TOFU SOAP Review

I just wanna share my experience with this Thai beauty soup. The place where I buy my Menow Kiss Proof Lipstick also sell a lot of beauty products and I got interested with some of their Thai soaps. I have never been to Thailand but I have met a few here in the Philippines and they seem to have perfect, poreless skins.

To be honest, I just had to believe the owner of the store about what she said regarding this soaps cause for one, the writings are all in Thai. She recommended Tofu Soap, to make my pores smaller. My pores are not really a big problem but as I age it's becoming more visible, I'll be turning 32 in a few days and I have recently felt the need to preserve my skin or should I say prevent it from aging.

I got a few soaps because they are cheap, although they are really small. But I tried the Tofu soap first, hence this review.

The soaps cost 65 pesos each, 

I cut the soap in half. This is what I usually do with beauty soaps to save and maximize it, tofu soap is cheap at only 65 pesos but it can be expensive if you are wasteful. 

The soap have a nice mild vanilla fragrant. It's soft and will easily melt so keep it on a separate soap dish to keep dry after use. it's foamy and feels good to lather on the face, I leave it on my face for only a minute or so, then rinse it. I think you're supposed to leave it for 3 minutes but I don't have the patience.

It has a tingly feels just right after you rinse it, and then you will fill a good pull on your face. It's good, most of the beauty soaps I use have that, for me I think it means it works. Hahaha.

It leaves your skin a nice glow actually, I like it. My face feels soft even though I can feel like my skin is being tugged or stretched. 

I use it twice a day, morning and evening. Have been using it for a week and my half of the soap is in half, so I have used up 1/4 of the soap. 

So far I like it. I don't see any significant improvements yet on my skin, except it dried up my recent pimple breakouts so that's good. I specially love the glow after just washing my face.

Bremod Hair Color Review

This is the first time that I colored my hair. I have been rebonding my hair for more than 10 years so It got really damaged. I finally decided to just accept and love my naturally curly hair and learn how to manage and style it.

Trying to save money, well because I don't have a lot, I went to the nearest Hortaleza Vaciador store and asked the sales lady for recommendation. She wasn't really helpful just pointed at the nearest hair dye from her.

So I picked the lightest ash blonde because I figured my hair won't lift a lot of color and a mild color may not show.

It's nice, it didn't damage my hair or made it dry, I just use more conditioner to be sure.

The color changed though after sometimes, it became more lighter...

My final judgment: Since I don't have prior experience with hair coloring and therefore no comparison, I'm 80% satisfied. I didn't like that the color changed and became more bronzy.

Price:

Bremod hair dye --- 140 pesos (70 pesos each ), includes a bottle of oxidizing cream ( for my thick hair, I used 2)

hair dye set, (3 different size brushes and a bowl)  ---- 50 pesos

gloves --- 5 pesos

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195 pesos in total

Paradizoo Review

I was trying to look for a cheap, nearby and hopefully fun summer trip for my family, I browsed through Metrodeals vouchers and decided to buy the Day Tour Pass to Paradizoo Theme Park for P79 .

Metrodeal transactions are easy, (for first timers) you can use a credit card or they also have over the counters and bank deposit option. If you use a credit card, the vouchers will be available instantly after processing the order and then you can print out the voucher to present to the establishment. Note: some vouchers have specific instructions on how to redeem the deals, some requires you to call and make an appointment or reservation, some are only valid at certain dates or days, so please read everything carefully.

At first I thought that Paradizoo is located in Tagaytay as most of it's advertisement seems to say, or maybe it was just me. But the property is actually in Mendez Cavite. 

It was April and I was hoping to get a short trip and enjoy the coolness of the weather of Tagaytay but errr... it was scorching hot that day for me to enjoy the zoo/farm.

The place was decent, kids had fun. But we didn't get to enjoy the place as much as we might have if we went there perhaps during the afternoon or during the cooler months. We spent about 2 hours inside the property as it was high noon and we just want to go back to car for some air conditioning and eat. 

Here are some pictures

Do It Yourself Divorce in New Jersey

I haven't been married, Although I do hope so very soon. The reason I decided to post this is because there's barely any information or first hand experience about do it yourself divorce online. So it's not really a first hand experience, literally because it wasn't my divorce and I am in the Philippines and not in New Jersey, but I can very much say that it's like 80% first hand experience.


