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Just enjoy the ride
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - October 2, 2005 - 12:00am
People seem to be daunted by the word "exercise" because it conjures images of routine, hard work and pain especially to the muscles. There are also the expenses, time, equipment and sheer commitment...
A culture of ‘wala’
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - September 18, 2005 - 12:00am
"Forgive me Ate Ann if I have to approach you again," wrote a Nasugbu friend of mine in Filipino. She lives only nearby but felt compelled to write rather than to talk to me because, "I am already...
Hail to the Queen
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - August 21, 2005 - 12:00am
Honestly speaking, there are times when I ask myself if I should continue writing about my nearly two-year-old battle with cancer. I know that people read this column on Sundays in The STAR, and I’m aware that...
The fear factor
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - August 7, 2005 - 12:00am
I have never been a fearful person. Or so I’d like to think. Except for almost two years ago when I learned I had a breast cancer, and then again last year when I learned that it had metastasized to my brain,...
Seize the day, live the moment
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - April 24, 2005 - 12:00am
They came, they saw, and they certainly helped me conquer my discomforts to seize and live the day. Last Sunday, my former classmates from De La Salle University-College of Medicine visited me in my hometown of...
My game plan for survival
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - December 12, 2004 - 12:00am
I’ve gone through a wild swing ride these past two weeks. Some moments I’ve been filled with optimism and hope, and then I get scared and wonder what awaits me next. I am just glad to say that the swing...
How to choose a church for your wedding
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - June 23, 2004 - 12:00am
One of the most important decisions you will make for your wedding day will be where to hold your wedding ceremony. Although you will be primarily guided by your religious affiliation, your choice of a church will...
When Mom grows old
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - May 9, 2004 - 12:00am
When a close friend’s mom suffered a stroke, my friend told me, "You know, Ann, it’s been such an adjustment for me. All my life, I looked up to my mother as my source of strength. She’s always...
‘Just be confident and natural’
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - April 4, 2004 - 12:00am
Seventeen-year-old Margarita Loren "Marga" Melo has always believed in just being herself. "My Dad always tells me," she reveals, "to just be confident and sincere, not to pretend and to...
How cancer changed my life
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - January 28, 2004 - 12:00am
Cancer. The word alone is enough to send chills down people’s spines. Especially mine because I had witnessed my own father bleed to death from pancreatic cancer. So when I stared at the ghastly face of cancer...
Why we gossip, gamble and gorge in the saddest moments of our life
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - October 26, 2003 - 12:00am
Living in my home town of Nasugbu, Batangas, I have attended many wakes where I have had the chance to see my townmates grieve. I myself have experienced death in my family, and I can say that grieving in the province...
The fashion plate is a proud mom
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - September 28, 2003 - 12:00am
Gretchen Barretto is visibly pleased. "This past year," Gretchen gushes about her eight-year-old daughter Dominique, "she really got out of her shell. She’d say, ‘I’m gonna be an actress!...
‘To see is to believe’
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - August 31, 2003 - 12:00am
What a sight! I craned my neck even further, dazzled by the brilliant colors and figures of Michelangelo’s fresco paintings on the Sistine Chapel’s vaulted ceilings. There they were — God creating...
‘I am here to continue Dad’s work’
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - August 17, 2003 - 12:00am
As the nation commemorates the 20th death anniversary of national hero Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. this Aug. 21, one person will have more vivid and more personal memories of the man – Ninoy’s...
‘I’ve recovered gracefully after the storm’
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - June 29, 2003 - 12:00am
Just as she is doing well in showbiz – she was proclaimed last year’s Box Office Queen, she is a mainstay of the TV shows Buttercup and ASAP and is set to fly to Milan for a film co-starring Piolo Pascual,...
‘Age doesn’t matter, as long as...’
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - June 15, 2003 - 12:00am
Pops Fernandez is one of those rare showbiz birds who continues to make waves two decades after she first burst into the entertainment scene. The country’s undisputed Concert Queen, she is also a movie actress,...
Are you prepared to marry?
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - May 25, 2003 - 12:00am
If there’s one thing Columban priest Fr. Dave Clay believes with all his heart, it is that "Marriage is a beautiful thing." So beautiful, in fact, that he has made it his ministry to convince couples...
‘In 3 years, I hope to be married!’
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - April 6, 2003 - 12:00am
Filipinos might be wont to think that Kris Aquino’s showbiz success was just there for her (easy) picking, given the "advantages" of having been born the daughter of a national hero, Ninoy Aquino,...
Boyet and Queenie’s ‘springtime’ romance
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - March 23, 2003 - 12:00am
Spring has come again for House Majority Leader Neptali "Boyet" Gonzalez Jr., and the congressman is – if you could ever call a man this – a man in full bloom. If you knew just how furious the...
Dreams do come true
by HEART TO HEART By Ann Montemar-Oriondo - March 2, 2003 - 12:00am
"Pure absolute luck! Sometimes I think my world will come crashing down because everything was handed to me on a silver platter."
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