Reminiscing the past and planning the future

Maryknoll College Golden Jubilarians (College Class ’61) brought the house down with an energetic rap at the recent homecoming of Maryknoll, now known as Miriam College. 

Twenty graduates performed the original number, which was written, choreographed and directed by one of their own — Nona Barrientos Kahn, a retired Chicago Public School Administrator. Nona created the number especially for their class presentation for the program. Providing dance movements as background were 20 classmates from here and abroad.

The homecoming capped a series of lunches, dinners, bienvenidas and out-of-town excursions hosted by the Philippine-based alumnae for their visiting classmates from all over the world.

After bonding and reminiscing the fun times they had as students, they agreed to meet again in 2013 in Las Vegas, with plans to go to the Maryknoll Motherhouse in Ossining, New York to visit former teachers and nuns who taught them to be what they are now.

Chocolate nights

Golden Girls at Miriam/Maryknoll Chapel with retired Maryknoll Sister Marissa Lichauco.

Fashionistas trooped to the newly-opened Privé Luxury Club (the former Members Only) at the Fort Global City as Chocolate Clothing launched “Chocolate Nights,” the first in a series of sweet, sexy events.

Chocolate Clothing now carries new brands such as Aztec Rose for resort wear and luxurious European apparel from Lolitta while still carrying beloved denim label Grab, Sass and Chocolate.

Host Isa Litton started off the night with a short spiel on Chocolate Clothing. Gift certificates were handed out to the lucky winners who were decked out in Chocolate outfits. The “Most Stylish Table of the Night” with the most number of occupants in Chocolate outfits won a special prize while the “Chocolate Sweetheart of the Night” was awarded to Shauna Popple.

DJ Mars Miranda played music as guests were treated to giveaway Lollicakes. Chocolate Clothing’s muses for the night included Bea Tantoco, Cheryl Tiu, Camille Villar, Heidi Ng, Kaye Panganiban, Helena Belmonte, Celine Gabriel-Lim, Ingrid Go, Nina Estacio, Reshma Chulani, Vicki De Leon and Miriam Quiambao.

Ingrid Go and Allure’s Philip Cu-Unjieng.

Chocolate Clothing’s president Finina Tugade unveiled the Philippines’ First Mobile Fashion Truck and offered a toast for Chocolate Clothing’s partners: Perry’s Group of Companies, Strip, Browhaus, Mi Amore accessories and Jane Iredale Mineral Makeup. 

The Chocolate Mobile Fashion Truck brings Chocolate Clothing’s sweet offerings to your doorstep with one phone call, giving its valued consumers a personalized and convenient shopping experience.

(Check out www.chocolate-clothing.com)

Of dragons and saints

Educhild Foundation hosted a movie premiere of There Be Dragons at the SM Mall of Asia Premiere Cinema. Moviegoers showed up for the premiere to support Educhild’s “Next Level Project,” helping bring fruition to Educhild’s vision of “Loving Couples, Great Parents and Happy Families.”

The Educhild Foundation members: (From left) Lito Pagayon, Alan and Dawn Dacanay, Manolo and Marie Escueta, Erika Canoy-Sanchez, Desi and Eric Canoy, Arline Hernandez, Noemi and lawyer DM Marasigan.

There Be Dragons is a movie written and directed by two-time Academy Award-nominee Roland Joffe, director of The Mission, The Killing Fields and City of Joy. The movie stars Charlie Cox (Stardust, Casanova), Wes Bentley (American Beauty, Ghost Rider), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Max Payne), Derek Jacobi (Gladiator, The Golden Compass), Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible II, Ever After) and Rodrigo Santoro (300, Che).

OMB chairman Ronnie Ricketts (second from left) and wife Mariz with Educhild Foundation corporate secretary lawyer DM Marasigan and Educhild Pasig vice chair Agnes Fernando.

The movie was inspired by true events in the life of St. Josemaria Escriva and was set during the time of the Spanish Civil War. It will be shown in SM Megamall, SM North Edsa, TriNoma, Glorietta and Greenbelt starting tomorrow, Nov. 9.