VELVET PRESENTS LIVE TELECAST OF 65TH PRIMETIME EMMY®  AWARDS

The Philippines’ home of the most prestigious red carpet events is once again bringing the year’s most anticipated awards night!  Velvet airs the 65th Primetime Emmy® Awards live and exclusive from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California on Monday (September 23)

In recognition of outstanding contribution to the television industry, the Primetime Emmy® Awards bestows the U.S. television industry’s highest honors for national primetime and late night programming, with awards presented in 27 categories including areas of exceptional merit. This year's glamorous event will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.

This year's ceremony is especially grand, as legendary solo artist Elton John will be performing for the first time ever on the Emmys® stage. The multi-awarded superstar’s performance will serve as a tribute to the late, world-renowned performer Liberace, whose HBO biopic, “Behind the Candelabra” is nominated for fifteen Emmy Awards this year.  

This year’s Emmys® is also bringing forth a well-loved list of presenters, including past winners, nominees and other A-list talents. Among those taking the stage to present the awards are Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Jimmy Kimmel, Alec Baldwin, Claire Danes, Anna Faris, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Bryan Cranston, Will Arnett, Margo Martindale, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Andre Braugher, Allison Janney, Kerry Washington, Diahann Carroll, and sisters Emily and Zooey Deschanel.

Aside from all these, the “In Memoriam” segment will be presented in a unique new format this year.  Close friends and co-workers will be paying personal tribute to five individuals from the TV industry, including Jane Lynch, who will remember her friend and "Glee" co-star Cory Monteith; Edie Falco, who will remember "Sopranos" co-star James Gandolfini; Michael J. Fox who will pay tribute to "Family Ties" producer Gary David Goldberg; Rob Reiner will pay tribute to his long time "All in the Family" cast member Jean Stapleton; and Robin Williams will remember his friend and mentor Jonathan Winters ("Mork and Mindy").

The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, deemed one of the most spectacular events in the entertainment industry, will air live on Philippine television on Velvet (SkyCable channel 53) on Monday (September 23) at 8:00 a.m., with an encore telecast at 8:00 p.m. and replays on Tuesday (September 24) at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday (September 28) at 9:00 p.m. For updates, follow @VelvetChannel on Twitter and like www.facebook.com/VelvetChannel.

Tastiest Ramen this Rainy Season at Tokyo Tokyo.


Ramen at its tastiest and  affordable,  now steaming at your nearest Tokyo Tokyo Ramen Bar.
To bring customers the most authentic Japanese fast food experience possible, Tokyo Tokyo's Research and Development team worked closely with a Japanese ramen master, discovering ways to deliver authentic Japanese flavors. The end result was three exciting ramen flavors! Braised Pork, Spicy Chicken and Tempura Miso- making their debut at the very first Tokyo Tokyo Ramen Bar in Trinoma.
What delivers the best in ramen is its tonkotsu broth slow-cooked for at least 24 hours in Japanese hagamas, extracting every single drop of flavor from the base ingredients. Ramen noodles are freshly made, giving each mouthful just the right amount of bite. Premium quality toppings, such as pork cutlets, succulent chicken cuts glazed in a spicy-sweet teriyaki sauce, and delightfully crisp prawn tempura, serve as a focal point for other traditional flavors.
Customers can get their ramen at a fraction of the cost, compared to other restaurants: just 99php for a snack-sized bowl, and 150php for a full piping hot serving.
Enjoy wallet-friendly prices for an authentic japanese ramen of your choice.
Tokyo Tokyo Ramen bar is located at Trinoma; SM Southmall; Net Lima, The Fort; SM Megamall; People Support Ayala; Greenbelt; Market Market; SM Baguio; SM Fairview; SM North Edsa Annex; SM North Edsa Main. SM San Lazaro, SM Manila, Greenhills, Harbor Point Subic, Robinsons Pioneer, Ali Mall, Festival Mall, SM Dasmarinas, and SM Bicutan.

Summit Books 2013 Chick Lit Fest

Summit Books presented its first-ever 2013 Chick Lit Fest.

Summit Books proudly presented five of today's best-loved authors who made us all giddy with their stories at the first-ever 2013 Chick Lit Fest last  September 4, 2013 at the National Book Store Glorietta 1.

The fans and the media got the chance to meet the ladies behind the chick lits:  Abi Aquino for Drama Queen,  Mina Esguerra for Interim Goddess of Love,  Ines Bautista Yao for What's In Your Heart,  Marla Miniano for  From This Day Forward,  and Chinggay Labrador for the Popped Trilogy as they read their favorite lines from their books. The attendees of this event also got the chance to interact with them at the Q & A portion and had their favorite books signed during the autograph signing session.

Celebrating its 10th year this 2013 with a limited edition 10th anniversary cover is Abi Aquino's Drama Queen.

For more of Summit Books online, visit www.summitmedia.com.ph/books and become a fan on Facebook via Facebook.com/SummitBooks.

