december-2011

PHOTO CAROLINE SCHMIDT AND NICOLAI SVANE/DANISHCONNECTION.COM GROOMING & STYLING MARIE CALICA
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MAGAZINE FOR CEBU PACIFIC
DECEMBER 2011
MANILA SKY
The city sparkles with
festive lights
(page 106)
Countdown
to Christmas
7 Chefs reinvent the meal
6 Routes to your roots
5 Places to chill
All-new sensational Cebu
The rise of the southern city
Discover
Dumaguete’s
art & soul
(page 158)
Singapore
on a
shoestring
THIS MONTH ‚ S COVER
Photographer Caroline Schmidt and Nicolai Svane/
danishconnection.com. Art director Adi Effendy. Photo
editor Lester V Ledesma. Hair and makeup Marie Calica.
Stylist Donna Cuna-Pita. Models Darleen Hopkirk
and Adam Santiago. On her: dress from The Ramp at
Crossings Department Store, Shangri-La Plaza Mall,
Mandaluyong City. On him: model's own.
welcome onboard
Priceless presents
More often than not, the best gifts are those you can’t pack in a
box and tie up neatly with a ribbon. They’re the ones you carry around with
you at all times and enrich you as a person — like a grandmother’s recipe,
perhaps, which brings back heart-warming childhood memories, or a new
experience you’re sure to remember fondly and share as stories in the years
to come, wherever you may be.
This Christmas season, we humbly present you with our thickest Smile
issue ever, packed with stories that bring back old memories and inspire us to
make new and exciting ones. In The new Noche Buena (page 68),
Manila’s fi nest young chefs put a new spin on the old classics of the Filipino
Christmas table. For something new to try over the holidays, we urge you to
Love your own (page 87) and reconnect with our Pinoy roots. In Trees
of life (page 168), a reforestation effort shows us how to give the gift of life
and plant the seeds for a better future. We're also giving you great travel
ideas across our network (Dumaguete, Bangkok, Seoul and
Singapore) and putting the spotlight on Cebu (page 114) — discover the
city’s bright new sheen as a cosmopolitan destination that keeps in step with
the rest of the world.
May you and your kin have a blessed Christmas and a bright New Year
ahead!
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Lance Gokongwei
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER