November 15, 2007

You are not going to believe the number of sales there are in the Philippines today. Let me enumerate:

1. Citibank Eastwood Sale - half price for perfumes and other signature stuff
2. Cornelle, Visio, Corningware Sale - Still in Eastwood with around 70-80% discount. These are great buys I’m telling you.
3. Pigeon, Chicco, Richwell Sale - around 50-70% off
4. Krups, Dowell, Thermos, Omron - they also have a sale in their factory in Manggahan but I failed to catch the amount.

Can you just imagine how tempting all these sales are? These are real sales, not those phony 10% off sales you get at malls just so they can announce that they’re having a sale.  These are hard core sales with good and functional products.  Problem is we still don’t have our 13th month pay. It’s becoming very tempting to get a cash advance, payday loans, or short term loans.

I’m thinking buying from these sales then reselling them would be a great way of generating extra income. What do you guys think?

A guy…who shall remain nameless….once gave me a cowboy doll complete with a toothpick sticking out of it’s mouth for Christmas. When I opened this gift I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t understand the gift at all. What did it mean? What was it? Was it a joke? A few months after, I found out that it was 1. Wrapped by the guys mother, 2. Won in an arcade. This is a true story but I am withholding information in order to protect the dignity of this man. =)

Why are men so clueless when it comes to women? A single rose with a lovely letter would have been worth 10x more than that gift. Yet somehow, men don’t get this.  Most men I know (Ruy of the present excluded) need a lot of help and need tips for attracting women .  They are that clueless!!

Another example I have of how clueless men are? A suitor once gave me a poem entitled “Warfreak”…tell me, is there anything romantic about that?  I am telling you that right there and then I wanted to give him a get girl book and force him to read it from cover to cover.

These were of course in the past when men don’t have a lot of places to look for for help. Luckily right now there are websites which give help to men for everything from body language to tips on how to pick up a beautiful woman.

I’m feeling quite lucky because Ruy doesn’t seem to need these tips (most of the time anyway).  He actually gave me the most memorable Christmas gift ever a year or so ago. He surprised me with a room overlooking the Fire Olympics. So while everyone was stuck in traffic along Roxas Boulevard. We were happily sipping wine on the Balcony of a hotel with our feet up watching the beautiful fireworks.  It was wonderful. Ruy of course didn’t start out that way, he was also hopeless at the start of our relationship and it took around 4 months before he started becoming extremely sweet.

Ruy had the liberty of time as we were already a couple. Some men unfortunately don’t have much time and are therefore turning to websites which offers short courses. I was really shocked when I saw this. Wow…there’s really a whole industry revolving around this problem. I wonder if there are such courses for clueless women? Wait…is there such a thing as a clueless woman? Of course not!!

P.S. Hey guys, I’m really really curious about your stories on Clueless men…I bet they’d be very funny. Please write about it on  your blog then leave a message her so I can jump to your blogs. =)

My yaya is driving me insane. She always waits up until the last minute before she tells us that something’s missing which results in multiple trips to the grocery within the week. For someone like me who barely has time to pee, this is not fun at all.

Monday. I drive home at around 9 pm but I had to stop by the grocery at 9:30 so I can buy diapers and Cerelac for Andrea.

Tuesday. Morning. She tells me that Andrea doesn’t have food anymore. I tell her I already bought food.

Tuesday. Lunch Time. She tells me we don’t have Milk and Water for Andrea. I go to the grocery before work…I’m already pissed. To make matters worse I dropped an entire display  of cds when I accidentally hit the audio racks. Good thing I didn’t have to pay for anything.

Wednesday. She now tells me that we don’t have soap for Andrea’s clothes. WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS WOMAN? I want to strangle her already.

I know several people who are taking paid posts quite seriously (Hello to the hungry wolves out there) and I can’t help but admire them. The patience, organization, talent and persistence it takes to write opps cannot to be dismissed.

I am wondering though why I don’t seem to be drowning in opps unlike the other people.  I have my own domain, my site has a decent PR and I’m subscribed to most of the sites offering this service. I wonder what I’m doing wrong.

I’m currently enrolled in the following:

1. Blogsvertise - the opps are seriously trickle down and sometimes they demand so much for one opps
2. Sponsored Review - I’ve only received 4 assignments from this site in the last 7 weeks.
3. Blogitive - okay so far but I’m finding it hard to catch offers. I’ve only had one post from them but then again i’ve only been enrolled there for a week.
4. PayU2Blog - this is a favorite and I’ve done around 14 opps for them
5. Smorty - I like this one a lot as they pay weekly, I just don’t understand their scoring method and I have a feeling my opps will run out very very soon.

I’m currently processing my PPP application so I hope I’ll be accepted there.