This weekend I went on a make-up binge.
Friday night I met up with a friend of mine, M, who works at Sephora. It never fails that she brings out some goodies whenever we meet. This time she brought two extra bags for my other friend and cousin Tiffany (it was Tiffany's birthday). That's rather sweet M, considering she's never met Tif before. After some drinks I made it home at 1:30am. Tired as hell, but I still wanted to check out my new colors. The following night I spent over two hours with D playing with our new make-up. It was fun, it felt just like highschool again. The next day we visited an event by Taylor Pham, she's a new make-up artist with her own line of colours for Asian skin. I was excited to meet someone who could do Chinese eyes. So far the only make-up artists that have been able to do Chinese eyes, or specifically my eyes are bridal make-up artists. Everyone else you find at the cosmetic counter don't realize that the fold in my eyes makes the color disappear! They always tell me to open my eyes after puting on mascara, I'd warn them that the lashes will hit my lid and smudge. So certain of their own confidence they'd politely command me to open my eyes. Fine, bitch. I open, look up and SMUDGE. that's right.. clean it off girl.. and do it ALL over again. I've long given up asking for make-up advice from those girls.
I walked out of Taylor's event with another bag of goodies. Eye shadows, lipstick, fake lashes....
Excited about these new colours I even woke up early to apply some day make-up :)
I don't put on a lot, but just knowing I spent some time taking care of my appearance in the morning makes me feel good about myself.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Invitations
Has any couple ever fought so much that they don't even want to marry each other anymore.
I sit across that guy that I'm supposed to marry and I swear if he fell off the planet right now I wouldn't shed a tear. With all the stupid things buzzing around us, we forgot to formalize the invitations. Sorry folks, instead mister and miss, you are now just ___(your name) . Only the married folks are Mr. & Mrs. Is that so bad? I mean, I read so much about formality etc.. as if people will frown at me for sending out invites w/o addressing them properly! whatever.... they're printed, and they're going out as is.
e
I sit across that guy that I'm supposed to marry and I swear if he fell off the planet right now I wouldn't shed a tear. With all the stupid things buzzing around us, we forgot to formalize the invitations. Sorry folks, instead mister and miss, you are now just ___(your name) . Only the married folks are Mr. & Mrs. Is that so bad? I mean, I read so much about formality etc.. as if people will frown at me for sending out invites w/o addressing them properly! whatever.... they're printed, and they're going out as is.
e
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Joyful Letter
My ex-wedding coordinator was from a company named Joyful weddings in Cebu. They're a pretty big company with several coordinators. The owner is Esmie, but they handed me a lady named Hannah or stupid would be better..
We signed up in February with Hannah, and by June, I just couldn't stand Stupid anymore. Either she didn't like working with me, or she was really stupid. After waiting 3 weeks for a response from my last email, I got sick of waiting and decided to bitch out to the boss....
Dear Ms Esmie,
It has been 5 months since we signed our contract with your company to be our wedding planner. CB and I were excited to start planning our wedding. We had a few things we were able to do on our own, but many others that required a planners knowledge and expertise.
My expectations of having a full wedding planner is that the planner will indeed, plan the wedding. We feel that we've been the ones planning the wedding, and come to think that we paid you. We should be the one who should be getting paid if this is what wedding planning is in Cebu.
So, my question for you is what have you planned for us since February?
Have you completed any of our wedding tasks? When I say complete, I would like specific examples of how you discussed with me on choosing a vendor, suggestions you have on vendors, creating a contract and signing it etc..
Some other things that I find disturbing is that you’re planning my wedding, but you know nothing about me and you never asked. I actually had to tell you the information fearing that you’ll screw up the wedding because you don’t know anything about us.
Do you know the size of my wedding party?
Do you know what kind of wedding I want? Simple? Extravagant? Elegant? Romantic? Intimate?
what's my wedding budget? Aren’t you supposed to work this out with us in the beginning as you mentioned in your contract?
Do you know if we have all the documents required for a Catholic wedding?
What is my color motif? Did you ask or did I had to tell you?
Have I purchased my gown yet? I know we mentioned that we would take care of this, but as my planner, aren't you concerned whether your bride has started planning this yet?
Have we started looking into invitations?
Have you ever initiated to make an appointment to chat online?
Of all the things we said we were going to do, what have we done?
Have you reviewed our contracts with vendors? Did you notice that we managed to negotiate the price of our reception to 2007 prices, when YOU told us that it CAN NOT be done? how is it we managed to do something from 1000miles away, something you should be able to do as a professional and experienced planner? You are supposed to negotiate as agreed in our contract and you failed poorly. who's side are you on?
I ask questions about vendors and it takes you 2-3 weeks to return my emails. Don't you know who your vendors are? don't you know their packages?
