I'm a Fabulous Filipina.

I've been blogging ever since I was in high school.

I've been writing down thoughts that scream at me in the middle of the night for as long as I remember.

I've been online for more than ten years now.


I had a nice "me" time for a few hours. My thoughts raced and I can't help but wonder if there's anything bigger to this whole blogging thing than venting out online.

And then I remembered I am part of Fabulous Filipinas. Fabulous Filipinas was made to give, well, Filipinas a fabulous online presence and to debunk the Filipina cybermyth:

What is the Filipina cybermyth? It's the myth that Filipinas are available online to purchase and then serve male fantasies and desires and also that Filipinas can only thrive and uplift themselves by catering to such male whims. When doing a search on “Filipina” at search engines, mostly mail-order-bride sites and porn sites come up. Another example too is exhibited right here on these pages by the advertising spaces---look at the google ads, i've been using filters to keep out the smutty sites, but at the same time I still can't filter out all the dating sites! But the mail-order-brides and other women looking for matches via correspondence compose only a small percentage of what Filipinas really do with their lives. We are loving mothers and daughters too! We are diligent and persevering and we work in every sector and field. We are leaders and we contribute to society and to our families and communities! How bad does this myth affect Filipinas? There are many stories that tell of this myth, the stories in my pinay.com page Oops is just one of them.

The reason I joined? I hate labels because it limits you to that.

I'm a Filipina. And I am not a mail-order-bride. A Filipina can be a mom, a sister, a friend, a partner, a lawyer, a chef, a doctor, a volunteer, a fitness instructor. A Filipina can be a boss, a president, a superhero, a wife, a confidante, a writer. As a Filipina you can be pretty, talented, loving, awesome, cool, passionate, role model. A Filipina can be anything but a sex object that these dating sites claim we are.

We're more than that.

Stand proud Pinay. You're fabulous.