Negativity Surrounds Me

Finally!

Months (or was it years?) of reasoning out why I need a netbook came to a halt last week, as we've decided to get me a pretty nifty li'l lappie (and it's a dainty pink!)

I was so excited as I think of the things I'll be writing and photos I will be posting. I keep smiling to myself as I draft and hang on to the train of thoughts which I think were good for my blogging articles. But, alas! more than a week had passed and all I did was surf surf and surf the net for online shopping, social networks, games, live streaming, download movies and none of the writing or blogging stuff!

Darn! I am too lazy to even type a single article, much more to keep a personal blogging site! (just a waste of cyber space) I think I am kidding myself when I said that I will be using online blogging as a therapeutic way to release all tensions and negativity that is all around me. The real therapy I have in mind is shopping! Yes, retail therapy! As it has always been -- it doesn't matter if it's in the mall or in a virtual space -- as long as I get to buy stuff I like! I know this is bad for my wallet's health but for the time being, this is my way of calming, healing and getting rid of the bad energies that is so strongly hovering above me and is waiting for me to breakdown before it eats me up alive!

In time, I will be able to keep my shopaholic tendencies to a minimum, but for now, let me have my own therapeutic way of dealing  and coping in  this big bad world.

This is what illustrates how I am feeling the past few days.. gloomy, dark, lost, however you might want to interpret the photo.. it's such a creepy feeling that I need to dislodge, and fast!!

PS: I sure am sorry for all this negativity I am releasing in the cyber world. Bear with me for a li'l while. I am hoping to be a li'l cheery and bright SOON..


*Images are owned by respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 

xo,

Rhia

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Bookworm in me

This is a must for every bookworm!
Look at the list and bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Underline the books you LOVE!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (partial)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read some and intend to read the rest)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (i have the book and I still haven't read it..)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

**Have you noticed that most of the books I've read are classified under Children's Lit? Oh well, I love children's books.. I wanted to include the 3 series of Emily of New Moon. It's one of my well-loved read.

What books have you read so far?


hugs n kisses,


Rhia

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Franchising and Other Business Opportunities

I know this is kinda off post for my non-business/entrepreneur blog.. but I am doing someone special a favor.. so here goes..

Royalè Business Club International Incorporated is a 100% Filipino owned corporation that was conceived by its founder, Mr. Ricardo S. Castaneda in the first quarter of 2006, with the primary objective of providing quality but affordable health and wellness products, business options, micro-businesses and franchises to Filipinos worldwide.

Royale is endorsed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the Official Micro-Franchise Provider of the Department of Labor and Employment-National Reintegration Center for OFWs.

We are offering three ways for ordinary people like us to start-up our own business:

1. GRAB A FRANCHISE! 

Start your own business and be an employer, no longer an employee. Dream mo bang magkaron ng mga food carts and food booths sa mga malls? Schools? Canteens? This is your chance guys.

There are a lot of franchise options to choose from:

FOOD: 

Red Ninja DimSum 

SiSig ExPress 

Burger Factory 

Galaxy Burger

Mr. Toppers (ice cream)

Big Boy Toppings (rice toppings

Bicho Bites

Country Chicken

Jo's Waffle

The Noodle House

Super Tacos

Rolling Balls

(ilan lang po ito, marami pang iba)

Non-food

Laundry Gallery

Big brother ink refilling station

Dermalou

Tutorial Services Center

All-in na po ito. Kasama pag lakad ng legal papers, training ng staff, all equipment needed, supply, pati paghahanap ng location sagot ng company. Hindi lang ito, wala itong royalty fee. Ibig sabihin, hindi ka na sisingilan bawat taon sa paggamit ng pangalan ng franchise. Isa pa, gusto mo ma dagdag ng ibang ibebenta sa booth mo? ayos lang, basta syempre hindi competitor ng sarili mong franchise. 

Wala pang-puhunan?

Be a member of Royale Business Club International Inc. and get a discount worth 11, 588 with your franchise !

2. Be a Club Member

When you become a club member, you will have the following privileges and benefits.

Madami po.

a. Get lifetime discount of 11,588 with your franchise kapag buo na ang pang-puhunan mo. Lifetime ito. Isa pa, we all know that franchising fees increase in due time. Ngayon, if you become a member now, kung magkano ang halaga ng franchise na gusto mo, yun ang halaga na babayaran mo kung gusto mo na kumuha ng franchise, kahit 5 years, or 10 years from now. Hindi tataas, para sa iyo, dahil member ka na.

