Soul BGC: 2015 October by Hinge Inquirer Publications

Y O U R G U I D E T O T H E H O M E O F P A S S I O N AT E M I N D S

ISSUE

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OCTOBER

2015

HAPPIER HOUR A coffee and craft beer revival

SUITS YOU, SIR The definition of understated style

FOSTER THE PEOPLE Health advocate Gerard Sison shares how to avoid our health from deteriorating with alternative eating habits

BGC BASICS Community rules are not for fools

BRAIN GAMES A new learning facilitiy is becoming an unlikely champion in early education and child development

FUSS-FREE Products for the ideal medicine cabinet

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BACK TO BASICS

BUZZ

A developed society requires disciplined citizens

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LET IT FLOW, LET IT FLOW, LET IT FLOW! Non-obstruction on city streets for smooth traffic. This happens when you: • • • •

Park in no parking zones. Waiting in and idling in the car on the street. Block the street with a stopped car. OBSTRUCTION=TICKET+CONFISCATION+TOWING

SHARING IS CARING We all use the road to get somewhere so remember to: • Slow down to 5kph when approaching an unsignalized intersection and come to a FULL STOP before proceeding. • Look both ways before turning a corner. • Walk with a decent pace across the street.

CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO AWESOMENESS • Let’s help our tireless maintenance crew by picking up after ourselves. • Pick up pet’s poop and dispose properly. • Tree wells are for trees. Take cigarette butts with you and dispose it in the nearest trash bin.

FREE TO SELFIE It’s okay to take photos and videos for personal use but: • All equipment must be handheld. • Shoot permits are required for professional sessions (pre-nup, birthday, commercial, AVP shoots, etc). • For security reasons, taking photos of banks, schools, embassies, and the like are strictly prohibited.

IF THERE’S A WHEEL (OR TWO), THERE’S A WAY Points to note: • No chain, no parking allowed. • Secure your bikes properly and do not leave any valuable items on them. • Park your bike in designated bike parking only. • Always wear a safety helmet when traveling.

CONTENTS

BUZZ

Why rules and regulations define a progressive city and its citizens

CHILD’S PLAY

Lessons in developing kids from a pioneering city

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A FORK IN THE ROAD Gerard Sison isn’t making history, but his ambition of making everyone feel good about themselves through nutrition sets himself apart from the model-turned-entrepreneur mold. His company The Healthy House is a viable business rooted in going against the grain. But as ambitious as he is, he’s not the only one bringing awareness to the community and he’s constantly coming up against barriers: that traditional diet delivery and weightloss programs are either too expensive to sustain or are merely temporary solutions. You could say that part of Sison’s task is to change perceptions, and he seems up for it. That willingness to take on challenges comes in no small part from the fact that he grew up with an athletic mindset. And it is this subtle approach to breaking molds that have also become the road map to The Bottle Shop and Single Origin’s birth in the city. There’s also KidZania melding varied learning methods in the mix, with no shortage of theme park bombast. But somehow shaking things up isn’t just an option for everyone. In theory, it’s a thing of beauty. In practice, it’s a little unnerving. So maybe the likes of Sison to push you in a better place makes sense after all.

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FOOD

AFTER DARK There are new ways to toast in town when the sun goes down

01 THE INTERIORS ARE LITTERED WITH BEER INFOGRAPHICS 02 THE BOTTLE SHOPS’ PINTXOS 03 A RANGE OF CRAFT BEER FOR BEGINNERS AND DISCRIMINATING DRINKERS

