“Kring, how do you keep your skin so nice and smooth?”, a colleague once asked me. I was flattered beyond belief until I realized that she has a 400/450 vision and she wasn’t wearing any glasses or contacts. I don’t have the best skin in the world but I must say it has improved A LOT from how it was about 4 years ago. No shit. My breakouts were so tragic, a zit would sprout ON a boil bigger zit and they’d have like zit conventions on my face, which resulted to ugly scars and blemishes – in the shape of the Philippine map.

So I don’t really know what that intro has to do with my entry lolz because I present to you the *points to title*. And also, I have no intentions of becoming a beauty blogger anytime soon as that actually requires knowledge of beauty products and tips and such. These are just the things I use that rock my Sponge Bob socks and I thought I might as well share ‘em.

1. Pond’s Cold Cream

You can never go wrong with this product. Generations of women have attested to the awesomeness of the Pond’s Cold Cream and in fact, I learned about it ‘coz my mom has been using it since forever. For me, it’s the best make-up and dirt remover and it’s very very affordable. If you’re also like me who does Britney Spears impersonations for a massage, you may use it for your facial massage and it really does soothe your skin. Why buy those expensive make-up removers when IMO, this is the only thing that does the trick?

FUNNY IS THE NEW SEXY IS ONE OF THE FINALISTS FOR THE BEST BLOG – VIDEOCAST/PODCAST AND PERSONAL BLOG CATEGORIES AT THE 2ND PHILIPPINE BLOG AWARDS. Should I flash my boobs now?

Anyway, the ceremony will be on Sunday, September 21 at the One Esplanade near the SM Mall of Asia. It’s supposed to be a formal event, which requires attendees to be in formal attire and such. The who’s who of the Pinoy blogosphere will surely be there and it would be interesting to see them all glammed up and posh. To be honest with you, I want to come in my leopard-print bikini top, tattered jeans and Doc Martens but I’m just not sure if they’d let me in.

When I was first asked by Juned if I can consider giving a talk for Wordcamp, I replied with “What the hell is that?” I misheard “world” for “word” and thought it was some big gathering (camping- with bonfire and shit like that) of people in an open field to protest global warming or poverty.

I later became unstupid when he explained that it’s a huge WordPress event for its users, with informative talks and fun games and shiny prizes. And who doesn’t like shiny prizes? So I said, sure, without even knowing what my topic would be. I mean, what if they had asked me to talk about CSS or plug-ins or other related stuff, what do you think would happen to me?

Fast forward to yesterday, September 6.

I went to CSB where the event was held, ready with my presentation about Video Blogging. I haven’t really done that much FunnySexy vlogs but the topic is something close to my heart because uhhh… I do videos for a living.

With AJ, who’s holding an Ernie toy lol and the awesome Blogie, one of the organizers.

So I saw a lot of friends there, some new faces but overall, ’twas a nice crowd. I was impressed by the set-up and the volunteers were very helpful (here’s a shout-out to Vince who helped me in my preparation). After the whole introduction, we were asked to go to the rooms of our chosen speakers. Of course, we went to Jayvee‘s at room 409. All 12 or so of us have been waiting there for about 15 minutes already when we were informed that we were at the wrong room. BLOOPER NUMBER 1. LOLZ.