Current Addictions

  

Bucket bags. I don't know why these are only becoming so hot right now. They are the most practical and adorable bags ever! I've had mine for years and it always goes with anything I wear.

  

Any kind of yogurt. I eat yogurt 5 times a day. Seriously.

Okeji Tempura chips. I have this every morning. Sometimes I dip it in my yogurt to make myself feel better. 

 

Plants VS Zombies. This tops my list right now. I haven't had enough sleep because of this game. Braaains. 

Formal Jeepney Ride

I had a great Tagaytay experience just this weekend. Went there with husband and a friend for a wedding. Brief background. My company car recently got sold (all our cars are actually for sale so I can lose mine at any time). For the meantime, while I am waiting for the new car that'll be issued to me, they let me borrow an old over-used model. Now, I normally wouldn't bring this so far out of town but our other car was making some weird noises so we decided to bring this instead for safety reasons. I was thinking... I guess it'll be ok. I mean this is an old car but it is still a luxury car. Nothing bad will happen to us. Boy was I wrong. 

Mr. Jones

At Mr. Jones right now stuffing my face with these..

Jones' Huevos Rancheros



Melted "Old Bay" Crab and Dory Thermidor



Their bathroom wall is so pretty!

i

Oh God more scenes!!!

Travel Bucket List

I'm a little annoyed I didn't win the last lotto. I mean I used "The Secret" technique and it still didn't work. Can you believe someone won P201M? and with no other winner to share it with? My God. Imagine what you can do with all that money. Besides imagining how I would react in case I won (best actress delivery and all, including some fainting), I had already imagined how I would spend all that money. Since I love to travel I had already thought of my travel bucket list. Where I'd want to go, in case I was suddenly filthy rich. (and yes i, you can come too. I'm rich, I can afford to treat you to ONE of these places. Just one though. Haha)

1. Paris, France

 

They're back!

Thank you Star Cinema!!! I can't stop giggling! I'm already kinikilig! I am so watching this! I can't believe it's been three years since their last movie.

February 24, 2010 is MINE! R, you cannot back out! You promised!

Where are they now?

The 3 Ninjas. Michael Treanor, Chad Power, and Max Elliott Slade

Sango!

N and I are ADDICTED to Sango! burgers. The first time we tried it we new that we'd be having burgers at least once a week. Crap, the Master Burger was so good! Like a sloppy joe-turning-japaneseah-really-think-so! We didn't order fries because it was late and we had just come from the gym. It was painful just looking at the photo on the menu though.

Family time

Last December, my family celebrated yet another wedding anniversary out of town. For those of you who don't know me (which is most of you. haha), every couple in my family has a December anniversary. It's convienient for us and none of us ever forgets each others anniversaries! haha! Best of all, since we all celebrate at the same time, our parents are the ones who pay for our trips! Yey to that!

I want...

 

R, I don't care what you say! I like these ugly things!

I'm going to Palawan with N in a few weeks, and I really hate Marc Jacobs right now... Why does he have to be so brilliant and expensive? Egad. I'm too broke to look good.

I'm thinking of sewing these myself If I'm not too lazy...

How to throw a semi-surprise party

N turns 30. Out of town. On an island.

1) Tell him you're in charge of food because, let's face it, you can't hide everything from him given the situation.

2) Proceed by creating a theme because themes are cool. For this party, R and I chose a NEON/BRIGHT everything color scheme... with a hint of Spongebob because those Spongebob party hats on eBay were simply irresistible.

The brightly colored, um, class AA "Ray-Ban" wayfarers were a hit! Piracy is bad, folks. So don't copy our idea. Think of your own damn giveaway.

LANDMARK is the place to be. It really is. More party goodies shipped to R's place in an attempt to be inconspicuous.

Whoa Davao!

