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Lounge ActThey’re the core of Cebu’s latest hangout, and Jigs Arquiza discovers the secret behind their imminent success.

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CHERRY ANN LIM Managing Editor, Special Pages and FeaturesJIGS ARQUIZA Editor CLINT HOLTON P. POTESTAS Writer

ON BOARD, ON AIR. Paolo Mendoza playing the music in both radio station ClubRadio 93.1 and lounge 93rd and 1st.

A FRIEND BEHIND THE BAR. Don Tirol pouring shots for 93rd and 1st Radio Lounge customers.

“There had already been radio stations in malls before, but none had ever had a bar built into it. At least, none that we know of here in Cebu.”

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Don Tirol and Paolo Mendoza

“Whenever a photo of me finds its way into the paper, I’m always identified as ‘a friend’,” Don Edrian Tirol says ruefully, though not resenting his seemingly more popular friend and business partner Dennis Paolo Mendoza. Paolo refutes this, saying “No, it’s just that for most people, Don acts kinda aloof.”

To which Don replies “I’m actually easier to approach,” adding about Paolo, “a lot of people find Pao intimidating.”

The two then clink glasses to celebrate their partnership in Cebu City’s newest nightspot, 93rd and 1st Radio Lounge. Operating at the fourth level of The Terraces, 93rd and 1st introduces a new concept: that of a bar-cum-lounge and radio station in one setting.

Paolo and Don’s friendship started in a quite funny way, according to the two. They explain, “Our parents knew each other from way back, and they all thought that we also knew each other, but we didn’t.”

Paolo explains, “I lived in Los Angeles, Don was studying in Florida, and up to now, Don and I both wonder where our parents got the idea that we were friends.”

Don adds, “I guess our parents just took it for granted that since they knew each other, Paolo and I also knew each other.”

Don and Paolo finally met a couple of years ago, and it was just a matter of two like-minded individuals clicking together. The pair started hanging out and, “after two bottles of Johnnie (Walker), we saw the possibilities of working together.”

The friendship soon developed a business aspect. Partnering to produce dance- and club-related events, their most recent production was internationally-renowned DJ Danny Bond’s gig held late last year, which gathered a number of clubbers at The Terraces in Ayala Center. A couple of weeks after that, the two opened 93rd and 1st.

“The bar is an offshoot of (radio station) Club Radio 93.1,” Paolo explains, referring to the radio station he started managing about a year or two ago, “There had already been radio stations in malls before, but none had ever had a bar built into it, at least, none that we know of here in Cebu.”

“When Pao told me of his idea, I immediately said yes,” agrees Don, “it actually complements the radio station. And this way, we get more customers for the bar, because some listeners want to be right where the DJ is.”

“It’s a challenge pushing a new genre of music to Cebuanos,” Paolo confesses, “it’s true, there are people here who do listen to rave, house and club music, but they’re not really hardcore; they also listen to other kinds of music.” Speaking about his long term goals, Paolo says he would like to see “house and club music become an everyday thing” for the Cebuanos, as he feels that this particular genre needs more airtime, hence the format of both the radio station and the bar. Don feels the same way.

For both though, it’s not just about the music. It’s about the camaraderie that develops in 93rd and 1st Radio Lounge. “We’ve become stronger friends because of the bar,” both Paolo and Don declare, “and it’s nice to see people coming in here as total strangers and going out as friends.”

Celebrating love doesn’t necessarily have to be on the 14th of February. It doesn’t have to be costly because romantic little gestures will do. In fact, you can show your affection to your special someone anytime, anywhere, and in any romantic way you know.

Here are 10 sweet little things that you might consider doing for and with your partner… 1. Post your little love notes somewhere your sweetheart will sure find and check. Sending your sweet ‘I love you’ in a text message once a day or once in a while won’t hurt either.

2. Ask your honey for a dinner in restaurants that you both haven’t visited and tried yet. Feasting on food you both haven’t tasted yet, coupled with exchanges of critiques, could be fun.

3. Watch movies that you both would enjoy. It doesn’t really have to be in the big screen, especially that you can just download movies in the internet. The thing is you’re having fun with each other’s company while enjoying the flick.

4. Find some time for a run-walk with your partner -- an exercise that’s good for your hearts, literally and figuratively. Make it a sweet routine.

5. Buy flowers for your sweetheart. The conventional roses will do. Remember that the “men-should-give-flower” custom doesn’t always follow.

6. Go to places like parks, beaches, tourist spots, or any other attractions where you both will enjoy photo-ops together. Photography can be a romantic endeavor for couples, don’t you think?

7. Agree on a sports that you will both take pleasure in – swimming, badminton, tennis, and bowling. You can also enroll in dancesport class together.

8. Marathons have become popular lately, why don’t you agree to join at least two marathons a month? You can both start with short distances and gradually increase them later. Besides, you will not only be running for each other, you will also be running for a cause.

9. Mark your Philippine map first and travel out-of-town with your special someone. There are several beautiful and romantic places in the country that you both should enjoy together before packing for Paris.

10. Share your dreams and plans with your partners. It can be a very romantic activity while relaxing together. Listen to each other and agree to daydream and plan things that involve the two of you.

Happy Valentine’s every day!

(Maria Armie Sheila Boco Garde)

10 sweet things you can do with your loved one, even if it’s not Valentine’s Day anymore

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Part biopic, part concert film and all crowd pleaser, “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” is a big, glossy celebration of the musical phenom that knows exactly what it needs to do to send its target audience of ‘tween girls into a tizzy of giddy screams.

That includes an unusually effective use of 3-D from director Jon M. Chu (“Step Up 3D”), so get ready for plenty of shots of Bieber looking longingly into the camera, reaching out to grab your hand while singing one of his infectious pop tunes. (And parents, get ready for temporary hearing loss.)

Bieber would be an easy target for anyone who’s graduated from junior high school: He’s 16, smooth and pretty, with an androgynous look that recalls Hilary Swank in “Boys Don’t Cry” and a playful, non-threatening way about him. And that hair ... that famous mane that flips back and forth and always lands just right in a soft, feathered swoop. (What he wears on top of his head – an ever-present New York Yankees cap in his favorite color, purple – is more troubling. Given his ubiquity and influence, he could be molding an entire generation of unsuspecting young Yankee fans. And that would be bad.)

But as Chu’s film reveals through home movies from Bieber’s small Canadian town of Stratford, Ontario, early YouTube clips and interviews with the people who discovered him, he’s preternaturally gifted, freakishly poised and incessantly hardworking. From the sense of rhythm he displayed at age 2 to his confident busking outside a theater at age 12 to the chutzpah he showed in approaching his eventual mentor, Usher, and offering to sing for him just a couple years ago, Bieber has always seemed fearless, yet somehow grounded.

He couldn’t be more contemporary, having built a grass-roots support system through social networks, and yet he has that old-fashioned thing called moxie. And he genuinely seems like a good kid – it’s hard not to like him.

Sure, “Never Say Never” plays like an extended infomercial for Bieber, similar to recent 3-D movies about Miley Cyrus

and the Jonas Bros. We get no sense of who Bieber really is, whether he has any fears, if he gets sick of touring and misses normal-kid stuff, what he thinks about the hordes of girls who tremble and flail at the very mention of his name. But along those lines, Chu does an excellent job of conveying the incomparable thrill of being young and bursting with love for your first idol crush; the footage of girls sobbing and hugging actually gets repetitive, and “Never Say Never” probably could have been about 15 minutes shorter. But whether you grew up worshipping Paul McCartney or Shaun Cassidy, Michael Jackson or Justin Timberlake, you’ll relate.

And Bieber – who may or may not have had any actual romantic contact with a girl, ever, as far as this film is concerned – at least knows how to make the girls feel special when mingling among them. During a particular song at each concert, members of his “team” pluck one lucky gal from the audience to sit on stage and receive roses and a special serenade. Whether or not he knows what he’s doing, he’s at least faking it well.

Performance is at the heart of “Never Say Never” – the title of one of Bieber’s songs – with Chu tracing the days leading up to his Madison Square Garden concert, which sold out in 22 minutes. Handlers – including his devoutly Christian single mom, stylist, manager, voice coach and bodyguard – surround and guide him every step of the way, which provides some hope that he will make the transition to adulthood with more discipline and grace than other teen celebrities who shall remain nameless.