RIPD : To Protect and Serve the Living.

Look Sharp, Partner: Costume Design


The dynamic duo of R.I.P.D. Roy Pulsifer (JEFF BRIDGES) and and Nick Walker (RYAN REYNOLDS), brings together two era’s of men in uniform--a deputy of the Wild West, and a modern day police cop.

But dressing up these law enforcers proved to be an enjoyable one for Costume designer Susan Lyall.

Having previously  worked with Schwentke on two of his previous films, Red and Flightplan, Lyall had the task of not only creating the costumes of the film’s contemporary characters but also Royab’s Old West sheriff and a multitude of R.I.P.D. cops—officers from almost every period within the past few centuries.

Considering that whatever era an officer dies in marks the era of clothing he or she wears for eternity, the producers and writers took great pleasure in adding their suggestions to incorporate some iconic cop references into the mix.  

Lyall welcomed the process, which surprisingly invited considerable research.  She states: “Every member of the R.I.P.D. has a visual reference attached to him or her.  Some, audiences will pick out right away [i.e., Serpico, Popeye Doyle and Cagney & Lacey], but the rest of the looks came from real research.

“It was actually liberating because it didn’t have to be Boston-police specific,” she adds.  “We could choose a police uniform from any state or decade.  We had to create a universe and create rules of R.I.P.D., just in order to function for ourselves.  They’re not rules that are necessarily apparent to the audience, but the rules existed for us to limit our universe and find a way to kind of make sense of what was a very open concept.”

While Nick would remain dressed in 2013-appropriate Boston Police Department gear, Roy was a bit trickier.  For the grizzled cop, Lyall brought in hints of rock-and-roll imagery—from the wraparound sunglasses to the cut of his vest and long sheriff’s duster.  The rogue sensibility offers a visual link to the graphic novel’s aesthetic as well as indicates that Roy is the longest-serving officer there (to Proctor’s alternate annoyance/enjoyment).  Indeed, his multiple infractions during his tour of duty just keeps extending his time with the R.I.P.D.

The Rest In Peace Department is tasked to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of creatures who refuse to move peacefully into the afterlife.

Veteran sheriff (Bridges) has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D. tracking monstrous souls disguised among the living as ordinary people.  His mission?  To arrest and bring to justice a special brand of outlaws trying to escape final judgment by hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth.

Once the wise-cracking Roy is assigned former rising-star detective Nick Walker (Reynolds) as his junior officer, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork.  When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, two of the R.I.P.D.’s finest must restore the cosmic balance...or watch as the tunnel to the afterlife begins sending angry spirits the very wrong way.

Starring alongside Bridges and Reynolds in R.I.P.D. are KEVIN BACON (X-Men: First Class) as Bobby Hayes, Nick’s partner before he’s taken out in the line of duty; MARY-LOUISE PARKER (television’s Weeds) as Proctor, Nick and Roy’s tough-as-nails bureau chief in the R.I.P.D.; and STEPHANIE SZOSTAK (Iron Man 3) as Julia, Nick’s widow who must find out the reason behind his untimely departure before she is forced to play an unwelcome role in the world’s end.

“RIPD” opens August 21, 2013 in theaters nationwide is released and distributed by United International Pictures through Solar Entertainment Corporation

THE GREAT GATSBY” STEPS BACK IN TIME IN DAZZLING 3D

            From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge!,” “William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet”) comes the new big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby.

            In his adaptation, the filmmaker combines his distinctive visual, sonic, and storytelling styles in 3 Dimensions, weaving a Jazz Age cocktail faithful to Fitzgerald’s text and relevant to now. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the title role.

            “The Great Gatsby” follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.

            Academy Award® nominee DiCaprio plays Jay Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire starring as Nick Carraway; Oscar® nominee Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton as Daisy and Tom Buchanan; Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke as Myrtle and George Wilson; and newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker. Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan plays the role of Meyer Wolfshiem.

            Nick Carraway, the narrator (who, in the novel itself, is writing the story of The Great Gatsby – “Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book…”), describes his neighbor—the shadowy and seemingly corrupt but ultimately aspirational and inspiring Jay Gatsby—as a man with “some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life…an extraordinary gift for hope…such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.” For almost a century, the story of that Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald between Long Island, New York and St. Raphael, France, about 15 miles from Cannes, and between 1923 and 1924, has moved through time and space, and has found audiences across geographies.

            Writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann first encountered The Great Gatsby on the screen, in 1974, in remote Heron’s Creek, Australia, where his father ran the gas station and, briefly, the cinema.

            Cut to 2004. Cold, northern Russia. The clatter of train tracks. The flicker of light through the frosty window. “I had just wrapped ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and was off on ‘a debriefing adventure’ Luhrmann recalls. “Crazily enough, I’d decided to take the Trans-Siberian Express from Beijing, across northern Russia, and then on to Paris to meet my wife and newly born daughter, Lilly.” And it was in Siberia, in a sardine-box of a cabin, that Luhrmann again re-encountered The Great Gatsby, this time as an audio book, one of two he had with him.