Just came back from another fabulous trip with i and the whoa! gang. We always seem to get lucky with our trips. We have ridiculously low budgets yet we always seem to find the best places. This time we went to Davao. A friend of ours, DJ BI (He's really good by the way. You guys might want to hire him for your events. Haha!) was hired to spin at Metro Lounge in Davao for a party called Traffic Light (It was a real trip this event, but that's another blog altogether). Anyway, being the groupies that we were, we decided to tag along. The first night we were lucky because we got to stay in Microtel for free, thanks to the organizers who got them as their sponsors!

Testing

I downloaded blogpress lite. Hmmm. Pretty interesting app.
I just got back from Davao. Note to R and myself: blog about Davao, DJBI, N's surprise and Leticia by the Sea!

Off to Rockwell for N's birthday dinner.

i


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Accents are sexy

Why is it that when we hear foreigners with accents speak in English we generally find it sexy? We get all giddy and "kilig" hearing them talk. Like when a French guy friend talks to me, I find that everything he says is suddenly oh so sexy. Like he's out to seduce me, even if he's just asking me to pass the water. But when Filipinos talk with an accent, we laugh. We call them barok and we laugh at their "p" and "f" syndrome. I don't know the answer but I do know that I too am guilty of this. In my defense however, I don't have anything against people who can't speak English. We are Filipinos anyway, so Filipino should be our primary language. What gets me into a hysterical laughing fit is when people try too hard to speak in English, then fail miserably. Just like these next 3 videos... 

VJ Greg



 Grand Stoned Auto



Las Vegas Models

Rest in peace, Alexander McQueen

I was not a huge fan of your armadillo heels, but everything else was great. You were great. Rest in peace.

Alexander McQueen, Designer, Is Dead
By ERIC WILSON
Published: February 11, 2010

Alexander McQueen, the British fashion designer known for some of the most controversial collections of the last two decades, was found dead Thursday morning at his apartment in London, said Ed Filipowski, a partner in the public relations firm KCD.

The cause was apparently suicide, though Mr. Filipowski said Mr. McQueen’s family had not yet made a statement.

If I had all the money in the world: Valentines edition

I think a lot would agree with me when I say that Valentines gifts shouldn't be as grand or well thought of as, say, birthday or Christmas gifts. It's all about giving your partner sweet little [useless] knick-knacks. Since N always celebrates his birthday rather than V-Day on the 14th, he never really gets cute junk. So here are the top 10 impractical things I would get N for Valentine's If I had all the money in the world:

The Best-Case Scenario

Creative + Creative + Matching tops = The Best-Case Scenario

Love is in the air!

My friend, Vergs, and I were chatting last week, just catching up, and then I remembered that she was getting married. After that, I ALSO remembered that she runs the events company, The Best-Case Scenario, with her fiance, Peewee.

My Thank You is way overdue

Last year we got to work (work meaning my boss was really the one who met up with them in the field and I just assisted and stayed in my cubicle) with Everywhere We Shoot. Everywhere We Shoot was created by my friend Camille's brother Ryan Vergara and his leading lady Garovs Garovillo, and can I just say that they are the most accommodating people on planet Earth? This is why:

What.

Claudine Barretto and Richard Gutierrez are teaming up? I just wanna say...

Beaches in the Summer

My husband and I recently went to Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. It was a semi planned trip because we have been wanting to have like a second honeymoon to jumpstart our "making a baby" season. (haha!) But we initially intended to go somewhere locally. However, when we were booking our flights at Cebu Pacific Airlines, curious little me decided to check on the rates of a round trip fare to Kota Kinabalu (their promotional marketing gimmicks are obviously working on me). Next thing we knew we were booking our flight and hotel!

 

Gosh what was that book???

I was tasked to design a book cover two years ago, and I found some really cool covers while I was looking for inspiration.

By Rodrigo Corral:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Influence. Whatevs. I know you're as amused as I am.

The Cigarette Century. This... makes me want to smoke some more.

The next cover is my ULTIMATE FAVORITE. Not so much because of the imagery but because the design is simple, direct and yet ingenious! My office mate showed it to me before, but I lost the link and I wanted to beg him to find it. Good thing he found the link before I started begging! Salamat! Drum roll, please!

