Lighten Your Easter Sunday Get Up.

Happy Easter Sunday! Christ has risen and so we have to celebrate it in the lighter way possible. 

Today, before going to the church I had hard time to pick what to wear in proportion to the celebration of Christ’s Victory – saving the world.

 I opted to wear pink polo. It is slim-fit and the small size truly fits me. Its brand is UNIQLO with Rafael design – with tiny stripes and not visible far away.  I love the colour because it is pretty vibrant.

Polo from UNIQLO, Pants from MUS JEANS and shoes from CONVERSE.

For my trouser, I wore MUS JEANS (jeans intelligence fashion) , it is a chino and not jeans at all. I love the cotton fabric which gives comfortability especially if I am moving intensely. The metallic light gray is obviously fun partnered with the vibrant pink polo. I like the cut – it really embraces my legs.

My pair of shoes is CONVERSE and the style is “Wave Racer Ox”. I love the combination of the colours ocean blue and neon orange. It looks quite sporty and it balances my collared top – formal versus sporty is equals to casual looks.

10 Things To Do To Maximize Holy Week Vacation.

Everyone is excited about this 2016 summer, especially that Holy Week is about to come. You have enough time to do what’s on your bucket list.   But for some- still they don’t have ideas on what to do.

Well, let me share with you what best activity that suits you, just to maximize your vacation.  

Go out with your friends 

 A simple drinking session with the guitar is perfect to celebrate your friendship. I knew that it has been a long time when you guys met due to each other’s busy life.

Go to the nearby beaches 

Summer comes only once a year and summer is associated with the beach. Grab your backpack and go to the nearest beach possible.

Try extreme yet fun activities

– Everyone deserves to be crazy at least once a year. You can try tremendous activities but make sure that its calculated risk. Try Surfing maybe!

Do Something worth Reminiscing For

 I suggest you do things that one day you will remember. Why not try Fire Dancing at the stretch of Puerto Galera or Boracay maybe.

Become Weird and do not follow the system of Uniformity

– Being distinct will dominates your characteristic against others. Why not try a hair tattoo?  It maybe sounds peculiar but cool, isn’t it?

Try SAMALAMIG 

Anything that will cure your thirst, then try it.

Eat or Sell HaluHalo 

 Halo-halo or Halo-halo is a popular Filipino dessert with mixtures of shaved ice and evaporated milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans, jello, and fruits. It is served in a tall glass or bowl. Remember, a Filipino Summer without halo-halo is suffering and incomplete.

Stay inside your house

While others are enjoying outdoor activities, admit it – at some point in your life, staying inside your house is more fun rather than experiencing heatstroke outside. Particularly, if you are dwelling in an air-conditioned home with lots of food inside the ref and movies in your laptop. 

Celebrate  The Moriones Festival in Marinduque

 The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines; and so it is timely. The "Moriones" are men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman soldiers as interpreted by local folks.

Go back to where you came from

Visiting the family is part of the culture of Filipinos during Holy Week.  Once in a while, it is very important to go back to the place where you truly belong despite your heavy schedule. And Holy Week is the best time for that during summer.

Visita Iglesias

Visita Iglesia (Spanish for "Church Visit") is Holy Week devotion among Filipino Roman Catholics of visiting seven or fourteen churches in order to pray and meditate on the Passion of Jesus Christ. It commences in the late afternoon or early evening of Holy Thursday after the Mass of the Last Supper when the Blessed Sacrament is already reserved at the Altar of Repose for adoration inside the Church until midnight when it is concluded without solemnity since liturgically, the day of the Lord's Passion has already begun.

Sing Karaoke By Smule - My Studio and My Account.

These past few days, I was hooked up with this famous karaoke smart phone application “Sing Karaoke” by SMULE.

Smule is an American mobile app developer headquartered in San Francisco. The company specializes in developing social music-making applications for iOS, Android, and Amazon.com Kindle Fire.

The company was founded in 2008 by Jeff Smith and Stanford assistant professor Ge Wang. Wang commented that the goal of the apps was to draw users in and "by the time they realize they're making music, 'it's too late — they're already having fun.'" In December 2011, Smule acquired fellow music app developer Khush. On July 31, 2013, Wang stepped down from his role at Smule to return to Stanford full time.

Sing Karaoke is one of their product lines. It was launched August 8, 2012 and became the most downloadable application in Play Store among Filipinos, due to the fact Filipinos are music lover by nature and Karaoke is part of the culture.

Indeed, I installed the said karaoke in my Android phone one week from now. I started to record songs however if you are just signing up for free – only limited songs are available and some features are disabled.  I signed up their VIP package for only PHP45 per month and PHP450 for one year – not bad. And , walahhhhhhh! I got the VIP features – unlimited song choice, voice editor features, duet so famous singers and members and etc.

