June 2012
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Alessi Likes CMG Philippines
Photos from CMG Philippine’s Facebook page
It’s like a fashion blogger conspiracy. CMG Philippines sends out a pair or two of these lovely babies to all of Manila’s top fashion bloggers, bringing about a slew of blog posts, instagram photos, and tweets about these color block shoes that aren’t even in stores yet! Way to go CMG, I must say that is some very...
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Alessi Likes Lana Del Rey
This is a Lana Del Rey appreciation post, as I’ve learned to appreciate Lana Del Rey only recently *LOL*
Unlike the rest of the world who has taken to Lana Del Rey’s melancholy screenplay-like music a while back (like August last year), I was too busy avoiding the “Blue Jeans” outbreak that has spread at Hype Machine. It just wasn’t my thing back then; I initially...
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Alessi Likes Sparkling Magazine Spring 2012...
These are so cute. Solid mustard over Hawaiian print? Coolbeans! That sweater in the second photo somehow makes me reconsider tacky Versace-ish rich grandma prints. Peach and mint? Also a good combo. And that parka over the dress with sneakers, Sketchers in fact, totes adorbs. Couldn’t resist posting!
Sparkling Magazine Spring 2012 Airport Fashion Photography BJ Pascual ...
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Alessi Likes Japanese Magazines
The measure by which Japanese magazines push versatility is remarkable. I don’t know, they have their own fashion bubble down there. It’s so separate from the trends the rest of the world is following, it’s very miss-matched and cluttered, but at the same time it works. I don’t even care if they’re behind or a step forward in terms of trends; Japanese magazines help...
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Alessi Likes Asian Bloggers
I love love loooove reading Asian blogs for many reasons. Asian bloggers are totally unpretentious. You won’t get that arrogant air when reading their blog posts. They’re raw, honest, and a tad bit tactless, but I guess that only adds to their charm. They generously share their beauty secrets and candidly open up about bad days, the down sides of being unemployed, and the secrets to...
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Alessi Likes to Blog (Thought Swimming)
On Oversharing Online
I think there’s a fine line between sharing your thoughts and being too personal online. Sometimes I’m too scared to voice out my personal opinions when they aren’t called for, or when I see them inappropriate. I have to admit, I have one or two unsavory blog posts lurking in my drafts folder. I write them because I need to vent, but I don’t think...
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Alessi Likes The MEG Magazine 14th Anniversary...
Wednesday finally got her lazy ass off the bed and uploaded our photos from the MEG 14th anniversary party. It honestly astounds me that MEG magazine is one of the few magazines out there that has survived through the years. Badass status! I practically grew up with it, and it has sure switched it up in so many ways. The night was nothing short of awesome, as MEG magazine celebrated its 14 years...
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Alessi Likes Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2012
I don’t care if I’m one million years late, the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2012 collection will look cute forever.
The colossal exaggerated eyelet details. Those collars *massive drool*
This is the cutest ad campaign I’ve seen in a while. Totes adorbs!
I’m starting to understand the peg: Gossip Girl! Haha! Am I right?
I think I am, they look like...
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Alessi Likes H&M Spring Summer 2012
photos from marieclaire.co.uk
Yum Yum in my tum. H&M’s Spring Summer 2012 collection is a cute mix of rich satin and spandex in sorbet shades, with deep maroon to cut across and give it some bite, and some fabric in a flattering shade of gold dust reminiscent of upholstery to wrap it up. It’s making me reconsider plum lipstick. It’s not that bad pala. That spandex...
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Alessi Likes Miley Cyrus Slutty Peg
I WILL NOT DENY IT. I am sooo into Miley Cyrus’ slutty pegs these days. It’s very American Apparel-ish. Super understated but super hottt.
No wonder! She shops there. *jelly*
Good on you Miley! You look so fresh I made a collage of your outfits. I’m making this my new peg for the next forever. So appropriate for Philippine weather.
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Alessi Likes Father's Day
I have finally done some good in this world and have made father’s day a happy one for my daddy. I feel so accomplished!
Mummy and daddey
My parents are so crazy skeptical about my WheninManila.com assignments, going on about how much time I waste in front of the lappy and stuff, so I thought that the perfect way for them to know more about it is to invite them along on one of my...
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Alessi Likes 2011 Playlist
Rough day today, so I’ll just post a happy playlist of all the awesome songs I’ve discovered last year. 2011 was such a gem, collected dozens of nice songs and nice memories throughout the year.
2011 by Alessi Brugada on Grooveshark
Despite my chronic negativity and lucklessness, I shall try my best to be positive about everything happening. I shall instead treat myself to a nice...
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Alessi Likes Ash and Trix!
It is now 1:20am. I am tired as fuck, my eyes are begging to be shut, and I have to wake up early tomorrow for an 8am activity; yet right now I am still awake typing this post furiously in front of the laptop because I LIKE TO BLOG SO MUCH. The weekend was entirely wonderful and very productive (actually a little to productive for my taste, but whatever, I like being productive.) Saturday night...
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Alessi Likes to Build a Dream House (ver. 2.0)
My future house will have badass iron-frame beds
It’ll have awesome white wooden floors and distressed wood furniture
It’ll have canopies and lots of windows
It’ll have a badass living room with a high ceiling, white couches and iron railings on the staircase
It’ll have a very rustic-looking kitchen and a smeg fridge woo
And it’ll have the cutest...
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Alessi Likes to Celebrate Father's Day at the...
When in Manila and thinking of the perfect way to spend Father’s Day, why not visit theAscott Makati and treat the most important man in your life to a relaxing stay at one of their luxurious suites? You can avail of Ascott Makati‘s one-bedroom suite at the special price of PHP8,195nett! And for an additional PHP471 you can even upgrade to a two-bedroom delux suite. Surely sounds like a treat for...
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Alessi Likes Uniqlo Manila
I feel like a very lucky girl this week, cause I got to get an exclusive first look at the new Uniqlo Manila flagship store at SM MOA before it even opened today! It all started from my inherent greed for WheninManila.com features. When we were asked who wanted to get invitations to Uniqlo’s pre-launch party, I figuratively pounced on the opportunity and speed-typed an email message saying...
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Alessi Likes Yummy Eats 2012 (a photo dump)
I finally got hold of Hannah’s photos of the Yummy Eats 2012 food fair and I knew I had to make a feature about it even if it’s two weeks late! The photos were just too pretty (and yummy LOL) to waste! Here’s the link to my feature about it, which I had so much fun writing, cause it’s more fun to write about food LOL.
And here are the much-awaited photos! Nom nom reliving...
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The People You Will Fall In Love With In Your 20s
“You will fall in love with someone who annoys you, whose orgasm face looks and feels pathetic. Despite all of this, there’s something keeping you drawn to them, something that makes you want to protect them from the harsh world. What you fail to realize, however, is that you are the harsh world. You aren’t their noble protector — you are someone to be protected from but it takes a lot of...
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Alessi Likes the Skye Lounge
So last Saturday, after a night of utter stress and endless persuation, I brought three of my pretty girlies over to the Skye Lounge at the Fort BGC for a When in Manila feature. The place was packed! Filled with fancy-dressed-to-impress young folk and raging hormones LOL. And the view was fan-effing-tastic. The Skye lounge sure lives up to all the hype. We were given a bottle, two carafes of...
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Alessi Likes the Pacquiao-Bradley Fight in Tweets
The whole world stops when a Pacquiao fight goes on. The crime rate plummets and the streets are miraculously free of traffic. Everyone gathers in their homes or at courts to watch Manny Pacquaio beat them bitches up one after another. You can say it’s a unifying event for the nation.
I witnessed the game myself…on Twitter! It seems like everyone has something to say about the fight,...
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Alessi Does Not Like Her Period (A Day with My...
period: WAKE UP ASSHOLE, ITS 6 a.m. AND YOU GOT CRAMPS.
period: How 'bout an entire chocolate cake for breakfast?
period: How's that back pain? Feeling better? Let's fix that.
period: Text from lover saying "hi". Instantly. horny.
period: Find a chocolate chip cookie as big as a house and eat it.
period: Oh, you wanted to be productive? But you're still sooo horny...
period: Got things to do? Don't care. Sleep.
period: For dinner you're eating an entire bag of Snickers.
period: Breeze blows by. Girl boners, girl boners.
period: You didn't happen to like those brand new underwear... did u?
period: Yell at a puppy or two.
period: Close eyes and repeat tomorrow.
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Alessi Likes STYLENANDA
STYLENANDA is a Korean online shop. It’s sort of like the NASTY GAL of Asia, but cooler, cause Asians are always cooler *biased* I discovered it on Instagram, and I liked ALL the pegs I saw. I seriously spent all afternoon looking at photo after photo, so you can say my afternoon was quite productive wtf. So after oggling at over 900 (wtf) photos, I narrowed it down to 32 (wtfffff) photos...
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Experiencing a Patient's Death
It was an odd, unsettling numbness. I was frozen, composed - mainly for the lack of a better response to the situation. I struggled to take it all in, yet I did so complacently. It just bewildered me that my patient was alive and breathing one minute, and lifeless the next. I was emotionless. I felt neither sadness nor grief. In hindsight, I guess I felt this way because I was so taken aback at...
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Alessi Likes Cheesy Folk Music
Cheesy Folk Songs by Alessi Brugada on Grooveshark
I never realized how much I love folksy acoustic guitar-laden songs until I saw (heard?) how many songs I listen to actually sounded the same. Here’s my ever growing collection of songs of the cheesy folk variety. I don’t even know what genre these songs fall under so I just made up my own wtf. Featuring The Walkmen, Josh Pyke, Bon...
