Kat's Notebook

I brought my vivitar ultra wide slim camera with me to China. I’m new to the “lomography” hobby. But I don’t think my camera is considered lomo; it’s just a toy cam. Anyway I acquired the camera last year and although I was inspired and trigger-happy on the first few months, I became unenthusiastic after [...]

With the bad economy recession right now, I just thank God for malls like 168. 168 is a big shopping building at the heart of Divisoria, Manila. It houses series of stalls peddling stuffs from clothes, accessories to household items at really low price. Most of the stall owners are Chinese and their ware hails [...]

For our post-christmas party, my group of friends decided to spend it at Red Box, Greenbelt Makati. Our group loves to sing! Everytime we go out together, we always end up in a karaoke bar if not in a swimming villa. We haven’t tried Red Box yet. Red Box Greenbelt has an ongoing lunch promo [...]

I had the pleasure of experiencing a wonderful sunday eat-all-you-can buffet lunch with my relatives at the Dusit Thani Hotel Makati, Philippines. What can I say? I was stuffed. The food are absolutely gourmet and authentic to its country’s dishes. The Dusit Thani is a 5-star hotel and is formerly known as Dusit Nikko. When [...]

Now that I’m back in the Philippines I won’t be able to watch my fave shows!!!! Dancing with the Stars, Grey’s Anatomy, Top Model, Samantha Who, Top Chef, Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives…..I can’t even watch the episodes online because the TV’s website has restrictions. What am I to do????? Well I’ve got to be resourceful [...]

I’m not talking about the mango fruit which in the Philippines we call it mangga or mango. I’m referring to Japanese comics. I’ve been spending my time reading manga this past few days. I read manga scanlations of course since I don’t understand Japanese. I thought it’s always better to watch animes rather than read [...]

Whoever thought of online social networking sites is a genius. Just think of the facebook creator who is young single and available and doesn’t look like a geek and super rich because of Facebook. But this blog isn’t about those site launchers/founders/creators; this is about me having registered to too many networking sites already! I [...]

I was first introduced to rummage sale by my aunt when I was 22 years old – that was the year I first arrived in the US. Of course, we Filipinos specifically Filipino-Chinese have this inherent frugal lifestyle. In the Philippines where I came from, people just amass things. We have a strong affinity to [...]