Laoag na ma-stress sa APEC! Book online instead!

The APEC Summit creates a four-day holiday for the tenants of Metro Manila. Flights are being cancelled and the flow of traffic is expected to thicken within the city as main roads are scheduled to be closed for this congregation, If you’re still thinking about what to do over this long weekend, this hiatus can be best maximized with an out-of-town road trip/adventure to places like Vigan or Laoag.

Laoag na ma-stress as there’s no need to line up at bus terminals or commit to a long drive in order to reach these distantly beautiful destinations. Biyaheroes has partnered up with Partas Transportin order to provide a seamless online reservations system that lets you book and even choose your bus seats online! Offering Express First Class Vigan/Laoag and Pasay/Cubao routes, this cuts your travel time by up to four hours as there is only one stopover and no passenger pick-ups will be done along roads.

You can book your seats roundtrip,and via Dragonpay, you can settle payment in major banks (whether it’s online or over the counter), payment partners such as Bayad Center, Cebuana Lhullier, LBC, SM Bills Payment, and other popular options found nationwide.

Online reservations have a 2-day cut-off and a fixed 10% extra service charge per booking or P50 for bookings P500 and below. This gives you Biyaheroes points, cool freebies, and the convenience of booking and paying anywhere for the guaranteed seats of your choice. Book directly at the Biyaheroes website and enjoy this provincial commute easily for this holiday.

Save your energy for exploring! Unwind in the countryside and get to know the Philippines better with historical destinations, awesome food trips, and beautiful sceneries from Vigan and Laoag.

Biyahe na, biyaHEROES!

Blogapalooza: All About The Panda, FOODPANDA

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I love pandas! Aside from the fact that he's Asian, he's white, he's black, he is chubby too! Talk about having NO favoritism! Just like for food, who says I have favorites? As long as it's edible, it's good! Let's do some Math! Let's add one of the things I love about China (Panda) and my favorite hobby (eating), what do you get? Foodpanda!!!

Foodpanda? If you haven't got a clue yet, this kind of panda is a master of art, the art of eating! It is the leading global online food ordering marketplace that lets their hungry customers conveniently discover what is edible-available out there and directly order their cravings online or via smartphones. See? Another reason why phones aren't just swag, they're a necessity nowadays, but that's another story.

Moving on, Foodpanda was founded in may 2002 at the always-hungry-but-too-busy-to-eat-out-or-cook headquarter in Berlin, Germany and has operated in more than 40 countries across the 5 continents. Oh, this panda is busy conquering the world! Locally, Foodpanda here in the Philippines is still a cub. Launched last June 2014, the hungry cub of a panda grown to over 1000 restaurants nationwide! Foodpanda is part of the German group called Rocket Internet - a platform that identifies and builds internet business models such as Lazada and Zalora. This panda is not just a foodie, but a techy too!

How does it work? Search. Choose. Pay. Enjoy!

Hungry customers simply need to download the foodpanda app from the App Store or Google Play. Or if you don't have enough space on your smartphones, just log on to www.foodpanda.ph, enter your location and select the restaurant that serves your cravings! Once you finalize your order and the transaction is completed, foodpanda sends the order information to the restaurant, and upon confirmation of the merchant, notifies the customer that the order is on its way- to your belly. Foodpanda is recently colonized Cebu aside from major cities in the metro including Las Pinas, Makati, Mandaluyong, Paranaque, Pasay, Pasig, Rizal and Taguig. It's arms are ready to expand its service to deliver good food fast and fresh to more hungry pinoys!

Feeling Japanese? Get the chopsticks ready as the foodpanda offers a wide variety of cuisines, ranging from American, Asian, Filipino, Greek, Mexican and Middle Eastern among others while making sure that the best restaurants and food brands out there didn't miss to hop on board!

Why not like, but LOVE the Foodpanda? Restaurant partners are able to reach more customers with the help of this generous Foodpanda's delivery service and online visibility.

