Are you getting married in the Philippines between December 2010 and May 2011? Do you know somebody who is?
VRC Creative Events and Top Cakes will be giving out a three-layer wedding cake at the upcoming Before I Do 8th Edition Bridal Fair this November 19-21,2010 at SM Megamall to one lucky couple that has the best pre-nup photo depicting the theme "Before I Do".
Simply log on to www.mybridalfair.com to find out more about this contest and other helpful tips in your wedding planning.
I can't believe I have been window shopping for two weeks now. It takes a lot of will power just to keep myself from opening up that wallet, lining up at the ATM and making a purchase of another thing I don't need.
I'm so proud of me. But like all humans, I am bound to slip once in awhile. But not today.
Today I'm just sharing what seems to be cluttering up in my emails. Random sale notices and news I keep receiving.
If you've got extra moolah to spare, go indulge yourself. After all, it's a payday weekend for most of us working class. =)
And of course, my shoe heaven is now open. They're not participating in the mall-wide sale of Festival Mall (prolly because they're one of the newly opened store), but the prices are so much of a steal, you'd feel like you bought it on sale. =) (Pardon the noisy phone pictures. I dunno how to set yet my phone's camera settings! Haha!)
I am so excited right now, I'm not sure if I can even finish this post without babbling too much nonsense.
A few months back, this empty stall in Festival Mall Alabang was closed for renovation of some sort or some construction work in preparation for a new store. By the looks of the name, I thought it was another Factory-2-U cheap-ass copycat.
Fast forward to July, I began to be aloof about the construction. (Really. It was next to Shopwise.) And much more when Forever21 opened in Megamall early this month. How cruel it is to be living down south of the metro when all the *pretty good* shops are up north. As much as fashionistas would want to keep up with the northern dwellers, it's just too much for people down here!
Moving on to tonight... For the nth time, I passed by the store. And I was taken aback as they finally removed the wooden panels. Revealing the oh-so-shiny glass display windows. And oh, the logo. The logo was up on the wall and it was so freaking shiny!
I was excited. It actually all died down awhile ago but then I got bored and since I was online and Google-ing stuff, I Googled it. There's really not much to read online since most articles are dated back from December of last year, with just a snippet that Collective Brands Inc., is opening a franchise in the Philippines through Store Specialist, Inc.
I Googled some more and I found this article on Inquirer.net that Payless ShoeSource will be opening its very first branch in the Philippines at Festival Mall Alabang! Whoopdeedoodeedoo! That's one point for the south! =)
The store is said to open next week. I think half of my next paycheck will go straight to that store. But nonetheless, I'm just happy Payless has finally made a land here. At least I wouldn't have to worry that future paychecks will be spent on pricey shoes alone. With Payless practically being a neighbor to me, I can finally have cool and oohs-and-aah inducing shoes without killing my wallet.
For the rest of the article and the exact opening date, check it out here.
1) Usually seen around social networking sites such as Friendster and Multiply, jejemons are individuals with low IQs who spread around their idiocy on the web by tYpFing LyK diZS jejejeje, making all people viewing their profile raise their eyebrows out of annoyance. Normal people like you and me must take a Bachelor of Arts in Jejetyping in order to understand said individuals, as deciphering their text would cause a lot of frustration and hair pulling.
CAUTION: THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE BREEDING! THEY CAN BE SEEN WRECKING GRAMMATICAL HAVOC ON FACEBOOK TOO!
2) Jejemons are not just confined to trying-hard Filipino gangsters and emos. A Jejemon can also include a variety of Latino-Hispanic fags who enjoy typing "jejejejeje" in a wider context, much to the disdain of their opponents in an internet MMORPG game such as Ragnarok and DOTA.
3) Basically anyone with a low tolerance in correct punctuation, syntax and grammar. Jejemons are usually hated or hunted down byJejebusters or the grammar nazi to eradicate their grammatical ways.
On AIM or YM:
miSzMaldiTahh111: EoW pFuOh!
You: Huh?
miszMaldiTahh111: i LLyK tO knOw moR3 bOut u, PwfoH. crE 2 t3ll mE yur N@me? jejejejeje!
