2014 Starbucks Planner: Philippines Edition

Finally after completing 18 stickers, I got my 2014 Starbucks planner — Philippine edition, and got the Yellow variant.


Well, to be honest there is a bit no difference with the 2013 Starbucks planner the content is the same but there are some added notes to the planner, and of course, discount card as a freebies bundled with it.


The materials of this planner was made locally — I dunno what region in the Philippines the materials was used. but Starbucks is doing outreach program to help the less-fortunate people in need. Also, some of the funds are donated to those victim of typhoon Haiyan that hits Tacloban, Leyte.


Anyway, I got it already and I am happy for that & at the same time, there is freebies inside like discount for next month and so on.


So what are you waiting for, just complete the 18 stickers and you'll have this wonderful planner from Starbucks. Also, you might want to have their Starbucks card so that you can avail their perks.

Blueberry & Blackberry Oatmeal from Jamba Juice

Guess, during this modern era, people right now are on the go. They want everything quick, ready to cook, or ready to eat especially when you are living in the fast-pace life or urban city.

With this lifestyle, processed food that are rich in monosodium or msg arise that may cause health problems. The challenge right now by the food industry is to provide healthy foods that are fresh which are on the go; Jamba Juice comes to play, especially it was introduced in the Manila.

When was Jamba Juice open their branches in Manila, it opened a whole new food stuff to the market where it was fresh — fresh fruits that's what I am pertaining to — but on the go.

One of their product that was impressed was the Blueberry & Blackberry Oatmeal, composed of organic oats that processed in a steel-cut cooked with Soymilk topped with Blueberry & Blackberry fruits that are fresh. Well, Oatmeal is one of the healthiest food around, they prevent heart-attack by absorbing bad cholesterol on your body. Blueberry & Blackberry are rich in antioxidant which is also good for your health. At the same time, Blueberry & Blackberry fruits are rich in Vitamin C.

First impression about this product? Well, if you are used to eat Oatmeal then this one is no difference with other especially those organic ones — not the instant or quick cook Oatmeals.

What I observed was that the steel-cut Oatmeals has big Oats compared to the conventional Oatmeal in the market.

So those who wants to shift there eating lifestyle, early-adopters (especially in the Philippines), and the Oatmeal goers; try this food from Jamba Juice and you'll not regret it. I recommend this one to all the readers.

Jamba Juice branches are located at the following places:

1. Robinsons Place Magnolia
2. Robinsons Place Manila
3. SM Megamall
4. SM D' Block
5. Bonifacio High Street in Taguig

Mercury Drug Store Nagtahan: Poor customer service

"Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase"

All I can say that the customer service of Mercury Drug Store Nagtahan branch was worst especially to those customer who have only credit or debit card as their payment.

Here's what happened, on the 26th of this month (11/26/2013), me and my friend went to Mercury Drug Nagtahan to buy some food because we are just going to do some foodtripping, I did not have any cash in handy that time so what I'll do is charge it to my card instead.

So we're at the counter to pay the stuff and told the lady at the cashier that I'm going to pay it using my card, so what she did was asked their staff to get the swiper at the other counter in order that they'll charge the card. Ok, that's fine; then suddenly she grabbed the other stuff that my friend is purchasing and out of nowhere she charge all the things that I and my friend bought in one transaction; hold on there, I told the lady that the purchase is separate because I'm using a card. You know what she did? She did nothing, she reasoned out that "Naisama ko na siya — I included them already", that kind of reason is kinda BS! And worst is that she did not void it. WTF was that?! Really?!

Instead of paying a small amount on the things that my friend bought, he needs to shell out more to the transaction on that time because my friend is paying cash, good thing that my friend brought an extra that time. Of course at the end I pay my friend for the things that I bought. Nice solution there that lady in mind, geesh!

Question here is that are those employee at Mercury Drug Nagtahan are trained to handle customers who are using cards instead of cash? If not, kinda incompetent on their end. And how the management included those kind of people to their payroll.

There is a Filipino phrase commonly used to those kind of scenario; "Para-paraan din ang mga empleyado niyo rin noh!".

Also this is not the first time that I've experience this kind of treatment on that branch, this is the 2nd time — using a credit card that time.

I definitely not recommend this branch, really; especially to those customers who will pay using debit or credit card; poor customer service and incompetent employee.

Like I said, this the only branch that I've experience that kind of treatment, because on their other branches (Sta. Mesa, Broadway, Starmall, & Otigas Galleria) I did not experience that.

I'm not asking for anything after this, any kind of resolution, just venting out my frustration.

