Are you a Facebook gamer?

Hey guys!

If you're playing the following Facebook games:

1) Restaurant City
2) Country Story
3) Farm Town
4) Farm Ville

Please let me know because I need more friends. Just send me your email address or the name you use in Facebook. I promise that it will be strictly games and nothing more. I won't bug you or anything.

Thanks guys. :)

Btw, I'll be posting entries about my recent HK trip and reviews about some of the products I bought. I bought a lot of masks and mascara.

Salamat po, Tita Cory (Thank you, Auntie Cory)

Ako ay nakikiisa sa aking bayan sa pagdadalamhati sa pagpanaw ng pinakamagaling at pinakamamahal naming pangulo, si Corazon C. Aquino.
Hindi sapat ang mga salita para bigyang pugay ang kanyang pagkatao.
Hindi sapat ang mga salita para ipakita kung gaano ang pagpapasalamat sa kanya.
Hindi sapat ang mga salita para ilarawan ang aming pagdadalamhati sa kanyang pagkamatay.

At tiyak, na hindi sapat ang mga salita para ipaabot sa kanya kung gaano namin siya kamahal.

I am one with my country in mourning the passing of our great President Corazon C. Aquino. Words are not enough to describe how great of a person she is. Words are not enough to show the gratitude of the Filipino people. Words are not enough to show how much we mourn her death.

Words...
are...
definitely...
not enough to show...
how much...
we...
love...
her.

Dahil kay Tita Cory, nanumbalik muli ang pagmamahal namin sa sariling bayan at lahi.
Because of Tita Cory, our sense of pride of being a Filipino and our love for our country has been revived.

Mananatili siyang buhay sa aming mga puso.
She will forever live in our hearts.

Kami, ang buong bayan, ay nangangako na pananatilihin ang demokrasya.
Kami, ang buong bayan, ay nangangako na mamahalin ang isa't-isa.
Kami ang buong bayan ay nangangako na ipagpapatuloy kung ano ang sinimulan ni Tita Cory.

We, as a nation promise to preserve the democracy in our country.
We, as a nation promise to love each other.
We, as a nation promise to continue what Tita Cory has started.

Maraming salamat po Tita Cory.
Hanggang sa muli, paalam.

Thank you very much Tita Cory.
'Til we meet again.

Prayer for a Happy Death

"Almighty God, most merciful Father
You alone know the time
You alone know the hour
You alone know the moment
When I shall breathe my last.

So, remind me each day,
most loving Father
To be the best that I can be.
To be humble, to be kind,
To be patient, to be true.
To embrace what is good,
To reject what is evil,
To adore only You.

When the final moment does come
Let not my loved ones grieve for long.
Let them comfort each other
And let them know
how much happiness
They brought into my life.
Let them pray for me,
As I will continue to pray for them,
Hoping that they will always pray
for each other.

Let them know that they made possible
Whatever good I offered to our world.
And let them realize that our separation
Is just for a short while
As we prepare for our reunion in eternity.

Our Father in heaven,
You alone are my hope.
You alone are my salvation.
Thank you for your unconditional love, Amen."

-Corazon C. Aquino

1933-2009

Cory Aquino 1933-2009

Wanted: HK Shopping Buddy

First stop, I have to thank Miumiu for replying to my question. Her HK shopping guide will be very helpful in planning my shopping agenda. But I am still scared to go to HK alone. I'm always with my family and I even give them the directions. We were just there last January so I'm pretty sure I still know my way around HK but I am getting really paranoid.

First, I am opting to stay in a guesthouse/hostel to spare more money for shopping, but really, I'm in a tight budget. Second, there have been two abductions that happened to tourists this year and the accid attacks in Mongkok. Third, I am getting really paranoid, what if I get mental block and forget the directions, etc?

I do not want to cancel my trip again, so I am hoping that i can find a travel buddy or a blogger from Hong Kong who can show me around even for just half of the day, just so I can refresh my memory and gain back my confidence.

Any bloggers out there going to Hong Kong on the second week of August?

Any bloggers from Hong Kong willing to show me around even just for half the day? I'll treat you for lunch, breakfast and bus or MTR fare.

Anybody want to be my shopping buddy?

Pretty please... anybody?

Where to buy?

Hey Guys, I need your help. I'm lemming for some Japanese fashion and beauty magazines but we don't have them here in the Philippines. I would usually buy mine whenever I'm in Hong Kong but I'm planning my trip four months from now. I would also buy from Amazon Japan but the shipping is getting too costly.

Do you have uggestions where I can buy Japanese magazines online?

Thanks in advance lovely ladies! :)

Beauty Credit: Charcoal Nose Pore Cleansing Patch

It's been a couple of weeks now since I last posted a beauty review. Hmmm... maybe not, but it're reallybeen a while since I posted something beauty related. Aside from being busy with school work, I've also been addicted to playing Restaurant City. I can't explain why its addicting so you should try it out yourself. Actually, I'm writing this blog while my resto in Restaurant City is running. Need to get 10,000 customers!!!! *insert greedy laugh* hehehe

My resto in Restaurant City. I named it "Oishii ne". :)

If anybody is playing or has Restaurant City please add me up in facebook, I badly need some tomatoes, pumpkins and chili.

Let's move on to main reason of this entry. Presenting the Charcoal Nose Pore Cleansing Patch from Beauty Credit.

You can also buy this in a pack of three or four, I think.

This review has been long overdue since I already tried this last month. I got it in Watson's SM Mall of Asia for P35.00, 60 cents or more when translated to US dollar.

I was planning on getting more directions from the Beauty Credit website: http://beautycredit.co.kr/ but their English website was not available.

Beauty Credit's Korean website

So I just relied on the SA's instructions. I was planning on including a li'l background about Beauty Credit since the brand only arrived in the Philippines recently and they only have one stall w/c is inside SM MOA's Watson's. What attracted me to try this prod was the packaging... as usual.

It's acutally simple but I like the drawing very much.

And my curiosity for Korean branded products because I've only tried their BB cream and nail polish. The nose strip looks like your typical nose strip, except that it has charcoal in it. I already tried a similar nose strip but it didn't work so well from me.

I didn't want to ruin the packaging so I tore off the top portion.

I followed the SA instructions dilligently, which is to wet my nose and the pore strip before I put it on my nose. I thought to myself maybe the reason why the Bench charcoal pore strip didn't work so well before was because I didn't wet the strip before I detached it from the plastic film. So it was hard for me to remove it from the film and I ended up wasting more than half of the strip.

Anyway, I hoped for the better for this one since I was confident that the SA gave me the right intstructions. But lo and behold...

Such a waste...

A lot of the charcoal cream thing remained on the plastic film and...



it was so messy to put on. If you look closely at the picture above, you'll see that the sides of my nose was temporarily stained by the charcoal cream thing. It was not a joy putting this on.

I waited for it to harden and it worked like a typical nose strip. Except it was messy and wasteful.

You'll buy this because:
1) The price is quite alright.
2) The packaging is cute enough.
3) It works like a typical nose pore strip. Not so bad at all...

You won't buy this because...
1) Bench has a cheaper version, it sells for P22.00, I think.
2) It's messy to put on and you'll waste most of that charcoal cream thing...
3) It doesn't do anything special.
4) You're better off using a typical white nose pore strip.

I guess history does repeat itself and I never learned from my experience with the previous charcoal pore strip. I'll just buy the regular white one. It's so addictive when you finally can remove the hardened strip from your nose and see all those... you know what I mean! heheh

Got any suggestions, ladies?

Are you also addicted to using pore strips?