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Thank You, Neutrogena Philippines

If one can die from being envious, I’m already dead. I always find myself envious of my online friends who always know the latest contests in Facebook. Maybe that is one of the disadvantages of being a working mom. Thanks to a friend who told me about Neutrogena’s promo over Facebook.

During the promo, Neutrogena Philippines posted four tasks. You join by submitting a photo in their wall that depicts your answer to their question. The first 50 submitters win. At least that is the mechanic that I know. I was able to join tasks 2-4. Since I joined, I make it a point to open their page almost everyday to see if I got lucky. I did not make it for tasks 2 and 3 so I was very eager at task 4. I really want to win the full range because I am in the process of starting a skin care regimen and I want to use Neutrogena.

I was disappointed when I saw the result of task 4 because I didn’t make it again. I checked those who won and found that some winners posted their entries later than I did. I asked the Neutrogena admins about the mechanic they used. Yes, that was how bad I wanted to win. Hahaha! Finally, I gave up.

The following morning, I saw a private message upon opening my account. The message came from another online friend telling me that we won from Neutrogena. Apparently, some winners already won in the previous tasks so the admins updated the list of winners.

Last Friday, before we celebrated Ayex’s birthday, I went to SM Makati to claim my prize. Indeed I am very lucky to have the full range for free. There was a man in Neutrogena’s booth, buying products for himself. As the Neutrogena girl get my prize, I told him how I won. He congratulated me and told the other Neutrogena girl that there should be a promo for men as well. Hahaha!


I will start using these products and will post the results here.

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My 2011 Goals

I went back to my posts last January 2010 to check the goals I wrote and was surprised that I actually achieved three out of four. But those goals are materials. I just realized today that I didn’t write any other plan (read: resolutions). I actually can’t believe that because I feel like I wrote something before.

Anyway, if you don’t have any idea on what were my material goals last year, you can click here. I want to post the links of the goals I achieved but looks like I haven’t blogged about them except for my camera. Boo me! I really have tons of things I should post about but forgets them. *deep sigh here*

Anyway, let me continue with my 2011 goals.

I was watching TV during the holiday season when I heard someone said that when you choose a resolution, you should stick to just a few (like only two) and you should pronounce them and make people know it. (That’s a lot of and there) So this year, I am focusing my resolutions and they’re as follows:

1. Take care of my skin and hair. I don’t have a skin care regimen because I am lazy and I realized that it is high time that I start loving my skin more. As for my hair, you have seen how unruly my hair is on pictures. Whatever I wear, I don’t feel confident because of my wind-blown hair. This year, I will regain that confidence. I started with a hair rebond last December 26 and I promise to take care of my hair so it won’t go back to being buhaghag.

2. Get rid of my pregnancy fats. It has been six months and I still have a huge belly that sometimes people mistaken me as pregnant. This year, I will exercise regularly to get the shape I have before I got pregnant with Ayex.

3. Materially, our goal is to finally own a house and a sustainable business.

That’s it. I will go back here again next year and hopefully I am successful in achieving these goals.

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