Too tired & knackered to blog. While I try to get back to regular programming, kindly allow me to post the following plugs and pictures:

Melo Villareal’s Lakbay Pilipinas blog is giving some readers a chance to win a limited edition free copy of Jessica Zafra’s Twisted Travels. The rules are simple: Just comment on the post, blog about it, Stumble it!, and/or contribute at least two articles to the blog. Why am I doing this? Because I want my copy too! Thanks in advance Melo:)

Zee has clued me in on this interesting contest by Nestle Philippines on how Nescafe 3-in-1 enhances your barkada moments. Show your creativity by piecing together any of the videos in the site into a 90-second commercial. For the advanced category, you may use your own vids and animation. Cool prices such as Macbooks and iPods are at stake!

Barbizon fun run.

August has been a milestone month for breastfeeding advocates, with a synchronized breastfeeding to be held worldwide tomorrow, August 8. In the local front, underwear maker Barbizon held a two-kilometer Milkshake Marathon at the Fort. TV host Suzi Entrata-Abrera noted that breastfeeding is a lifestyle choice and people should know more than attributing it to “old-fashioned, stay-at-home moms who have nothing better to do.” Said Suzi:
” Breastfeeding is a significant health decision with life-long consequences for babies, parents as well as the environment.” Well, if women can only be assured that they’d be as thin as Suzi even after they’ve delivered three (or four?) babies, am sure they’d be breastfeeding more. I was only able to breastfeed my eldest for a brief time and I had to express milk for my twins who were in the incubator for the first few weeks of their life. I surely give my hats off to Noemi who had the motivation to do it and has a beautiful experience to tell.

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My social calendar has been full.

First on the agenda was the class reunion of our UST AB Journalism Batch XX in Benjo’s Makati Condo. We had fun recalling old times, loading on red wine, singing to death and yours truly was endlessly being teased “Juju, may boobs ka na?!” (gosh, may kambal pa nga eh). Carol even brought her old albums reminiscent of padded shoulders, Kung Fu shoes and Aqua Net hairspray. .A big shout-out to our batchmates living abroad: please make your presence felt and join our YahooGroups today.

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Blogger Bag launch.

Photo shows moi with Brad Geiser (a.k.a. The Amor Maclang’s better-half) with Timbuk2 Bags’ dapper brand manager Jose Tañada at the launch of Timbuk2′s “Blogger Bag” in TGI Friday’s Glorietta. Brad is shown carrying the messenger-style bag which is a “Crumpler killer,” so I was told. It is water-proof, abrasion-resistant and is made of military standard ballistic nylon. With how it’s made, you can bring this bag to Lebanon or Iraq, if you want to The bag also has “built-in, corduroy lined laptop sleeve ” which protects one’s prized laptop from shock. There are also nifty things like a key tether, a holder for your iPods or MP3 player and other compartments essential for blogging-on-the-go. The question is: would I buy this bag? Should I, could I? The answer is yes… if only I had the mind to invest first in a laptop.

More about the bag launch and blogging PR policy in my Blog-O-Rama column this week.

with The James.

“You promised me you’ll hand me over your Little Black Book of boyz and toyz, now all I get is that cozy lunch despedida of torta, leche flan and paella?!” ..and so I will surely miss The James Ong who’s moving on from his job as gofer/editor of Metro Magazine for an online venture in the great-island state of Singapore. Quotable James who I remember from the following conversation:

” I realized that what I really need is a companion, and not a lover!”
“Well maybe then you should become a lesbian?!”

Guess who said what?

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