Stella Arnaldo's Blog

A collection of travel stories and food reviews, my published pieces on politics and relationships, the stories behind the stories, gossip, and hearty opinions on just about any topic. Lots of stream of consciousness musings too...

August 31, 2009

Are you on this list yet?

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The Philippines' 40 richest by Forbes magazine. The biggest question, of course, is how many of them were able to land/remain on this l...

Blackwater and Haliburton in the Phils.

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THIS was posted by one of my friends on Facebook today. According to the investigative journalist who did a piece on the presence of these p...

FOUND! Arroyo sons' properties in California

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HERE'S a great story to start off your week, even though it's still a holiday today. PRESIDENTIAL son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel ...

Good vibrations

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CALL me crazy, but I feel a "disturbance" in the Force. I just don’t know how to explain it, but that’s the closest description I ...
August 29, 2009

Not quite the real thing

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YOU'VE heard of Facebook. But have you heard of Facebuko? Click here . I swear it's frigging hilarious! Ang galing mo Jonas Roque! H...
August 28, 2009

Vacation pics

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AS I posted earlier, my gang and I went to Misibis Bay Raintree during the weekend of Aug. 21 for a little R&R. It's a gorgeous reso...
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August 24, 2009

I'm baaaack!

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SORRY gang, I was on vacation. I was enjoying my stay at Misibis Bay Raintree in Cagraray Island, Albay w/ my gang so much I didn't fee...
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August 19, 2009

Let's take a break!

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POLITICS is such a bitch no? And especially if you're talking about the stuff that goes on here in the Philippines, you'll likely ge...
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August 17, 2009

How Martin became a banker

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SOME people continue to wonder how Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez could afford to treat the presidentita and her party of some 30...

On grieving

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I remember at my own father’s wake a couple of years ago, when someone very close to me saw Pop lying in his coffin. She suddenly freaked ou...
August 16, 2009

Congen tries, but fails, in defending GMA

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SORRY to interrupt your weekend, folks, but this story caught my eye today... (RP Consul General to New York Cecilia Rebong. Photo from The...
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August 15, 2009

Where's the Woodstock couple now?

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THE Woodstock concert gathered many talents to celebrate love, peace, and most of all, music. It is considered a life-changing moment for ma...
August 14, 2009

Did he or didn't he? (Updated)

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(Daniel Romualdez w/ Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, granddaughter of Estee Lauder at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Hottest Pink Pa...
August 13, 2009

One of the world's most expensive hotel suites

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DRUM ROLL PLS... THE Presidential Suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York is one of them. One night's stay costs $15,000, according to the ...
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Chillax muna!

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OKAY, we're all worked up again bec. of this latest dining scandal of the presidentita. We need to relax a little before our blood press...
August 12, 2009

Let them eat steak!

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NOW I'm the one getting a heartburn! But can you blame me? I can't stop laughing after reading one more stupidity from this glorious...
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August 11, 2009

Jim Turner and his hobbits

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I haven't been to Hobbit House in Malate in quite a while. There was a time, I would hang out there and regularly watch many up and com...
August 10, 2009

On the DLSU-ADMU basketball game

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CONGRATULATIONS to the Green Archers for putting up such a fight when all the sports analysts where clearly betting on Ateneo's Blue Eag...
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The propaganda

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(Rep. Romualdez w/ GMA in New York. Photo from the congressman's web site .) DOESN'T anyone find it strange that Leyte Rep. Ferdinan...
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August 09, 2009

From someone who's not a Cory fan

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Let me confess right now that I was not a fan of Tita Cory. I didn’t even join the People Power Revolution in 1986, out of respect to my fat...
August 08, 2009

Coolness!

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Click this . This is not: Click! and Click! (scroll down). The palusot here .
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August 07, 2009

Tita Cory as a 'lola'

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I'M SORRY, I'm crying again. I just read this an article featuring Tita Cory's grandkids sharing their wonderful memories of the...
August 05, 2009

Saying goodbye to Tita Cory

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(The casket of Philippines' former President Corazon C. Aquino as it passes under the Buendia/South Superhighway flyover. Screen captur...

GMA visits Tita Cory's wake

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AS to be expected, it was a bit awkward in the beginning. Sen. Noynoy Aquino was seated about a feet away from the visiting presidentita an...
August 04, 2009

Really tasteless, ABS-CBN

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(Gabby Lopez, chairman of ABS-CBN Corp. really knows how to thank Tita Cory for returning the network and Meralco to their family. Photo fr...

Tears for Tita Cory

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I DON'T think I cried so much in one day, even for my brothers or father who have passed away. The necrological service for former Presi...

Look how far we've come

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BACK in 1986, housewife Corazon C. Aquino , and widow of the late senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino , called for a boycott of crony c...
August 03, 2009

Tita Cory's funeral cortege

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Pics from my friends in Makati: (Photo by Tina Tubongbanua, from the offices of TV5.) (Photo by Stanley Cris LaraƱo, from the corner of P...
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August 02, 2009

One last time

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One of the last interviews of former President Corazon C. Aquino, from GMA News TV's Newsmakers Archives , Sept. 2008. This page require...
August 01, 2009

The power of prayers

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Like many of her media colleagues, friends and relatives, I, too, subscribed to an e-mail group that had been set up so Chet could give us a...

Whatta joke!

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RECEIVED this email from a friend who got it from actor/comedian Leo Martinez, director-general of the Film Academy of the Philippines, who ...
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July 31, 2009

And, the video

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(Video from The White House ) Grabeh ang galing mambola ni Obama! Tuwang-tuwa ang Lola nyo. It's sad though how the US media wasn't...
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Finally, the photo op she's been dying for

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(President Barack Obama shares a light moment with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the Oval Office of the White House in Was...
July 29, 2009

Sorry kids, it's not working for me

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(Photo from the Inquirer) The caption is as follows: MY GRANDMA, MY PRESIDENT, MY HERO Michaela Gloria, Marie Angelique and Eva Victoria (...
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