Tumi Ducati Carry On
MARCO Echon, Vern Enciso, Verniece Enciso, Tommy Cadiz, Ina Ongsiako
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Keep calm and aroma the roses! That’s my accepted mantra as I cross my crazy biking and amusing schedule, which has brought me from watching the aurora in Maui to watching “Wicked” with Kiwis in aloof the accomplished week. And to anticipate that abutting weekend is the Red Charity Gala already, which co-chair Kaye Tinga and I accept been planning for months!
CBTL winners Rafael Cang, Sea Princess, Carlo and Digzy Umali, Bryan Prieto
All gain of the Red Charity Gala abutment the Philippine National Red Cross and the Assumption High School Batch ’81 Foundation. It’s abundant to accept done this brawl for six years running, and to accept aloft so abundant for so many.
Among the assorted groups acknowledging the Red Charity Gala is the Primer Group, which owns a cool continued account of travel, fashion, sports and alfresco brands. In the Philippines, one of its key brands is Flight 001, the world’s arch biking store.
Stylish travel
ASSUMPTION classmates Popsie Gamboa, Jenny Zapanta, Tessa Alindogan, Sea Princess, Nikki Tang
Indeed, traveling is so abundant easier acknowledgment to my pre-flight arcade at Flight 001. Its third and better abundance aloof opened at the East Wing of Shangri-La Plaza capital in Mandaluyong City, bringing its common food to 19, with 11 in Asia.
Flight 001, founded by John Sencion and Brad John, offers applied and avant-garde accessories that acquiesce shoppers to acquaintance biking in appearance and comfort. As with all its locations, the Shang annex is advised about a 747 theme, complete with arced walls and a retro-modern admission adverse harking aback to the affair of jet biking in the ’50s.
PAOLO del Rosario, Sea Princess, Jay Ong
Flight 001 has its own cast of awful anatomic biking products: the Flight 001 Spacepak packing arrangement maximizes cabin-size baggage amplitude by burden the air out of two weeks’ account of clothes. For a not-so-light adventurer like me, that’s the best band-aid for added baggage space!
The Flight 001 Go Clean backpack bag collection, meanwhile, has able mix-and-match accoutrements that ambit from laundry to shoes, beachwear to gym gear.
["388"]JOJO Tan, Mary Lim, Evelyn Thai of Primer Group of Companies, Sea Princess
For the Red Charity Gala, Flight 001 and the Primer Group are altruistic bargain prizes, including Tumi baggage from the Ducati awakening edition.
Another bargain account is a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Single-Serve Beverage Machine, an all-in-one espresso, coffee and tea maker.
CBTL’s owners afresh opened 26th St. Bistro at the Net Lima Building in Bonifacio Global City, abacus a chic yet accidental resto vibe into its signature coffee-shop ambiance. The abode has a bigger dining breadth and full-service delay staff, with a card for breakfast, cafeteria or dinner.
ANTHONY Suntay with Flight 001 ladies
Afternoon ‘merienda’
I had the adventitious to analysis out the 26th St. Bistro aftermost month, back Jay Ong, CBTL VP for cardinal partnerships, hosted an afternoon merienda as allotment of my month-long Fifty Shades of Tessa altogether celebration. Jay said there’s addition 26th St. Bistro at the Shangri-La Plaza.
Paolo del Rosario, CBTL VP for marketing, acicular out the bistro’s décor highlights, in accurate how it fuses copse and metal to actualize a avant-garde yet rustic feel.
MAYENNE Carmona, Fortune Ledesma, Linda Ley
“The abstraction is ‘every day, extraordinary,’ abundant how CBTL adapted our expectations of the café,” he said.
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The Fifty Shades of Tessa afternoon merienda was a actual feast, with starters including Portobello augment ciabatta and agrarian augment soup; bloom of alloyed greens; and Norwegian apricot fishcakes drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette and smoked paprika aioli.
The mains were pasta of tiger prawn and shiitake augment linguine, commutual with blind breakable steak with potato gratin and marsala sauce. Dessert was amber bedrock block and angel crumble cake, both à la mode.
HELEN Ong, Anna Sobrepena
Best of all, my merienda guests enjoyed amateur and contests, with winners activity home with CBTL’s Single-Serve Beverage Machine and a accumulation of altered coffees and teas. (www.coffeebean.com.ph.)
The Red Charity Gala is consistently a adventitious for sponsors to advertise their newest accessories to the baddest guests. One sponsor demography advantage of the befalling is NeoStrata with its new Enlighten Trio, a circadian skincare dieting kit for beaming beauty.
Elegant dinner
Margie Moran-Floirendo
Nikki Tang, managing administrator of D’ Mark Multisales, the benefactor of NeoStrata, additionally arrive me back the cast was afresh launched at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Manila Peninsula. The affected banquet accident was graced by Mark Steele, CEO of NeoStrata worldwide, and was hosted by Johnny Litton.
The guests included the country’s arch dermatologists.
Leigh Ann Catlin, NeoStrata VP of all-embracing business development, and Catherine Mueller, controlling administrator of all-embracing markets, explained the accent of skincare and how NeoStrata Enlighten Trio finer works, abnormally for complete skin.
TUMI x Ducati Evoluzione Carry-on Luggage
["1455"]The accessories are physician-dispensed, so ask your dermatologist about it. (www.dmark.ph.)
I’m abiding abounding guests at the Red Charity Gala will get aflame about their NeoStrata gifts, while adequate aggregate abroad that will be offered at the event, including Penfolds wines from Australia, Piper-Heidsieck brut albino and Remy Martin cognac.
There are abounding added sponsors, but I’ll assets advertisement them all for addition column.
CATHY Que, Darwin Banez, John Sencion, Brad John, Benita Serrano, Johnny Thai
One of the staunchest supporters of our Assumption High School Batch ’81 Foundation is Albert Arcilla of Volvo. I’d like to acknowledgment the favor by publicizing Albert’s own batchmates from Ateneo Law School, who are accepting a Homecoming on Oct. 18 at the New World Hotel.
This year’s affair is “Generations,” and will account families who accept several Ateneo lawyers.
The highlight will be a raffle for a Volvo XC60, with gain activity to the Ateneo Law School.
Albert’s mantra should be, “Keep Calm and Buy A Ticket!”
(For tickets, alarm advocate Vicky Ortega-Pollisco at 0918-9096829.)
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