Definition

For more than a handsome pair of X and Y chromosomes, there are indeed many other factors that size-up male magnetism such as a very persuasive "Peso"-nality that attracts women like a giant lodestone drawing fine metals to its folds. Image thus becomes a configuration of various non-facila and nonphysical pluses and minuses which fine-tune the cyber-picture of the Ideal Man.

Note: For the sake of the clueless, *pogi* is Filipino slang for guapo (handsome).

Transpo : The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The shortest time to reach a girl's house, in her, heart is normally by flashing a car. Owning one is an automatic 10 pogi points.

Chauffer-driven, plus 20 pogi points.

Subtract 5 if it's the rinky-dinky type that regularly breaks down when going out on dates.

Add 10 pogi points if brand new.

Add 20 more if it's a Japanese car and 50 if it's either a Benz or BMW.

A Porsche is disqualified from earning points because anyone who owns one automatically becomes a Richard Gomez clone.

No pogi points, sadly, for perennial pedestrians.

Plus 30 pogi points, though, if you ride a mountain bike to school or work (health buffs are cool).

If you happen to pedal through EDSA via pedicab, minus 50 pogi points.

Pedigree Often suggests if the guy's gene pool has a tradition of success and excellence.

If the family name smells of politics, add 10 pogi points.

If it's a Marcos or crony-sounding name, subtract 50 pogi points.

If the lineage could be traced to a Spanish friar, add another 10 pogi points (tisoy muy bien?).

If it's a taipan-sounding name, add 2 pogi points.

No pogi points for ethnic-sounding family names.

Address:

If you're from Manila, you've got to be streetsmart.

A Makati address suggests urbanidad.

Alabang and Novaliches, a suburban, less stressful existence.

Thus, a Makati address gets an automatic 5 pogi points, while an Alabang address an automatic 10 pogi points.

If in Makati, Dasma, Magallanes or Forbes plus 20,

San Lorenzo Village and San Antonio Village plus 10, Bel-Air plus 5,

10 pogi points for New Manila, Greenhills and Valle Verde.

No pogi points for those who live in Corinthian Gardens because any houses there were reportedly built on hidden wealth.

In QC, 10 pogi points for residents of White Plains, Blue Ridge, St. Ignatius, Xavierville, La Vista and Ayala Heights.

"Gillage (as in gilid ng village) people," no pogi points.

No pogi points, too, for Looban, Gagalangin, Calumpang, San Andres Bukid, Tatalon Estate and Dasma (as in Cavite) residents.

High School

Graduates of UK and US prep schools, 20 pogi points (lamang lang sila sa Inglesan).

Any other school abroad, plus 15 pogi points.

Any other younger exclusive Catholic schools like Xavier, Don Bosco, Aquinas, and Southridge, 10 pogi points.

Basta nakatapos ng high school, plus 5 pogi points.

Sports

Any racket sport (except pingpong and pelota), plus 15 pogi points.

If engaging in not-so-popular sports like rowing, fencing and archery as well as sepak takraw, arnis, eskrima and sika-ran (indigenous sports are "in" dahil eksotik), plus 20 pogi points.

For the golf enthusiast, plus 15 pogi points.

Talent and skills in tong-its, minus 50 pogi points because it's too hoi polloi.

No pogi points for basketball because three-fourths of men are PBA fanatics.

College Organization

Girlfriend

A campus celebrity or a showbiz denizen, 40 pogi points.

If the typical pretty colegiala, 30 pogi points.

Any girl, plus 10 pogi points.