The FIRST Nobu Hotel in Asia (and the second in the world!!) happens to be in the Philippines! Nobu Manila just opened yesterday, December 14, 2014, at 2:38PM at City of Dreams Manila! And it feels like the time I met Robert de Niro and Mr. Nobu Matsuhisa himself last […]

  I was just planning to post about my weekend stay at MINI Hotel in Causeway Bay on social media but it received such great response on Instagram and Facebook, that I decided to just blog about it!

I just came from Edinburgh and London for the 2014 Diageo World Class Global Finals, the most prestigious mixology competition in the world. (Look out for my Philippine exclusive in the October issue of Lifestyle Asia!) After World Class, I took a few days off for holidays. Here […]

When was the last time you did something for the first time? I’d been seeing that on my social media feeds, and I’m proud and happy to say that my relatively recent trip to Club Paradise in Coron, Palawan had quite a few “first’s.”

I still can’t believe I have my own jewelry line! Sometime last year, Denovo Diamonds proprietors, husband-and-wife team Caryll Martinez-Benitez and Jose Benitez, and genius brand architect Amor Maclang of Geiser Maclang invited me to design a line for them. They wanted to make Denovo different from the […]

A lot of people ask me how to do my signature smokey eye– here’s my secret! And why I look like I’m 21! ;-p In Mons Romulo’s column in today’s Philippine Star. Happy Sunday!

恭喜發財！新年快樂！Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Lucky Year of the Horse! 🙂 Some people believe that cutting their hair before the lunar year will bring them luck. I, on the other hand, take every ushering of the new year– that’s both 2014 and now, the year […]

When  co-owner/ architect Carlo Calma asked me if I wanted to host a night at Vask’s new Curve Room, a champagne bar cum oyster/ caviar lounge cum gallery, I was like, “Sure, why not!” It’s fun to try something new– at least once, right? It […]

I’m sorry to have to burst the bubble so early on but Casa Liechtenstein is (unfortunately) not a restaurant. Rather, it is the residence of my very good friends, the Liechtenstein family— some of the most talented, kind-hearted and beautiful souls I know.

  I wasn’t planning to celebrate my birthday—in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever thrown a party for myself, it’s usually surprises by the kind-hearted souls in my life—until all my friends told me, “Helloooo, it’s a big deal!!! You have to do something!!!” And […]