December 21, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends This update will be all about our project, Alphaland Baguio Mountain Lodges, on which we started construction early this year. Some of you have already picked up the brochure, but for those of you who haven’t, below is a link to a copy of the brochure. Please …
November 21, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends I am in Balesin as I write this and so you will understand if I sound somewhat effusive in this update. This is what my beloved Balesin does to me! They switched on the runway lights for the first time last night and I must tell you, …
November 1, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends The month of October was a hectic one, in more ways than one. We had two typhoons in quick succession but fortunately, they passed several hundred kilometers to the east of Balesin, and except for the usual few banana trees, we had no damage at all on …
September 16, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends During the past week since I returned from Europe, quite a number of you have asked why I have not written you my usual update. I guess the answer should be pretty obvious, i.e., that on August 3rd, I was “struck by lightning” and had to deal …
august 19, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends I am sending you herewith the letter which I wrote PAGCOR today after their rejection of my donation offer yesterday. ROBERTO V. ONGPIN Chairman As Seen In
August 18, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends I feel obliged to keep all members of Alphaland Balesin Island Club and Alphaland City Club fully informed of developments concerning me. While obviously PhilWeb Corporation has nothing to do with Alphaland, inevitably, it is only natural that members of the two Alphaland Clubs would be concerned. …
July 22, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends My old friend (“old” meaning long-time, but not referring to his age because he is 11 years younger than me), Tony Lopez, has been kind enough to devote almost an entire issue of his BizNews Asia magazine to the Aegle Wellness Center, for which I thank him, …
May 1, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends Free Villa Nights It has recently been called to my attention that there has been a lot of confusion regarding the assignability of free villa nights of members. While our contractual documents, including the Members Handbook, make it clear that members can only assign their free villa …
April 21, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends This update will be all about AEGLE’s newest gem, the Aegle Wellness Center at Balesin Island Club. I arrived from Europe a week ago and with the exception of one day, which I spent in Baguio reviewing our Alphaland Baguio Mountain Lodges project, I have been in …
March 31, 2016 To: Balesin Members and Friends With the hectic Easter holidays behind us, I think it is a good time to update you on what is our most exciting new project — the Alphaland Baguio Mountain Lodges. We have been planning this project for some time now and we had in fact …
