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Thomas The Train

I never really like battery operated toys. But when a friend gave Mico Thomas The Tank Engine starter set, we were hooked. I just can’t get enough of this cute little trains and the fact that you can go on and on building his city. As of now, we already have a box full of trains, tracks and other accessories. I have been planning to buy the set where in, theres more than 5 trains.. but that would cost me 6K in PhP.. maybe it can wait, we need to have our own house first and a place to set up Thomas City..

Did you know that Thomas, Barney and Bob the Builder came from the same entertainment distribution company, HiT Entertainment. Other characters under HiT are Angelina Ballerina, a feisty little mouse that works hard to reach her goal and along the way, always learn from her mistakes. Fireman Sam, the ultimate hero next door. Been known to rescue anything, from his friends to cat on top of trees. Pingu, the clumsy and mischievous penguin that loves to play just like any other young penguin.

Plastic Is Not Fantastic

Do you know what my most used phrase this week? Nah.. not that college angst word.. hehe im not a college anymore no.. OK next to hindi ba kayo titigil (referring to the kids: are you not going to stop?) and that would be.. WAG MO NA IPLASTIC.. (don’t put it in a plastic) although I get funny remarks most of the time and concern faces, I am proud to say that I am PLASTIC FREE.

Saturday morning. I went to Pasig wet market. Bought a lot of cute dresses for Sati and some cheap bags for me. Went to 4 different stalls and said no to 4 plastic bags. Yay!

Afternoon, I went to Divisoria for Kuya and Sati’s birthdays giveaways.. went to 9 stores.. but failed to say no to plastic to one store.. the dried fish store.. bought Tuyo, Dangit, Dilis and dried Pusit.. asked the store owner to put some on the nwespaper but the Dilis was already in plastic.. sadness.. so that’s 8 plastics..

Monday morning. Greenhills to check out some place.. and since I’m already in the area, walked my way to GH shopping center. Found some cute Tinker Bell fairies and though I did not brought some shopping bags with me, I managed to say NO to plastic by taking the items out of its packaging and just throwing it inside my bag. Also bought some vitamins (chewable Ceelin, will post about that later) and good thing Mercury Drug understand the phrase NO to PLASTIC. Said no to 2 plastic bags.

Tuesday afternoon. Off to Talipapa (small wet market here in our place).. and though I promised, I again, broke it. Had to use plastic for my fresh fish.. which brought me to thinking, what shall I do when I am going to buy wet goods? Where should I put it?

Wednesday morning. Walked to Talipapa again.. this time, I bought an eco bag and a square reusable plastic ware (stress on the word reusable). I bought half kilo of chicken and asked the vendor to put it on my ware instead of plastic bag. Bought pandesal and some bread.. veggies and banana and all of them are thrown in my shopping bag. said no to 5 plastic bags

Lunch time. was looking for some printing shop for Sati’s tarp and giveaway… went shopping to a thrift shop on the way..bought 12 tops for 400 PhP (what a steal!) and a boots for 350 (another one!) and said NO to 2 plastic bags.

My family are really trying hard to do our part on saving the environment. As we go on everyday,w e are more conscious on bringing our own bag. And though some malls already declared Wednesday as NO plastic day (here in Pasig, Friday is no straw day), I believe everyday should be BRING YOUR OWN BAG day.

I hope with my every week postings of how many plastic bags I said NO to.. you will also be inspired to say the same phrase: MANONG WAG MO NA IPLASTIC.

oh just this week, we were able to say NO to 21 plastic bags! yay!

Toy Kingdom Spooktober 2101

I got the chance to take a peak on the 2010 offering of Toy Kingdom, SPOOKTOBER SHOCKERS. Showcased are their newest collections of costumes for Halloween 2010. The collection includes, Freakin’ Halloween Fashions (a collection of freaky and spooky costumes)

Make Believe Your Famous ( acollection of famous characters turned into costumes like Alice, Ninajas and a lot more), Too Cute To Spook, collections of cute and friendly costumes like Tigger, Pooh and even Thomas!

Kids who love classic story book characters, can have fun choosing their costumes in the Storybook Sensation collection. There’s even a Korean and other nationality costumes included. There’s a Mexican dress and a fruit hat to complete the look. Fairytale Favorites will make every child’s dream to be a princess come true.

Flights of Fancy includes different kinds of wings for you different characters. Cast A Spell are all about wands, crowns and princessy hair dress.

Fun-tasy Headgears and Mad Hatters Party is all about hats, wigs and anything about the head.

More accessories and Trick or Treating paraphernalia awaits Toy Kingdom shoppers.

And for my most favorite part.. Hanging Horrors and Monsters on the loose. I am not a sicko but I cannot help but admire grotesque art. Specially this one: