Rosa Clara Wedding Gown

Simple? Elegant? Sophisticated? YES!!!! they are major component to a beautiful wedding gown. I would say that wedding gown you used on your wedding day has something to do not only with the theme of your wedding day but also with your character.

Look at this wedding gown from Rosa Clara.

 Check on their facebook page as they offer a wide range of wedding gown that is just right for you.

Themes and Motifs Wedding Expo

Yey!!! I did print the confirmation already....

What about you? Are you coming?

If you are planning to get married or organizing an event.... This is just the right event for you...

Book and get a chance to win some exciting giveaways and lots and lots of discount....

Register at their website.... www.themesnmotifs.com

See you there!

Fanny Serrano Wedding Gown Creation

Deciding on what specific wedding gown would you use is one of the biggest consideration on your wedding day.

Of course every lady wanted to be at their best wedding gown on their wedding day.

If you are planning your wedding day already why not try to attend those wedding fair. You'll have a chance to talk to this magnificent wedding designer. Plus you would get more discount if you book them to design your wedding gown.

Here are sample work from Fanny Serrano.

Please bear my photo quality as I am still learning how to use my Point and Shoot camera.

Marry Me at Marriot Hotel A Grand Wedding Fair

This is long way over due but I am posting it anyway along with the many great experiences I and my family had.

Getting married is one of the best things in life. It is simply a magical affair. An affair which everyone's gets so excited. The twinkling eyes of the bride and the widening grin smile of the groom. The teary eyed mother and the proud father. The cheerful smile and laughter of the kids. These are the usual scenes during the wedding day.

The bride seems to be the most beautiful girl in her wedding dress.

The Hotel

This was my second time to enter to this grand hotel. If someone would give me a chance to choose which hotel to stay for just one day I would definitely recommend Marriott Hotel. Customer service is superb. They treat their customer so well that I myself would be ashamed and will not be demanding too much from them (hehe).

So if you are planning to spend a very special occasion or visiting Manila/Philippines go to Marriott Hotel!

The Event:

Of course I my friend/manager/colleague Kessa invited me to join the said wedding fair event. As I love attending such gathering I agreed.

I had fun with the talks. The tips are really so interesting, its learning with a fun. The booths are fantastically amazing and inviting. The people on the booth are so friendly and wanted to talk to every guest to identify their needs during their wedding.

The following day, I went with my cousin Heather, my mom and my sister Elaine. I wanted them to experience what I am experiencing.

When we went their the fashion show is about to start so we decided to watch it.

The wine was serve. I so love those red wine.

The runway.....

The cat way......

Cosplay: Into the new Fashion World

Cosplaying is really in for today’s generation. A growing number of cosplayers are really putting too much of their effort, time and money into their outfit/costume.

What is cosplaying?

According to Wikipedia, Cosplay came from the root word Costume Play. It is a type of performance where people/performer dress up on their desired costume. The performers are called Cosplayers and they interact with each other creating a subculture centered on a play.

In the Philippines, Malls and parks are the usual avenue for cosplayers to meet and greet. Fashion shows are organized to showcase the best costumes and designers. According to my colleague cosplayers favorite sources of their costumes came from Manga and anime, comic books, video games and films. It is basically any entity from the real or virtual world that could inspire them to come up with a dramatic interpretation can be taken as a subject of their cosplay costumes.

Many became really famous by cosplaying not only in Philippine Arena but rather all across Asia. One of them is Alodia Goshien…..

Myrtle Sarrosa also is a cosplayer who recently won the Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition.

Both represent a subset of cosplay culture centered around sex appeal. According to wekipedia, this subset of cosplayers specifically chooses their characters that are known for their attractiveness and/or revealing (even explicit) costumes.

There are also other types or kinds of cosplayers, “the dollers”, wherein they represent a different type of niche. According to Wikipedia these type of group is called kigurumi in Japan which means “mascot”- style role players. They are basically covered from head to foot or they hide their real image to the public by wearing a head dress or head gears. They could be robots, space alien, or even animal. A doller could be a female representing a male character or vice versa.

Francis Veloso

  

Mike Rider Black

My colleague Marie Tinio is a female doller who wears Gekichoper costume.

Marie Angelique Tinio

Other cosplayers are:

Loki Heart

Serreniethy Fiona

 Please note that all photo's were taken on their facebook accounts.

Street foods in the Philippines

Every time a foreigner ask me about a famous street foods in the Philippines the first one that pop up in my mind is Balut. Balut is one of our exotic food in the Philippines. It is an egg that wasn't fully developed into a check. Normally, Balut is an egg of a duck (itik).

Another famous Filipino food is this delicious BIBINGKA a kind of rice cake that captivates every Filipino's taste buds. This famous rice cake is really popular during December (Simbang Gabi)

Another street food is really famous to every Filipino most specially people from Manila. You can find this food almost everywhere. You can find it in every MRT and LRT stations. Personally I like this food when I am drinking liquor.

My Hilot Experience

I have been complaining about back ache and also shoulder and shoulder blades that are so painful. It sounded like my muscle are screaming at me telling me that they need some relaxation. I felt exhausted and tired. Sometimes this pain is also the reason why I cant sleep.

So a friend of mine (Glenda) told me that she could do a traditional way of relaxation and or massage. So then I agreed and gave her a synthetic coconut oil. She said it would be best if we could just use either a natural coconut oil or an oil that is Herbal.

Since we are in the city it is kinda hard to find some of this herbal oils. She then suggested to use an alternative oil which is the efficascent oil. She then started massaging me. She focuses on the nodules at my back for almost an hour. After her hilot I felt far better however she said she would like to do it again on Wednesday before she will fly to Dubai.

