Another Famous Pinay!

The fact is - Filipinas who are individually famous have carved a proud image that could wash away  the tight niche that common views tend to wrap around their shoulders. Actually there are many of them who can stand tall and dignified before the judgmental stare of horny men and dominating houselords. When the biased expectations of the world anticipate the Pinay to pull off the house broom or her undies, one strong Pinay stuns the world with an admirable feat. Read below the Lisa Kaaki's feature in the Arab News of an admirable Filipina:

Bea Valdes: World-famous Filipina designer

In the next few years, Asian and African designers will play an increasing role on the global fashion scene. Even the most famous European fashion designers such as the genial Galiano and even the late Yves Saint Laurent often turned to the East for inspiration. The Filipina designer, Bea Valdes, is currently enjoying an unprecedented success, both in Europe and the United States. Valdes, whose family has been working in the jewelry business for three generations, began designing evening bags in 2004. She soon became interested in statement neckpieces, these giant necklaces which add “wow” to the most casual clothes. Her ‘artrageous’ creations have been photographed in Harper’s Bazaar, Newsweek, Glamour and Marie Claire. More recently, British Vogue’s September issue featured Kate Moss wearing only a Burberry trench coat and a sublime neckpiece by Bea Valdes. Sold in well-known shops such as Barney’s, Harvey Nichols and Saks Fifth Avenue, her jewelry has been worn by Sharon Stone, Kate Hudson and of course Kate Moss. A Bea Valdes piece, whether a bag or a neckpiece, takes around a month to finish. Each piece is handmade and can consist of up to 75 different beads, crystals, and even semiprecious stones. “I don’t really plan what I create. I begin by working on my panels. Sometimes, a panel will tell me what it wants to be, a bag or a neckpiece. We are a work in progress and that is the kind of mindset I plan on keeping for the years to come. We are in constant search of new material and we aim to evolve in design and technique,” she explains. She has chosen to remain in the Philippines where she works closely with her team of forty artisans. She feels it is important to maintain a creative environment and Manila is the only place where what she wants can be done as she wants. Bea Valdes grew up in the Philippines. She graduated with a degree in Industrial Design from the University of the Philippines and then studied Interior Design in London. When she was applying to Central Saint Martins for Jewelry Design, a professor she met for an interview, saw the embroidered panels she had brought along and told her to use them as bags. In 2000, she created 12 egg-shaped bags which were an instant success. And her breakthrough happened when one of Bea’s clients brought some of the bespoke bags to Vogue and they immediately requested a photo shoot and an interview. She is presently famous for her gorgeous, bold necklaces, the niche she was looking for, a kind of jewelry which is neither fine nor costume. “It was like trying to create the antithesis of fine jewelry while still capturing the drama of it,” says Bea who was surprised by customers’ reactions. A number of women felt they were too short to wear such huge pieces: “I am quite small myself and love the fact that the pieces are oversized.” Bea draws some inspiration from outside the fashion world, presently she is mostly influenced by writers such as Edward Gorey and the French poet Charles Baudelaire. She admits that she likes pieces that tell a story and according to her sister Marga: “She designs everything for herself, something I would wear, something she would wear. It’s just something she would like.” As for Bea, every time she starts working on a new bag, she says: “This will be my favorite piece. And then, the next time I start another, I say it again. That’s my motivation.” Her bold necklaces have been doing very well since they were launched on the market a couple of seasons ago. The best-selling pieces are the most intricate, most of which are bespoke. Besides the regular collections which are sold worldwide, Bea Valdes continues to do special orders for private customers in Manila and abroad. Despite her global success, the most well-known Filipina designer remains unchanged. Bea Valdes still spends most of her time designing, despite the birth of her daughter, Bella. Her presence, however, has affected Bea’s creativity. She tends now to use fewer dark and bold colors in favor of pastels and light colors. For Bea Valdes, “The most important thing in one’s life is that you do the work you love with the people you love.”

World's Most Famous Pinay?

Perhaps, she now holds the title as most famous Pinay face in the world, right behind Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and former First Lady Imelda Marcos.

Veronica Pedrosa embarked on her career in Manila as a TV reporter, presenter and producer for the Philippines broadcaster ABS-CBN. And by now, she has been the news anchor at the Al Jazeera English television network's Asia Pacific News Centre in Kuala Lumpur since November 2005.

