February 2012
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My Academy Awards Sartorial Favorites
Because despite being knee deep with work, half my mind was tuned in to Oscars, also known as the Super Bowl of most women. Over a box of doughnuts and sweets, a friend and I placed a wager: Her bet was Meryl Streep for Iron Lady and Rooney Mara (my bet) for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. We all know who won so might as well focus on my sartorial favorites #sourgraping LOL
Brad Pitt and...
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Romance is in the Nails
Anyone who knows me well would attest to the fact that I am not a very nail polish-y type of person. Some months ago, a friend {who definitely had less estrogen in her} went with me to my usual nail care spot, which is Posh Nails in Morato. I ordered for my usual services of Spoiling Feet and I saw her already wrapped up in treatments, all including her nails and arms, happy and content with her...
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Hair Bliss with Dove Shampoo
I am only grateful that I did receive this lovely package from Dove Haircare some weeks ago:
I have the driest hair ever —- dry to the point that it’s frizzy when un-cared for and can get itchy if it brushes onto my shoulders and I am forced to tie everything into a bun and risk looking like a joyless principal. It’s so dry it’s brittle and crunchy and falls off...
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The Dragon Tattoo Keeps Haunting Me
I couldn’t wouldn’t shut up about it.
Sometime in 2010, I received a set of the Millennium series, a trilogy by Stieg Larsson which took the world by storm. I had intended well to spend a good time in bed reading everything but well —- life happened and here I am, halfway onto the first book and reeling from the movie, or I hope the first installment of yet another Fincher...
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Happiness
Oh, the things we learn from kids.
The thing with being an adult is that our idea of happiness gets more complicated. We know we’ll be happy if we get that promotion, if we finally purchase that dream house, when we finally send the kids to the best school we know, when we pay off all our debts, when we finally go through that perfect wedding.
It never really ends. I could ask myself...
Lovely Mornings
One of the biggest changes this year has heralded for me was my transition from being a nocturnal being to a morning person. Anybody who’s known me for the past five years would know I am alive and ultra-creative at night when the world sleeps.
Nowadays, I find myself sleepy so early even if at exciting places such as this —- we were waiting for Mamma Mia to start at CCP.
I...
29 life lessons learned in travelling the world...
Eight years.
That’s 416 weeks, or almost 3,000 days.
This is the amount of time that I have not had a fixed home; moving to a new country, culture and language every few months and taking absolutely everything I own with me. It has been a significant percentage of my life, and it’s still long from over.
I had actually done some travelling before – a couple of summers in the states, and an...
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“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely...”
– Bob Marley
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Things I Love Sundays: Sundays
To be honest, the subtitle of this post is an inspiration from a fellow blogger’s post on Saturdays, who in turn was inspired from someone’s post on Sundays.
It’s a Sunday, and I love how I woke up only to feel sleepy again. I went back to bed —- something I don’t get the luxury of doing most days. Foregoing snoozing the alarm has been a thing of the past and every...
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“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you...”
– Unknown
Fresh. Fit. Fashionable.: Negativity and The Self →
“The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.”
— Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-born American psychologist and writer
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows…
January 2012
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Career Woman Diaries: The Red Door
What’s your message?
In the highly-recommended book I raved about, called Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire, I distinctly remember my favorite author, Mireille Guiliano, discuss how one’s choice of scent affects how people perceive one in the workplace.
In business, the scent of a strong perfume can mean disaster at a job interview or a dinner party with fine wine and...
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Things I Love Sundays: Laughter-Filled Weeks
Don’t you just love friends and colleagues who make you laugh always?
I’m lucky to be surrounded by the funniest people. For this week’s Things I Love Sundays post, I wasn’t sure to put —- I mean, my life is basically work whizzing me by through the days. I thought to myself, “I’m just going to say how busy I am la di dad and what is new with...
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Nanny Rose Sticks and Pulls Queen Bee
Leave it to me to buy a product based entirely on packaging.
The thing with being a typophile {person inclined towards font types}, is that I tend to get swayed with my judgment based solely on how a package is presented. Blame it on the marketer in me, or the girl with sometimes-low EQ, especially on pampering things, my mind kind of shuts down on all things pretty.
The recycled box, the...
Would I Die for the Filipino?
thegoodmike:
At the check-in counter queue alone, I’d never felt so humiliated for my being Filipino (or Asian, if that’s the case). Seeing that the Business Class counter had been idle for a while, this check-in usher eagerly asked a Caucasian couple before me if they were Business/First Class passengers. “No, we’re flying Economy…” Despite that, the usher very warmly, with a wide smile, led...
