Vans x Hello Kitty

close friends and relatives knew my deep love for Hello Kitty, but lately i stopped buying Hello Kitty stuffs that i don't need and are not that useful. I have lessen my Hello Kitty collection to valuable and real collectors item like this:

originally i want this design, but no more stock na for my size, i'm a size 9 btw...haha

loveet!

thank you to my niece April who hand-carried the huge paper bag from Greenbelt 3 to LRT going to Quezon City to airplane to airport shuttle to taxi and finally our house :))

what's up this weekend

photo from Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photowalk FB Page

looking forward for this.

see you!

What do you get up for?

i always patronize companies with good quality products and companies that cares for the welfare of the people and the country.

Golden ABC or GABC the company behind the brands: Penshoppe, Oxygen, ForMe, Memo, and Regatta, is giving its customers a chance to donate. 

GET-UP is the social corporate responsibility platform of GABC.  For every Php1000 minimum single receipt purchase, Php25 will be donated to a GABC advocacy of your choice.

after paying your purchase, you will be given a tag with codes and pins, with instructions on how to go online and pick an advocacy where you want to donate. check below: 

i chose EDUCATION.

here's my purchase. a crumpled leather tote in gray. (accessories not included)

so, get up for community building.

have a good night everyone!

Saudi women: Finally.

it's been a long time since i got hold of a newspaper. i have been updating myself online when it comes to current events, and look what i found today in a national daily.

wow. finally. a huge change for an ultra-conservative country whose women are not even allowed to drive and to leave their country alone. a right to suffrage.

AND here's the irony, when i flipped another page of the newspaper i saw this:

cheerleaders and their freaking boobs. 

 (sigh)

what a thursday.

how's yours?

Mr. Sun is out

but the damage that typhoon Pedring brought costs 21 lives and 35 more missing with thousands of families in the evacuation areas. (read here)

as Pedring moves away from our country, the latest weather update says another typhoon is expected to come our way in the next 24 hours. 

sad. and scared.

just keep that rechargeable lights and candles ready. cellphones and gadgets fully-charged. get hold of your emergency kit.

keep safe everyone!

ballet and bench

for the last three years of dancing ballet, my daughter's hair was quite a stubborn mane to handle. aside from being thick, there are a lot of baby hairs in her forehead (left photo). when the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet exam came last summer, one of the strict rules was to fix the hair flawlessly.  i tried so many kinds of gels before that, then finally my problem was fixed (see right photo), no more baby hairs!

Bench FiX Hair Gel ended our baby hair dilemma.

then i noticed, mabe has been a Bench product user even before that:

Baby Bench Talcum Powder in bubble gum.

and a Minnie b/tweeners cologne.

she chose her own scents, i don't meddle when it comes to that. Baby Bench has a lot of affordable products, that's what matters to me :)

what affordable baby products do you use?

bacolod: how's pedring?

typhoon pedring is all over central and northern luzon, with its location now spotted in my second  home baguio city. since last night, i was monitoring the weather thru twitter, nowadays i rarely watch the news on television, i would rather get my update online. (news these days are WQ, walang qwenta!)

although there was no typhoon signal in negros, still we experienced heavy rains and strong gust of winds. the power went off last night for 20minutes, and so with the other areas in city. 

i started my day with a quick chitchat with Owen of MyShutterLife in Istarbaks, Libertad, before i headed off to meet my friend Erly in KFC Lacson for lunch. i can really see bacolod  as a city doomed to experience severe BAHA soon. honest. may the city officials look into this before anything bad happens. God forbid.

after lunch i headed to mabe's school, i brought her a pair of slippers, i know the shoes and the socks will surely get wet (that reminds me to get her a fancy rubber boots).

how about you, how did pedring kept you dry today? 

Axl Rose Part II

 

remember our Axl Rose bracelet finds after sue and i watched Zoombadings? now we're hooked, looking for great jologs bracelets. here's our latest finds:

mine: studded leather from People are People 199.00; the one with metal links from SM Men's Accessories 99.00

Sue's find: triple coil leather bracelet with flower detail from a stall in Greenbelt5; left is her mahalia Cartier love screw bangle in white gold.

bed weather

with the heavy downpour of rain outside, it's a perfect time to grab that remote, a bag of chips, and of course, a Barbie movie while playing Nintendo DSi.

just makes you wonder, what's for dinner? and this Fiesta Spaghetti Ads of the Aquino kid below my blogpost has been there for a while, makes me want to cook the remaining Fiesta Spaghetti noodles in our fridge.

ahhhh bedweather!

how's your afternoon?

my Rags2Riches purse

the other day i was rummaging through my drawers and found this purse i purchased last summer. i remember stashing this in my drawer because i noted in my mind that i will  just use it in special occasions. you know those kind of events that bringing a bag is quite awkward, so sometimes you'll just carry a small purse like this.

i find this very special. this is a Rajo Laurel x Rags2Riches Design purse. 