                                      

She was really meant for bigger things. What with her British twang, Filipina looks, a UK degree, and that no-nonsense experience in broadcast journalism at ABS-CBN, she’s got what it takes to be there. And opportunity did bang at her flap several times. Veronica set off to work for CNN in Atlanta and Hong Kong as well as the BBC World Service and BBC World Television in London. While at CNN she was named Best News Anchor at the 9th Asian Television Awards 2004.

"I was lucky to be at the right place at the right time but of course it takes a lot of hard work too," Pedrosa reveals to Suzanne Schokman on Radio New Zealand. "Hard work, persistence and a willingness to step outside what is safe, prescribed or popular" are her success secrets.

She is the daughter of Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa who wrote a tell-all biography on then-First Lady Imelda Marcos that led to the Pedrosa family's exile in London where Veronica grew up. She was educated at St Paul's Girls School in London and Newham College, Cambridge. "I'm Asian at heart and European by habit," says Pedrosa. She reckons that her British accent is more understandable for people from Europe and the US and easier for her to understand what they are getting at. "I have the ability to shift between different cultures and perspectives,"she adds.

During her career stretching over 18 years, Pedrosa has brought viewers news on all the major global and regional news events and has interviewed a wide range of world figures including Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

She has also hosted a range of special reports and programs including dedicated Indian theme weeks in New Delhi and Mumbai and two special live series examining the aftermath of the 2002 Bali bombings and the killer disease, Severe Acute Respiratory Syn-drome (SARS).

She was in Auckland to speak at the Media Women in Asia seminar on September 26th, organised by the Asia New Zealand Foundation. "It is important that Asian women are seen in public professional roles in order to break chauvinistic stereo-types about what Asian women do, who they are. Because they can be everything!"

Pinay Scandals - Naked Views

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Magna Carta of Filipina Women Signed into Law

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on August signed into law the measure prohibiting discrimination against women, and recognizing and promoting their rights.

 

Republic Act 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women, signed at the Heroes Hall in Malacañang Palace, ensures women’s equitable participation and representation in government, political parties, international bodies, civil service and the private sector.

RA 9710 recognizes and protects women’s rights at home, at work and in all spheres of society toward developing all aspects of their well-being. Its most salient features include increasing the number of women personnel until they fill half of third-level positions in the government, setting up in every barangay (village) a “violence against women’s desk,” providing incentives to parties with women’s agenda and barring the derogatory portrayal of women in media and film.

The new law’s most “empowering provision” is its recognition that “women’s rights are human rights,” Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chair Leila de Lima told reporters after the 10 a.m. signing.

Section 8 of RA 9710 reads: “All rights in the Constitution and those rights recognized under international instruments duly signed and ratified by the Philippines, in consonance with Philippine law, shall be rights of women under this Act to be enjoyed without discrimination.”

According to the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), legislative debates on two bills—Magna Carta for Women and Magna Carta of Women in Rural Development—began in 2002 during the 12th Congress.

The two bills were merged in the 13th Congress, and came to be called Magna Carta of Women.

Said NCRFW Chair Myrna Yao in a statement: “The Magna Carta of Women seeks to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women by recognizing, protecting, fulfilling and promoting all human rights and fundamental freedoms of Filipino women, particularly those in the marginalized sector.”

According to Rep. Liza Maza, who was a member of the bicameral conference committee on the law and a co-author of the House version of the measure, the new law:

• Designates the Commission on Human Rights as the Gender and Development Ombud to ensure the promotion and protection of women’s human rights; 

• Ensures mandatory training on human rights and gender sensitivity to all government personnel involved in the protection and defense of women against gender-based violence; • Institutes affirmative action mechanisms so that “women can participate meaningfully in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies, plans, and programs for national, regional, and local development.” The number of women in third level positions in government shall be increased to achieve a fifty-fifty (50-50) gender balance within the next five years while the composition of women in all levels of development planning and program implementation will be at least 40 percent; • Ensures the equal treatment before the law by ensuring that the State shall take steps to review and when necessary, amend and/or repeal existing laws that are discriminatory to women within three years from the effectivity of the Magna Carta; • Provides equal access and elimination of discrimination in education, scholarships, and training. Thus, “expulsion, non-readmission, prohibiting enrollment, and other related discrimination of women students and faculty due to pregnancy out of marriage shall be outlawed.” • Promotes the equal status given to men and women on the titling of the land and issuance of stewardship contracts and patents; and • Encourages Local Government Units (LGUs) to develop and pass a Gender and Development (GAD) code based on the gender issues and concerns in their respective localities based on consultation with their women constituents.

