CHIC

THE LOVE EDITION

LOVE

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DESIRED gifts pg12

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Cindy Gous

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Model wears lingerie by Truworths and jewelry by American Swiss.

We’ve done it... we’ve survived the launch of the first issue. We’ve conquered the kinks and smoothed out the edges. The little mishaps have been mostly overlooked and we now know that even the perfected copy editor’s eye can miss an error here and there after reading the same copy half a dozen times. But after being so well received by all our readers we’ve learnt that passions are shared and quality work is truly appreciated.

This issue is all about the celebration of love which tickles the curiosity of even the most stubborn of romantics.

Decorated in flirty pinks and passionate reds, we’ve selected gift ideas to make your shopping selections easier for that special someone and added items to spoil yourself on those days when we all need to be reminded that we are worth it.

But, love is also about giving back, that’s why we’ve added competitions for you on page 32 and special food promotions in our Kitchen Space section. Our events list is also fully packed and filling up by the day, so keep your ear open and your eyes glued to weekly updates in the media.

And finally, there’s so much more to read about, so indulge; and then once your done I’d love to hear from you, so please email me at chic@mac.com.na and let me know if you’ve enjoyed reading this issue as much as I have enjoyed working on it.

Cindy

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content fashion & accessories Women’s Fashion 02 Sexy Lacy Numbers 08 Our favourites 28

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events calender list 16

Love people 12 Princess vs Gentleman 20 A modern easter 30

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Book review 22 Music review 23

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At the end of the year you breathe a sigh of relief as you leave the office for the last time.

The people, the politics and the work… all out the window!

Now it’s time to spend all your quality time with the people you want around you. The people you like! No imposters… okay maybe one or two you didn’t know about until then!

All too soon though, the holiday is over and it’s back to work.

There’s only one difference.

Now you’ve had a couple of weeks to work through the last year (mostly over a couple of glasses of il vino) and you’re ready for anything and everything they can throw at you!

Before you know it though, you’re back on the dark side and you realize that everything that nearly made you go postal at the office the previous year, hasn’t really changed.

Not everyone had the same New Year’s resolution as you!

That’s when you step back just before going back into postal mode again…

You decide that this time nothing will get you down and after a few weeks (and some more glasses of il vino that turned you into a resurrected Descartes) you get an epiphany and start to think that maybe it really isn’t

that bad.

Maybe there’s a reason why some people just can’t lighten up and why some people, like you, can.

You start to look at all the people in a different way.

Kinda like Dian Fossey, you find something interesting in these modern day guerillas and start to observe their intricate behaviour.

Before you know it though, you’re back on the dark side and you realize that everything that nearly made you go postal at the office the previous year, hasn’t really changed.

Suddenly, you find your fellow colleagues amusing and entertaining. Even the previous undiplomatic office politics start to look more like Scrubs than ER. You start to make sense of where everyone fits into the greater scheme of work and life and with that, there comes a new appreciation of their different hierarchical structures and ways of communication previously thought of as primitive and downright negative.

You start to smile more. You’re mood lifts when you wake

up every morning and for the first time in your professional career you can’t wait to take the trek up to “your part of the jungle”.

After weeks of study, you walk through the double glazed front door, preempting how people are going to react. You greet them with enthusiasm, ready for another day of fieldwork on the specie Modernis colleaguanus as we know it.

You sit down behind your desk and it hits you probably like it hit Dr. Fossey.

Even we humans are all just rival predators, trapped in a cage and the only thing we really want is to run around peacefully with other wild creatures of our kind.

You smile to yourself quietly.

You have found the answer.

The answer?

Easy. Make light of all the dull moments and the crazy moments. Don’t get carried away in them. Every time you meet someone new or run into someone holding a cup of coffee, enjoy the new found interaction.

Accept every single person for who they are and how they make you feel.

Learn to love every single person.

Then… well, it’s up to you whether you take the same philosophy to your personal life, but hey, there’s definitely some potential in there. us

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chivalry

isn’t dead

Chivalry isn’t dead, but we have it in a chokehold.

As its face turns blue, step back and look at what we’re doing.

