The Nutcracker Christmas at Manila Hotel

Around Philippines, there are so many luxurious and stand out 5 star hotels but there's only One Rizal Park where the historical and already in it's 100 years in giving prestige, unforgettable stay and world class service is located. Manila Hotel which opened in 1912 and extensively remodeled in the 1970s is a Philippine landmark, home to high society and to political intrigue, and often a scene of historic events.


This season, enter into the world of magic and fantasy as Manila Hotel takes inspiration from The Nutcracker, one of the well loved Christmas fairytales of all time. Take a trip to a magical land of sweets and experience a sparkling holiday classic. Huge nutcracker dolls, toys, gingerbread clock house, a giant christmas tree, and other festive arrangements will be on display at the Grand Lobby beginning November 14, 2012.

Executive Vice President of Manila Hotel Dr. Enrique Y. Yap Jr. and The Nutcracker

Celebrate the Yuletide season with the entire family and let manila Hotel give you an unforgettable holiday experience with room packages, grand feast and other exciting activities.


The lighting of the Christmas Tree led by Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim, Manila Hotel President Atty. Joey Lina, and Manila Hotel Executive Vice President Dr. Enrique Y. Yap, Jr., signaled the beginning of the festivity. Children from the house of Refuge joined te celebration and treated with fun games and activities. Ballet manila led by Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja- Elizalde will be also performing The Nutcracker ballet at the Manila Hotel on weekends.

Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim with the executives of Manila Hotel after the Christmas Tree Lighting

As part of its corporate social responsibility, Manila Hotel will also offer The Nutcracker Cookie Jar wherin part of the sales will be donated to the House of Refuge.

Room Packages

Come home to Manila Hotel this holiday season and experience a Nutcracker- inspired Christmas celebration with your loved ones. For the entire Month of December, experience the warmth of home with one room packages through a host of exclusive priveleges including accomodation in our luxurious suites, Christmas buffets, complimentary shuttle service to different tourist areas, and gifts for the kids.

For a more exciting Manila Hotel holiday, guests who will get the especially marked The Nutcracker room ving cards upon check-in will get a special prize. Also, whoever finds the hidden The Nutcracker card in the room will also receive a gift from Manila Hotel.

Former Laguna Governor and now Manila Hotel President Atty. Joey D. Lina and me

F & B

Grand feasts will be offered for holidays so gather the family ‘round the dinner table as we serve you a delightful feast of your traditional favorites. Diners at Café Ilang-Ilang are in for a grand feast as Manila Hotel Executive Chef Konrad Walter prepares an exciting selection of traditional holiday and Manila Hotel favorites for Christmas Eve and Day buffets for PhP 2,500.00 ++ per person only. Enjoy your favorite puto bumbong,bibingka, and hot chocolate offered from PhP 1,000.00 ++ per person from 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM.

Formal table set up at the Champagne Room

Treat your taste buds with authentic Cantonese specialties at the Mabuhay Palace. A Traditional Yuletide Delights Set Menus will be offered from December 12 to 25, 2012. Price starts at PhP 1,300.00 ++ per person. For a sophisticated dining experience, the Champagne Room is offering impressive French cuisines fit for the festivity. Christmas Eve Dinner Set Menu with choice Cote du Boeuf or Roast Lamb will be offered with a glass of sparkling wine. A special lunch set menu will also be offered on Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Mayor Alfredo Lim and Odessa Escaler

Christmas is about sharing and you can find the perfect gifts for your loved ones in our Land of Sweets Gift collection available at the Deli. Nutcracker-inspired cocktails are also available at the Taproom and Lobby Lounge that will definitely set the celebratory mood.

Around Philippines, don't forget to go to Manila and still, there is no better way to spent your night and be part of history but at Manila Hotel. I myself feel the warmth and hospitality, maybe because Manila Hotel shares the character that we Filipinos love most which is trust.

For inquiries, please call 527 0011. Visit www.manila-hotel.com.ph.

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Isdaan sa Laguna: A restaurant and themed park into one

Around Philippines, there are so many restaurants but First in Laguna and located at Barangay Hanggan, Calauan is the newly opened “Isdaan” Floating Resto- Fun Park. A sister company of Barrio Fiesta and owned by the Ongpauco’s. Gigantic statues of Monkeys, Crocodiles, Fishes and Mermaids are all around with singing cooks and waiters serenading you. 

