Apple gifts

Happy, Happy. Joy, Joy!

It arrived last week, courtesy of my online friend based in Boston. She got the husband the new Apple iphone 3GS with 32GB capacity. The husband loved it to the max! I gave it as a post-birthday gift and he's crazy about since then. I know I made the right choice ... of giving him the Apple iphone than the Blackberry Bold.

And to show the husband's delight, he gave me an ipod shuffle in neon green color. He got this from his client as a token. Very generous of them, eh? At 2GB capacity, I am thinking of giving it to my daughter for her personal use. She's crazy about music lately particularly from i.carly and chipmunks. And now, I am hearing the husband raving about I-Pad ... any revies about this new gadget toy from Apple?

New toys in the house : Apple 3GS iphone and ipod shuffle

surprise! surpise!

Last week, the husband went home and surprised me with this ...

SONY DSC-TX1 Digital Still Camera

I don't know what prompted him to get us a new digital camera, since our old Sony (DSC-W55) idiot cam still working very well. But the husband told me it was a surprise gift too from his partner in Japan. A gift?! Whoa!! A brand new, recently-released Sony TX71 camera as a gift! Boy, he's very generous eh?! Well, the husband told me to call it as a "baby-arrival" gift from his partner. That is, for us to capture precious moments will have for our newly-born son, Migo. Anyway, I checked the web for newly-released digital cameras and I found out new cam Sony TX71 special features. Aside from sweep panorama, it has anti-motion blur and with handheld twilight mode for sharper and cleaner night shots. Coolness!! Hehehe! Now I can't wait to use it for our upcoming parties this week. But first, need to get protective sheet or plastic for the screen before I use it.

Sale items!

It's amazing how we, mommies so easily captivated and drawn to the magic word : SALE. May it be a household appliance, grocery items, commodities, luxury goods or even airline tickets ... we always justify our impulsive buying because of the logic : "great deal , and got it on sale!" LOL.

I am one guilty SALE-mania customer. Whenever I receive notice of sale items be it through emails, newspapers, magazines, text messages or letter inserts, I immediately feel the excitement and check out items on sale. This holds true with the Amazon coupons and Wal-mart coupon codes I saw online. The excited shopper in me initial instinct is to check the discounts and rebates available and decide what to shop online. This way, it gives me mental picture of my savings thus giving me options to buy more from my cash rebate. Just recently, I purchased Avent sterilizer from Amazon.Com. With these coupon codes, I was able to buy not only the bottle sterilizer at a great price, plus I was able to add few Avent bottles for the baby from the rebate. Great way to save, huh?! Try it. In this time of recession, coupon codes and discounts serves our shopping savior especially for thrift shoppers like me.

ipod upgrade

After getting my son Ico the Hesh SkullCandy headset for his ipods, he is now asking to upgrade his old ipod classic with 8GB of memory storage to the new version of ipod classic with 120GB storage. One-two-oh GB sotrage!! Really amazing, huh?! Imagine I just bought his ipod classic sometime 3Q 2008 at 8GB ... and now Apple launched new version of ipods with better storage memory and eye-candy colors. And the capacity... it's like carrying your entire media library practically everywhere! Really cool! Now I am thinking if I should give him the upgraded version for his 14th birthday on January. Anyway, with six months to go before his birthday, who knows the ipod price might go down or Apple might launch another version by then. Let's wait and see.

pet's pest control

Do you have pets at your home? Well, we don't have one. Though the little girl starting to show some interest of owning a puppy, but we never encouraged or entertained her love for pets. Yes, we are not pet-friendly home. I am afraid of exposing my kids with pet's pest such as fleas and ticks. Though my neighbor told me owning pets nowadays is easy especially with all the pet medication available on the web like Frontline. Now I am seriously considering it. After all, I know my little girl is ready to have her own pets. And it would be a joy seeing her happy and playing with a little pup on her side. We'll see...

new baby of the family ...

Nope, not the new baby inside me...that will be 5 months from now still.