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A nail in the coffin of chivalry

made me think twice about

is that some good deeds don’t

opening a door, or actually

go unpunished. Women have

doing any unasked favour for

this superpower, I call it the

any woman again.

“death stare”, and there is truly

no defence against it! You

For years I’ve heard so many

never expect it, you don’t ask

woman complain about men

for it, but once in a while you

not being men anymore, but

get the “stare”.

for once I could tell them why.

Opening a door for a woman

Since the 1950’s woman’s

at work one day, I suddenly

rights movements, or even

felt myself unable to move,

before that, women felt the

unable to breathe. I felt cold,

need to prove themselves.

all the plants around me

There’s nothing wrong with

turned black as life left them. I

it, I mean it, “go girls”, but is

looked up and saw the source

it really that bad if a guy just

of this phenomenon.

wants to open a door for you?

This woman was giving me a

Just because men want to

“death stare”! And for what?

do their “gentlemanly duty”, it

She felt insulted at the fact

doesn’t make you inferior.

that I felt it necessary to open

With all due respect, we

a door for this “weakling”. This

know you aren’t the damsel

in distress that we make you

you: why, why, why, why?

don’t make it too obvious, it

out to be, but you are the fairer

should be subtle; otherwise

sex. Excuse this corny line,

Don’t think I’m choosing sides,

you’re just as bad as the rest,

but you are princesses and

I’m not sexist at all and I know

maybe even worse.

we want to be your knight in

I’ve been blaming women so

shiny armour.

far, but men are definitely also

I can go back and forth placing

to blame for this. Yes guys,

blame, but in the end it is all up

What I think is even worse,

us.

to you, warm your hands and

is that I realised there is a

One word, respect. Women

get ready to do some CPR.

double standard. Girls say

deserve all the respect in the

that they are looking for a guy

world. They are our equals

who will listen to them, look at

and they’ve done a lot to be

their eyes and not their chest,

where they are, actually more

open a door for them and give

than we’ve had to do. I’m

up their seat. Then they prefer

not even going to go into the

to date the guy that does the

politics of this.

exact opposite! The guy that

treats them like dirt.

I must admit that I’m not saying

It is so sad, but nice guys do

chivalry is totally lost, some

finish last. It is like they are

guys do try, and others try too

floor mats for the world. They

hard. But remember guys, if

barely stand a chance. I ask

you want to be a gentleman,

by G e rh a rd M a ri tz

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BETWEEN THE COVERS

book Review THE FAITH OF BARACK OBAMA STEPHEN MANSFIELD Stephen Mansfield’s book takes a close and thoughtful look at the man behind the man who is the new American president. Not a long book, but very well worth the read if you feel that knowing what a man believes in is an integral part of understanding where he is going.

Mansfiled starts Obama’s story on the small island of Hawaii, where young Obama already had been exposed to more religions by his family than most of us would encounter in our lives (Barack was a Catholic schoolboy with an atheist mother, Islamic father and Methodist and Baptist grandparents).

The book charters a passage through religion and politics in American and it’s easy to see how the landscape has changed through even just Obama’s life, to the point that an African-American man can have so much support.

Something to look forward to is the final chapter in which Mansfield wrote small religious biographies on Hillary Clinton, John McCain and the ever-famous G.W. Bush.

All very interesting until I stumbled across another Stephen Mansfield book written in 2007: The faith of George W. Bush.

Book available at CNA

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musicREVIEW You have to be from another planet not to have noticed Amy Macdonald.

This young, raven-haired songstress, with current hit singles Mr. Rock And Roll, This Is The Life and Poison Prince, has definitely taken the world by storm.

A native Glaswegian, Macdonald found a way to tell a certain truth with her songs, incorporating acoustic-driven, celtic-influenced vocals with beautiful uplifting melodies.

Something interesting: When Amy was still a wee tot, her granny gave her ÂŁ10 for ice cream, but instead she went straight to a record store and bought a Travis CD. CD available at Musica

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KITCHEN SPACE PROMOTION

Shake it up

Re-energize your body and mind while out looking for a gift or two this Season of Love! Enjoy a thick, sweet milkshake at Wimpy for only

N$15.95.

