By Lalaine Chu-Benitez
Aren’t you just exhausted, dahling?
Oh, it is sooo so tiring to live in this fabulous city. After all, it
takes supreme effort to keep up stride with all the slim, fashion
forward, rich and fabulous Joneses of this town, n'est ce pas?
Shy?
Modest? No space for you here, I’m afraid. This place is not for the
wallflower, or even for the low-credit-card-limit-clueless carrying the
last two seasons’ ‘it’ bag. Don’t you know that your collection of
designer duds needs a regular update? Dahling, you gotta have the bag, the watch, the shoes, the car, and of course, the holiday. Because if you don’t - horrors of horrors! -what have you got to share with all your Facebook and Instagram “friends”?!
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Women are fantastic,
intelligent, magical creatures of light and love. Well, most of us
anyway, most of the time. As fabulous and magnificent as we can be,
there are times when women say and do the wrongest things – myself
included! I’ll be the first to admit that as a woman, I say a lot of
things that men probably find absurd. It’s not as if I do it
intentionally. I don’t exactly go out of my way to complicate things for
the opposite sex. It’s just that our minds are wired differently, in as
much as our role in the society is different than the guy’s. It is
almost as if women have their own language, a hidden culture of implied
complexity and severity, and it’s the job of men to decode us.
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By Dannabelle Gutierrez
I have been single for
thirteen years. Let me say that again, in case you missed it, my
singleness is thirteen years old. It’s funny, because there are actual
humans of the same age who are getting into relationships and here I am,
tap-tap-tapping away on a keyboard, sipping my tea. A few weeks ago, I
was out to dinner with two very good friends of mine and their
significant others. When youʼve been single for as long as I have,
third-wheeling or fifth-wheeling is nothing new.
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The Pinays Take Charge
campaign is an advocacy project of Illustrado in line with the Women of
Substance endeavor created to contribute to Filipina empowerment. The
project seeks, not only to create a more positive image for Filipinas in
the region, but also to assist in addressing problems and concerns
relevant to Filipinas.
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Excel V. Dyquiangco
From Amelia Earhart to
Florence Nightingale to Mother Teresa, we love women whose stories have
not only become inspiration but have left an indelible legacy in the
world. Society would not have evolved as quickly and rigorously if
weren’t for the pioneering efforts and actionable examples set by
empowered women of substance, strength, and character. As Eleanor
Roosevelt says, “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each
experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do
that which we think we cannot.”
Filipino and
non-Filipino, those who are still with us and those who have passed,
here are several women who have looked at fear straight in the face and
managed to make possible what seemed to be irrefutably otherwise.
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By Atty. Barney Almazar
Since January 2014,
together with volunteer Filipino lawyers, Gulf Law, in cooperation with
our Embassy in Abu Dhabi and Consulate in Dubai have assisted more than,
4,000 Filipinos through the monthly legal seminars. Using the data I
have gathered during these seminars and the statistics from the office
of the Ambassador, we have come up with the top five main problems of
Filipinos in the UAE.
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By Bo Sanchez
Guy 1: Cecilia is so beautiful.
Guy 2: Oh yes. She looks like Demi Moore in Ghost. (Note: This conversation happened centuries ago.)
Guy 1: If given a chance, would you want to marry her?
Guy 2: Uh… no, not really.
Guy 1: Why not?
Guy 2: How should I put it? Cecilia’s uh…not a happy person.
Guy 1: You noticed that too?
Guy 2: She’s
gloomy. She’s a negative person. She may be beautiful, but I don’t want
to live with a negative person for the rest of my life.
Guy 1: So unlike Stella.
Guy 2: Now there’s a cheerful girl. I really like her. So kind. So friendly. Always has a lovely smile.
Guy 1: She’s not as beautiful as Demi Moore.
Guy 2: But she’s the kind of woman I’ll marry.
Guy 1: What? You have a crush on her too?
Guy 2: Hey, fall in line bro.
This conversation
actually happened some twenty years ago between two of my single
friends. We were all single then. And believe me, Stella was like a guy
magnet. Five of my friends had a crush on her. Except for me, of
course. I was immune to crushes. Because I looked at all females the way
I looked at common furniture. Because my heart was focused on God
alone. (And my nose is getting longer right this minute…)
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