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Alessi Likes Preggy Style
Daaaaamn Kristin Cavallari how do you make being preggers look so damn chic. Key adjectives that come to mind include: basic, casual, cool, flattering, and awesome. You might be a pregnant bitch, but at least you’re a very well dressed pregnant bitch. Because of that I’ve made a blog post about you.
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Alessi Likes Aerobics
I’m totally feeling the 80’s/pastel spandex/leg warmers/head band vibes of this aerobics video. Jane Fonda is the shit. Wavy hair gold accessories spandex flexible shit.
So inspired I made a collage out of spandex WTF
80’s aerobics videos might sound too weird for daily life, so to help you understand, I’ll let you know what I’ve been up to lately:
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Alessi Likes Cake Pops
OMG. Cake pops are the greatest invention ever (next to cake). It’s this ingenious creation that takes something ordinary (lollipop) and makes it extraordinary (cake). And the best part is there are no-bake fridge cake pop recipes available! I got the recipe from a torn magazine page of Yummy, and I am so eager to try it out soon. For the meantime, I’ve made this cute little collage...
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Alessi Likes Floral .gifs
These are .gifs and they are supposed to be moving. As I’m making this post the photos aren’t acting out the little tonic clonic twitches they did when I downloaded them, as if they’ve run out of batteries. Anyway, I find this such a refreshing mix of pearls and florals. The saccharine touches of pastels, how the pearls are so perfectly placed, the floral pattern that looks...
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Alessi Likes Lavender Eye Shadow
This is another useless make-up post by someone who doesn’t know how to put on make-up wtf. I’m just very proud of my collage-making-photoshop-manipulating skillz.
These lavender eyes really are something. I find them so edgy and pristine at the same time. Maybe I’ll try this out when I muster enough courage to actually put on eye make-up, cause I find doing so to be such a...
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Alessi Likes The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower trailer is OUTTTTT OMG OMG OMG. It gave me goosebumps while watching. It actually quoted lines from the awesome Chbosky novel. It had some very interesting folksy indie background music which I am so excited to download. It had Emma Watson. I want to watch it NOW.
I remember reading the book last year while struggling to review for my Nurses’ Licensure...
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Alessi Likes the Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides has got to be one of my most favorite movies of all time. The book was a work of art, and so was the movie. Everyone might know of the movie now, but when I discovered it (and the book) back in 2007 it was like a little secret I kept with the few who saw it. It was dreamy on a darker level. And it was a damn photogenic movie, every screen shot made a beautiful photo....
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Alessi Likes Call Me Maybe Parodies
As I’ve guessed you’ve probably already seen the totes adorbs parody of Manila’s It Girls to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” the song that has a way of getting stuck on everyone’s heads now. If you haven’t well here’s the video.
Now I present to you a parody to that parody, put together by my charming college friends who have nothing...
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Alessi would Like a Guide to Being Happy
1. Lower expectations - I’m not saying that it’s bad to expect at all. It’s just that if you don’t want to get disappointed, lower down your expectations. “Oh it’s better than what I expected” moments are better than being disappointed, right?
2. Take a walk - Or you can also work out! I honestly love sweating and trust me, you’ll feel better after a brisk walk or a run. When you workout, you...
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Alessi Likes Aly!
Last weekend the girls and I celebrated Aly’s birthday. She’s one of the nicest, sweetest, and outright girly girls I know. I’m glad she had fun on her special day. It was nice to see them bitches again :)
Us girls have a bad case of chronic lateness. We plan on meeting at 7:30pm, and show up a good 3 hours later. How’s that for fashionably late. Getting to the...
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Alessi Likes May
May has been nothing but wonderful, come to think of it. I’m learning to handle things the way a big girl should, steadfast and composed. I’m still bitchy and impatient, and still excessively pessimistic, but that’s just who I am, I’m finding my way around it. There’s always room for improvement.
I’ve come to appreciate the value of self-pampering. I’ve...
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Alessi Likes Bed Weather
Yesterday’s weather was one of those very rare occurrences in Philippine climate. It was oddly chilly. Yaaaayyy! Bed/sweater weather is my favorite kind of weather. It calls for lounging in bed wearing yesterday’s clothes, delaying a shower (doing anything productive for that matter), and sleeping in. What a pleasant Saturday. I’d hope the weather was like this all year round....
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Alessi Likes the New iPad
So last Tuesday, after another long day of duty, I dragged my tired ass out of bed and met up with Wens to attend Globe Tattoo’s launch of the new iPad. It was a very fancy schmancy event at the Philippine Stock Exchange Plaza, and we were best in underdessed LOL everyone looked damn put together! Wens and I had fun people-watching, eating out of every entree tray that came our way, and...
