Archives for December 2010

Soyami Nachos Salad

One of the kind people/company who agreed to grace our party was Soyami Soya Chips. I fisrt had a taste of this chip last October. We were invited to attend thelaunch of Soyami Soya Chips. You know I never really like chips, specially for my kids. I just felt that it’s not healthy.. but a chips made out of Soya.. now that is something we all can eat. In fact, I even let Sati had a taste of this healthy chips.

Since I had a taste of Soyami, I long for the day where I can prepare it as Nacho salad. In case you did not notice,baliw kami sa Tacos, nachos at chili con carne.

When I found out we had someSoyami treats in our loot bag, I did not hesitate to prepare nachos, Soyami style.. and ohh… I can’t get enough of it! Soyami Soya Chips is so perfect for Nachos Salad!

Mommy Bloggers Cowboy Christmas Party

Sati’s birthday felt so bitin, some of the mommy bloggers requested for a rerun and since December comes after November, Christmas Party is a great excuse.

What: Mommy Bloggers Christmas Party

Where: Legen Villas, Ro0m 421

When: December 11, 1 PM onwards

Theme: Wild Wild West

Joy of Occasions of Joy, Michell of My Mom Friday and Tetcha of Pensive Thoughts helped in making the party more fun to mommy bloggers (in other words, sila ang nangbraso, este, nagtulong tulong para may prizes tayo)LOL

Surprisingly, there we were able to solicit so many prizes and with that, we had a random drawings every 30 minutes! (Thank goodness for wifi) Included in the prizes for the random drawings were: active health bag and T Shirt from Unilab, Ainon Products, Johnson’s Baby Powder, Playtex Quick Straw, Maya Hot cake, Walter Double Fiber Wheat Bread, Gift Certificate from Ipanema, Rider Sandal and Grendha. Massage Package for 3 moms courtesy of Mommy Leirs. The Soyami Soya Chips was given to the kids instead of giving it as raffle prizes. The first ten moms who arrived got a Body Shop lotion each, while Tetcha gave some token for the first ten moms too!

One mom took home the grand raffle prize from Tintin Bersonal- Babao and Parentin.tv (The First Philippine Online Parenting Show). Miss Agnes of Ainon drew the grand prize winner.

That’s Joy, Me and Beds (she won!) and Miss Agnes of Ainon

Miss Sheryll of Proud Mama dropped by for their products:

Here are some photos of our raffle winners:

And while some are busy taking photos, some moms take advantage of the karaoke:

Aside from the random drawings, we had games too! The first one was Pass the red hat. Oh! I can’t remember who won (*scratches head).

The next game was pinaka or the best where in moms were grouped into 2. The next game, I’m sure, you’re all familiar with.. Pinoy Henyo.. pero mukhang sa party na’to mas dapat cowgirl henyo. Fedhz and Beds won.. 10 seconds… beat that..kaya ayan sige ayusin nyo ang Polvoron ni Fedhz. parusa yan for being too henyo:

Sati got a lot of products from Ainon (more on that on another blog post) for being the cutest and youngest cowgirl.. kaya lang wala syang picture with her pink boots.. She also got her own Playtex Quick Straw (different blog post for this)

As mentioned earlier, we had random drawings every 30 minutes.. at napatunayan ko na, malas talaga ako sa raffle.. hindi man lang nabunot name ko! waaah.. good thing, we had so many prizes that we did not stopped raffling it off until every mom got theirs.. gusto ko sana ung Unilab bag kaso… but the prize I got was really nice.. sarap ng almusal namin the morning after..

Everyone got a loot bag with products like: Soyami Soya Chips, Walter Double Fiber Wheat Bread, Maya Fluffy n’ Tasty, T Shirt and Token from Unilab, Ainon Baby Products, Proud Mama products (bra extender and kiddie shoe bag), Johnson’s Baby Powder.

The only cowboy in the pool of cowgirls..

Meralco Appliance Calculator

Will you be surprised if I tell you, I don’t care about our Meralco bill. Before, I tortured myself finding ways to decrease or lessen our electricity cost, but whatever I do, it stays that way. I tried almost everything, from using stove instead of rice cooker to using electric fan instead of the air conditioner. The thing is, I don’t know where the bulk of our bill came from. Is it the ref that runs 24 hours, 7 days a week (oh we even lessen the times our ref was opened) or is it the TV? Maybe it’s the aircon. Who’s the real culprit? Who?

I wish Meralco will come up with a site or an application that will help me control my electric consumption. Something that will tell me how much electricity my electric fan consumes in a given time. Something that will tell me to turn off my TV so that I can lessen its consumption. And something that will tell me, what kind of appliances will consume more and what type will consume less.

Oh wait! Meralco just launched their new application:Meralco Appliance Calculator

If you frequent Meralco’s website, you will notice that even their site had a makeover.

So what does the Meralco Appliance Calculator or MAC do? TheMeralco Appliance Calculatoris designed to become theelectricity bill management toolof Meralco residential costumers to help them:

Better manage their electric consumption and their electric bill.
Make wiser decision in buying home appliances.
Get home energy efficient tips that are customized to their home electricity consumption.

Actually, the Meralco Appliance Calculator (M.A.C) has been around since 2003. But this time, there has been new features added that cater the needs of Meralco’s costumers. You can access M.A.C in Meralco’s website (http://www.meralco.com.ph/).

Lower left is the MAC icon. Just click it to be go to Meralco Appliance Calculator page:

Click the M.A.C online version. You can see that it has a downloadable version. So yes, you can use it while you are offline. You just need to install the program to your computer.

Before you can use the Meralco Appliance Calculator, you need to read the Agreement and agree. As you can see, you can use “My Appliance Calculator” or “My Bill Manager”.

“My Appliance Calculator” allows the user to calculate the estimated consumption cost of appliances – one at a time.

“My Bill Manager”, on the other hand, allows the user to calculate the estimated consumption cost of appliances in a table format. It allows the user to get an estimate of the household’s total electric consumption cost and see which appliances consume more electricity.

Other features of the “My Bill Manager” menu include: consumption manager, energy efficiency adviser and target bill amount estimator. Consumption manager allows the user to see the corresponding electric consumption pie chart and some text description of the chart based on the information provided by the user. The energy efficiency adviser, meanwhile, allows user to see some energy efficiency tips based on the information provided by the user. The target bill amount estimator, on the other hand, allows the user to see an estimate of his “monthly target kWh consumption” and “estimated price per kWh” by just inputting the “target electric bill
amount”.

Other new features of the M.A.C include:

e-mailing of the M.A.C web link to friends through the “email” button;
sharing the M.A.C web link to FacebookandTwitter accountsthrough the “share” button;
sending feedback to Meralco regarding the new M.A.C through the “feedback” button;
printing the computation results of “My Bill Manager” through the “print” button (for easy access and future reference of the computations), and;
viewing the basis for computing the estimated electricity consumption of home appliances for the M.A.C application through the “formula” button (so that users can validate the results of the computations).