Can Park Ji Min, dubbed as South Korea’s “Adele”, sound exactly the same as Adele?

You may be surprised. Listen to her rendition of “Rolling in the Deep” below.

I would have thought her Korean accent would affect the way she sang but, wow, looks like she memorized every note and nuance of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep”! Well done!

Ok now somebody get her something original.

Facebook recently rolled out Facebook Timeline and made it the default profile for all users. Understandably a lot of people have switched from the old profile to the new one, but I am betting some of you are regretting this switch.

If you want to go back to using the old profile, you can try the tutorial below.

Good luck!

I’m looking for eyelash growth products reviews. I kind of want to try it out.

Why? Well, the things Gim tells me about his work… He works as an ear-nose-throat surgery resident. Basically, rhinoplasty and facelifts and cheek implants and dimple surgery and cleft chin surgery and yes, eyelash implant surgery, are in his domain. So I got interested. Since he told me that it’s such a common thing to prettify one’s face these days. Even some of the residents in his team have already had themselves prettified.

I’m not saying I’m not happy with my face. I do love my face. Haha. Not to be narcissistic but it’s a very fine looking face. It’s just my eyelashes, I wish they were longer. My eyelashes are weird in that they don’t curve upwards but curve downwards so my lashes kinda cover my eyes. Bummer, huh? Gim says there is some soft of procedure to grow them out and make they curve upwards.

Why don’t I just try a lash curler? Yeah, tried those. Lasted only five minutes before they went back to normal!

Let me do a bit more reading before I decide on the next best thing…

Gim and I were malling earlier and watched some trade show displays. It reminded me of some things I’ve wanted to buy for some time.

One is a 32-inch TV. I’ve wanted to buy that for quite a time but there are things to consider. One is that I’m living in a rented space, and it’s not exactly easy to wall mount a television set. I’d have to consider that I would be moving it after a few months. Another thing is that if I get a TV, I also need to get cable subscription. And there is usually a lock in period of about a year. That means I would have to commit to staying in my place for at least a year more, which at this point, is not really a commitment I would like to make. Lastly, will this TV be really useful for me and Gim? Gim is often out of the house so he would hardly use it, while I am so content already with my laptop that I’m not sure I would use it much either.

Hmm… maybe the moment isn’t right for a TV. But it will be, someday.

Talking with my friends some days ago, I’ve realized maybe I need mortgage life insurance.

It’s never entered my mind to buy stocks or do time-deposits… I guess my excuse has always been that, well, I need the money I make. I don’t exactly have anything much to save. But then here are my friends who now have lots in their name, stocks, bonds, they’ve got insurance or at least savings in the bank. And it’s leaving me feeling quite vulnerable.

I think it’s about time I spoke to a wealth manager and decided to start making investments. At least 20% of your salary should go into savings, so they say. I just need to learn more about finances.

Wish me luck!

Brr!! It is cold right now. I think I need a rheem heat pump in my bedroom!

Well it’s not exactly due to the changing weather. It’s more of my boyfriend’s obsession with using the airconditioner! One difference I’ve realized is that women are generally colder than men. Okay maybe I’m generalizing. Fine, *I* often feel colder than *him*.

When I lay on the bed and sleep, I prefer just a fan to cool me off. Anything more and I can’t go to sleep. He, meanwhile, needs the aircon at its strongest, otherwise he sweats and can’t sleep. As you can see, we have trouble agreeing on the perfect temperature.

In the future, I’ve told him, we are going to definitely sleep in separate rooms! Or else he has to learn how to sleep in a WARM bed!!!

After the ordeal of the last few days, I don’t think I need any opiate detox treatment. What I DO need is some stress detox! I need a vacation!!!

And since it’s cold these days, all I can think of is going to Baguio!! I’d like to pick some strawberries and have some ube jam and stroll along Burnham Park… just maybe a day in Baguio would be great!! And then bring home lots of good food.

Which is exactly the opposite of what my friend Jeff wanted to go there for. He wanted to go to a bar and drink and smoke… Okay. I think he has been Manila-ized already!!!

So, I am not sure who I am going with. It’s probably not going to be Gim because he is too busy. But for sure, someone. It’s cold! I want to go to Baguio!

I hope you had your holiday gift baskets delivered in time for the holiday season last year. I read a lot of horror stories about packages that were delivered too late for Christmas, or gifts that never made it to the receiver at all, and a whole lot of broken hearts all in all.

A sweet story I read was about a little girl, all she ever wanted for Christmas was a ballerina music box. You know, you open it up and there’s one or two ballerinas inside, and a floor mirror, and you put the ballerinas on the magnetized mirror and they dance around while the music plays… Anyway, her mom ordered one for her but it was delivered to the wrong address, and the horrible people accepted it!! So she sent in a postcard to this popular website Post Secret and instantly a very kindhearted samaritan decided to contact Post Secret to send another ballerina box to the little girl. And the little girl got it, just in time for Christmas.

Sweet, huh?!?

I had a music box like that when I was a child. It’s one of the few toys that I remember well, and how I loved it. I hope I will remember to buy something like that for my future babies too.

I can’t believe why riding helmets cost so much. When Gim and I went home last month, we found our old helmets really too dirty to wear anymore, having been left gathering dust for more than half a year already.

We wanted to buy new ones but they were upwards of a thousand pesos. So not worth it, especially as we were only going to use them for a week. So we ended up using regular helmets – you know – the ones carpenters wear. Hahaha. We just took it real careful on the streets to make sure we didn’t end up NEEDING those helmets, because I sure don’t know how well they’d hold up in an accident.

Good thing the one week we had went without incident. One week of use for our trusty old motorcycle Sebastian, after leaving him rusting for 6 months. We didn’t want to do that again, so we left Bastian with Gim’s brothers, in the hope that he will used every so often, and also that we’ll be able to sell him off to a more deserving owner.

But what to use next time we go home? I guess we’ll have to content ourselves with public transportation!

So I think I need to get myself a yoga mat! One of my new year’s resolutions is to get healthy! I am serious!!!!

So serious that I got myself a gym membership. Tee hee. Okay so I didn’t get a NEW one, I just saved someone else from her own membership. That means I got online, found someone who no longer wanted to pay gym fees but still had to since she was under contract and so was willing to shoulder the transfer fee, met her at her gym branch, and closed the transaction! Simple! I can’t believe how simple it was. And I did not have to pay any admin or first-timer or whatever fees, I just started paying the monthly bills which was a bit steep but I’m willing to pay, maybe it will motivate me more! Hahaha. Gosh I do hope.

Okay, so, so far in January I have gone to the gym a total of… ONE TIME! Hahaha. Okay so I’m not off to the best start. But to be fair, I *am* pretty busy during the first week of every month since it’s the most hectic time at work completing all the monthly reports, and during the second week I got food poisoning.

I’ve still got two more months to make up, right??? Wish me luck!!!