healthy options is my new favorite store

Yesterday I had loads of time; I was able to come out of the office earlier than usual. Loads of time usually translates to much needed retail therapy or at the very least spend quality time at the mall, haha! So I entered Greenbelt5 without really any intention of buying anything or visiting a particular shop but walking lead me to Bratpack. I remembered that they sell those Eastpak bags designed by Raf Simons and Rick Owens so I checked it out. I was actually thinking of buying a bag (wala pa kong gift sa sarili ko for my birthday) as a birthday gift to myself hehe. After some time wandering aimlessly at the store I was finally able to see the besought bags. I first saw the Raf Simons back pack that resembled somehow of those old military duffel bags but more refined having leather trimmings and effortlessly chic light blue material, sobrang mahal! My contacts were really blurring my view but I didn’t need 20/20 vision that time to realize the much maligned number of digits reflected on the price tag. Next!!!! Next to it were the bags designed by Rick Owens, I was’t (and still am) not familiar with his work but the black themed bags had a nice look to it. There was a picture of a guy who I presumed to be the designer, clad in a black leather skirt and high heeled shoes. The overall look reminded me of Gian Romano less the high heels. His bags were even pricier so that crushed my plans of buying anything from that store.

 

I walked out and made my way to the lower ground floor where Fully Booked was but I made a quick change of plans and proceeded to Healthy Options (my new fave store!). the reason being that I remembered my Mum who has high levels of cholesterol in her system and that made me think of getting her something that could help with her condition. The store was nice, everything was white. It was set up like a grocery store having everything organic (I always wanted to use the word organic). I was awed by the number of supplements they had! It was like a full wall stacked from the bottom up with all organic supplements, I saw 2 cholesterol related supplements and 1 that had concentrated garlic essences in them. I wasn’t sure of what to get her so I decided to put off the intended purchase. Then I remembered that I ran out of my multivitamin tablets eons ago so I looked for something along the lines of a usual multivit’s like Centrum. I saw one and immediately bought it haha! For something that had a nice packaging to it and claimed to be made of all vegan sources it was actually cheap or at least at par with those commercially marketed vitamins. I just started taking them this morning.

 

For that Healthy Options is my new favorite store haha! Looking forward to more visits, I plan to visit the one at Trinoma this weekend.

 

Cheers @ 25!

 

Song for the moment : Let’s Just Fall in Love Again by Jason Castro (I so loooooove this song!)

 

*Reminding myself of blogging about my first itunes purchase experience*

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birthday week

oh here i go again rambling about nothing really. well come thursday (3 sep 2009) this week i'll be celebrating yet another birthday, by that day i would have been breathing and living on this earth for about a quarter of a century. i put it that way because i feel old, like vampire old haha i've been watching too much true blood these days.

i hate that i'm becoming more and more defeatist in my outlook. gone were the days when i was full of ambition, i actually believed that i was capable of doing anything. well those days are over, now i'm just living day by day hoping that i'll survive and get by. *hingang malalim*

anyway mapapalaban na naman tayo sa matinding gastos this week, i'll have an excuse to buy myself something nice bilang birthday gift ko sa sarili ko haha! i'm thinking of buying a holga camera, tingnan natin! at malamang sa malamang nyan maraming tao na naman ang hihirit ng libre nakow patay!

throwing stuff out.

i find it hard to throw stuff out, i almost associate a memory, an instance, a little piece of my life that passed with every imaginable object i have come to posses. you could say that i'm a hoarder (i think i'm borderline hoarding!).

it's just hard. pieces of paper i used in college, old notebooks, blue books and even the chinese character flash cards i used when studying for exams in mandarin class i couldn't bear throw away. i enjoyed that class so much and i made a lot of friends there. but the flash cards are almost turning yellow! haha.

the mental debate of whether to throw things out or keep it is almost lop sided, the "keep" pile almost wins hands down.

