Top Ten Most Popular Searches (source, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, etc..)

For those who are desperately in need of more site / page visitors, traffic, and are looking for ways to increase their pageranks (like me), below are the latest most popular searches based from seomoz.

1. source
2. Sarah Palin
3. Christina Hendricks
4. Facebook
5. Lorrie Morgan
6. ipod
7. Barack Obama
8. Britney Spears
9. Lindsay Lohan
10. Mena Suvari

Start creating your post with these included in your post title and let's see what happens next.

How I Lost Weight and literally removed 5 Inches on my Waist in 3-4 months!

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Hello there guys! I almost failed to shared with you my secrets on how I lost weight and removed 5 inches on my waist within a span of 3-4 months. I'm not kidding. So if you're into a strict, depressing, and looks like it's now working diet, you might want to try my tricks and see results that you never imagined could happen.

I started dieting for real when I was on my second year of college. Those were the days when being skinny was the "in" thing. I am itemizing my tips into two. One would contain a list of my healthy tips, and another my not so healthy but will make your fats burn faster tip.=)

Here's are my suggestions for those healthy dieters out there:
1. Don't eat rice. Instead, substitute rice with complex carbo foods such as sweet potatoes, oatmeal, cereals, wheat bread. This makes you full instantly because it is high on dietary fiber and at the same time it is a good source of energy.

2. Don't eat the yolk of the egg because this is high on cholesterol. Instead, eat lots and lots of egg white. Egg white is know to contain complete protein which is essential in the fat burning process.

3. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. This is similar to my no. 1 tip. Since vegetables and fruits are high on dietary fiber, it helps you feel full all the time. Plus it's good on your health and body because as everyone knows these foods are rich in vitamins and minerals.

4. Eat white meats (like chicken and fish) instead of red meats (like pork, beef, goat, veal, venison, lamb, mutton, rabbit, buffalo meat, and beefalo). Red meats gets slowly digested and contains more saturated fats and cholesterol than white meats.

5. Eat less sugary foods like chocolate, ice cream, cake, and candies because these are carbohydrates that can turn into fats once you exceed your normal calorie consumption and not burn these carbos through exercise.

6. Regularly exercise! Exercise burns your fat and consumes the calories you have stored from the foods you ate.

7. Give yourself a break. Assign a day (probably Saturday or Sunday) where you can eat anything you want like chocolates, cakes, or ice cream. Do not eat plenty of these though. Just eat some so you don't feel like you're depriving yourself from the foods you love eating.

And here's another thing I did to remove my fats quicker (not very recommended, specially for those with gastrointestinal problems)
- Buy a slimming coffee or tea from the drug store and drink 3 coffee/tea bags a day or after every meal. I personally use Bavarian Coffee. Note that these slimming coffees/teas have diarrhea like effects which causes dehydration and weight loss. With these, it is advisable to drink lots of water and eat lots of healthy foods like the ones I mentioned above.

There goes my tips. Let me know if this helps you alright? Happy dieting!

Weird Things About Me..

Got this tag from mommy lorei. thanks sis!

Rules are rules. To tag along: you have to list 7 weird things about yourself, post it in your blog, tag at least 7 people (list their names), and comment on their blog to let them know that you just tagged them.

Here's goes my share..

1. I love eating apple and ripe papaya when it's dipped in vinegar.
2. For my personal hair spa treatment, I sometimes put mayonnaise on my hair. Got this trick from Cory Quirino=)
3. I have a very talkative, friendly, and cheerful personality but i am not able to fully exercise this at work.
4. I sometimes imaging myself wearing sexy and stylish outfits but when I start to shop I always end picking up simple clothes.
5. When I pass by the mall during times when I don't have extra money for my 'wants', I tend to like a lot of items. But when I'm in the mall for shopping most of the time I don't like everything I see. My husband gets totally irritated when this happens.=)
6. I'm a chocaholic but I get really dizzy and tend to have headache when I eat too much.
7. Even if I feel like I'm half way thru my career life's goal, I still want to change my career from IT to something else.. like i sometimes want to sell cakes and chocolates.. or do events planning. just don't know where to start..


Would love to hear about your weird things: paolyn, rachel, g, jhonna, umma, april, and concon..

