Noemi, Editor of Blog Watch and features editor of Philippine Online Chronicles is a 55 year old mother to three kids and is married to Atty. Luis H. Dado.
She loves being a full time mother and homemaker after retiring as a Researcher/Consultant from the UP Institute for Small Scale Industries in 1987. Now that her children are all college graduates, she devotes her time to grief support, blogging, new media events and using her blogs to promote online advocacies.
Her personal blog is at aboutmyrecovery.com, which garnered numerous awards such as Best Website, Blog Category during the 9th and 10th Philippine Web Awards. Her blog also won in the Blog- Personal Category of the DigitalFilipino.com Web Awards 2007 and Globelines Broadband Family Blog Award (in honor of family-oriented blogging) 2007 Philippine Blog Award. Globe also recognized her as Digital Elder in the 2009 Philippine Blog Award.
This is such an influential idea and post! I’ll be contributing with my own blog. Thanks for making such an impact.
Ron
I hae been reading all the letters and I am an american mail that has found the love of my life in the Philippines. I liked the letter from Kris on June 30th. My Filipina sexy mom is every bit of that and more she is kind, loving, honest, and hard working. Yes american women just don’t have what the Filipina women have in their hearts. I do agree that their is alot of bad things said about the Philippines and it sure would be nice if it could be turned around because it is a very beautiful country with very beautiful people.
Thank You,
Ron
http://www.akojo.com Ako Jo
In all fairness, there are two sides to every story. I am one of those people who have a website, developed for the single purpose of assisting young, sexy, Filipinas and some not so sexy, in their quest to find a foreign partner, who will deliver them from the appalling poverty in which they live; a third world country they call home, the Philippines.
Many of the people here live on the equivalent of $6.00 USD / day. They eat boiled rice garnished with a soup of weeds, gathered from the roadside or their gardens. They live mainly in Nippa huts, getting eaten alive by mosquitos each and every night. Most of them are so thin they would need to run around in the shower to get wet, if they had a shower. They are very clean, bathing daily by paling litres of cold water scooped from a bucket over their bodies. They are educated, most speaking 3 different languages, they thankful for small blessings in this life and they are basically happy.
However they are trapped in a country that is still reeling from the economic hardship, caused primarily by the actions of one, thankfully now deceased man, renowned as the second greatest thief in the history of the planet, Ferdinand Marcos; oddly enough the people here still revere him, because when times were tough, he gave them milk; which I might add, he could easily afford to do, while he was stripping the coffers of the Philippines to the tune of a $100,000,000,000 USD; one thousand million dollars, no sense crying of a little spilt milk.
Anyway, daily I am approached in the streets and in the markets, by Filipina women, asking me to find them one; meaning, a foreigner like me; Only today my wife, a very sexy Filipina, to whom I am completely devoted and she to me, was handed an envelope with a photo and a phone number by a another Filipina, asking please put me on your website, help me find a foreign Joe.
We are not making money out of this, yesterday I made $3.35 from Google Adsense clicks, but spent $5.00 on Google Adwords advertising, an established trend. I have invested over a thousand hours work, for little or no recompense, unless you can count the satisfaction in assisting people to escape the bonds of poverty as reward; well I guess you could… It is true that many of the Filipina are very exotic and beautiful and sexy looking too, and I don’t blame them one little bit, for using any God given character trait or physical advantage they possess, in their efforts to escape the demeaning poverty in which they now live.
My final thoughts are these, directed at those who would trample under foot, the inalienable right of Filipinas to be sexy. People in glasshouses should not throw stones. Before you judge them you should get down from your high towers and walk a mile in their shoes.
Ingat lang…
yakuzashow
please I am the search of jocelyn guzman who to please find to enter in contact with polices rewards it and of ten a thousand dollars one for reason that this person sequestration a child who is my son please helps me to find this pesoa that sequestration my son who to find to enter in contact with yakuzashow@hotmail.com
http://www.maitum.org Maitum advocate
I am an advocate of the Maitum website. This is a town in Sarangani province. The website is at http://www.maitum.org.
Matjess
What a very interesting blog!
I can’t help but suspect that all these women who are trying to “reclaim” sexy Filipina are very wealthy women, or at least middle class, to be able to afford firstly the home pc, and secondly the time and knowledge to put these blogs together.
I’m sorry, but I took offence from the comment about old men and young women… who or what gave you the rights to judge what true love is, and what is the acceptable age for these lovers?
Yes, I’m a white foreigner, age 52, and married to the sweetest, most loving and kind woman I have ever met since my mother; she’s a 26 year old Filipina whom I met in one of these hated websites!
I live in her home town and share my life with her, and her family. I don’t think that I am anything special, I just went looking for love, and indeed I found it. I have established a business in a town which has less than half the population of 10 years ago, with more people leaving for Manila and Cebu every day, such is the desperation and hopelessness rampant in this place.
