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Archive for the ‘Quirks’ Category
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Quirk of the Month: Strawberry Knits
Whenever someone I know goes on a trip to Baguio, I always ask them to buy me strawberry knitworks. I remember seeing cute knitted strawberry keychains and purses at more expensive retails shops a few years ago, and I told …
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Quirk of the Month: Care Package From The Netherlands
I love getting pasalubong. It’s the innate Filipino trait I have. When my best friend Jackie visited from The Netherlands a few weeks ago, she gave me this cute care package:…
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Quirk of the Month: Mystery Manila’s Card Game
When I was 11 years old, I wanted to be many different things when I grow
up—writer, lawyer, and during one brief period, toy maker. I wanted to invent different board games and puzzles for kids.The people working at …
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Quirk of the Month: Lisa Frank Tarot Cards
Who would have thought that a ’90s tween trend and fortune telling would be written in the stars? Early this month, Ariel Hart launched her free Lisa Frank Tarot cards online. The 22-card Major Arcana deck features our favorite Lisa …
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Quirk of the Month: Sunprint Kit
I almost forgot about this souvenir I purchased from Getty Museum two years ago. This 4″ x 4″ Sunprint Kit
cost me $6.50 and I finally opened it last weekend.…
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Quirk of the Month: Snoopy Happy Meal Set
McDonald’s announced their new lineup of Happy Meal toys last December to hype up the January 2016 release of The Peanuts Movie. Although this CG-animated, 3G version of Charles M. Schulz’s classic started screening in the US as early …
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Quirk of the Month: Choose Your Own Tat-venture
No, I am not over it. Temporary metallic tatts were all the rage in 2014, but here’s a new book to prove that it’s more than just a temporary craze. Choose Your Own Tat-venture is a fun activity book for …
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Quirk of the Month: Yoga Joes
I saw these green army men featured in a website a few months ago. Weeks later, my friend Cristina was vacationing in New York and asked me if I wanted anything for pasalubong. I immediately replied, “Yoga Joes!”…
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Quirk of the Month: My Harry Potter Shrine
My closest friends and family know how much I love Snoopy and the Peanuts gang. But when I was a kid, it was all about Hello Kitty and Sanrio. In high school, Taz was the man.
And then there …
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Quirk of the Month: Build Your Own Robot From a Book
My closest friends know that I have dozens of creative outlets, de-stressing activities, and collection of zany things. As Tony Stark said in Iron Man, “I like to tinker.” Remember when I built a pinhole camera from cardboard cutouts …
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Quirk of the Month: Minion Monopoly
Call me a predictable tourist, but I cannot leave a theme park unless I purchase something from the souvenir shop. Look what I got from last month’s trip to Universal Studios Singapore—Monopoly: Despicable Me!…
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Quirk of the Month: kikki.K Travel Collection
Filipina blogger Chuvaness uses the term “wasteland” to refer to shops that sell stationery and other cute items you don’t really need. Guilty beyond reasonable doubt! I lost count of the times I told myself, “Kate, you don’t need another …
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Quirk of the Month: Pinhole Camera
This souvenir I purchased from Getty Museum last year was sitting on my desk for too long, so I finally gave it a go. It’s a build-it-yourself pinhole camera kit by Ridley’s House of Novelties, a classic toy brand I’ve …
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Quirk of the Month: Pick-Up Sticks
My good friend Javi gave me an early birthday present—pick-up sticks and jackstones, a throwback to the toys I enjoyed in my analog childhood.
I’m starting to sound like a grandparent incessantly talking about the good old days when we …
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Quirk of the Month: Korea’s Teddy Bear Shop
Before the Teddy Bear Museum moved from N Seoul Tower to Mt. Seorak’s Del Pino Resort, my family and I caught a glimpse of it during our trip to Korea last year. Too bad it was late at night, and …