What is your IQ

I just tried out this free assessment awhile ago and here's how I scored



Try it out and tell me what's your IQ=)

Simple Budgeting Tips

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With the gloomy global economic crisis that we are presently experiencing , I believe its about time that we keep track of our daily expenditures and strictly follow our family budget so we do not end up on getting payday loans.

Here are some of my simple budgeting tips to help you out:

1. Start by creating a diary list of all your daily purchases. This list will help you track where your money is going.

2. With the budget diary list mentioned above, evaluate your spending habits. Try to itemize your list into two categories. First category would be for your basic needs
and second category for those you consider as luxury. This way, you'll
be able to assess if you're already spending more that what you really need. if you think that you're spending to much on unnecessary things then better adjust your expenditure routines.

3. Create your budget for the month. I highly suggest that you use Microsoft Excel to accomplish this task. Your budget table should at least contain the following categories:

1. Item : This will list all your spendings such as grocery, utility bills such as electricity; water; cable; phone; and internet bills, car expenses (like gas and other maintenance), loans (credit, housing, car, etc.)
2. Estimated Cost : This would be your estimated or anticipated value for the listed item
3. Actual Cost : This column would only be filled up once the payment is made.
4. Due Date : This will contain the item’s due date
5. Date Paid : This will contain the date when the payment for the item was made
6. Savings : The formula for this column is basically the Estimated Cost – Actual Cost
   

With this kind of budget list table format, you can even be encouraged to spend less since you can instantly see how much savings you can get out of your expenditures.=)

The Dreaded Recession in US

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Even if US official has not yet declared that recession in already going on in their country, a lot of economic experts say that US is by now undergoing the recession phase. Just by merely watching CNN or Blomberg I'm quite sure you yourself would agree to what they’re saying.

This global financial turmoil that I keep on hearing from the news since the first quarter of 2008 is very much alarming because it has a domino effect on everyone living on this planet. It is extremely depressing to see that this chaotic situation that we now have seems to be inevitable. I mean every single day news reporters and journalists would talk about major stock market losses, big companies declaring bankruptcy, which then leads to many individuals getting laid off their jobs, and which then adds to the growing population of jobless individuals.

In this time of crisis I’m sure a lot of people now seek for ways on how to get cash advance. I do hope this economic situation gets better soon.

Basic Kitchen Equipments to start Baking Cakes and Cookies!

Baking cakes and cookies for my family is a hobby I loved and enjoyed doing since I was in my third grade. I can still recall those days when I used to sell chocolate and banana cup cakes for Php3.50 each. I would always bring 20 pieces each day and everything would literally sell in an instant even before our break time starts. What’s great is that I get to keep all the money I get from my sales even though my mom purchases all the ingredients for me! haha..

I really need to buy some kitchen equipments for baking these goodies soon though since both my girls already appreciate eating solids. Below is what I have on my list of items to buy. If you’re a mom or someone who’d love to bake cake or cookies for your family, check out these basic baking equipments that you need to have to start:

For baking cakes:

1. Oven
2. Mixer
3. baking pan
4. measuring cups
5. measuring spoons
6. bowls in different sizes
   

And don’t miss out on these items if you want to bake cookies too:

7. rolling pin
8. cookie cutter

If you plan to buy these items online, you may want to explore them at shopwiki. Aside from giving you a wide range of brands to choose from, it also let's you pick the best item since this revolutionary shopping search engine checks the item you want to get from all the online stores you can possibly think of. Plus, you're ensured of choosing the best product from the best online store because aside from showing the price and the online store where the item is being sold, customer review and rating can also be seen.

Go check it out right now and register if you want to get an Ipod Nano for free!=)

Enjoying Sunday at Dave's Fun House

Our family had another fun filed day last weekend.=) After going to mass at the 3rd floor of Market! Market!, we had the two girls with their nanny play at Dave's Fun House for a treat. Missy has been here several times already but it was CJ's first time to go in this cute little playhouse. This playhouse has miniature kid’s size facilities like the clinic with doctor and patient’s uniform, bed and other medical items; the salon with toy scissors, razors, blow driers, and artificial hairs; fast food outlet that has Mc Donald and Jollibee looking foods such as the fries and burgers; a grocery store with lots of vegetables and cute little carts and an ATM machine located outside of the grocery store; cute little rides with a gas station on one side; and a house with small home furniture like living room set, water dispenser (with no water of course), refrigerator, and microwave oven; plus two TVs where kids can watch and play games. With all these miniature stuff our girls sure did had a blast!

