Tethering and charging up at its best

See, I am travelling with hubby this week to his monthly out of town trip in Cagayan de Oro City (CDO). He works as a sales head for Mindanao for a construction supplier company. Going to CDO is a 6-hour travel by car from Davao City where we live. I am not actually part of this trip but I bugged him to tag me along so we can have bonding time together at least before the 'horrors' of the opening of classes in June present itself. Sorry for the pun but, I really need an extra time for myself and hubby; and extend the leisure time because when classes start, I'd have less sleeping hours and all that jazz --->  no-help-at-home, I-work-online-I'm-gonna-be-crazy-soon litany.

internet signal from Iphone to Macbook, size doesn't matter after all! (ignore the Naruto bookmark, lol, my son's!)

And since I need to bring work with me too, I brought my entourage of laptop, cable connectors, chargers and Iphone. And I just have my phone's USB connector for charging with the laptop as well to at least reduce weight on my belongings.

Giving your skin the care it deserves

Like any typical girl, I am always open to try beauty products which promise to give my skin a radiant glow. But I am also wary of those that advertise an instant whiter skin or at least those which promise a fair skin after just a few uses. I've seen negative effects of these so-called "magic' creams, etc such as reddening and severe peeling off of the skin.

Worse, others would leave a trace of dark spots on the cheeks of the user after being exposed under the sun. It's pretty scary when users apply these type of products without proper knowledge on the correct application. Sometimes we tend to skip using sunscreen/or sunblock for skin protection. Other times, we also use the products not really suited for our skin types ; or we use one product that doesn't match the other skin product we also use, hence, the irritation.

Lately, organic and natural skin care products have started to come out in the market. And at this time too, people are beginning to be aware (and educated) that parabens and hydroquinone usually present in shampoos, soaps, skin lighteners and other cleansing products are dangerous chemicals that might cause cancer. This makes the job of nature and skin-friendly beauty companies easier as they go out of their way formulating beauty products sans these harmful chemicals.

Best seller and must try: Cocoa With Rock Salt and Cheese

The current milk tea craze in town has transformed some of my friends into milk tea addicts, jumping from one milk tea joint to another as they sprout one by one all over Davao city. It will make them even happier as Happy Lemon now has 3 stores in the city.

Happy Lemon, a unique tea cafe which originally started in Hongkong, has over 200 outlets in 30 cities worldwide. They are known for their refreshing and creative ways of serving milk tea, and blending the best flavors of coffee, tea leaves, cocoa and lemon. And the best thing of all, their beverages contain no preservatives, just pure in taste and awesome milk tea goodness.

Their first branch in Davao (13th in the Philippines) is in The Peak at the Gaisano Mall, and was inaugurated last February. It was graced by its owners, led by PBA basketball star, Chris Tiu and his partners (who were by the way, his schoolmates in Xavier University and Ateneo)

Last April, they opened two more branches at SM Lanang Premier and SM City Annex so people from south and north will now have easy access to their stores. This makes a total of 19 stores in the country and still counting!

It was a busy day at work, my co-workers and I were wrecking our heads out to answer support tickets from clients. To say that we needed some breath of fresh air was an understatement.

Cheeseburger  Pizza

As if he was hearing our pleas, our good natured boss blurted out the sweetest magic words we ever heard that day. I can tell that my boss was just appreciative of our team effort in delivering satisfactory customer service to his clients. He offered free pizza for that day if we finished all the support tickets before we logged out of work.

FREE PIZZA. This repeatedly rang on my head all throughout the day as I rummaged through the bunch of tickets/emails of about a hundred.

Gelato Mania: pure Italian gelato goodness

I always think that ice cream is the best comfort food ever made for humanity (well, aside from cake!). It could be the most effective instant relief to tired bodies, weary souls and broken hearts. But my love for ice cream is almost generic for these mouth-watering frozen delights varying in colors and flavors, scooped on cones and stored in square (or circle) tins or plastic tubs.

Haven't you noticed that while everything is going high-tech and automatic; and consumer products lure us to having things instant, people are having this inner calling to go back to the basics?  I, for one, am beginning to appreciate the benefits of healthy living. I also try to use products which are organic and made of natural ingredients. Being natural means that the components used to make them are not harsh to the skin and the environment.

The Godiva LicoWhite Skin Care Products: Definitely a must-try!

Lachi's Key Lime Pie : Something new for the sugar foodies!!

I am an egg pie/egg tart foodie. I was a able to sample, eat ( and gobble!) egg pies from different pastry shops here in Davao. But I am not going to talk about it today, it's about its equally mouth-watering but distinctively delightful cousin, the Key Lime Pie. Sounds a bit sour, eh? Actually, I have never tasted lemon pies so this is something new to me.

Reunited with the wedge!

I am barely five feet tall. Of course I would often say that I'm 5 feet when asked casually, knowing that 4'11'' is just an inch away from 5 ft anyways. (And, my grade school Math teacher used to say I can round off numbers, you know).

Aside from the experience of wearing high heeled shoes during rare events such as proms and my very own wedding, I only got to wear them longer than a year when Havaianas wedges were popular years ago. We partied ways because hubby says it looks weird on me and he's kinda not trusting the way I walk. He says I walk so carelessly, not looking straight to where I am headed, and I could stumble and hurt myself any minute just by looking at me. From then on I shied away from heeled shoes. Besides, I love flats. They are comfy and carefree like that.