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24 Hours in...Manila
Feature / Features
Written by : Lila Jose-Baquet
13 days ago
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24 Hours in...Manila
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7 AM
Let's start from the very beginning...at
Kilometer Zero. The big flagpole here, in
front of national hero Jose Rizal's monument,
is the starting point for measuring
distances to various points in the
Philippines. The park features attractions
such as Chinese and Japanese Gardens,
Orchidarium and Butterfly Pavilion, and
the Manila Planetarium, among others.
8 AM
Buzz into Jollibee for breakfast. Dubbed
the Philippines' number one fast food
chain (claim to fame: sweet spaghetti and
cheeseburger with pineapple), this restaurant
has a branch right in Rizal Park so you
can feed your hungry self right after walking
around the park. Vegetarians, head to
Pancake House - they have all kinds of pancakes
(of course), waffles, salad and pasta.
9 AM
The famous "Walled City" of Intramuros,
will give you a glimpse of Spanish colonial
times in Manila. Tour on your own or
book a walking tour with popular guide
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Feminism Embraces the Tiara
Feature / Features
Written by : Christine Laskowski
13 days ago
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Feminism Embraces the Tiara
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At Grappa's Cellar, in front of a crowd consisting mainly tanned, blonde Hong
Kong moms and their young daughters, Meg Cabot struts in wearing a rhinestone
tiara. This is appropriate, as her coterie is also dressed from head to toe in pink
ensembles – wigs, feather boas and tiaras included. All sixty or so of them, seated in a
semi-circle of chairs around a central platform with their pens and books, eagerly await
the professor's arrival.
Yes, I'd stumbled into princess school.
Had I not interviewed her first, I'd have probably thought she was either a ditz or a charlatan
and put her right back into the Caboodle makeup case of "chick lit" writers where she
belonged. But the thing with Meg Cabot is, she knows how to play the part, and in doing
so, gets young girls raising their hands and asking questions, cultivates in them an interest
in reading and writing, as well as the relentless pursuit of what they love to do and
who they are. For Meg ... ... |
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Accessorize like the stars
Lifestyle / Buy the Way
Written by : Sammi Zhou, photos by Tim Huang
13 days ago
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Accessorize like the stars
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A fabulous accessory is the best way to look "in"
for a new season. Shoes and bags are the primary
accessories. As winter is around the corner, you
may have loads of options with regard to shoes but a
pair of trendy high boots, which can go well with almost
any kind of dress, skirt or jeans, is worth opening your
wallet for. Rachel Bilson and Jessica Biel wear theirs
with skinny jeans while Rihanna matches her above-theknee
boots with fringes with her rock and punk uppers.
In terms of bags, small-sized clutches and oversized
bags are both popular this fall. Luxurious bejeweled
hues and metallic tones seem to be the two main
trends of this season. On the other hand, celebrities
mostly prefer bags in low-key and casual color tones
for daily use, such as Ashley Tisdale, Gisele Bundchen
and Keira Knightley. Agyness Deyn is different. She has
a small bag featuring long metallic 80s-style stud-andchains
details, which reflects her unique ... ... |
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Autumn Outing Companions
Lifestyle / Buy the Way
Written by : Sammi Zhou, photos by Tim Huang
13 days ago
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Companions
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Limited-edition Sunglasses 3900RMB/Bvlgari, La
Perle Plaza
A pair of over-sized sunglasses can make you more in-style, impressive,
and mysterious this season.
Woolen hat 570RMB/Jessica, Sky Galleria
You may have heard of seamless underwear, but a seamless hat? Its simple
design, made available in earth color tones, places you close to nature
and autumn.
Italian Silk Scarves 3680RMB/Sammy, 1/F,Sky
Galleria, Citic Plaza, 223 Tianhe Bei Lu,Guangzhou广州
市天河北路223号中信广场中天购物城
It is not cold quite yet, but it's getting there. These Italian silk scarves are a
simple and elegant way to keep warm without having to bundle up.
Colorful Bracelets 238RMB/Pair Qggle, Updated
Mall, Zhongshan San Lu, Guangzhou广州市中山三路流行
前线
Nothing spells trendy better than some stand-out accessories for your casual
outings. Made of colorful, striped plastic with touches of gold-colored
metal, these bring out the best in any outfit. T ... ... |
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Missy's China
Art+Culture / Books of the Month
Written by : Ernest White
15 days ago
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Missy’s China
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Author: Doris ("Missy") Arnold ★★★
If today's China sometimes feels like
another planet to new arrivals, what
must it have been like for expats living
here 60 or 70 years ago? That's where
two new books edited by Shanghaibased
writer Tess Johnston come in.