For a very reasonable price, putting your kids in a make believe fun house like this one and seeing them get fascinated and enjoy the entire time is worthless. So if you're planning to visit Market! Market! for the coming weekend, be sure to bring your kids along with you and try enrolling them there too. By the way, the fun house requires all kids and guardians to wear a pair of socks.

I didn't notice how much each child cost, but we paid Php395 for two kids, one guardian + extra socks. Wish we could have enough space at home for a playhouse so the kids can enjoy playing in such at their own home.



At Dave’s Fun House
NOTE : Double-click on the image to get a bigger view of the pictures.

Feedback and Thank You's on CJ's 1st Bratz Birthday Party at Jollibee McKinley Branch

This is an overdue post about my feedback on CJ’s birthday party supplies. I made an earlier post to thank all our friends and relatives who were able to make it to the party. You can click on this link for that thank you post.
Here goes my feedback:

1.Venue and Setup – Jollibee McKinley Branch
I already knew that Jollibee offers Bratz Pixies as one of its party themes. Considering our limited budget and the fact that everyone loves Jollibee, this venue was for us a perfect choice.

We initially wanted to hold CJ’s birthday bash at Jollibee The Fort branch. But after going there to inquire about their packages, we got a bit frustrated..

Reasons for our disappointment:

• There was only one slot available for the September 20 event so we had very limited choice on the time of our occasion.
• The manager mentioned that they do not offer any other themes anymore except for the Jollitown character themes. I was upset after hearing this since I have already started creating my Bratz themed layouts for CJ’s banner and favors with thank you notes. Worst is, he mentioned that all Jollibee branches now are only offering the Jollitown character themed birthday party.
  

However, since we always pass by Jollibee McKinley branch, I know that that guy we just talked to was probably misinformed because I just saw the McKinley branch hold a Bratz themed party a week before we went to The Fort branch.

To cut the story short, we went to McKinley branch and reserved the 4-6pm time on September 20. We were so fortunate that nobody yet has reserved for an event on that day=)

The party package we got already included 30pcs of balloons and Bratz themed party supplies such as the party hat, name tag, banner, loot bags, prizes, plus a gift for the birthday celebrant.

We were so happy that we decided to hold the party at Jollibee McKinley branch. Everyone enjoyed the entire time because the two party host were amazing! They really knew how to make the party fun and full of life. I personally enjoyed Jollibee's four wishes because he always dances before and after he gives his wish.

2.CJ’s dress – Muńeca from www.sears.com
This dress was given as a gift from my aunt Becky. Both my two girls had exactly the same design. I wanted both of them to wear it on the event so that the elder one won’t feel at lost. These dresses looked so fabulous on them. It even has an underwear to match the gown. Thanks for these gowns ninang Becky!

3.CJ’s shoes – Baby Shoes from SM Makati
We were already set to buy CJ’s shoes from Chicco. But since my two girls are wearing the same outfit, I thought it would be nice if they too wore the same kind of shoes. Unfortunately, the cute Chicco shoes we saw doesn’t have a size that would fit her sister’s so we opted to look for another one. Luckily, we saw this adorable pair of shoes that both has CJ and Missy’s size. The color of the shoes perfectly blended with their dress. We also bought the black knee high stockings from SM. I could probably say that both the shoes and the stockings were comfortable on them cause they would normally remove it if incase the stockings made them itch or if the shoes didn’t fit right.

4.CJ’s Cake – Max’s The Bake Shop and Kitchen Krafts
CJ had two cakes on that day and I was so blessed that those cakes were sponsored by two of her godparents. We were not able to distribute it on the venue though since Jollibee prohibits distribution of edible items other than those they have. Anyway, we shared the cakes to some of our guests and neighbors when we got home. Without doubt both cakes were yummy! I enjoyed eating Kitchen Krafts's cake because it was moist and not too sweet. I also heard lots of complements from Max's Caramel Butter cake. Thanks for the cake ninang Lourdes and ninang Che..!

