directtv for my birthday?

in about an hour, i will have to sing the most popular song in the world to myself. lol. my birthday is so near and i still don't have a gift for myself. i wonder if i really need to give myself one. come to think of it , i deserve to treat myself, right? how about ditching our cable tv subscription and replacing it with a Satellite TV? i'm not really a tv person but i guess my husband and my son would love me more if i get them this. i guess making my loved ones happy is one great gift i could myself. so now i'm off to Compare Satellite Deals. ciao!

making myself even more beautiful

in just three days, i'm gonna have to say goodbye to the 3rd decade of my life. thanks to my loving husband for that gentle reminder. :D lately i've been complaining to him that i feel fat and a bit ugly too. i am now at 140 lbs and i'm not even pregnant (yet). at my 9th month of pregnancy with my son, i weighed 146 lbs. imagine, i'm just 6 lbs away from my pregnancy weight. i should have been targeting my pre-pregnancy weight (120 lbs) and not the pregnancy one. i think this is one of the reasons why it's a bit challenging for me to find the perfect gift for myself lately. had i been a bit lighter, i would have gone to a shopping spree and splurged on new shoes and new clothes. i don't even want to have new gadgets because i know i won't be happy if i realize i won't be using it as much as i ever imagined. what i really wanted now is to have something that would make me feel more confident and more beautiful. Cosmetic Surgery is something i'm considering as a gift for myself now. it's something i haven't done before. right now i'm considering undergoing underarm permanent hair removal and permanent scar removal (the one on my knee). i'm about to send an inquiry to make yourself amazing (mya) to have my free consultation. this one's in uk but who knows, i might get sent to our office in london. :D

i miss family vacation

gosh, i miss traveling. the picture above (taken in the plane going back to manila from hk) made me want to plan another family vacation soon. the husband's crazy job hunting is just stopping me for planning a trip. i hope he finds what he wants so then he could tell me when we could finally have our family vacation. i hope my husband will read this post too. :D

nice one G!

it's been quite a while since i checked my google PR. this blog, for one, has been stuck in PR 1 for a long time. i'm totally ok with it as long as G won't slap it with a zero or nada. :D now the good news is, my only djuan, my blog for djuan, just got back its PR 1. G slapped it with a nada last year. now it's back with PR 1. i don't quite understand G's algorithm for this page ranking. i haven't been posting in djuan's blog these days but you see it got back its PR. but who cares care bears? i now have two blogs both with page rank 1. this makes me think of working on my travel blog again. it's been stuck with PR 0 for quite some time now. let's just see if i still have that much time and energy (and enthusiasm) to do travel blogging. :D

daily music for the little boy

i'm planning the little boy's unpreschooling (will have separate post on this) and part of the plan is to let him listen to music (preferably royalty free music) everyday. so a few weeks ago, i purchased cds of nursery songs/rhymes both in english and filipino. while ripping the cds into mp3 (i transferred the songs to our ipod shuffle), i searched for some royalty free music that i could also add up to the little boy's playlist. i'm already done with this little music project of mine. i'm checking out now stock music for myself...

cebu, b? davao?

since djuan was born, our family gets to travel out of town almost every quarter. but of course, i came to realize that that would be way too expensive already when djuan turns two. you see, infants aged 0 months up to 23 months are most of the time free of air fare. in some airlines, they'd charge at least 10% of the air fare and that's still very very cheap. so i figured out maybe we don't have to travel every quarter just so we can break from work and unwind somewhere. for major travels, i told my husband we'd just have it 2x a year. first one is on january where we would normally have triple celebration (doc's birthday, our wedding anniversary and my anniversary at work). the second one is on september where we would celebrate our bf-gf anniversary (yes, we're still celebrating it). so that's one peak season month and an off peak season month. last january we went to acuatico beach resort. this september, i'm not sure yet where to go. the original idea was to go to davao because that was what the husband told me when i asked him where he'd want to go next. but now i'm having second thoughts on the davao trip since we don't have enough travel money yet. i already have half the budget but i'm still struggling putting up the other half of it. blame it to the scarce opp in paid blogging. hehehe. i'm greatly considering going back to cebu because i still have some hilton points to use. i would only have to pay 2,500 pesos and we're good to have a 3D2N stay in hilton cebu. great deal, isn't it? the only problem right now is the air fare. i didn't get to avail of the last promo in pal since the husband wasn't sure about the trip's schedule. he was hoping to get some load as clinical instructor in nursing. as it turned out, he's still not a clinical instructor as of this writing. argh. oh well, i'm praying a good promo will come my way so we could all have this much needed family vacation.

on car hunting

whenever my husband and i are on the road, it's like we're always on a car hunt. we'd spot some great used and new cars on the road and would give unsolicited comments. hehehe. we actually went on a car hunt some weeks ago. it wasn't for us though. it was for my brother-in-law who'd like to buy a family car for the old folks. we sure had fun shopping around for cars that time even though it wasn't really for us. the car hunting gave us some good points if ever we'd be on our own car hunt. but since i've been reading a lot about personal finance these days, i know it's quite a big no no to buy a brand new car. the moment the brand new car wheels out of the casa, it already lost 20% of its value. just imagine that. it's really more practical to buy quality second hand cars like Used Volkswagen Cars. i'm not sure though if i can resist buying a new car instead of a used one. but i'd definitely put used cars in our options when the time comes. ;)

shopping trip on pasig day

no work for moi today since it's pasig day. i was supposed to go out between 10am to 3pm only since bebe honda is on coding today. my schedule was screwed though when i got to lto because aside from the license renewal, i had to change my name to married one too. you couldn't process a change in name in any of the satellite branches so i had to endure an almost endless waiting game at lto caloocan. i thought the tayuman branch was already bad enough, the caloocan branch was even worse. oh well, next time (doing mental note now), do it in megamall. fine. good thing i didn't go home frustrated because i found an uber duper great sale at araneta square in monumento. apparently family station was having its opening day and they had opening sale until sunday. yipee! these are some of the great finds i took pictures of. note: i didn't buy them. will have a separate post on my loots since most of them are still in the laundry. :p

this life-size mickey mouse only costs 1k pesos. nope, not imitation. it's orig. pardon the blurry pic as i was in a hurry. i wasn't sure if it was ok to take pics. hehe.

uber cute slide costs 1500 pesos only. i event sent the husband an mms of this. we wanted a longer slide for the little boy though. this one's too short for him already.

life-size pooh costs 1200 pesos only. it's even bigger than my koloks. if only we had a bigger space here at home, i could have asked my husband to buy it for me. hehehe.

as mentioned, i will have a separate post of the stuff i bought. i have this feeling i'm coming back at this store with my husband and the little boy. probably on saturday. shopping galore! :D