar by Fuentes
Mother and Son by Magpantay
Ballerina by R. Manansala
Irma Lacorte
Loving Embrace by Bong Gojar
Thou Shall Not Listen by Daisy Carlos
Kalinga by Lydia Velasco
Stage Curtain by Mideo Cruz
Time is What Life Is by Vicente Padilla
Male Study by Mia Herbosa
Mare and Foal by Marissa Lopa
Nude by Marissa Lopa
Charmaigne Mendoza
Charlie Co
Cris Villanueva
Jimenez
Ral Arrogante
Amanda Lapus
Angelo Padillo
Piaget Martelino
Joseph Fraylon
Ramon dela Cruz
Iyan de Jesus
Cordoba
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We have been wanting to book in this place but it’s so difficult! It’s the Jiro of San Mateo 🙂
We tried an Italian restaurant in the area and loved it 🙂 Osteria Coppa
Fritto Misto
Pumpkin Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter
Housemade pork sausage, speck and Crimini mushroom
Another restaurant we tried was 321 Ellsworth, quite good for San Mateo standards 🙂
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Thanks to my friend and batch mate, Triccie, for organising this reunion!! Clarissa, Joey and I were in the Bay Area so Triccie gathered the batch mates and chose the venue. It was a sunny beautiful Sunday and Joey picked up Triccie, then Clarissa then me 🙂
We were early so we got a good parking spot right in front of the restaurant!! Not to mention that Joey got a parking ticket for not parking within the space!
Loved our restaurant venue! It was by the Bay Bridge!! That’s all of us 9 + 1, Joy, who had to leave and catch the train back to Sacramento! Missing a few who could not make it that day. Marichit, Joey, Triccie, Sheryl, Me, Clarissa, Camille and Cindy
So happy to see Cindy Manalo Plantilla. She’s like me – we are the only girl in the family- the only difference is that she has 4 boys and I have 3! She lives in Castor Valley East Bay and is a nurse. She visits her patients in nursing homes and does therapy for them and monitors them
So happy to see Sheryll Garcia Tirona! She lives in East Bay near Cindy She is also a stay at home mom with 3 beautiful daughters!!! Just seeing the photo of her girls made me so so happy for her – You are so blessed Sheryll just having them!
So happy to see Joy Laurente Lallana! Joy used to lived in Hanover for 7 years. Her husband is a physician who worked for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Joy worked at the Multiple Sclerosis Research Center for Dartmouth Hitchcock as well doing research for the clinical trials. Dartmouth Hitchcock is the hospital for the Dartmouth College. Two years ago they moved to Sacramento and now Joy is a stay at home Mom with two kids!!
So happy to see Camille Bustamante Consunji! She had a girl and a boy. She lives in Daly City now around 10 minutes away from SF and works in Charles Schwab in the risk department
So happy to see Marichit Bantug Mendoza! She has two girls who picked her up after lunch together with her husband. Marichit lives in Menlo Park and is a pediatrician.
It was restaurant week in the city and there was a Dine About Town promo so most of us just ordered the Dine about Town menu
Others ordered from the ala carte
And of course we ordered desserts to share 🙂
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This is my friend, Joey 🙂 She’s been spending a lot of time lately in the Bay Area since she stays with her Mom who lives there. She keeps herself busy by taking classes related to food, after all she loves to cook. Aside from that she has a very active social life 🙂 I don’t normally write about these things so I did not know how to categorise it but anyway, it’s a cute story I would like to share
I find her interesting because she is very single yet very open and adventurous 🙂 She told me that she has gone out with 150 guys in the Bay Area and in the city in a span of 3 years! How? Through a website, Match.com. In her first year, she wrote to 50 guys and went out with 22 in a span of 3 months! I asked her who pays for the bill and she said in the beginning it was dutch but she learned later on that the guy pays haha!! This is really something I would never imagine myself doing but when I hear my friend tell me about it, it becomes clearer to me that this is reality for some of us. She says to me “PLENTY OF FISH” 🙂 I love it that she’s so positive about this when many single people out there are probably moping and having a hard time finding fish haha!! And the bonus is, she is enjoying herself. Why be sad, worried and single, when you can have fun with plenty fish out there 🙂 You will never find one if you don’t join the sea of fish haha
She had several interesting FISH like Steve who was a furniture designer, there was Andrew, a Social worker and musician, and Damon who is an IT guy and Nick a Finance guy. There’s really plenty plenty of fish 🙂
Last year she went to SF in September and had 7 dates but now she is hanging out mostly with this guy, Jay who is a coastguard. Who knows?? And yet if things don’t work out, heck there’s still PLENTY of FISH 🙂
I tried going to the website and it took me to the Philippines website -it did not want me to go to the USA one haha!! Anyway, Click below to go to their website, who knows, you might find your match 🙂
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