B. Get Finders Fee (ranging from 5,000 to 50, 000)

Every successful franchise referral, you will get a finders fee depending on the amount of the franchise. The bigger the franchise is, the bigger the finders fee.

C. Get Bonuses

Every successful membership referral, you will get 500 pesos and 150 points, and earn 2,400 every 300 points.

D. Get Profit Sharing

The company will share a percentage of its net income. Just maintain a specific number of points per annum.

D. Get distributorship discounts for health, wellness, and beauty products up to 50% discount. 

Royale Business Club is a proud manufacturer and distributor or health, wellness, and beauty products. All products are BFAD and DTI approved, all HALAL certified.

Some of the Products are

Health and Wellness 

Gluta Power (glutathione) 

Grapeseed Extract 

Diabet Watch 

Choco All 8 (8 in one Choco) 

8-in-1 Coffee 

Royale C (alkaline based Vit. C. ) 

Corn Beverage 

Fit Shape

Fiberich

Riqall (brain food)

(maraming pang iba)

Beauty Products

Gluta Power anti-aging soap

Gluta POwer whitening lotion

Gluta Soap

Kojic papaya Soap

Gluta Power Lotion

His Perfume

HEr PErfume

(Marami pang iba)

All products are also being exported abroad in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Canada, Australia...etc.

Engage in the proven way of buy and sell and kikita ka. Alam nating lahat yan. Not only that, every order mo ng products, may points din, accumulate points at may corresponding cash bonuses for your points!

E. When you become a member, you will have 12,800 worth of Products, free (depending on packages available)

F. When you become a member, you will have free entertainment tickets worth Php 15,000 at Metro bar, Laffline and Punchline

G. When you become a member, you will get a FREE ACCIDENT INSURANCE WORTH 320,000 from Oriental Assurance Corporation

H. FREE COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS TRAINING WORTH P7,000 - on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Innovative Business Development etc. applicable to any type of business – presented weekly by Royalè's VP for Sales & Training, a Senior Consultant of the Department of Trade and Industry.

I. Get your own Web page 

Monitor your income, sales and your business partners. We will provide you with a 24/7 internet facility for you to do your business, allows you to register and monitor your sales worldwide.

INTERESTED TO GAIN FINANCIAL FREEDOM?

If you have further questions, shoot me an email.

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Shutterfly Adventure in Zambales

Turkey Day in the US! Wee no work! Oh well, it doesnt matter since the day is really my work off. Anyway, half of the team (i think..) went on a resort in Pundaquit, Zambales. It's 1.5 hours away from Subic, but since we're not familiar with the place (well i think none of us really know) it probably took us moooore than that.

The road to the resort is, well sorta creepy (its pitch dark when we drove on the narrow winding road that seems to lead us nowhere.. hehe)

I love it when we island hop to Anawangin Cove! It's picturesque. Amazing rock formations (too bad dont have a camera with me -> but i doubt i'll be able to take decent pictures since the boat ride was rather rough with the presence of temperamental waves) It's really peaceful and relaxing!

I definitely will go back to Anawangin (and hopefully to Capones Island after) but i cant say the same to Megan's Resort, where we stayed for the night.

Check out some of our photos below:





More Photos here! ^_^

You guys might wanna check out and visit Anawangin Cove, and don't forget to island hop to Capones after! (Just make sure you take precautions and safety measures wherever you'll travel)

Enjoy! tata


~x0x0~

Rhia

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Of Anniversary and Relaxation in the City of Pines -- late post

This is a super late post, but anyway here goes:

We celebrated our 1st milestone last November 9, 2008 up in the City of Pines. This is also timely since I'm already burned out from the hustle bustle in the work place. It's very relaxing to feel the cool November breeze, smell the scent of pine trees around and just take our own sweet time exploring the city --the best part is-- we have each other for 4 sweet days!! READ: No interrupting phone calls, emails, computer games, errands, etc etc. No pressures and other stress-triggering matters.

Here are some of the photos we've managed to capture.




Click here for more camwhoring sa Baguio *wink*



hugs n kisses,


Rhia

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Free Bag @ Handbag Planet

My friend sent me an email regarding a free handbag at a newly-launched website called Handbag Planet (geez, i think I'm going to love that planet!). and a bag addict that I am, I went ahead and check it out. Well the site shows, there's no catch - noo need to enter your credit card info or something. All you need to do is type in your name and your email address to register and be qualified to win a handbag of YOUR CHOICE.
Then tell about the promotion to your friends by sending the link in their personal emails or let everyone know about it through writing a blurb in you own personal space in blog-o-sphere (yep, like this ahehehe).