You: You are a jejemon! Don't talk to me, you uneducated retard!
miszMaldiTahh111: T_T
So in my words, Jejemonation is Jejemon Domination, as seen in my Facebook account:
There's no stopping them, really. To see for yourself, click on the picture to zoom. Or better yet, log on to your own Facebook account and change the language setting to "Leet Speak".
Good news to all tree-hugging, coffee-loving afficionados out there!
It’s Earth Day on April 22 and if you ♥ Mother Earth, bring your tumblers to your neighborhood Starbucks and we’ll take P40 off your beverage. It’s a start toward an Earth friendly coffee drinking habit.
Promo is ongoing from Apr. 22 -23, 2010 at all Starbucks coffee shops nationwide.
Anyhoo, in case I haven't announced it to the world, I have been a Globe Handyphone (GHP) subscriber since 2001. So curse the night I got intoxicated and went home without my phone. Don't ask for details, I can't remember even a single one of those.
Moving on, after six months with a new prepaid number, it all ended when Globe has finally given me an assurance that my next number will be mine forever: they approved my postpaid plan application. *WOOHOO!*
And what's really amazing (pardon me =P) about it, I got to avail of the MySuperPlan line.
And baby, I'm lovin' every minute of my unlimited service.
Moving on, I received a text from Globe yesterday stating my current unpaid bill and that I can view it online. And since I have no idea when my bill will I arrive, I checked it out online and was greeted by this:
Now that's what I like! =D
So if you're a heavy texter like I am (heavy, as in you have an average sent message counter of 200 daily), I strongly suggest you get this one instead of the regular plans. I currently availed of the text-only unlimited service so as to see if the call feature is really needed. (And to teach myself how to handle better my postpaid line for the nth time.)
I know people will have a lot of questions about this and since I am kind of getting tired explaining stuff to people (and convincing them to apply for one too,), I'll just ask you to head on to Globe's website to read on more about the offer or call 730-1000 on any landline and a customer service representative will gladly explain stuff to you.
And trust me, this is one postpaid line that's really worth it. =D
Instead of being really productive, I am spending the day away searching for (drumroll please...) CAKES!
Birthday's just around the corner so I better make a quick decision on where to place my order. Quick history of me and birthday cakes: I usually have more than one. Really. Sweet tooth teeth, baby. And I know which ones are birthday-worthy. So, let's get down to business.
*Imma make this one quick. Promise. Fine. I'll try.*
During the last bridal fair I've been to, I think I found two or three cakes that I like. But hello to earth, I will not be spending five thousand pesos for a cake. :)) Maybe next time. :-P
So far, in the past two weeks, I've had my heart out for Babycakes. (The one in Alabang, and not in Hong Kong, ok?) These are my top reasons why I'd be willing to shell out moolah for their confections:
They have super kyooot cakes. (Really, Babycakes?)
Speaking of small/single-serving size, they're just about perfect to satisfy my craving of different cakes all in one day.
They make customized designs. And in you can choose from about a dozen of different cake flavors.
They're priced competitively! (2 points for this one!)
Anyhoo, my heart sank when the designs I listed down last weekend couldn't be made since they'd be using marshmallow icing. So I'm back to square one. Well, not totally. If all else fails, I'd be ordering from them. (For the sake of the Melt-In-Your-Mouth cake. Haha!)
I considered cupcakes. Ienne's Cupcakes are nice, but they look too ordinary for my birthday. But I loooove the mint flavor. Dilemma, baby. I checked Sweet Lorraine's, but I don't want a couple dozens of the same flavor! (According to her text message to me, she does mix in flavors in one dozen, but only on certain occasions.)
Going back to cakes, I asked at Aggy's, but to my huuuuuge disappointment, they would be charging me more than double the price Babycakes will be charging me. (This discovery makes me stick to Babycakes more. Haha!) So there goes the double cross for that store on my list. (Mean, I know. Haha!) But, I will still give in to their Frozen Mango Brazo (Yep, Brazo. Not Bravo.) anytime of the day. But, again, it's not for MY birthday, and besides, that was mother's birthday cake. And speaking of Bravo, I don't know why but of all the people in the south, I am not really a fan of the Mango Bravo from Conti's. Maybe I'm not really a fan of mangoes. Whatever. Niq once offered to drive me to Conti's to get that cake for my birthday, but for the nth time, that's not appropriate for my birthday.