            “I poured some wine, looked out and saw Siberia racing by, and started listening. It was four o’clock in the morning before I fell asleep,” he recalls. “The next day, I could not wait for night to come, to get back in my little box, pour the second bottle of wine, and listen to the last part. At the end of it I realized three things: One, that I hadn’t really known The Great Gatsby at all; two, that it was structurally really concise; and three, there’s a really great film in it. Of course there’s a huge inherent challenge—the expression of Nick Carraway’s inner life, his inner voice—but it’s an incredibly cinematic book. I thought, ‘I’d like to make this movie one day.’” And so, as the train beat on against the rusty tracks, the first imaginings of Luhrmann’s adaption of The Great Gatsby were born.

            “I think The Great Gatsby feels more relevant now than ever,” producer Douglas Wick offers. “In a time with a glittering but unreliable economy, and a prevalent sense that we have lost our way, Gatsby could have been written yesterday. But it wasn’t. The book takes you to another time and place, a lost world of blinding allure, of extravagant hope and crashing dreams, which we knew Baz, more than anyone imaginable, could deliver for an audience.”

            Opening across the Philippines on May 17 in Digital 3D and regular format, “The Great Gatsby” will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

L'Occitane - Immortelle Very Precious Cream

I  ran out of  Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair  and been using the Souk's Argan Oil as replacement simultaneously with  some day moisturizer that I have been keeping up for 3 months. I decided that I have to buy and upgrade that's why I

made a quick  visit to Shangrila at Rustans with the help of google I came up with this LOCCITANE's Very Precious Cream. I am on day two that's why I cant say what's going on with my face yet except that it tingles and it has some brightening formula in it,  it has a nice flowery/plant derivative smell that I like. Will post again after a week or two, by the way the jar says it has an anti aging benefits. I will update you after after two weeks, this is a night cream but Im also using this as a day cream together with the sample precious cream from their Immortelle line, the SA gave me. I am just so happy I bought this one, happy too with the freebie swag a brightening essence and a nice gold cute pouch that I am using now. Stashing it with 2 lippies, foundie, lipbalm, cologne and eyeliners as well.

After a long blogging hiatus, and a hunt for the perfect pink lipstick, someone gave me an Estee lauder Pink Riot lippie. I am a fan of Estee Lauder for the past two years, for the Advanced Night Repair serum but this is another story, when I take hold of their lippie, I knew that I have my HG, I have this on rotation with my MAC lustering and Chanel rouge collection. The description on their site says;

ESTEE LAUDER

Pure Color Vivid Shine Lipstick - # F8 Pink Riot 3.8g/0.13oz

• A sparkling, conditioning & long-wearing lipstick
• With a creamy, weightless texture that glides on effortlessly
• Contains light-emitting prism pearls for multi-radiant effects
• Features silver & gold sparkle pearls that neutralize lip tone
• Developed with True VisionTM Color that provides optimum color impact, vibrancy & dimension
• Enriched with nurturing ingredients including apricot kernel, shea butter & murumuru butter
• Offers light-to-medium, buildable coverage
• Leaves lips supple, sleek & conditioned.

I will give 3 thumbs up on this one. Go discover for yourself.

who is this bag scammer?

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/55401/the-p500-million-birkin-scam-or-how-a-womans-obsession-led-to-crime

uniqlo's long lines,bouncers and p590 pants

One day before its opening, I know i had to go early, I woke up at 8am, took a bath and up and about at 9:45am at MOA, I thought i was early but lo and behold the long exaggerated line, end of the line is situated at Haagen daaz with the crew standing and reminding everyone that it is indeed the end line, snaking, i stayed and  braved that at 10:15am to  11:45am, i was inside at 11:47 to be exact.

I had the pants and the shirt in mind thats why i just sneaked around the store and looked for it and

was lucky that i still have my size, for the sizes 29 and up its for regular sale at p1990. It was real pure luck to have my 2 pairs, and that orange nerv shirt, im a happy camper =).

stylista mom: long lines from the day after yesterday

stylista mom: long lines from the day after yesterday: I am on the lookout for jamba juice for the past 5 months, i dont want to go to the Fort just to have a hold of that jamba..Finally, I saw i...

long lines from the day after yesterday

I am on the lookout for jamba juice for the past 5 months, i dont want to go to the Fort just to have a hold of that jamba..Finally, I saw it outside Moa fronting Pizza Hut, it was in an orange truck, scored a cup for p135, i remember ordering a strawberry smoothie with yogurt in it, it says in the cup, no high fructose syrup all natural, all healthy, so be it.

my verdict, not that sweet, it is magical all over, a better replacement for my caramel tall frap for the same price.