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filipinaTHE FILIPINA IMAGES

What image pops up in your head when you say or hear the word “Filipina?”

A smile.
A mother breastfeeding her child.
An excellent homemaker.
A powerful leader and mentor in her chosen business, profession or vocation.
Another smile, inviting you to meet her family and firends.
A friend who’s there for you, no matter what.
Ah, I’ve never met a Filipina — but I’d like to.
An influential, affluent decision maker.
A woman, confident and willing to go an extra mile to get things done.
A woman I can trust to take care of my kids.
A sexy woman.
A mystery?
A girl, shy and innocent.
A fun-loving woman.
A beautiful person, inside and out.

Endless, timeless images of a Filipina.

The Filipina of the Future deserves a more empowered, diverse image online.
Multiple, complex, and whole.

We don’t seek perfection. We repeat: We seek balance in the Filipina images that are available online. We share our reflections about what the Filipina of the Future could be like, too. Dignity is every person’s human right. Whether the Filipina is a mother, a nanny, a decision maker in the corporate arena, a domestic service professional (formerly known as “domestic worker”), or a mail order bride, they have the right to empower themselves — through education, through equal rights in the household and the workplace, through connecting with people who want the same — and more.

If we provoke you to share your truth about what “Reshaping the Filipina Image Online” is all about, then we accomplish something. We might not always agree with your opinions or reflections — and we promise to disagree agreeably.

Something wonderful is happening at this advocacy blog and news site. Our contributors and commentators continue to amaze us with their insights and wisdom.

There are many of us who are working diligently to end gender inequality, thus promoting gender mainstreaming for our Filipinas and Filipinos worldwide. We come face to face with many realities, many perspectives. We’re learning how to help, in achievable ways, END violence against women and girls, human trafficking, child predators, and cyber-crimes.

At the same time, we don’t deny anyone of their human right to enhance their ideas of “Call Me Beautiful!” through (here are examples) body piercings, tattoos, hair coloring, or make-up — anything that makes them sexy (our term for attractive!). It’s common ground to everyone. It’s very human.

FilipinaImages.com’s organic growth and evolution happen because of YOU.

FilipinaImages.com was created on August 8, 2007 to make the online campaign an ongoing endeavor. The renewed campaign actually started on June 27, 2007.

Lorna Lardizabal-Dietz, Dine Racoma and myself (Noemi Lardizabal-Dado) created this news portal and advocacy blog for a timeless Filipina Image Online Campaign . Please register and post your Filipina-themed entries or link them here in this site.

All of us posted our own respective Filipina campaigns such as Lorna’s The Filipina Woman’s Image Online: We Have The Power To Shape The Future, Dine’s Let’s Fiercely Campaign to Reclaim the Dignity of the Filipina Woman and Reshape the Clean Image of the Sexy Filipina and my own How to Reshape The Sexy Filipina Image in 3 easy Steps . The campaign does not stop in our blogs. We want to continue to showcase and honor the wonderful, diverse Filipina images even after we have achieved a balance of “Filipina” Search Engine Results (SERPs).

Thanks so much for these photo edits jaydee! Love 'em all!

Thanks so much!!!

Loved this one the most!

Salamat!

Requiem from the Darkness (京極夏彦 巷説百物語, Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari?, lit. "Natsuhiko Kyougoku's Hundred Stories") is a series of novels by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. It was made into horror anime series, licensed in English by Geneon Entertainment, and into a series of live action TV specials directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi.

The plot of the anime revolves around a young writer named Momosuke who wishes to write a book of 100 ghost stories and his encounters with three spirital beings. The three beings are reoccurring characters in the show who function as a team that punishes sinners, most frequently murderers. Their names are Mataichi, a small creature wrapped in bandages who serves as leader of the group, Ogin, an attractive female puppeteer, and Nagamimi, a shape shifter.

What is the story behind PostSecret?

In December 2003, I took my first trip to Paris, France. That night checked into a hotel in the Latin Quarter. While I slept I had an extraordinary dream that would change my life and eventually lead me to the PostSecret project.

 

 

My first day in Paris I had purchased three Antoine de Saint-Expery's "Little Prince" postcards from a small shop near my hotel. When I got to my hotel room and prepared for bed I placed the cards in the nightstand drawer and went to sleep. During the night, I had a lucid dream in which I was aware that I was in my own dream. I found myself in my hotel room. In my dream I opened my nightstand drawer and examined the three "Little Prince" postcards.

