Who said that mommy can't be pampered...well, thanks to Mommy Josephine Bonsol and Ms. Sheryl Cecilia of Polished' em Nail Salon and Waxing Studio because this Mommy just got pampered.  I did have a wonderful experience and it was a great kikay day.

First we were welcomed by the owner of the salon Ms. Sheryl Cecilia and introduced their line of products and their services to us.  Though this is my first time to have this kind of services, I somewhat familiar with the services because I always hear my friends talk about their nails and other pampering services done to them but there's two services that Polished' em Nail Salon and Waxing Studio offers that I haven't heard from my friends.


Curious what are those services?  Well, here's the first one the UV Gel Nail Polish by Jennifer Lynn.  I'm sure for those who's always on look for new Kikay things, they know this already but for us this is new.  So experiencing it is really great.

So, what's this UV Gel Nail Polish?  Well judging from what I saw and experienced it is a gel hardens using an Ultraviolet rays I presume but rest assured that it is not harmful.  Compared to other nail polished this one doesn't have any strong odor and the good thing about it is that it is a gel.

So, how it is done?  Of course they need to prepare and clean our nails first before applying those UV Gel Nail Polish.  We were given a foot spa first and then made the usual routine of manicure and pedicure.  Afterwards, the best part the application of the nail polish.  One of the staff assigned to me started it by applying a clear polish on to my nails and instructed me to place it inside the machine.  It got a blue light coming out of it and I'm not really sure if it is the UV rays.  Five minutes after the staff removed my hands and put another polish and I think this time it's the UV Gel Nail Polished (Maira) by Jennifer Lynn.  With the same procedure they got my hands inside the machine and then viola... it's done!  According to them it will last 3 to 4 weeks.







The second is the Ear Candling.  This is my first time to hear such pampering procedure.  So, out of curiosity, I tried it.  The experience was something different because while it is being done there were popping sounds like something is being cooked and after that I feel so light and relax.  According to them Ear Candling relieves the symptoms of vertigo and dizziness that's why they encourage us to try it every 3 months.


And the last thing that I tried was their services for the eyebrows.  Though I know that I have a very low pain tolerance, I tried and it did made me cry...really!  Their procedure for the eyebrows was called the threading.  It really hurts and it was also my first time but it was so nice and I like what they did to my eyebrow.

There were also an eyelashes extension procedure but I didn't tried it.  Altogether, those three services are bundle and package for a prize of Php1,200.00 only.  Pretty economical for a day of pampering!

If you want to try those services that I experienced, well, just visit their place at 59 Road 3 Project 6, Quezon City.   It is just near the 7 Eleven Store at Visayas Ave., Quezon City.  Or you can simply visit their Facebook Fan Page Polished' em Nail Salon and Waxing Studio


Here are the services and products that they offer....

Press Release
Taipei, Taiwan – February 22nd, 2012–TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today releases the first and only liquid cooling solution in the market: the PowerColor LCS HD7970. Partnered with award-winning cooling manufacture EKwaterblocks, the PowerColor LCS HD7970 enhances the overclocking headroom and has factory OC setting at 1150MHz core and 5.7Gbps memory, delivering extraordinary thermal performance for optimum system stability in a superb OC setting.

The PowerColor LCS HD7970 dissipates the heat from the nickel coated copper base which fully covers the key components, enhancing anti-oxidizing ability and allowing GPU temperature under 50°C even under full load. Moreover, with acetal surface of water block design, preventing moisture damage to ensure the longer life cycle.

Compatible with the latest GCN architecture, the PowerColor LCS HD7970 is ready for DirectX®11.1 and PCI Express 3.0, delivering ground-breaking gaming performance. Engineered with support for AMD Eyefinity Technology 2.0 and HD3D technology, it enables a “wrap around” gaming view with stereo 3D technology to put you right into the game.


PowerColor LCS HD7970 packages a high-flow 3/8" and 1/2" fittings (barbs) to maximize water flow with captured o-rings to prevent leakage. Gamers can customize their own liquid cooling system using these two fittings.


