Lauren Oliver Philippine Book Signing Event

This is one long overdue post~ but its not like anyone cares.. lol.. so yeah,

Remember last March, how i said that i was to go to Lauren Oliver's Book signing here in the Philippines? I did go and well everything was awesome especially Lauren. I wouldn't make a long post about everything that happened but just post pictures (most of it is a bit blurry though, sorry~ this is the best it could get) and let the event speak for itself :). I took a video of her while she was being interviewed too but its too big of a file and i can't seem to upload it anywhere :(

Tadaima~ :D

Finally! after about a hundred years of not blogging (yeah i exaggerate too much~ :P) here i am again~ Well at first i was just seriously busy because i had to transfer to the dorm near the place where my training is currently ongoing. With all the crazy shifts that i've been assigned with its a must that i transfer to a dorm if i wanted to be sane the next day for my duty. So because i transferred to a dormitory with no wi-fi or whatsoever, plus the fact that i didn't bring my laptop with me in my first month here there wasn't any way for me to blog~  thus no post at all.. I never even bothered to go find a connection because i was too lazy. I still probably wont be blogging regularly like i used to, but still this is better than no update at all~ I do love this blog after all..

Okay so here's my current bed.. the only picture i'm gonna share though~

This is how the hospital looks during the night~ :3

All the pictures i will be posting from here is taken from Nikon 3100. To be honest i still haven't figured out how to use it properly, and from all the blurry pictures i take you can guess how much i miss the old camera~ (which i can't find). I think the Sony one is wayyyy  better than this Nikon im currently using. *shrug*

Nivea haul

Stocked up on my Nivea necessities.. haha see how much i love this brand~? lol.. Eversince i tried The smallest Extra whitening cell repair and protect that i got as a prize from the Face affair challenge, i was hooked, so i got the biggest container so i wont run out of it easily! It leaves my skin feeling smooth and not sticky~. I haven't actually tried their Whitening toner before, but i guess i will soon. :D Got another tube of my favorite cleanser though i haven't finished my first one yet, there's still about half the tube left i think? And the Extra whitening deodorant is something ive been using for years~ :D Yay for Nivea~ I should make a review of these when i'm not doing anything.. haha..

Also got a few other 'needed' stuff.. i just realized that most of the stuff i bought are pink.. lol..

Delirium

Book description:




There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies for it. Even kill for it. Then, at last, they found the cure. Now, everything is different. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she'll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy. But then, with only ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable.







Yay! I finally got my copy of Delirium~ and its on sale too! Only got it for Php 252.00 from its original price of Php 315.00. The only thing that disappointed me a bit was the fact that Pandemonium was on sale then too! If only i had waited for a few days before buying it i couldve bought it for 315.00 instead of 395.00.. *sigh* Oh well~

Anyway, there were LOTS of Delirium and Pandemonium  at National bookstore when i went the other day and i also remember being surprised when i saw that it even has its own shelf all to its own! When my friend who's name was also Lauren (same as the author) pointed this tiny sign above the books saying that Lauren Oliver would be having a book signing here in the Philippines at March 25! I WAS SOOO EXCITED~ especially i eventually got to read it that i even took the sign off the shelf just to get a better picture off it. As of right now i have no idea on what my schedule would be on that day but hopefully i could get an off then. *prays*

My friend Lauren with the sign

Calling out to all Lauren Oliver fans here in the Philippines~!! Let's say Hi to each other during the signing~ :33

Nikon S3100

My dad just came back yesterday and gave me a cam. It’s not exactly the model I wanted, but then he doesn’t know what it is I want since I never told him in the first place. At least I have my own now~ yay! *poor* and this would do since I don’t have enough money to buy the one I want right now.. haha. He even picked a pink one~ :D.

Okay so here’s the camera, I already attached the strap to it.

It’s just a plain point and shoot one with 5X zoom and 14 mp.

It came with a quick start guide, user manual (printed and the other one on CD), Installer CD, and warranty.

A bunch of usual accessories included..

As of right now I can’t really say much about the camera and its quality since I had just gotten it, plus I’m pretty illiterate when it comes to technical terms. I think the quality of the pictures ive taken were pretty good though, its just that there weren’t much settings I can tweak unlike with my sony w230, which in my opinion is so much easier to use. Maybe in time when im a lot more used to using this camera I could say that I like it more and give it a much better review. :)

Greatest Hits Tour/ A1, Blue and Jeff Timmons

As ive stated in my previous post, I went to The Greatest Hits Tour last February 25 at the Araneta Coliseum. I had known about this event since last year and was really really excited about going here since I’ve never once seen A1 perform live in my almost 12 years of being their fan (they disbanded about two year after I became a fan and I wasn’t allowed to go to concerts before because I was too young). Anyway so I went with my friend Joanne and we only bought our tickets at the venue itself since we were both busy and haven’t decided what tickets to buy yet (plus the limited budget too of course! *wink wink*). We bought Upper B tickets, second cheapest.. lol.. but I think we still had a pretty good view, not as good as the one the patrons had of course but still better, and thank god I brought my binoculars with me then. And I forgot to mention that there was this big screen in front of us~ :D

I didn’t take note of the setlist that each artist sung because I just went with the flow and enjoyed everything. I think this is what people should do during concerts instead of taking videos and pictures the whole time (I admit to doing that before though, haha..). Anyway so Jeff started the concert and performed about 5 songs, 4 of which I’m familiar with (South Border’s Rainbow being one of the song). I think it was during his second song that he picked this one girl from the audience and pulled her to the stage. Then he went on and kneeled in front of her, hugged her, sang with her and lots of other stuff. The audience kept on screaming and my friend was really jealous of the girl, not me though because I wasn’t really into 98 degrees nor Jeff, but that girl was seriously LUCKY.

A1 was the second to perform. There was a few minutes break just before they performed because the stage and the equipments had to be set up again, I’m guessing that each bought their own. I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN THEY CAME ON STAGE. I sang to their every song except the new ones because I wasn’t familiar with those yet, but I love those too just the same~. They sang all their greatest hits (not the whole song though, mostly just the chorus) and I kept wishing for the whole thing to go on forever. Out of all the set, theirs was the longest, and I was really grateful for that! I recorded most off their set but I wasn’t holding onto my camera, I put it over the ledge in front of us, good thing it didn’t fall with all the people that passed In front of us. I was just screaming and singing the whole time. And then during like a rose, Ben had the cameraman come on stage so his face was on screen the whole time!!! He also pulled this girl from the audience and she was by his side while he was singing *JEALOUSSS!!*, I think the girl even got to kiss him too~! Wahhhhh o___o wasn’t t sure though, but Ben looked really surprised then but he was smiling~ I think he was thinking “ohh, youre sneaky~ haha..” 

Blue was the last to perform. I thought their set was going to be as long as A1’s but it was surprisingly much shorter. They didn’t have a band behind them unlike with Jeff and A1 and they performed their songs while dancing, which I guess made it a lot more fun (A1’s set was still the best for me though *biased*). They first sung their ballads then they went inside for a bit and changed from wearing their suits to a more comfortable and hip outfits. Joanne and I went to the empty seats during Blue’s set so were more comfortable to dance along with the songs then.. haha.. They also showed the teaser for their new song coming out this summer.

I was really sad that the audience didn’t ask for an encore. Maybe they didn’t know that we could do that? or am i the only one assuming that that's possible?  

As we were about to leave I saw the stands outside where they were selling A1’s new album as well as Blue’s greatest hits album. A1’s were sold out and I was really really disappointed when I learned that the albums they were selling were signed ones!! L If only I knew I would’ve bought myself a copy in a heartbeat! *Sigh* And when I got on to the internet I saw from MCA’s facebook page that A1 had a meet and greet too! I WASN’T AWARE OF THAT! *CRIES* Now I’m just praying that they come back here again and have a meet and greet again as well.  Anyway, I really had fun during the concert and would do it over and over and over again if I could~!

My Prize~

Remember how I won as one of Nivea’s daily winner for the fair affair challenge last December? I only got my prize last Tuesday (Feb 28) because I kept on procrastinating on getting it before until I eventually forgot about it. Fortunately a friend asked me about it a week ago so I immediately contacted Nivea and inquired whether I could still get the prize, the said yes but only until the 29^th of this month. So since I had free time last Tuesday I decided to go on and get it already.

