Food delivery platforms are no longer helping #Philippines #restaurants survive. 84% of RestoPH’s survey respondents say they are paying 15-25% in mandatory commission. #Dining #FoodDelivery #food ##SomethingLikeLife

The rising cost of convenience | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2026/05/15/the-rising-cost-of-convenience/

THEY say the rich are different from you and me.

But lately,  a few of them have proven that they are as human and ordinary as most of us, in spite of their incredible wealth. #SomethingLikeLife

Viral moments: In a world of excess, humility still wins | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2026/05/08/viral-moments-in-a-world-of-excess-humility-still-wins/

Whoever fed President Marcos Jr. that poor intel about Zaldy Co being arrested in the Czech Republic ought to be fired. It embarrassed the President, period. #Power #Politics #Poplocking #SomethingLikeLife

Power, politics, and pop-locking | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2026/05/01/power-politics-and-pop-locking/

I’VE never been a fan of Western-genre movies nor even country music.

But on egging by friends whose reviews I trust, I became hooked on #Yellowstone and its other franchises. #SomethingLikeLife #TV #Prime #Westerns

How ‘Yellowstone’ lassoed my ass to the couch | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2026/04/17/how-yellowstone-lassoed-my-ass-to-the-couch/

Normally, I love #Summer. It means endless dips at the beach or a swimming pool. Cool linen tops and wearing shorts and open-toed sandals everywhere. It also spells juicy watermelons and sweet mangoes, delicious salads, s fruit shakes, and seafood. #SomethingLikeLife #energycrisis #Philippines

Summertime...and the cost of living isn’t so easy | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2026/03/27/summertime-and-the-cost-of-living-isnt-so-easy/

On New Year’s Eve, when the clock strikes at midnight, my siblings and I would jump up and down in our youth ostensibly so we would grow tall. Fat chance that did us any good. #latepost #SomethingLikeLife #traditions #Christmas #NewYear

Christmas traditions we quit (and the ones that quit us) | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/12/24/christmas-traditions-we-quit-and-the-ones-that-quit-us/

THE Terra Madre Asia & Pacific (TMAP) event was a great success, putting focus on #Bacolod City and Negros Occidental as the hub of the Slow Food movement in the #Philippines, and in the region. #SomethingLikeLife #SlowFood #gastronomy #travel #tourism

Why Slow Food felt right at home in Bacolod | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/12/19/why-slow-food-felt-right-at-home-in-bacolod/

Its luxury accommodations and delicious dishes aside, #AmoritaResort ups the ante of hospitality with loving displays of affection toward its discriminating clientele. #SomethingLikeLife #hospitality #Bohol #travel #tourism #Philippines

Bohol bliss: How Amorita turned my Halloween into a dream | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/12/05/bohol-bliss-how-amorita-turned-my-halloween-into-a-dream/

Siargao and Pangasinan are among the new hotel sites for Robinsons Hotels and Resorts. #SomethingLikeLife #hospitality #travel #tourism #Philippines

Why RHR’s Barun Jolly is bullish on PHL tourism | Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/11/21/why-rhrs-barun-jolly-is-bullish-on-phl-tourism/

Still savoring the #MichelinGuidePH honors, but also a suggestion how the Department of Tourism can actually tighten its #marketing strategy and get more foreign tourists to visit the #Philippines, in the link below. #SomethingLikeLife #travel #tourism

https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/11/14/as-phl-restos-earn-michelin-stars-dot-needs-its-own-spark/