LCS HD7970

• Core Speed  - 1050MHz
• Memory Speed  - 1425MHz(5.7Gbps)
• Memory - 3GB GDDR5
• Memory Bandwidth - 384-bit
• Eyefinity - Yes
• DirectX® - 11.1
• CrossFireX™ - Yes
• Output - DL DVI-I / HDMI / 2 X mini DisplayPort

About EK Water Blocks
Started in year 1999, when the founder Edvard König bought his first computer. The goal for EK is to excel in a niche market of performance upgrades for computers. With continuous research and development, we have established a portfolio of products for water cooling. Quality and breathtaking design on the technological edge is our philosophy.
For further information, visit: http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index.php



About TUL Corporation
TUL is a leading supplier of AMD graphics cards under the PowerColor brand. We offer award-winning products based on our technology leading components, quality design and superb engineering. TUL employs more than 150 talents worldwide, with offices in China, Europe, Russia and USA to support over 300 channel partners and distributors in 50 plus countries.
For further information, visit: http://www.tul.com.tw/global/

For more product information, visit: www.powercolor.com.
Or contact: pr@powercolor.com

Medical spas, dermatological clinics and anti-aging centers proliferate these days. So do products on skin care and anti-aging solutions. The market is now swamped with multifarious brands with often parallel claims: the ability to deliver a more beautiful, younger-looking skin. Aesthetic solutions come in the form of products and services. A combination of the best choices is often what the market is veering towards.

Celebrity endorsers have been making a killing out of some brands and centers or clinics, but the truth of the matter is, while it’s true that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, enlightened people know better than to swallow hook, line and sinker what every showbiz icon commissioned to represent a brand brandishes, blabbering those memorized lines for, say, television or radio commercials, or those blurbs in print ads. But it’s different when the face behind the name is the proponent herself, who puts her name on the line, subjects her face and body to public judgment, as she braves to be flaunted as the face behind what she offers. “This face behind the Zen Institute certainly knows what she’s talking about and she walks her talk” – people would say – looking very much like her face has been naturally nurtured, suffused with that radiant, youthful glow, and her body looking just as youthful and well contoured. Yes, such is the case with the Zen Institute and the face behind it, which is no less than its founder and the moving spirit behind the respected institution that turned five years old in late November as a medical spa with cutting-edge offerings. All of Zen offerings, put as one, are the best there has ever been in the civilized world, and these are administered only by expert hands – either the hands of Dr. Mary Jane “MJ” Torres herself or hands that she had trained.

Celebrity names like Cory Quirino, Heart Evangelista, Eula Valdez, Ayen and Franco Laurel and Ciarra Sotto have been associated to Zen, but the ultimate definition of the face behind Zen points to Dr. MJ Torres. Still looking young and radiantly beautiful even at her 40-plus age, Dr. MJ is the indubitable best face behind the Zen Institute. She owns Zen and she perfectly models Zen’s good works rendered through expert hands and state-of-the-art technologies on non-surgical, non-invasive, painless procedures for beauty and youthfulness. If Dr. MJ’s objective has been to keep her face and body well-maintained and looking years younger than her true age, then she has certainly hit that objective right in the nail. Dr. MJ Torres indeed walks the talk judging from the way she looks. And her face and body have never seen the knife, and the lady aesthetic doctor has no intention of ever going for surgical procedures, whether for herself or for her patients. Why not, since Zen’s signature treatment alone, the Resonax, has been doing her wonders, which is why she wants to share it along with her other tried-and-tested beauty and anti-aging solutions to other women—and men, too. These solutions are complemented by the ultimate solution to hair loss since the hair is still the crowning glory of every man and woman.

Resonax, reportedly “Europe's most advanced non-surgical technology for face contouring and body sculpting (a state-of-the-art no-downtime, non-invasive body sculpting procedure that can be done in just a few minutes) is Dr. MJ’s signature treatment” that has been proving effective whether done singly or with the PRP Treatment, Platelet Rich Plasma. The latter is a procedure wherein a few drops of blood from the patient will be processed for a harvest of platelets to be reintroduced into the patient’s system to repair damaged cells and to make cells regenerate in certain parts of the face affected by aging.

Dr. MJ explains, “The non-surgical PRP procedure stimulates injured cells to heal and regenerate themselves,” adding, “The PRP treatment stimulates the growth of cells, effectively smoothening out lines and folds, and diminishing, if not, erasing in time signs of aging.”

