Fabulosity

I've been very sick since last week.  I felt like puking, my head spinning and my world was really hot.  My eyes were teary and I can feel the hot air coming out from my nostrils and mouth as if there was a molten magma inside me.

I was basically dragging myself just to do something that I would normally do in a day.

But there was a fashion show that Saturday.  It was definitely going to break my heart if I won't be able to go.  So despite of that sickness, I went to H20 Hotel with my colleagues.  They were actually the ones who invited me.  They picked me up and there I was.  I saw myself sitting with fabulous-looking people; sitting side by side with the elite.  I felt under-dressed. But heck, I was bringing my camera.  I was there to take pictures and not really to socialize.

Jazz music was being played in the hall.  And one by one the models paraded the lovely fashion collection by Edwin Uy.  They were really great I should say. And the models looks beautiful; and some looks sexy without even flaunting much of the skin.  The saying is true indeed that you don't have to show flesh just to be sexy.

Here are the photos I have taken showcasing the dresses I so admired:

Someone like you

I was busy rehearsing my report. I feel really awful today because of my sinusitis and fever but it seems that I would have to drag myself to work just to present it, not to mention having a very important phone conference right after.

Anyway, as I was practicing or as it seems to be, I was scanning the tv channels at the same time.  Someone Like You was being shown. I think this is a late 90's chick flick, if I am not mistaken, that starred Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd.

My attention wasn't entirely in it.  But I knew this movie. I watched it from before.  This was the movie that compared women to cow.  I think it did mentioned something that after milking the cow, men look for another cow - a younger cow? It also mentioned something about women being used like an ATM machine.

This movie had made me laugh and it made me cry at the same time.  Well, it's a chick flick for crying out loud!  It always follow the same ingredients. And it always makes us feel good at the end.

I'm pretty sure that a lot of women in this generation could relate to this movie. That feeling that they are being reduced to play things or they are simply being used or manipulated. With that, we accused men of being users, manipulative and insensitive.  I know that it is unfair to generalize men to be like that.  But what can we do?  We are emotional creatures. That is a characteristic of women.

Some women jump from one relationships to another, hoping to find their match instead of waiting for the right man. Some stick to a relationship or so-called relationship or something like it believing that it turns out right in the future when it all started as a mistake.  Well, some are very fortunate to have found someone that are best for them.

Whatever the endings of our stories, I just hope that we will be all happy with our choices - whether we decide to be alone and have a dog as a lifetime partner or decide to get married and have a bunch of kids.