Category: CURIOSITIES AND INTERESTS

  • How to love the timing of your life

    How to love the timing of your life

    I spent a good part of my professional life with Summit Media. It was perfect timing. Summit Media was then the biggest publishing company in the country, churning out dozens of magazine titles every month, both homegrown and international. I was only too happy to be there. The magazine industry was at the beginning of…

  • Why I’ve been dreaming of Hyun Bin

    Why I’ve been dreaming of Hyun Bin

    Well, because just look at him! Mwahahahaha! Seriously though, I have been having very vivid dreams of late. What’s more curious is that I have been remembering the details of these dreams for a longer period of time. It used to be that I’d remember a dream when I wake up, but forget about it…

  • Why dressing up should be fun at fiftysomething

    Why dressing up should be fun at fiftysomething

    When the first photographs from the set of Just Like That came out, I was sadly underwhelmed. Part of the fun of the Sex and The City brand was the fashion. Going through the initial photographs, however, left much to be desired. Some of the outfits were downright dowdy, with much too much fabric; others…

  • Why Keanu Reeves is eternal

    Why Keanu Reeves is eternal

    I am celebrating Keanu Reeves’ 57th birthday, along with a gazillion others in Twitterverse, by watching The Replacements. A sports comedy from 2000, Keanu plays quarterback Shane Falco commissioned by Coach Gene Hackman to lead a ragtag team of replacement players including Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans, and Jon Favreau before he became part of the…

  • How watching 200 K-Dramas changed my life

    How watching 200 K-Dramas changed my life

    Cherry Navarro Manansala has been watching K-Dramas long before Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin crash landed into our lives. A working mother of two, she chanced upon Princess Hours while pregnant in 2006. An alternate history drama, it featured Kim Jeong Hoon, Yoon Eun Hye, and Joo Ji Hoon. Cherry remembered watching it on and…