Different Faces of a Filipina

Today, I can describe a modern day Filipina in many ways. Here are some of them.

1.) A Filipina corporate type is a typical Filipina who works either in a business process outsourcing company in the likes of Makati, Ortigas or Libis or any major cities in the Philippines. The Filipina corporate type loves to dine-out with colleagues and friends during paydays. Sometimes, she smokes during breaktime. If she works in Makati CBD, she would have sometimes buy food at Jolly Jeep and eat at the office or dine at any fastfood or posh restaurants nearby. If she works in Ortigas she would have walked towards the nearest mall foodcourts to eat. Sometimes, if there are rush reports, she does overtime to finish it. If there are specially packaged and priced corporate offers like Globe, Smart or Sun Cellular network handphones, she would purchase it as for her secondary phone kit. It could be that three (3) out of five (5) of these Filipina corporate types have either a:

1. Friendster account;

2. Have at least two (2) e-mail accounts, for sure one is the company e-mail and the other is either Google or Yahoo mails;

3. Either has a blog on
- Blogspot or,
- Wordpress or just read blogs.;

4. Constantly forwards forwarded e-mail messages from his web-based e-mail: and

5. Leaves status messages on messengers like Skype, Yahoo Messenger or ICQ about her present moods and feelings.

In general, most of these types are the "achievers".

2. The second type of Filipina is the typical OFW profile. She can either be a single, married, single-parent, or married with kids who is a hardworking one. One thing for sure is that, many people depend on her like family members, relatives or even friends here in the Philippines. We can describe her as the new hero of the Philippine economy and advocates the industrious and trustworthy attitude and values of a true modern Filipina abroad. She may have sometimes a frequent client of the bank or any remittance company. During she sends money to the Philippines for the tuition of his children or for any other reasons. She is also the pride and joy of her family, relatives and friends here in the Philippines.

These Filipinas can also be described as "career and family-oriented ones."

3. The romantic hopeful Filipina is the Filipina who is either still single, or separated and not contented with their married lives who constantly logs on to web-cam enabled messengers, chatrooms and social networking websites, who is eager to find someone who can make and change significantly towards their lives. She seeks contentment and finds happiness in his chatmate turned fiancee.

They can be sometimes mistakenly identified as the "desperate ones."

4. The simple type Filipina is the one who does not seek more than what she sees from others. She is contented with what she has. Sometimes, at the early age, they marry and have children. The simple Filipina is contented with a normal pace of life seeing her kids grow. She is the Filipina who crafted and is skilled in home management and maybe the art of cooking.

They are also misunderstood as "the no ambition" ones.

5. The lucky ones are those Filipinas who have everything when they were born. These are the likes of the successful showbiz celebrities and business tycoons. Some Filipina celebrities can be seen socializing almost nightly in bars, product launchings, gigs, events, concerts and etc.. Some of them drive the latest sports cars around Taguig, Makati and other known hang out of rich ones. They can be sub-categorized as the happy-go-lucky ones. On the other side, there are Filipina lucky ones who manage their family businesses. These lucky types are sub-categorized as the lucky-yet-serious subtypes of the lucky ones. The skill they learned from school and their parents will set the direction of their businesses and the fate of their faithful employees.

They are sometimes envied in Filipino as "buti pa sila" ones.

This is in response to Janet Toral's "The Filipina Blog Contest."