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                    [Title] => In Chic
                    [Summary] => E-Male’s friend Zig dared him to clamber up the Great Wall of the language divide to consider becoming a linguist of sorts – fluent in both Tagalog (with the ala-e twang of a red-blooded Batangueño) and English with a healthy siding of Pig Latin he picked up from law school (Exhibit "A" – Dura lex sed lex). 

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[DatePublished] => 2003-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 218506 [Title] => Bottoms up [Summary] => E-Male isn’t much of a drinker nowadays, having wrote finis to his wild, wild ways of staggering out of bars and driving home to near-death experiences. Cheers to that. Yet, he somehow took on another vice, which involved inflating his lung sacs with clouds of carcinogen.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 215116 [Title] => Smoked out [Summary] => For a long time, E-Male tried to forget that the tobacco plant is blamed for millions of deaths every year. He even buried the memory of several very dead relatives and acquaintances who never got to the point of lighting their last stick.

E-Male dreamt that he could discover some form of economical and sustainable method to fuel his smoking habit which usually cost smokers like him a fair share of their daily wage. If not for that purpose, he could certainly have some other use for tobacco leaves, like serving as a substitute for the lettuce in his ham and cheese sandwich. [DatePublished] => 2003-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212008 [Title] => Fitness as everybody’s business [Summary] => If Filipinos could have their way, they would rather have pan de sal popping proudly out as muscles in their abdomens rather than feel them in their insides swelling their stomachs like turbo-charged carbofats. But then again, such pining for muscular pan de sal is just a pipedream for many who have not yet made fitness their personal business.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208562 [Title] => Chutz-spa [Summary] => Without being charmed by the thought, Pinoys actually live in a Third World spa environment. After all, the plethora of pleasures associated with spas, albeit unappreciated and even dreaded, should be au naturel for every citizen regardless of race or religion, creed or color.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285755 [AuthorName] => E-MALE by Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 207660 [Title] => Pontius Pirates [Summary] => Videophiles won’t admit it but pandering to VCD pirates has become a habit. Some have even been addicted. Pardon the zealous campaign of Bong Revilla, but piracy is like a bad case of amoebiasis: The more you flush it, the more it proliferates and regenerates. Video piracy has triumphed over frustrated advocates of intellectual property. [DatePublished] => 2003-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285755 [AuthorName] => E-MALE by Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205825 [Title] => E-Mature [Summary] => Even before man fathomed his vulnerability to the aging process, womankind had already unjustly accused him of being immature. Maybe in the interminable race to remain young, juvenile, virile and potent – without the aid of Viagra or other kinky devices that arouse animal magnetism – man has literally taken aim to prolong his stay in the world of preadolescent. The masculine predilection to remain a child isn’t completely without basis. [DatePublished] => 2003-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285755 [AuthorName] => E-MALE by Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204981 [Title] => Affair share of the action [Summary] => The world took a rather drastic change when E-Male’s bud decided to sleep with his accountant. Not that he had any moral qualms about his friend’s choice of co-curricular activities, neither was he personally affected for as long that every body follows the rule not to sleep with the enemy.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285755 [AuthorName] => E-MALE by Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => In Chic
                    [Summary] => E-Male’s friend Zig dared him to clamber up the Great Wall of the language divide to consider becoming a linguist of sorts – fluent in both Tagalog (with the ala-e twang of a red-blooded Batangueño) and English with a healthy siding of Pig Latin he picked up from law school (Exhibit "A" – Dura lex sed lex). 

[DatePublished] => 2003-11-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 224850 [Title] => Dreaming of an early Christmas [Summary] => About four weeks into the "ber" months, the Christmas bells have faintly started to chime in the background. Pre-holiday sales have begun to settle in, and although they usually masquerade as Halloween bazaars, E-Male knows it’s merely a ploy to have first dibs on the clever pre-Christmas shoppers. For the crafty, gift wrappers are being horded by the truckloads, to monopolize the more tolerable designs before all that‘s left are merely second-rate reindeer and facially distorted elven patterns. [DatePublished] => 2003-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220502 [Title] => Highered selves [Summary] => For the modern day nine-to-five Juan de la Cruz, no business is quite as good as your own. And though the pay check is far plumper in the cutthroat world of large-scale corporations and high-end business firms, there’s always a lingering sense of achievement in being your own boss. Belligerence is practically a virtue in the dog-eat-dog market, and self-employment seems to be the final bastion of honorable livelihood, or so E-Male would care to think. Besides, nothing is quite as fulfilling and utterly ridiculous as hiring yourself. Not that E-Male has problems taking orders.
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E-Male dreamt that he could discover some form of economical and sustainable method to fuel his smoking habit which usually cost smokers like him a fair share of their daily wage. If not for that purpose, he could certainly have some other use for tobacco leaves, like serving as a substitute for the lettuce in his ham and cheese sandwich. [DatePublished] => 2003-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212008 [Title] => Fitness as everybody’s business [Summary] => If Filipinos could have their way, they would rather have pan de sal popping proudly out as muscles in their abdomens rather than feel them in their insides swelling their stomachs like turbo-charged carbofats. But then again, such pining for muscular pan de sal is just a pipedream for many who have not yet made fitness their personal business.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285765 [AuthorName] => E-MALE By Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208562 [Title] => Chutz-spa [Summary] => Without being charmed by the thought, Pinoys actually live in a Third World spa environment. After all, the plethora of pleasures associated with spas, albeit unappreciated and even dreaded, should be au naturel for every citizen regardless of race or religion, creed or color.
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[DatePublished] => 2003-05-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134050 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285755 [AuthorName] => E-MALE by Argee Guevarra [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) ) )
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