I initially had no idea where their office was so thank god for all the directions they had given me plus the awesomeness of google map~ I have no car and can’t risk commuting and getting lost so I only walked til I reached their office. You can imagine how haggard looking I was when I reached it because I didn’t realize that it was that far from the main highway.. orz. I only had to sign something and show them a valid ID then finally got my prize. I immediately went home after~ :D

Being a daily winner I won Php1000 worth of Nivea and Majolica Majorca products. The paper bag I got from them contains these four products (below): Nivea Extra Whitening Cell Repair & Protect (125ml), Nivea Visage Sparkling White Acne oil control (25ml), Nivea Extra Whitening Deodorant (25ml) and Majolica Majorca’s Honey Pump Gloss Neo.

Ben retweeted me!!!

I went to the Greatest Hits Tour Concert (A1, Jeff Timmons of 98 degrees and Blue) here at Araneta last February 25 and immediately tweeted Ben the moment i got home~! Fortunately he saw one of my tweets to him and retweeted it~!! wahhhh... <3 I dont think i ever mentioned that i am an A1 fan here before? I have been one for almost 12 years now and seeing Ben retweet my tweet to him made me totally happy! I shall never regret it for the rest of my life!

Pandemonium

Book description:

I'm pushing aside
the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana
and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.

Bought another book a few days ago~ :D Another one of Lauren Oliver's books~ remember how i bought my first one a month ago, i think? I loved it and got addicted to the excerpt of one of her newer books which is Delirium. So i tried finding it at different bookstores to no avail. Both the paperback and the hardbound are out of stock everywhere :(. So since i anticipated that the next book, which is Pandemonium, would be out of stock too in the near future i just bought it instead and opted to wait  for Delirium to get in stock again. :)) Still haven't read this though because i want to finish the Delirium first as Pandemonium is its sequel. So yeah~

Anyway for those who want to read the excerpts of both Delirium and Pandemonium, Harper teen has provided them online~ Check it here. Its really really good~! I am a person who is Pro-piracy in a certain way, but i  encourage people to please buy their own copies and support the writer :). Bought this book for Php395.oo btw, im still not sure how much Delirium costs though but i think its a bit lesser? I guess i would eventually know when i buy my own copy.. haha..

The reason why i can't post much... XD

Okay so i'm currently having my training also called RN Residency training at AFPMC. Its composed of 1 month lecture and  6 mos hospital training wherein you will be rotated in various areas of the hospital unless you will be assigned in a special area (OR, ER, MICU, SICU, etc). Yesterday we finished the lecture phase  and will be going on with the competency exam the next week *nervous* *____*;;;. Will be starting with the clinical duty sometime next month.. wahhh.. I wonder how i will be as a nurse.. *bites nails*

Anyway, so here are some of the photos that i grabbed from Dave's account in facebook.. (pretty LQ don't you think? ^^;; oh well...) :D I actually always bring my camera with me too, but somehow the battery always runs out before i even dare take a picture of my friends :(, you might be wondering how come the battery always runs out? Because the camera is so old and i think there's something wrong with it plus i take pictures of the slides of the lecture all the time.. orz..

It has gotten over me once again...

Yup you probably know what i'm referring to.. its....... LAZINESS~ If you hadn't guessed that then you probably don't know me much.. lol.. :P Anyway so first off i want to say sorry to everyone and to myself for not abiding by my 15 posts limit per month last January and probably this month too seeing how February is almost ending and i haven't got a single post yet except for this. I hadn't been just lazy all the time though, i had also been busy with my training which started sometime in the first week of this month. I will be training till October i guess, so please forgive the lack of posts. :(

By the way i just noticed a few days ago that i now have a follower! :D lol.. i was really surprised and thankful because it never occurred to me that someone would actually follow my not really interesting blog.. So yeah.. Thank you so much Bellmikenzo! ^___^v

Nivea Sparkling White Acne Oil Control

It’s already been a few good months since I started using Nivea’s Sparkling White Acne oil control cleanser and I must say that this is one of the products that I would really swear by and probably use for the rest of my life! And I’m not even exaggerating when I said that, lol. It’s that good! 