All about the new baby I got this June. With my busy schedule lately, I almost forgot to post the birthday gift I received 9 days before my birthday. The plan is to get this new baby by 3rd quarter of this year, but surprisingly, with our old black car gone in 90 minutes (read here), this car was purchased months in advance. Just in time for as my birthday gift. Hehehe! Lucky, lucky me.

Honda Civic 2009 1.8S series (with dual airbags), color : bluish-silver



Aside from the new car which I doubt I'll be driving most of the time, (you see ... the husband loves the new civic baby ...guy's porma car daw!) , I am still hoping to get my other birthday wish. The gift I've been eyeing (and saving) for months now.

So much about birthday gifts, need to check construction materials for our small garage to accommodate our new baby. I saw steel buildings materials from the web which I think would be very ideal for our garage requirement.

bath time investments

Taking a shower is always the same as … taking a shower. And the experience associated with taking a bath or a shower varies in different levels. One can say that as long as the essential (cleaning ones’ self) is there, taking a bath will always be the same.

But as the saying goes … “its not the end goal, but rather the journey” somehow holds true even when taking a bath. As for this writer, the experience of taking a bath is a function of the shower faucet being used. shower faucets varies in different nozzles and the manner of how the water hits one’s self determines the “pleasure” of taking a bath.

Some would want it like a “drizzle” on one’s skin. Others would want it as “hard” as it comes. But whatever the peculiarities, it all boils down to the shower faucets being used. One can argue that shower faucets cost a bundle and that is why the cheap ones are more preferred. But you have to remember that you take a bath “everyday” … and that certainly make it sensible to invest on these shower faucets.

full weekend

... this is how you describe our schedule for the past three weekends.

Great parties and celebrations shared with family and friends. Add to the fact that my daughter recently celebrated her birthday parties, and back-to-back mall-wide and warehouses sales --- my hands are so full! I’ve been very busy not only from work but as a wife and mom looking for best shopping value. Really stressful, don’t you think so? With all the holiday rush and all the worrying, zits can now be found all over my face! Now, I worry if my over the counter acne treatment will be effective enough to treat my acne. I’ve browsed the web for an effective and immediate facial treatment and I came across http://www.acnecuresrevealed.net/. It enlists some of the top five acne treatments like Orovo, Zyporex and Acnetin. The review seems promising, the price reasonable and guarantees fast result. Thus, I am tempted to order online to try this product. What do you think?

What If?

Snagged this tag from Peachy .

What if?...

1....you could bring one character from your favorite book to life, who would it be?

Becky Bloomwood of Shopaholic series. Just love her character.

2....you could solve one of historys unsolved mysteries, which would it be?

Find out who killed JFK.
3....you were stranded on a deserted island, what 2 people would you chose to be stranded with?
Hmmm... Of course with the people I love. Hubby and the kids.

4....you could spend a day with any celebrity, dead or living, who would it be?
Oprah Winfrey please. My dream is to meet her in person and be part of her audience in her talk show.

5....you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
That would be my weight now, I am horizontally-challenged. And I need to find the best fat burner to get back at my pre-preggo weight.

6....you could live anywhere, where would you live?
Can't think of any place now. I am happy just where I am.

till next time....

LV happy again ...

Just a quick post...want to share my source of joy this week! :)

LV EPI NOE Bag in Yellow… my first love since college.

purple lining inside-- a pretty contrast!

The impulsive bag-shopper in me bought this bag at a great steal! You see, I never thought I'll buy a bag this year. BUT, one look at this baby and I immediately fell in-love... the color just perfect! Yellow Noe with purple lining. Love the contrast. It is sooo vibrant and stands out. What I love about this bag, LV discontinued this color since 2007. Making it more exclusive and rare to find color. Really perfect. And with the amount I paid, really worth it! I must say, best buy among all my LV bags.

more wishlists ...

