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                    [Title] => Supreme satisfaction
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Almost five years ago, two girl friends and I sat in a corner booth of what was then a new bar along Emerald Avenue in Ortigas.

[DatePublished] => 2008-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136226 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1762031 [AuthorName] => Tara F.T. Sering [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 370990 [Title] => Ridley Scott's serene passion [Summary] => Sir Ridley Scott brings his passion and talent to his latest film, A GOOD YEAR, set close to his second home in Provence, France. The British director has been dreaming of making this movie for years, and joined forces with Academy Award winner Russell Crowe and best-selling author, Peter Mayle, an old friend, who wrote the book that became the basis for this original comedy. [DatePublished] => 2006-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 297330 [Title] => Love at first sniff at L’Occitane in Provence [Summary] => I have been to Provence – that lovely region south of France – with Peter Mayle many, many times. In my mind.

My imaginary travels with this funny, bestselling British author-turned-Provence resident happened with every book he wrote. France, he confessed, was the country where he lost his gastronomic virginity. I was with him when he savored the rural chic of Provence, a place teeming with such delicious flavors "you can almost hear the flutter of taste buds."
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134643 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1461885 [AuthorName] => LIFE & STYLE By Millet M. Mananquil [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254548 [Title] => A dog’s novel idea [Summary] => I had watched Babe, the first movie over the weekend. Blame it on the weather – it was rainy – and my need for time to chill.

But I enjoyed Babe, the ever-polite pig who was able to pass for a sheepherding dog – uh, well, by being polite.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134026 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804887 [AuthorName] => Kathy Moran [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202561 [Title] => Bitch Reading [Summary] => Yes the ditz does read! I mean, with all the tragic options we’re being offered – such as mind-numbing TV shows and celluloid trash being baked by the dozen daily – leafing through a hundred and beyond pages of someone’s thoughts on the human condition doesn’t seem like a bad idea for home entertainment. If it sucks, you can always close the book and use it as a dog toy.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133192 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804717 [AuthorName] => Celine Lopez [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195612 [Title] => ‘A Dog’s Life’ touches a woman’s heart [Summary] => So there was a revelation to me – dozens of houses, and presumably hundreds of people. Somewhere among them, I felt sure, was my future soul mate. It is delusions like this that help you put one paw in front of the other at the end of a hard day.

Peter Mayle’s gem of a book would not have earned a second glance from me if I came across it during my pre-Hashbrown days. What could possibly interest me with A Dog’s Life when at 32 I never experienced having to take care of one?
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1215310 [AuthorName] => Cecilia V. Picache [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185239 [Title] => What’s brewing? Ask Chit Juan [Summary] => If there are two businesses to be busy with today, they’ve got to be marketing Philippine coffee from farm to cup and selling franchises of homegrown companies. Yet, having been part of the original Tavern on the Square, Chit Juan could not pass up the chance to re-open Tavern at the Greenbelt 3 with friends Sandra Chavez, Wyngard Tracy, Rene Cruz and this author.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135996 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1770875 [AuthorName] => THE READING CLUB By Girlie Rodis [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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