During the first two weeks, I used it interchangeably along with my old cleanser which is Etude House’s Happy Teatime in Lemon (for oily skin) just so my face would adjust to the new cleanser. I’m not sure whether what I did was wrong or not but I just felt like doing it that way. I got a few pimples then and I was wondering whether using Nivea’s cleanser was a bad thing, but I still used it since it would be such a waste not to, I mean its new and I felt like I should give it a fair try before giving up. One thing I loved about it the most was the smell. It was floral and I really loved smelling it while washing my face <3. Good thing tough that I continued using it because as days passed by I noticed how my skin got less oily especially my T-zone. Most days (right now) I don’t even use a powder anymore. I still do get oily but that would be like after about 6 hours or so? And not even as oily like how I would be before. I still get a few pimples from time to time especially when THAT time of the month comes, or from some new facial product I used or probably stress, but it’s considerably lesser from the amount of pimples I got before. This may sound really biased but I don’t have anything negative to say about this product. I’m not being paid by Nivea to praise their product by the way, just so you know, I just seriously like this product so much! :D

It’s really affordable too! Only P125 for 100g and I’m still on my first tube as of right now, it doesn’t run out fast~ :D, and i think the one in 50g is only P50. One thing though, I found that this product was a bit hard to find? I didn’t find it in a lot of shops/ drugstore while I was looking for it but finally found one at SM Fairview’s dept store, at the Watson area to be specific. It wasn’t available on Mercury drug, Landmark, Ever, and also at the separate Watson store at SM Fairview and SM North.. orz.. 

Nature Republic's Flower waltz Nail Polish Remover

I decided to review my Nature Republic’s  Flower Waltz Nail Polish remover, just so I could fill in my 15 posts requirement to myself per month (orz, very honest aren’t i? XD).This nail polish remover was again part of the things I bought from NR way back last year. I didn’t get to try it much since I’m not really into using nail polish a lot, but I bought it just so I’d have something to use whenever I do use a nail polish and because I don’t like using the over the counter acetone sold in most drugstores because they make my nails dry and leaves this white stuff off.

It comes in a 100 ml bottle and is priced for only P64.00. This is pink as you can see and smells floral. I think they have another variant that comes in orange, I forgot the name, but that one smells fruity instead.

I used these NR polishes for this review. The pink one is a basecoat. I don’t know the exact name for the silver one because I can’t find the name/number on the bottle. So maybe this is the only silver polish they probably produce? I have no idea.

I applied both the basecoat and 2 coats of the silver polish, no top coat though because I can’t open it for some reason, and put some of the nail polish remover on a small piece of cotton. I let the nail polish dry so its a bit harder.

Put the cotton over my nail, pressed it a bit then waited for a few seconds.

Lifted it~ and almost everything came off except for the tiny glitters that came with the nail polish~

Mandatory layout changes?

With the coming of the mandatory profile layout changes from both Youtube and Facebook, I immediately took screencaps of both of my profile pages there just so I could have something to remember them with. I say why push through with the change when almost everyone is very much opposed against it? I’m talking about the facebook timeline rn, almost all of my friends especially those who accidentally changed their profile to timeline doesn’t like it. Some won’t even go to profiles with the timeline on and some threatens to not go facebooking (is there such a word?) anymore if Facebook if facebook would push through with the timeline.

But as Ive learned before, there is no use stopping the inevitable. Once I saw the news about FB launching the timeline I was already pretty sure that we would all be doomed to use it one day and to confirm this Yahoo released an article a while ago saying how in the next few days Facebook is making the layout change mandatory, much to everyone’s disappointment. Youtube has also announced that their profile/channel layout change be mandatory on March 7, I think, it used to be optional just like with the Facebook timeline.

I guess it wouldn’t be all bad. In time we’ll probably learn to work with it just like with the other past layout changes. Hopefully. We can only reminisce the past and so I’ll give myself something to reminisce with when I feel like it. Screencaps~ :D I rotated my screen especially for this just so I could take a screencap with the whole of my profile. Hahaha..

Seminar @ NKTI

I had my first ever nursing seminar last January 24 at NKTI. Most of my friends probably had a LOT of seminars by now. I don’t know why I can’t be bothered to go to seminars before.. lol anyway so yeah this is my first. My friend  Ara was actually the person who told me about this and I immediately agreed to because I realized that I have no seminars yet. For the month of January NKTI offered to conduct 3 seminars. I won’t post the links anymore since the seminars are already over anyway. I went to the 2^nd day of their seminar because I wasn’t able to tall my mom about it before the first day, I only remembered on the actual day >__>.  Ara wasn’t supposed to go to the 2^nd day so I asked Juice if she’s available that day, she said yes and then Ara was suddenly available too so there were 3 of us who went to that seminar that day (picture above: Juice, Me, Ara).