Casting the "sumpa" away

Its the time of the year again when I have to endure hours in a salon chair to remove any traces of my real hair or "the sumpa" as they call it in VO. I've had my rebond retouched yesterday in Victor Ortega as my curly hair is starting to grow already. Rebond works perfectly for me as I'm a wash 'n wear kind of girl. I don't want to be bothered with styling and all that. Until I had my hair cut short, of course. Having a short hair requires styling and blow drying to have volume. But the one of the perks of having a short hair is that Lance (my stylist in VO) gave me a free hair spa because hair rebond there is a fix Php 1,000 but since I have short hair they don't have to use as much medicine and spend less time ironing my hair.

After four hours of undergoing hot hair iron, the terrible smell of the medicine, listening to gay lingo which I have a hard time understanding and reading countless fashion magazines to pass by the time, my hair now looks like this! Yey! Well, there's really not much difference when seen in a pic. Lol

* I wonder where I was looking when I took this photo.*

I've had three rebonds done in Victor Ortega and I have no complaints. They also did my PC. Usually,my hair looks flat as a deflated balloon after a rebond but I was very specific that I want my hair to have a 'lil volume because I can't wash it for two days and supposedly I have work today. What I like about them is that they really listen to the customer's request and actually follow it. So if you want to have a rebond, I would suggest you go to Victor Ortega salon. They're rebond is very cheap but the results are as good as those in expensive salons.

My daily dose of happiness

I may be having a bad year...but I've got great friends who scare the boo boos away! When I'm with them I feel like all's good and I just hit a hump. I used to call "someone" my daily dose of happiness. Now, I have a whole lot of them to call my daily dose of happiness. (may ganon?? Lol)

Bring Back FRIENDS! Lol

I wish there would be a show as good as FRIENDS! After this TV show, everything just falls secondary. I still watch FRIENDS, when I want to feel good. I've watched all the episodes a gazillion times and yet I still find myself laughing. For lack of anything to do on a Saturday in the office, I youtube-d friends and entertained myself with FRIENDS' bloopers. There's a thin line as to where their characters end and where they real them comes in. Lol

Oh, and have been reading in E! Online that some of the previous FRIENDS star will have new shows. Well, Courney Cox's Cougar Town has started, so we'll just have to wait for the others. Yey yey yey!

Not again!

He promised he wasn't going to run for office when he was released from prison. Would you vote for someone who can't even keep a promise initially made? He will again make promises, and just like before won't keep them! You don't have to be a president to serve. Duh!!!

To Binay: Tandem with Erap will be your fall.
I, personally, like Binay. Maybe not as a president yet, but I think he could do good things. I just don't think it's wise being Erap's running mate. Well, it will boost his popularity for sure. Ah well..it's his choice, what do I know. All I know is that I ain't voting Erap. And will raise my brows at anyone who would say that they will vote for Erap. :-)

Good find

On the way home from a client, I passed by a book sale shop with an Alice Sebold book in the display window I decided to go in and take a look. I never had much luck in book sales before...until yesterday! I was able to buy three books, two of which are hard bound and in very good condition. Isn't that great??

I loved Fielding's first book of Bridget Jones albeit being shallow, so I didn't think twice when I saw the hard bound version of Edge of Reason. Alice Sebold's Almost Noon is almost new. There are no folds in the pages, no marks on the front cover. And it's only Php 120! I liked Lovely Bones, I hope this one would be too. The best buy would be Michael Cunningham's The Hours. I saw it when about to leave the shop. For its value, it was way underpriced. They were only selling it for 40 effin pesos. I guess they didn't know how great the book is!

**Nothing beats the smell of books, whether new or old. I always smell the pages before reading it. That's why I was never a fan of e-books. I just think I'm cheating on the books. Well, that's just me.

Hey hey hey!

this video is for every bitter person out there, yes, including me! Haha. I may not be able to bring myself to say that curse, but if I do curse, that would be the first thing I would say to them. Lol. Gotta remind myself again to LET GO! :-))

Worst Hand Job Ever!

One of our local mag has been noticed...but not in a good way? We all know every face in a magazine is photoshopped, heck, we (non-celebs) even do it at times. Just make sure the result wont look like a wax version of you, eh? Or in this case, a disfigured hand.

from Photoshop Disasters

**I still LOVE Mega Magazine, though. Its my fave (local) fashion mag! Plus they're one of my clients. Lol

How do I get there?

