Selecta Hershey's Heath Ice Cream Surprise

Last week I joined Patty Laurel's blog promo for Selecta Hershey's Heath Ice Cream Surprise.  The mechanics of the promo were the following:  write in three sentences the story of the person who inspires you the most, and you think deserves the ice cream surprise, then write the name of that person and his/her address as well as the time when it will be delivered.

My father is the first person that came into my mind upon reading the instructions, and I know that he will be surprised if he received the Selecta Hershey's Heath Ice Cream because he loves ice cream. Remember in my post last September that he and I bonded over ice cream at an ice cream parlor near our house.

Contests or promos are never my thing. I never win anything; except for the one time in grade school when my name was called out to win three big cans of Ovaltine from a raffle. But then I still joined the promo knowing that I will not lose anything by joining.

So I excitedly checked my email to see if I win early Monday morning because that was my preferred date of delivery, only to be left disappointed. I told myself" you really never win any promo." Oh well, it was a good try though.

Then I get a big sweet surprise when I received an email last Wednesday from Selecta telling me that there has been some problem with their logistics but that they will be delivering the ice cream soon.

Yehey!!! Free ice cream baby!!!

Last Thursday, a Selecta ice cream truck came to our house and brought this to my father:

two 1.5 Liter of delicious Hershey's Heath Ice Cream

And my father loved it. He had two servings of this as soon as it got delivered. He did not wait for me any more to be home from the office.:) But more than the ice cream which he really loves, I guess he was happy because I told him that I win it for him because he's the number one inspiration of my life.

My father is my hero because he has been a mother and a father to me and my siblings since my mom passed away fifteen years ago. He never tires of taking care of us, and he prepares the best baon for work in the world for me everyday.

Hershey's Heath ice cream is divine. Why wouldn't it be?  It's made by Selecta. It's vanilla ice cream  loaded with yummy Hershey's Heath English toffee chunks and lots and lots of chocolate syrup :) How's that for an ice cream.

I got two of this for dessert last night. But who can resist an ice cream this good? 

Thank you Ms Patty Laurel and thank you Selecta for the sweet ice cream surprise!

Hair Loss Problem

Christmas is just around the corner. Have you completed buying gifts for the people in your Christmas wish list?  Being out of budget right now, I’m still waiting for my next salary to start my Christmas shopping. But despite the lack of money at the moment, I already know what to get for my loved ones except for my boyfriend.

 I am still deciding whether I am going to get him a new polo shirt, or I am going to purchase the bottle of hair loss pill that I have read about online. My boyfriend is only in his early thirties, but he already has a receding hair line. Well, it is not something surprising because most of the men from his family are bald. I have read that most men start suffering from hair loss in their thirties. I know that his receding hair line is bothering him a bit. He has become a little conscious about it.

There have been a lot of positive provillus reviews that I want to purchase it and have my boyfriend try it.

Provillus pill seems to be a safe pill because it is a natural dietary supplement, plus it is FDA approved.  I do not want my boyfriend to try a product that may be bad for his health. As much as possible, I want to help him solve his receding hair line problem naturally without having to result to surgery and hair transplant. And wearing a wig does not suit him. I hope this product works well, so that my boyfriend does not have to worry about his hair loss problem.

Although, hair loss in woman is not really common, there are still some women having this problem. It would be very hard for woman to experience it because the hair is considered the crowning glory of a woman. Provillus also has a product especially formulated for women having hair loss problems.

If you know anyone who might be suffering from hair loss problems, you may want to recommend to them Provillus, or better yet why not give them Provillus as a Christmas gift.

An Afternoon With "The Spoliarium"

I have seen "The Spoliarium" three times prior to this whole Sunday devoted to the National Arts Gallery. It's actually the main reason why I visit the National Museum.  I could practically stare at this  Juan Luna's masterpiece the whole afternoon, and I won't get tired looking at it.

At nine years old, the first time I saw it, I had this sense of pride that a Filipino artist has drawn this, and that it won the gold medal at the Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884.

The scene depicting dead gladiators being dragged to one side of the arena, reflected the abuses the Filipinos  suffered under the Spanish Colonizers.

It took another twelve years before I saw it again, and I came back a year after and just after a few months and I was back at the National Art Gallery again to visit it.  I still feel excited every time I open the door that leads to the Hall of the Masters where this painting is exhibited. It feels like finally, my eyes will get to see this national treasure again.

I know a lot of people don't get giddy with a piece of art but this painting elicits a good feeling on my part.

Because I'm not an artist, I can't imagine how Juan Luna was able to paint this huge piece of art? how he was able to balance the scale of each character drawn? and how he was able to put all those dramatic colors together. I wonder how many days did it take Juan Luna to finish this? Did he throw a lot of canvass before he was able to come out with this perfect one?

My words will always be inadequate to describe how beautiful it is, but let the pictures I took speak for how magnificent it is.  But again, my pictures will not be able to capture its beauty.  You have to see it for yourself and behold "The Spoliarium."

There's no entrance fee at The National Museum every Sunday. 

(When I visited the National Museum last 2010 picture taking was still not allowed, but when I came back last May 2011 and October 2011, digital cameras are allowed for souvenir shots at the museum.)

Still Here

Wow! Two months of no new blog posts. Honestly, I don't know what to do with this blog. A part of me wants to keep it as it is and another part that wants to change it with a new domain name.

There have been a lot of things that happened in the last two months that I want to share, but I don't know where to start.

I envy those who can write long post because I'm not like that. I feel like my creative juice gets snapped out and I ran out of words to really express what I really want.

This post don't even have a direction..... It's just to let my blogger friends know that I'm still here......And hopefully when I come back, I'll have something good to share.