Did I mention that this panda is not just a foodie, but a techy too! Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

TCAT Philippines Haul

This post is 6months late, but doesn't matter - better to be late than never! :P

Anyways, these are what we got from our first online shopping with Tcat Philippines! And sadly, I think this would be our last. :I

An HL & Rich 4.0 Android Tablet, 3 Y-Pad English computer 2 in blue and 1 in pink and a white hanging jewelry organizer!

Y-Pad English Computers are just in time for my nephew - LJ, niece - A and my baby JC.

Babe loves it but I personally hate it. It's disappointing! The site has very deceiving "photos". It is as if, the item is sophisticatedly made from quality materials, not made of cheap looking plastic. The was below "ok" and it is operated by 4 AA batteries - mind you, it consumes the juice faster than it looks to be. The display is a cheap blurry print, The price is so very wrong!!! Tcat Philippines claimed it to be around Php900 and slashing off more than 50%, selling it for only Php399.00 Thought it was a steal at first so I grabbed 3. And as it is, it is not. I just so happen that kids aren't choosy, and he even wants to keep the box because he thinks it part of his playtoy...

The worse part is, after having these y-pads, I saw Deal Grocer selling this for only Php150.00!!! Whut!

Sadly, this is also overpriced! I saw a "sturdier" version of this at the local market for only P100.00! Think about Tcat Philippines selling this on a discounted price of Php139.00! lol Cheap find! Yeah, right! >:(

my jewelry organizer is still fine being my makeup stash  ‪#‎share‬ from Camera360#

The Jewelry Organizer (Php139.00) is fine except that I had to put something on its sleeve to avoid hunchback! Can you spot that? That's a recycled piece of babe's playtoy! :S

Got the YPad for 399php each, Android Tablet for 3777php (will do a separate blogpost about this soon) and organizer for 139php for a total of 8113.00 + the shipping fee! According to their site I saved 6236.00! Cool huh?

But why after getting the items did i feel betrayed and fooled?

First off, Tcat Philippines prices are way way way over to the top!

Ypad at department stores were like a 150 a piece! Really felt horrible!

The organizer is only 80-100php only! I felt i was robbed! and still is!

Learned my lessons the hard way:

- before buying "sale" items online make sure it is not available on your local store and/or not cheaper (well I know it somewhat "defeat" the purpose of shopping online and/so...)

-if you can't afford to stroll downtown to check things out, then browse other online shops and compare prices including shipping fees! Other shops online delivers free if you're in the metro or becomes free when you reach a certain amount.

-use coupons, discount codes and always watch out for sales. Online shops have more frequent sales than physical stores.

I'll try shopping on cash cash pinoy, deal grocer, zalora and lazada. :) I will never ever be going back to Tcat ever!

Do you have bad experience on shopping online? Any other trusted online shops you wanna recommend? Comment on the section bar below.

TCAT Philippines Haul

This is my first ever Tcat Philippines online transaction! :D It goes on smoothly, the staff are great and very friendly too. I called for the reservation of the items but their first number was residential :3 and I hope they already did something about that. So, I recommend calling the last two hotlines posted on their Facebook page instead. Moving on here are the things that I got!

Rich & HL Android Tablet, a Hanging Jewelry Organizer and 3 Y-Pad for niece, nephew and son. Watch out for my in-depth reviews on these, specially the Y-Pad. If you are planning to buy this, hold your horses! Ha! Now I'm giving you an obvious clue! The Jewelry Organizer is fine except that I had to put something on its sleeve to avoid hunchback! :S

That's it for now. Are you planning to buy cheap tablets too? Then, keep your eyes peeled! :P

My ZALORA Wishlist!