 

 

Each one had been altered with messages written on their backs. The first message read, "unrecognized evidence, from forgotten journeys, unknowingly rediscovered," the second message was about a "reluctant oracle" postcard art project and the last message I could not understand at the time.

 

 

When I awoke, I removed the actual postcards from the drawer and tried to recreate them so they would appear like the ones I had seen during my dream. What I did not know was that those three remade Little Prince postcards would be the first work of a trilogy of postcards that would consume my life and set me on an unimaginable journey.

 

 

In January 2004, I started the "reluctant oracle" project. Every Sunday, I created an released a new work to be discovered. They were discovered by people serendipitously. The story found local, national and international media coverage.

 

 

The last message from "reluctant oracle" bore the message, "You will find your answers in the secrets of strangers." The next Sunday the PostSecret began.

 

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G/F Benpres Building,
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Ortigas Center, Pasig City,
Philippines
telephone: (632) 6312417
email: pezseum@skyinet.net

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One of my idols! A native of Toronto, Glen Hanson is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, art director and writer.

After studying animation at Sheridan College, Glen went on to design characters for TV's BABAR, BEETLE JUICE and DARIA cartoon shows. In 2000 he was nominated for an ANNIE AWARD for his art direction and design on MTV's SPY GROOVE series. He has since developed shows for NICKELODEON and DISNEY studios. Most recently he has co-written, designed and storyboarded a series of promo spots for SOAP NET guised as an animated mock soap opera and titled “CRESCENT HOLLOW”.

Glen's illustrations have appeared in a variety of publications around the world including BRITISH VOGUE and GQ, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWSWEEK, THE WALL ST. JOURNAL, MAXIM, FHM and VARIETY. Celebrities like CAROL BURNETT, ROSIE O'DONNELL, BILLY CRYSTAL, MARY TYLER MOORE and TOM CRUISE all own original caricatures created by Glen.

His roster of advertising clients includes TIMEX, GRAND MARNIER, McDonald’s, and SKIPPY PEANUT BUTTER. His work can be seen on illustrated book covers for RANDOM HOUSE, KENSINGTON, HARLEQUIN, the poster for the Off-Broadway hit play “ALTAR BOYZ” and on CD covers like BLINK 182's "THE MARK, TOM and TRAVIS SHOW" for which Glen was awarded a certificate of excellence from the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS.

Across the US, Glen’s images adorn gift set boxes and print ads for BOD men’s and women’s fragrance products. They can also be spotted on the runways of Milan on a series of t-shirts as part of the spring and fall ’05 collections of European men’s wear designer, ANDREW MACKENZIE. Ads designed by Glen have appeared in the men’s fashion bible, L’UOMO VOGUE, for both Andrew’s spring and fall collections.

Under the pseudonym of G-MAN, Glen has created a popular series of beefcake images that have been used in print ads, magazine covers, party products, and a
line of greeting cards for NOBLEWORKS. The first ever collection of G-MAN images is available in a hardbound book from publisher BRUNO GMUNDER along with G-MAN t-shirts.

For over 7 years now, Glen has illustrated and written, along with Allan Neuwirth, the internationally syndicated comic CHELSEA BOYS. The expoits of Nathan, Soiree and Sky, who live together in New York's hippest neighborhood, are followed by thousands of readers across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and South Africa. In 2003, ALYSON BOOKS released the first CHELSEA BOYS BOOK, which was nominated for a LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD in the best humor book category. A 2nd full color book will be coming out in October of 2006 published through BRUNO GMUNDER. Glen and Allan also collaborated writing DC COMIICS', "WONDER WOMAN VS. The RED MENACE" graphic novel.

Glen currently lives in Los Angeles and is working with Allan Neuwirth on developing CHELSEA BOYS into an animated series as well as a host of other TV, print and online projects.


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The Republic of the Philippines is a nation of some 8,744 islands located in the Pacific Ocean, not far from China. The people of the Philippines, known as Filipinos, are best known for their overseas service as cafeteria personnel, mini-mart clerks, hotel maids, and transvestite prostitutes in countries around the world. The Philippines itself is a hotspot for sex tourism and pedophilia, as well as for a few AZN “al Qaeda” wannabes who have “taken over” some small villages on one of the islands. It is also the world’s largest exporter of large yellow-ish envelopes, known everywhere as “Manila envelopes.”...

Our government is one of the best teledrama ever!