And yes, all the Christmas wishlist starts pouring in ... families and friends already busy creating their own wishlists. Some already dropping hints what they want to receive for Christmas, including my Mom. As usual, my mom's wishlist includes kikay items like lipsticks and make-up. But, her special request for me ... another home appliance ---a microwave oven this time. Aside from this, I am thinking of buying her box cutter I saw on the web. An essential tool she can use for her everyday use. It is handy and safe, very ideal for my Mom. I hope she'll like this surprise gift together with the microwave oven. Oh, I think she will definitely like it! My only problem, with all the busy online shoppers worldwide, praying that it will be delivered just in time for the holiday season.

hardware vendors

What is so fascinating with my work in the telecommunications industry is that I get to receive invites from hardware vendors once in a while. Invites for trainings, product launches, demonstrations and product testings for gadgets or equipment available in the market. I get to see and check first hand cutting-edge technology products that are new and available in the market. Telecom hardware equipments either an upgraded version of the existing hardware or box, or totally a new product that will change the landscape in the telecoms industry. And just recently, I received an invite from one of our trusted vendors for product demonstration of KVM type of switches as LAN extenders. Truly helpful product demo especially now that I am looking for switches that can be incorporated to our telecom service, the managed services. Since I am beefing up the MS product this year, I am in constant search for equipments or hardwares that can be bundled to our products at a very cost-friendly price. Hopefully, vendors will be flexible enough for payment terms and product warranties. Otherwise, it will be hard to sell these services now especially with the financial crisis all over the world. Companies are holding on their investments and prefers less capital expenditures.

Christmas wishlist for Samantha

As per request of the MBAPs, Christmas wishlist for our kids should be posted on our blog site. Thus, whoever got my little girl's name ... please refer to her toy wishes below. All items below can be found at Toy Kingdom / Rustan's branches.

1. My Little Pony

2. Play-doh play sets -- looks something like this

3. Puppy in my pocket -- new fad in TKThough I've ordered some of the play items above online from my aunt in NY, but it seems these toys will not make it on time for the bratinella's birthday this November. My aunt is currently moving some of her things from her NY flat to their old home in Illinois and to this date, she has not completed her house transfer yet. I think she just outsourced hauling and transfer services from mover NYC to speed up her movement. Hopefully by early December she'll be very much settled in her new home and can send all the online items I bought for the bratinella. It'll be great for her to receive these gifts as Christmas present.

in search for swing sets

Do you know where I can get wooden swing sets ? My mother in-law is in search for one, as she plans to renovate and landscape her backyard in preparation for the holiday season. She specifically wanted to install swing sets that are safe for children to play and environment-friendly. She wanted playsets that can stand all season, easy to install, pre-assembled parts and pieces that can be packed away over time. The playset design she wanted should be complete with swings, slides, rope climbing ladder, tire swings and probably with small tree house or picnic tables for her grandchildren to rest and enjoy. Really great, huh? As I browse the web for playset design, I saw a perfect replica of what she wanted. The problem, I just hope with her set budget in mind, the playset she's dreaming to build will fit her budget. Otherwise it will be a big disappointment for all the kids since she promised to have this ready in time for our Christmas festivities. Thus, I hope and pray that the budget to build will not be an issue.

hardware problems

645am ... my first call this beautiful weekend was from an irate client. You see, this is his third call this week complaining about his internet connection. We've provided him a fast and dedicated internet connection but unfortunately he's still complaining about slow browsing and latency on his access. We've already checked the physical line conenctivity and found out zero errors and no packet loss experienced. Our IP gateway, not congested nor there were any fiber break experienced within the area. After several testings by our network team, we found out he's experiencing some problems with his equipment hardware. Apparenlty after several probings, we found out he's using unbranded, non-standard router wherein different configurations and settings from our network. He told me he got his router from the web which was really cheap. I offered him to check the web for routers like used cisco routers which is really affordable and dependable equipment. Most of our clients use cisco and we never had problems with his equipment. As a matter of fact most of our network equipment including nodes powered by cisco. We have certified cisco engineers too who can do installations, trouble-shooting and configurations of routers. Really dependable and reliable brand thus we always recommend this to our customers.