Dr. MJ’s latest treatment peruses the brand Dermaheal. It is fast gaining a good reputation as a brand carrying manifold products all proven effective at doing wonders in the aesthetic and anti-aging arenas. She reveals: “Dermaheal is a high quality brand of cosmeceutical anti-aging, anti-pigmentation, anti-hair loss and anti-inflammation solutions that treat other skin troubles as well.”

The Zen Institute seems to have the solution for every conceivable skin and body issue, administered in the serene, simple but lovely interiors of the Zen Institute where patients are attended to in attaining their beauty and youthfulness objectives inside-out literally through medical-technological solutions coupled with appropriate and doable lifestyle coaching. And the lady never tires learning and getting yearly updates in Europe, America and Asia. This doctor, who has trained on various aesthetic medical practices and technologies and the application and the testing of cosmeceutical breakthroughs in many parts of the world, makes her annual trips abroad to make sure she always has her hands on what’s best. She has gone a long way from the time she completed her dermatological medicine degree from the University of Sto. Tomas, passed the board and took further studies on Preceptorial Dermatology Training at Clinica Manila and then Liposurgery Training at the Philippine Academy of Dermatologic Surgery Foundation Inc. She then took further studies abroad on Mesotherapy and Lipotherapy Training and also on Platelet-Rich-Plasma (PRP) Training and so forth, under the tutelage of the world’s best practitioners who have advance knowhow in the medical fields of aesthetics and/or gerontology.

For inquiries and consultations, visit The Zen Institute (A Medical Spa) at Scout Rallos branch, Quezon City (441-1712 or 412-2528), Bonifacio Global City branch, (856-2027 to 28) and Hotel Sofitel (Philippine Plaza branch), 832-6957. Visit its website at www.thezeninstitute.com.

Here's something that would definitely make a smile on Nuffnang!  It's an innocent clip of a birthday greetings.  

I may not have gold nor silver to give on your day but I have a warm greeting to make you smile and gay.

On your 5th Birthday a warm....

Well, I'm here again to talk about food.  I love food and I love talking about food, so I love to attend some events about food and what I have attended before was about called the Annual Food and Beverage Expo which was held at Fersal Hotel at Malakas st, Quezon City. That hotel is so memorable to me and to my husband because that place has been part of the very special day of our life, anyway, so much with the memories and let's talk about food this time.



the event was the launching of TRADECON's 5th Annual Philippine International Food and Beverage Expo (PIFBEX) together with the Hotel, Restuarant, and Caterers Expo (HORECA) . It's bound to be a delicious affair as chefs, bartenders, caterers, restaurateurs, hoteliers, and other foodies are coming together on March 1 to 4 for the said event.

The PICC Forums 1, 2, and 3 are going full on foodie mode as major players in the Food and Beverage Industry - from the sweetest neighborhood bakery owner to the most luxurious hotelier - converge and explore endless possibilities for their businesses.

Over 300 exhibitors will be present at the expo, including both local and international suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers covering all aspects of the F & B industry, from food service, to food processing and packaging, to catering, to equipment and storage, to ingredients and supplies. For this year TRADECON will be expecting around 12,000 visitors that will visit the event.

Aside from the exhibition, the four-day event will also feature a barter exchange seminar, cooking demos performed by professional chefs, a Dessert Making Competition, Cocktail Mixing Competition, and a search for the best Home Cook. For sure there will be great prizes awaits for every winner of this competition.


Now on its fifth year, PIFBEX has been answering to the needs of the thriving, ever-changing F&B industry, ensuring that the Philippine food scene remains at the top of its game.

For this, TRADECON is inviting all Students, Exhibitors and Visitors to be a part of the PIFBEX and HORECA 2012!

For more information, they can be contacted at 395-5009, 395-5137, 343-3368, they can also be reached through their email at www.tradecon.inc@gmail.com or their website www.pifbex.com or like their facebook page www.facebook.com/PhilippineInternationalFoodandBeverageExpo.

Somedaydream’s 1st Bloggers’ Meetup is brought to you by MCA Music, Mecca Music and Pinoy Magazine in cooperation with official online partner Orange Magazine TV and Blue Onion Bar and Restaurant. Special thanks to Bose, Terranova, Keds and Selecta Cornetto.