So girlfriends, what are you waiting for, go check it out at www.HandbagPlanet.com and win some fabulous bags for yourself.


xoxo.

Rhia

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Melissa Philippines' Anniversary Event

I've received an email from Melissa Philippines regarding their Anniversary Sale! You'll get a chance for a sneak peak of their Spring/Summer Collection as well as get the Melissa's you want at special prices!

Wait there's more! You'll get a chance to take home SPECIAL GIFTS from Melissa!

Gurlz, it's a 1-Day only event so drop by C3 Events Place in Greenhills tomorrow (August 9, 2008), from 10am to 7pm and unite with other Melissa Lovers!





Don't want you to get lost! Here's the map. ^_^

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Birthday Getaway

Had my birthday getaway last July 26 to July 29. It was an awesome weekend! Away from the rat-race and the stressful traffic jam in the metro. Went out of town with my boo at Subic's Blue Rock Resort for a rainy swimming.

Got the rain, sand and salt waters on our hair and skin. It was fun, specially if you get to spend it with someone closest to your heart.

PS: My besfriends send their warmest greetings. I am so sorry if I wont be able to treat you out this time or if I wasnt able to spend my birthday with you guys. I'll make it up to you next time. I miss you all! Hhay antagal na natin di nagkikita kita! What happened to our Friday nights dinner or movie date?! -- I guess time keeps us physically apart, but it still we have each other in our hearts.. that'll do for now, until we're able to keep up with everyone's schedule. ^_^

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Missing My Bebis

We've been through hell and back through college! (exaggerated for emphasis! nyahaha)

Most people say that highschool is the best and it highlights the adolescence stage in life. While I don't disagree with it, for me the best and most memorable phase in my life was during my college years. Of course it's not the best time of your school life since there are tons to do in college -thesis, video productions, plays and other presentations, research and interviews left and right, not to mention that in my Alma Matter, peepz are scholarly competitive! Whew! nyahaha that's one thing I don't like much in college!- This is where I learned to be human enough to admit my mistakes and weaknesses, and I've discovered my strengths and capabilities.

My college days played a big part in my transformation (of course hindi naman ako ngevolve into something new. Katakot naman iyon!) wherein I learned to appreciate simple things and be ever greatful in the life I'm living. Also, it helps that I've got beautiful people I call Friends - who believes in me, helps me every step of the way and keeps me grounded.

In college, I've learned who are real and who are just there for the sake of having a companion (user!! tsk) You don't call yourself a friend just because you always group yourselves in every project or assignment. Seeing each other everyday and having lunch together doesn't count as well.

Friends are people who stay with you through thick and thin (sabi nga ni Jelopy, parang asawa yan! ahahaha ;p) Complicated schedules should never be a hindrance! You don't have to see each other everyday, but you have to have each other in your hearts! ♥♥♥ (naks!)

If you have those people who stick through ups and downs; those who haul you up your feet when you're down and is going through hell-of-difficulties; those who have the guts to kick your ass and tell you upfront the silliest things you did and is still doing, then your lucky, luv.

Why am I blogging today? It's just that I miss my friends. I miss the giggles and laughters even at the most corniest jokes, the pout of the lips when one's making tantrums (wahahaha nggaganun pa?!), and most of all the videoke na naging magic sing sessions (zoshal na!), the camwhoring moments at and pagsshoot ng walang kwentang videos na mapagtripan i-roleplay!

And so I created this miniclip for my ABK Bebis! I miss you guys! Mwahugz

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I am an Ice cream Cake!! YUM!

Surprising, unique, and high maintenance. You're one of a kind, and you don't want anyone to forget it. You're fun in small doses, but it's easy for people to overdose on you!

--♥♥♥--

Just saw this quiz from a fellow blogger, Island Paradise -since this person left a message to my cbox, I visited her page as well and I saw this quiz at dahil nacurious ako, gusto ko din malaman kung anong klaseng cake ako kungsakasakaling maging isa akong cake! Abay zoshal at Ice cream Cake daw ako hahaha!-

O kung wala kayo magawa eh di try to answer few questions and know What Kind of Cake Are You?

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