CD's are another problem, they occupy space but they're so useful storing info. just this morning i was canvassing all the CD's i unearthed while packing for stuff (my brothers and i moved apartments just this week). i found data discs that contained old files from college and mix cd's that i used to listen to while studying for exams and commuting at the MRT. music is such a big vehicle to memory lane i just love it.

i'm weak, i'm but human...but they were 70% off!!!

yes, i've sinned. just as i was just ending the week, starting a restful weekend i came upon these high-cut shoes that were 70% off! can you believe it? 70% off! i was blown away. the store was already on sale for quite some time now but i've been putting off a visit because i know i shouldn't be in a buying mode as i just made a purchase on a similar item (shoes din from the zara sale).

matagal ko na gusto ng high-cut shoes so when i saw them it was just hard to resist. it's like the high-cut chucks but only made of black patent leather with velcro straps in place of shoe laces. hayun i don't think i've ever bought something at a 70% discount! before this purchase kuntento na ko sa 50% off.

i'm such a big fan of sales! with the exception of books (bookstores never go on sale!) i never buy anything on original undiscounted price, why would i buy it now when i can i have it at a lower price later in the year. so for that i consider myself a smart shopper...not! the thing is i would buy almost anything on sale without consideration of the price. nanghihinayang kasi ako sa amount saved! hehe but i'm learning.

*intermission*

ZOMG jake gyllenhaal is oin drag sa SNL doing a song from dream girls! it's just hilarious! maya rudolph is the best sya yung paborito kong SNL cast.

*end of intermission*

anyway i know i'm not going to regret this purchase hehe and i hope to get a lot of mileage out of them!

After 10 years!

...after 10 years nabalikan ko ulit 'tong blog ko na 'to. after all the hype about friendster, hi5, multiply, myspace and now facebook at twitter (lahat ng 'to pinatos ko!) binalikan ko ulit itong blogspot account ko.

it's actually by accident that i stumbled upon this blog, a few days ago wala akong ginagawa sa office and i remembered a friend telling me of my old blog haha! akala ko nga they shut this down na pero lo and behold it still exists! super funny reading back my entries from back in the day, batang bata pa hehe! it's really embarassing but hey it was the real me who wrote all those sh*t down haha ain't no shame! i even advertised this site to the dearest of my friends; inviting them to read my old entries!

well a lot has happened, it's been like 5 years na yata since my last post. i was still a college student yata and now frustrated laborer sa isang credit card company, funny how life changes. funny how different i was back then writing all those entries but still remain pretty much the same. i'm getting all sentimental na ganyan yata talaga pag tumatanda!

for whatever this is worth i'm determined to keep this blog alive, i plan to revamp it lalo na yung layout! i'm not that dark na pero i'm keeping the tags hehe!

wish you guys all the best...'til then!

hay finally!! i get to update, sorta, my blog!!!

been too busy at school!!! gosh the last weeks of the first semester was really murder!!! i'm just thankful that now i get to sleep!!

well, the year is rounding up, today is nov 1st and it's all saints day. first time ko magpunta ng sementeryo!!

hekhek wala lang ganun pala ang dame ng tao dame din ng tinda. sandali lang naman kame

hay naku nararamdaman ko na na palapit ang march! no!!!! kung pwede ko lang pigilan ang oras! ayoko pa grumadweyt!!! noooo!!

Hello!

I’m having another crappy day! started out last night, found it difficult to catch sleep again, it’s so frustrating when you really want to sleep but you just can’t sigh.

Anyway I woke up and started to do my morning routine, which was basically watch tv while I do my exercises for my back. So I turned the tv on, hoping to catch am at ibc the Chinese show where they give out some mandarin lessons, it’s really interesting. So lo and behold wala, ay meron pala but it’s a replay so scanned the channels and ended up with wowow, it’s a Japanese channel notorious for airing porn on the wee hours of the morning hehe. Anyway it’s a good station they always have cool Hollywood movies and art films. This morning they were airing ‘bend it like beckham’ it was really good! Now I know what the fuzz was all about for it had rave reviews back then.

Keira knightly was really good!! That was the first time I saw a movie of hers hehe it’s really entertaining fusing Indian culture with it hehe and all this luvapalooza bout football. All in all I loved it, absolutely loved it!

So anyway last night I went to this reunion thingy and I still can’t set aside my frustrations! Why the hell did I go home early! Heh that was my only lakad this summer, this whole 2 months I was stuck here in our house, I mean I’m not complaining I mean I got a whole lot of rest plus I got to watch my fave shows on a regular basis, er thatwould be everyday. So I got hooked on American idol! Harhar

Well June is comin up that means school for me, I’m quite excited to get out of the house and have money to spend! First up, june 2 registration day, I’m planning to ditch for harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban! I’m a big fan of harry potter books! I started reading it way back in high school when nobody else knew who harry, hermione and ron were. Wala lang just bragging hehe.

