Ella Rose is Cebu’s wild card

Orly J. Cajegas 02/16/2014

Hers is a voice so soothing it bridges the state of waking and dreaming, so distinctly La Isla Bonita-ish, one would surmise that the lady has been singing all her life in some island paradise, strumming on…

Meet the couple behind the hit song “Balay ni Mayang”

Orly J. Cajegas 02/09/2014

If you haven’t heard of their song, you must be living under a rock. The contemporary Bisdak song “Balay ni Mayang,” third place winner in last year’s Visayan Pop Music Festival, is a  massive hit in the…

Philipp Tampus, Prince of Fashion

Orly J. Cajegas 01/12/2014

Building an “empire on which the sun never sets,” the way King Philip II of Spain did during his reign,is not in his plans. Philipp Piezas Tampus (spelled with a double “p” like the Philippines, his country…

A beauty queen’s passionate heart

Orly J. Cajegas 12/22/2013

  To be a beauty queen with a purpose is something that Anna Maris Igpit knows too well. Crowned Binibining Pilipinas World 2006 at 18, she has been practically on the spotlight ever since. So much so that when…

Decoding the party scene

Orly J. Cajegas 12/15/2013

He certainly knows how to mix work and pleasure—like a true cocktail. Scion of a highly successful Cebu-based drugstore, Agustin Benedict Benjamin A. Lim, is slowly inching his way out of the shadows of Rose Pharmacy. This 26-year-old…

Queen Universe coming full circle

Orly J. Cajegas 11/17/2013

Being crowned Queen Universe is coming full circle for 30-something Nikki Normanson (real name: Dominique Noelle Estanislao), who made her mark as being the only one from the capital to cinch the coveted red crown since the pageant for…

Kate Torralba steps out

Orly J. Cajegas 11/10/2013

To her, music is as essential as eating: it nourishes and ultimately replenishes the soul, so much so that at the height of being the most in-demand designer based in Manila and she had to choose between her…

Beauty queen’s gambit

Orly J. Cajegas 11/03/2013

Her name means “dawn” in Arabic, the time of day that gives light slowly to darkness. Beginnings. There are so many firsts (and seconds) for this Canadian beauty queen. She placed first-runner up in the Miss Universe…

Felina Lim: Chinita Charmer

Orly J. Cajegas 09/11/2013

  It’s a pageant not too many of us have heard of. The youngest daughter of businessman Johnie and Flor Lim (all three siblings’ names begin with F), 22-year-old Felina Joyce Lim, operations manager of Body and…

JANINE TUGONON – Grace under pressure

Orly J. Cajegas 09/11/2013

Mari Raymundo Tugonon is used to being under pressure. Probably it’s her rigid training at the Ballet School of Manila that taught her to endure discomfort with a smile; or perhaps her difficult childhood in Orion, Bataan,…

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