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Editorial &
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President &
Managing Director
Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editors
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Lay-out Artist
Account Executive
Credit & Collection
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Murray Hertz
Butch C. Bonsol
Agnes M. Abrau
Francesca L. Ortigas
Carmencita H. Acosta
C. Jude Defensor
Jacqueline L. Ong
Richard A. Ramos (Cebu)
Ronald I. Cruz
Vicky Araneta-Linsangan
Aldi Lozano
Narciso Lorete
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WHAT’S ON &
EXPAT is published weekly by
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Office of
Transport Security, the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport (NAIA), which is under the
MIAA, has provided the prescribed plastics to
passengers. Other airlines also make available
those plastics to their respective passengers.
Tardecilla also told What’s On & Expat that a
“Help Desk” is provided to all passengers
regarding the new “relaxed” regulation. This
week’s new implementation of the lifting created
confusion at the departing passengers, saying
that many are unaware of the revised LAG
regulation.
Tardecilla also clarified that perfumes in
particular are accepted so long as they are
placed in a 100ml resealable and transparent
container. (See sidebar on allowed and not
allowed items)
In the last two weeks, pamphlets regarding this
new measure were distributed at the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport (NAIA) terminals 1 and 2,
and the Manila Domestic Airport last week.
Pamphlets were also given to some hotels and
travel agencies for dissemination.
The MIAA primer states that the screeners would
not accept liquids in containers larger than a
100ml container regardless of the amount of
liquid it holds. Each container must then be
placed inside a transparent resealable plastic
bag and only one plastic bag is allowed per
passenger.
Duty Free goods
Liquid goods, aerosols and gels purchased at
duty free shops located in all Philippine
International Airports after security screening
checkpoints are allowed on board. However, these
items must be packed in an ICAO prescribed
Security Tampered Evident Bag (STEB). Receipts
of the purchased duty free items must be
attached or enclosed in the bag.
But another amendment with regard to said
purchases will be implemented on Nov. 1 this
year. The new regulation, a revised, more
technical requirement, says LAGs purchased from
duty free shops located in all Philippine
International Airports after security screening
points will be allowed on board considering
these specifications: that the prescribed
Security Tamper-Evident Bag (STEB) will only be
available from the known supplier of STEB on
this date. LAGS in any volume purchased at
airport retail outlets and its receipt must be
enclosed in the bag. Technical specifications
for STEBS are also provided.
Tardecilla, however, stressed that passengers
will be informed about the new prescribed
security bags until its implementation. In the
meantime, he said, the MIAA’s regulation on duty
free purchases must be packed with the ICAO
prescribed STEBs.
The original total ban on LAGs in carry-on
luggage was enforced because of a terrorist
threat in Britain August of last year. After a
reassessment of security situations of airports
worldwide, the ICAO revised their
recommendations.
It seems that the passengers should relish air
travel at least for the moment as the lifting of
the ban stays.
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If you remember Eazy Black, you’re as old as I am. |
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EX EXPATS: Or where
are they now? You’re really an old
timer if you remember Eazy Black.
Eazy goes back to the late ‘60s in
Manila. Those were the good old days
when there were few luxury hotels,
even fewer good restaurants and
entertainment venues in this city.
Things were a lot different then.
Eazy had a ton of friends and a ton
of jobs, most of them exotic and
enviable (Hell, he was manager of
the authentic Playboy Club at the
old Silahis Hotel, now the Grand
Boulevard. I would have paid them to
get that job.) So, where is he now?
Okay, if you insist I will tell you,
but don’t tell a soul! He is living
in, of all unlikely places, St.
George, Utah in the Western USA. St.
George is a tiny Mormon town about 1
hour and a half out of Las Vegas. “I
presently am the GM of JB’s
Restaurant (an upscale Denny’s),
located in Hurricane, Utah, a town
of 13,000 people and 3 million
tourists passing by on the main
highway to Mt. Zion National Park.”