Source: Inquirer and GMA news

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Busted! 8 Home Organizing Myths Exposed

 By: Karen Fritscher-Porter

Organizing creates systems that allows you to grow and frees up your space from chaos so you can enjoy your home. Organizing can help you get back to the basics of life where your "stuff" doesn't take over.

You can create multiple reasons to NOT get organized at home. But the truth is that the only obstacle stopping you from getting organized is you. It's not family members, it's not the absence of cash and it's not a lack of home organizational know-how. Read onward to expose these myths now. With that out of the way, you can get on with organizing your life and home in ways that make you a happier, less stressed and more productive person.

MYTH #1: You have to organize your home in a day.

TRUTH: Organizing your home is a lifelong process. You devise organizational systems, you maintain those processes ongoing and you create new organizational solutions when new situations or products in your home call for it. You don't just get organized today and stop tomorrow. It's an ongoing task. Don't expect or even try to get organized at home in a day or a week.

MYTH #2: You have to organize like she does.

TRUTH: Your home organization solutions must work for you---not your friends, neighbors or those clever organizers you watch on popular home organization television shows. You can certainly observe other peoples home organizing ideas. But then pick, choose and try what will work for you and your family. And do what you're capable of doing yourself. We're not all capable of building custom shelving in our homes (nor can we all afford to hire someone to build them); that's why some of us happily shop for prefabricated products.

MYTH #3: You have to organize "everything" in your home and life.

TRUTH: Organizing is a solution to dilemmas in your home and life. Perhaps you're late to work three days a week when you can't find your keys or you get charged huge fees for paying misplaced bills late. Create organizational techniques to solve those problems which cost you money and create stress in your life. But if you like your books placed haphazardly on your bookshelves and this doesn't cause you distress or to lose time in life, skip organizing the bookcase. Organize items or processes in your home when you know it will simplify your life, solve a problem or perhaps save you time.

MYTH #4: You can't get organized because you lack home organizing know-how.

TRUTH: Some people do seem to have a natural tendency toward personal and home organization, but it's a learned skill. Take notice of other people's organizing methods in their homes and offices, read home organization books, watch home organization television shows and surf the web for home organizing ideas. Then apply some of these ideas and techniques to your situation. And if you need some hand-holding, hire a professional organizer for some consultation or to organize specific spots in your home for you.

MYTH #5: You have to organize everything in your home perfectly.

TRUTH: Perfectionism wastes time. Organizing saves time. These two concepts clash. Sure if you're buying something like bins or totes, you want some stylish ones that match your home decor and fill the function for which they're intended. But don't go overboard in trying to find the perfect organizational helpers for your home. At some point say this product or this organizational system should work and that's it. Your home doesn't have to look like a photo shoot page out of a home decor magazine. Your organizational system doesn't have to be the ultimate solution to every organizing dilemma associated with that section of your home.

MYTH #6: If your organizational system doesn't work, you're an organizational failure.

TRUTH: If your new home organizing solution or process doesn't work for you, it just doesn't work. Don't read more into it than that. Take the word "failure" out of your vocabulary. Just move on and try another organizational technique. 

MYTH #7: You can't have an organized home because family members won't participate in your organizational processes.

TRUTH: Maybe they will, maybe they won't. But that's no reason for you to not organize items and streamline processes that will help you find things, save time and decrease stress in YOUR life. Quit worrying about organizing other people and organize areas in your home and your life that will help you first. Later, you can try some tactics to get immediate family member buy-in on organizational processes in your shared home.

MYTH #8: Getting organized costs lots of money.

TRUTH: There are lots of great organizing gadgets, containers, cabinets, shelves and more on the market that can help simplify getting organized (and even make it more fun sometimes). Some home organization items are quite inexpensive. Others create a pricey, extravagant look. But lack of cash will never stand in the way of getting organized at home because it's not a necessity to the process. You can be creative and improvise organizational processes that use helper items found in your home now. Or you can buy some ready-made home organizing accessories when you know what exact type products you need.