The sole source of tension: Will his strained vocal cords hold up for the big night? When you’re as dreamy and magical as Justin Bieber, and everything’s going your way, there’s really no doubt. So you may as well just sit back and enjoy the show. (AP)

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UnknownA couple of years ago, Liam Neeson

starred as a former CIA agent in “Taken,” searching for his kidnapped daughter and kicking as much butt as necessary to find her. Now, he’s continuing this fascinating late-career path, remaining in action-star mode as he creeps ever closer to 60, in “Unknown.” It’s a chilly little thriller about amnesia, mistrust and lost identity, with the kinds of chases and explosions you’ve seen countless times before. Interchangeable Euro baddies lurk in the shadows, seemingly omniscient and omnipresent, waiting to strike. Nothing and no one is what it seems, which makes the unpredictability somewhat more predictable. (AP)

Cedar Rapids“Cedar Rapids” begins very much like

an Alexander Payne Midwestern comedy is expected to: with an afternoon sex romp and Sigourney Weaver exhorting her companion to “Bring it!” Her caller is the woefully earnest Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) who when Weaver’s character Macy – Tim’s former 7th grade teacher – tells him that they’re just “having a good time,” he sincerely corrects her: “No, we’re having the best time.” Tim is a 34-year-old Brown Star Insurance salesman in Brown Valley, Wis. He has somehow managed to get through life experiencing almost nothing. When the company’s star salesman (Thomas Lennon) unexpectedly dies, boss Bill Krogstad (Stephen Root) sends Tim to the annual insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Though such a trip may not sound like the stuff of heart-stopping cinema, the trip proves a late coming-of-age for Tim, who befriends partying colleagues, experiments with drugs and has a moral crisis. (AP)

“I heard that you’re settled down, that you found a girl, and you’re married now,” Adele sings softly on the closing track, “Someone Like You.”

“I heard that your dreams came true, guess she gave you things I didn’t give to you,” she continues over a simple piano melody.

“Someone Like You” is just one of 11 perfect tunes Adele co-wrote on her sophomore CD, “21,” as a heartbroken Adele tries her best to keep a stiff upper lip while lamenting about what once was — and what could have been.

The disc finds the British singer tackling a recent breakup. On most of the tracks, she’s trying to convince her former lover that she is “the one” — and she sounds so convincing that listeners will wonder what’s wrong with Adele’s ex for letting her go.

She sings a loud plea on “Don’t You Remember,” ending with the question: “When will

I see you again?” On “I’ll Be Waiting” — highlighted by the saxophone, trumpet and more — Adele is ready to change, “be somebody different” and “better to you.” And on “One and Only,” she’s bold, singing with a beautiful screech: “I dare you to let me be your one and only.”

Even if she did something wrong, it’s all right in our book, thanks to Adele’s killer voice, which is raw and soulful. Throughout “21,” she hits all the right notes at the right moments — and then some.

She sounds epic on “Set Fire to the Rain” and “Turning Tables,” which also gets a boost because of the delightful sounding strings. And on the drum-filled “Rumour Has It,” Adele plays the mean girl, sounding confident, sassy and in control.

“21” is the follow-up to Adele’s 2008 debut, “19.” That album had gems like “Chasing Pavements,” “Melt My Heart to

Stone” and “Hometown Glory,” helped her win two Grammys and gain worldwide fame. But with “21,” Adele, who is now 22, has created more than just an album with good songs: She’s crafted a masterpiece. Can’t wait for “25.” (AP)

Adele, “21” (Columbia Records)

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: There are many top-notch collaborators on “21,” including Rick Rubin, Paul Epworth and Dan Wilson. But the Ryan Tedder-produced “Rumour Has It” is the disc’s most adventurous track, full of lovely hand claps.

