BAGUIO CITY, Philippines —- Hotel Supreme lit its 20-foot Christmas tree at its event center as it also switched on positivity with hope,on December 3

Hotel Supreme founder Peter Ng said: “We look forward to being able to go past that darkness, to go on just as how life goes on. That is faith. That is hope.”

With his wife Evelyn, his family including son and general manager Jefferson and the five grand children who offered prayer to start the lighting ceremony, Ng urged attendees to be hopeful.

He went on: “This year is a little different amidst the uncertainties we are currently face as one country, yet we’re hopeful.”

He added: “What better way to manifest that certainty is to switch on our positivity with hope. That positivity that we will all be enlightened.”

A cheerful Ng said that “the future is bright. That we will shine.”
He said that colors of red and green symbolizes the blood of Jesus, while green is eternal life, respectively as he added: “Together it symbolizes faith and hope.”

The Ngs then distributed noche buena packs to indigent residents from chosen barangays.

Since opening the door of hotel in 1989, the Ngs survived an earthquake and other disasters, but they withstood it and able to expand the hotel from a 36-room facility to nearly 190 and now some 300 rooms.

The hotel also hosts restaurants and function rooms and halls.

Despite the uncertainties of the Covid-19 years, the Ngs were able to continue construction of the latest annex which now houses the event center, function halls and a mammoth convention hall, while also housing a grocery and other facilities.

The patriarch has always been a fount of hope as his perseverance saw him work odd jobs for minimal wages, become a taxi driver and operator, manage a hotel and eventually owning his very hotel. Pigeon Lobien