Style Reader: 2013

New In: Japan Day 2 Goodies

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In Dog Cigar, Fashion

Japan: Day 1

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In Confessions of a Working Girl, Personal

It's about time I share with you what I have been up to lately. I have been juggling both work and play at the same time. For the past year, my routine was composed of playing Just Dance on Kinect (it served as my workout), visiting different worlds and meeting new characters through Advance Reading Copies provided by new publishers and authors, writing book reviews and posting my stops for particular blog tours I joined, and if I was able to go out, I would cover events and share outfit posts. I have gotten used to that daily dose of addictive euphoria that I was not able to imagine such a life I have now.

Like what I have shared in this post, I feel truly blessed and grateful for everything that had happened in my life towards the end of this year. It has been anything but great because aside from having an awesome job and the chance to exercise my writing and creative prowess, I was able to meet new friends that I absolutely cherish. These people made working life easier and they made me look forward to going to the office everyday. Virus have opened its doors for me and made me feel that I finally belong, to not just a group or a corporation, but a family. Enough drama and cheese. Let me tell you the highlights of my work life through this new section on my blog, Confessions of a Working Girl.

On my first day, I was able to meet my team and the other departments. I was also able to join the first Social Media team lunch and get to guess their age (I'm really sorry about this). I was also introduced to my new best friend which is this laptop I'm using. I'm expecting we will be together through thick and thin. We will endure all the content planning and social media work clients will throw at us! Towards the end of that month, luckily again, I was able to join the company dinner in Circles at Shangrila Makati. Virus had introduced me to a new work environment where nerf guns are fired to a random target named Jaba, pizza parties are seldom held (you know I'm sarcastic right? Don't get me wrong I LOVE pizzas!) and hunger can really show the worst in people. Believe me.

My day is usually consisted of content planning, checking the accounts I handle, singing some 90s tunes like we're the only people in the room, sharing memes and corny jokes that make us laugh for a while, but make Helen roll on the floor. Plus, I was able to join the annual company Christmas outing held in La Luz, Batangas (yes for the yacht life!).

Being infected by Virus is definitely a wonderful experience made more worthwhile by these crazy ones! Let's work hard and play harder! Cheers to making new memories this 2014!

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In Forever 21, Latest Hauls

New In: Chloé-inspired Boots

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In Christine S. Feldman, Cover Reveal

Cover Reveal: Love Lessons & Playing Cupid by Christine S. Feldman

Hello everyone! It's been a while since my last post. I've been busy with work and catching up with reality these days. Clearly, it's not that easy juggling both worlds at once. As much as I want to catch up with reading and with my backlogs, I have to focused on my first priority. But this doesn't mean I love reading and my blog any less.

Anyhow, here are the lovely covers of Christine Feldman's two other books, Love Lessons and Playing Cupid. I featured the first book before, Pastels & Jingle Bells, which you can read more about here.

At the Heavenly Bites Bakery, three very different women bake up delectable treats and find romance with some unexpected but equally delectable men—and just in time for the holidays!

Love Lessons (Heavenly Bites Novella #2) by Christine S. Feldman

Summary/Description:

Self-assured Nadia Normandy knows everything there is to know about men and dating, which seems to be why little old Mrs. Beasley maneuvers her into taking unsuspecting and bookish accountant Benji Garner under her wing. Her mission? Shape him up for the opposite sex, preferably in time for New Year’s Eve.

A challenge? Sure, but Nadia discovers that Benji’s got a charm all his own, and she finds herself avoiding her usual social scene in favor of time spent with him—all in the name of mentoring him, of course.

Except that after a while, it starts to feel less like mentoring and more like something else—which could present a problem, because just as Nadia begins to realize she didn’t know quite as much about men as she thought, other women are starting to notice her unlikely protégé.

Much like Nadia is beginning to notice him in a whole new way herself…

Playing Cupid (Heavenly Bites Novella #3) by Christine S. Feldman

Summary/Description:

Much as she loves her meddling matchmaker of a grandmother, free-spirited Aimee Beasley is tired of dodging the dull and downright tiresome dates the older woman keeps trying to arrange for her. So when she notices her beloved Gran preening in the presence of a distinguished elderly gentleman who’s been visiting their apartment building, Aimee is delighted at the prospect of turning the tables on her.

But her plans to match her grandmother up with the gentleman in time for Valentine’s Day hit a snag when Aimee realizes he’s the uncle of their downstairs neighbor, a stodgy thirty-something history professor named Doyle with whom she butts heads on a regular basis. She’ll need to find a way to make nice and enlist his help, or her plan to see her long-widowed Gran happily matched again will never work.

For Gran’s sake, she’s determined to find a way. In the process, she starts to realize that her cranky downstairs neighbor has a softer side she never suspected existed.