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Like many bakers of wedding cakes today, Heny began her professional life as something else – an economic researcher and financial analyst. Soon after, however, she was drawn to her natural passion and found herself teaching baking and cake decorating, and making birthday and wedding cakes. It was in 1985 when she began the Heny Sison School of Cake Decorating and Baking. She stands as the country’s premier cake designer and pastry chef because of the numerous schools she attended, experimenting with recipes, and traveling around the world to learn from the best.

Heny studied at the world's best schools

    Heny has undergone training in various elements of cake decorating and baking at the Wilton School of Cake Decorating and Confectionery, Woodridge, Illinois; L'Academie de Cuisine, Bethesda, Maryland; Maid of Scandinavia, Minneapolis under Roland Winbeckler, Marsha Winbeckler and Marie Grainger; the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, Napa Valley and Draeger's Culinary Center in California.     
                          
                         
    More than just a cake designer        
   

Aside from cake designing, baking, and decorating, Heny has immersed herself in a number of other activities and organizations, which she plays a vital role in. She is a Director of Petal Craft International, which conducts training in the design of sugar flowers for export and local markets. She is also a Director of Cake Art International, a retailer and wholesaler of confectionery, baking and cake decorating supplies.

In addition to her involvement in related business ventures, Heny is a member of the International Cake Exploration Society and the Bread Bakers Guild of America.

The Instituto Cervantes is a public institution created by Spain in 1991 for the promotion and the teaching of the Spanish language and for the dissemination of the Spanish and Latin American culture. It is located in Madrid and in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes. There are centers of Instituto Cervantes in four continents.

Objectives and functions:


ñ To organize general and special courses on the Spanish language.

ñ To credit by means of certificates and diplomas the knowledge acquired by the students and to organize the exams of the Official Spanish Diplomas as a Foreign

Language (D.E.L.E.).

ñ To upgrade the teaching methods and the faculty's development.

ñ To support the work of the Hispanists.

ñ To participate in programs of dissemination of the Spanish language.

ñ To carry out activities of cultural activities, in cooperation with other Spanish and Latin American organisms, as well as organizations in the host countries.

ñ To make available libraries to the public equipped with the latest technology.



Organizing body:


Patronage. The Body that sets the activities of the Institute.

His Majesty, the King of Spain, is the Honorary President.

The President of the government of Spain is the Executive President.



The members of the Board have been appointed from among the most prominent figures in Spanish and Latin Americas, literary, and cultural circles from the Real Academias, universities and other social institutions.



Administrative Council. The Body that approves the general plans of the Institute. It is composed of representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affaris, Education, Culture and Sport, Economy and Finance, as well as from the Patronage.

Director. The one in-charge of the administration and representation of the Institute.

Inday's Bio-data

Name: Inocencia “Inday” Binayubay
Age: 18
Parents: Aling Seling & Mang Andoy
Siblings: Iying, Itoy, Ikling, Lando (need DNA confirmation)

Education:

* De LaSalle University (Business Management, scholar)
* Ateneo de Manila Law School
* Asian Institute of Management
* Training Center for Culinary Arts (affiliate chef)
* University of Santo Tomas (BS in Nursing)

Highschool: P. Gomez Highschool (Valedictorian, Best in English)
Elementary: Sta. Monica Elem. School (Valedictorian, Best in Dancing)

Awards:

* TOYM awardee (2006)
* Nobel Prize winner (2006)
* Pulitzer Award for Literary Arts (2007)

Work Experience - 3 years, household service manager (katulong), Mr & Mrs. Montemayor.

Hobbies:
Blogging, Nail Spa, Window Shopping at Greenbelt, listening to my iPod.

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Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao?) (born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is the prominent director of many popular animated feature films. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company.

Weave art and culture into your life through the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, a membership and volunteer organization of concerned citizens of the National Museum and its network. Together, we raise awareness and appreciation for art and culture by:

* Conducting cultural study tours and seminars for the general public
* Training teachers to use the museum as a resource
* Conducting museum appreciation programs for kids
* Forming partnerships with organization’s with similar missions

CONTACT US:
Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
G/F Museum of the Filipino People
Finance Road, Manila
1004 Philippines
Telefax No. (63-2) 404-2685
E-mail add. inquiry@museumfoundationph.org

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Tarot Card Meanings

Learn the basic meanings of Tarot cards through explanations of the Major Arcana, Minor Arcana and Court cards in Thirteen's Tarot Card Meanings.

Read descriptions of Tarot card symbols, basic Tarot meanings and Tarot card interpretations, and Thirteen's own observations for each of the 78 cards in a Rider-Waite Tarot style Tarot deck, the most common set of Tarot cards used by beginners.