The slimmer of the pair, Peking Sun,
Shanghai Moon is a memoir by socialite
Diana Hutchins Angulo, who
grew up in Beijing and then become a
young woman in Shanghai. Sweeping
generalisations about Chinese culture
aside, the book's accounts (and nostalgic
photographs) of the privileged
lifestyles of Shanghai's rich and famous
as they party like it's 1939 are a
window onto a world which is gone forever. Missy's China, meanwhile,
is a collection of the letters sent home by a wife and mother
from small town America who spent several years in Hangzhou
during the thirties. Many of Missy's experiences and observations
wouldn't sound out of place in an expat e-mail today, bu ... ... |
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The China Lover
Art+Culture / Books of the Month
Written by : Ernest White
15 days ago
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The China Lover
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Author: Ian Buruma ★★★
Don't be fooled by The China Lover's
title – it's not really about the Middle
Kingdom at all. Instead, this novel's
main concern is Japan, and its changing
attitudes towards China, the
West, and itself. This shifting focus,
together with academic and author
Ian Buruma's polymath intelligence,
means that very little about The China
Lover is straightforward. Its central
character is an enigma: Yoshiko
Yamaguchi, the Sino-Japanese actress
who, as "Ri Koran", was used as a
propaganda tool by the Japanese during
their occupation of China, before
she metamorphosed into Hollywood's "Shirley Yamaguchi" and
later a member of Japan's parliament. To complicate matters
further, her story is told by not one, but three male narrators,
who have little in common other than their outsider status. The
China Lover covers an awful lot of intellectual ground, exploring
not just gender, national ident ... ... |
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Art+Culture / Books of the Month
Written by : Ernest White
15 days ago
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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Author: Paul Theroux ★★★★
Continuing to find new destinations and
fresh ways of describing them can be
a real problem for travel writers. However,
this is a challenge Paul Theroux tackles head
on in Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. As he
retraces the journey he made three decades
earlier for his classic The Great Railway
Bazaar, the veteran author is desperate to
avoid "the tedious reminisces of better days,
the twittering of the nostalgia bore". Thanks
to his skill as a writer, he manages to avoid
these potential pitfalls in style.
Although it follows in The Great Railway
Bazaar's tracks, Ghost Train's route is not exactly the same. Iran
and Afghanistan, for instance, have been replaced with new (and
less dangerous) possibilities such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.
However, whether Theroux is returning to a destination or visiting it
for the first time, the world has changed, and the influences of globalization
and geopolitics cont ... ... |
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Let The Right One In
Art+Culture / Cinema
Written by : Han Mingjie
16 days ago
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Let The Right One In
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Nov 5 ★★★★ DON'T MISS!
A Swedish vampire
movie that's really good?
You better believe it. This
superb (and ultra-frightening)
tale of vampires
and school bullies, directed
by Tomas Alfredson,
combines excellent horror
shocks with a compelling
script which has,
dare we say it, bite. We'll stick our neck and say
it's a classic-in-the-making. A tepid Hollywood
remake will surely follow.
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Zidane
Art+Culture / Cinema
Written by : Han Mingjie
16 days ago
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Zidane
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Nov 9 ★★★★
It will bore the pants off anybody not interested
in football, but this experimental documentary
covering one football match (Real Madrid
versus Villarreal in 2005) is a fascinating, slick and
slightly hypnotic ode to the great French midfielder.
Some 19 cameras track Zidane over 90
minutes, running, spitting, roaring, kicking, in
a mesmerizing, if oddly frustrating, portrait of
the great football star. ... ... |
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I've Loved You So Long
Art+Culture / Cinema
Written by : Han Mingjie
16 days ago
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Loved You So Long
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Nov 7 ★★★★
Kristin Scott Thomas stars and novelist
Philippe Claudel directs this acclaimed drama
about a hypersensitive woman who mysteriously
returns to her sister 15-years after a shocking
family secret was exposed. With a truly miraculous
performance by Scott Thomas, plus a beautifully rendered script
and skillful direction by Claudel, this French
drama oozes gravitas and finesse. ... ... |
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