Belle De Jeur Power Planner Fair

I’m super excited for the 2012 BDJ Fair at the SM MOA Music Hall on October 14! :)

Check out their activities and GET A CHANCE TO WIN Free BDJ 2013 Power Planners and many more special prizes from their lifestyle brands! TO WIN! --- Play an active role in the fair’s festivities. Pre-register in any of the following activities below.  Please note each activity is limited to a certain number of slots :) First come first served.

10:00AM-11:00AM Kick-Ass Krav Maga (50pax)
Unleash that Strong Bella inside you as you learn self-defense techniques from the expert coaches at IKMF-Philippines.  Be proud and confident in the knowledge that you can protect yourself!

11:00AM-11:30AM Style Me Over! (50pax)
Give yourself a style update with this mini-workshop by Jasmine Mendiola as she shows the ways you can look even more amazing!

1:00PM-3:00PM Bloggers Extraordinaire (200pax)
Listen in as Tricia Gosingtian discusses how she has kept her blog current and relevant amidst the constant changes of the blogging world; while Patty Laurel talks about her love for travel and her lifelong goal of visiting a new destination for every year she’s on this earth.

3:30PM-5:00PM Beauty Bootcamp (200pax)
Know the essentials of Georgina Wilson’s skin care routine as she shares how she keeps her skin fresh and glowing all day.  Erica Paredes teaches us the basic items we need for our kikay kits and demonstrates how to use them. 

5:30PM-7:00PM  Life Lessons (200pax)
PJ Lanot will get you all charged up and raring to go as he guides you toward the self-realization that the Power is in you all along!  Fitz Villafuerte from the Ready To Be Rich blog shares with us why we need to start planning for our future now.

7:30PM-9:00PM Fierce Fashion! (200 pax)
Watch as BDJ Girls sashay down the runway in stylish outfits from SM GTW, Ladies Wear and Parisian. Learn from stylist extraordinaire, Donna Cuna-Pita as she talks about the ways you can infuse fun, bright colors into your everyday work staples. 

BE A SUPERMODEL: Strut your Sexy Self! (24pax)
Walk the runway in styles that that are bold, daring and fun! Be part of the 24 models for the BDJ 2012 Fashion Show showcasing the trendiest ensembles from SM GTW and SM Ladies Wear.  You must submit a full body photo wearing fitted clothes with your vital statistics (bust, waist and hips size), height, weight, and contact no. Please send by October 3. We will pre-select models for a go-see on October 6.

To participate, email them at bdjfair@viviamoinc.com with the following details:

SUBJECT: The 2012 BDJ Fair: LIMITLESS!

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Activities/Talks to Join: 

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What are you waiting for? Send them an email at bdjfair@viviamoinc.com  NOW!

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See you Bellas at the BDJ Fair! :)

Bibliophile

Teaching preschoolers for six years now showed me the importance of reading. Usually pupils fail in this area more than mathematics, however, they still cannot solve word problems without first comprehending it.

I love reading and books. I deliberately labeled myself a bibliophile. If most kikay girls and shopaholics scouts the mall's beauty booth, I raid the bookstores.

Reading started as a leisure for me. Although I don't remember how I learned how to read or who taught me but I do recall how it started.

I was maybe 6 years old at that time when I saw a box of comics in my lolo's silong. Silong is that space under the house. Old houses used to have that. Anyway, these comics are not your Marvel or DC comics nor the famous Funny Komiks . They contain the classics (but at that time I don't know yet)  like Les Miserables, Romeo and Juliet and others. I think they might be the precursor of today's graphic novels.

this is the silong

( photo from Sasha Manuel)

I frequented the silong just to finish the whole box of comics. When I finished everything, that's when I started buying the typical comics from the newstand. 

 

Funny Komiks with Planet Op Di Eyps as cover

(from rakista.com)

From comics I switched to Tagalog romance novels (pocketbooks). My Tita and mom would buy a lot of those and they would swaps after reading, so I got to read a lot too and I was only 11 years old.

(from Tagalog Romance Pocketbooks)

 

From Tagalog  pocketbooks, I turned to English young adult books when I started High School. Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley Twins (followed by Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley University) was popular at that time. Who could forget Elizabeth and Jessica?

 

 

 I became a certified "tambay" of our High School library. I began reading seriously. When I say seriously it means I stopped with the pa-cute-kilig-puro-crushes pocketbooks and started reading books like Sherlock Holmes, Siddharta Gautama and The Diary of Anne Frank.

 

 Reading became more than just leisure for me. I now read to learn; to learn about other people, other places, other worlds. In college, two books touched me most: The Good Earth and To Kill a Mockingbird. Honestly, I cried over these stories.

Fast forward to the present, now that I'm a preschool teacher and a mother, my list of books now includes children story books, parenting books and magazine, self-help books and even cook books. Whatever is your preference, reading is indeed important. I would like my own children to love reading and books as well, in spite of the emergence and powerful influence of online games and applications, social media and gadgets. I rather fill their room with books than to give them an iPad. Seriously! The feel of turning the pages of the book is still different from swiping the tablet's screen, don't you think? Well, well, well. I'll just leave you with this quote:

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

Post script:

For the bibliophile like me, why don't you try creating your Goodreads account?

www.goodreads.com

 

Vaga Anima
 The Anything-Goes-Blog

I've been longing to create a blog, now here it is and I don't know what to write first. Ngek!

How about explaining what "Vaga Anima" means? Well, I would like to name my blog with a foreign phrase like my friend's "Tabula Rasa" which means a clean slate. But then, I asked myself, "And what phrase would that be, huh?". So I thought what would my blog be all about? Fashion? Food? Travel? These are the usual but I'm not an expert or the right person for those. So I decided, my blog will be whatever I want it to be: anything! 

I'm a huge Paulo Coelho fan so I was thinking of a Portuguese phrase that will describe this blog. But it was hard. Hmmmmm...

Then a thought came when I was reading Coelho's Aleph. I read " Life is the train not the station". Yes, I said. Life is a journey. So I thought of the phrase "wandering soul" and tried to google its foreign language translation into Hebrew, Portuguese, Japanese but nothing sounds attractive. Until I translated it into Italian: "vaga anima". 

the wandering soul

because Life is a journey