We just want to greet you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!

I have always been a “city girl.” Katipunan Road, to be exact. I lived along Katipunan Avenue, Blue Ridge ever since the day baby me was allowed to go home from the hospital after my mom gave birth to me. I studied at Miriam / Maryknoll College for preschool, elementary, and high school; then took up BS Communications Technology Management at the Ateneo de Manila University—schools situated along Katipunan Avenue. The schools I went to were just less than five minutes away, so I never really had the need to stay in a dormitory. Simply put, I’ve been rooted to Katipunan Avenue for as long as I could remember.

It’s hard to believe that this year, we just spent Christmas in the suburbs of Antipolo. Continue reading this entry…

Better late than never :) Hope you all have a happy Christmas!!!

Here’s the enlarged version.

Would you believe me if I told you that the photo you see above was taken here in the Philippines? Well, believe it. It is. And that’s one of the reasons why this photo is probably my favorite among the other shots I have ever taken during my travels. But read on, I still have more to say. Continue reading this entry…

Pardon the geeky raving, but I am so loving WordPress 2.7! I’ve been looking forward to this release ever since Matt unveiled it at WordCamp Philippines last September.

The User Interface (UI) of the Admin Panel is a huge improvement, and I’m able to customize the Post Editor now as I see fit. Frankly, I never liked the way the Post Editor features of the previous releases were jumbled up together. It got particularly annoying when I created custom fields and “special instructions” for my clients whenever I customized their WordPress to be able to use it as a light-weight Content Management System (CMS). The horizontal tabbed navigation was a pain in the ass as well—the UI “improvement” the previous releases supposedly aimed for didn’t really improve things, but made finding things worse when they combined stuff. The ways things were categorized into links before gave us a headache when training clients—you could easily make a mistake creating a new “Post” instead of a “Page.”

With the 2.7 release, things are organized better. And honestly, I’ve always preferred vertical navigation for apps that have a lot of links. It’ll probably take me a few days to get used to this new interface. After all, I’ve been able to adapt to the previous releases’ jumbled up UI—it’s been like a necessary evil I had to live with. But I don’t think that would be much of a problem, since the interface looks awesome anyway :)

Performance-wise, I haven’t really tested it much so I can’t say at the moment if there are any improvements on that aspect or not.

Well, let’s see. For now, I’ll enjoy the new UI :)

You can download the latest version of WordPress from the Download section of their website. Enjoy!

I have! :) With the help of my younger sister Joyce, of course. Serious bonding time between me and my sis :)

Ever since we moved to this new house, we had more space for decors like a 6-foot Christmas tree. The dogs no longer have the run of the house, so Marc allowed me to buy a tree that would be the centerpiece of our living room. Continue reading this entry…

I‘m probably one of the last (if not the last) to announce my winner for the Bratpack Bag Diaries contest. Sorry about that, but I really had to think it through. My husband and I were at deadlock with two entries—he really liked one, but I liked another—we just couldn’t decide which of our two favorites to award.

After arguing our sides, we finally reached a decision. The winner of that nifty Hedgren bag is… Continue reading this entry…

After three nights and four days living a slow and relaxing pace in Batanes, I’m back to reality. Well, sort of. My mind is still floating with Batanes’ rolling hills and breath-taking scenes. I still find it hard to believe that just yesterday, my husband Marc and I were having breakfast in Batanes with Nina, Melo, Eric, Karla and Dino.

View from Racuh A Payaman, Batan’s “Marlboro Hills”

I’m still shifting through my 3 gigabytes of photos and organizing them into collections, but here are some shots so you could understand why my head is still in the clouds :P Continue reading this entry…

My husband Marc and I made a promise: we’ll take a year or two exploring the country before really settling down and expanding our family (which basically just consists of me, him, and our spoiled little Shih Tzu). You see, being the apple of my dad’s eye, I haven’t really traveled much before I got married. He wasn’t a strict dad, but he gets paranoid with worry whenever I brought up the idea of traveling alone with my friends. I wasn’t a rebellious kid, and I understood (I’d probably worry about my kid too if I was in his place), so I just waited until I got married and my dad can’t complain anymore about us traveling all the time since my husband is around to take care of me anyway :P

In a span of one year, Marc and I have traveled quite often. Probably more often than I ever did during my teenage years :D Juggling such travels with work makes it even more exciting—keeping us sane and inspired since we don’t get cooped up in our home office far too long. One of the Philippine destinations I’ve wanted to visit is Batanes. Continue reading this entry…

It’s simple. Just think of the most unique experience you ever had with your bag and send it to me by…

1. … leaving a comment with your story on this entry
2. … emailing me your answer through kutitots (at) gmail (dot) com or using my contact form.
3. … creating a blog post and sending me a link or a trackback by linking to this post.

Deadline for Submission of Entries is until November 14, 2008.

The most unique bag story wins a HEDGREN BAG! :)
What’s a Hedgren? “A bag intended for the young female urban achiever. Hedgren bags manifests that real style never shouts.”

Winners may claim their prizes at GeiserMaclang (c/o Arbee Panga) Unit 7C, 114 Tuscan Bldg., V. A Rufino St., Legaspi Village , Makati City Tel: 812.8828/ 812.9199, 0917.605.8122.

Still not yet sure what to write? Hang on, allow me to share with you my own bag story :) Continue reading this entry…