Havaianas celebrates summer all year long with the Havaianas “Always Summer” campaign.The Havaianas “Always Summer: Race to Hawaii” contest is a unique race that will challenge two-member teams to celebrate summer nationwide via summer tasks. The winners of the regional leg will be flown to Boracay for the final leg to compete for the ultimate prize: an all-expense-paid vacation for two to Hawaii – the inspiration for Havaianas Filipino residents who are 18 years old and above, are fit to travel and engage in physical activities, are eligible to join the Havaianas “Always Summer: Race to Hawaii” contest. Any single-receipt purchase of two (2) Havaianas pairs from any participating Havaianas retailers from until March 27, 2011 will merit one (1) Race to Hawaii scratch card, which contains a unique code that the participant can use to register in the www.havaianassummer.com website.

Participants have until March 28, 2011, 11:59PM to register or add codes. Participants only need to register once to get a chance to win awesome prizes and gadgets from Sony, David & Goliath, Hawaiian Tropic, and Havaianas in the weekly raffle draw, as well as an exclusive slot in the Havaianas “Always Summer: Race to Hawaii” contest. Weekly draw dates are on February 11, 18, and 25 and on March 4, 11, 18, and 30. Undrawn entries will still be eligible the following week, and additional codes will be considered as additional entries for the weekly draw. Experience summer fun and adventure from here to Boracay to Hawaii with Havaianas. Race begins at participating authorized Havaianas retailers.In Cebu, Havaianas Race to Hawaii participating outlets are All Flip Flops Ayala Center Cebu and SM City , Rustan’s, Republik, and R.O.X Ayala.

Havaianas Always Summer: Race to Hawaii

Every girl’s dream is to be able to become her own princess in her very own fairy tale, dancing with her Prince Charming while she wears her beautiful gown and her hair styled in a way most flattering. This scene would mostly characterize that of a wedding. Most women have their ideas of how they want their weddings to be, they just do not know how to get the exact things done according to their preference. This is where Parkmall comes in. This dream is what Parkmall aims to help fulfill. It wants to conveniently bring together the best wedding suppliers in Cebu. From choosing the perfect engagement ring and wedding rings for the bride to be to make-up services, to wedding photography and videography, to wedding souvenirs and flower arrangements for the church and the reception; all wedding essentials that will surely make your special day perfect. Ongoing until February 27, Parkmall Wedding Expo 2011 will have these different wedding suppliers come together to give the Cebuanos and Parkmall’s “to-be-wed” customers a variety of choices for their wedding needs. The exhibit is located at the West Atrium of Parkmall, ground level.

Wedding Expo 2011

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booksbottomsupAileen Quijano

In Valencia, Negros Oriental, a 20-minute drive from Dumaguete City, lies Forest Camp – the camp that rocks – literally.

Wild, so green, and almost untamed – it’s quite a natural wonder. Up to now, I can still remember the grand musical chorus of rushing water, bats, crickets and cicadas at night.

This 2.3 hectare property, owned and managed by the Vicuñas, is built next to a forest river. They started small with a couple of tree houses and only two private cottages good for two – though each can actually house four – at 1,000 pesos for 24 hours. Since then, they’ve added family cottages and public huts good for picnics during daytime. Sans air conditioning, the forest keeps the rooms naturally cool. One also has the option to go for tents when all else are occupied.

My friends and I opted for one of the overnight cottages. We could hear the water from the room and all around us were trees – I’ve never seen so many – and yes, all the strange creatures that go with it. But the thing with forests, I found out, is that when you let yourself go and commune with nature, it readily welcomes you into its arms and soothes your soul. It makes it easy for you to blend in. It makes you forget all about the bugs or the bats on the trees. At least, we saw no snakes.

For food, everyone goes to Mommy Baba’s garden restaurant. If not, it’s either walk outside the camp to the nearest carenderia (about at least 30 minutes away on foot with total darkness in between) or hunt for your food in the forest. The restaurant charges about 100 to 150 pesos per main viand. And yeah, it’s best to order 2 hours before or the wait will drive you mad.

Forest Camp boasts of a fishing pond, a hanging bridge, two man-made pools with ice-cold fresh water from the river, a large expanse of greenery for games and horseback riding (I suppose, though all I saw then was a wooden horse), and best of all – no signal! (yeah, that’s a great thing).