The Filipino drinking culture predates the arrival of the Spanish; evidence is the recorded Blood Compact between explorer Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and Datu Sikatuna back in 1565. These days, even with the emergence of cocktails and the wine culture, imbibing is still commonly done “tagay” style, where a lone vessel circulates among a group of revelers or in bars offering beer bottles by the bucket. The beers are also mostly in the same mold, local or foreign mass-produced brands that are of one type—adjunct lagers that have almost the same ingredients and similar brewing procedures. Within the Bonifacio Global City dining scene, two establishments beg to differ, aiming to create a different drinking experience for those who want to enjoy their brewskies in a whole new way. The Bottle Shop opened its first branch in Magallanes, catering to craft beer

connoisseurs and has since expanded to BGC. “I felt that the market is ready,” says proprietor Jim Araneta. “I wanted to go more mainstream, more central.” His products are carefully curated and singularly delicious, ranging from light, citrusy artillery all the way to the heavy, full-bodied guns. One thing is for sure; this is not the place to look for your usual pale ale. “If you can find it in the supermarket or convenience store, you won’t find it here,” he quips. “Here,” is a cozy little nook tucked away at the Net One building, a wood-and-brick affair where customers can come as they are. “I consciously wanted it to look homey and non-intimidating. They can come in wearing shorts or dressed-up. It’s that kind of place.” It’s not loud or raunchy, either. “My drinkers are more the genteel market,” he adds. While there are more guys than girls hanging out, he says he hopes to make it 50-50, as

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT: IGNACIO GADOR | THE BOTTLE SHOP IS LOCATED AT NET ONE CENTER, 26TH ST. COR. 3RD AVE., BONIFACIO GLOBAL CITY, TAGUIG CITY

WRITER MAAN D’ASIS PAMARAN PHOTOGRAPHER ARTU NEPOMUCENO

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it is in the US. “This is why we offer a few cocktails. But really there are beers here that women would like.” He points to an infographic on the wall that describes what one would find on their beer flights. “After starting out on lighter varieties on their second visit, they can try bolder flavors.” Food is light, as he does not want to overpower or overfill his guests. “I want them to be able to enjoy their beer flights without feeling too full.” In contrast, food is an attraction at Single Origin. It was primarily conceived as a coffee shop, hence its name—single origin is a coffee market term for where the beans are sourced. Thus, the extensive food menu covers big breakfasts and brunches. Cold drinks of coffee and tea are available too, as well as, surprisingly, beers, wines, and cocktails. “It’s a place where there is something for everyone, where you can get something at any time of the day. I’d like to think of it as a café that transforms into a bar in the evening,” says restaurateur Carlo Lorenzana of his amalgamous establishment. Everything is easy-going and free-flowing, his customers don’t strictly follow time zones, as he observes. “There would be a group of foreigners sitting in

the high table having beer while one table would have a group of ladies enjoying their coffees. It’s pretty versatile. That was our goal and we are happy to see that people are accepting it.” He describes his customer base as people looking for a place to meet up with friends, have meetings, those wanting to be alone to work on their laptops, families, or those on a quiet date. “I am also not surprised to find here people having brunch cocktails or drinking beer in the afternoon.” Looking at The Bottle Shop and Single Origin, one can surmise that the country has come quite a long way from the days when mixing it up meant adding blood to your drink in order to seal a deal. The drinking culture is alive and thriving, evidenced by the new wave of establishments such as these, and gauging by the wide acceptance of the hip crowd, it can only keep evolving into something better.

04 SINGLE ORIGINS UTILIZED DARK WOOD TO RETAIN A WARM ATMOSPHERE 05 SINGLE ORIGINS’ BEER FLIGHT 06 BREAKFAST PIZZA, SHORT RIBS BENEDICT, AND MATCHA LATTE 07 CREME BRULEE COFFEE

SINGLE ORIGIN IS LOCATED AT 2/F, C2 BUILDING, BONIFACIO HIGH STREET CENTRAL, BONIFACIO GLOBAL CITY

FOOD

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PHOTO 02 BY CRU CAMARA | FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HEALTHY HOUSE VISIT FACEBOOK.COM/THEHEALTHYHOUSEPH OR HEALTHYHOUSE.PH

COVER STORY

MAKING A CLEAN BREAK

While healthy eating doesn’t grab the headlines, those in the know, like health enthusiast Gerard Sison, are keeping a close eye on the battle between which foods to seek out and which to avoid WRITER JOYCE REYES-AGUILA PHOTOGRAPHER GABBY CANTERO GROOMING ELAINE GANUELAS