There are times when shopping online gives me more convenience like when I can't get a goodnight sleep and I wanna do my shopping or see a catalog, all I have to do is get online! :D

Just like at Zalora.com.ph! It's an online fashion retailer here in the Philippines that offers major fashion brands from international and local suppliers, distributors, retailers and companies which caters different products for all, women, men and kids! :D Things are getting more exciting! 'Cause when you register online you'll gonna get a Php250.00 discount as a welcome gift plus, if you subscribe to their newsletter, you'll get another Php250.00 rebate, that's a total of Php500.00 off!  Online shopping gives better prices too since SALE is always IN, plus, the variety of choices are amazing wide! A-mazing! I know! :D

Why tired yourself with traffic and crowded malls especially during holidays (when the crowd can give you headache, forces you to do a hurried shopping which in the end will give you more problems, like finding a parking space, skin-to-skin contact with skin-infected-bad-smelling shoppers(let's face it, it happens!), walk loaded with shopping bags (snatch-risky) and sometimes WRONG items bought or less quality because of lack of choices! SMH tsk tsk) when Zalora offers free door to door shipping nationwide! When you wont make it to a special occasions, now there's no more excuses for not sending gifts! And if your like me, who loves to surprise my loved ones with unexpected gifts, you'll gonna abuse the free shipping! hehe Since no matter where they are, they'll gonna get it!

If your still in doubt, or if its your first time to shop online, you'll gonna feel at ease because Zalora is a secured website and offers 30 days return, same day delivery in Metro Manila area and COD (cash on delivery) services! No worries since you could track down your items and ask queries just by calling their hotline (02) 513-03-73 or send an e-mail at customer@zalora.com.ph.

If ever I'll get the chance to splurge on shopping, it would be online at Zalora! Why, conventional shopping makes me spend a lot more than whats on my budget, like eating out, car gas and impulsive shopping (talented salesladies and SALES always get me)! My eyes are on XOXO, 5CM, Gibi and The Little Things She Needs! :D

After browing the site, here is my Zalora shopping wishlist:

That's it! It took me several browsing hours to choose, check the site to know why! :D If you're wondering about my choices, like I said  I wanna share things with my love-ones, even in dreams and wishes. <3 <3 <3

Your favorite brands under one roof at ZALORA Philippines.

It's easy, convenient, secure and safe.

Online Game: Sorority Life

When I was a child, I used to play paper dolls with different kind of cut-out clothes...

just like these :)

Well, I find an online game that basically looks like these but obviously with more features! :D I love to dress up the little me! hehehe

The name of the game...

so girly, right?

Here are the major things of the game:

Socialize, Style, Job and Glam

Socialize: There are different events to organize, which will give the player and her house some influence, earn some cash and get some glam. Plus, when you reach different levels it will unlock new outfits, new events, jobs and sometimes some brownie points that can be used to buy special glam that can't be bought by cash alone.. :)

socialize tab

Style: The glam you get in socializing are collected and can be used to dress up the little you! :D  You get to choose your skin-tone,  accessories which includes hair, eyewear, shoes, neckwear, bracelets, tights, pets and extras like bags, key chains, cellphones, etc. its endless! :D Clothing is categorized from casual wear, cocktail, formal, costume and athletic! The things in this sections are from latest fashion finds to surreal things! And its cute! ;P

Strut your stuff, other players even not your sisters could vote for your fab look!

strut your stuff

walk off

Ask your sisters to vote for your one on one show down on the cat walk! :) and brag about your brownie point glam by joining the

costume contest tab

Job: Each clothes have popularity and charm rate. :) And of course, it must have an upkeep, that you should compensate with cash that socializing cannot cover. Seriously, you must have a job! LoL

Here's an SL tip: Earn a regular income by taking a job in your spare time. Hot Tip: greater influence means better job opportunities!

Glam: here is where you can buy rides and boys! LOL It's like an online shopping for your virtual cash and brownie points. There are the basics that equals cash and there are the Latest Style and Vintage Boutique that can only be bought by brownie points. So collect brownie points, ok? :)

The more popularity ans charm you've got, the better you'll do in fight, and higher gratitude in the burnlist! :D

fight tab

There's a lot more to the game! Like the Swag that contain goodies, essentials, trinkets and vanities. I love the trip abroad, not just because of the cute graphics but because I've learned about the place myself while playing! The design internship, stealing of sweethearts and having online friends! :D

The game is continuing to improve and it's getting more complicated, in a good way :P It's endless!

Have you tried SL before? :)