Wishlist Wednesday: Christmas Edition!

Hi friendsies!

Gift ideas if you're willing to you know... spend for me. :-)

I haven't been the best girl this year and yet I've received so many blessings despite that. I haven't been big on asking for gifts. I mean, if people want to give me, then great but I don't want to be the one to tell them outright that "Hey! I want a gift from you!" But if they don't give me, then it's okay. I never really expect. Lately, I haven't been a huge gift buyer myself.

1) Filed 2012 planner

I wanna try something new. I've tried planners that have their weeks set out vertically (Belle du Jour). I still also like Belle du Jour though. I've bought BDJ for 2009 and 2010. My planner this year was a blank one from NBS cause I thought I'd be able to dooooooooooodle on it, but I didn't have enough time. I more of treated it as a diary instead of a planner though. The Filed planner has weeks set out horizontally so there's more space for my to-do's and little doodles.  :)

I'm definitely a planner girl. As in I really design them, etc. I'd love to show you photos of my past planners soon. =)

Mega launches MegaStyle.ph

Mega Magazine finally launched MegaStyle.ph, its online home. As someone who regularly reads Mega, as well as subscribes to updates from fashion blogs, MegaStyle.ph jives both seamlessly. I'll share to you some things that I love about the website:

1. Wardrobe

With sites like lookbook.nu and Chictopia gaining more and more popular each day, you could say chronicling of what you wore has reached an all-time high. Who are the Mega editors to be exempt? This section serves as my guilty pleasure. It makes it more fun to imagine working at Mega when you see your "future colleagues" stylishly dressed.

2. Past Mega Covers

If you have been in the business (as well as a loyal reader of Mega as I have) as long as Mega has, you wax poetic and recall the old covers. It's great to see how much Mega has evolved to being the leading fashion magazine in the industry today. (BTW, I was once in a photo on Mega for a feature they did on an Oshkosh fashion show I joined. Oshkosh? Talk about long ago!)

3. Magazine

Well, as a college student, I try to save as much as I can. I try as much as possible to pick nice issues that I will read from cover to cover. Sometimes, the captions on the cover do not entice me as much, or they give a lesser than expected content inside. This is where the magazine feature comes in. It provides a peek into what's in on the newest issue.

By the way, you can also read Mega online. They have an e-zine up on the website!

Mega will be formally launching MegaStyle.ph on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.

Visit their website now! :)

September Covers

I am a self-confessed magazine junkie.

All my friends know that I've been collecting magazines for about half my life now. I started with teen magazines like Candy, Meg and Seventeen Philippines (when it was still available), then I graduated to Cosmo, Preview, and Mega. I stopped buying them brand-new though cause they were costing me some major bucks! I now just settle for back issues. With that, I am able to buy a lot of foreign titles at the price of the local magazines (or even less). My favorite is Harper's Bazaar.

These are the September 2011 covers for most of the magazines I regularly buy.

On the cover of Harper's Bazaar US this September is Lea Michele, while in Harper's Bazaar UK it's Beyonce.