I often need to send repeated emails to get a response from you (2-3 weeks later)
And when you do reply, your answers are incomplete. Sometimes, you don’t even answer some of my emails, for example when you sent me several pictures of floral arrangements I asked you which florist created which flower arrangement. How am I supposed to know who’s good, which florist I want when I don’t know who created what?
I asked if the vendors have websites, and you didn’t reply to that email either.
I feel like I've hired a bad secretary instead of a planner.
You are professionals and you deal with vendors all the time, I would expect a professional to know the answer immediately from experience and the resources you have. Even if you don't, it shouldn't take almost a month to reply. If you're busy, at least let me know.
When you quoted me prices for flowers and make-up. How can you provide a quote when you don't know what I want and how big the wedding party is?
I increased the flower budget by 20,000 and asked for some decorations and you tell me the decorations will be additional to my budget. That does not make sense. I just gave you a higher budget to work with.
I asked if we are on schedule. You said we are and I should relax. We still have 6 months. But you guys work so slow that just to choose and plan flowers takes over a month! Trying to find laces for my dress was never complete I had to give up on the idea. We had to take over the Reception negotiation because you were unable to negotiate.
What makes you think we still have plenty of time when you don't even know what we want in our wedding?
Do you know if we want entertainment in our wedding? and what kind? how many? do you know where to find them? will it fit our budget?
Can my wedding favors be made within a month? or should we start looking into it now? Or was it your plan to tell me that it CAN NOT be done and I should settle for something less, just to make your life easier?
Your service has been awful and has created more stress.
We would like our deposit back, but most likely you will not agree to that.
We are terminating our contract. I would suggest you wave the additional fees of termination, as you should equally feel you have done a poor job.
.
Sincerely,
CB and Headdump
We signed up in February with Hannah, and by June, I just couldn't stand Stupid anymore. Either she didn't like working with me, or she was really stupid. After waiting 3 weeks for a response from my last email, I got sick of waiting and decided to bitch out to the boss....
Dear Ms Esmie,
It has been 5 months since we signed our contract with your company to be our wedding planner. CB and I were excited to start planning our wedding. We had a few things we were able to do on our own, but many others that required a planners knowledge and expertise.
My expectations of having a full wedding planner is that the planner will indeed, plan the wedding. We feel that we've been the ones planning the wedding, and come to think that we paid you. We should be the one who should be getting paid if this is what wedding planning is in Cebu.
So, my question for you is what have you planned for us since February?
Have you completed any of our wedding tasks? When I say complete, I would like specific examples of how you discussed with me on choosing a vendor, suggestions you have on vendors, creating a contract and signing it etc..
Some other things that I find disturbing is that you’re planning my wedding, but you know nothing about me and you never asked. I actually had to tell you the information fearing that you’ll screw up the wedding because you don’t know anything about us.
Do you know the size of my wedding party?
Do you know what kind of wedding I want? Simple? Extravagant? Elegant? Romantic? Intimate?
what's my wedding budget? Aren’t you supposed to work this out with us in the beginning as you mentioned in your contract?
Do you know if we have all the documents required for a Catholic wedding?
What is my color motif? Did you ask or did I had to tell you?
Have I purchased my gown yet? I know we mentioned that we would take care of this, but as my planner, aren't you concerned whether your bride has started planning this yet?
Have we started looking into invitations?
Have you ever initiated to make an appointment to chat online?
Of all the things we said we were going to do, what have we done?
Have you reviewed our contracts with vendors? Did you notice that we managed to negotiate the price of our reception to 2007 prices, when YOU told us that it CAN NOT be done? how is it we managed to do something from 1000miles away, something you should be able to do as a professional and experienced planner? You are supposed to negotiate as agreed in our contract and you failed poorly. who's side are you on?
I ask questions about vendors and it takes you 2-3 weeks to return my emails. Don't you know who your vendors are? don't you know their packages?
I often need to send repeated emails to get a response from you (2-3 weeks later)
And when you do reply, your answers are incomplete. Sometimes, you don’t even answer some of my emails, for example when you sent me several pictures of floral arrangements I asked you which florist created which flower arrangement. How am I supposed to know who’s good, which florist I want when I don’t know who created what?
I asked if the vendors have websites, and you didn’t reply to that email either.
I feel like I've hired a bad secretary instead of a planner.
You are professionals and you deal with vendors all the time, I would expect a professional to know the answer immediately from experience and the resources you have. Even if you don't, it shouldn't take almost a month to reply. If you're busy, at least let me know.
When you quoted me prices for flowers and make-up. How can you provide a quote when you don't know what I want and how big the wedding party is?
I increased the flower budget by 20,000 and asked for some decorations and you tell me the decorations will be additional to my budget. That does not make sense. I just gave you a higher budget to work with.
