Mastering the Filipino Flavor: MasterChef Australia's John Carasig

 
MasterChef Australia’s John Carasig shares his experience on the beloved reality cooking show, and his vision of putting Filipino cuisine in the global culinary scene.


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Feeling Mayaman: A Sensible Person’s Guide to Modern Luxury

By Nicholo Jallores


Sometimes you just gotta feel rich.

You know how it is. You work like a dog day in and day out, and come payday you just want – no, need – to reward yourself for all of your sacrifice and hard labor. The struggle is real, hence the prize must be as real and tangible. You have to see it, smell it, hear it, hold it tightly in the palm of your hand until you feel in the very core of your being that, yes, you are successful. There is a point to all of your demeaning elbow grease. You are not just another cog in the machine.  You are the toast of the town. You are made, and you have the bag, the gadget, the dress, the shoes to prove it. Viva la alta!

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Meet Consul General Paul Raymond Cortes, Dubai & the Northern Emirates

Hon. Paul Raymond Cortes, the Consul General of the Philippines in the United Arab Emirates, did not dream of working in the Foreign Service. In fact, as a graduate of Computer Science from the prestigious Ateneo de Manila University.


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Ezra Santos: Ezra Enraptured

By Lalaine Chu-Benitez


If Michael Cinco is all about grandiose beauty, Furne One the master of dark drama, and Rocky Gathercole continues to play shock and awe, Ezra Santos’ domain is firmly placed on the altar of refined elegance.


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Filipino Designers on Fashion’s Original Sin: Borrow, copy, steal or share?

Filipino Designers on Fashion’s Original Sin: Borrow, copy, steal or share?
 
Is there still such thing as a fashion design original? What warrants an accusation of being a ‘copycat?’ And what makes something tiptoe the fine, gray lines of ‘inspiration?’
 
By Rav De Castro


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GLOBETROTTER's NOTES: AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam

By Kristine Abante
 

Aside from the obvious ones like the beautiful network of canals we often see in postcards, the impressive and well-oiled bike culture, and the deliciously addictive stroopwaffels, I would say Amsterdam is unique because here, you can enjoy a kind of freedom and open-mindedness that you will not easily find anywhere else.

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Science and the Art of Seeing

On the Prowl and In the Know – August 2015 

By Kristine Abante – Dubai




I always had this fascination with space and the great beyond. I spent my elementary years in an all-girl Catholic school; after that, I received this strange piece of news that I got accepted into my own version of Hogwarts…
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Filipinos in Dubai: It’s What I Do

Filipinos are known to be always happy, and I am proud to be one. I am also very lucky that I am part of a very diverse company. I make sure that I pay it forward to the Filipino community in Dubai.

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Life is Art

Chancing Upon Filipino-Belgian Painter Christian Van Maele’s 4^th Solo Exhibition in Belgium

By Kristine Abante
Photo credits: Mark Ganzon



Antwerp, a city known for its diamond trade, revealed to me during an unplanned visit that it was also hiding other gems.

It was an unusually cold summer day when we arrived at the private viewing of Filipino-Belgian painter Christian Van Maele’s solo exhibition.


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My Pinoy Life in Xiamen, China

I have been staying here in Xiamen since 2011. I was a pioneer employee of Saint Gabriel International School in Pasig City, Philippines that it began its operations in 2000, and I have been working there as a preschool teacher when it decided to open another location here in China in 2011.


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Top 10 Excuses That Should Not Hold You Back From Traveling

As someone who leads a life of travel, I get a lot of messages from people who also want to live a life of exciting trips, colorful destinations, and breath-taking adventures.

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Shaping Filipino Dreams

After learning from a survey that 7 out of 10 Filipino youths do not have dreams in life, Prim Paypon established ‘The Dream Project PH,’ a non-profit, volunteer-based organization that aims to enable Filipino children to dream, and strive towards realizing them.


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