5.Banner, Favors & Thank You notes : My DIYs!
I created the layout of the banner, Cj’s images on the favors, and the thank you note using Adobe Photoshop. I had the banner printed at Signex for a very cheap price=). The printed copy was a bit darker that expected though. So, incase you plan to have your banners printed by them, maybe in would look better if you give them a bit brighter image.

Since the thank you note was in a form of a picture and was not covered or protected by any plastic or frame, I decided to have them printed at the Kodak kiosk. I’ve heard that pictures that gets printed from these kiosks are water proofed and has lifetime warranty (from dust and lost of color due to age). Sweet..!

We bought the favors from Divi mall in bulk for an incredibly cheap cost. Like what I mentioned on my previous post, a piece of this favor would cost you Php50.00 in Market! Market!. The ones we got were 50% lesser than that! Another cheap buy for us;-)

6.Photographer – Tita Lala
Due to our limited budget, we had no choice but to utilize our own digital camera. Thank God my cousin offered to take the pictures on that day. Thanks tita Lala..!

Unfortunately, some of the images didn't come out well since the camera had low resolution. For this reason, I just though of grouping the images into a digital scrapbook pages.

Hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as everyone enjoyed the event.=)

Carrie Justine’s 1st Birthday Party
NOTE: For a bigger view of the images, please double click on the slide show above.

The Outstanding iLASIK procedure

Today, more and more mission-critical personnel from NASA and the U.S. military have undergone the modern LASIK technology also known as the iLASIK Procedure to remedy their eye vision problems. As mentioned by a retired U.S. Navy captain and leader of a clinical research to study the importance of LASIK information in DOD, it has been noted that DOD and NASA has confirmed that the iLASIK procedure goes beyond all established standards of safety and effectiveness.

The iLASIK Procedure is a painless laser procedure which goal is to reshape the cornea so that refracted light can focus accurately on the retina. It uses two kinds of lasers treatment instead of one, as done in the earlier version. The first laser stage maps the unique characteristics of the patient’s eye and creates the corneal flap. On the next phase, which only takes about a few seconds, the laser corrects the vision based on the wave-front mapping data done on the first phase.

This painless modern procedure has already showed notable results based from the military’s evaluation. It showed that 95% achieved a 20/20 uncorrected vision or better therefore making it clinically proven to provide excellent safety and visual results.

Finally my blog paid off

After withdrawing some fund from my Paypal account to my verified debit card and literally waiting for a month, I finally saw some bucks from my blog. Notice below that my Paypal activity started around July. That's when I started blogging for real. I withdrew the money when it reached almost $30 but unfortunately the $30 only resulted to Php700+.

Anyway, I really won't recommend you to withdraw your money on your paypal account nowadays specially if you want to receive it within a week or two.

But I'm still happy cause I received the money so I treated my family at Pizza Hut!

Care to know what your EQ is?

I scored 153! Hmmm... almost everything written here are true. Okay, let me just emphasize those that I believe are true :)

Your EQ is 153

Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar. Seriously though, your whole "Don't Worry, Be Happy" philosophy is really what defines emotional intelligence. You're warm, open, and very optimistic. You know how to act appropriately, even if you don't feel like it. You are a good communicator, and you have little difficulty with personal relationships - even when you're dealing with difficult people. In general, you are successful (i definitely can not agree to this at this time cause if this is true then i would have stopped working already..hahaha!), capable, together person. You get what you want out of life(not everything yet. i still have a lot to accomplish).

What's Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

What was the first sport you loved?

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The first sport I enjoyed was skating=) My interest started when I watched a figure ice skating competition from a VHS tape that my grandma recorded in US. I was really amazed at how graceful the contestants dance, swing, lift, turn, and spin as they do their choreographed exhibitions.. But I never though that I would have the chance to learn how to skate since the one I saw was ice skating and, back then, I though there was definitely no way for a tropical country like ours to have an ice skating rink.