Her action to adhere to someone else's needs. To be compassionate and kindhearted and totally accommodating is another example of Filipino Culture I am truly proud of. 

What is the difference between HILOT and MASSAGE?

Both would mean the same thing to massage or to make the person relaxed. However, a Hilot is coined in managing and treating musculoskeletal pain, joint pains, sometimes dislocated joints or joint dysfunction while massage is merely for relaxation. While both has the capacity to remove nodules.

Also a manghihilot don,t receive any monetary form of payment. They believed that when they accept a monetary form of payment the illness wont be healed. What people normally do is they would either leave the oil that they brought with them or they would bring sugar, coffee or snack. While Massage Therapist accept payment as they are doing this for a living.

Another difference is when you go to a massage therapist they normally massage you from head to foot while hilot would only focus on a certain part where it is painful or where there is joint dysfunction.

Cleaning up your house After the Flood

Cleaning up your house after it is being submerged with flood water.

In this situation our main focus and goal here is to make it Habitable as soon as possible.

Safety First - of course we would like to ensure that we don't injure ourselves while we are cleaning the house. 

We would need the following:

• surgical face mask
• sturdy gloves
• wash water
• hand wash soap
• Isoprohyl Alcohol
• safety glasses

SWITCH OFF HOUSE POWER

We would like to ensure that everything is safe in the house because the house was submerged with water we don't know if there are electrical wiring that may have been impacted or damage due to the flood. The sockets or plugs might have been damaged as well. Use battery operated tools and flash light.

While cleaning the house TIMING is really essential. Don't be in a hurry. As we have seen, several or if not most of the time flood water recede and then come back with a vengeance. Always have those transistor radio on to make sure you are updated from time to time. If you're living nearby a creek then make sure to evacuate your house even before the creek hits its critical level.

WHERE TO START?

Since the house is submerged with water we need to remove all clothing and linen items. Place them in a plastic or soak them in water with laundry soap and a good amount of ZONROX ( I normally use the color safe bleach) to at least disinfect the clothes and linen. Next is to remove or bring out your furnitures, appliances and other soft furnishing such as carpets and linoleum. 

Next is to box or pack everything from utensils to decorations to CD's etc. After packing them put them outside your house as well.

Have your appliances checked by an electrician to see if it is repairable or it is as good as junk already.

When everything is outside already or when you generally strip off your house it is now the washing and disinfecting the whole house.

We would need the following:

• Detergent Powder soap - First I would mop the house with detergent soap. This is to make sure the dirt and flood residue is removed.

• MOP and Bucket - At first I use the conventional mop however recently I found out that there is this kind of mop in the market where it has spinner to dry the mop. At least I don't have to touch and squeeze the mop already.

•  Then after washing the whole house (walls and floor) with soap and water I then wash it again with a very good amount of bleaching liquid or in this case I usually use ZONROX Bleach. I use this to disinfect the whole house.

• After bleaching and drying the house I use Fabric softner as a finishing touches of my cleaning agenda.

• So after, washing the house I would mop the whole floor and walls with dry rags.

After cleaning and drying the walls and floor of the house. Make sure that electrical wiring are checked by a qualified electrician. This is to avoid someone from the house being electricuted or the house to be burning because of short circuits.

RUGBY FOOTBALL at MRT STATIONS

Nowadays, infrastructures are built almost everywhere with the goal of keeping everyone's convenience and safety. The over pass and underpass are built to ensure the safety of the motorist. Bridges are built to tone down the traffic.

Another development that made the masses even more happy is to build the MRT and LRT. I myself liked it too because of the fact that it is cheap and fast. I can get from end point to end point in a couple of minutes. I do think that it is designed to help the grass roots have at least a cheaper mode of transportation.

I use MRT and LRT because I hate the rush hour traffic. However though, many times that I have to either hold my breath and try to push my self against a swarm of people flocking in or I would just let it go and just do a return trip from the starting point to the end point and back to where I should stop.

As other's say, when you buy the MRT Ticket its all up to you. No one care's (even the management) if you are old, young, lady, the moment that door opens be ready to play RUGBY FOOTBALL or just wait and ride back.

I must say though that this kind of scenario is actually visible during rush hour.

My Monsoon Rain Experience

Last August 6 2012 to August 9 2012, most part of the Philippines were blanketed with clouds and huge amount of rains. Most part of Metro Manila were flooded  water's are dripping on the walls of my apartment. The clouds are dark and the sun seems to be hiding somewhere over those heavy pith dark clouds.

After few days of intense rainfall water floods are rushing inside the house. Everyone in the house tries to look for a dry place to sleep during the days. It is indeed my first time of everything, to sleep in a wet mattress or cold wet floor.

 I would say I am still really lucky to have a tiny place to stay compared to this other families in the metro who lost not only their homes but a family or members of the family. I am lucky since I only lost my material belongings and not a dear friend or a family member or even the source of my income.

However, there were thoughts during these cold days and wet nights that struck my illusive mind. Is this happening because of the unpredictable weather condition and climate change. Before, when we say monsoon rain it wont cause us much of a trouble but these days it gives us more rains it drops a month of rainfalls in few days or even hours.

Or, is it because of incapacitated mentality of its residences. Undisciplined humanity. Every night I see tons of garbage along the highway. Worst, during those days I see plastics of garbage's floating at the side wishing this flood to take this garbage somewhere else away from them.

Or the obsolete drainage system that was designed 20 to 50 years ago. Or the growing up population living in those creeks that was used to be a place for running water to flow.

Well whatever the cause may be, we cant blame nature. This elongated heavy rains leaves us all a lesson to learn from.