And speaking of driving me around, Ms. Sam suggested on getting Alex Franco's Black & White cake if the Aggy's cake I want will be overpriced. She, too, offered to drop me by the pick up point for Alex' cakes. Btw, Alex did Ms. Sam's wedding cake. And Ms. Sam gave me a cake last year. So I guess it is just rightful to include Alex on my list.
And now, after Google-ing stuff, I remembered Chocolat. Sinfully good chocolate cake, baby! But, they only have stores up north. Nearest is probably SM Mall of Asia. Come on, I don't have time to go there nowadays! So I have to scratch it off the list. (Haaay. This is getting kinda stressful.)
Anyway, I'll be including my list the Go Nuts Donuts cupcakes too. Because they're just plain kyoot. Really. And they deliver. Ok? That's a point for Go Nuts.
Speaking of nuts, I am going nuts. Birthday in two weeks, and no cake decision yet. Please, please, please help me out here!
We belong to the sleep-deprived, nicotine-inhaling, cab-riding new breed of Filipino youth. We infuse our anemic, caffeinated veins with ferrous sulfate everyday so we won't be NCNS (no call, no show) for our next shift. "Ginagawa naming araw ang gabi." [We make the night our day.]
Click on the link to read the rest of the entry. It was written by some call center agent (pretty much older than I am since she already has a kid who goes to school and her headache has the need for much more professional opinion, a.k.a. EEG and MRI's) with definitely a lot of angst and emotion about her work. (I wonder how much venting I can do if I pour out my heart after my event...)
Anyhoo, speaking of blogging, writing and ranting, I received an email from Nuffnang that comes with an exclusive invite. (Ahhh. The perks of being a glitterati member. Priority invites!)
I'm actually contemplating right now whether I'd be attending this one or not. (Boni High Street is pretty far from Alabang, you know.) But the miCoach is really tempting me. I'll be thinking about it til this afternoon. I know Glitterati members are allowed to bring one guest with them. Let's see if I can have someone tag along. Then I'll decide if I'll RSVP. :-P
Speaking of emails, I got another good news. Apparently, having 1000 Facebook friends comes with perks. Eastwood City had this contest thing last month wherein you just have to invite your friends to join their group, and the top five who can invite the most number of friends wins ten movie passes to Eastwood City's cinemas. Isn't that sweet? So basically, I won. Haha! :-) I'm just waiting for my cousin to claim the passes in my behalf, and then it's movie time.
...like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter...
...Which luckily I am.
photo courtes of siraquarius.blogspot.com
So it was a Saturday night, and I got to go out with my cousins! (Finally!) And we watched Alice. :-D
Basically I think it was not really a movie meant for kids, because it has somewhat deviated from the fairy tale version. Alice, who is now nineteen, returns to Wonderland, which, apparently, at her age, she believes does not really exist. (Oh yeah, we watched it in the normal theater. Which may be one of the reasons why I find this not-so-kid-friendly.) Anyway, what really made me excited about this movie is Tom Burton. Really. Fine, Johnny Depp made me excited. Haha!
With that said, I tell you, this version is not for those looking for glitzy and fun kiddie movie. (Come on, a nineteen year-old protagonist frolicking in a land where animals talk, cats smile, and food that can either make you grow big or shrink you to almost nothing?) I think I appreciated the movie because it's for the lost twenty-somethings a.k.a. those having a quarter-life crisis. Seriously. ;-)
Alice: But this is impossible.
Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it to be.
And perhaps, it is the twisted and un-prince-charming aura of the Mad Hatter that throws this movie off the fairy tale list. Princes are supposed to be really hot, neat and well-groomed, and above all, charming. Not dirty, mad and sarcastic. (But in the back of my mind, he's still hot. It's Johnny Depp, for crying out loud!!!)
In all fairness, Burton gave justice to the well-loved fairy tale. Wonderland is, well, really a wonder land, considering it's from the creative mind of this filmmaker. Now I'm beginning to wonder what it looked like on 3D. Hmmm. Could be better but then again, the 3D version wouldn't probably have the twist I was looking for in the regular film. And that, that twist, might give the happily-ever-after ending we all look forward to a bigger BANG!