Pop a pill for a new, healthy body. Reboot your system and take all the disease away. Now, wake up from that dream. In the real world, a clean slate, while possible, is preceded by a strong drive and lots of work. Anyone who has ever succumbed to the aroma of freshly baked donuts realizes the task is daunting, the journey mostly uphill. The most accessible food is not always the healthiest. “The hardest part of living healthy is probably eating,” claims entrepreneur Gerard Sison. “Who has time to cook three, four meals a day? It’s hard, especially when your boss is driving you from 8am to 6pm. You get an hour-long lunch break. You leave [home] at 6am just to avoid traffic and you get home by 8pm.” Sison says that while the desire for better health is evident, the lifestyle most of us adopt is “against our nature.” Eating processed food stamped with a “best before” seal is not what was originally meant to sustain us, he speaks. The Filipino-Australian has been accustomed to a healthy way of living since he started playing tennis at the age of nine. Sison is the nephew of Filipino Davis Cup player Beeyong Sison and was active in the junior division until he felt burned out—at 15. Still, the athletic discipline

remained with the young Sison who then started to lift weights and eventually took up boxing when he moved to the Philippines at 19. He, along with his training circle that includes model-actor Daniel Matsunaga, former national football team player Ali Borromeo, international fitness and fashion model Abs, and athleteentrepreneur Victor Silayan, all agreed they could not find the food they wanted: healthy food that tasted good. So they hired a chef for their meals and a nutritionist to oversee what was being prepared for them. After offering these meals to friends, the group decided to open The Healthy House, a company “that understands nutrition,” the Business Marketing graduate explains. “If you look at what most companies are doing, they just count calories—an old mentality that dates back from the ’80s, ’90s. Yes, we count calories, but we focus on the balance of the diet.” Sison shares that The Healthy House offers “nutritional teaching” where people are made to understand the right macronutrient balance (carbohydrates, proteins, essential oils) that their bodies need. Inhouse nutritionists have created systems to balance these, along with vitamins and minerals, in every meal. “The focus is, first, nourishing the body back to functionality,” he explains. “Then the controlled calories come in. You are able to lose weight easier because the body’s operating at such a good level.” “The human body is a beautiful thing if you realize all its processes. Imagine a perfect

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machine that regenerates itself. That’s what it does naturally when you give it the right components. If you’re feeding it chips and chocolates, it doesn’t do any of this stuff. And you see all of these ailments. Every single person I know has been touched in some way or another by a disease which could have been prevented by a better lifestyle.” In the ‘house’ that Sison and his friends built, there are no quick fixes. A simple start would be to eat all natural and to do it in your own home, Sison asserts, but “having your food delivered and cooked by a professional chef, it’s pretty good.” An array of international cuisines such as Mediterranean, Italian, and Japanese are offered in all programs; dishes inspired by the food the friends and business partners themselves enjoy eating in restaurants. It’s all about the taste, the CEO and founder maintains. “I love good food. I always say, if your food doesn’t heal you and taste good, you’re not doing it right. You have to indulge your senses. Your taste has to be pleased.” Another consideration the athlete points out when thinking of one’s health are the particular biological needs of male and female bodies. “At the end of the day, you have to know what you want,” he underscores. “If you really want to be healthy, you don’t see distraction and temptation. Who doesn’t want to live well and feel good in their skin? If you are ready to make a change and, honestly, it’s the best thing to do to yourself,” he stresses, “do what is right for you.”

