The wrath of Ondoy

Spent the last 2 days helping a grand Aunt from my father's side clean her now inhabitable house. She was born and raised in that house. Now in her middle 60's, she finds herself without a place to call home for the first time in her life. She will be staying with me for the meantime, as she sorts out her life or until her siblings finds a suitable place for her to stay. They would probably buy another house, something smaller, easier to maintain and definitely in an area that is flood free during the typhoon season.

Another set of relatives, this time from my mother's side, also suffered the same fate. But unlike the Aunt I mentioned earlier, they don't have financially capable siblings to help them start over. Right now they are still trapped in Marikina and we don't know when we will get a chance to pay them a visit. The last we heard from her, vehicles are still not allowed in their area due to the flooding and they are taking out dead bodies first. Which makes me wonder, isn't it more important to get help to those that are still alive? After all, dead people won't know the difference right?!

There are many other stories I want to tell....sadly they all share a common denominator... a storm call ONDOY.

Deep Sleep

This is all I want to do right now!

Messy room...messy mind...organized room...organized mind...

I finally got around to cleaning my sister's room which has become the de facto storage room in our house (she moved out after getting married).

Before pics.

And after throwing away this much plastic bags and what nots... (there's actually 2 BIG bag full of plastic bags that I threw out... I cringe at the thought of all those plastic bags)


and a bit of reorganizing (I was very ruthless and threw away everything that can no longer be used. Other stuff I segregate into two plastic boxes, 1 box to be sold in my ebay store and 1 box for stuff that could be given away. I call the latter the family gift box....you know for those surprise invitations you just can't refuse but have no budget to spare for gifts)


Finally.........

The room still needs a bit of organizing. Unfortunately I am not the most organized person to do that. Its clean (that's more important!), the wooden sofa which doubles as bed for my sister and her husband when they come to visit is finally usable again and you could actually walk around the small room for a change :D

eBay Seller Course LIVE @ Sining Kamalig Art Gallery

This was held last Aug, 29. It was both fun and inspiring (not to mention really helpful for newbies in ebay like me)

Here's a shoutout to Ms. Eireen and her wonderful staff !!!

Bored Lakwatsera!!!

A week or two ago, I went to Trinoma. I was suppose to meet my sister in Farmers, Cubao but I manage to arrive in Manila a few hours early (I am based in Bulacan) so I decided to eat a very late lunch at Red Ribbons, Trinoma.

This is me while waiting for my order!


It took a while before my order arrived (more than 20 minutes for a simple Pasta with White sauce??...slow or I was just really hungry?) so I took some more pics...



Finally my very...very..very late lunch arrived!!!



Serving size is reasonable. The pasta was really tasty. I find the cake a bit too sweet for my taste but I still like it anyway. Coffee was OK but is not strong enough for me (I like my coffee really strong) . I think this meal cost me around Php 150.00, value for money if you ask me, I walked away really full.

I finish everything in less than 10 minutes. Lol...I was that hungry!!!

After that more pics.



The above pics were taken on a Tuesday afternoon....and to think that we are a Third World Country!

Speaking of coffee....I think I am gonna go now and grab myself a cup!!!

My Ebay store

While I was browsing the items I post in my ebay store, I noticed that I've been a member isnce 2003..........I didn't know I've been registered that long!!! Time really fly so fast (and it didn't help that I was really inactive there and barely visited the site since I can't buy anything anyway because I don't have a credit card and I don't know how to fund my paypal back then (thank goodness for that!!!)

Anyway last week I decided that its about time I actually pursue other venues for selling my stuffs besides the usual forums, sulit and Multiply. It was while I was registering with Ebay that I found out I was already a member........albeit a very inactive member that is. Although it took me a while to reactivate my account because I can't remember my password, I finally succeeded in ressurecting my ebay account after a week of banging my head and countless attempts at using all the usual passwords that I have been using all this years.

Unlike other forums, it actually takes a while to post your items ( I cheat and use a template that I copy and paste...hehehe...saves me precious minutes) and yes you have to take sometime to read their rules and regulations :D.

After a week of posting I have a total of 10 items posted....slow I know, but hey I was reading, learning, taking pics and researching similar products while I posted them in my ebay sell area (ok so I was playing farmtown and mafia wars on the side too!!!)

You can check my items here.

As a buyer, what do you usually buy in Ebay? and what are you looking for in a seller?

I will really appreciate it if you leave a reply here. Any comments on my items (specially how I present them) is specially appreciated.

Missy

Contest!!!

A couple of bloggers from GT forums are having a contest, you can check their blog for the complete details.

Kiss and Make-Up Blog- Mrs. Dumpling's Giveaway :

1. You need to be a follower of her Blog (You also need to have a valid account in Blogger)
2. Leave a comment on her blog titled: Mrs. Dumpling's Giveaway (Just tell her your favorite Ice Cream Flavor)
3. To double your chances mention her contest in your blog

and your done!!! Good Luck!