That will depend on the management what they will do after this.

Master Siomai: Chicken Siomai

Another famous Siomai food store Siomai King now offers Chicken flavor for their Siomai products, one street popular street food in Manila.

My personal opinion about the taste, its good you can expect a pure chicken taste on this Siomai; Siomai King is the only one who is offering this flavor besides their other variant.

So if the next time you will go to MRT Stations or LRT Station — which you can see their kiosk, try to taste this product, this is also for those who are avoiding pork and beef.

Cronuts by Gonuts Donuts

Again, I did a litte adventure to check who have the best Cronuts in Manila. I went now to Gonuts Donuts in SM San Lazaro, located in Manila. This was the only branch by Gonuts Donuts that is offering Cronuts to the market.

Gonut Donuts SM San Lazaro branch.

The store is offering several variety of Cronuts, so what I did was I chose the Blueberry and the Peach cream variant; take note that once you ordered from them, you need to wait for 5 minutes to serve the food, the price on the product is 75 pesos.



My impression? This is the first time that the dough of the Cronuts was firm — Unlike Country Style, there Cronuts is horrible.

The preparation & the ingredient on this was fine, no interesting stuff that you can expect though.

Thought all is fine, but their customer service is not good — not saying their staff are rude or something; but, they are lacking customer service skills on their crew. This is the first time that they don't offer Fork or Spoon to product — even you'll ask one they will just say that they do not have any knife in handy & just going to give you a piece of paper to hold the food. Really, I was shock when I heard it. Hope the management of Gonuts Donuts to that they can add Fork or Spoon if the customer is requesting, disssapointed on this.

If you going to rate it? The food is good but the customer service is a dissapointment.

7-11 Slurpee Bring your own cup promo

Guess this would be the coolest promo that 7-11 offered to their consumer, bring your own cup. I mean, bring anything like pitcher your Trophy or ever your Caserole in order to have their cold Slurpee at home for the same amount of 29 Pesos.

Well to start of, it was an accident that one my friend's model send a sms message that there is an ongoing promo of 7-11 that you can bring you own glass — regardless of the size — for the same prize of 29 bucks.

So my friend and I went to the nearest 7-11 to check it out.

And there it was, it is confirm that there is an ongoing promo by 7-11, however the promo is within the whole day only — meaning tomorrow there is no promo.

Not all the cup that you will be accepted, they have this board that will measure the "mouth" of the cup if will fit their requirement or not.

Good thing that our pitcher is good to go, so, without a second thought, we gave right away the pitcher to the 7-11 guy in order that he will fill our pitcher and start enjoying the Slurpee.


The pitcher that we brought is a 2 liter pitcher so we have enough Slurpee for ourselves, LOL!

Still not contented because we got only the Raspberry flavor & I want also their Coke Slurpee, so I message my brother that when he arrive at home maybe if he is interested to have that promo by 7-11. So we did thankfully before 12 in the morning.


Guess this is one of my memorable thing that I did bout buying food at 7-11, hope they will come up with more promos.

Cronuts by Country Style

Another food establishment in Manila that offers Cronuts is Country Style, they have variety of Cronuts — Chocolate & Caramel.

My impression about their Cronuts is that is hard to chew; I mean, when you take the first bite, is like your chewing on old dough which stayed at the shelf for a week — I don't know if that the Cronuts that I have was on the shelf for quite sometime though or that is their preparation. The good thing though is that the filling is good as compared to Krispie Kreme's Cronuts which they are using plain Vanilla.

If you just like to taste their Cronuts definitely I'll recommmend it. You can try other food establishment in the market that offers Cronuts.

Country Style's Cronuts Chocolate & Caramel variants

Freddie Aguilar interview with his 16 year old girlfriend

I think this would one of the most talk about in the Philippine entertainment, the famous songwriter Freddie Aguilar having relationship with a 16 year old girl that was seen on an event. The said celebrity already talked to the media about their relationship.

Here's the video of the interview.

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Rev up your ride with Foton!

Looking for another vehicle that you want without hurting your pocket? Well, one of the most anticipated auto-tradeshow in the Philippine will again hold their event showcasing their vehicle line up for the Philippines market, the 2013 Foton Big Show.

The said automaker will again display their latest vehicle line up from commercial, construction, to industrial — this is not the first time that I went to this show, already covered their 2011 event (link).

Also, this is the perfect time to buy a new Foton and retired that old vehicle you have.

Why would you swap your old car for a Foton? The reason, Foton offers durable engines(Cummins from the United States), efficient, income generating, and affordable vehicles to the public, one of the famous product that they have is the Foton Thunder — definitely go get this one.