good news

Just received a call from my mom and she happily informed me that my brother finally completed his house construction. It took him over six months to complete the house with delays caused not by the contractor, but from the local government permits such as electrical and fire permit, sanitation and occupancy permit. Thus, after thousands of pesos spent for all the permits, finally my brother was able to move-in. Really happy for my brother. He has now a house that he can definitely call his own! Unfortunately, I was not able to see his place but I was told that the house was built in good taste. Like our home, they’ve decided to do a minimalist-modern look too. From the choice of windows, color schemes, tiles, bathroom fixtures and kitchen faucets it was all created with modern but simple look. Just can’t wait to see his house. Hopefully, will have the house blessing schedule by next month.

getting life insurance

Thinking of getting term life insurance? I saw an affordable, low cost term life insurance on the web that you might want to consider. At wholesaleinsurance.net getting quotes are as easy as 1-2-3, simply input important facts about you, and presto .... quotes readily available! As a matter f fact, comparison quotes from different insurance provider available for your picking. Ain't that a powerful tool in your decision making? You can now view the best insurance provider depending on your capacity to pay and your preferred term life, health plan and coverage amount. I was surprised for a standard plus health plan, I got a very affordable quote as low as $126 to $284 annual fee (or $11 - $25/monthly) for a term life quote of 10 years. Really great offer, huh! Do check it out and see the best plan coverage for you and your family.

car improvements

We missed hubby yesterday at the 7th birthday party yesterday of Gianna, daughter of one of my colleagues at South Avenue, Quezon City. We agreed to meet up at the party place as soon as he finishes with some car improvements and accessories upgrades at Banawe. His uncle asked him to accompany him since he is very much familiar with all the accessories shop here.

Unfortunately, hubby under-estimated the time they need to spend here waiting for all the accessories to be installed. He missed the party. I was told they dressed up the brand new Toyota Innova car with accessories such as rain gutters, step up boards, side impact beams and fog lights. Aside from the car accessories, they even checked available replacement car parts for his uncle's old Toyota Revo car such as brake pads, timing belts and steering rack . Luckily Banawe have all these car parts readily available. For a cheap price, car parts can be bought here either brand new or replacement parts, a haven for car enthusiasts like hubby.

in need of prescription glasses

Need eyeglasses? Me, I think I need one soon. I've been experiencing headaches and dizziness lately from working long hours infront of my computer and I believe I need prescription glasses to relieve my tired eyes. I saw an affordable site on the web, Zenni Optical $ 8 Rx Eyeglasses that offers incredible stylish frames from Zenni. I so love their stylish designs and I plan to order online for myself soon. It has a high quality stylish frame, thin and light index frames, with anti scrtach coating and full UV protection. They also provide good quality durable eyeglass case with micro fiberlens cleansing cloth for every glasses ordered online. Really cool offer, huh! As I was sharing my webfinds to my friend in LA, she told me she's familiar with the brand and even told me Zenni Optical was on FOX news! Great marketing strategy to capture viewers interest. Now I am convinced, best deal one can get from Zenni Opticals. With the stylish-purple frame below, think this will be just perfect for my personality.

picture storage problem.

The husband is complaining the other day that I am doing picture overload with our CANON Digital IXUS digital cam’s memory card. Apparently, he saw that we’ve reached the maximum capacity despite having a 1GB built-in SD memory card. He’s suggesting that I get higher memory upgrade such a 4GB compact flash to store our pictures. He was surprised to see that some of the pictures stored were taken as early as February 2008. Can you believe that! More than five months-old pictures that includes special events like birthdays, anniversary, family travels local and international, and other momentous event in our lives. Tried to reason that I am keeping the pictures at my digicam for fear of capacity overload with my brand new laptop. Thus, I am asking hubby to buy me at least 20GB external hard drive before I delete pictures from my cam. Very wise wifey, don’t you think so?!