Anyway, I started learning how to skate when I met my good friend Annabelle who incidentally had a pair of roller skates (which I assumed was given to her by her mom who was working in US). During that time you wouldn't find anyone selling roller skate shoes in our place.. so this friend of mine was like the instrument that opened back my interest in this sport. I enjoyed and loved skating since then so I asked my kind aunt to buy me a pair of skate shoes from US. I remember I was sooooo excited when I got that Barbie roller skates shoes!

Burnham Park Outdoor Skating Rink

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I think I was already on my 4th or 5th grade when roller skating became a hit in Baguio City. There was already an indoor skating gym at Camp John Hay and an outdoor skating rink at Burnham Park. So when inline skates / roller blades was introduced in the Philippines, I knew that it wouldn't be that hard to learn. And I got more excited when I came to know that SM Megamall developed an indoor ice skating rink! Thanks to the genius developers of this technology that allowed people to skate on ice anytime of the year:) I've only tried ice skating there four times though and three instances of which I just went there to teach my cousin, my niece, and my friend to ice skate. But now that we have an Olympic-sized ice skating rink at SM Mall of Asia, I'm planning to teach my two daughters this sport when they're ready so that we will all enjoy doing this sport together. And if in case we see that any of our daughters enjoy and would love to be trained on this sport to compete, we'd surely be glad to support it.

SM Mall of Asia Ice Skating Rink

Image credits from skyscraercity.com

So, tell me what was the first sport you loved? I'd be happy to hear about your experiences too:)

The Butterfly Award

Thanks for sharing this butterfly award sis Lilet

Once accepted, the rules would be as follows:

1. Put the logo on your blog;
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you;
3. Nominate 10 other blogs;
4. Add links to those blog on yours;
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs;

I'm sharing this award to Lorei, Ritchelle, Marly, Claire, Imelda, Jenny, Yen, Rach, Heidi, and Igraine

Free Online Shopping Advisor

Have you ever tried shopping online? If not, do you want to try shopping online but are just afraid to try cause you feel like it might not be secured? Well if you answered yes to any of my questions above then this is your lucky day! I am so excited to share with you this free online shopping advisor which I discovered just awhile ago. This amazing application can even be added as an add-on to your Firefox browser! Cool huh…?! What this application does is that it helps you securely shop online by showing the online store's safe shopping ratings.

I've listed down some of the awesome things that you'll surely enjoy about buySAFE:
1. You get to have an online shopping advisor for FREE!
2. It has a shopping portal where your purchase can be bonded up to $25,000 and with identify theft protection.
3. You can join their referral program and earn $1 for each person you refer.

Even if I’ve been buying some of my baby’s stuff online for months, I still am not assured of my safety since we do not have any governing body to track hoax online stores. And since I won’t have any way to sue online shops specially those shops from outside my country, buying items online is really risky. But now that I have buySafe installed on my pc, I’m now confident that all my online transactions are a hundred percent guaranteed of safety! This is awesome and very timely I must say cause I know a lot of people have already started doing their Christmas shopping online!

So what are you waiting for guys? Go click on this link and start downloading your personal online shopping advisor for free!

Enjoy your Christmas shopping!

Internet Explorer 8 is here.

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Have you seen Microsoft's latest browser? Check this one out! I just downloaded and installed this cool browser from Microsoft today.So far so good for me. I like how they made the browser more interactive to the user. The colors and available add-ons are amazing! I specially like how cooliris allow you to view pictures in a better way. And the address bar, they made it look and feel more user friendly cause of the auto complete feature that shows a list of sites related to what you are currently typing on the address bar. Plus below those suggested sites they added the sites you have on your favorites! It works a bit like the yahoo's search bar which also has that auto complete thingy. But the addition of the sites that you have personally saved on your favorites I guess makes this browser outstanding.

MSDN says this browser's beta version was released last March 08. So I'm just furious why it took them sometime to really show off this version to the public.

My Page Rank went up again!

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I got really frustrated last week when I found out that my page rank went down by one notch. And since I know for a fact that most advertisers choose blogs with at least a PR 3, I knew then that my blog was in big trouble and that I had to work double time to win back my PR.

