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Twas at Preview Magazine’s annual Best-Dressed Ball that happened a couple of weeks ago at Republiq, Resorts World Manila. Answered to the query, “Do you have a twitter account?” then next thing was I had found myself in front of a camera, flash fired half a second later that momentarily blinded and disoriented me. There you go. The end of it. They said twas for a feature on Philippine Star’s YoungStar Section. Cool, I guess. Anything that can associate myself with youth. …

Last January, I announced that I was raffling off a few beauty and fashion loots to celebrate key dates relevant to Style Manila. It took me a while to take care of tying loose ends but I’m happy to report that today, I was able to squeeze the task in.
Thanks to all who understood and was patient enough to wait. It truly shows you folks are not simply joining to get free stuff from me but rather you really did participate cuz you want to celebrate with me here in …

Now back from an unplanned blog hiatus — so unfortunate since I know a lot of folks are waiting for me to announce the winners of my Celebratory Contest, which I’ll be doing shortly btw — armed with a couple of reasons.
As I’ve undeniably told you a few months back, I’ve taken on an offline work that ate up a HUGE chunk of my time (and energy). Initially, it had caused me to deliver posts sporadically than usual. And at the start of the new year, I’ve taken on a …

2010 is starting out to be one heck of a busy year. I meant to do this last December but I had no time to organise it, not to mention, no time to see it through. What am I talking about? Well, I wanted to give away some stuff to celebrate Christmas, my birthday and Style Manila’s 3rd year anniversary. Yes, this blog turned 3 early this month!

So what exactly am I giving away? Let’s start with a few beauty loot bags which will contain the following:
Loot #1
AVON’s Jet Femme …

For the past week, I’ve been throwing some teasers to friends and online contacts about being in a local guy mag.

When I mentioned that I’m in its October 2009 issue, the statement definitely raised some eyebrows and garnered surprised looks on each of their faces. Rightly so cuz if you’ve seen me even just in photos, I certainly don’t have the make which would qualify to be on even a quarter of a page. But just to make things clear, there were no semi-nekkid photos in this feature. Fortunately. …

I know it’s been more than a week since you folks last heard from me and I do apologise for the absence. In the hope to make amends, I’ve got a few things lined up, which I hope you folks will find useful, entertaining and, ultimately, fun. Oh, yea, there’s a new contest coming up which I hope you beauty aficionados will find interesting enough to join. I hope you’d stay tuned for that — how? Subscribe to the Style Manila Feed!
After spending the last couple of years and a …

It’s always a reason to celebrate when folks take time to go out of their way to get in touch with you in the effort to get to know you (in this case, my blog Style Manila) and let other people know about what they’ve learned. One should always be grateful for the good things people can say about you and all the hard work you’ve put in a certain endeavour.
Today, I learned that Style Manila was featured in Manila Bulletin, an email interview request sent by Ajay for …

This vagabond and shutterbug is itching to get on a plane and traipse around the country once again.
As much as I’d love to see Davao, Siargao, CDO, and Legazpi, I’ve narrowed down my choices to Puerto Princesa and Cebu. There were several considerations — weather, photo concept board and, yes, budget. I know I’ve already been to these two places around 4 to 5 times but I’ve never really blogged about any of my trips. Just snippets. I reckon this ought to be a good opportunity to work on …

I now own a one of a kind (unless by some miracle you ended up with the same style) Style Manila flip-flops courtesy of Havaianas. And it’s Pink! Just about as surprising as the heavy downpour that signaled the end of the night for my friends and I. It’s probably best if I explain the reason behind the choice.

Just got back from the Make Your Own Havaianas 2009 Launch held at the Rockwell Tent; bagged a new pair of blinged up Havaianas and basically had a fun night with a …

Me? On TV? Seriously.
Not that I minded the major plugging for my blogs (SashaManuel.com, The Parody, and Tops II Bottoms) and mainly for Style Manila, so, yea I grabbed the opportunity. This is one of the interviews I did with QTV. Shot entirely in my home whilst by principle I didn’t really want to do. But yea, there. You folks can see how my room looks like and the family den where I usually work.
Aired last night — Thursday, 16 April 2009 — on GMA Network’s QTV 11 new …