The choice to get organized or not to get organized is all yours and your paycheck or spending level doesn't dictate the answer. Nor do any of the other myths busted in this article. Remember, there is only one obstacle preventing you from getting organized and that's you. So move out of your own way if you want to get organized at home and get started organizing today.

About the author: Karen Fritscher-Porter publishes http://www.EasyHomeOrganizing.com where you'll find home organization products to buy plus hundreds of free articles and tips to keep you organized at home year-round.

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Women Mountain Biking: Looking Beyond The Risks

By: David Faulkner

 

The old saw about women being the weaker sex has, in recent decade, come up for debate as increasing numbers of women have begun to excel at many of the sports which were once considered the exclusive provinces of men. Women have even begun to compete in extreme sports, including mountain biking.

There is no anatomical reason why women mountain biking cannot manage the strong pedaling required, and enough of them have now taken up the sport that they are no longer a rarity on the mountain biking trails. But mountain biking, like any sport, can cause long-term health consequences in its participants.

There us a question of whether or not women mountain biking are endangering their reproductive systems. Research has indicated that male mountain bikers significantly increase their risk of scrotal damage overtime; there is good reason to think the women might also be at reproductive risk.

The Risks Of Women Mountain Biking

The studies done on men show that they may experience the growth of either benign or malignant scrotal masses as a result of mountain biking, and those results may imply that women mountain biking can develop assorted reproductive illness. One proven effect of women mountain biking is, in a few instances, hymenal rupture.

Even though there many be negative consequences for their reproductive systems, enormous and increasing number of women mountain biking today is a sign that most women think the benefits of mountain biking outweigh its risks. The strength-building, cardiovascular benefits, heightened reflexes, improved coordination, and tremendous self-confidence which women who mountain bike experience are certainly desirable effects.

And the large number of women mountain biking has had another effect; there are now several women’s groups organized to educate women about the health and safety issues surrounding women’s mountain biking.

One of the organizations in the forefront of promoting healthy women mountain biking is the WOMBATS, or as they are officially named, the Women’s Mountain Biking and Tea Society. The members of WOMBATS all have one thing in common--their love for the adventure of mountain biking. The group accepts women regardless of their age, ethnicity, or culture; the only requirement for admission is that an applicant be an avid mountain biker. For more info see http://www.mountainbikingreviews.com on Mountain Biking.

The myth that women are a weak sex is dead, and the reality that women mountain biking is taking the mountain biking world by storm is becoming clearer each day. If you don’t believe it, head for the nearest mountain biking trail, watch the women of all ages and physical stature taking the terrain in their biking stride, and then tell yourself they are the weaker sex.

Many brands of mountain biking shorts, shoes, and suits are also available; the brand name is not as important the degree of comfort and protection they provide. Most riders will be able to find adequate mountain biking apparel to meet their budgets; for suggestions they can always turn to one of the many sources eager to help them.

Learning all about mountain biking will take a very long time, but the first lessons should always be on safe riding techniques, and safety equipment.

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When Love's Just Right Behind His/Her Shoulder

My dear Filipina friends, the last of the romantics could very well manage the balance of human affection in his/her thoughts. But mind you, that gone-crazy lover would still need some friendly share of common experience to be able to comprehend the secrets of that enslaving fervor. The Pinay world hangs tough along that romantic horizon. If ever she sways her smile towards pragmatism, then the motive could be very well an online shopping for greener emotional intensity. Let us get into the groove that Ms. Marina Zitser relates about Love i n foreign perspective.

She is Behind His Shoulder   By: Marina Zitser     Site: http://www.odessapartments.com

Image by chrisjohnbeckett via Flickr

     In my last sixteen years of living a couple things have changed. I've outgrown my footed "jimmies", my denim overalls, and even a couple of my bedtime buddies (otherwise known as Mickey and Donald). I brush my teeth every day and almost stopped sucking my thumb, which is one of my major achievements up to this date. Probably I will not put this one on my college application as well as some other secret of mine: I fall in love exactly the same way as I did ten years ago, hopelessly, desperately and ... not for long. My love flu lasts approximately two weeks with temperature raising when I see the object of my affection with somebody else and when he is looking at me with this expression on his face that can be equally translated as "who are you?" and "it is you again". 