When love, deceit and revenge get in the way of friendship, the blinding hatred that follows can lead a person to hurt those who are closest to his heart. This is the premise of a timeless story that captivated millions of Filipino viewers who tuned in to the most successful afternoon soap that first aired on Philippine TV 20 years ago –- Valiente.


After a successful run that spanned five years on two major networks, Valiente makes a grand comeback to capture once more the hearts of Filipinos who grew up watching the series as well as the new generation of viewers who would surely relate to the classic story two decades after.

Now airing on primetime for the first time and helmed by multi-awarded director Joel Lamangan, TV5’s Valiente recounts the epic tale of two families whose lives are intertwined by their desire to claim what they believe is rightfully theirs. The compelling story is given new life by a powerhouse cast of this generation’s most bankable actors, including Kapatid stars Oyo Sotto, Nadine Samonte, Niña Jose and JC De Vera.

In Valiente, viewers will witness how the admirable friendship of Theo Braganza (Oyo Sotto) and Gardo Valiente (JC De Vera) is torn by the vicious schemes of Theo’s ruthless mother, Doña Trining Braganza (Jaclyn Jose). Doña Trining manipulates the Braganza family and their business empire which resorted to labor and land disputes.The rivalry that follows between the two families is further sparked by the relationship of Gardo with Maila Braganza (Nadine Samonte). Theo and Maila’s cunning sister Leona (Niña Jose) will do everything to get in the way of this relationship in her desire to have Gardo for herself.

Joining the new generation of Valiente cast are the most-respected and highly acclaimed actors in the industry: Mark Gil, Jaclyn Jose, Gina Alajar and the original Valiente himself, Michael de Mesa.

Valiente also introduces a new set of promising young stars who will endear themselves to the viewers: Ross Pesigan (young Gardo), Liane Valentino (young Maila), Czarina Suzara (young Leona) and Arvic Rivero (young Theo). Also part of the cast are fine actors John Regala (Peping), Jim Pebanco (Ariston) and Toni Mabesa (Victorino Penitente). Moreover, Valiente proudly presents an exceptional rendition of its original theme song as performed by its original singer, Vic Sotto. The story of Valiente was originally written by highly acclaimed scriptwriter Gina Marissa Tagasa. Primetime viewing will be spicier, more exciting and more intense as the most successful teleserye premieres this February 13 on TV5.

For exclusive Valiente updates, be a fan on Facebook and follower on Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/TV5Valiente | https://twitter.com/#!/Valiente2012

Last Monday January 30, 2012 I attended a bloggers' evening with Sabrina at Red Box located at Eastwood Mall.

Sabrina is well known as Asia's acoustic sweetheart, she's so bubbly and jolly talking with her. Most blogger were fond on asking so many question to her because, she answered it with a smile always. She made the interview very intimate and not so boring.


Sabrina releases her follow up single from her highly successful "I Love Acoustic 4" album-her version of the hit "Moves Like Jagger". And another breaking news-last November, "I Love Acoustic 4" turned Gold in Indonesia and this month it is certified Platinum in that country. This makes Sabrina one of the few Filipino singers to have multi platinum success in Indonesia which other singers have tried but failed to penetrate.

I remember the following morning, one of my colleagues told me that Sabrina is well known for reviving songs.  I'm pretty much sure that she meant making it into an acoustic version.  Anyway at least I know that Sabrina is also known by many Filipinos if not all.

During the meet and greet with Sabrina, one of the blogger asked her, "who is Sabrina 5 years from now?" Well, she answered it seriously that she wants to be a plain housewife.  She is pretty much sure that she would love to wake up early morning to prepare food for her family and also to do things for her family.  I'm sure a lot of us were in awe about her answer.  I can relate to that because I am a wife but I'm not a full housewife so I don't know what I'm supposed to be called...ehem....either a housewife or a workingwife or workingmom.   I am a blogger too...well these things are just some of the things that makes me happy everyday. So, for Sabrina I salute her for answering that question and honestly sharing what she would really want in the future, but for now, she said that she needs to focus on her career. Keep it up!


After the chat with her it was a night of jamming and of course a lively interaction with the bloggers and those who initiated the event.  It is a happiest night indeed.

A Bloggers' Evening with Sabrina is brought to you by MCA Music in cooperation with Pinoy Magazine, Orange Magazine TV and Red Box: Rock, Dine, Roll.

Here are some of the pictures taken during the conference.