When '09 started, I claimed that this will be an awesome year for me. That it will be MY year...Well, it didn't go as I wanted it to be. In fact, this is the worst year of my life.

My relationship with my (then) boyfriend of seven friggin years went downhill just when the year was starting. I went to a phase of depression which I tried to hide and forget with pigging out, drinking and spending! It lasted for a few months and even now that (I think) I'm over that phase, it still resurfaces every now and then. When I was pretty much back on my feet, I decided to concentrate on work, which isn't very easy as there are so many office issues. I like my job, I like the industry I'm in but I wasn't getting the results I expected to get. I hate mediocrity, but that's basically the perfect word for my career. My finances is hot 'n cold. For some unknown reasons, money seems to pass by my hands in seconds. I have no idea where it goes. So needless to say that I'm not richer than I was in '08.

I seem to be always in want of something I don't know. I know I can do better than where I am right now, I just don't how to start getting to that "better" place. The song, Gotta Be More to Life, is the soundtrack of my year.

The year is about to end. Most who are in the same boat as I are probably relieved that this year is ending but I'm not. I used to love hearing Christmas songs but now I cringe when I hear one. And I hear them everywhere nowadays! Christmas for me means the end of year. And I just don't want it to come yet as nothing spectacular have happened yet. I don't want this year to end as it is. I keep praying and wishing that 2009 won't go down in history as annus horribilis. It just can't!

I am literally in a gutter. I look at the stars and I tell myself that's where I want to be. The question is, how do I get there?

Weird Wonders

Moeraki- New Zealand


It is said by the Maoris that some of the surviving crew of the Araiteuru canoe were turned into stone and became mountains. The Moeraki boulders are said to be the pots and chattels from the canoe.

These large, spherical, alien and strangely beautiful boulders are mainly located on Koekohe Beach, part of the Otago coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Known as “Moeraki Boulders” they were originally formed on the sea floor from sedimentary deposits that accreted around a core in the same way that a pearl will form around a particle of sand. The erosion of the cliffs often reveals these boulders from the surrounding mudstone allowing them to join those already on the beach. Some of the larger boulders weigh several tonnes and can be up to three metres wide.

Maori legend attributes their origin to the arrival of the first ancestors / giants who came in the great Araiteuru canoe which was sunk by three great waves at nearby Matakaea.

Blue Holes- The Bahamas

The Great Blue Hole is located in the Light House Reef aproximately halfway between Long Caye and Sandbore Caye. It is about 60 miles east from the mainland of Belize (city). In 1997 it was designated as a World Heritage site.

Found on both land and in the ocean throughout the Bahamas are deep circular cavities known as Blue Holes which are often the entrances to cave networks, some of them up to 14 kilometres in length. Divers have reported a vast number of aquatic creatures some of which are still new to science. In addition, they’ve recorded chambers filled with stalactites and stalagmites which only form in dry caves. For the explorers this was proof that at one time, nearly 65,000 years ago, when the world was in the grip of the last major ice age, the sea level of the Bahamas was up to 150 metres lower than it is today. Over time the limestone of the islands was eroded by water and vast cave networks created. When sea levels rose again about 10,000 years ago some of these collapsed inwards land the Blue Holes were formed


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Make your imprint!

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the 2010 election is the catalyst that will bring about the change that this country needs? I think that Filipinos have had enough of the past (present included) administrations crappy-ness and everyone is closely watching the candidates for next year's election.

If you haven't registered yet, you have three weeks to do so. Before opening your mouth to pinpoint the wrong doings of the government, make sure that you do your part as well. The first step to that is to register. It doesn't matter if you don't know who to vote yet, because trust me, (almost) everyone haven't really decided yet. And don't give me BS bout your vote being useless because people with power who will eventually find a way to cheat the results. Listen, apathy is this nation's worst enemy.

Check the Comelec website if you don't know where to register. I registred last month, and it only took me less than an hour. So, get your butt moving and practice your right! Make thatimprint because YOU can make that change!

Can I e-mail this to our President & CEO?

A little exaggeration won't kill us.