Singing cooks and waitress serenading everyone

A PHP 5 Million worth of Gigantic Gorilla is welcoming you?

Affordable prices of Filipino cuisine and nice ambiance are the catch if one will drop by here. Everything is new. Lot’s of attraction in this 3 hectares place at “Isdaan” like a boat ride for only 20 pesos. The “Tacsiapo” is where one could release his anger with the minimum purchase of 25 pesos, you could remove your anger by throwing the plate to the wall.

The floating Nipa huts are everywhere catering from 10 people to 30 each. For more like an outdoor dine in, there’s that biggest Monkey and lot’s of Coi area for you. I love the lights at night.

The area is like a themed park with heroes such as Incredible hulk, Spiderman, the former President Cory Aquino and Erap?

with Mayor George Berris of Calauan, Laguna

Why the kids would love it? Because of these toys located at all the right places.

Overall, we went here because of the birthday of my Twins, yes! The food is great specially this Inihaw sa Bilao for only 500 pesos plus with assorted sea foods. I love the pitcher of Fresh Buco Juice, In Calauan though we have many from our farm, it is much easier to buy it than to ask someone to get from the tree.

Main point is the employees. The newly opened restaurant gives work to the population of 70,000. Brgy. Hanggan main means of living is gardening, one from the 17 Barangays of this 3rd class municipality. The business gives work and could help the community to be known in the whole Philippines as the biggest Floating Restaurant in Laguna. Tara!

Isdaan sa Calauan (Floating Themed Park)

Address: Brgy. bangyas, Calauan, Laguna

Direction: From Manila, SLEX exit to Calamba. Go straight to Los Banos. from Los Banos there's a crossing for Calauan town proper,Sta Cruz and Bay, Laguna. Go straight to Sta Cruz way instead, then on the right side will be the Isdaan just 1 Km away from the crossing. Barangay Bangyas is the first Barangay at Calauan, Laguna that way.

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Around Philippines especially at the city, skyscrapers amazed me with their multiple floors towering the skyline. I am also attracted with these gated, private and big posh residential homes that made me think about the value, owner and designer. The sprawling community subdivisions also at the South  like Nuvali at Santa Rosa City, Laguna under Ayala Land or Portofino at Daang Hari, Alabang under Vista Land are the manifestation of visions and imaginations. The imagination of these designers and developers are implemented here with perfect planning,  grace and beauty. 

 

 

For two decades I've been in a construction industry, it's all about beauty, details and imagination. One, whether a professional engineer, architect or a common carpenter cannot build even a simple design without imagination. My dad, Mr. Josefino Bondad taught me and my two sisters to always do our best and be different, most of all, to be honest and to have integrity for every opportunity life will bring. He managed for 23 years his construction firm with determination and vision. According to him, if others can do it, we can do even more, even we are all girls in the family. In my 

Asian Tropical Designs, I am making sure that everything is coordinated from the color palette of tiles, roof covers whether made of galvanized iron sheet, asphalt shingles or concrete tile. 

 

 

 

I've been with so many technical employees; Architects, different kinds of engineers or any manpower involved in building infrastructures or designs. One thing is common; to build a concrete art for everyone to use, enjoy and that could instantly and eventually become a memorial of the designer. In order for us to get new designs and idea, we have magazines aside from the memories we had from traveling around the world and technical lessons and knowledge we gained from school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MYHOME Magazine celebrated their 12th years anniversary at

Mind Museum with elegant cocktail dinner from

Bizu Private Catering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MyHome Magazine, the Philippines No. 1 Home and Shelter Magazine, in celebration of its 12th year of advocating a beautiful home for every Filipino, is proud to present DECADES OF DESIGN. The celebration was held at Mind Museum located at Bonifacio Global City last October 30, 2012 with a complimentary museum tour at 4 in the afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MyHome Magazine Decades of Design Event

 

 

 

 