Now, for the main attraction, let’s talk about the water. Man, as in wow! The river (or brook or creek – depending on your point of view) is dotted by a lot of those big smooth stones (just picture pebbles then enlarge it) that we immediately dubbed it “the rocky river of life”.

Unable to resist, we trekked the riverside and caught glimpses of the various flora and fauna in the area.

We wanted to go to the water source, but it seemed really endless. A bit farther away, the trail cut off so we had to navigate through the rocks and current that was determined to sweep us off our feet and bring us

way, way down. Had to take off my slippers. Felt like a gymnast hopping through those rocks. Getting from one to the other was like grasping a dream one at a time. It gives you a new kind of high altogether. Along the way, KJ’s cam went under, MD fell on all fours and her butt twice, the gushing water almost took my slippers, and Bry slipped and slightly hurt his toes, his knees, his shoulders… nah, not his head...

And the water was so, so cold. Imagine swimming in ice – be it day time or night. So you have to keep moving and holding on to a rock or each other or be thrown down river. But the little springs or little waterfalls were pure heaven – the modern-day spas have nothing to it. The way they massage your back really scares all stress and tension away.

By morning, we were all sore. From the hangover or the beating of the water, I can’t say exactly. Some of us had bruises and felt like soldiers surviving the war. And I guess, despite the way my arms felt numb right after, that was exactly what I needed to clear my head.

Forest Camp may not be quite on the map yet as one of the Philippines’ most sought-after destinations, but it has a wild beauty of its own that punches your senses and goes straight to your heart.

One time, we were lazing around on a large rock mid-river, not talking and just watching the cool water gushing like a jacuzzi, while listening to forest music. It was just heaven. I felt so blessed realizing how beautiful this country really is.

In terms of amenities, Forest Camp may have a way to go yet to satisfy the intricate demands of a bigger market. But then I believe the charm of the camp actually lies in the fact that it’s more natural than commercial.

But with the way Mrs. Vicuña talked of adding cottages, upgrades and other plans, it won’t be long before more and more people would come. I just hope that with sustainable development, they’d still be able to preserve its natural beauty.

Before it gets too crowded, you should go ahead and try it too. In these times when practically everyone is itching to get out of the country, it pays to go back to our roots and rediscover how awesome it really is after all.

And oh, when you do, please say hi to the deaf-mute-blind cat, the noisy geese, the half-green and half-brown big lizard, the clueless fishes, the bats, the frogs, the countless insects, and the cicadas and crickets for me. Normally, I don’t like strange creatures. But during my stay, they blissfully let me be and I love them for that. (aileen.quijano@gmail.com)

The Camp that Rocks

by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn’t a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed ‘The Quack who saved a King’. Logue wasn’t a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain’s greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love of Mrs Simpson. This is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between Logue and the haunted future King George VI, written with Logue’s grandson and drawing exclusively from his grandfather Lionel’s diaries and archive. It throws an extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men, and the vital role the King’s wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played in bringing them together to save her husband’s reputation and reign. The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy is an astonishing insight into a private world. Logue’s diaries also reveal, for the first time, the torment the future King suffered at the hands of his father George V because of his stammer. Never before has there been such a personal portrait of the British monarchy - at a time of its greatest crisis - seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.

The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

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Geek. My favorite description has to be Julie

Smith’s: “...a bright young man turned inward, poorly socialized, who felt so little kinship with his own planet that he routinely travelled to the ones invented by his favorite authors, who thought of that secret, dreamy place his computer took him to as cyberspace—somewhere exciting, a place more real than his own life, a land he could conquer, not a drab teenager’s room in his parents’ house.”

Not to be confused with nerds, geeks are difficult to understand because they seem to live in a world of their own. To be more specific, they live in an already-constructed world of their choosing, thanks to a certain (more often than not) sci-fi or fantasy “fandom”. This implies a strong obsession with one or more film, TV or anime show, book/comic book/graphic novel series, video game, or role-playing game. (The definition can, in fact, span all other arenas of popular culture, however, the more popular the “fandom”, the less one is likely to be categorized as a “geek”. For example, “Gleeks” are not seriously perceived as geeks, though they might like to think so.)

