A Simple Christmas Greeting...

It has indeed been a busy month! Thinking of what gifts to give, buying stuff for my loved-ones, the excitement of getting the 13th month pay, Christmas parties! And preparing for noche Buena: buying the food and going to the grocery. Though I was not able to attend at least one simbang gabi…the spirit of Christmas would always linger within me…Just wanted to greet all of you a “Merry Christmas”!!!

JeLai'S Christmas '07Adventures-Part 5

Policarpio Street

Mr. and Mrs. Cabrera's Christmas would never be complete without visiting "Policarpio Street"!

One of the houses with such a cute manger theme

Neon house...

Believe me the entire house is filled with christmas lights!

The famous "House of Santa Claus" there are other miniature santa claus inside

Last year, we visited Policarpio Street, it was like hustle and bustle-there were a lot of tiange and a lot of people at the same time...But the homeowners agreed on keeping it low, but then again at least it's more serene...

JeLai'S Christmas '07Adventures-Part 4

The Starbucks 2008 Planner

“December 4, 1997- Starbucks first opened its first cafe in 6750 building”
Starbucks opened 10 years ago…Happy 10th year Anniversary Starbucks!

Starbucks Philippines has been doing this for 5 years now and has been giving away planners for at least 4 years…One of the most awaited times as the Holidays come in would be “passing the cheer” and redeeming the yearly Starbucks planner. This is a must-have for all coffee-addicts! It’s cool to have one of the planners…but there’s more to the “status symbol” that these planners create…behind is a helping hand that encourages us to reach out to the needy. For each redeemed planner Starbucks will make a donation to Project Sparkhope, a joint program with UNICEF Philippines providing early learning facilities and daycare centers for pre-school children in remote and underprivileged barangays all over the Philippines.

For the 1st time, we had the chance to collect stickers, complete it and redeem the starbucks planner!!! This planner is very special to us…Jeff and I shared in buying the drinks and shared the time drinking them! It was more of a bonding moment for us as we share sweet conversations and update each other before he goes to work. It’s not just the leather that appealed to us, I’m actually not so amazed with the design for this year but it’s more of the experience, the fun of collecting…as I open my wallet and peek at the card, I wonder how soon can we complete it. Plus the excitement it gives us as we fall in a long line mostly (btw, our compliments to Starbucks Herrera branch at the back of PBCOM-it is where we spent most of the time buying and it’s where we claimed our very first starbucks planner!). The anticipation before you can finally claim it! And we just woke up realizing that we are already raving about the planner…

The race started November 6, 2007, and since it’s Starbucks’ 10th year anniversary, they had this double sticker promo wherein if you buy your drink within 12-2:30 pm and 8-9:30 pm you get two stickers! And it’s even extended until January 1st!
It just deemed so appealing and more so addicting! You get a nice planner, you enjoy every drink plus you get to help the needy in time for Christmas! So allow me to say: “pass the cheer…”