Here’s Bo’s latest promo in celebration of their 15th anniversary and opening of their 50th store this year. You can purchase their short brewed coffee from 10am-3pm for only P15 and any variant of tall froccino primo from 3pm-7pm* for P50. These are only available very Tuesday and Thursday from June 18 to July 21, 2011.


Enter your receipt details here for a chance to win P15,000 worth of Bos GCs.


Here's my favorite White Chocolate Mocha primo :)

See you @ Bo's!

*also available from 12mn to 4am for 24-hour stores

 Baby-Z P33          Regular P40          Grande P48

 COFFEE AND TEA

• Cafe Latte
• Hazelnut Cappuccino
• Mocha
• Pearl Milk Tea

FRUIT

• Melon
• Strawberry
• Watermelon

CHOCOLATE   

• Chocolate
• Cookies & Cream
• Choco Crumble

DESSERT

• Black Forest
• Buko Pandan
• Creme Brulee
• Ube

Baby-Z P38          Regular P45          Grande P53

NATURAL

• Natural Mango
• Natural Four Seasons

INDULGENCE

• Choco Caramel
• Halo-Halo

ADD-ONS (P6.00)

• Pearls
• Crystals
• Choco Bits
• Rice Crispies
• Corn Kernels
• Red Mongo Beans

Check out their official website HERE.

This is the most interesting news I've read this week.  Original post from YAHOO.

           WASHINGTON (AFP) – For years, scientists have been predicting the Sun would by around 2012 move into solar maximum, a period of intense flares and sunspot activity, but lately a curious calm has suggested quite the opposite.

           According to three studies released in the United States on Tuesday, experts believe the familiar sunspot cycle may be shutting down and heading toward a pattern of inactivity unseen since the 17th century.

           The signs include a missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles, said experts from the National Solar Observatory and Air Force Research Laboratory.
"This is highly unusual and unexpected," said Frank Hill, associate director of the NSO's Solar Synoptic Network, as the findings of the three studies were presented at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

           "But the fact that three completely different views of the Sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."
Solar activity tends to rise and fall every 11 years or so. The solar maximum and solar minimum each mark about half the interval of the magnetic pole reversal on the Sun, which happens every 22 years.

           Hill said the current cycle, number 24, "may be the last normal one for some time and the next one, cycle 25, may not happen for some time.

           "This is important because the solar cycle causes space weather which affects modern technology and may contribute to climate change," he told reporters.
 
           Experts are now probing whether this period of inactivity could be a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period when hardly any sunspots were observed between 1645-1715, a period known as the "Little Ice Age."

           "If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we'll see for a few decades. That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth's climate," said Hill.

           Solar flares and eruptions can send highly charged particles hurtling toward Earth and interfere with satellite communications, GPS systems and even airline controls.

           Geomagnetic forces have been known to occasionally garble the world's modern gadgetry, and warnings were issued as recently as last week when a moderate solar flare sent a coronal mass ejection in the Earth's direction.

           The temperature change associated with any reduction in sunspot activity would likely be minimal and may not be enough to offset the impact of greenhouse gases on global warming, according to scientists who have published recent papers on the topic.
"Recent solar 11-year cycles are associated empirically with changes in global surface temperature of 0.1 Celsius," said Judith Lean, a solar physicist with the US Naval Research Laboratory.

           If the cycle were to stop or slow down, the small fluctuation in temperature would do the same, eliminating the slightly cooler effect of a solar minimum compared to the warmer solar maximum. The phenomenon was witnessed during the descending phase of the last solar cycle.

           This "cancelled part of the greenhouse gas warming of the period 2000-2008, causing the net global surface temperature to remain approximately flat -- and leading to the big debate of why the Earth hadn't (been) warming in the past decade," Lean, who was not involved in the three studies presented, said in an email to AFP.

           A study in the March 2010 issue of Geophysical Research Letters explored what effect an extended solar minimum might have, and found no more than a 0.3 Celsius dip by 2100 compared to normal solar fluctuations.

           "A new Maunder-type solar activity minimum cannot offset the global warming caused by human greenhouse gas emissions," wrote authors Georg Feulner and Stefan Rahmstorf, noting that forecasts by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have found a range of 3.7 Celsius to 4.5 Celsius rise by this century's end compared to the latter half of the 20th century. 

           "Moreover, any offset of global warming due to a grand minimum of solar activity would be merely a temporary effect, since the distinct solar minima during the last millennium typically lasted for only several decades or a century at most."

Caution:  This entry may contain too much personal information but what the heck, right?

       

          I was out of feminine wash so I went for a trip to Rustan's Ayala Cebu to buy one.  To my dismay, they didn't have Lactacyd on stock.  Since we're at this, I have not seen Carefee feminine wash for some time now.  It made me wonder if they had stopped selling it. 

          I'm not really a fan of PH Care feminine wash nor GynePro,  I picked this Palmolive Tahiti instead (and honestly, it's more of curiosity that I picked this one than me being not a fan of PH Care / GenyPro).

                The packaging does not say anything in English but then of course "Douche" does suggest cleaning of the vagina.  What's puzzling is that, the packaging does not look like anything that has to do with "douching" at all.  Oh well, I thought I'd give it a shot since it was displayed in between the pantyliners and other feminine wash.

          I searched for the product information and hoping they have it all in English.  To my surprise, "douche" is actually a german word for shower.  This product is definitely not a feminine wash but a shower gel  :D

          Well, I'm taking the trip back to the Rustan's tomorrow to return this product.

          I've been lost for the last couple of days; I've been crying, I've been sad.  There are reasons I could not easily divulge under any circumstance - no matter how much I'm dying to tell you what has been bothering me.  In times like this, I seek silence, solitude (or solitudine if that's the proper word for that instead).

         As many of you may already know, one of my favorite songs is that of Kings of Leon's Use Somebody.  I came across this cover by Laura Jansen and this is what I've been playing the entire week. I've been soothed (a little).  For those of you out there who may want to seek refuge by means of a  song, this may be perfect for you.

Enjoy!

Use Somebody cover by Laura Jansen from Carrie Todd on Vimeo.

I've been roaming around

Always looking down at all I see

Painted faces, fill the places I cant reach

You know that I could use somebody

You know that I could use somebody

Someone like you, And all you know, And how you speak

Countless lovers under cover of the street

You know that I could use somebody

You know that I could use somebody

Someone like you

Off in the night, while you live it up, I'm off to sleep

Waging wars to shape the poet and the beat

I hope it's gonna make you notice

I hope it's gonna make you notice

Someone like me

Someone like me

Someone like me, somebody

Someone like you, somebody

Someone like you, somebody

Someone like you, somebody

I've been roaming around,

Always looking down at all I see