Well anyway my classmates were there, and they were like…….grr I don’t wanna talk about it na lang naiisip ko lang kung gano ka-pathetic and lame ang buhay ko! I dunno how things would work out for me wala lang.

reunion ek ek after blow

haaaaaay today i went to this reunion chu chu, reunion nameng batch sa high school, i had to shell out 180 pesos. for me it was really mahal considering na it was only dinner. that was what i thought bago mag mag reunion, after even worse i think it was really mahal, oh well ok lang naman since minsan minsan lang naman kami magkita kita.

he hayun i was a bit disappointed kasi konti lang sa high school friends ko ang dumating, atsaka after the dinner everone was forming their groups na and they were taking the party somewhere else na eh ako kami nung 2 na kasama ko nag mcdonald's na lang. hay sad talaga feeling ko i don't belong, well back then i had a group to hang out with naman kaso they weren't there hay sadness umuwi ako nang wala man lang nalalasap na 'inom' hay

feeling ko tuloy i'm such a nerd and nobody wants to be with me. it was fun anyway seeing them again, even some of our classmates na na-kick out were there, i genuinely like them. one of them was really good to me ka section ko sya nung first year wala lang basta ambait nya kahit na nerdy ako and everything. groupmate ko sya nun sa pe eh banban ako at walang alam sa basketbal, he really made me feel ok na wala lang laro laro lang yun basta mabaet sya hehehe

more mooning next post tagal ko ma reremember tong night na to!

hay sad day, our cable is down so i couldn't watch tv! damn it! roland garros pa naman ngayon and i'm just dyin' to see some clay court tennis action! damn and i'm still in the dark about whether juanqui is gonna play! he's had a bad season and i'm really genuinely worried bout his ranking, hay he's favorite player of all time!

anyway, moving on, i'm sad that i still don't have a copy of camile's song on the american idol 3 cd, i heard that she's really great there. thank God! somebody in kazaa has it but i'm still not finished downloading it. camile is my fave american idol finalist! anyway finals is comin up, it's between fantasia and diana. i really don't care who wins both have been really succesful anyway they're sure to get recording contracts naman eh. i heard that camile is in talks with babyface i hope that puches through i'm so gonna buy her cd. the original ones not the pirated copies hehe like the ones i buy when i don't have money!! guilty!

and so wala ngang cable so i'd just have to be content with the online updates that i'm gettin good luck sana bukas meron na kasi bukas ang game ni juan!

hay sobrang lapit na ng pasukan, i can smell it hehehe. i'm really excited coz we're in a new building now wala lang. ano kaya feeling ng bagong relocated hehe

hay naku!
ang tagal ko na ding hindi nakapag - blog kakainis kasi di ko naman makita ng maluwalhati ang kabuuan ng page kasi puro angelfire lang ang makikita! grrrr kainis sira kasi ang angelfire, matagal nang sira! hay kelan kaya mabubuo yun kaya hayun tinamad na ako magblog

well malapit na ang pasukan at super excited na ko na makareceive ng baon! bwahahaha magkakapera na naman ako!

eeeeeeeek bukas na! ang favorite grandslam ko! ang french open! it's just sad tho kasi yung fave player ko, if u haven't guessed it yet si juan carlos ferrero yun, eh di pa sure na maglalaro. he's been sidelined for the longest time because of illnesses! mean illnesses, earlier in this year's claycourt season nagkaroon sya ng chicken pox tapos nagkaroon naman ng wrist injury and stuff hay sadness talaga! sya pa naman ang defending champ and he's looking to defend his title. i just hope all the best for him. sana malaman nya na ako ang biggest fan nya! hehehe

sobrang saya ko dahil sa wakas nagkaroon na ng 'until you come back to me' ni camile sa kazaa at syempre pa download agad ako!!! hay sana macomplete na!!!!

briton33 strikes again!!!!

grrrr this guy doesn't know when to give up!! he thinks so highly of himself and considers all plain jasmine trias-voting filipinos as demented, narrow-minded, free-riders!!! the nerves of that guy!!!

hay today i got out of our house!! hurray!! i went to UP to visit and get some news, i was ready to help kasi lipat-tambayan na akala ko e di pa pala, hayun. i'm really excited to see our new tambayan but they say ot's real small and that it's gonna be crowded kasi we'd have to share a room with another org, inis dadalawa lang naman ang org sa stat bakit di pa bigyan ng tig-isang rooms dava?!?!? kung kelan naman dumami ang rooms tsaka lumiit ang mga tambayan! hmph!! grrrr

whatta feeling!!!