I asked if we are on schedule. You said we are and I should relax. We still have 6 months. But you guys work so slow that just to choose and plan flowers takes over a month! Trying to find laces for my dress was never complete I had to give up on the idea. We had to take over the Reception negotiation because you were unable to negotiate.
What makes you think we still have plenty of time when you don't even know what we want in our wedding?
Do you know if we want entertainment in our wedding? and what kind? how many? do you know where to find them? will it fit our budget?
Can my wedding favors be made within a month? or should we start looking into it now? Or was it your plan to tell me that it CAN NOT be done and I should settle for something less, just to make your life easier?
Your service has been awful and has created more stress.
We would like our deposit back, but most likely you will not agree to that.
We are terminating our contract. I would suggest you wave the additional fees of termination, as you should equally feel you have done a poor job.
.
Sincerely,
CB and Headdump
Monday, July 09, 2007
I got the check!
So in continuation of messing around with Ms. "I want to buy your gown" I agreed to the buyer that I would refund the excess money that she sent to me in Cashiers check. I didn't think she would send me anything but..today, I received her Cahsiers check written in $5000 delivered by FEDEX. $500 is the maximum limit before a check is witheld by a bank for clearance. Now, I have this fradulent check in hand. A FEDEX account to send the money back to her and a name and address to deliver the check to. I'm so tempted to send over a 200 pound box of crap, may be some garbage, anything just to piss them off. Unfortunately, they have my work address and phone number and I'm not up for putting my life at risk. You never know what these people are capable of.
I just told them the bank is witholding the check and I'll get back to them.
I just told them the bank is witholding the check and I'll get back to them.
Monday, July 02, 2007
craigslist Cont.
It's shit like this I'm talking about.. ..I JUST recieved this email. (READ previous post first)
Hello,
i am not in a good state of mind to tell you this but i think you will have plight for me and understand me. I got a bad news yesterday while i was about giving your info to my finance house, i was informed that, my dad had a serious accident and he is in COMA now. The shock of this news affected me badly that, while i was giving your info to my finance house, instead of $300 to be written on your check, $3,000 was written on it and it has been sent to your address already.
I hope i can trust you with my money and i hope you re trustworthy too and i will appreciate it if you can send back the remaining fund to me via western union money transfer and i promise that, i will also compensate you. Please do get back to me and let me know if you will be able to handle this. Thanks and i will be waiting to hear from you soonest .
Hello,
i am not in a good state of mind to tell you this but i think you will have plight for me and understand me. I got a bad news yesterday while i was about giving your info to my finance house, i was informed that, my dad had a serious accident and he is in COMA now. The shock of this news affected me badly that, while i was giving your info to my finance house, instead of $300 to be written on your check, $3,000 was written on it and it has been sent to your address already.
I hope i can trust you with my money and i hope you re trustworthy too and i will appreciate it if you can send back the remaining fund to me via western union money transfer and i promise that, i will also compensate you. Please do get back to me and let me know if you will be able to handle this. Thanks and i will be waiting to hear from you soonest .
craigslist
There's something fishy about people surfing through craigslist.
A few months back I posted our room for rent and we got over 10 emails from people claiming they are female, ages 25-28, providing information on height, hair color, new job title in the area and an immediate request to remove our ad and accept their cashier/money order check. Then the conversation goes no where. They just continue emailing about how they're going to send the money over and please reserve the room.
Then I posted my sisters old wedding dress for sale and the same thing happens. Lady wants my contact and I give it. She asks it again, says she'll pay more than what I ask for and goes on and on about how she's going to handle the transaction blah blah blah.. I sent 3 email out and gave up after. What's going on? Are these people expecting me to volunteer my bank account number because I'm so excited they're willing to pay immediately and MORE than what I asked for? Are there really people that stupid out there to have given their account information to have kept such scams alive?
Or did I just get suckered into having useless emailings with people.
A few months back I posted our room for rent and we got over 10 emails from people claiming they are female, ages 25-28, providing information on height, hair color, new job title in the area and an immediate request to remove our ad and accept their cashier/money order check. Then the conversation goes no where. They just continue emailing about how they're going to send the money over and please reserve the room.
Then I posted my sisters old wedding dress for sale and the same thing happens. Lady wants my contact and I give it. She asks it again, says she'll pay more than what I ask for and goes on and on about how she's going to handle the transaction blah blah blah.. I sent 3 email out and gave up after. What's going on? Are these people expecting me to volunteer my bank account number because I'm so excited they're willing to pay immediately and MORE than what I asked for? Are there really people that stupid out there to have given their account information to have kept such scams alive?
Or did I just get suckered into having useless emailings with people.
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