120s

N’s cousin, Mikko, gifted with me 4 rolls of 120s, and I’ve been meaning to refrigerate them. I only go to bring the rolls home the other day since I kept on forgetting to take them out of N’s car. 

If you haven't bought it yet, buy it now!

Available at National Bookstore, Powerbooks, and the Filipinas Heritage Library

Prices range from PHP 1,500-PHP 1,800 for the softbound copy and around PHP 4,000-PHP 4,500 for hardbound.

It's sooo worth it! I'm not one to spend on books, but I think every Filipina should invest in a copy. I'm lucky that my dad and I share the same interests, and that we happened to visit National Bookstore during one of the very few Saturdays we share together. He paid for the book. Haha! He was even more excited than me.

Paging Forever 21!

Ok so I'm a little peeved at the people who brought in Forever 21 here in the Philippines. When I went to San Francisco a few years ago I went absolutely gaga over the 3 floors worth of Forever 21 merchandise (the clothes were even segregated by color per floor! how organized!). I came out of there with no more shopping budget for the rest of my stay there and that was just my second day! It's a complete disappointment to find that the stuff they bring in here is NOTHING like that in the US. I'm not sure who gets to decide which items to bring in here but someone has to wake up and make better fashion choices! I mean take a look at some of the pretty little pieces I found on their website (I have a thing for the romantic nowadays so forgive me if everything seems to be a little victorian)...

Art Deck

I was thinking of joining the Art Deck Painting Competition, but somehow I got so busy to practice. I think it's too late for me to join because I still have a lot of work to finish. I was thinking of painting this on the board...

The gay test

How to tell your husband/better half is gay:

1. He’s a Gleek (if he seems to love Glee more than you and tells you his favorite episode is the one where they all dance to Beyonce’s “single ladies”)

Missing Bellarocca

Last year I got the chance to visit Bellarocca Island Resort in Marinduque. I received an e-mail containing photos of the resort, and it was hard to believe that the place actually existed in the Philippines. I just knew I had to go there. I forwarded the e-mail to R, and a few weeks later she told me that she was able to get a HUGE discount because of her impeccable negotiating skills. SKILLZ, I tell you. A couple more weeks after and we, along with 16 other friends, were off the see the “beautiful rock.”

Approaching Bellarocca or "beautiful rock"

We're not bipolar

Before people start thinking I am bipolar and wonder why in some entries I keep saying "we" instead of "I", let me proclaim that we are indeed a "we". There are 2 of us writing this blog. And no it's not my alter ego, it's an actual person. Now for the sake of anonimity (and also because we are supposedly very busy with our important jobs), we shall sign our entries as "R" and "I" as you've already probably noticed.

So if entries start to not make any sense, don't blame it on us.

On the rocks please!

I so need to have this in my house. Imagine having a fancy dinner at your home then a guy friend (or a girl why not) asks for scotch on the rocks. How literal can one get! I love it! The things you can buy online... how fun.

http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=18392

MR. FOIE

Photo taken from: clickthecity.com

My friends and I have been looking forward to trying the Luxury Buffet at Paseo Uno and paying homage to the star of the weekend buffet, the eat-all-you-can foie gras. After we made our reservation, I passed the time by reading reviews of the buffet and google-ing photos of foie. I was THAT excited.

Finally, buffet day came, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop us from filling ourselves with pounds and pounds of cholesterol. Although everything pretty much turned out as planned, there was just one person who almost ruined my night. Friends, I introduce to you MR. FOIE.

Joining the bandwagon

After months of following bloggers (cool ones, stupid ones, pointless ones...) we have decided to join the cyber band wagon. Yes maybe we are hypocrites but if they can do it then why can't we? Some people write the stupidest things on these blogs. We firmly believe we are not one of those people. Then again, we may be wrong... you decide. We seem to have a lot of time in our hands anyway...

Hello cyber world!!! (give us a few more weeks and we shall also call all of you "lovelies" or maybe even "sis". who knows...)