I will miss you when I wake up. (Now, where is my Mad Hatter?)
So it was a holiday. For Muntinlupa, anyway. But unfortunately, I have to go to work. Duty calls. ;-)
What a good, good day at work. :-D
Sponsorship proposals are flying, and a lot of clients are considering joining the event. Woot woot! :-D I can definitely the success of the job fair as early as today. *Oh please, oh please, Superfriend, that would be a nice birthday present this year. ;-)*
This is really getting me excited. I know we can do this. Wheee! :-D Baby steps! Last month I think we have a handful of premium clients and IBM wants to sponsor. This month, Jobstreet.com finally said yes! Woot woot! No to retrenchment, yes to more jobs for the Filipinos! :-D
*Insert happy plugging jingle here.*
On April 13 & 14, 2010, temperatures will rise as waves of eager jobseekers will head to the SM Megatrade Hall 3 in search of the hottest jobs and their dream careers at Viva Event's Angat Pinoy Job Fair. The two-day career fair will feature companies in the metro offering jobs for Pinoy expats, young professionals and first time applicants.
For inquiries, you can call 809 3119, 668 7787, 809 8707 or 403 3094.
For more details on the event, please click on the picture. ;-)
Anyhoo. Obviously, the building caf is closed for the day. So I have to find another place to get good food. I was craving for overly greasy and heart-stopping food so I called McDonald's and asked if they would take my order for both breakfast and regular menu. Unfortunately, they won't allow it as it would overlap things. My heart sank. So I moved on to Kenny Rogers, which at that moment, has a broken delivery hotline. *And at that point, I was waaaay too hungry to choose decent food. So we settled for Shakey's.
Thank God for pizza. And my collection of loyalty cards. Who knew I have one of those pizza card things? Anyway, the Shakey's pizzanatic card basically works like Pizza Hut's. Buy one pizza, add a 1.5L bottle of soda, and you get either a Pepperoni or Hawaiian flavored pizza of the same size. (And just about right now I realize that Shakey's sell Coke, not Pepsi. Pepsi's for Pizza Hut. Haha!)
Anyway, I got two large pizzas for the day. Which would be my breakfast, lunch and perhaps light dinner. So basically from 11:15 in the morning til about 5:15pm, I was eating pizza. (I shared, and it still wasn't consumed!)
I think I got tired of it, I gave away the last two slices to Ms. JC. Oh well. At least I finally satisfied my pizza craving. But there's this pizza flavor I wanna try soon. Something from TOSH. Anyway, that goes in a different entry.
For now, I have to think of ways to liven up the remaining 305 days of the year. Come on 2010, make it count! ;-)
And this is the daily dose of random Monday morning rush buzz. Yep, there will be random rants after this sentence, this will be a quick post and it's up to you if you care or not.
So it's Monday. I woke up late. But I got in the office on time. Buzzer beater, pare. ;-) I am sooooo happy to finally arrive on time, on a Monday at that. At this point, I want to blame my past tardiness to Stresstabs and the irritating urban traffic, and weird Pinoy human traffic. I blame Stresstabs because it has a weird side effect on me. I am more sleepy now than before. Therefore I've been oversleeping, I think.
Anyway, human traffic is when pedestrians just can't get over the average 5.3kph rate of walking. You know what I mean. Oh how I miss walking in the streets of Hong Kong. Surprisingly, Chinese people walk fairly fast (pretty much like the Westerners) and they don't bump into each other. Now that's the kind of human traffic I need in Alabang. Not that I'm against strolling or taking your time with walking, but I hope these people do mind not obstructing the whole sidewalk. They can do that in malls or parks. (Just not always at the mall.)
*Now I'm really missing Hong Kong. Better start saving up again.*
Speaking of saving up, I managed to lower my monthly spending by 25% and I am thanking the little game Niq and I have. They say it takes 21 days to break a habit. Every time I'm at the 15th, 16th or maybe 20th day, I revert and succumb to my old ways. Pfft. And last week I have to admit I did just that, and it's really because I couldn't resist it! I think this site should help in breaking the habit. :-)
You see I was psyched last year when a former co-worker of mine has this huge bottle of hand sanitizer that you can spray sitting on his desk. I was so hung up on the item that I kept bugging him to tell me where he got it, and he told me that it was bought at a department store. And I tried looking for it for a month in different branches of that department store, but unfortunately failed. And just last week, I finally found what I've been looking for. (Is that a line from a song?) Of all places, I found my new spray hand sanitizer at Bench! :-) I forgot to take a picture but it comes in three scents, lavender, mandarin burst and the regular scent. I got the mandarin burst.