     After first two days with life-threatening fever I am falling into a comma where I sit near the phone waiting for him to call me and watching for God knows how many times tireless Mr. Butler carrying Scarlett up the giant red staircase. Like a wounded female lion protecting her cubs, I jump on everybody who is trying to use the phone with a roar that can make any predator of the wild proud. The clock ticks, and finally when I understand that I am sentenced to an eternity of unimaginable pain and suffering, when I show all signs of fatigue, exhaustion, disorientation, insomnia and anxiety, HE calls me. I pick up the phone, we talk, we meet, we smile, we laugh, we talk, he calls again and... Have you guessed already? I am getting better! My fever is gone, I don't respond to the phone calls when I watch my favorite episode of "South Park", I find most of his jokes old and tasteless, I sneak out with my cousin to the movies and lie to my hero that I have to get ready for finals. Yes, dear reader, I don't need your "Get Well Soon" card and pathetic balloons anymore! I am completely healed. 

     So how do you call this? Infatuation? For sure it is not love. Then what is Love? Romeo and Juliet? Did I hear you right? Their relationship was electrifying. But it did not last more than a few days and then they're dead. Maybe you have any other ideas? Joe Kort, a Michigan psychotherapist who hosts weekend-long relationship sessions for both single and married people wrote in one of the magazines that this romantic love that we feel for a short period of time is highly addictive and gives us emotional high caused by something called phenyl ethylamine - PEA, for short. Novelty induces the body to create PEA, says Kort. And at best, a real-life love can only be very novel for six to eighteen months. After that, we've got to learn to appreciate the maturing of a relationship.

     Here is another story. Maybe I will lie a little now to make it look more tearful but I need to make a point. Ok, listen. This story happened during World War II in the little village in Siberia. The young woman was waiting for her husband to come home. She checked her mail every day; she looked through the frozen glass of the kitchen window every time when she heard a noise outside. She was crying into her pillow every night when her kids went to sleep feeling with her guts that her husband would never come back. After many months of agony she received a letter from the hospital saying that they had her husband. The guy was burnt beyond recognition, he lost his limbs, and he could not communicate. He required 24/7 care of the professional nurse, so they advised the wife not to come because they think that she would not be able to provide appropriate care in the middle of nowhere for the person who did not even resemble human being anymore. I am sure these people were right, but this woman whose name is lost in the history, packed her suitcase and raced to the train station to see her husband. 

I don't want to put a burden on you explaining what she felt when she saw the guy, who was strong enough to carry her through the yard to the lake during their wedding, in a hospital room covered with bandages, helpless and unrecognizable. She saw his black eyes and smiled. In two days he was already at home surrounded by kids. It is not probably possible to explain you how hard it was to take care of him in the little Russian village without medications and food. But he survived, and only eyes expressed the pain that he felt. Two years passed and once when she was working in the garden, she felt that her heart started beating extremely fast, she turned her head and saw her husband in the military uniform entering the house. That night this big man whose tired feet went through every European country before they reached Berlin, went down on his knees before his barefooted wife. He was sobbing like a child that after so many years of uncertainty and fear he was standing in front of the greatest woman that existed in the world... 

     Ok, I hope you cried because I did. So was it love? Was it? Guys, I dragged you from the sunny California to Siberia for some reason. I wanted to show you that love is something different from what I felt when I was hypnotizing the phone in my bedroom. Yes, maybe it was love in that house near the lake in the old village with the weird name Sosnovka, but maybe not. It could be duty, respect, honesty...but not love. 

     Love does not have any signs. I wish it had. It could be black and red, it could be loud or silent, it could be sick or healthy, dressed in a million words or blind and poor like a homeless old guy begging for a change near the church. And even when we meet Ms. Love face-to-face we will not recognize her. And if somebody, calls you in the middle of the night promising that he can get for you a star from the sky, just listen to him, give him a chance. Maybe Ms. Love is quietly standing behind his shoulder while he is nervously explaining you that he needs you more than anything in the world. It could be that simple.
                    About the author: Marina Zitser, I love to write, travel and meet new people. Apartments in Odessa 

Now, who says the strong and lovable Pinay holds an exclusive expertise for patience and sacrifice? The world abounds with Love's parallelism. Any race could jump right on it. Love's craze and folly could be just right behind the shoulder...Or maybe it's just the right thing to do and be.