GERARD SISON ESCHEWS PROCESSED FOOD FOR HOMEMADE MEALS A SAMPLE MEAL PLAN HIS SERENDRA APARTMENT FOLLOWS HIS CLEAN LIFESTYLE AESTHETICS SISON IS ALSO AN AVID ARTIST WHEN HE CAN FIND THE TIME FOR IT

ENTERTAIN YOUR BRAIN Explore a kid-sized city where learning and fun go hand-in-hand WRITER GABRIELLE NOVENARIO PHOTOGRAPHER PATRICK SEGOVIA

When you step into KidZania, you won’t see kids trudging along the city’s paved streets the way most adults would at the end of a workday. KidZanians, as they are called, are empowered citizens who believe they can make a better world. Don’t be fooled though; the world of KidZania is much like our own—it has a functioning transport system, employment opportunities, an operative government, and its own currency called KidZos—except that everything is scaled down to mini. Here, adults are welcomed as visitors, but only those aged four to 14 can participate and learn in this 8,000-square meter space. The concept goes beyond imitating reality though. The city itself is one big school that teaches through close-torealistic experiences in a secure environment. “By giving the

children the independence to choose for themselves, discover their interests, and learn how it feels to be an adult in a safe environment, KidZania empowers them with the knowledge that they can truly make a difference in the City and in the real world,” explains city state governor Maricel Pangilinan-Arenas. Locally franchised by Play Innovations Inc., KidZania Manila is the 20th KidZania city in the world and the first of its kind in the Philippines. It was founded in Mexico City in 1999 by Xavier López Ancona and has since spread throughout the world including Japan and the United Kingdom. Apart from the role-playing activities, kids also socialize with other children by working in pairs or groups at select establishments. And because visiting adults are allowed only as far as the entrances, kids

learn freely and are given the opportunity to “dig into their banks of knowledge,” explains Pangilinan-Arenas. The City works by building on the natural curiosity of children. By allowing them to choose their own activities and explore the environment, they will naturally learn and pick up cues from other children and their Zupervisors. KidZania educator consultant Francie Lacanilao also stresses that independence is key to taking children to the next level of learning where they not only follow and imitate, but also understand the importance of asking questions, weaving their own thoughts together, and collaborating with each other to reach the optimum potential of their ideas. “Children get to work together and collaborate to finish an activity in the most realistic environment possible,” says

Pangilinan-Arenas. “This is where they can learn through play, thus valuing the different modes of learning and unique interests of each and every child.” Seeing the citizens take charge, work together, and take on the roles of adults in their own space can lead to a gradual shift in child development. This might seem a matter of importance to parents only but there is to more to it than that. At a time when learning social skills are predominantly appdriven, the hands-on nature of this environment bears the traits of what parenthood should be: let them learn on their own, and that could be KidZania’s legacy to the real city.

01 MORE THAN JUST SIMULATION, KIDZANIA IS BECOMING AN IMPORTANT SEAT OF DEVELOPMENT

KIDZANIA MANILA IS LOCATED AT 11TH AVE. & RIZAL DRIVE, BONIFACIO GLOBAL CITY, TAGUIG CITY

CULTURE

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SHOPPING

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MIRROR, MIRROR

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FASHION

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FASHION

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03 ARMANI EXCHANGE BLAZER, ₱9,450; AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS PULLOVER, ₱1,899; ORIGINAL PENGUIN TROUSERS, ₱3,450; CALL IT SPRING BROGUES, ₱3,995 04 MARKS AND SPENCER BLAZER, ₱7,850; COTTON ON PULLOVER, ₱1,499; COTTON ON TROUSERS, ₱1,799 05 ORIGINAL PENGUIN BLAZER, ₱5,450; ORIGINAL PENGUIN LONGSLEEVED SHIRT, ₱3,950

HAPPENINGS PARTY PLATE FOR ALL If you drop by BGC this November 1315 and see a market serving a diverse line of food, chances are you’ve stumbled upon the quarterly event The Gourmand Market. With the05 three-day event’s serving of sushis and tacos, it becomes a feast for many. Aside the food available, event organizers Dara

Roa and Trish Panlilio allows the event to embrace a light and friendly ambience. Picture fall inspired leaves and plants welcoming you. The tents among tents of food serves well prepared food that’s good to grab and go or dine and eat. Foodies aside, families and kids are welcome to join the fun and grab a plate of fries. Live performances will cap off the night and event.

PHOTOS BY DARA ROA

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