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Chasing Brangelina

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - December 16, 2006 - 12:00am

My reaction to celebrities I get to meet depends on several factors: how great they are, how popular they are and how friendly they are. When I met Oprah Winfrey, I was tongue-tied. It was in Paris during...

Bust breast cancer by thinking pink

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - October 7, 2006 - 12:00am

My friend Bettina Osmeña has always involved herself in causes she believes in. During martial law, she was active in the anti-dictatorship movement. She got involved in other worthy causes through the years...

Recovering the sexy years

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - September 30, 2006 - 12:00am

Remember Suzanne Sommers? She was America TV’s sweetheart from the late ‘70s till the early ‘80s, when Sarah Jessica Parker was just a wisp of a child and Sex and the City would have been considered...

Decoding ‘The Da Vinci Code’

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - May 27, 2006 - 12:00am

During opening day of the movie The Da Vinci Code, I was at the mega mall of Bangkok, Siam Paragon, and in spite of its 13 theaters, I had to buy a ticket for the next day as all the good seats were taken. It gave...

His biggest dream come true

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - March 25, 2006 - 12:00am

The groom’s speech was long, but it set the tone of the evening. He made every guest in that room walk down memory lane, reminisce about their courtship and the love they shared on their wedding day. It made...

Naughty and Nise

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - December 24, 2005 - 12:00am

As I was going through the beautifully wrapped Christmas packages under my little tree, I noticed a white plastic bag that stood out. My housekeeper did not know who it came from since it did not have a note or...

Depression: Don’t take it lightly

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - September 10, 2005 - 12:00am

There are so many reasons to get depressed. You don’t have to go far. Just open the pages of our major dailies and depression will set in sooner or later. Our economy has hit rock bottom, the poor are getting...

Can best friends become lovers?

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - August 6, 2005 - 12:00am

Most of us have friends of the opposite sex, exceptionally close friends. Friends that we can confide in, commiserate with, double-date with and get drunk with during good times and bad. Heartache, heartbreak, loneliness,...

Wanted: Professor Higgins

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - June 4, 2005 - 12:00am

A few years ago, my business partners and I put up a call center. After setting up the technical aspect of the business, we had to interview people whom we could train to be our operators. The most important requirement...

Diets: Which one is right for you?

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - September 4, 2004 - 12:00am

Weight problem is the bane of every person’s existence. There was a time when my friends and I could consume tall ice cream sundaes and not pack in an ounce of weight. Sad to say, at a certain age, the mere...

How to write an invite

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - June 21, 2003 - 12:00am

I am a native of Sorsogon and as luck would have it, I met my rich American husband in a resort in Cebu. We have been married five years now but I have not developed the sophistication that the wife of an entrepreneur...

Rx: Good old-fashioned home remedies

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - June 14, 2003 - 12:00am

I see my household help putting toothpaste on her pimple and true enough, in a day or two, her pimple disappears. One time, she had a cold and refused the Neozep I gave her. Instead, she asked permission to cook...

Something to whine about

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - June 7, 2003 - 12:00am

I went to a party last weekend. I would like to know if our host did the right thing. I saw him go to his bar and pick out some vintage bottles of wine. I thought it was for all of us to enjoy. I saw the waiter serve...

E-vites etiquette

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - May 31, 2003 - 12:00am

I noticed that e-mail is not as popular in this country as in the US. I very recently hosted a dinner party and sent out e-vites. Less than half of my invitees responded. I was so discouraged that I told a friend...

My friend didn’t tell me about my husband’s affair

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - May 24, 2003 - 12:00am

My marriage is not really a happy one. One day, I had lunch with a friend of long standing and I told her my marital problems and said I was considering a separation. To my dismay, she told me that it was a good...

Eight-minute exercise a day keeps the fat away

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - May 17, 2003 - 12:00am

Being an executive makes me sedentary. Meetings all day long, long lunches and reading long reports make me sit down all day long. It is not helping my battle with the bulge. In the morning when I wake up, I hardly...

Help! My husband’s torn between two homes

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - May 10, 2003 - 12:00am

When I met my husband, I was already a widow for a couple of years while his wife had just died. We were casually dating for a couple of years before we decided to take each other seriously and eventually decided...

I Never Want To Fall In Love

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - May 3, 2003 - 12:00am

I think I will never understand my parents. They do ridiculous and hurtful things for no reason. This makes me wonder how they were able to stay married to each other all these years. I have never seen them show...

Getting financial aid to study in the US

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - April 5, 2003 - 12:00am

My husband and I are in the food business and are earning a good income. We have three children and our priority is to send them to good schools in the US for college so that they could get good jobs there. They...

Proper church behavior

by SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona - March 29, 2003 - 12:00am

What is happening to the behavior of our church goers? I was at the AIM chapel attending Mass and I noticed a guy texting on his way to Communion. He is about to receive the Body and Blood of our Lord and instead...

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