BGC Law Office at the Fort

In an interview with Karen Davila on her YouTube vlog, Sam Pinto shared that she was just 27 years old when she bought the 3.5-hectare land in Baler, Aurora.

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Happy 20th birthday, Tharaah! You hosted the best party ever, Ovah Rumohr! ❤️😊👍🤝🍾🍷🥂

Defense counsel: We won! ALL CRIMINAL CASES were DISMISSED! ❤️😊👍🤝👏👏👏

Buy Filipino: Love the Philippines 🇵🇭

Congratulations to Miss Tabuk City 2024 and her runners-up, the hardworking and brilliant Cris O’Brien and Jers B. Sabado, Mayor Darwin Estranero, Miss Tabuk City 2023 Audrey Magallis and her runners-up, family, relatives, friends, supporters, sponsors, and everyone who made Miss Tabuk City 2024 a huge and resounding success! Matago-tago takon losan. Agyaman kami unay, apo. ❤️😊👍🤝💃👑❤️

Raddison Blu Cebu City, my home for two days

Driving a Hummer

Mentoring my fellow yKalingas from UP Law, Mac Duguiang Jr. and Gloria Ysobelle Edduba ❤️😊👍🤝🍽️

Silicon Valley, California: Glad to be back! ❤️😊🇺🇸

Bound for San Francisco ❤️✈️🇺🇸

My growing fountain pen collection ❤️

Apo Maria “Whang-Od” Oggay symbolizes the strength and beauty of the Filipino spirit.

Heralded as the last mambabatok of her generation, she has imprinted the symbols of the Kalinga tribe—signifying strength, bravery, and beauty—on the skin of thousands of people who have made the pilgrimage to Buscalan. “When visitors come from far away,” Whang-Od says in the Butbut language, “I will give them the tatak Buscalan, tatak Kalinga for as long as my eyes can see.”

Read more about Vogue Philippines’ April 2023 cover story here: https://vogue.ph/magazine/apo-whang-od.

Now available on newsstands and on shop.vogue.ph.

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Special thanks to Grace Palicas Grace Tattoo Buscalan, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples

Congratulations, Senator and former DPWH Secretary Mark Villar, on your Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) conferment by our alma mater, the University of the Philippines Diliman! We are so proud of and happy for you, Senator Villar! Cheers! ❤️🤗🙏👍🤝🇵🇭❤️

Supreme Court and IBP Ethics Caravan in Northern Luzon: Proposed Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability (CPRA) ❤️🤗🙏🤝👍🇵🇭

Fine dining at New York’s best: Now dining at Le Bernardin with three (3) Michelin stars. There are only five three-Michelin-star restaurants in New York: Le Bernardin, Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, Eleven Madison Park, Masa, and Per Se. Le Bernardin has been a three Michelin star-restaurant for over 10 consecutive years. This splashy French restaurant has become renowned for seafood prepared by Chef Eric Ripert and boasts an expansive wine list curated by Sommelier Aldo Sohm. ❤️🇺🇸🍽️🍾