Entry Three: This is Why I'm Broke.... (Ooops I Did It Again)

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

Peep Toe Flats

Celine

Round Toe Wedge

Celine

Office Supplies

 National Bookstore

Small Travelling Purse

Local Market (cheapest item)

Entry Two: This is Why I'm Broke

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

Chanel Tea Rose Blush On

Rustans Makati

HTC Desire Z

Tipid CP

Blue Buckle Bag 

Tomato

Red Patent Wallet

Tomato

Pockeet Vanity Mirror with Led Lights

Belle and Nails Spa

Wish Cross Pendant Necklace

St. Pauls

Notebook and Green Gel Pen

Muji

Black Satchel Bag

Tomato

NEEDLESS TO SAY: Entry three will come out waaaaaaaaaaaay too long after this.

Heaven and Eggs

Heaven and Eggs located at Glorietta 4, Ayala Avenue Makati City

Angus Beef Steak with Steamed Veggies

5 Stars

Chic Boy

Chic Boy located at Buendia Makati

Lechon Cebu

5 Stars

Entry One: This Is Why I'm Broke

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

 Nature's Gate Natural Shampoo and Conditioner

Healthy Options

 Alba Botanica Terra Tints lip balm

Healthy Options

Lip Liner

Muji

Banchetto's Finest

Banchetto: Food Market located at Mega Tent Meralco Ave. Ortigas, Pasig City. Every Saturdays and Sundays only from 11pm to 3 am.

 Cordon Bleau

3 Stars

 Beef and Mushroom

3 Stars

 Maki Platter
3 Stars

 Roasted Beef with Mashed Potato

3 Stars

 Shawarma Rice

4 Stars

 Banana Chocolate Crepe

3 Stars

Monster Burger

5 Stars

High School Drama Goes Corporate

Disclaimer: I wrote this entry as an abridged version of my speech for the Career Orientation Week that I was supposed to attend but wasn't able to. 

When the headmaster handed me my diplomat and flipped the tassel on my graduation cap, I knew it was the beginning of a new life. As I clenched my fist and looked at the remnants of my student life, I knew I have to bid goodbye to my youth and welcome adulthood. I have high expectations and fruitful dreams. I am ambitious and passionate because back then, I knew what I want and I am so geared up to fulfill it. I perpetually remind myself that immaturity is no longer an option, bullying is not a way to get respect and ignorance is not an excuse to commit mistakes. Everything should be done according to what is right and what is best for most people. I can still remember the vast happiness and unexplainable excitement I have on the day of my graduation. I am so ready to leave my childhood life and be an adult. I am so thrilled to face people who are worldly and open-minded. I am so ecstatic to meet people who will cut shit and owned up to it because after all, adulthood is the real world.

Boy was I wrong the whole time…

High school is a dry run to prepare us from facing what comes after because the real world is much depressing and repugnant. The real world is just like high school. The difference is people are wearing suits and paying taxes. I am so disappointed when I find out that the real world also has jocks, nerds, outcasts, preps, sluts and royalties—and seriously, each one of them is exactly the ones I hated or loved when I was still in my teen-ish years. Bullies have stronger bites; back-stabbers have deeper stabs and ass-kissing are more than just a power-sucking-make-out. People in the real world are hungrier for success and power so they CAN and they WILL eat you alive if you go against their way. So in order for you to survive, you have two options; go against them and be eaten alive or be one of them and eat the weaklings down to their very last breath.

Five years after my graduation, I am tediously performing the latter. I chose not to be eaten alive and be the one in power. I kissed ass even licked foot to get what I want. I am a heartless bitch and I am not afraid to show it. But being an asshole is not what I signed up for. Even if this is a matter of choice, it is not something I want. I tried to escape, quitting from one company to another only to end up doing exactly what I have escaped for. It is a horrible travesty and it sucks that I can’t do anything about it. So for whatever crap I will do in the future… I am sorry. People like me are not born asshole; I just had to be… so I could fit in and survive.    

What's Inside My Bag?: Tina Lee

For my second entry of "What's Inside My Bag?", I am featuring my good friend Tina Lee. Tina is an online freelance writer and a shop-aholic as well. We both love shoes, bags and MALL SALES. So without further adieu, lemme introduce Tina and her brown Satchel bag...

 Tina posing for my blog while holding her satchel...

 - Kate Spade yellow wallet

- external hard drive (full of downloaded movies and TV series)

- Panasonic Lumix camera (she's a blogger as well)

- Fibrella umbrella

 - inside her satchel bag is her bag organizer

 - zapper (for protection...)

 - her passport

- her key

- e-cigarette and its liquid solution

 - Maybelline pressed powder

- Cinema Secrets blush-on

- Face Shop concealer

- Body Shop retractable brush

 - Revlon lipstick

- Laura Mercier lip gloss

- Maybelline lipstick

 - Pocket tissue

- inhaler (she's asthmatic)

- antacid 

- toothpaste

- pocket toothbrush

- Jhonson and Jhonson Baby Cologne