*Will upload picture some time later. And probably a separate review. :-)*
I think there's still space for one more rant. ;-) And I just have to let this out because yesterday, I was working. (Pfft, I know. Haha! My fault anyway.) The laptop I was using yesterday was not installed with plug-ins for me to listen to Magic's Sunday countdown, so I resorted to tuning in to MTV. This is what I hate about mainstream. Whatever song you hear on the radio, is probably the same ones playing on TV, and everyone else's Ipod. And hearing songs over and over again, and literally everywhere, just makes me want to gag. (I support Indie and new artists more than mainstream artists. Hooray for originality and new blood!)
So after about ten minutes of Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Lady Gaga and Beyonce, something new to my ears played. Which I definitely had to share with Monique. (And that's a different story.) You see, there's just this something in bad boys that really make my head turn and go after them.
As far as I know, Alexandra Burke won some reality show in UK a couple of years back. And this song just rocks my socks. ;-)
*Do the bad boys always get the good girls? ;-)*
And oh. On some random internet search, I found this:
How timely it is that I used such title for this entry.
I am still up, when I should be sleeping. Yes, I am sleepy but there's this sudden rush of adrenaline in my system that just won't go away. I've been online for more than an hour now. Doing research, basically. I just realized today in the office that I might have finally ran out of HR people to call. Or that I am just having another attack of procrastination. (Which, I know, is so not good for my job.)
Ok. I checked my planner (see, I'm using it) and found out that I have more than a dozen to call and send proposals to. And that's not enough for me. I need more. Literally hundreds. Because I can't stop this. I'm seeing something good out of this.
And that's what I need to cement in my brains. (Somebody stop me from ranting!)
Anyway, more than an hour into my research, I realized that Google has presented me with almost 1,170,000 results of job openings for Filipinos. And now I can't help wonder why there's still a lot of jobless people out there. Lazy, yes, I think I might be one of them (but I have a job). Picky... Hold it right there. Almost two million jobs out there (and not counting the ones that didn't make it online due to budget constraints), and you can't pick one? WTF man.
Seriously? You can't pick one? I'm barely twenty-two and have no idea what to do with my life but I suddenly had to fight this big urge of mine to apply for at least twenty different job openings out there that never in my wildest dreams did I imagined I would want to apply for today. (Because I realized that I looooooooove my job. Come on, does your boss let you view random job openings 24/7 and actually call up the HR people and get paid to do it? Didn't think so.)
I just don't get it. Getting a job interview is one click away, yet some people are too lazy, and inhumanly picky to do it. And this is just something I can't deal with. No, I abhor whatever attitude this people have towards working. Not that I'm the employee of the year or something, but is it really possible for someone not to find a single job out there that he'll really apply for? This is just too much for me to accept right now. Or probably for the rest of my life.
It's almost two in the morning. I now have a list of what seems like a line up of a battle for the best online job portal in the country, excluding Jobsdb, Jobstreet, and Jobmarket Online, of course. I think this will be enough to last me for the rest of the week.
I need to get busier. I need to remember that all of this will be for a good cause. I have to remind myself that this is my way of showing the increasing unemployed population of the country can find the job they'll like too.
Maybe I'll just look for one more contact number and then I'll sleep.
Remember those internet image generators some time last year or the previous year before that wherein you upload your picture then just like magic your face is up on a New York billboard or has replaced Mona Lisa's understanding of a smile?
Well they're back.
Fotoefek.com (although I'm not sure if it's maintained by the same web masters), works the same. Upload your picture and voila, your face is then plastered onto some New Moon movie poster. Way to go for catching up on the bandwagon.
Oh well. I was so curious how my vampire shot would go with the movie poster so I clicked away and made my own New Moon poster.
I choose Team Patty, which as of now, should be halfway through encoding. :-P
