Holiday shmoliday! Let us feast!

What I wore a few days ago. Holiday weight gain, shmaliday weight gain.

Welcoming the new year: 2012 Highlights

It's always nice to look back at a year of adventure and accomplishments. This is why we celebrate new year's eve: to cap of a wonderful year that's passed and to celebrate the new stretch in our lives that is just about to begin. More than rejoicing in the possibility of a fresh start, however, I believe that these final days of the year is the time to appreciate all that's come and gone and whatever it is we have learned from these experiences.

Here are the highlights of my 2012, things in the last 360+ days that I love and are most grateful for.

Dog on the road!

On a road trip to meet with family in this holiday season and I opted for something nice but comfy. And oh, say hi to Choo the dog who came along with us.

Trip Wild(life) Christmas Party 2012

I have the loveliest bunch of friends in the world. Why? Because look at us, aren't we adorable?

Flats Vs. Heels

Wore this out to one of those lazy days while on holiday break.

Golden Fortune Seafood Restaurant, Kalaw

Last week, we were hungry and Anton was not making it easier as he kept on drawing food we wanted to eat on the Camille's Ipad.

Red & Green

At the risk of looking like a Christmas ornament, and to the delight of all those holiday fanatics out there, I dressed up in what I've always perceived to be THE Christmas colour combination: red and green.

Re-evaluation

Home stretch. This is what it feels like. A few months before graduation and I still find myself as lost as I've always been.

For years I've been floating around, without giving much meaning and importance to details, trying my hardest to make time pass. I never gave importance to little details and the bigger picture until I felt that it was necessary. It's like being backed into a corner, one day you just have to care-- about the future, about things that once seemed insignificant to my adolescent, immature self. You wake up and suddenly realise that this is your life and that you have to take control. If life is what we make it, then what of the mess I've created for myself?

Acting all grown up in a blazer

After forever, a look post! An unexpectedly free Saturday afternoon led to a great lunch and an afternoon date at Jamba Juice with Jani (which is a very odd thing for me because I don't usually approve of their very delicious but expensive concoctions). This is what I wore.

BDJ Power Planner Giveaway!

Hallo friends! Christmas is nearing so another giveaway is in order! I am raffling this Belle De Jour Power Planner to one lucky bella! 'Tis the season to be jolly!

Read on to join!

Why am I pro RH?

I am Pro RH because I know how it feels like to be a young girl growing up in a country where sex is taboo and the only semblance of sex ed we had were lessons on menstruation from sanitary napkins promoting their products in school.

I had a classmate who in high-school thought she could get pregnant if she held hands naked with a boy on a bed. I read of young girls getting pregnant at 14 because they didn't understand how it all worked.

So yes, I think it matters. It would have mattered to my classmate, to that pregnant 14 year old, and it certainly matters to me.

DIY Nail Patch Manicure: stick on holiday nails!

Simple and easy Christmas themed nails that cost me PHP 39! 

(Excuse the monkey, it was a cereal freebie I found adorable)

Lazy days in Chucks

On a Monday, I wore this lazy get up and I loved every minute of it.

 (Yep, even my hair looks lazy)

Parker's 5th Technology

Parker introduces the 5th technology, an innovation in writing.

Imperial Ice Bar and Lounge at the Fort Strip

As mentioned in my previous look post, we visited the country's very first ice bar which is at par with world class standards.

Read more about the Imperial Ice Bar on WhenInManila HERE.

Mimi is cute!

So my sister just emailed these GIF's of our dog Mimi. Adorable!

And the big dogs say Hi as well.

AYALA MALLS’ Charms of Christmas Giveaway

This year, Ayala Malls is giving away these beautiful charm bracelets designed by Ana Rocha to shoppers who show great kindness in this giving season. Read on to get a chance to win your own bracelet here on Sisasaid, too!

Ayala Mall's "Wrapped in Love" christmas campaign will be giving away more than 400 of these bracelets-- all you need to do is capture on film an act of kindness in any Ayala Mall and submit to win. 

In the Imperial Ice Bar

What person in their right mind would take look shots inside a freezing ice bar? The answer? Me. 

DIY Nail stickers/Nail Patches Manicure

Would you believe that this manicure only took 10 minutes to do?

Project Headshot Clinic: UNITE 2012

"I stand united with the millions of people who give their energy, time & commitment in achieving an AIDS-free generation.#ZeroHIVph #WAD2012 #hscUNITE"