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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349397 [Title] => How to attract women and keep them interested [Summary] =>Once, while I was in a café quietly sipping a macchiato and writing an article like this with my PC notebook, I was lucky enough to overhear a group of men huddled at a nearby table. Unaware that I was eavesdropping, they were candidly discussing their woes about women. The most handsome in the group caught my eye. He was around 31 years old, I guess, and from my vantage point I observed that he almost looked like a matinee idol: chiseled facial features, fair complexion, and chinky dark-brown eyes. [DatePublished] => 2006-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462048 [AuthorName] => Lily Ann Padaen [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335146 [Title] => Metrosexuals: These pretty guys are not gays [Summary] => It used to be that women were criticized for taking a long time in getting ready to go on a date or to a party. Men often complained that women's attention to self was extreme and extravagant. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1135559 [AuthorName] => Archie Modequillo [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305329 [Title] => Metrosexuals: Then and now [Summary] =>
The evolution of man has come a long way from the Freudian theory that he evolved from the ape. [DatePublished] => 2005-11-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135486 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1739447 [AuthorName] => SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 304389 [Title] => Was Jose Rizal our first metrosexual? [Summary] => Im quite obviously not the worlds most handsome man Im the worlds second most handsome man! Robbie Williams
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229580 [Title] => The Pad [Summary] => The cult movie American Psycho begins with a scene of Patrick Bateman (played by a very buff and very GQ Christian Bale) in his swanky New York pad set in the 1980s. Patrick does a monologue while going through his morning ritual: "I believe in taking care of myself in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser then a honey-almond body scrub." The scene is a perfect tribute to today's metrosexual.
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MANILA, Philippines — Alas Pilipinas team captain Jia de Guzman has tempered expectations on their chances against a heavily favored Vietnam and in the FIVB Challenger Cup that came off the wraps at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium yesterday.
But deep inside the soft-spoken and courageous skipper and the rest of Nationals, they all dream of the same big dream – a ticket straight to the Women’s Volleyball Nations League main group next year.
And their quest begins tonight when they square off with the Vietnamese at 6:30 p.m.
The home bet is the underdog versus the Vietnamese side that swept and dominated last month’s AVC Challenge Cup at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. The Filipinas snatched a historic bronze there.
“Well, alam naman po namin na mas malakas ang kalaban and we know our team is young. All we can ask the girls is to do its best while not putting pressure on the team that much,” said the charismatic Alas team leader.
The team lost power spiker Eya Laure and libero Jen Nierva and were replaced by Creamline’s Jema Galanza and National University’s Bella Belen.
Belen’s teammate, Alyssa Solomon, and Galanza’s fellow Creamline star, Tots Carlos, were enlisted into the pool but will not be able to join due to undisclosed reasons.
“It’s great to have new reinforcements in the pool. Experience-wise, marami ang mako-contribute nila sa team,” said De Guzman of Galanza and Belen.
Intriguingly, Nierva’s last-minute withdrawal left the squad with one legitimate libero in Dawn Catindig.
Cherry Nunag was listed as the team’s second libero although she’s known as a natural middle blocker.
The other members of the team are Faith Nisperos, Fifi Sharma, Vannie Gandler, Julia Coronel, Angel Canino, Dell Palomata, Arah Panique, Thea Gagate and Sisi Rondina.
The trek to that VNL dream is long and arduous though as Alas Pilipinas would need to win all its games against Vietnam, the semis and eventually the finals, assuming it could make it that far, to realize it.
In the opener of the meet, Puerto Rico turned back a feisty Kenya 25-20, 25-19, 27-25, to advance to the semis.
Teenage sensation Grace Mar Lopez Villanueva went on attack mode and fired 19 points including 18 on kills while Diana Reyes scattered 10 hits.
Pamella Adhiambo Owino tried to put up a fight for the Kenyans by unloading a match-best 22 points. most of which came in the third set when they tried
to put up a fight and steal the set before eventually falling short in the end.
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