All You Need To Be Impossibly French

Saw this on Amazon while looking for Paris travel books. I was intrigued, katuwaan lang. Anyway,my ten point summary of the book would be:

1. Be effortlessly stylish (magdadamit ka na lang din, ayusin mo na)
2. Move as much as you can, whenever you can (no need for formal exercise)
3. Wear good, matching lingerie (oh diba?)
4. Embrace aging (di na daw kailangan ng surgery/botox)
5. Do put your best face forward (be willing to try some make up and anti-aging creams)
6. Be careful of girlfriends (parang paranoid sila)
7. Eat well (para daw to also stay slim)
8. Feed your brain, be smart (have a valid role model, read)
9. Don't be accessible. ("Elegance is refusal" - Coco Chanel)
10. Be an all around woman, but delegate if you must (career, family)

Be like the French or not?

My Monthly Ordeal

In my book, one of the worst pains ever (if not the absolute worst) is dysmenorrhea. I've cut class, work & fainted because of this. Living & functioning normally comes to a halt anywhere from a week before 'the' day until it goes away on vacation to get ready to pounce on me come the next month. Name any symptom (dizziness, craving for food, nausea, bloating, crazy mood swings, headaches, chills, bruising etc...) and I've experienced it in three to five different combinations. Pain killers can only go so far as curbing the cramps but hardly do anything for my back pains. Oh God, I can't even begin to describe how my lower back feels. It's like my tail bone's being squished! Sometimes I just want to scream the piercing pain away!!! ;) These are the times when I'd trade anything to be a guy (who'll NEVER get what it feels like) for that week (only a week!). I've gone to the doctors and turns out I'm quite special. I'm just built to be this way. No need to elaborate so much on the details, I'd really rather be un-special in this case. Hehe! =) In the mean time, sleeping is the next best thing to Ibuprofen.