Eazy makes reference to my recent
item about the Afternoon Delight
shows that were so prevalent in the
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO RECALL (or even
give a damn) the whole thing started
out in 1968 as the Executive Mug
Club at the 1571 Club (have no idea
what the 1571 stood for) in the
basement of the old Hilton Hotel
(now the Manila Pavilion) opposite
Luneta Park in Manila. The hotel
used it as a showcase for their acts
and fashion shows for members of the
travel and hospitality industry. San
Miguel was the beer sponsor and, as
you must have guessed by now, it was
a not-too-scandalous, fun drinking
club The club later moved to the
Century Park Sheraton Hotel (no
longer a Sheraton, now just Century
Park) and changed the name to the
Knights of San Miguel and Eazy was
still the emcee and held that job
for 10 years. The Lane Brothers,
also old-time expats (they’re still
around, like me), from Lane Moving &
Storage, became the club’s major
sponsor. After that, the club grew
so big that even the Sheraton was
too small a venue so they switched
from a monthly event to an annual
charity event rotating in different
hotel ballrooms. The name was
changed to “Afternoon Delight.” It
was an immediate hit and much money
was raised for many charities in the
Philippines. Over 1000 people
attended one of the last parties at
the old Ramada Hotel (the now
defunct Manila Midtown Hotel) and
over 1 million pesos were raised. |
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WHAT MADE THIS EVENT
SO SUCCESSFUL? Easy (and also Eazy).
The bar owners would donate all
their ago-go dancers with the best
costumes, have a professional
choreographer work with them and the
event started out like a mini-Las
Vegas production show, complete with
feathers, flowers and frills.
Eventually, as the booze flowed and
inhibitions were lowered, those
gorgeous feathers and flowers were
dropped or misplaced and it became a
wild skin show. Wild is perhaps too
tame a word for it. As I mentioned
in a previous column, it became a
bit too bold for the hotels and soon
no venues could be found. Bye bye
Afternoon Delight. |
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There has been nothing resembling it
since. But it made for great memories
and great times were had by those expats
lucky to have lived in Manila during
those times |
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EAZY
WOULD HAVE TO STAY ON STAGE: for more
than 6 hours telling jokes and keeping
the restless crowd entertained for all
that time. Where did he get his jokes?
Simple. From the Playboy Magazine joke
page. Eazy had already moved from Manila
in the latter days of the event and
would be summoned from wherever he was
and sent a ticket to return and emcee.
“Once,” Eazy recalls with a laugh, “I
was flying in from Guam, and was stopped
at Customs in Manila by a 60 year old
lady inspector. She spotted the Playboy
Magazines in my luggage, held them up
for everyone in the airport to see and
shouted ‘These magazines are banned in
the Philippines.’ I was terribly
embarrassed and I explained to her that
these were just used for jokes and I
would never dream of looking at the
naked girls in the centerfold. It was
for a charity, I assured her, but she
would have no part of it. Luckily the
Customs Supervisor recognized me since
he had attended one of the events and
cleared the way out of Customs for me.
Six months later, I was flying in from
Hong Kong to Guam and had a stopover in
Manila. I went through Customs again and
as luck would have it, I got her. She
looked at me and stared for a moment.
Then she shouted, ‘Do you have anymore
porno pictures for me?’ I turned three
shades of red and kept on walking.” Side
note to Eazy’s pals (bill collectors,
please don’t read this!) His email
address is eazyblack@yahoo.com. If you
don’t believe me, email him! |
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PARTING SHOT: Ever wonder where this
expression, “parting shot” comes from?
Well scratch your head no more and sleep
better at night. It comes from the old
European saying, “A Parthion shot. “ It
referred to horsemen in combat who would
shoot arrows as they trotted away from
their enemy and with accuracy.) But
that’s not what I’m parting with.
Philippe Bartholome, who must read a
helluva lot of newspapers pulled up this
item from a past edition of the
Philippine Star. So said the Star, “one
man was killed by shotgun for singing
out of tune in a videoke bar in San
Mateo Rizal.” You wont believe it, but
the name of the KTV was JULLIVEE KTB
BAR! (got it?) I swear I did not make
this one up. Almost as good as Caintacky
Fried chicken, Mang Donald in Manila, or
the lumpia store called “Wrap ‘n Roll”,
or the bakery called “Bread Pitt” or the
maruya (banana fritter) store called
“Maruya Carrey”. Of course the
out-of-tune song was, you guessed it,
“My Way,” by our dear departed Frank
Sinatra! It has to be the deadliest song
in the Philippines. I would not be
surprised that one day this song will be
put in the terrorists’ lists! |
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