Exciting Online Shopping-Bidding in the Philippines

I've heard about Winila months ago, but it is only after receiving an email that I've decided to check what this online shopping site is all about.

Winila is an online shopping site where you can bid for items, buy products and save up to 95%. It's an amazing breakthrough for everyone's shopping experience. Winila makes online shopping-bidding exciting and hassle-free!

How Does Winila work?

1. It makes use of an online bidding where you will be going against other bidders. Each 'bid' that a buyer places increases the price of an item and add time to the clock. The final bidder when the timer hits zero is declared the winner.

2. Like other online shopping site, buy the product directly and pay the standard retail price.

How to Win an Auction?

You must be the last bidder of the item when the auction timer hits zero. But if you lose, you can still buy the product through the "Buy It Now" functionality, with a discount equal to the value of the bids you placed.

I've checked out some past winning auctions -
iPod Shuffle 2GB for bought for $2.78 (savings 94.98%)
Nokia X3 for $1.19 (savings 99.18%)
Victoria's Secret:Vanilla for $0.71 (savings 96.26%)
P500 Pancake House GC for $0.09 (99.25%)
Playstation 3 320 GB for $22.2

See, that's really huge savings!

How To Join:

1. Register at Winila Homepage.

2. Select a bid package to participate in the auction. Choose bid packages in denominations of 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 bids. Each product bid cost costs Php 10, $0.50, or €0.50.

3. Shop around for open auctions and start bidding for the item you want.

You can also check out these interesting and useful videos to know more about Winila -

Winila VIP interview with Papa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5szISJRL9o

Trailer Mike Ferrer Winila interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiKUDVd9_oY

Winila VIP interview with Mike Ferrer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jekmgYDwJlo

Experience the fun of bidding and getting the item you want... Spend small, win big!

Beyond Happy @ 31

La Vita è Bella
La Vita è Amore!

Another year of my life has passed and it had been an eventful year.

Thank you for the greetings -family, relatives, online friends, blogger friends, mommy friends and acquaintances, Facebook friends, former officemates, schoolmates - from across the seas to the farthest continent.

You filled my mail box with emails, my cellphone with messages and my Facebook wall with your greetings. Each simple messages and wonderful wishes made the day special.

Thank you also to those who silently wished me a "Happy Birthday!," to those who I didn't expect would greet me, and to those who remains anonymous.

Thanks everyone for taking time out of your otherwise busy day
To stop for a minute, left me a message and say
... I wish you a very “Happy Birthday”!

Thank you to everyone who remembered...
you are all appreciated, forever treasured 
and cherished as priceless. :)

I am not just a year older, but a year better! I am grateful for all of the experiences that have taught me to be a better and stronger person.

My life is wonderful and I know I am blessed. Days won't always be good, but I won't complain. It's not without troubles - I have obstacles too - but I can still see the beauty of it. 

I look forward to the promise of many more amazing experiences and good times in the year that follows!

I am beyond happy!

"This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalm 118:24

Survivor Philippines Celebrity Edition Winner

Akihiro Sato wins Survivor Philippines Celebrity Edition. This Brazilian-Japanese model-actor, tagged as "Mr.Nice Guy," took home 3 million pesos and the title as the Philippines First Celebrity Sole Survivor. He won the heart of the jury with 3 votes, against Ervic Vijandre and Solenn Heussaff, who got 2 votes each.

We've tuned in on TV to watch the finale of Survivor Celebrity Showdown and rooted for both Akihiro and Solenn. Solenn, who's always the last woman standing in the game, shows what a modern woman should be. She played the game well. She showed her strength, her braveness and her smartness all throughout.

Congratulations Akihiro for a well deserved win! Yes, it's a game, but true, you can play the game fairly. He gave his best in all the challenges, won immunity, beat his tribemates, yet never forgot to show concern and compassion. He might not be a pure Pinoy, but he showed everyone how to play fairly and with dignity. He's not a pure Pinoy, but has a heart of a Filipino, with the attitude of a true victor. He is humble but a real fighter.

Winning 'Survivor' needs the right combination of mental, physical and social skills. Survivor is a game of learning how to outwit,outplay and outlast your competitors. You have to be smart, just like how you would bet on sports where you need to understand the tips and trick of sports betting. Getting informed about Sports Betting Tips and Tricks can give you a head start.

Cartoon Character Facebook Profile Pictures Invasion

There's a new trend that's going viral on Facebook. Facebook users are replacing their profile pictures with photos of their favorite cartoon characters from their childhood.

The message says that this is a campaign to promote awareness of an increase in violence against children.

Change your facebook profile picture to a cartoon until Monday (Dec.6) there should be no human faces on facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is for violence against children.

Is this a goal to see how far Facebook can go and make people do this change; or one way to promote social awareness to take further actions against violence?

Yesterday, I've seen Facebook friends joined the campaign and put pictures of characters from the 70s, 80s, 90s and even recent cartoon characters. But it seems that the full force began today! In a span of hours, more than a hundred of my friends had changed their profile pictures!

Facebook Cartoon Profile Pictures

It's quite enjoyable to seen all those characters now. I've seen Hello Kitty, Sailor Moon, The Little Twin Stars, Smurfs and Smurfette, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Aladdin and Princess Jasmine, Astroboy, Batibot (local cartoon), Pooh and Piglet, Tinkerbell, Disney Princesses, Peter Pan, Voltes V, Daimos, GI Joe, X-Men, Rugrats, Olive, Candy Candy, Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Garfield, Betty Boop, Pocoyo and a lot more!

Chilhood memories and the feelings it brought can never be replaced,. It seems like cartoon life is simple yet almost perfect, where everything comes with what you wished for.

Maybe I'll join trend and support this campaign... I'm torn amongst The Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, Hello Kitty and KeroKeroPi. Oh, maybe I'll go for Rainbow Brite! Her real name is Wisp and her talking horse is named Starlite. She was that little girl who wore a rainbow painted dress.

How about you, who's your favorite childhood cartoon character?
Have you changed yours?

Loving December, Turning 31

I love December month!

It has always been and will always be my favorite month. This mornings, I started reading My December Love Affair, and I fall in love over and over again.

[turning 31]

On December 2, I'm turning 31! I somehow wished to freeze myself into being 30 forever. But now, I don't cringe at the thought of saying goodbye to the age of 20-ish... I simply look forward to the life of being 30-ish!

I am stronger and wiser because of the past. I appreciate all the people who walked with me and played a huge part in my life.

Oh, and I'm saying thank you for this wonderful post Birthdays Galore! written by a good friend.

As I turn 31, I look forward to more wonderful lessons and experiences, more smiles and happiness, more years to cherish and treasure... seeing more sunsets and amazing sunrises!

[looking forward to]

+ the birthdays of my sister and my nephew
+ cousins' birthday
+ Christmas day and celebrations
+ family-reunions
+ gifts and gift-giving
+ my daughter's ballet presentation
+ my kids's Christmas program
+ New Year celebrations
+ ... and a whole lot more!

Woman Want 50x More

For 50 days, L'Oreal Paris Philippines had chosen the best “50x More” statement that completes the phrase “With fairer skin...” Daily winners get to win a L’Oreal Paris White Perfect Day Cream SPF17/PA++.

I won and I was chosen as the winner for Day 11.

DAY 11. With fairer skin, I can savor the goodness of life 50x more! -Czaroma Roman POSTED ON October 11, 2010

Thanks L'Oreal Paris for the prize and the special gift (White Perfect Fairness Revealing Soothing Cream Night, Whitening Toner, Double Eye Zone brightener, eyelash curler and tweezers).