Hydroxdase Review

After two weeks of using the product, SO FAR, nothing has happend. I haven't lost any weight, nor has my excessive sweating lessened, as the product promises. I did however, feel a tingling in my stomach as i drank it every morning...

Hmmm... Still drinking it though... Hoping for positive results...

And when i went to replenish my stock last week at Shopwise, the little bottles were on sale already...

Hmmm... Is that a bad sign?? =(

Employment

Just like several things in life...

Once we freely accept a situation...

It changes, and becomes a whole new situation.

I am no longer unemployed...

I am WITH JOB.

The Script

I'm a bit delayed on posting things onto the site, but don't fret, i'll start posting stuff again soon... Was just a bit busy the past week.

Anyways, while you guys are waiting, here's a group that Mike made me a fan of...

The Script...

Their carrier single:

The Man Who can't Be Moved

And my favorite song off their album:

I'm Yours (or as Mike would say it, I'm Yoursch) =)

As always, enjoy.

Boyce Avenue

Continuing with my acoustic fix earlier this morning, here's a great acoustic band from the US. Not sure if they've been signed yet... But am hoping they do, because they're good!

Anywhoo, they've posted their videos on myspace and you tube, so search for it if you're interested on hearing more and actually seeing some of their performances.

Here are some great covers that they did, and three originals that are very Lifehouse-ish...

Not bad.. Enjoy

The Original Songs:

Find Me

All The While

So Much Time

The Covers:

Apologize (OneRepublic)

Realize (Colbie Callait)

Same Mistake (James Blunt)

Umbrella (Rihanna)

Beautiful Girls and Stand By Me Medley

Tattoo, No One, and Where Is The Love Medley

Hydroxydase...

If there's one thing that I am quite interested in, it's detoxing and living a healthy life. Being someone who was 80lbs overweight before, I find great interest (and pleasure, if I might add) in cleaning up my body and staying fit. I've tried a lot of fad diets, the ever famous south beach diet, the bacon and eggs diet, the tuna - egg white - camote diet. I've tried it all. The last one I did was the liquid diet. A diet which consisted of only juices that help your system flush out the toxins and whatever dirt your body might have. I did this for 3 months and to be quite honest, I did see results. I lost like 15 lbs and was extremely fit. Well, that was almost a year ago, and I've gained some weight back and my body is in need of some drastic toning.

With that, I came across this new product in the grocery called Hydroxydase. It's some French slimming water that's supposed to increase your metabolism and flush out all the toxins in your body helping your system work better and faster. Anyways, there was no need to think about it, I bought a case of it. So today is officially day 1 of trying the product. Hope it works.

A "Full" Weekend...

My weekend was well spent. Great food and wonderful friends, how could anyone go wrong right??

We started Friday with a few drinks at Warehouse and then headed over to Gav, as Laurence would say, and stayed 'til 3 or 4 in the morning. Though the bar wasn't as packed as previous years, the party and the crowd was pretty okay. Almost all my closest friends were there so I couldn't complain. RR even took the ledge and danced like she was single. Hehe. She was back in her element.

Saturday was then the day of RR's pseudo surprise birthday party. Though a few couldn't make it, the dinner turned out quite well. We all took the time to catch up with each other and basically just bond and relive several fun and memorable moments.

The complimentary bread and the balsamic vinegar/olive oil dip was YUMM! The dip's secret ingredient was pureed kiamoy (secretly asking around for the recipe now). My paella was great. It was worth the two hours we all endured waiting for the food. I was warned by the restaurant that service would be slow on the (Oct) 4th, but I honestly didn't expect the wait to be that long. Maybe because the table outside had showbiz personalities (I could only name Donita, cause she's the only one I know by name) and some BIG basketball players.

Then on Sunday we were off to Bawai's Vietnamese House and Chateu Hestia for lunch and dessert. Bawai's was quite a disappointment. I was reading all these great reviews about the place, so my expectations were quite high. The pho beef was alright, the wrapping for the fresh spring roll was pretty thick, the fillet's curry flavor was a bit too strong, and the shrimp puff on the sugarcane wasn't anything spectacular. And to add to that, the servers were quite loud and kept peeking out the window while we were eating. (the window was right beside our table!) The only thing that did save the whole meal were the dry noodles and the Vietnamese version of the sapin sapin. Those were really good.

