Why Do I Appreciate E-cigarettes

I am not a smoker. I have tried but I stopped right there. I don't hate it though and I used to not have a stand about it.

I maintained a personal motto on vices, which is, "if you don't have one - don't inflict a vice on yourself just because you feel cooler with it"

My husband has been a heavy-smoker. He started young and I remember seeing him smoking back when we're in highschool. He never stopped smoking. I feel irritated because it just smells in the car. Despite him not smoking inside the car, the scent that sticks to his skin travels everywhere he goes. I am lucky he is hygienic and showers all the time but what if he doesn't? Will every wife suffer of the cigarette smell then?

I am just glad he discovered e-cigarettes.

No matter what I hear about it, I still feel this is so much safer than the hardcore yosi he used to smoke. He started quitting bit by bit Ramadan of last year while I was pregnant. Then it went to full 360 degrees turn. He never smoked a stick apart from e-cigarettes.

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For a person with sensitive sense of smell, I still mind it. I don't want to seem hypocritical because I don't even like the smell of caramel popcorn because it sticks to my nose until I get a chance to wash it... but for a wife with a kid, I would appreciate that  the life span of my husband no longer decrease as fast as it used to be.

I am not saying that one should "Live Healthy and SMOKE e-cigarettes," what I am trying to say is, "quitting a vice is hard and one can do it gradually with the help of e-cigarettes as substitute until such time that one can quit totally...

And I maintain, if you're not a smoker, it is still best not to start e-cigarettes... you don't need this if you don't have a vice... it's like loser fest to start something that you don't need.. smokers crave... and e-cigarettes substitute the craving, if you do not have a craving, then what is it for?!

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Getting to Know You

What's your favorite eyeshadow color?
Earth colors, especially my new ones from Motives (check my sidebar to order)

Do you have a favorite book? What is it?
I do. It would be the Bible. Inasmuch as I seem to be very liberal on things, I am really in touch with my spirituality and I actually know them by heart (even the order of the books from old to new)

If you could have lunch with any youtuber, who would it be?
Well it would be Petra Mahalimuyak. She is the only one who can crack me up like crazy, so I would rather have lunch with her than anyone else

What's your favorite makeup or fashion brand?
For Make up, it would have to be Mac and Motives. As for Fashion, I am into Bershka nowadays and of course, Desigual!

Do you prefer autumn or spring?
I am in love with spring, but it would be cool to experience autumn with matching maple leaves some time... think Canada?

Do you have siblings?
I do.

Do you have any hidden talents?
I don't. Hahaha.

Which musician/actor do you currently have a crush on?
Think local, Diether Ocampo and nowadays, I am liking Adam Levine

If you could visit one place in the world, where would it be? Why?
These days, I want to go to Tokyo and be with my sisters

What are your top two biggest pet peeves?
I've been very consistent on this area, it would have to be backstabbing and negative people

Name a happy childhood memory
Whenever my father spends a month or so in the Philippines for his annual vacation, it has always been my happiest memory back when I was young

What's your favorite food?
I love Lechon, Lechon Kawali, Sinigang na Baboy, Spam, Dinuguan, Pampanga's Best Sweet Ham

Do you love to watch movies?
Yes

What annoys you?
Noise and really unkempt living room

What sports are you into?
I am into volleyball and table tennis

Have you tried to wear clothes from Ukay-Ukay or Hand-Me-Down Clothes?
Yes, I love thrifting!

Do you drink? As in alcohol?
I used to, but not anymore

What's your favorite?
I used to like Tequila and Vodka and Red Horse when we ain't got no money to buy the expensive ones! LOL

Are you a HIPSTER?
Nope

What's your most hated subject?
Logic

Embarrassing Moment? Name one!
I tripped on the same staircase twice (despite taking extra care the second time)

Place in the world you want to go. Why?
I want to go to Tokyo with my sisters, but I really would love to go and settle in LA, I don't know, that place had me since I was a kid.

Reason why you start blogging?
I love to write. Doing what you love and sometimes getting paid for it is fun.

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How to Delete Your Yahoo Account

I was trying to delete one facebook account but I keep on reactivating that account for the sake of keeping it alive despite my desire to keep it dormant. I know right! I am the weirdest.

So I decided to finally delete my yahoo account used for login in order to prevent me from further retaining the unnecessary account. I have deleted a lot of yahoo accounts but I keep forgetting how to. Just in case some fellow weirdo find their yahoo account no longer useful, please feel free to click this link https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user than wait 4 months of inactivity to have yahoo delete it by themselves.

Take note that all your files will be deleted as well. If you're particular about it, then have it all backed up, but if you are like me, hit enter and voila, one unnecessary email add has been deleted under your name.

Marjorie Barretto's Supposedly Fake Photo (Scandal)

Should this be the face of Philippine politics?