Rags2Riches Inc. is a for-profit social enterprise based in Manila, creating eco-ethical fashion and home accessories out of up cycled scrap cloth, organic materials and indigenous fabrics by working with women living in the poor communities across the country. you can read more about them here.

i treasure products like this. the creativity of filipino women and the cause behind the group making this product makes you proud of having one. as you have noticed that at the back of the tag, the name of the maker who handcrafted this product was written. thank you for making this purse :)

Piko'

Piko' is a traditional filipino game here in the Philippines. According to WikiPilipinas, Piko' or buan-buan is the local equivalent of hopscotch, a playground game involving a diagram divided into sections, drawn on the ground with usually chalk or charcoal. Players hop from section to section. The game is for two to eight players. 

mabe discovered Piko last year. she was begging to teach her how to play the game, so my niece Frances showed her how.

traditional filipino games like piko' and others like patintero, sipa, luksong tinik are rarely played by children nowadays. it really would not hurt us parents if we introduce these filipino games to our kids.

i am glad that in mabe's school, there's a permanent piko' diagram.

i took the piko' photos before heading out to church this afternoon. we had a great weekend! 

how's yours?

Mighty Morphine Power Mother

just finished making mabe's assignment in science. the note says: with the help of your parents. so i helped did everything and mabe supervised. they have to write a short story of their growth and development physically, socially, emotionally, mentally..all ally (*ally mcbeal).

so i rummage through my scrapbook baul, to kalkal the data of mabe and i found this page. awww, i remember the day i gave birth. go ahead, take a look at the sunny and flowery presentation first before i tell you my Operating Room saga.

yes, Operating Room not Delivery Room. you may not know this but i was diagnosed with Endometriosis in my right ovary the day i had my first ultrasound to confirm my pregnancy. it was decided then that my ob-gyne will get rid of it (the diameter of the cyst was large enough  to burst if not handled sooner) after my scheduled caesarean operation, to lessen the cost and the hassle.

i did not went through the normal process like labor and pains, but THE pain of the spinal anesthesia when injected in my back was beyond f%!&*g painful. as far as i can remember, they inserted thrice! the woman at the other room was screaming (she's having normal delivery i guess), while i can't even scream, i just cried.

then after a few minutes, hours, i don't know i might have passed out, i saw mabe!! awww heaven. they let me peck at her face, next was another procedure for my ovary. they told me they're injecting morphine, i saw the doctor injecting something through my dextrose (thanks God! no more painful needles, i thought). thanks but no thanks, the effect of morphine WAS worst! minutes or hours after i was about to tell the doctor i feel like throwing up, i opened my mouth and puke. i.puke.and puke. and keep on puking. gah!

finally, the operation was over. my ob-gyne told me she did not took the damaged ovary, she just scraped the cyst, because it might go back and  if in case it will, i still have one ovary functioning.

next stop. Recovery Room. i thought i was in a freezer, it was really cold, i felt cold and having chills. the nurses wrapped me with another blanket and kept on checking and all. but still, i.am.puking.and puking. there was another patient beside my bed, she started to talk to me. hello chitchat, but i can't answer back, i turned my head the other way because i puke.puke .puke again!

after i was transferred in my room, i puked for a couple of times then it just stopped. my recovery was a bit slower than most caesarean moms, maybe it's because of the ovary procedure.

the whole process was really traumatic, but the moment you see that little bundle of joy...its happiness.

there you go mighty morphine power ranger mother. lol!

have a good weekend :)

barbie and my pocket

for a mother like me, i am keen on how Barbie evolved from a simple adult-figured fashion doll to an icon in the toy world. i grew up playing dress up with Barbie. now my 8-year old daughter adored and follow Barbie like a loyal minion. blame it to www.barbie.com where kids these days get the Barbie updates, from the new Barbie doll coming up to the latest Barbie game and of course, the release date of the new Barbie Movie.

this one saved me from keeping 13 DVD's!

all kept in this CD File including non-Barbie movies she loves

the joy in playing with Barbie

in every Barbie movie, a new Barbie Doll comes out with it. hello advertising.

sometimes i wonder, why do you have to be a fairy Barbie? 

or why do you have to be so ambitious and become a princess? 

why do you have to be such a complicated woman and have so many careers? 

why do you have to change clothes in just one twist? 

duh, you're 50 years old you know...make your life easy.

i loved you when you were just plain Barbie, and cheaper in my pocket.