Its Boracay, Not Bora

You may probably have heard of tourists who said there is something about Boracay that just sucks them in and makes them not want to leave. I have heard people declare their love for Moalboal or Malapascua or Palawan. They have acquired citizenship over local waters and I guess it is not just about being in Palawan, or Boracay or Guimaras. It is just the Philippines. Period.

It was raining when we went to Caticlan. Crossing the 3-minute banca ride with rain and not the salt water whipping on your face can really make a tourist feel bad about such gloomy weather but we couldn’t really do much about it. Boracay still gave us that pretty sunset that has everyone heaping accolades on. Continue reading »

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When Friends Wed

A good friend got married and it was the first wedding I have been to in 2012. I have a feeling it is not going to be my last.

I guess I’m always a big fan of last minute decisions because I knew about my friend’s birthday a year ago when he called me looking for places to shop for feather boas. What for — ? Until he revelaed that his theme was all Sopranos, Mafioso and The Godfather that I understood that he might be needing fedoras, suits and vests in the future.

The future was January in 2012 and well, I wasn’t really prepared for another homecoming just when we were recently back in Cagayan during the holidays. Yep, it was depressing post-Sendong so I wasn’t really sure about reliving another depressing homecoming (not to mention a homeless family to go home to).

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How to get the right support – from ETAM Brassieres!

In the US and in the UK, 8 out of 10 women are wearing the wrong-size bras.  Surprised?  There are many magazine (and on the internet) articles, surveys, columns and TV shows that have discussed the bra, and how many women are wearing the wrong-sized bras.  The only ones who would not be surprised are the ones who have discovered their mistake, and now wear the correct bra size.  This wrong bra size would be more of a problem in Asian countries, especially those where Asian lingerie brands have only two cup sizes: A & B.

While European brands like ETAM (France) offer bras from cups A, AA all the way to cup F, Asian bra brands fit all these possible cup sizes into just A & B.  And it is not because Asians are smaller in bust-size; we all went with the available adjusted A and B cup-sizes in these popular bra brands.  Filipino women belatedly find out the comfort of a cup C or a cup D bra of European brands, while for years, they had been wearing cup B.

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