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This about a week and a year ago I received this email from PIA.

"Hi  Yushin:
Please call today. Good news..
ATV"

I remember calling my mom and saying "Mom!! Mom!! Mom!! I got this email from PIA saying good news..."

And what was my mom's reaction? 
"OH NO! YOU GOT THE POST DIDN'T YOU? YOU MUST HAVE IF THEY SAID GOOD NEWS!"

stop dying please?

going without..

My apartment complex is pretty darn convenient.  I even have a trash shoot on my floor =)

Just earlier, I had just finished my shower and noticed a pungunt smell....crap the raw chicken skin from the chicken curry I made last night... eww...

Normally I wear my PJs out to toss the trash out at night.  My PJs consist of a tanktop and boxer nothing too scandalous.  But tonight was bit different.

I went outside to toss the trash without a bra on! Oh the horror!  I felt so skanky.  It probably would have been worth the effort to put on the bra to avoid the horrible feeling of being improper. Of course, no one saw me, but all the same I felt embarrassed.

It got me thinking... plenty of people go out braless and in public too! Don't those women feel naked?  There really isn't anything wrong with going braless.  Why do I never go braless? There are certain women of the more well endowed sort that really shouldn't because they will just cause themselves back problems in the future, but I, being my mother's daughter and Asian, obviously do not fall in that category.  If anything I fall in the opposite one. Yet, I've never gone without and most likely never will.

So comments. Why do you decide to wear a bra or go *ahem* free?  As for the guys.. is this even something you notice?

I'm American..Not Stupid...

Really these days with the treatment that I get as an American, you would think that all Americans are douchey-idiots.  Granted that I'm sure there is a grain of truth to that somewhere, just like there is a grain of truth to the belief that the French are pompous.

About a month and a half ago, I was covering an event organized by the EU commitee here in Manila.  It was fun though somewhat nerve-wracking to be talking to all these ambassadors.  Most of them, I met because I actively sought them out for interviews. The Dutch ambassador though was a different story. We literally bumped into each other.  After brief apologizes. we made small talk. 

Dutch Am: You don't sound like you're Filipino.

Me: Oh, that's because I'm not.  I'm an American.

Dutch Am: Oh! I'm sorry to hear that dear.

Seriously! I thought these amabassador types were supposed to be PC?  The guy was otherwise funny and an engaging guy to talk to but really!

Then later when he introduced me to the French Ambassador (who by the way wasn't pompous at all and a very nice man)

Dutch Am: This lovely young lady here is in the Philippines on a fellowship with ABS-CBN.  She unfortunately is an American.

I don't know what the guy had against Americans.  If it had been an ambassador from another country I think I would have been a little less surprised, but he was DUTCH.  The Dutch are remarkably accepting people.  I spent over a week in the Netherlands and unlike everywhere else I went that semester I never felt like people were looking at me funny.

Then today I was arranging an interview with this guy for a story about a career fair.  I needed to get a bit of his career background to see if he was a suitable pick.

Me: So if you don't mind, can you tell me a bit about your career so far?

Him: I worked at KFC as CIO. You know what KFC is right?  Kentucky Fried Chicken? The fast food place?

Me: Um.... yes.. I am familiar with it.

THE FILIPINO MAN asked ME, AN AMERICAN, if I knew an AMERICAN FAST FOOD CHAIN. 

Though in this case I am happy to report that it just says more about him than it does about the opinion of Americans internationally.  He knew I was an American and still asked me that.  It kinda just made him look like an idiot.

Anyways, let's hope public opinion of Americans gets better in the next four years.