A quick story of the long story, I have a fiance (yes, he proposed to me before he gotten divorced, he's cool like that) who is a Filipino American, (you get it!?) in New Jersey, who was separated from his wife for 4 years before I met him (had to make that clear!). When US happened, he wanted a divorce right away but did not know where to start, how, and how much. He can't really afford an attorney cause he was also planning to visit me here in the Philippines. And I turned to Mr. Google, and learned as much as I know about Pro Se Divorce in New Jersey.

Pro Se - representing yourself in court, without an attorney.

Hopefully before you reached my blog that you have already read some (a lot) information about divorce in New Jersey, and don't take this post as a legal advise or something.

I figured someone out there who cannot afford to hire a lawyer and thinking about doing it yourself might want to read about someone's experience, so here it is. 

I read a lot about Pro Se divorce and told my boyfriend the gist, that it is possible, yet was he still not sure so I told him he might want to talk to the ombudsman. 

In Ocean county there is a judiciary ombudsman, it is a customer service oriented program that: assists court users by distributing information to help them navigate their way through the court system; presents public education programs about the court; and addresses complaints from the public. The ombudsman was really nice and helpful. My boyfriend called the office first and was accommodated that afternoon. He was given forms for Pro Se but also was advised to retain an attorney, and he was given a list of where to get free attorneys.

He checked with the free attorneys' office but he did not qualify. So he decided to do it Pro Se.

I was ready for action, and got divorce form online, but he doesn't trust it (or me? LOL) so we wanted "professional form maker", jk. He hired the service of Divorce Center, for a little over $400. They took 2 months to write up his divorce papers.

He then filed the papers for $300+ at the clerk of court's office.

But something strange happened, we waited for two months and has not received anything from the court. At 6 weeks of waiting am I was impatient, I felt something was wrong. I told him to follow up but he said it's better not to annoy them. well then, I annoyed him instead until at the 2 month' mark, I said you better go and check cause it cannot be this long. He went to the court and found out, they don't have his papers, he was waiting for nothing, he hand deliver this and somehow it magically disappeared. The cheque wasn't cashed out though. So he called the divorce center and ask then for more copies of the papers since the clerk of court lost his and they told him he needs to pay a fudging $150 to reprint the papers!!!! So he went to the ombudsman's office, (it's probably in the same vicinity, I'm not sure) and told her about the dilema. The Ombudsman gave him divorce forms and instructed him how to fill it up. He went home to fill up the paper works and this time he mailed everything through certified mail, return receipt requested. And two weeks after he received paper works with the docket number for his divorce case.

One of the most important part of the process is serving his wife the divorce papers. He sent the paper works to the sheriff but she no longer lives at the address she gave him months before. It took a couple of months before he was able to get in touch with her, and she doesn't want to be served by a sheriff, she only gave a PO box address.

He mailed her the divorce complaint, acknowledgement of service and waiver of service and permission to go on default ( these were the papers works from the ombudsman not from divorce center) After many weeks, she sent back these documents, signed and notarized. My boyfriend was happy to bring them to the clerk of court. But when he got there, he was advised that they need a settlement agreement. 

If you have read up on going on default trial, well, it is I think possible unless the spouse is on active military duty, but in my boyfriend's case, she was not served by a sheriff, she mailed an acknowledgment of service. I'm not sure if it was the procedure or they were just trying to be helpful to my boyfriend, but that's what they told him. Get a settlement agreement. 

He was pissed, he went there thinking about getting a court date, he doesn't want to deal with the EX anymore, so I told him, relax, I'll call the divorce center since he doesn't have a paper work for a settlement agreement. Skype lets me call toll free numbers even if I am in the Philippines. When I called up the Divorce Center they told me that my boyfriend's case wasn't set up to be like that, it was set up that the Sheriff will serve the papers and she was supposed to go on default and no settlement agreement should have been necessary. If my boyfriend wants, they can make another paper work for $150. He got more pissed when I told him that.

And I told him again, chill baby! I gotcha. I'll write it up, text your ex you need her cooperation one last time, and mail it to her ASAP. I wrote the agreement that afternoon and it was signed by him and notarized and mailed out before dinner. 

It took about 3 weeks for him to received the documents again. And he gingerly (hahaha) brought it to the clerk of court May 25 in the afternoon, and got a hearing date for June 21. 


I'll let you know what happens after.