Truly, this social –karaoke is one of my favourite applications that I did use daily. It is somewhat a recreational for me – karaoke singing.

Here are my few songs in my SMULE ACCOUNT.

1.  One Call Away By Charlie Puth and Jonathan Orbuda.

• 2. A Whole New World.

• Smule - Want You, Want Me by Jason Derulo and Jonathan Orbuda

• Walking in the Rain

Download SMULE - Sing Karaoke !

👍 A Beam Of Satisfaction - Oral Wellness Dental Clinic, Mandaluyong City

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In putting up a business, it is a must that people who manage it will seize “customer-driven service”. And that is what I experienced in one of the Dental Clinics along Boni Avenue.

Oral Wellness Dental Clinic is owned by Dr. Danielle Ericka Anne L. Rodriguez and Dr. Paul Michael D. Chua. It is situated along the stretch of Boni Avenue Corner Halcon st, Mandaluyong City near RTU. It is easy to find the said clinic because it’s the same building where Jollibee located at – Unit 101, 2nd floor.

Not surprisingly, Oral Wellness is a family-owned business due to the fact that the clinic is quite small and they only have one assistant. However, despite of the space scarcity, you can feel that the service is superb – in comparison to the dental clinics that I’ve been. Honestly speaking, especially if you are a policy holder of various HMO providers, you can easily distinguish if such clinic is revenue-oriented or patient-oriented by their service.

Prior of going to Oral Wellness, I visited one of the Dental Clinics situated in Robinson Pioneer to have my oral prophylaxis but I decided not to continue with procedure because they quote me the amount of PHP 1800 on the top of my HMO coverage.

“Sir, we need to do deep cleaning in your case” said the dentist.

Of course, I wasn’t born yesterday to accept the “up sell”. I went directly to Oral Wellness to set up an appointment. The assistant was very accommodating to look for an available schedule. She (the assistant) even kept in touch with me even if I did not make my original schedule and have rescheduled me for another time slot – it was huge plus for me as a patient.

Come the day of the said procedure, Dr Danielle attentively lends her hand to me answering my questions regarding my oral problems (eg. Braces, fixed bridge and tooth implant).

“ Tiyaga naman nito mag explain.”  She even spent time explaining what works best for me and I can sense that this woman is not a money-oriented. She did clean my teeth with full coverage of my HMO without asking me for additional payment unlike the previous dental clinic.

She always built rapport to me whenever there was an awkward moment. She always asked an apology whenever I got hurt due to the intense cleaning – I don’t care if it was genuine or not as long as I felt OK.

“May iba kasi talagang matataray na dentist and we can’t do something about it”.  Good thing with these two dentists they are both visually pleasant to me, yung tipong di ka matatakot – positive vibes.

  Dr. Danielle prescribed me an anti –bleeding thingy for my gums and gave me tips on how to maintain my gums healthy.

I left the clinic with a smile saying “Babalik ako ditto at sila ang mag aalaga ng ipin ko”.  Their service is worth paying for, yung ikaw nalang mahihiya pag binarat mo pa.

I will surely recommend this to my officemates who are also policy holder with Intellicare.

Disclaimer to all my readers:  This is not a sponsored post, this is my review.

UPDATED: September 5,2018 WATCH THE VLOG BELOW:

Oral Wellness Dental Clinic
Dr. Danielle Ericka Anne L. Rodriguez.
Dr. Paul Micheal D. Chua
Unit101 , 2nd F Boni-Halcon Place.
705 Flacon st. Corner Boni Ave.
Mandaluyong  City.
Mon-Fri -10AM-6:30PM
Saturday 10AM -4:30PM
Tel : 341-4981 ; 477-6846 ; 09062196677

Lenten Special : Visita Iglesia at Simala Church

In commemoration of Lenten Season, I’ll be featuring this miraculous Simala Parish Church. This Church is situated in Barangay Simala, Natalio B. Bacalso S National Hwy, Sibonga, Cebu.

I had a chance to visit this amazing church two years ago – it was summer. When I first saw Simala, I was fascinated because of the design. It looks like a castle or I might say “a theme park”. Indeed, some are visiting just to see the architectural design and most of them are tourist and foreigners. 

Inside, the detailed design is very mesmerizing.

The people purposely visit this church to ask for miracles. In fact, you will see inside those evidences of granted prayers – wigs from cancer survivors, pens from board passers, wheel chairs from those who were able to walk and etc.