DECADES OF DESIGN is a vignette exhibit inspired by thirteen women that represent success. Some of them were known with their elegant style through the years that made them an icon of style and timeless beauty. These women were empowered and never stopped to reach their dreams that made them broke the glass ceiling. They were an icon and must be emulate. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MyHOme Magazine Editor-in-chief Jie Pambid,

Host Issa Litton, Empowered guest Tessa Prieto Valdez

and Multiplatform publisherof One Mega Group Meryll Yan

 

 

 

 

 

Jie Pambid, editor of MyHome magazine welcomed me earlier than the rest since I am the first together with my group to arrive before he delivered the welcome remarks at the opening after a sumptuous buffet and cocktail brought by Bizu Private Catering. Jie was followed by Meryll Yan, multiplatform publisher of One Mega Group with event towering and pretty host Issa Litton. They all joined Jie on stage to honor their most valued partners with a short program and an awarding ceremony. 

 

 

A silent auction was also held starting at PhP 10,000.00 to bid out the complete furniture set from Gus, on display at the 2012 Jessica Sanchez vignette.

 

 

 

These are the 13 empowered women who were featured at the Decades of Design;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amelia Mary Earhart

 

 

 

 

 

1900 Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Marie Curie

 

 

 

 

 

 

1910 Marie Curie was a French-Polish physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne), and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coco Chanel 

 

 

 

1920 Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand. She was the only fashion designer to appear on Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Along with Paul Poiret, Chanel was credited with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing the acceptance of a sportive, casual chic as the feminine standard in the post-World War I era.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Eleanor  Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930  Anna Eleanor  Roosevelt was the longest serving First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940  Marilyn Monroe was  an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Princess Grace Patricia Kelly

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950 Grace Patricia Kelly  was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

Audrey Hepburn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1960 Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She has since been ranked as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema and been placed in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Margarita Roxas Morán-Floirendo

 

 

 

1970 Maria Margarita Roxas Morán-Floirendo won the Binibining Pilipinas and Miss Universe crowns in 1973. A granddaughter of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas, she has also been known as Margie Morán Róxas and later as Margie Morán Róxas De Floirendo or simply Margie Morán. She is so far the last Philippine representative to the Miss Universe Pageant to bring home the crow 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jul B. Dizon

 

 

1980 Jul B. Dizon was a Jewelry Designer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apples Aberin

 

 

 

 

1990 Apples Aberin is a professional fashion model and writer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chat Fores

 

 

 

 

 

 2000 Chat Fores is an interior designer based in Manila. Known for her modern, eclectic, clutter free design. Chat brings local interior design one notch higher. She infuses her cutting edge exceptionality with definitive Filipino sensibilities, the mark of true visionary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lea Salonga-Chien

 

 

 

 

 

2010  Lea Salonga-Chien10 is a Filipina soprano singer and actress well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards.

She was the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and Fantine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway. She also provided the singing voice of two official Disney Princesses: Jasmine in Aladdin (1992), and Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004). Salonga was named a Disney Legend in 2011 for her work with the company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessica Elizabeth Sanchez

 

 

 

 

 

2012 Jessica Elizabeth Sanchez is an American singer from Chula Vista, California. She was the runner-up on the eleventh season of the reality singing show, American Idol and is currently signed to Interscope Records. She was the first female and fourth recipient of the judges' save and the first recipient of the save to reach the finale. Prior to appearing on American Idol, Sanchez competed in the first season of America's Got Talent at the age of 11.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tessa Prieto Valdez and me

 

 

 

 

 

 

MyHome Magazines would like to thank their partners;

Panasonic Philippines

Focus Global

Calligaris

Ace Hardware Philippines Inc.

Felport International Marketing

Peerles Production Manufacturing Corp.

Watchworks Inc.

Mariwasa Siam Ceramics Inc.

Eastwood Property Holdings

Homestore

Wilcon

Hafele Phil. Inc. 

 

 

 

 

 

Anywhere in the Philippines, don't forget to grab the number 1 home and shelter magazine to get new idea for your business or dream home. MyHome Magazine gave me inspiration  to my interior designs, with it's glossy and perfect pictures, it's perfect for the designers or even home owners. The featured designers too are the best and we all could get idea from them. 

 

 

 

 

 

MyHome Magazine 12 years anniversary celebrates with

empowered women