EATs the most wonderful time of the year... Yummy Eats 2015!

 Welcoming Yummy Magazine readers, entrepreneurs, connoisseurs & foodies to this Food-tastic, Food-nomenal Cool-inary adventure: Yummy Eats 2015: A Holiday Food Festival! 

Can't help but sing one of my favorite Christmas jingles... "EATs the most wonderful time of the year..." Yes indeed, the Yummy Eats 2015, the most anticipated culinary event of the year brought together by Summit Media's Yummy Magazine and yummy.ph ushered the most exciting season with nothing but the most mouthwatering eats and splendid activit-EAT-ies! 

Above, I came extra early to prepare but lo and behold; all the foodies came extra early too! Indeed, many Yummy readers and food connoisseurs lined up early in the morning to catch the festivities... 

The HUNT'S Combi Van where we gave away tons of goodies such as product packs and recipe books to all Food HUNT-ers who celebrated with us that day... They also gave away yummy eats which and all I can say was... "HUNTS-ARAP!"

Here I am sharing the stage with the lovely Ms. Paulynn Chang-Afable, Editor-in-Chief of Yummy Magazine! I am so honored to work with you and the rest of your talented, dynamic and dedicated Yummy Magazine and yummy.ph editorial team! Forever thankful for the Yummy experience!

And now we award the awesome twosome, sisters Trixie and Meg Tansiongco - the beauty and brains behind PUFFT, this year's people's choice awardees! I have known ate Trixie, events whiz extraordinaire way back, and I am so proud and happy for all you - and your family - have achieved! Congratulations for a well-deserved award! People were raving about your humongous marshmallows; the sweetest gifts you can give this season! My personal favorite flavor was the mint marshmallows, but for sure you'll all go crazy with all the other flavors when you get their delectable and freshly-made Pufft marshmallow gift sets! 

Can't get ENOUGHFFT of PUFFT!!! Order right now; this is the sweetest and not to mention uniquely extraordinary gift you can give this Christmas! Have a very merry and PUFFT-astic Christmas!  

 And of course, forever thanks to my Summit Media events family... Here's four of the dynamic Summit events team: Neil, Kaye, Nikki and JC. Thank you!!!

Just got LOCK-y... These gals and guy were so fortunate as they walked away with a bag of treats each only from GOLDILOCKS... Big smiles even after they chugged down yummy mamon after yummy mamon! Lucky... or (Goldi)LOCK-y indeed!

HATTENTION!!! Before heading home, I was blessed enough to walk away with a bag of yummy Japanese custard creme filled goodies from HATTENDO. The bread was oh-so-light & fluffy, and the fillings were subtle and creamy; just heavenly! Every single bite was simply Hawesome... Hamazing and Hunforgettable!!! 

I am forever grateful to be part of such a YUMMYazing, YUMMYmorable and YUMMYtastic experience! Won't run out of YUMMY descriptions of this event!

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My SPOOK-Tacular time as Jungle Queen for SM Makati Halloween!

Welcome to my SPOOK-tacular jungle party! See those arches? These tricky tree branches lead all the way to another awesome Howl-o-ween party! So in my last two events I was a fairy, and then I was a mummy (Queen of the Nile) and now, I am queen of the spooky Jungle right here at SM Makati! Can you spot my other wicked lady friend below, you know her as Maleficent... 

This blog is up today, Friday the 13th and this completes my Halloween Hurrah! A Hallo-WINNER I was indeed this previous season, for I was able to emcee for tons of Halloween events and parties! This one was for SM Makati, where I had tons of fun! But before my crazy photos, let me share my video clip as I gladly did the roar-call as queen of the party jungle scene; just click my video below (Warning: I am wearing long, freaky Halloween lashes so brace yourselves; Graphic Craziness indeed): 

MARYLAINE VIERNES - SM MAKATI VOICE OVER CLIP

And of course I shared the happiness with the kids and the kids-at-heart there too; I guess that there will always be that little kid in me swinging from tree to tree, only this time, it's my microphone that I get to swing around! 

Thank you so much, SM Makati for letting me host your awesome events for the third straight year now! Love being an events host (and I love the treats and fringe benefits that go with my uncanny talking tricks!)

DOH you wanna party with us? We had PLAY-DOH Purple and Blue in the house too! 

Thanks for visiting and this wraps up my Halloween hosting saga for soon, comes the Holiday hosting craze! I am just so excited to 'sleigh' (slay) in my next Christmas hosting jobs! Don't forget to click these links below... 
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Having a Ball at Boo York with my Monster High crew!

It is an absolute dream to finally fly to New York City, which I consider a step to fulfil a lifelong dream. But for now I had so much Halloween fun at Boo York, as I hosted this year's biggest Monster High halloween ball, in celebration of Monster High's TV Special, Boo York: A Monsterrific Musical! Below, meet me and my Monster Crew... don't we make you wanna be a Monster too? 

As usual, I came dressed in my favourite blue-and-gold glammy mummy inspired get-up and just had so much fun! This probably is the biggest Monster High event we've had, for more than just the much-awaited Meet & Greet and spook-tacular, it also featured a fang-fastic fashion show as well as a boo-sical performances and dance showdowns! The place was absolutely packed with ghouls and monster high fans! 

 BOO Yeah!!! I am at it again, doing what I looooooooove to do! 

But apart from the fun games, here are my backstage photos with some of our costume parade winners! Their ghoul-tastic outfits are from the Fashion Capital of the Monster world indeed, Boo York! Don't forget my own design too, hope you like my regal Glammy Mummy Queen of the Nile look!  Move over Cleopatra! Yup, Boo York will do for now until I finally find myself in New York! 