I opened a small beach resort which attracts lots of money from foreign tourists, and have given jobs (and hope) to almost 30 local people. The resort is not an “exclusive” place, in other words I do not exclude locals, in fact I encourage them to join the karaoke parties and mix with the guests. We have two price lists, one for the foreigners, and another “secret” set of prices for the locals (cost price… non profit). We really are like one big happy family.
Now I won’t bore you with all the great things which have been happening in this town lately, because all you rich “holier-than-thou” bloggers already know that money generates more money. And do I need to tell you about repairs to the church (I’m a God-fearing Catholic), and a reclaimed sense of community spirit?
So you just call me a dirty old man huh? Name yourself and I’ll drag you through the courts charged with Defamation of Character. I have a very good Filipino lawyer.
Oh, by the way, I am fluent in the local dialect, and now learning Tagalog.
Yes I know there is always the evil element, and a large number of foreigners come to the Philippines just to use the women (and children) for sex. But if you open your eyes and mind, you will see that the vast majority of humans in this world are good people, unfortunately the bad ones get all the publicity.
Step outside your comfortable and protected world, and you will see the poverty and desperation that drives “sexy Filipinas” to seek mature foreign men, then look a little closer at these rich western cultures, and you might begin to understand why western men are turning away from the greedy and selfish “me me me” women from their own countries.
The Truth
Every country as it has been said has hookers of all races. Filipina’s have just learn to use what was given to them. It is not just malaysia. Go on any dating web site and find Filipina’s and you will find woman selling their Pus.. and Brea… I have been to a lot and HAVE LOTS of video provening it. Pics, captured images, etc. of woman showing what they got for money. Done it on AsianFriendFinder, FilippioFriendFinder, etc. and the WORST is FilipinaHeart. OH MY GOD. I have over a hundred woman that I can pic from to do cyber sex. Is that wrong, no… they need money who the hell cares if they want to sell what they have. I LOVE IT!!!!! All guys should love it. all it takes is just talking to them.
bOobOo
waaaaaaaaa…
di ko poe eto maintindihan but guess im going to like it
pwede nyo po ba ako tulungan na maintindihan para saan to?
pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee???
thanks,,GODBLESS!!!
Your’s hoping,
http://www.lenmolden.com Len
There are a lot of Filipinas working in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. I think some of them are quite well-organized and working on issues of importance.
Dave
Good man.
Matjess
So it seems my comments were justified, that all these women objecting so vehemently to foreigners and dating websites are all living in a fantasy world with too much money and far too much time on their hands.
As soon as some “white” (I hate using colour distinction, we are all children of God) foreigners started objecting to the negative comments, the responses from the rich ladies stopped.
Can’t you see that any generalisations made about foreigners are just as bad as the generalisations about “sexy Filipinas”? Whether you like it or not, God never told us that there is some law about age difference. The truth is, there is a lot of love going on out there. As time passes, my love for my wife just grows and grows, and the intensity of our passion is something words can’t describe.
The things Ako Jo said were quite true, and I quite often have women approach me to find a nice man for them. This is not easy, because I would never forgive myself if I sent a man who is not-so-good to a warm and loving Filipina.
Between the American government, Marcos the milkman, and all the other greedy and corrupt leaders, the rug has literally been pulled out from under the Filipino people, and dropped them in the dirt. The Philippines had all the resources, everything she needed to be the wealthiest nation in Asia, but it was all stolen, so don’t blame anyone for using whatever God-given assets they have to get out of the dirt.
If an intelligent, beautiful, loving, hopeful, and yes, sexy young woman can offer love and companionship to a lonely (old) man, why not? Life is give and take, each of us needs something, and each of us has something to offer.
In my observations, Filipino boys are careless and self-centred until they are 30+. I constantly hear horror stories about boys that promised the world, “dedicated” their life to a woman, spent 3 or 6 months convincing her to sleep with him, and when the woman finally gives herself to him in a moment of passion, he has his conquest and runs away and tells everyone she is a slut. Just have a look how many women looking for foreigners are single mothers. No Filipino man wants her now.
Compare this to a foreign man, who not only accepts her child(ren), but really loves them as his own, and thanks God for sending such a loving and caring wife into his life. Is any of this making sense to you bloggers out there in cyberspace?
Come down from your ivory towers, get out into the provinces for a holiday and open your eyes a little… “Walk a mile in their shoes”. Great words Ako Jo.
For the sexual criminals… DEATH PENALTY or LIFE SENTENCE.
For those matured men seeking love and marriage… SUPPORT and ENCOURAGEMENT.
For those young women looking for a foreigner… BE CAREFUL OK? Take notice of what’s the behaviour of the man, if he is rude or demanding, if he asks to see your body, if anything does not feel right…. BLOCK HIM AND START AGAIN. Choose a man who shares your religion, and is not ashamed to talk about God. That’s my opinion, and I believe it… shared religion is the perfect basis for a good marriage.
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