West River Side

I had one helluva week and one helluva morning. I had cried, laugh, laugh while I cried and simply put. I was at the point of breaking down. So I had to taker a leave. After a presentation in which client basically ruined my day, I decided to have some me time. My back has been bothering me for a couple of days and I needed some rest. Waking up at 5am didn't particularly help. My brother and I had a scheduled appointment for target shooting at Stronghand Shooting Range in E. Rodriguez (nearing Cubao). I forgot to search for directions so halfway down E. Rodriguez, I had to call up the range and ask for directions. We arrived just in time for the session. Stronghand Shooting Range I was giddy with excitement - after all, this is one for the books, my first time to hold a gun, let alone my first time to attend a learning session with my brother. Shooting Range When we arrived, we had to leave our ID with the guard and register at the front desk (filling up an info shee...

They say that you need to save at least 20% of your salary for the future. In order to at least get near the 20%, I try to avoid going to malls, choosing to stay home instead to avoid temptation. But the curious shopper in me, refuses to rest. I find myself going through a lot of websites and drool over the clothes and bags. If you think all I do is save pictures, think again, thanks/no thanks to paypal, my retail therapy goes to online shopping. My three weakness? 1. Ebay with its value for money purchases. Sellers, stop selling lovely things at cheaper than mall prices x_x 2. Apple.  App purchases and in app purchases (Anyone agree with me for Smurf and Snoopy? I have had multiple five dollar purchases.) Itunes recently launch their music store locally. uh-oh. If I want a song badly, I may be tempted to just click the Buy for 99cents button.  3. Discount coupons. The thought of getting things at a fraction of the cost is so tempting. Take that of my article on Pisobi...

It's wonderful if you love something and you discover that an acquaintance love it as well. There is an instant connection. I collect Eiffel Towers and Owls. I use the term collect loosely, while I have stumbled upon a lot of stuff with Eiffel Towers, sometimes, its just too heavy on the pocket to buy them all. Anyway, majority of employees (from the company I work for) were gathered together to do a flash mob. Since it was at the hottest time of the day, I kept my head bowed because I couldn't see anything if I look up. One thing led to another and I saw that one of my new office mate had an Eiffel Tower tattooed on her ankle! I love it! If only I could get one, but I can't but its amazing to find someone who shares the same interest as you do. :) Of Eiffel Towers and Owls. :)

Today was one of the worst day to cap of my short work week. I had a 9AM meeting at work so in order to be there super early, I left my house at 7AM, normally drive time will take an hour to a maximum of an hour 20 minutes. Needless to say, after getting stuck in Aurora Boulevard for 30 minutes and believing a police officer's word that there was a stalled 10 wheeler truck, I was on my way to Makati via Shaw Boulevard/Accacia Road when my friend sent an SMS that there was no stalled truck to begin with. What irritated me further was that it took me two and a half hours to get to work because of this. I was later on a really bad bad day to be late and I couldn't find anyone to blame except for foolishly believing a person of authority. :( I arrived at our office and the meeting had already started. The big boss was looking at me as to communicate who is this and why is she late? May the floor open up to swallow me please. When it was my time to present, the client asked a ...

Whenever people can ask me what my favorite color is, I always have a difficult time deciding which color I want. Sometimes I like green, sometime blue, sometimes yellow or on some occasions, pink. I have always loved color after going through a dark phase. By dark I mean, wearing black, white, gray and navy blue. The more colorful, the better. This applies to all things. Sometimes, I stumble upon items so silly but so colorful, I love it. My mother is 100% for it :) This used to be a white table. We spruced it up with a new coat of paint. I found this jar at a store. While its quite small, but the cover is so dainty, I just had to have it Found this scarf  at a bargain bin This Japanese print was too cute to forego Embrace color!

I really love the Resort collection for 2013. While I never post pictures from runways, I can't help but love these pieces from Gucci and Monique Lhuillier.  Monique Lhuillier Resort 2013 I love how it captures the silhouette of the model The bold pink belt is a bright addition Higs in all the right places Gucci Resort 2013

Couponing websites will be the death of my credit card (not to mention itunes) I have had many charges but have yet to use them but so far, majority of my purchases have been fantastic. I availed of the Yoshinoya 50% off on Metrodeal and purchased 6 coupons. Little did I know that the coupons were about to expire in 5 days. My Yoshinoya love started even before I went to Japan, going to Japan sealed it even further. You see the beef in Yoshinoya is so tender that it can literally melt in your mouth (the way I remembered it since I stopped eating beef a year and a half ago). When I went to japan, contrary to the fast food look locally, the Yoshinoya’s there look like hole in the wall shops with bar stools – it looks like your typical canteen but cleaner. I had Yoshinoya for breakfast almost every single day. It was that good. The rice alone was superb. Anyway, since the GCs were expiring, we had to use them while it was still the weekend. We headed to Robinson’s Galleria wit...

After a long time of being cooped up inside the house due to the on-going construction of the QC roads that even our gates were blocked, it was high time to go out and de-stress with some retail therapy. We headed to Forever 21 for some affordable finds and my friend ended up bringing 2 bags full of clothes (11 pieces to be be exact) while I stopped myself from overspending and settled with 2 dresses. I would have wanted to purchase the vest and a black pleated skirt but I thought about my closet and dropped them down. My friend and I was each other’s stylist critiquing how an item looks on the other. I had a grand time choosing items for my friend since she was long due for a shopping spree. My friend wants to hide her tummy so my rules for her were: 1.        No details in the tummy area, details can be found near the legs or neck 2.         Create a silhouette – hide tummy with long vest that can elongate you ...