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Overseas overjoyed

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - December 9, 2003 - 12:00am

There is actually a positive spin for the Marco Polo in every Filipino. Trust the Pinoy’s lust for lakwatsa, even the trip to the neighborhood suking tindahan to buy a cup of suka detours to a shopping mall...

Overseas overjoyed

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - December 8, 2003 - 12:00am

In Chic

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - November 10, 2003 - 12:00am

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)...

Dreaming of an early Christmas

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - October 20, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

VAMPIIRES IN MANILA

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - September 29, 2003 - 12:00am

The modern day metropolitan vampire is alive and well despite the Commander in Chief’s decree for a nightlife-style check. And although fangs and coffins are left rotting under yesterday’s tombstone, it’s...

Highered selves

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - September 15, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

Bottoms up

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - August 25, 2003 - 12:00am

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,...

Smoked out

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - July 27, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

Taipunks

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - July 21, 2003 - 12:00am

Given the right breaks – not the kind that needs hospitalization for more than a week – every entrepinoy dreams of someday becoming a taipan. After all, no one can escape the omnipresence of the taipans...

Fitness as everybody’s business

by E-MALE By Argee Guevarra - June 30, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

Chutz-spa

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - June 2, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

Pontius Pirates

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - May 26, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

E-Mature

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - May 12, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

Affair share of the action

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - May 5, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

Straight from the textbook

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - April 28, 2003 - 12:00am

So it’s been declared, the country is being mobilized. And though it isn’t in a paramilitary sense of course or a socio-civic quarantine against coronavirus, it still has everything to do with armies marching...

Cashing in on two cents worth

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - April 21, 2003 - 12:00am

You can take your two cents and maybe buy something useful for your thoughts," Abraham Giddard once said to a business rival. Although ol’ Giddard’s days of banking during the late 19th century are...

The one-man army

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - March 31, 2003 - 12:00am

When a young Prince Charming unwittingly falls into the claws of the matrimonial illusion, he is no longer expected to fulfill the responsibilities of a husband. No sir, the young Charming (who will soon be less...

All we want for Christmas

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - December 15, 2002 - 12:00am

And so, lambing weather is upon us again, and males from all across the world are grabbing the opportunity to sit another inch closer to their significant others Ã¢â‚¬â€...

The heart of Halloween

by E-MALE by Argee Guevarra - November 9, 2002 - 12:00am

Halloween has always been a source of excitement for E-Male. Contrary to gossip, this excitement doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t stem from the presence of maltreated pumpkins or the chance...

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