 Most of all, thanks so much to my Richprime Family... Always fang-tastic to work with you and getting an excuse to be all Ghouled Up! Here I am below with Ms. Ivy Mauhay, Marketing head and Ms. Josie Atayde:

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Of Fairies and Furries: My Furrific and Furtastic Sky Life Halloween!

I am so blessed to meet Ms. Chrissy Caballero of SKY Life who continues to believe in me. And it's been SKY-tacular since I started hosting for some of their events, which have each been nothing short of fairy tales! My last one was the 'Celebrations fair' where I got to lead a dreamy ballroom of princes, princesses, queens, knights and more all in the search to find the most ball-tastic party suppliers and treats! Here I am below soaring at Nuvali! 

Thanks to Ms. Chrissy and her co-marketing head, Sir Delbert, I was once more entrusted to emcee for one of SKY LIFE's biggest events - held at and in partnership with Nuvali: Night Sky Cinema Presents Furry Tales! But first... a Fairy Selfie... wow, this has got to be the biggest event I have emceed for, I heard over 3,000 people came! I am truly so honored! My excitement and glee, you can definitely say that the SKY is the limit!  

 And another Selfie please... you don't get to be a fairy in front of 3,000+ people every day... 

This event was one-of-a-kind for this was a family affair, and by family I meant that this included their paw-some, paw-riffic family members! Yes there were so many adorable furries who came to enjoy, win prizes and of course watch three awesome movies in the endless night sky, curled up in the grass, that even if the sun no longer shone, the warmth of family and friends radiated brighter than ever! 

Can you say a-DORA-ble? Ain't this naughty little lady above so adorable? Here we are chilling backstage in her cute Dora the Explorer get-up with matching devil horns as we waited for the costume parade to begin... 

Ghoul is Cool. This was also a Howl-o-Ween party, so again I had the excuse to be myself, a Fairy (I really am a fairy, I swear) but not just any fairy... but a Furry-loving Fairy! I was Fairy Godmother to the bow-wow-riffic pets and their loving pet owners that day! And I got to pose beside cute characters and even scary ghouls!!! 

 Right after the movie, How to Train your Dragon, I lost my Fairy Wings and grew Dragon ears! Well... okay so they are actually bat ears and wings... so I guess I can still fly! Here we are flying high and rolling with one of the many fun games that night! This game is called FUR or NO FUR? These furry pup and kitten photos are too cute!!!

 We had games for kids - and also for those who like me - are forever kids inside!!! This one is a fun barkada game and you can see we all had a blast!

Thanks again to Ms. Chrissy and Sir Delbert for a memorable opportunity! Looking forward to more events with SKY LIFE! This is really the life: Having fun, doing what you love and sharing your joy with family and friends, and making even more friends!

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A flavourful journey with The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Philippines

Choose to give Flavourfully today! 

To this day, I am mesmerized as I was a big part of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Philippines' Give Flavourfully event: the holiday launch and Giving Journal 2016 party! I am both honored and humbled to serve as emcee for such a memorable affair; every bit of it was as delightful as every cup of my favorite Cafe Latte at what for me is the world's greatest coffee and tea shop! But it's more than that for their meals - especially those gourmet meals exclusively at The Coffee Bean Bistro are simply to die for! 

Note: Apologies on the photos I didn't have a proper companion with me, just my sister's GF who I am so grateful to, but she had to act as nanny to my son too, so sorry about my bizarre snaps. Like this one above: is this photo about me as a host - or about my cheeky little love? LOL... this is proof that he is ALWAYS in the picture, especially in my life's most wonderful scenes! 

I had my rounds of humor and laughter hosting the event, and boy did I never, ever run out of puns! That was the coffee in me! That's right, blame it on the yummy, rich and flavorful CBTL coffee! But more than that, the crowd was really so easy to be with; everyone in the CBTL community so kind, supportive and I felt that I wasn't amongst friends... but amongst family! My classic line, that I was so flattered some of them re-tweeted was: "Giving Journal Ka Ba?"..... "Bakit..." ....." Kasi I want to start my JOURNEY with you....." LOL. 

And speaking of family, my little man was with me during the event, like usual! Above shows some of our crazy snaps: I don't know what's harder - getting him to SMILE for the camera, or squatting, like so; here I am squatting as usual - in HIGH HEELS as I spoke to some of the guests and waited for my mic back... 

Excuse his sullen facial expressions and most of all - those traces of chocolate by his lips; he really enjoyed so much, especially the delectable pastry treats! Like these yummy nummies below... Nomnomnom! I am so hungry now!

Christmas is indeed in the air! I love these wonderful treats which you can only find at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf! But we didn't just get to enjoy the treats; we also revelled in the four awesome craft areas after the program: paper-cutting, hand-lettering, calligraphy and my baby's favorite... the water coloring station! No photo of that though, just this one below, his hand-lettering magnum opus:  

Thank you, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf for trusting me with such an amazing opportunity... to be in the midst of such brilliant minds with humble hearts whose infectious smiles come from savoring a cup of their favorite CBTL beverage and meeting new friends! Thank you for making me part of such a inspiring affair; I am forever proud that I am part of the CBTL community! 

Congratulations on a successful kick-off party for the CBTL Giving Journal and I cannot wait to grab my very own CBTL journal soon - as I look forward to an awe-inspiring and fulfilling 2016! Cheers to Coffee, Tea and Community! Be inspired to give flavorfully today and visit the official site of The Coffee Bean by clicking on this link: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Philippines Website

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