What’s fun about locating the Holy Kettle Corn! branches is the fact that most of them are so well hidden that it will take some effort to find them. (Well, that’s a more positive way of looking at it, because I’m sure the marketing department would be aghast about the poor visibility.) So, here are some clues as to where they can be found.

Holy Kettle Corn! ABS-CBN- Look for Starbucks. Behind the tables outside and the foliage will be the Holy Kettle Corn! stand right beside the fence.

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As the film ‘Sukob’ began in Gateway Mall with the camera panning the old houses, I suddenly had an inkling that the movie starring Kris Aquino and Claudine Barretto might not be the romantic drama that I expected.

I whispered to my companion, “Doesn’t ‘sukob’ mean to go under the umbrella when it’s raining very hard?”

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At the onset of the 28 July 2006 show, lead singer Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls
couldn’t help but cry because of the warm reception she received from whom she called her “kababayan (my fellow countrymen).”

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The Heavenly Look- Jericho Rosales and Heart Evangelista pose as the image models for Penshoppe’s new ad campaign.

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A friend’s SMS stated that there was going to be a Body Jam Marathon at Fitness First Philippines Manila on 26 July 2006 at 7pm. Off I went, but it turned out that the marathon was part of the line up of activities to celebrate Fitness First Manila’s first year anniversary.

However, the program was changed without notice to make way for an hour-long line up of performers from the well-known The Library comedy club, which resulted in the cancellation of the Body Jam marathon.

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Powerbooks policy of replacing a defective book as long as it’s returned within 5 days, in good condition and with a receipt sounds reasonable. But what if the defective book has the signatures of two of its five authors, such as in my case, which has the Fab 5’s Carson Kressley and Jai Rodriguez signatures?

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New Talents Humor. Acting. M Night Shyamalan is growing and it’s showing through new aspects in his currently showing film Lady in the Water.

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“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” So speaks The Alchemist in reference to superstitions and proverbs. And, unfortunately, the fates were proving it true on 21 July 2006 during a visit to Pizza Hut Bistro in Gateway Mall.

Black vs. White Numerous visits to Pizza Hut Bistro in Gateway Mall have made me familiar with their SOP of putting a black straw in the Green Tea glass as an indicator to the servers that the order is the refillable kind, instead of the single serve type. So when the server presented the glass to me with its clear straw, I asked, “Did you change your color coding?”

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