Geeks are often scoffed at, perhaps because they are mightily difficult for the average person to relate to. Here’s why: While a regular person might know what Spock looks like, only a geek would be able to converse in the Klingon language. Their obsession with detail sets them apart, and they often make references to things that the ordinary person

would not understand.But I wouldn’t be too quick to laugh at them, and

here’s why. There are few things more wonderful

than having a dream when you are a child, and being able to channel that dream into your reality in your adulthood. And it is mostly the geeks who have managed to do so. In many cases, whatever they were obsessed with since their childhood or teens is present in an up-to-date form, and it is now in their hands. A lot of the kids who role-played their favourite sci-fi characters have turned into the writers, directors, and producers of today’s entertainment industry. More than one comic book fan now writes or illustrates his or her own comic books, and so on. A TV documentary once featured the people running a popular British sci-fi series, and they were all big fans in their younger years. One of them used to amuse his friends with impressions of a notable villain- he now works as the key voice talent for that same villain.

It’s a kind of triumph, you see- when geeks are able to take the “somewhere more exciting” and incorporate it into their actual careers. It is their turn to provide the next generation’s escapism- the secret, dreamy places for those of us who need them. I applaud these geeks who have managed to bring something new to those pre-made fantasy worlds and present them to the real world, thus enhanced.

The Force is strong with them.

Speak of the Geeks

Charcoalby Henry Kent Divinagracia

Black…Darkness consumes my soulWhat’s ahead of me?Groping, ProbingLost and I can’t see a thing

Cold…Warmth eluding the bodyWhat’s this life for?Numb, Can’t feel a thingDesolate and nobody is listening

Light…Consciousness returning to meIs this for real?Slowly, Silently it’s glowingFinding hope and the blood starts flowing

Burn…Bathed in the quenching warmthNow I can feel!Enriching, InspiringGoodness and beauty now I’m seeing

Finally…Once lost, now foundOnce cold, now warmRealizing, Appreciating in the mindPlaced in the dark so light I may find

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Visayan Architects Go Retro To cap a successful two-day regional conference in the Queen City of the South, the members of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) Area-C (Visayas) held its annual fellowship night last weekend at the City Sports Club Cebu. Since the conference theme touched on the “green and sustainable”, the fellowship adopted a “retro” theme, encouraging all delegates to re-use stuff from the past and bring back the glory days of the 60’s and 70’s with their get-ups.

The Retro hosts Paolo Alberto and Tony Cortes with the Area VP and the winners of the Retro get-up contest from Iloilo

Conference steering committee members (seated from left) architects Frante Nugas, Raya Espinosa, JR Decatoria, District C1 Director Noel Avila (standing from left) Sarah Abadia, Paolo Alberto, Francis Rodriguez, Ann Cuizon & VP-Area C Jay Alino

Retro Elvis (Archt. Peter Bordador) meets Super Retro Magellan (Richard Cabaluna)

SunStar writer-architect Karl Cabilao with immediate past Area-C Vice President and incumbent mayor of Pavia, Iloilo, Archt. Guimo Hisancha.

Levi’s jumpstarted 2011 with the groundbreaking Levi’s Roadwear campaign, with it’s main theme, exploring the great outdoors and pursuing life-long dreams and adventures with Levi’s as one’s constant fashion companion. Last February 18, 2011, Levi’s hosted a private dinner for some of Cebu’s media personalities at Maya Restaurant, Crossroads, Cebu City. Thinline Advertising president Frank Briones took care of hosting duties, which included treating the guests to sumptuous Mexican dishes available only at Maya. It was a night filled with laughter and fun moments as the special guests got to know more about the Levi’s Roadwear Campaign. Guests included Oj Hofer, Alexis Yap, Chassy Cortes and Michelle Uy, Jigs Arquiza, Kristine Roa, Marlen Limpag and Louela Pegarido, and Sheila Ngo. Afterwards, the group partied the night away at The Penthouse.

Levi’s Roadwear visits Cebu

Thinline’s Jeff Songco and Michelle Uy.OJ Hofer and Thinline Advertising’s president Frank Briones.

Louela Pegarido and Marlen Limpag. Kristin Gianna Roa and Alexis Yap.