After a disappointing lunch, we headed over to Chateu Hestia which was right beside Bawai for dessert. The area that we saw was spectacular. Great for intimate gatherings and quiet nights. The restaurant was wonderful. The ambiance was very cozy and had a "homey" feel. The dessert on the other hand was awful. My apple pie's crust was a bit too thick, while Jah's mango sansrival should've been correctly renamed to mango refrigerated cake. Mike's dessert was the only thing that salvaged the whole thing, ferrero ice cream. Yum!

It was simply just a fun weekend with lots of food and wonderful moments with great friends. =)

Muzik Fix

A few of my favorite club tracks:

Sara Bareilles: Love Song (Hommer's Vocal Club Mix)

Solange: Sandcastle Disco (Lost Daze Club Mix)

Sunfreakz: Drive Out (The Attik Mix)

Katy Perry: Hot N Cold (Jason Nevin's Extended Club Mix)

Cajjmere Wray: Naughty Girls (Tribal Tarante Anthem Mix)

Doc Phatt: F*ck Me On The Dancefloor (Original Mix)

Enjoy you guys...

The Art of Unemployment

Being unemployed for more than over a year, one has to find creative ways in killing time, managing time, but most of all, spending time. Now to people who've worked their entire lives, making time is usually their only problem, but for me, killing time and efficiently using it to somehow validate my existence to a job-oriented society was my major dilemma. As they say, idle hands are the devil's playground, and I couldn't be any "idler".

Keeping a positive state of mind and an optimistic heart, I was ready for the challenge. I was ready to spend my time wisely, and in the beginning, I even constituted a routine to outline and guide my daily activities. Mondays, I do groceries, Tuesdays, I eat somewhere new, Wednesdays, I check out the malls, Thursdays, I stay in the kitchen and bake, Fridays and Saturdays, I go out (to the bars), and Sundays, I unwind and get a massage.

And the plan worked...

Well... It was until I got lonely.

People say that no man is an island... But what happens when your island's population wakes up at 8 am and goes to work, while you wake up at 10:30 am, only to find yourself alone for more than half the day, every day, for the past year? What happens when the routine that you've planted and securely attached into your system, fails and dies on you? And as sadly as it may sound, what happens when you start believing everyone's insignificant comments and question your own worth and importance in a society where working is a must? What happens when insignificant comments become significant?

Personally speaking, no one can really tell us if we’re significant or not. It is how we perceive any obstacle, or in this case criticism. We could always look at problems from two different angles, the positive side, or as you might have guessed, the negative side. As for me, I opted to be optimistic and decided that no one could really validate my existence or pass proper judgment on myself, but myself. Comments are good. Comments are meant to be constructive. And it all really depends on how we take it.

Being unemployed (for quite some time) is more likely than not, viewed under a negative light, but personally, I believe that my unemployment is a choice. A choice given to me to see my options and to finally figure out what is I really want to do with my life. I believe that unemployment is more than a job, but an art and a state of trying to keep sane, aiming to be genuinely happy, coping and managing being alone half the time, but most of all, it is an art of adapting to our surroundings and making life work to achieve your own sense of personal bliss.

Unemployment... Not By Choice...

It's been over a year since I've actually worked and held a steady and "career fulfilling" job. My last actual attempt for some kind of professional satisfaction or "personal-growth", as a few have tried to imply, was in an advertising agency for a span of approximately 6 months. Now I know that isn't much, but given the condition that it was my first REAL advertising job, let alone the no mentor/supervisor dilemma, I was pretty much surprised that I lasted that long. After releasing two TVC's and some print materials, I decided to wheel in my white flag and compose the "ever-cliché" letter of defeat, my two weeks’ notice.

Personally speaking, I knew what I wanted the moment I signed on to advertising. I wanted a job experience where the environment was conducive to learning the tricks of the trade, the ins-and-the-outs of the business, but most importantly, I wanted a working environment favorable to getting started in the field which was beneficial to learning the basic 101's of this dynamic industry.

I was selfish, I really didn't wanna work. I wanted to learn...

So with that, after more than a year of giving my letter to Ms. J., here I am, still unemployed and STILL voraciously applying and waiting for other job opportunities in other agencies that may open up.