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Bubble, bubble,

fun and lovin’ To show your appreciation, treat a loved one to a special Champagne SA Farm Breakfast from Mugg & Bean with coffee, orange juice, a bottle of J.C. Le Roux, 2 fried eggs, grilled tomato, boerewors, back bacon, potato crumpet and a grilled black mushroom.

To fully enjoy it though, book yourself and that special someone off for the day, don’t

plan anything and let spontaneity and the bubbles take over the rest of your day.

Mugg & Bean: “We’re open from 08h00 to 15h00 on Saturday, the 14th of February!”

Straight from the sea

Starters, a seafood platter for two, some dessert and a cold bottle of white wine! Imagine what this and some TLC can do to ignite that smouldering passion through this season of love!

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Fashion do’s and don’ts Do wear shades with 400UV protection.

Do not wear bandanas.

Do not wear your shades inside a shopping mall.

Do wear high waistline pants this season (the higher the better) Ladies!

Do wear bold colours this season.

Do not wear denim peddle pushers.

Do not wear matching colour shoes, handbags & earrings.

Do wear fitted skirts.

Do wear head scarves with chic shades or simply drape a scarf around your neck or tie around your waist as a belt.

Do not wear V-shaped skirts.

Do wear tan bangles and shoes this season.

Do not wear boots in summer.

For more information on what’s hot and what’s not in Namibia go to: Fashionation Namibia on Facebook, and keep your Chic handy for an update of the latest trends at Wernhil Park and Town Square.

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From chocolate to the religion of the Easter bunny.

I’m simply going to break it to you: The Easter bunny doesn’t exist.

I’m terribly sorry for being the one to break the news, but I had to get it out of the way.

You see, the problem isn’t that I have a strange masochistic side to me, it’s just that nobody seems to remember him these 30

days, so it’s just my natural assumption that the poor little creature bit the bullet…

Today, you ask anyone what they think Easter is all about, and their replies will range from the opportunities to sleep late, to the point that nobody understands why hot cross buns are only made for Easter

(it’s a long story).

Nobody mentioned “The Bunny” at all! I was gobsmacked. I know we’re not five anymore, but come on, don’t you miss it at all?

Remember the feeling of waking up, hitting the house like a hurricane, digging

around in the garden with absolutely no regard for your mom’s flowers… and the all powerful feeling of victory when you find more of the brown gold than your siblings or family friends.

Okay… we always had to share the spoils afterwards, but that moment when you sit down with your spoils and everyone counts your eggs and for that moment you are the legend!

All those nights you lay awake plotting where that bunny was going to hide those eggs… you beat the best at his own game!

You are the Easter King! Pure exhiliration!

Don’t you agree we’ve all lost a bit of fun in our lives?

Especially now when we have to put play on the backburner and work so hard?

It’s a pity. Imagine it keeps going on like this, worse and worse every year.

People completely forget why hot cross buns are only made for Easter and the little delights become as common as brötchens. Chocolate bunnies and eggs haunt supermarket shelves the whole year round… and never again do we see religious Easter fans who see hiding eggs as an extreme sport!

It would be an absolute horror.

I’m not talking overdramatized Hitchcock-horror, or that spaghetti teenagehorror so common in movies, but a real one. One where most grownups (never mind children) have no idea what the Easter bunny was!

That just wouldn’t be fun.

It’s the reason I broke the news about his demise.

I just can’t let any more friends of the bunny come to the same conclusion about where it’s all going. I’d rather them read it in the comfort of their own spare time when there might be some consolation nearby.

P.S. If you are heartbroken and need some endorphins to boost your spirits, join us at the Wernhil Chocolate expo later this season! us

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COMPETITIONS

LAST MONTH’S MUSICA COMPETION

win ER P M A H A

Win a CNA hamper!

When you spend N$50 or more at CNA, you can win a hamper made up of a medium sized teddy bear, some fluffy dice, the book I Promise to Wine and Dine You, bath salt and a whole bunch of chocolates!

To enter, just write your name, address and cellphone number on the back of your CNA till slip and deposit it into the Wernhil PULSE OF THE CITY entry box at CNA’s pay points.

Winners will be announced in the next CHIC issue.

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