Category Archives: Shopping Finds

Magic Tree House Series

Ito ang aking unico hijo, nagbabasa ng isa sa mga aklat ng Magic Tree House series. Gustung-gusto niya ang mga aklat na ito at katunayan, isang araw niya lang binabasa ang isang aklat. Me konting problema nga lang, dahil mahilig siya sa numero, gusto niya dapat sunud-sunod ang mga book na babasahin niya 😉

Magic Tree House

Meron ding siyang ilang series na kinahiligan kagaya ng Geronimo Stilton at Top Gear (hehe, iba na to) na dapat sunud-sunod din ang pagbasa at pagpanood sa season.

Ang mga numero tungkol sa Formula One: standing, scores, speed, haba ng race tracks, at number of turns nito  (dinikta niya itong mga ito) ay kanyang gino-Google. Dati ang hilig niya ay size ng smallest at biggest countries at mga population nito 😀

Numero, bow. Yan ang hilig ng anak kong lalaki.

Online Shopping with Ayos Dito

School year 2010 – 2011 will be starting two weeks from now and we are on the look-out for school supplies. Being home-bound on most days, I thought of looking for these things we need online and turned to classified ads just in case I won’t be able to go to the mall to buy what the children need.

And I found this bag over at AyosDito.ph.

For a price of PhP1,000, it is a good bargain because the bag looks roomy to contain all my son’s books and yet looks sturdy enough to last through the school year. Plus I don’t have to get tired going to the mall and choosing the best bag from so many alternatives to choose from. Expenses can double too especially with the children going with me and wanting to dine there.

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Excuses to Have a Netbook

I think I need to have a netbook. My laptop is uber heavy and uber big causing my aching arms/shoulders to further feel pain.

aspire

This is the husband’s Acer Aspire which I sometimes borrow whenever I need to go somewhere. I love the long battery life and lightness which is just perfect to carry around. Of course the small screen size might do further damage to my already blurred vision (I don’t need reading glasses yet, thank you very much, 😀 ) but I am not scared since the fonts can be made bigger when needed.

Excuses. They’re not 😉

Enough Blood on the Ballot

Make a Stand for Democracy Now: Enough Blood on the Ballot

With the 2010 Philippine Elections just a few days away, we have to make one of the most important decisions for our country by voting for leaders that our hearts, minds and  conscience dictate to us.

The Ampatuan Maguindanao Massacre which still has to be solved and seems to be on the track of not being solved still haunts many people, the victims’ families, the journalists and ordinary citizens till now.

Triggered by this fatal incident, Cherie Paris watches encourages people to stand up and be heard by saying “NO!” to electoral violence.

Enough Blood on the Ballot

A photographic tableau “Not Today” was created by visual artist and photograher Wawi Navarroza as a reminder to call for a clean, honest and peaceful Philippine elections. This will be featured in a billboard along EDSA, Mandaluyong.

News photos from the media and Francisco de Goya’s cathartic painting, The Third of May, 1808, are some of the inspirations that Navarroza looked at to create this  “critical piece that comments and re-imagines the absurdity of violence by staging a thought-provoking Real/Unreal tableau vivant”.

Not Today, The Third of May, 1808, where the Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies during the occupation of 1808 happened, also served as a poignant reaction against political violence.

“I got interested in re-creating a shared pathos, a familiar disturbing image as a way of addressing the problem,” Wawi Navarroza said

“I’ve designed this piece to function in many levels through the different contexts I staged this photo to be read (billboard, gallery, commercial),” explains the contemporary artist. “The work aims to destabilize our usual reception of images in order for us to remember and rethink how images shape our ideas and opinions in a massive insidious way. I’ve decentralized the meaning in this picture by depicting reality mirrored as fiction.”

She adds further: “That this photograph seems to be parading the Theatre of the Absurd is nothing different to the absurdity of massacre, war, atrocity and violence.  People have died for pointless reasons, the “senseless” killings (is there sensible killing?), the blood-stained election votes.  We all know it’s starting to feel like circus around here.  We’re living in a cabaret of underhanded politics… the huddled masses with collective amnesia, the trigger-happy demons on wheels, sequined evangelists, stupid whitening products, scams and scandals, the madmen and monsters who are willing to do horrendous acts of violence in exchange of…what?  This is our dark comedy, our self-styled campy horror show.”

The Time is Now

Not Today, Limited Edition Cherie Paris watch

In cooperation with Cherie Paris watches, the tableau Not Today, a limited edition Cherie Paris watch was launched as a reminder that NOW is the time we have to make a stand against electoral violence, brutality and bloodshed.

The “Peace” watch reminds Filipinos that it’s about time we emerge from behind our mobile phones, behind television sets and behind our Facebook and Twitter accounts and take an active and visible stand against electoral violence.

The Peace watch is designed by Wawi Navarroza and features a short hand that reads “It’s about time” and a long hand showing the words “Enough blood on the ballot,” emblazoned as strong symbols of peace, as well as non-violent and honest elections.

Sign the petition here and let your voice be heard when you say “Enough Blood on the Ballot

For more information about Urban Time and Wawi Navarroza’s anti-violence advocacy, please visit www.urbantime.com.ph. Limited-edition Cherie Paris “Peace” watch is available at The Urban Time boutique in SM North EDSA Annex and select Robinsons and Metro Gaisano department store.


Boysen KNOxOUT Air Cleaning Paint

With the only son afflicted with asthma, we try to keep him “safe” by not engaging in activities that will make him tired. Dried perspiration and extreme weather changes (hot – cold – dry cool air) among others also cause him to wheeze profusely.

I know, perhaps a beachfront home is the best environment for him especially since it is mostly the air pollution that causes these asthma attacks.

Every day, millions of Filipinos brave the danger of having to breathe heavily polluted air. According to the Philippine Environment Monitor 2007, exposure to air pollution caused 5,000 premature deaths in Metro Manila. Air has become a silent killer. Source.

When I heard about Boysen KNOxOUT Air Cleaning Paint, I was surprised to know that there is such a paint that will help make a structure have cleaner air around it.

Here is proof that it works when the MRT 2 Guadalupe Station was painted with Boysen KNOxOUT Air Cleaning Paint.

How  does it work? Watch it here (sorry don’t know how to make the video smaller 😀  ):

Interested to buy Boysen KNOxOUT Air Cleaning Paint? Click here.

How can you help? Volunteer a wall. Volunteer your time. Donate paint here at One Wall One World

Join the One Wall One World Facebook page here.