How to Get There? (ChoosePhillipines)

From Manila, you can fly to Cebu (estimated cost of Php3, 000++, round trip, 45 minutes).

From the Mactan International Airport, hire a cab and ask to be dropped at the South Bus Terminal where you can ride a bus going to Sibonga; you can also hire a van from City Link terminal where it will take you all the way to the shrine. The bus ride from Cebu City to Sibonga takes around 2 hours and 30 minutes. By the time you reach the stop point, take a motorcycle ride to bring you to the Simala Shrine.

This Lenten Season, plan your vacation and don’t forget to include this church – a place where you can connect our Mighty God. Make your travel and vacation fun and holy.

Review: Guapple Pie in El Ideal

El Ideal has been serving good food since 1920's and is included in one of the thirty heritage houses declared by the national historical institute. Famished after walking around to see the heritage houses of Silay and the famous Balay Negrense, we decided to try this local eatery. The interior is basic nothing fancy but the food is delicious and reasonably priced. One must try their tasty batchoy- a type of noodle soup, bicho-bicho, a local delicacy made of sticky rice flour, smothered with melted brown sugar and sesame seed (oh so yummy!) and their piping hot piayaya- a flat pastry filled with muscovado jam and sprinkled with sesame seed. They also have racks of varied pastries and cookies for last minute souvenirs.



Their best seller is the famous guapple pie, but I wasn't able to try it.  Guapple Pie is truly new to my knowledge, I was curious about.


Taste: 8/10 – It is sweet and the aroma of the Guava is still there. (Medyo nakakaumay nga lang pag nasobrahan)

Appearance: 7/10  It looks appetizing because of the breading. However, when you eat it using fork, it crushes easily into pieces.


Location: The place is just 20 minutes away going to Bacolod-Silay International Airport, so if you want a quick snack before catching your flight, this is the place to eat.




Address: Brgy. III, Rizal St, Silay City, Negros Occidental
Phone:(034) 495 4430

The Ruins in Negros Occidental - Mind Blowing Experience.

I got a chance to visit “THE RUINS” Talisay City, Negros Occidental. It was year 2015 , summer when my friends visited this place.


The Ruins is an old Mariano Ledesma Lacson Mansion, located in the city is a known tourist attraction. Talisay, officially the City of Talisay and often referred to as Talisay City, is a fourth class city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines




I loved that every angle looks beautiful in the photos. Whether you want to drop by this place or not you'll be able to pass by the location when you go to Bacolod City proper. There's an entrance fee when you visit the place.



Other than taking pictures, there is nothing much to do here. It suites more as a venue for weddings or other similar celebrations rather than a tourist attraction. Probably because the place no longer has that old-prehistoric vibe it boasts due to numerous restorations.



Over all , I love the experience.

📺 Review : ABS-CBN TV Plus - Ang Mahiwagang Black Box

I am using a cable connection for my television for a long span of time now because it includes local and international channels. However, I was not able to utilize it due to my busy schedule and I just realized that I paid my monthly bill w/o using it at all. Infact, during my weekends I only watch local channels like ABS-CBN and GMA7.



When a digital box was released to the market, I was thinking to grab one. ABS-CBN Company announces this “Mahiwagang Black Box” to the televiewers on what they can get of having this box in their households.  ABS-CBN TV Plus (formerly SKY TV+ or simply TV+ and stylized as ABS-CBN TVplus), is a digital terrestrial television product and service owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation.

I just recently bought it amounting to PHP1999. This product’s original price was PHP2500 during the release.

 Let us unbox!

Mahiwagang Black box – It is light and small box.

ABS-CBN Mobile Sim Card- you need this to activate some of the channels owned by ABS-CBN as well as activation of the warranty.

User’s Manual- Your best friend on basic trouble shooting

Audio and Video cable – this will connect between your TV and the box.  Disadvantage: there is no HDMI port.

The adapter – it is requisite to give power of the digital box.

Remote control – I love how it looks like – very elegant. And the good thing, it has a free battery.

Antenna and cable – the cable length is enough to bring the end of the antenna outside - to capture signal. But I would love if they provide longer cable so that I can extend the antenna towards the rooftop.

Meanwhile, an issue came out that ABS-CBN TV plus is a way of the ABS-CBN company to monopolize the televiewers because it only guarantees you of having the ABC-CBN channels. But that is not true, I personally experience the crystal clear output  from GMA7 and GMA News TV using the ABS-CBN TV plus.  So basically, it will still vary on your location.

ABS-CBN TV plus gave me a Crystal clear picture and sound with Affordable one-time fee compared with cable connection. It is beneficial to me because there is no need for me to pay a monthly bill – so it is a huge saving. And it works perfectly to me