4:30 update

i know that a post as short as this should have probably landed on twitter or plurk but the thing is i don't have twitter or plurk account yet and besides according to the contest that i join it is clearly stated that only blog (or facebook, myspace, and ORKUT) so anyway bombs away

Just entered to win a fabulous gift. View details here: http://ikolkata.blogspot.com

Blue Water Day Sparty!

These couple of years, the influx of spas and wellness centers on the metro has been very apparent. Obviously, there is a rising demand for massages and body therapy. I think people, nowadays, are living a very stressful existence, juggling work and personal life and so they want a place where they can relax and be comfortable. Because of the looming numbers of spa center around, one can say the competition among them is pretty steep. Thus, each attempt to come up with a unique and remarkable experience that promises to uplift customer’s mood and make them forget about the daily stresses they encounter in life. But among all the spa concepts that I have seen and heard, I’d say none beats the Blue Water Day Spa.

Blue Water Day Spa is committed to service excellence, adhering to nothing less than global standards in the spa industry. They combine the latest spa technology to give customers the ultimate spa experience. And their lates is the Spa Theatre. The room is equipped with High Definition cinema projectors with Dolby Sorround 7.1 sounds and BlueRay movies. It also has 28 Lazy boy type leather seat sofas which were custom made with the perfect reclined angle so that customers can enjoy the treatment and the movie in the most relaxing way. The theatre is also open to rent. Customers can now have their ultimate SPARTY!!!

Sky is the limit when it comes to spa party concepts. You can have a PS3 sparty, videoke sparty, or movie marathon sparty. I personally am thinking of a quiz bee (family feud) sparrty event, complete with host and dancers on screen or on stage. While customers are getting their treatment, a series of multiple choice questions flashes on screen. And if ideas can get anymore extreme, maybe food and drinks can be served simultaneously. Now, that would be an awesome sparty.

For a chance to experience this sparty feeling, visit techfilipino on or before feb. 15.

My Shopaholic Confession

Hi my name is Annabel and I’m a Shopaholic!

No, I wasn’t born this way. In fact, no one from my family tree possesses a shopaholic gene so it can’t be a hereditary thing. I guess it was more of a “learned response”. When you are living in a place where fashion is king, you just can’t fight it. You have to adapt to it, almost like a survival instinct.

The year was 2002. Barely 4 months fresh out from college, I found my 1^st job. Well, it wasn’t exactly my dream job but hey, how can I complain when I was earning my own money… my own crispy Hong Kong money. Oh yes, you could definitely say I was a lucky girl back then. Imagine being 21, earning your own keeps, and living in a country where shopping is said to be a national past time. But who would have known, it was also the perfect recipe that would quickly turn me into a shopaholic.

Living in the Hong Kong, where one is sure to have a daily dose of Armani clad investment bankers, cute boy-candy in their Calvins, girls strutting their Jimmy Choo with their dearest Gucci bags, it is so hard not to get caught with the fashion label bug because donning a designer piece is like the secret handshake for them. I myself was unable to fight the bug that soon enough I was also completely under the influence of “LABELS”—the six letter darnest word ever created.

I remember the first time my colleagues and I went shopping, I spend half of my paycheck just on one shop. The feeling of being able to purchase something so beautiful from my own money overcame me that I bought whatever pleased my eyes. But everything inside the shop was so beautiful. In a span of four months, I almost bought half of what was inside the shop. Worst, I was still not satisfied. Soon, I began to expand my shopping territory. During lunch break I would quickly go down our building to check the latest displays around the neighborhood. I would patiently walk from window to window and decide which one I will buy later after work. Whenever there was a sale, I would drag my colleagues to join me in a shopping frenzy (or was it the other way around? It really doesn’t matter). And when my credit card application was finally approved, I took my shopping experience to a new level. The internet became my next best friend. If I wasn’t outside the house checking on the latest trends, I was inside the house surfing the net for the hottest items. I became a certified shopaholic.

That was how things were for a while. My credit card was almost maxed out and my savings was close to nil. At home I have a chunk load of stuffs overflowing from my tiny closet. It was then that I realized how my lifestyle was unhealthy for me and decided to take some action. It definitely took a lot of will power to control my impulses but I learned a lot from that experience.

Now that I am older (ahem), wiser (ahem ahem), and has more responsibility (this one is definitely true), I am still battling with my shopaholic tendencies. But I can say that I am a more judicious shopper now.

Catch "Confessions of a Shopaholic" in Cinemas on February 18, 2009!

4:35 PM

Its 4:35 Pm Manila time now and im still sitting in front of my monitor (not really mine, its the library CPU). I was here since this morning. I am trying to search for something... something i need so badly... yeah really bad that i could kill (hehe). Wanna know what i am looking for? if only this keyword is on the top 5 hottest keywords search list of Google trend right now. how i wish but i bet it will be in the next five years. but enough of that because the fact is it ain't. i will just have to live with it.

So do you wanna know what i am looking for? i bet you are dying to know :). i am looking for "APA style, format, or guide for thesis writing". I have already search all over the net (not entirely true :P) and i can't find a free APA thesis template! :( so far, there are a few cites giving away APA tips on thesis writing but then it is not clear and the information is not really helpful to me. So, if there is a kind soul out there willing to help this damsel in distress (hehe) ill be forever grateful.