Well I was right in thinking that I won't be getting that much invite or approval from advertisers for a week. BUT...! I was wrong in thinking that it'll take me a couple of weeks or months to gain back that lost point cause the lucky me just found out awhile ago that my PR got back to 3. Whew!

I don't know why I lost that PR point in the first place cause I've been creating more posts and been visiting more blogs lately. But I'm not really sure how that PR 3 came back. What I just did was fix my feed burner and activated most of the services they have. So go try it out guys! It might help you increase your PRs too!

Another extra income for paid bloggers like me=)

One of my online buddies, Yen, is currently celebrating her 3rd year in the blogosphere this month and i'm so happy that she invited me to join her BIG contest=). She's giving away as much as $200!! Yipee..! By the way, happy blogoversary sis!

Here's a list of prices for this contest:

First Prize
$ 40 from Yennygirl
$ 10 and 500 EC From Swept Away
2000 EC from Indo Contest
1000 EC from A Life in Bloom
1000 EC from Affiliatizer
1000 EC from ThemeLib
125×125 ad for one month from Wonderful Things in Life
125×125 ad for one month from Creative in Me
Symphony of Love Pictorial Ebook of Love Quotations
~{values at $6.95} from Symphony of Love

Second Prize
$10 from Yennygirl
$10 from My Happy Place
$10 from Suburban Sass
2000 EC Credits from WordPress for Beginners
1000 EC from Because Life is a Blessing
1000 EC from When Silence Speaks
1000 EC from Wiehanne Lounge
125×125 ad for one month from Music of My Heart
Symphony of Love Pictorial Ebook of Love Quotations
~{values at $6.95} from Symphony of Love

Third Prize
$10 from Fab Finds, Etc.
$10 from I AM DZOI
$10 from Mommy Talks. Wife Stories
1000 EC from Digiscraptology
1000 EC points from Wonderful Things in Life
1000EC points from Heart Random
125×125 ad for one month from LittlePeanut
Symphony of Love Pictorial Ebook of Love Quotations
~{values at $6.95} from Symphony of Love

Fourth Prize
$5 and 500 EC From Official Chosen Fate
$ 8 and 200 EC from Walk on Red
$5 from Living the Healthy Life
1000 EC from Etc-Atbp.
125×125 ad for one month from Around the World
Symphony of Love Pictorial Ebook of Love Quotations
~{values at $6.95} from Symphony of Love

Fifth Prize
$ 5 from Stripe and Yellow
$ 5 from Doll Me Up
300 EC From The Scrapaholic Me
200 EC From It’s Where My Heart Is
125×125 ad for one month from Blogging for Bloggers
125×125 ad for one month from Pea in a Pod
RSS Text Link for one month from Blog for Beginners
Symphony of Love Pictorial Ebook of Love Quotations
~{values at $6.95} from Symphony of Love

This runs til Oct 24th only so check out her blog right now and join in before this contest ends! Good luck to all of us!

Our latest cheap buys!

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Til this day my laptop is still on intensive care unit.. The motherboard got destroyed real bad and the shop is still waiting for a replacement. Too bad for me..but oh well.. good thing we found a cheap desktop pc with high end specs at TipidPC.com! I really like this site! You would always find a newly posted item for sale almost every hour=) And you'll now that it's new because the time and date when it was posted is also shown.

Enough said, here's a list of our latest cheap buys!

From TipidPC (www.tipidpc.com) : this set for only 6g!
- Pentium Dual Core processor 2.8ghz
- 1G memory
- 256mb video card
- 80gig Sata Seagate
- 17" monitor
- Keyboard and Mouse

From cd-r king (www.cdrking.com)
- Winnie the Pooh personalized mouse-pad - P50.00

- Robot PC Camera 1.3megapixels - P380.00

- Mic - P100.00
- 2G Traveling Disk P320.00


From PC Express (www.pcx.com.ph) : given discount on some items since we paid in cash
- Black gas-lift chair - P680.00
- AVR - P295.00 (originally P310.00)
- Logitech S100 Speaker System - P 380.00(originally P460.00)


From Market!Market! Home World's Oct 1-5 Sale
- Computer Table in Cherry color - we got this item for an incredible price of P950.00! This item's real price is P1,625.00 so this is indeed a cheap buy already=)