I love DIY-ing boxes, paper bags and all that craft. So you can only imagine how thrilled I was to find out about Punch Boards.

Online shoppers' S.O.P: Google for local sellers. (For Manila shoppers you may also check OLX, Lazada, Instagram shops)

If not available locally (or ridiculously expensive locally), head on over to Amazon.com and pull up your trusty My Shopping Box account.

Here's what I got:
1 Gift Box Punch Board, 1 Gift Bag Punch Board, 1 Pillow Box Punch Board



Now I know it didn't sound like it was the right season to get crafting stuff but then again, no craft police is gonna gome get me. (LOL)

These sell for around 11-15 USD each and if I remember correctly there was a get this plus this and this promo in Amazon for this combination. So: price each + Amazon shipping (if applies) + MyShoppingBox fees costs me roughly about P3,000 for the entire set. This is relatively cheaper if you buy this in most local online stores I found which sells for about 1,300 and up.

Is it worth it? I don't know yet! Haha. But these will surely come in handy in Christmas. (Score!)
In the meantime, I try to make nifty items out of it like pen holders, and holders of practically anything, really.

Have you tried any of these punch boards? Let me know what you think!

Spent 2 hours in Fully Booked during a book sale, dropped all my books and brought this home instead.

Kawaii!!! Isn't that what most people say when they're talking about something as cute as this?

I should stop buying cute things I don't need. I'm ashamed I haven't put any label on anything other than... well... my label maker. I know I'll find a use for this one day!

Motex Label MakerFully Booked, BGC, TaguigMade In Korea

My review for Elias, BGC Taguig

Since I can't catch-up with my eating, and always lazy to take photos before diving in, I've decided to sign up with Zomato (which I should have done ages ago!!!) then just paste my reviews here. Hahahaha! How boring is that? I was getting ways to embed it, but no luck, so I'll just do this for a while and see if I'm happy with it.

"You're nobody until somebody calls you bossy."

Okay. When I said I was going to read more books this year, I didn't say I was going hardcore.
We all have our own reasons for reading. Mine was because I got myself a Kindle so I have to prove to myself I didn't just binge-bought last Black Friday sale. Kidding! Okay maybe just a little.

Tina Fey Bossypants. I actually learned about this book from my roommate so I had a physical copy to take a photo of!

I love Tina Fey's humor and everyone who loves Mean Girls (which is everyone) knows why. In case you didn't know, Tina Fey wrote Mean Girls and reading this book explains a lot how Tina came up with all the interesting characters and her perception of high school life in her movie.

This book is like her mini-biography? I guess? She tells the story of her life in the most random kind of details. It's perfect for a light after-office reading. One thing I might note though is that she mentions a lot of personalities/celebrities I'm not at all familiar with so it's a little difficult to catch up sometimes, but if think you've watched enough American TV, you'll be fine.

Did you have fun reading Tina Fey Bossypants?

A few days before the Black Friday sale, I started to scout for nifty stuff on Amazon.
I scored a $49 kindle and had it shipped right away. I'm a MyShoppingBox user, but I always wanted to try out POBox.ph and now that I discovered they now offer Air Freight, it seemed like the perfect time! They used to ship only By Sea.

Unlike other freight forwarders,  POBox.ph consolidates your items for free. Taking advantage of that, also got me an Xperia Z5 charging dock, and a Spigen case. All these items where shipped to their warehouse everyday from 11/23 to 11/25.

25 November 2015
All my orders have arrived at POBox.ph facility.



07 December 2015
I've checked on my items why they haven't been billed yet. This means they haven't tagged my item to my name yet.

10 December 2015
I have been billed and I was hoping to use my Citibank discount. I've been told that the discount only works for Sea Freight but at the end of the conversation, I was given a discount, anyway. Talk about customer service!

02 January 2016
I GOT THE PACKAGE! I was counting 15 working days after I've made my payment, and with the holidays coming up, I've figured it'd arrive at around the 8th of January. I was so happy to have found my package arrived on the 30th of December!

I know we've got a handful of Holidays last month and it's probably worst-case scenario for deliveries, so it's an awesome surprise.

Happy New Year!
To be very honest, I am quite disappointed with how 2015 turned out because I had a handful of things I wish I had accomplished--taking guitar lessons, scuba lessons and driving lessons. None of these happened.
I have had a lot of things going on in 2015, don't get me wrong, but I went on hiatus on this blog and hardly had any time to share anything. Such a shame.

It was a good year for travel I've been to places--Cebu, Singapore, Taipei, Singapore again.
It was a good year for personal improvement--I moved out.
Not a good year financially--because you see, items 1 and 2 above does not actually add up to huge savings.

I wanted to start out this year with a list of what I'm supposed to write about.
My 2016 Plan is to make PLANS. Lists. Layouts. Flowcharts. Take baby steps. Baby productive steps.
And oh, I need to lose weight. Like seriously lose it all.


I'm looking forward to a great year ahead! Happy New Year!

Fit. Frugal. Forward.

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If you want to take a screenshot and just paste it somewhere, do a Control + command + shift + 3 or 4.

Bonus: Facebook messages accepts direct copy + paste'd screenshots! ;)