hay! nakaboto na ako! ngek medyo delayed, di kasi ako nakapag blog last night! i was too busy tryin to find ways to improve this blogsite! like adding pictures and stuff!! i'm so insatiable heheh.

i'm thinkin' of enrollin myself in an html class, i really wanna learn all this internet stuff, para na rin may mapapakita ko pag nag-apply ako diba?!?!? i gotta start thinkin of it already. oh no!!! my resume would be totally blank! minsan pag wala ako magawa, may resume template kasi yung isang pc - "family" pc - eh nagpapantasya ako kung anu ano nilalagay ko sa 'degrees' section, aside form my bachelor's degree nilalagyan ko ng mga MS at Ph.D.'s from universities like cambridge, oxford and MIT!!! hehehe i could only wish!

hay tennis season is coming up! the clay season is on a full swing pero i'm rally sad kasi my idol isn't faring well, na-sideline sya sa dami ng sakit na dumating, from chicken pox to wrist injuries!! wawa naman eh roland garros/french open is coming up pa naman e defending champ sya dun!! oh no! i dunno what will happen! di sya masyado nakakapractice! turn na nya ngayon to dominate the men's circuit kasi uber galing sya sa clay!! hay juan!! kung alam mo lang ako ang number 1 fan mo!!

my first time!!!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!

bukas na!!!! magiging lubos na ang aking pagka-pilipino, makaboboto na ko!!!!! i hope my "first time" would be a favorable one!

at bukas na din!.....ang paghaharap ni shiela a.k.a. dugyot at ni dugong!!!!

major improvement in my blog, it's now shaping to be what i wanted it to be!!!! i hope people would visit!! and leave their messages

just sharin this funny text message that i received tonight!
[*]sa darating na eleksyon, wag nating kalimutang ibalik si jinggoy sa kulungan, c enrile sa golden acres, si maceda sa golden gays, at si FPJ sa high school! [/*]

harharhar!!

well this night is forming to be a shitty one! i don't have anything to do

well election is coming up, it's on monday and today is the last day of campaigning so all i can watch on tv is non-stop election related commercials, nothing more to see than the candidates' faces, it's suffocating. it would be my first time to vote and i'm really excited! well i haven't made up my mind yet on who to vote but come monday i'll make up my mind. i hope this election would be peaceful and i truly hope na walang dayaang mangyayare!

whew! another day! i'm counting on the remaining days or weeks til i go back to school again. this year it's gonna be tough for sure coz it's my senior year already and i'm expected to graduate in march! that is if everything goes well! i'm crossing my fingers!

but all these graguating thing is really making me anxious. i'm not sure if i really wanna graduate and enter thye work force of this country, or another country for that matter. i'm like really afraid of graduating, plus i'm really enjoying my life as a student. heck my parents give me money and io don't have to work for it. i mean i've always enjoyed school ever since and i can't actually imagine myself out of school! well it would all be swell for i don't have to cram every now and then for an exam but the thought of leaving school is sending chills down my spine!

i really don't know what to do with my life, what i want to do with my life, i think i'm a floater just goin wherever life takes me. to tell you the truth i really can't see myself working, anywhere! my plans are only limited up to march of next year, any time beyond that i really don't know. for 16 years or so, my routine was just to go to school , that was the plan and now the plan would be fulfilled and io need another plan! fast!

i'm afraid of being unemployed! i'm afraid that it would upset my parents and that they would be disappointed at me!

i mean. i busted my ass off studying and i damn well deserve a nice job, but what if it doesn't happen?!?!? huuuwaaaahhh!!! magtricycle na lang kaya ako?!?!?

hay!! another day!!

today i went to my grandmother's funeral, my grandma from my dad. sa totoo lang di pa nakaka-isang buwan mula nung nilibing naman yung lolo ko na asawa nya. since then, na-open na naman ang buhay ko sa mga pinsang matagal na di ko nakikita! when i say matagal, i really mean matagal! dude i'm talking about a decade here! actually more than if i'd be so obsessive to be exact. so after a multitude of re-introduction, a thousand manos and smiles we got acquainted and got along with them. i'm not complaining but it's just that i can't help but think that my lofe sorta kinda changed, ewan ko but come to think of it life is all about change.

almost all of my cousins are married now and everytime i go there sumasakit ang tenga ko sa ingay ng mga bata!!! ang dami dami nila!!! ang sakit sakit ng katawan ko dahil ginagawa nila kaming living swings!!! huwaaaaaaaahhhhh!!! ang sakit pramis buong araw ka ba namang magpasan ng bata, kumandong ng bata at makipag habulan!! hallerr 20 years old na ko!!! haaaaay kakapagod talaga!

i'm rantin' coz of many things!!!
-i had to miss reading!!! i have assigned to read 2 chapters everyday of crime and punishment, so now i'm behind!!
-i missed john stevens' interview and PERFORMANCE on Entertainment Tonight!!! *major grrrrrr moment*
-i missed american idol on channel 5, it was country night and i so loved camile's DESPERADO there, i also wanted badly to see john stevens' KING OF THE ROAD!!! grrrrrrr!!!
-learned that our new tambayan would be very small!!! and we would hardly fit in the room that they assigned to us, we have to share it with another org pa?!?!?! i don't know how things would work out at that new building!!!

i'm ravin' coz
-i have this blog site!!! hehehe i found a site that offers codes to change the template and background!! yahooo!!! mag-eexperiment na naman ako!!!

somethings wrong with my kazaa ewan ko ba?!?!? di ako makadownload!! di ko tuloy matapos-tapos yung jamie cullum songs na i'm so raving about!

grrrrrr!!! this briton guy is making me go nuts!!!! he totally misses my point.

first it started with him entering this american idol forum which i frequent, we were totally happy there until this guy appeared and making all the bruhahaha about voting for jasmine just because she's filipina and not because of her talent. so then people reacted and i gave him a piece of my mind! i sad,

"why?!?!? what's wrong with "finding comfort in the thought that a half- or quarter- or part-filipino is doing something really well somewhere"?!?!?! e kasi naman feeling ko represented tayo or should i say kami, na that kind of talent somehow sprung from a this small part of the earth. just let us be.

basta i'm proud of her just knowing na she has filipino blood, kahit di nya aminin o anu man!"

i mean i'm totally entitled to my opinion right, and then the next thing he/she posted id

"represented kayo? insert snicker here*

well, my point is, if you personally think jasmine deserves to be the idol because she has talent and personality, then i say vote for her. but if u wanna vote for her only for the reason that she's filipino, i say you're nothing but a demented free-rider."

why not diba?!?!? i'll take it!! hell this is a free country! i can do whatever i want. and who is he to talk about talent and all this stuff!! grrrrr talaga kainis!!!! how i wish mabasa nya to!!!! grrrrrr to the millionth power sayo!!

a demented free rider?!?!?!? grrrrrrrrr!!! to hell with you whoever you are, i bet he/she is not even filipino! that's why he/she don't get it! i can surmise by his nick which happens to be briton!!

aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh!!!! to hell with you! our forum used to be nice and all supportive of our amercan idols!!!! grrrrr!!!

feeling sya!!! halleeeerrrrr peyups addict yata ako eh samantalang sya hamak na member lang! hmph! che!

heyah!

monday, sedate monday afternoon without anythin to do but to log-on to the internet,
as i was doing my routine of cheking my mail and checking out new posts at , an online community for UP students, i was enranged by a post! grrrr the nerves of that guy, he was questioning why filipinos vote for jasmine trias at american idol, just because she has filipina blood!!! grrrr i bet that guy's not even filipino coz he doesn't understand. well if you don't it's like this. we vote for her because we identify with her! and we're so glad and proud that she has filipino ancestry.

i don't really like her as much as i like camile velasco, who happens to be another filipina, and john stevens. i liked them because they have unique voices that set them apart from the other contestants!!

i'm raving for jamie cullum!! can't wait to download and sample some of his songs!!!

rock on!

yey!! i'm so excited! this is my first try in 'blogging' hehehe hopefully many people would visit and leave their comments!

uhmmm it's summer time here and we have no classes, that means i mope all day in our house watching tv and logging on to the internet

i'm currently in to american idol, but all of my bets have already been eliminated first camile velasco, then john stevens. but! jasmine trias is still there all of the filipinos all over the world are hoping for the best for jasmine! please vote for her. camile velasco is also filipino -american and she's really talented, i so love her voice!!