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Here's our schedule for the rest of the year (so far): May 15, 2010 - Onin & Lara (Madre De Dios Chapel / Tagaytay Midlands) May 26, 2010 - Mike & Jhona (Holy Family Parish / Portofino) May 29, 2010 - Mike & Jhona's After Party (The Columns Ayala) June 12, 2010 - Ranjan & Angelyn (Nuestra Señora de Gracia / Makati Palace Hotel) June 21, 2010 - Malvin & Catleya (Manila Cathedral / Diamond

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Here's my two cents on the whole matter: 1. Make a strict budget allocation in advance, and STICK to it. (No matter what your family, your fiance, your suppliers, and even those wedding magazines would say.) Focus on one or two particular aspects of your wedding that you want to highlight (i.e. food, photo/video, cake, gown.) You can spend just a wee bit more on these, and then scrimp on the

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*Click on the image to view it in full size.Just a plug for these new photographers in the industry who have a fresh perspective on weddings - check out their site for some unique and bad-ass shots. If you want a non-traditional style of capturing your precious moments, then Vinz and VJ Matias can do the job for you (and with a low-price guarantee, too!)*To learn more about Sweet Penguin

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A funny thing happened to me at work the other night. I just came out of the restroom and was about to go back to our production/operations area when one of my male colleagues (who was also incidentally about to enter the work area) made a comment about the room adjacent to the restrooms and the entrance to the floor. This room used to be the breakroom for the agents, but is currently being

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And now, the piece de resistance for the whole month of January was of course, another wedding to prepare for! Anthony and Jenny's wedding marked my very first Concept Magic project for 2009 (after months of not handling anything while I was in the U.S.) so I treated this as a new chapter in my event-planning life.This wedding was actually my very first Honda Club wedding - and I couldn't be any

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New Year - new job, new friends, newly sold car, new site, new PC, and of course, a new wedding project! 2009 begins with many firsts for me - and I guess this marks yet another new chapter of my life.1. New job.After spending two glorious weeks undergoing core skills training with an 8AM-5PM shift in my new company's Makati office, I am currently living and learning in my new office environment

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Well, it's back to reality for me. After almost 2 months of job-hunting and scrimping on whatever cash I had left, I finally landed a job in one of the first and biggest BPO companies here in the Philippines - as a trainer, of course. And just when I was starting to enjoy my state of absolute bumhood, I was again given another project for January. :-DBut more on that later. So what did I do since

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During a spur-of-the-moment writing frenzy triggered by Mike (Sunstreaker) of HCP's Singles Club, I was able to come up with a response to the question that he posted in one of the forum's threads. His question was "If God will give you a choice to meet and be with the man with whom you will spend your lifetime, what attributes will you love to have him possess?"So here is my (extremely detailed

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Here's yet another repost of a funny (yet witty) poem my longtime friend Vania forwarded to me via email. The kind of literature I appreciate goes to show how much of a Grammar Nazi and English nut I am. (Is that supposed to be a good thing? LOL.) ^_^We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,Yet the

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I would attribute this wedding flick fanaticism to my fun, yet fruitful hobby: wedding planning and coordination. Since one of my hobbies is movie-watching and collecting, (yes, I have around 400 titles in my personal collection to date!) I personally selected the best wedding-themed movies from my list.So without any further ado, I present for your ultimate viewing pleasure the must-see movies

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Last February, when my longtime friend Reynan broke the news of his upcoming wedding and asked for Concept Magic's help in planning it, I knew that he and his fiancee, Karen, would be brokenhearted to find out that I wouldn't be there to attend their wedding.Let's call it the 8-8-8 conspiracy. I wonder just how many couples got married that day. August 8, 2008 - one of the luckiest dates in the

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During a creative spurt, I was finally able to come up with a write-up for my niece Ayi's AEGIS yearbook (she's graduating from the Ateneo this school year with a major in Psychology.) Since I didn't want to stick to traditional paragraphs and the regular dedications people usually make when composing a write-up for their graduating loved ones, I decided to do some witty wordplay with an easy

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Here's a repost of what my longtime friend and high school classmate Diana posted on her Multiply blog... I can sooo relate to this right now... and yes, sadly, we're not getting any younger. :-/The Quarter-Life CrisisIt is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling

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I decided to take a risk and venture into the unknown. I said goodbye to my beloved school, and left Concept Magic behind. I was jobless, (almost) penniless, and headed for America to stay with my sister and her family in Ohio, as well as visit some relatives in California during the latter part of my trip. I'm actually thinking of just staying there for good - finding a job and converting my

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Marvel produces yet another action-packed movie to put viewers on the edge of their seats.Before I watched Iron Man, I never got to watch any of its previews, nor read its synopsis. I didn't even try to look at its promotional posters. In short, I didn't even know what to expect upon watching it.Well, after settling down comfortably in one of Eastwood Cinema's plush seats while munching on nachos

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Here's a repost of an essay that I wrote a couple of years back on girls and racing. Hope it inspires all those would-be girl racers of the next generation! :-)--------------------Witching Hour, the time when all magic begins; the moment when everything reasonable seems to disappear; the signal for all entities to unleash their power; the bell that rings for all hell to break loose.For some men,

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I have not mentioned here that aside from my part-time work with Concept Magic, (yes, it's merely part-time, but I feel like I'm on-call 24/7) I also work as a teacher in a small private high school.But then again, that alone is another multi-tasking function that I have in the school. Aside from handling all the English Communication subjects of the Sophomores and Seniors, I also handle several

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Six weeks. PhP100,000. One hundred and twenty guests.Those were the crucial factors that I had to work with during my second wedding for Concept Magic. The odds were working against us, but nothing could have stopped Bryan and Mhe-ann from exchanging their vows last February 9.Mhe-ann was a childhood friend of mine, while Bryan was the rhythm guitarist for my show band (yes, I sang in a show band

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Who would have thought that Concept Magic's very first wedding would be a themed wedding? (And a military one at that?)January 26, 2008 marked the company's (and yours truly's) very first milestone: Jigger and Sharon's wedding. It proved quite interesting to plan the affair, what with going to and from Villamor Air Base to visit the groom, enjoying Queensland Caterer's food-tasting event, and

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Test, test, test.Great, the blog's up and I'm ready to write! ^_^Hey, they just asked me to write this from my own point of view, so please take note that any errors are my own.

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So here's another one of Spielberg's many movie miracles: the car-robots have come to life (no pun intended.) During the age of pre-Cartoon Network ani-mania, the Transformers had been one of the biggest icons that dominated the realm of animated series worldwide.But then, that was during the (circa) 1980s. With the current advent of advanced cinematographic techniques in the movie industry, The

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