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Noel’s Homecoming!

Monday, December 28th, 2009

What I love about Christmas is that so many friends from all over the world come home to celebrate Christmas. There is nothing like a Filipino Christmas! We just know how to celebrate this important holiday like no other race on the planet!

I recently had the pleasure to join a super chic homecoming dinner for one of our dearest friends Noel de la Rama! Noel has not been home for more than a decade. He resides in New York and is a personal chef for super famous people. Currently, he is the personal chef of Mr. Dustin Hoffman! Noel is like my own personal Zagat guide, giving me tips on the latest, hottest, best eats in New York City! Apart from that, Noel is really one great guy! We all love him!

He decided to surprise his best friend Junie Rodriquez with his home coming! Tita Fe (Junie’s Mom) was in cahoots with the whole surprise! The evening was an immense success! The meal was lovingly prepared amidst the most chic environment! Tita Fe & Junie are really my personal lifestyle heroes!

The Rodriguez's Christmas tree!

Junie was visually surprised with Noel's arrival.

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Dinner for Our Loveteam!

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Remember me telling you that felt like hosting dinner at our place? I really love hosting dinners, but because of my toxic schedule, hosting dinners can be really a major challenge. Nix and I really enjoy entertaining at home and we recently had the pleasure of hosting a small dinner for our favorite love team Martin and Leica!

Martin lives in the States and Leica lives in Manila. Having a long distance relationship is really hard, but they are managing quite well. Since Martin is in town, we decided that it would be perfect to host. We live in a cozy apartment (read: small!) so we can only take a maximum of 8 people for dinner. Nix cooked a really wonderful meal and we all had a lovely time making kwento. I just wanted to share with all of you some photos of my home and the dinner that we had.

This is our place. We make it a habit to move the furniture around every few months so we do not get tired of the look. We edited quite a number of pieces this time making the room appear larger.

Another view of our apartment.

Dinner guests included out main gal pals Malu and Leica with Martin and my co- host Nix! LOL!

Dinner guests included our main gal pals Malu and Leica with Martin and my co-host Nix! LOL!

I had to throw a photo of me in!

My beautiful friend Kitty also came by bringing the best dessert ever!

My beautiful friend Kitty also came by with the best dessert ever!

I love this grainy shot of Martin and Leica! They are so happy! (enter collective SIGH!)

BFFs! Kitty and Malu!

HUGS!
RAJO!

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Dinner with the Pos

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

I always look forward in having dinner at friends’ homes. Recently Nix and I were invited to the home of one of our favorite couples, Leo and Marielle Po. If you meet them, you realize that they are truly perfect for each other. They have such bright personalities that just being around them makes you so happy.

We’re actually neighbors, you see, but they moved in only a few months ago. It took quite a bit of time to finally get a date down, but it was certainly worth the wait. Marielle and Leo threw one memorable dinner! Everything was just DIVINE! From the amazing Thai food that Marielle lovingly prepared all by herself down to the spectacular wines that Leo personally chose to go with each dish. He is now known as “Somel-LEO.” Leo even made each guest a take home music souvenir, a CD compilation of all his favorite independent bands. How chic and cool is that?

The evening was in full swing by the time we arrived. We started out with some champagne and a bevy of Thai appetizers! YUM!

Here is Marielle showing us the hidden bar!I love this idea.

The beautiful table setting!

Marielle asked Fiori di-M to do the flowers. This is the floral arrangement arm of the super talented Margarita Fores. I am a fan of her work! Really super chic!

This is the lounge/TV area.

The masters bedroom! Love the large bed...so cozy!

I found the teddy on the bed so adorable! Love personal touches like this.

The chow! I was very impressed by Marielle's cooking skills. Apparently, she has been practicing for weeks. It was a success on all levels. I loved her duck curry; it was really good!

Marielle's helpers were in full Thai regalia! Now that's attention to detail!

The boys were in white shirts and dark pants! Wish Nix and I got the memo? Even Manong the waiter got the memo! LOL!

Leo had all these amazing contraptions for his bar, like this automated wine bottle opener! He even had this gizmo that would put more bubbles in our bubbly! I loved that one!