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Our bets to win in Paris
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - October 26, 2005 - 12:00am
It’s my third time to witness the Philippine Fashion Design Competition (PFDC), also known in the local fashion community as the "Paris Competition."
A matter of pride
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - October 12, 2005 - 12:00am
Would you wear a T-shirt that says ‘Holland’?" I ask my Dutch husband. He shakes his head. "How about Utrecht?" "Maybe." "How about Amsterdam?" He pauses. "Maybe." "How...
A good month to be Filipino
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - October 5, 2005 - 12:00am
When it rains, it pours, they say. Thank God, with all the awful things happening in our country, September turned out to be a great month to be a Filipino. Here’s a timeline showing why. Sept. 6: "Maxi"...
Surviving my first mammogram
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - September 14, 2005 - 12:00am
hy·po·chon·dri·a: The persistent conviction that one is or is likely to become ill, often involving symptoms when illness is neither present nor likely, and persisting despite reassurance and...
Where fashion meets art
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - August 31, 2005 - 12:00am
Last year I think I terrorized a wide-eyed associate fashion editor who sat next to me at a fashion event. I behaved badly, squirming and making side comments while she must’ve enjoyed the show that clearly...
For the face of your dreams
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - August 28, 2005 - 12:00am
I know two sisters who could be mistaken for twins. J never diets, but because her face is slimmer, people think she’s the thinner one. V is a vegetarian and very self-conscious of her weight. Because of her...
Something to rave about
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - August 24, 2005 - 12:00am
So I nursed this headache for a day and a half. I’m not sure if it’s the starvation diet I’m on, or the movie screening I was invited to. The movie was so dark, not in a Tim Burton sense, but in a...
What's your racket?
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - August 17, 2005 - 12:00am
Nothing much happened last week, except for the change in weather, an e-mail from Paris, and a rather unremarkable war movie. I’d like to thank God for one week of Tagaytay weather in Metro Manila. When I...
The advantages of being a fag hag
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - August 3, 2005 - 12:00am
The funniest text message circulated last week saying, had the President been a fag hag, the country would not be in so much turmoil now, for the wiretapped conversation between her and former Election Commissioner...
SM to the World Makeover Challenge
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - June 8, 2005 - 12:00am
The assignment seemed simple enough: Get a guy, take him to SM’s menswear department, and give him a makeover. For this project, I invited four artists from different international backgrounds to help me o...
Annoying Third World practices
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - June 1, 2005 - 12:00am
Some people may not think so... but in general, I think I’m a nice person and I try to behave myself. But the patience of a saint is something I truly don’t have. This could be a lousy excuse, but after...
Lunch with Piolo, dinner with Boy George 
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - May 15, 2005 - 12:00am
The text message came on a Sunday while I was in Singapore for my birthday. Producer Tommy Ng was looking for a modern house to shoot a print ad in with either Piolo Pascual or Claudine Barretto. I offered my home When...
Lunch with Piolo, dinner with Boy George 
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - May 15, 2005 - 12:00am
The text message came on a Sunday while I was in Singapore for my birthday. Producer Tommy Ng was looking for a modern house to shoot a print ad in with either Piolo Pascual or Claudine Barretto. I offered my home When...
Why I nearly quit writing
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - May 1, 2005 - 12:00am
My friend Jay visits me one hot and gloomy day when I’m down and didn’t quite make my deadline. I haven’t written anything of substance for weeks, not even for myself. "I’m dry as Sahara,"...
The earthquake that never happened
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - April 20, 2005 - 12:00am
On the evening of April 13, a Wednesday, I received an email from my Yahoo group about a "forthcoming disaster that will destroy half of Manila and Quezon City."
While we slept
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - April 10, 2005 - 12:00am
Two things you might not believe about me: I once wrote a piece on how I hate flying and ended up praying 15 mysteries on a plane – and that’s just a flight to Hong Kong. When I e-mailed that story, my...
How the Philippines WOWed Guangzhou
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - March 20, 2005 - 12:00am
One of the perks of this job I’ve grown to love is the chance to travel once in a while at someone else’s expense. Recently my dear editor gave me two options: a) to observe rebuilding efforts being done...
She’s no lady, by the way
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - February 9, 2005 - 12:00am
It was a rainy Sunday afternoon, about a year ago. My dear husband and I were out shopping, and the kids were at home taking a nap. One of the yayas woke up from a deep sleep because of hunger pangs and proceeded...
Guerrilla store opens in Singapore
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - October 13, 2004 - 12:00am
Guerrilla: A small group of independent people fighting for what they believe in. Imagine a store that is temporary and will open for only a year and then close whether it’s a hit or miss. Imagine that one...
It was a very gay Cirque de Soleil
by CHUVANNESS By Cecile Zamora - August 22, 2004 - 12:00am
They were the hottest tickets, for sure, the Bench Understatement tickets I received in my house just a few days before. Almost everyone I knew wanted to go, but weren’t sure how. You could’ve bought Bench...
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