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                    [Title] => Ate Vi loses a dear friend
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Monday night, Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos mustered enough courage to attend the wake for Aida Fandialan (her dear friend, confidante, accountant and Girl Friday rolled into one) at the Loyola Memorial Chapels in Sucat, Parañaque City.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20140723/ate-vi-4.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1273488 [Title] => It’s always a season for sharing and giving [Summary] =>

As 2013 draws to a close, we delve deep into our consciousness and ask ourselves if we have done enough for the marginalized and the victims of natural disasters that hit our country this year.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135486 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1513632 [AuthorName] => Mayenne Carmona [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1252700 [Title] => Sen. Ralph’s mother dies in Cambodia, 72 [Summary] =>

Sen. Ralph Recto’s mother, Carmen Gonzales Recto, died in her sleep Saturday morning, Nov. 2, while on a holiday in Cambodia. She was 72.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 818844 [Title] => Vi and Ralph's Hawaiian holiday [Summary] =>

When she went shopping at Macy’s in Waikiki, Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos was pleasantly surprised when the salesladies, mostly old-timer Filipinas in Hawaii, welcomed her with hugs, telling her, “You’ve been here before! Bata ka pa noon!”

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img841/7729/ent1thumbu.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 747870 [Title] => Guess what birthday gift Ralph gave to Vi [Summary] =>

Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos took a two-week leave from work to spend her 58th birthday with family (husband, Sen. Ralph Recto, and son Ryan Christian; but minus Luis who was stuck at work) and friends, first in Phuket, Thailand (they skipped Bangkok which was threatened by the lingering floods), and then in Malaysia.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4900/ent1thumbgo.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 697030 [Title] => Mother Lily hosts dinner for Santoses [Summary] =>

Regal Matriarch Mother Lily Monteverde and her daughter Roselle Monteverde-Teo hosted a bienvenida at Melo’s last June 8 for the visiting relatives of Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 633240 [Title] => Vi: Matagal din kaming may tampuhan ni Aga [Summary] =>

Over lunch yesterday with the first batch of movie writers she’s treating to a thanksgiving salu-salo (the second, bigger, batch’s turn is at noon today at a Tomas Morato restaurant), Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos admitted that, like Sharon Cuneta, she also had a long-drawn “cold war” with Aga Muhlach (whom she fondly calls Agaton) for reasons that she didn’t reveal anymore.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134229 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 373513 [Title] => Si Harley ang nakalingaw nako [Summary] => Yessed, mga manash, si Harley Ruedas ang nakalingaw pag-ayo nako niadtong Lunes, Nobiyembre 27 pag-anhi sa Diamond star nga si Maricel Soriano nga, nag-promote sa iyang award-winning digital film nga nag-ulohan og "Inang Yaya!" Ngano? [DatePublished] => 2006-12-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1333920 [AuthorName] => Garry B. Lao [SectionName] => Banat Kalingawan [SectionUrl] => kalingawan [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 356127 [Title] => ‘I see dead people…’ [Summary] => Summer. Cora, my 30-something niece, was recounting her experience with a stubborn client who lost her balance as she ascended a podium: "I told her to wear flat shoes instead of stilettos, tita, but she refused and ka-plook, she fell like a sack of potatoes. I dug my nails deep into my arm to stop myself from disintegrating into some kind of laughing hyena."

We laughed so hard at her story that we gasped for breath and slapped each other’s shoulders and nearly fell from our chairs.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135323 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1461085 [AuthorName] => Letty Jacinto-Lopez [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196862 [Title] => Gloria worse than Marcos – Reds [Summary] => Left-leaning groups boycotted yesterday’s 17th anniversary celebration of EDSA I as communist rebels called on the people to overthrow President Arroyo whom they described as "becoming worse" than the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted in a military-backed uprising on Feb. 25, 1986.

The militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) accused Mrs. Arroyo of ordering police to barricade the EDSA Shrine in Mandaluyong City to prevent the people from holding a rally on the "very spot" where the Marcos regime was defeated.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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