My Verbal Diarrhea: Tacloban City

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I am unabashed to say that I am one nosy lil med student!

Curiosity got the best of me ever since a chopper landed on the Romualdez compound in front of our school, the Remedios Trinidad Romualdez Medical Foundation, a few days ago. I am a small town girl so things like these always excites me!

I asked around this morning. The security guards were very helpful in providing me information.

Apparently, Kokoy Romualdez's body will be flown in around nine tomorrow morning. It will be laid on a casket nestled on the second tier of the truck you see below and will be driven around Tacloban City. a la Diana.

This truck isstill half finished. At ten tonight it will be decked with white flowers (variety yet to be confirmed tomorrow morning).

RTRMF students are required to be in school at eight am tomorrow wearing our school uniform. Our class, the Medicine 1 students, were requested to pay tribute to our schools founder.

This stands by our schools main lobby. Eating up almost 3/4 of it.

The Romualdez' compound is just across our school, and here you can see lots of violet ribbons tied on trees and on the side mirrors of their shiny cars. Do you see something different here?

A closer look after I sweet talked the guard to letting us in. Thanks Josh for tagging along with my craziness.

Yep that's a chopper there!

Poster's of 'We love you Kokoy' can be seen all around the city! Tomorrow, his body will be open to public viewing at around three on the afternoon at the Sto. Nino Church. This is immediately after my friend Lucy Yu and future Mrs. Tubio's wedding. I feel sorry for Lucy. Everything has to be sped up to accommodate Kokoy at 3.
Tomorrow, Kokoy's body will be flown back to Manila for the burial.

This is Josh posing with the chopper!

And moi who is uber satisfied with my good sleuthing skills. This chopper will take off tomorrow and fly above the float, throwing flowers into the air. What a sight to behold! I can't wait for tomorrow, no matter how toxic it will be!

These cars are being washed, waxed and shined for tomorrows important guests. Even the hospital is being totally cleaned up! This is the first! The moss that used to cover its walls and stairs are now being scrubbed out! Rumor has it that Imelda Romualdez Marcos and Madame Juliet will be staying there.
Borgy will you be deigning us with your presence tomorrow?

There seems to be free food here. Yum! yum! We have already been instructed to cross the street tomorrow for grubs at nine am.

xoxo,
ge-ann

A week ago, I was running low of my usual Olay Natural White Cream. I headed to Robinson's and they already ran out of it.

Admittedly, I am a big moisturizer junkie. Growing desperate and too lazy to go to other stores due to the heavy human traffic.( Holiday shopping and all.) I perused the wide array of available face creams- L'oreal, Garnier,Ponds and Myra to name a few.

I've tried Garnier before but I don't like the feel of the cream on my face. Pond's makes me break out. L'oreal is too expensive for my student budget. I've also tried Olay Total Effects and I feel that the tint looks too obvious on my dark skin.

What I generally look for in a face cream is it should at first protect and then moisturize. I'm not looking for whitening creams. It will just make me fair from the neck up. I love my mocha skin!Unfortunately, the market is saturated with whitening creams. Most of the moisturizing creams with SPF promises whitening.

Myra Vitaglow caught my eye because for a price of around 130php, it promises to be a tinted facial moisturizer with SPF 15. I've been looking for a tinted moisturizer for the longest time ever since I read that it can give you even skin tone and good coverage.

www.projectvanity.com

The only tint available at the time I purchased it was ivory.There is another tint available which is beige. This, they say is more apt for morenas. The ivory one worked fine for me though. In fact, I've asked around and my friends say that the only unnatural thing about my face is the glitters.

Yes! This product has added shimmers on it. I guess they added this to make you "glow". I don't mind this added effect though because I sometimes intentionally use bronze powder by Nichido just to have a glittering effect on my skin even at daytime. Since these shimmers actually reflect light, you come out looking dewy and glowing in your photos.

For a drugstore brand and very cheap at that, this is a real steal. The cream is not sticky nor oily. Just make sure that you apply it on your damp face. Apply it quickly to prevent drying out and make sure you do it evenly for a flawless look.

I've worn this cream for as long as 8 hours and my skin does not feel oily at all. I've even stopped using powders because there is no need to retouch at all.
I am so in love with this product that I declare it a must have in my make up arsenal.

The local market is so full of surprises! Since this pleasant discovery, I am excited to try out local products in the future.