Abu Dhabi Welcomes The New BB Bold 9700

It's official, the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 is here in the dunes of the United Arab Emirates. Approximately it costs $ 738 at Etisalat and maybe cheaper at Defense Road and Madinat Zayed Mall, let's see! I can't wait to have one this holiday season.

Wish!

I LVoe!

GARAGE Magazine Philippines

Save the best for last.

I can't wait to have my own copy. What's inside?

Garage Magazine December 2009/ January 2010 issue.

Teen Actor: Aljur Abrenica

The Nike X Maraham Sneakers

Another day, another half-baked sneaker collaboration? Not quite. Nike has co-opted Maharam, the world’s leading supplier of textiles for architects and interior designers, to emphasize the relationship between the way a sneaker looks and how it feels. If that seems like a facile point to make — that fabric alone can affect appearance — examine your own kicks. What’s that material even called? From burlap to bombazine, the world of textiles is esoteric enough to make even the most devoted sneakerhead spin.

With these $250 sneaks, Michael Maharam shot for what he calls “restrained opulence,” choosing a luxurious but underused fabric, horsehair. Nike calls horsehair “a renewable resource” because it’s clipped painlessly from the horse’s tail, but Maharam concedes that horsehair is not a practical replacement for everyday fabrics. “It grows slowly, is woven on arcane Victorian-era looms at a tedious pace, and costs a fortune,” he says. But — whoa, Nelly! — what a result.

The Nike x Maharam collection features three classic weaves — basket, check, and striae — on two of Nike’s easily recognizable (grace à swoosh) sneaker silhouettes, the high-top Blazer and the low-top Oregon Waffle. The kicks are classy enough to pair with a suit. “In my closet,” Maharam says, “it’s a Thom Browne suit in charcoal gray worsted wool Thorn-proof.” Talk about living in a material world.


Nike x Maharam sneakers are available at select Nike Sportswear shops, including the location at 21 Mercer Street.

I want to have the sneakers in the middle, it is so LV damier graphite, but cheaper!

I LVoe!

Thanks to tmagazine

5 Behaviours Of Manipulative People. Beware!

Be careful of people like this...

Many of us like to think the best of people. We like to think that they shoot straight and are forthright in their intentions. We also like to believe that they will ask for what they want and not resort to crazy tactics to get it. Unfortunately, however, there are times when we come across those who will do whatever it takes to get what they want…including manipulation. Being manipulated never feels good, but the worst part of manipulation is that often, we don’t even realize that it is happening. Here are a few ways to know if someone is trying to manipulate you:

Buttering You Up: To get their way, manipulators will often make you feel good so that they can then ask you to do something that they want. The person may first compliment you or tell you what a wonderful job you did on something. Making you feel good will, in their mind, make it difficult for you to say no…after all, you wouldn’t want to disappoint them or give them reason to think you didn’t deserve the compliment in the first place. What you can do: Return the compliments and the niceties before saying no.


Guilt: This doesn’t only pertain to Catholics and Jewish Mothers; guilt trips have been a successful manipulation tactic for centuries. The saddest part of this strategy is that the victims of this tactic succumb to the manipulators’ demands because they feel they HAVE to, not because they WANT to. In personal relationships, this sets up a co-dependency that is extremely unhealthy. What you can do: Ask the individual if they want you to do something because you have to or because you want to. If they say they want you to want to do it, tell them that you don’t and that they are trying to force you into something you don’t feel comfortable with.


Broken Record: Probably the most obvious of formats is the broken record tactic. If a person asks you enough or pushes their agenda enough…constantly repeating the question or request over and over again…in slightly different ways, the victim will inevitably give in and give them what they want. Oye! What you can do: Ask the individual what they don’t understand about the word “no.” Tell them that asking you over and over again isn’t going to change anything and that they are inappropriately over-stepping boundaries.


Selective Memory: This one gets me the most. You swear you have a conversation about a plan and everyone is on the same page, and then one day, the manipulator pretends to remember the conversation completely differently, if at all. What you can do: Record your conversations…seriously! Okay, maybe not. At least have a witness that you can count on to back you up if the person pulls this shenanigan. Call them out on the fact that they conveniently change the game to fit their needs.


Bullying: If a person doesn’t get their way, they make you out to look or feel like the bad guy…like you are the wrong one. What you can do: Be firm and tell them that their bullying tactics are inappropriate and unacceptable.


Keep your eyes open for these behaviors and continue to stand your ground to ensure that you aren’t a victim of manipulation. Have you seen any other types of manipulative behavior?

In the industry I work, the airline industry, too much of this kind, the ones that are very lazy and too tired to do their work. Grrrr!


Thanks to yahoo

Your Signature Scent

Should the twenty-first-century gentleman have a signature fragrance? Err.. Of course!

Hmm... "smells good!" Chanel? Paco Rabbane? Joop? Terre d'Hermes?

Well if you have an everyday scent, people will start to register you invisibly and the more important factor of your signature scent? they will remember you! It's like you owning that particular scent.

The fragrance itself is the starting point and the rest is YOU! Try to test the fragrance that suites you, not because your friends or the SA's encourage you or its the best one in town. Of hundreds of perfumes in the world, there will be one that's just right for you. Try something that's you, fresh? spicy? manly? femine? (duh!) or sporty.

Get samples and test-drive them for a day; the right one will make people enjoy just being near you—and you should get comments to that effect. Once you've settled on one, master the application. You want a single short spray on the top of each forearm, one on the neck, and one down the back of the shirt (before you button up, pull the collar back and aim downward). Play with the volume till you get it right, remembering that the scent should be neither suffocating nor undetectable. In time, you'll have your own invisible ID and—oh yeah—one less thing to think about.

Hmmmmm Smells good? Is that you?

I LVoe!

Thanks to GQ