If you will see below, a video of a modified Foton Thunder, Foton Thunder is their pickup that is equipped with Cummins engines, which is very well known engine brand from the United States, having a reputation for durability.



I definitely recommend to join Foton’s Big Show 2013′s Grand Launch at the World Trade Center on October 25 and witness the launching of the new FOTON View, the 1st dancing wheel loader in the Philippines. Get a chance to trade-in your old vehicles from October 26 to 27 avail of BIG DISCOUNTS and BIG REWARDS when purchasing FOTON vehicles at the event. Receive amazing giveaways just for coming and you get even more when you test drive our passenger vehicles or attend our forums and trainings. No entrance fee!


First generation Foton View van.

One of the highlight also is that you can test drive their vehicles to experience what Foton has to offer.

If you are interested to test drive a Foton, you can go to the link below and fill the necessary information to reseve you a slot for a test drive.

Registration page

See you at the event!

Janet Lim-Napoles: A pork barrel scam controversy

In the Philippines, this would the most popular scandal that was exposed; Janet Lim-Napoles, a businesswoman was involed on the pork barrel scam, instead of going to infrastructure which will progress once country, it went to some Philippine Government officials.

Here's the video telling us how it happened.

Mitoy — The Voice of the Philippines: Exclusive interview

An exclusive interview with the ever first grand winner of The Voice Philippines Mitoy by Boy Abunda at his show The Buzz. Mitoy tell his story on how he started at the show & grab the title.

Here's the video of Boy Abunda interviewing Mitoy at The Buzz.

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All about Angelica Panganiban — 02

Here's the second part show, still Angelica Panganiban is telling her story on how she became a successful celebrity, enjoy!

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All about Angelica Panganiban — 01

Can't get enough of Angelica Panganiban? Here's an interview that was recorded of her on how she become a famous celebrity, enjoy!

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Cronuts by Krispy Kreme

After a month of searching where to get this one — A very popular food in the US, finally get one of this. Krispy Kreme is now offering this delicacies to the public, got one of this at Robinsons Place Magnolia in New Manila Quezon city.

Since this would be the first time that I will try Cronuts, maybe I'll add also an evaluation to know who offers the best Cronuts in town — French Baker and Le-Couere France are offering also this product to the market. So I bought two Cronuts, one would be a Strawberry, and Chocolate topping with the same filling which you can find on Dunkin Donuts Bavarian donuts.

So me and my friend took the first bite, all I can say is that where quite dissapointed at Krispy Kreme; the texture of the dough is apparent to those normal bakery at a price of 75 pesos and a Krispy Kreme branding; next, they just used a common syrup on their toppings — both Chocolate and Strawberry.



If you want to try Cronuts, I would recommend to try Le-Couere France besides Krispy Kreme.

Location: Krispy Kreme Robinsons Place Magnolia
Camera: Nokia Lumia 620 (Windows 8 Operating System)

Rubi (Philippines) - Angelica Panganiban Part 02 (09-28-2013)

Now can't get enough of Angelica Panganiban, now you can watched her acting in Rubi on your tablet, smartphone, and consoles like Xbox 360 S/E or Sony Playstation 3 — The Philippine version.

Rubi (Philippines) - Angelica Panganiban Part 01 (09-28-2013)

Now can't get enough of Angelica Panganiban, now you can watched her acting in Rubi on your tablet, smartphone, and consoles like Xbox 360 S/E or Sony Playstation 3 — The Philippine version.

Candy Magazine 2013 Style Awards

One of the glamorous event happened on May 10 at the Rockwell tent in Makati, it is the gathering and awarding of the most popular and fashionable personalities voted by the readers of the famous teen magazine in the Philippines Candy.

The theme of the event is more of a JS prom, girls are wearing their best night gowns at the event.


Celebrity Jasmine Curtis Smith is the host of the event.

The organizers of the event did not dissapoint the reader/audience because from the food to the presentation of the booth from the sponsor are so glamorous as if the event was a gala night in Hollywood.

Brand ambassador from their respectable booth are serenating girls at the event.

One of the winner of the Whisper's photobooth contest.

Whisper's booth would be considered one of the innovative presentation on the event by introducing a kinect fashion game branding Whisper on the game.



The awardings voted by readers and netizens of Candy magazine; also celebrity like Julia Barretto, Barbie Forteza and Bea Binene, siblings Krissy and Ericka Villongco are present at the award to recieve their awards eventhought their much expected Daniel Paddila was not present to claim his award.

Of course ending is also a blast.