What Starbucks Planner?!?

If you're still struggling to complete the 21 stickers required for the Starbucks planner, which unfortunately do not have the freebie coupons anymore, I discovered an alternative planner that will cost less than 21 cups of coffee at Starbucks -- and it has freebies to boot!!!

The Belle De Jour Power Planner is being offered by one Maya Perez (and her friend) who I got in touch with after I found about their product in ShopCrazy. I ordered five copies, for now, and I absolutely love love love them! I hope the people I'm giving them to for Christmas will love them too!

Here's what it looks like:

The Eventful Weekend

Darice had her first tooth fall out!!!

Well, not fall out, more of pulled out.

By me. Hehe.

I woke up Saturday morning with Darice doing her whiny cries and it was because her loose tooth was well, looser already. I looked at it and it seems that was only hanging by a (gum) thread. It was also starting to bleed, so I knew I had to act fast (she might whine louder when she sees the blood kasi).

I asked Dar to get some ice, so I can rub it on Darice's gum, to at least numb the gum area. After rubbing the ice on her gums for a few minutes, I grabbed the face towel, used it as a "glove" to hold Darice's loose tooth, and as my daughter shook in fear (and pain?) pulled out the tooth, in one smooth yet nerve-wracking motion.

She cried a bit, and her gums bled a bit too so I asked her to gargle. I asked her to bit on a cotton ball while Dar prepared her frozen delight. She absolutely loves the new Chuckie Choco Burst, and we store it inside the freezer, so Dar took one out, poured the frozen choco slush in a glass, and viola, Darice was smiling again! Minus one tooth. Hehe.

Now I'm waiting for her other upper front tooth to fall off :) Hehehe.

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Finally got to watch Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan after some prodding from Ton and validation from Pajiba.

Oh.

My.

God.

Kakaiba!!!

If you're not easily offended and if you totally get the point of this movie, then go ahead and watch it.

But if you're just going to complain and whine and sue Borat, stay away :P

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Dar, Darice and I had lunch at my Mom's house the next day, Sunday. After eating, I went upstairs with Darice while Dar tried to diagnose their PC.

Then, my mom asked Dar and I to go downstairs to their room -- usap daw kami.

Parang ako, ano 'to?!?

Let The Games Begin!

It's sportsfest season once again!

One of the reasons I've been out of commission from this blog of mine is that I was asked by one of the committee members to do the teaser video/flash for the sports fest. This committee member is one of the Pepe Lopez girls, so how can I refuse? :P

Anyhoo, I told her I'll try to learn Flash for the teaser. Pero di kinaya ng powers ko!!!! Ahahahaha. So I made do with what our PC had, and it was Windows Movie Maker.

So what do you guys think?

Hey, it's my first attempt at doing anything like this, so be kind :P

By the way, all video clips came from YouTube, thanks to the magic of YouTubex :) Props also goes to Super from eRightSoft. I was able to convert the downloaded YouTube videos from FLV format, converted them to WMV and used Windows Movie Maker to mash up the parts of the video clips I needed. Hanep! Hahaha.

One

1. Yourself: full

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse: sleeping

3. Your hair: unmanangeable

4. Your mother: strict

5. Your father: funny

6. Your favorite item: yosi

7. Your dream last night: dark

8. Your favorite drink: margaritas

9. Your dream car: purple

Make it a burning house

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room

Recipe for Disaster

Ingredients:

160 lbs of fat
a handful of paranoid thoughts
a bloody broken heart
a spoonful of raging hormones

Directions:

Hmmmmmm....

From the movie The Story of Us:

There's a history and histories don't happen overnight. In Mesopotamia or Ancient Troy or somewhere back there, there were cities built on top of other cities, but I don't want to build another city. I like this city. I know where we keep the Bactine, and what kind of mood you're in when you wake up by which eyebrow is higher. And you always know that I'm a little quiet in the morning and compensate accordingly. That's a dance you perfect over time.

And it's hard, it's much harder than I thought it would be, but there's more good than bad. And you don't just give up. And it's not for the sake of the children, but they're great kids aren't they? And we made them - I mean think about that - there were no people there and then there were people - two of them. And they grew. And I won't be able to say to some stranger, "Josh has your hands" or "Remember how Erin threw up at the Lincoln Memorial?"

So what if that stranger listens to me? I mean, Lucas Adler listens but then he always says "between you and I" and it should be "between you and me" because "between" is a preposition. And it's not that there's not a charming part about you not remembering the washer fluid - which I don't understand why you can't - but that's not ultimately important. I'll try to remember that those things can be mildly endearing at times and really not worth not having sex over. And I'll try to relax.

Whew

Yikes.

Twelve days without posting anything new.

At least the header was updated, diba?

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Because of a certain Philippine senator who had a lot of children out of wedlock, the Family Code of the Philippines was amended so that children born out of wedlock can carry their father's surname (with the consent of both parental units, of course). And so, those couples (married/unmarried) can now have their "illegitimate" children legitimized without having to go through adoption.

This was just right after Darice was born -- therefore, the birth certificate was already drawn up and filled out. Although we could've had her surname legitimized years ago, I think I may have made a condition to my darling Dar eons ago that we needed to get married first before we could have Darice legitimized. (Walang hihirit :P)

And so, a year and 2 months after Dar and I got married, Darice is now legally carrying Dar's surname.

There are a bunch of documents you have to bring to city hall (email me if interested), and the most important requirement is the presence of both parents. They ask you some mundane questions just to make sure you didn't get some random guy/girl outside city hall to stand as the father/mother.

I thought we were going to take a long time doing this in city hall, but everything was finished in an hour. Ang husay, hehe.

The Crime Scene Investigation of the Six Degrees of Ugly Betty on Studio 60 while counting Numb3rs, Part V

The last one for the series!

I've already written about the CSI franchise, Numb3rs, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Six Degrees. This last show I'm going to review/write about is one of the successful new shows this season. Produced by Salma Hayek, it is reported that ABC now has ordered one full season! Yey!

Ugly Betty

Crash, then Burn

[Read this first]

Our hard drive lives!!! Yey me!

Well, yey to my dear hubby! I don't know what he did, basta it had something to do with Norton GoBack and my files are back! :D

To my dear hubby, I know there's a very little chance you're reading this, but I just want to say thank you, for not giving up on our hard drive, even though you wanted to give up already on the first night. I do trust your technical skills, so much that if you couldn't do anything about it, well then, I don't think anybody can, so I just wanted you to try hard and harder because I knew you were the only one who can fix it. Anong gusto mong reward? ;)

Okay. Lesson learned: back that ass up!!!

The Crime Scene Investigation of the Six Degrees of Ugly Betty on Studio 60 while counting Numb3rs, Part IV

Continuing with the shows I'm watching this new season...

I already reviewed Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and here's another show that is dangerously close to being canceled (daw).

Six Degrees

Crash

After dear hubby was making kalikot our PC after reformatting our main hard drive, our secondary 160 GB hard drive can no longer be detected.

All my freaking files -- GONE.

No more installers.

No more MP3s.

No more videos.

No more scrapbooking kits.

No more pictures.

Can I just crawl under a rock and cry? :(

The Crime Scene Investigation of the Six Degrees of Ugly Betty on Studio 60 while counting Numb3rs, Part III

I already talked about the new seasons of the CSI franchise and
of Numb3rs and so now we move on to three completely different shows debuting this season.

Let's start with:

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip