Going Green.

We all have to do one thing or another to save the planet we live in :) I have started going paperless with my Citibank credit card bill dubbed as their "Go Paperless, Go Green" campaign, and little by little thinking of ways how to minimize trash and saving planet earth.

I've always wanted a stylish eco bag that I can use when I go grocery shopping but I'm very particular since I go to different groceries and I don't want to be using a Shopwise bag while doing groceries in SM Hypermart, right? And then I came across the chuvaness.com blog entry on M&S eco bags :) I got the Twiggy bag for P295 in Marks and Spencer, it's made of organic cotton and it's big enough to hold a bag or 2 of groceries. Plust the bag can be used not just for groceries since it's stylish.
Hooray to being eco-friendly!

My New Retail Therapy.

I have a new retail therapy, and it costs way way cheaper than the 'traditional' retail therapy. It's called, "Grocery Shopping".

I love going to the grocery and getting all sorts of junk, well the semi-healthy kind. Healthy cereal or the chocolate ones with toys :P, 90 cal oatmeal bars, yogurt, low calorie juices, Ghirardelli hot choco, Raspberry iced tea, sugar free wheat bread, low fat milk, wheat caramel Graham Crackers, Butterfinger hot chocolate, Swiss Miss with fat free mallows, maaaan, I love discovering good food :) And it's not limited to restaurants, but also to groceries! I have to hit the grocery once a week, and get my dose of snacks for the week. I used to joke that my mom's addicted to grocery shopping, she probably goes at minimum of twice a week? And now I just realized, I also feel that impulse to go to the grocery :) The same 'impulse' that I used to feel when shopping clothes, but this time it's way way cheaper!

Apart from being old enough to buy my own food, since I'm earning and all, I'm trying to do that healthy living stint like preferring low fat milk, and sugar free wheat bread. And it's not all the time that my mom picks the 'healthier choice' when it comes to the food in the house.

I've always loved tagging along when my mom does the grocery but since we were kids, we always have to ask permission for all the food that we drop to the cart. Or at least it had to be 'screened' because one, we can't have too much junk, and two, there's a budget during grocery shopping. So imagine now how it feels that since I'm working and earning on my own, and paying for my own grocery..

it's now grab anything any junk any time :D That's what you call the new retail therapy baby!

Shopping Blues.

I'm not really sure if it's me or the good stuff had ran out in Zara and Mango! I know I'm too late to catch the year end sale, because we're almost halfway to January but damn, I really expected a lot. I went to the first day MNG sale to just buy my umbrella, then didn't bother to look, also in Zara's first day sale, but didn't check out the merchandise because there were so many people. I thought there will be good finds left, but to my dismay, I only got 1 piece of clothing in Mango, and nothing in Zara. Just when I finally had the budget for a shopping spree! :D

December I think is the month when I have the most spendings, because of the gifts and all that, and January is the month where my bank account starts recuperating from the Christmas fever that lashed out my money. The good news is, my bank account will be healthy again since there wasn't much of shopping done :D

Shopping In Bangkok.

Now to continue my Thailand journey, let's go to the essential part of why girls go to Bangkok - Shopping! Yeah yeah, food's great- given, but shopping doesn't come close to Greenhills or Divi shopping,where you're supposed to get everything cheap right, but the stuff that they sell if you ask are from Bangkok. So imagine if you get the stuff directly, how much cheaper could they get? :D The answer? 100 baht. Or P140 :) (for some items :D)

Bangkok is a shopping mecca where haggling is essential and wholesale is downsized to 3 pieces. Haha, nuff said. It helps when there 4 of us shopping together because we always get the wholesale price, and thank God I brought an extra duffel bag because my stuff didn't fit in the luggage bag, shopping's that crazy :) I'm now 85% done with my Christmas shopping, so hooray! I bought a lot of gifts during the trip, so there's few people left on my list :D


I've loved eating Pad Thai and Bagoong Rice even before my Bangkok trip and I was really looking forward to eating the 'authentic' one, and it both had check marks on my list before we left. But now, I discovered another addition to my Thai list, it's the Thai Tea! Aside from coffee fix, I also get cravings for Milk Tea, Chai Tea, and my new addition to the list, Thai Tea :) I'm glad they have these in 3 in one's from the grocery that we were able to bring home. If they had instant Pad Thai, I would have brought home some too. Hahahahha. Well, for Pad Thai fix in Manila, there's always Oody's.

I'd definitely go back to Bangkok!