Oh migosh!

Have I been in Riyadh for so long that I am shocked to have recently knew that Marjorie Baretto is a political figure in the Philippines.

This picture circulating all over is not really shocking but what surprised drove me crazy is the fact that she's turned into politics. Who the hell votes for the Barettos?? The people who verbally maim each other on record like remorse was never  introduced to them.

According to grapevine, she's conceived a child courtesy of yet another politician, the one Dennis Padilla (Marjorie's ex husband) was campaigning against on a letter circulating everywhere competing with this photo for attention.

Well well well, of course people would pay more attention to this scandalous image that Marjorie super dooperly denies to be her. This is soooo not photoshopped --- I would know because camphone and webcam images are my expertise since I've been a user for quite sometime now as opposed to high resolution images from DSLRs that people edit/enhance more often than not for artistic and/or professional utilization.

Is this is a casual impromtu looking photo so conveniently used for a silly online retaliation on what seem to have started on Instagram?

Perhaps a political nemesis then? Because in fact, this is the perfect timing to destroy a politician's image especially a politician whose siblings are trying to verbally kill each other, what a good strategy that is!!

As for Dennis Padilla, he's been rumored to have settled with a family of his own somewhere in the south so I suppose he would not need to campaign against the guy who stole Marjorie away from him (based on what's been written and circulated!)

Whew! What a circus! But we live to watch them, in fact we even pay to subscribe to their daily brouhahas!

All I can say is that this is NOT PHOTOSHOPPED...

And whoever started this is really out to get her for some motives, political or personal? Who knows!

Anyhoo, kaloka this saga has been huh! And to Boy Abunda, sayang!

UPDATE: AAMININ DIN PALA! SUS!

Claudine and Gretchen Barretto Fight

What's my take on the Baretto sisters brouhaha?

Let's describe the timeline:

1. Gretchen entered showbusiness during the 80's - a very beautiful girl with amazingly soft skin, someone who looks like a person who hasn't step foot on a mud before. Blessed with super beauty despite not having enough money for lunch? Your thoughts are as good as mine...
2. Claudine entered the showbusiness during the AngTv days, I bet she's done prior projects than AngTv but regardless, let's start her career in the 90's. She's become popular being on top rating shows like Home Along Da Riles, Oki Doki Doc, among others!
3. Gretchen was rumored to have gotten herself involved with a very much married senator/actor and she even described how she caught him cheating with yet another concubine who she hid under the initial - D
4. Claudine was rumored to have caused actor Rico Yan's demise (depression = od), but all these were heresays and none has been proven true
5. Gretchen caught on camera kissing John Estrada while still being very much involved with Tony Boy Cojuangco
6. Claudine rumored to have been involved with yet again, a married senator/actor while splurging galore in casinos all over the metro (known friend of the senator ref: on #3)
7. Gretchen supposedly helping the family with their needs and wants, Marjorie as proof being one of Gretchen's constant entourage on her IG photos with BB Gandanghari and some other unknown people, posing like they are ready to fight
8. Claudine and Raymart now separated after their very notorious altercation with the Tulfo Bros.
9. Gretchen being all over Derek Ramsay back in the day, causing Angelica Panganiban's loony fest at that time
10. Afterwards, Claudine herself has stirred another trouble involving pretty Angelica with regard to her supposed boyfriend, a Paolo Santos look alike

Summing it up, they are very much like any other families --- happy, sad, happy, sad --- we cannot say theirs is abnormal because who doesn't have problems like these? Perhaps not as scandalous and of questionable morality but yeah --- we do have.

Rich people still do have money problems i.e. who's helped who? who feeds who? I guess when it comes to family, it does not have to matter who does, all that would matter is that everyone eats and no one dies of starvation.

I am a full-fledged Claudine fan so this may sound biased. I have seen her career, from being on top and now, to where she currently is. All I can say is that being a person in my early 30s without amnesia nor dementia, I can still recall how Marjorie has been so drawn into Claudine. They were always together. Cameras have seen it and perhaps all were recorded --- you know how popular people's days were always covered for fans to feast on. I've seen how Marjorie's kids were so into her like she's their mom too. I still recall how Marjorie would brag about Claudine's love and care for them, so now I wonder, why would they question Claudine's intentions re: Marjorie's kids?

If ever Claudine's suffering some emotional breakdown or mental problem, shouldn't Marjorie be there to support Claudine instead of Zumba-ing with Gretchen showing the whole wide world who she allies with.

Well, the thing is, I haven't had the opportunity of hearing anything of that praise and gratefulness from Marjorie addressed to Gretchen so I don't have anything to refer to. But with Marjorie, this is so distorted, I think it's you who can end  this battle, because it all started with your kid. I guess that will be much better than constantly posing with Gretchen on IG like steering an ill feeling towards your family.