Unlucky except in death

If and when concert producer Beth Sison-de Tagle comes up with part two of the three tenors’ concert, President Macapagal-Arroyo has already volunteered Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho as a guest singer.

Good thing, since Lito Camacho’s repertoire is limited to the song, O Sole Mio.

The tenors, Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes, Interior and Local Government Secretary Jose Lina, and Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando – sang for charity.

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Former national waste manager Roberto Aventajado is putting up a funeral parlor/crematorium along G. Araneta in Quezon City.

The street, which strategically straddles several cities, is considered unlucky by Chinese-Filipino for any business other than those related to death.

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Did you know 1: Business is so good that he has added to his already impressive list of real estate one entire floor in this ultra-posh residential building in Fort Bonifacio Global City. And his Tali beach property is to die for.

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Did you know 2: A power point presentation was recently made by a company president before a men’s-only group of congressmen.

Comprehension was helped along by booze and uh, other bodies.

Good thing a congressman whose gender preference changes with the amount of liquor consumed behaved himself.

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Not many know that Tiu family-controlled Oakridge Properties – the one that owns Discovery Suites (the only Philippine company which recently made it to the top 20 best employers in Asia) – owns the Makati-based Gilarmi Apartments, which is currently being renovated.

Oakridge is also putting up a resort.

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Former Tower Club marketing manager Cindy Tan-Jarabata is busier than ever as the general manager of the still to be opened boutique hotel south of Metro Manila that is owned by Ricky Gutierrez of the Chateau 1771/Sentro group.

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Bank notes 1: United Coconut Planters Bank chairman and chief executive officer Edward Go and executive vice-president and chief operating officer Andrew Alcid are co-hosts of the bank’s 40th anniversary celebration tonight.

It’s not clear if former Cocobank president/COO and current Philippine National Bank president/CEO Lorenzo Tan is attending. It was Yayi Tan who convinced fellow Citibanker Andy Alcid to come home.