Vespa boys at the Playboy Philippines launch!

DaveM was right after all. It didn’t take long for me to find the connection between my Playboy post and Vespas. The morning after that was posted, I got a text from Dennis Floro (a Vespa buddy & Petron honcho) asking if I wanna go to the April 2 launch. Apparently, he had been personally invited by Beting, the local edition’s editor-in-chief, and he extended that invitation to me as the Vespa Club president, and to Clifford Certeza who is my counterpart in EuroScoot. The catch is, we have to go formal for the occasion. Dang!Vespa riders never go to rides and round-up in anything more than t-shirts. But I guess, we can make exceptions just to get our hands on a maiden issue of a fine literature for free.

me, Cliff & Daddy D

Siete Picados was packed for the night’s program so we stayed at the cocktails area overflowing with booze and babes. I was told there were three girls dressed as Playboy Bunnies but never got to see them. I saw my buddy Norman of Sexy Times Crew (who’s always present to cover events like this) and colleague Jervy Santiago of Black Mamba Prod. (the lucky guy who took the picture of the cover girl). I only learned that night that the publisher of Philippine edition of Playboy is my batchmate in San Beda (BSC ’93) though I didn’t bother catching up with him that night since he was obviously busy. Maybe some other time when I ask for a free subscription. heheheAfter the launch, we headed to Metrowalk for the weekly Vespinoy Wednesday Round-up still in suit & tie looking like dorks and posed with the scoots for this souvenir shot.

Of course, I brought my copy of Playboy’s maiden ish to share it with the boys.

By the way, that’s Brazillian babe and Miss Earth 2004 — Priscilla Meirelles — on the cover. Found out that she’s also the girl in this Nescafe commercial. The background in the cover of the complementary copy I got is red. I think the one being sold in the newsstands is blue. Does that make my coly limited edition? heheheAs for the magazine, The “Pinays of Playboy Past” feature was a good idea for the first issue but they could have packed it with more interesting trivias and photos. It was just an ‘okay’ first release. I do hope it gets better in future issues.

Feel at home, Playboy!

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