Ex Hyatt, Ex Everything

The place card on our table simply said "Ex Hyatt", hilariously making us think of ourselves as has-beens, la-os na, wala na sa uso. Peggy's 50th birthday bash held at Paparazzi brought together friends from every stage of her life.. high school, college, the various posts in her career, till her present job as Regional VP for Marketing for the Shangri-La Hotels Asia Pacific. Whew some gal. But her formative years, so to speak, were spent with us, now gathered together in one table simply labelled as "Ex Hyatt". The girls were all fresh out of college then, sweet young things out on the road all day, doing the ubiquitous 8 sales calls on dirty old men, while boss Bob was happy with 38% occupancy at a 45 dollar average room rate. Simple joys, simple life. Now fast forward MORE THAN TWO DECADES later, and here we are, several lifetimes and a few ex-s later, the ex-Hyatts, hamming it up for dear Peggy weggy... Needless to say, we felt like irresponsible adults again, and ruined her cake by finishing all the cherries before the program began. AND we right away put up a school-like barrier between us, the Hyatt group, and the yabang Shang group headed by Jarlath whose table was positioned beside the roast beef carving, barring entry to the ex-Hyatts. Somebody quipped that the ex-Hyatts had to pay a premium to get to that part of the buffet! Now maybe that's why we wiped out all the cherries.
Now, roll call please, from left to right, standing: David de Padua, Benedict Lim, Bob Zozobrado, Cynthia Serrano, Raffy Camus. Seated, l-r, Ginny Banaag, me, Cory Quirino, Peggy Angeles, Gami Holazo Wilkinson, Val Palou Erana. Cheers, Pegs! And cheers to the Hyatt Regency Manila of the eightees!

Love and Marriage

Still on that nostalgia trip. This I found and must immortalize before the CD gets all moldy. Awwwwwww sooooooo cute, my mommy and daddy plus us their cute little tadpoles. Love and Marriage go together like a - horse and carriage! (really?).. ya can't have one, ya can't have none, ya can't have one without the other! (don't we just love the fifties!!)
Of course I posted it on Youtube! Enjoy!

Children, children

I sometimes get into these nostalgic moods and start scrounging though old photos, notes and memorabilia at home, and I get this heart-achy feeling for the past as I recall warm fuzzy times with my children when they were just that –- children.

But sometimes too, on rare occasions, I recall ANOTHER set of children. The ones I spend an average of ten hours with, every Monday to Friday. Since we all live and breathe beside one another every hour, every day, with me as their 'mother', we’ve formed our little office family whom I also share some nostalgic moments with. Here is an old video I found – from last year – which documents our good times. We gave it to Corinne (yup, one of my 'children') as a farewell present when she joined another ‘family’. AND I did the ultimate by posting it on You Tube!

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beauties at a beauty-filled beauty event held last month on a beautiful afternoon at rockwell club, mc mag's prix de excellence de la beaute 2008 whatever that means. basta beautiful kami. That's Liza, me and Ayessa of beauty bar.