Thursday, March 22, 2012

Pleasant Surprise: Portable Travelling Trolley

Know the feeling that you thought something is of no use to you and then you found out later you need it and it’s just the right one for you? How about giving up on solving a puzzle and then going back on it again after some time and finally solving it? Well, this post is about both.
We had this portable trolley in the office since Christmas. My officemates who were assigned with the gifts and prizes committee on our company’s Christmas Party happens to be three sweet and funny girls as well. While shopping for these gifts, they convinced the owner of the store to give them gifts as tokens of appreciation for blessing their store the opportunity to be the source of all the company giveaways. And so they were given these trolleys.
Problem that time is none of us can actually figure out how to fully use this thing. It was such a mystery to us. I ask them if I can have one since I always travel (1 in every 4 weeks). They happily (and most willingly) gave it one to me.
Work in progress. First we figured out that you can extend the handle (o well, that’s obvious). After a month or so, I figured that you have to slide the nut on the back to spread out the wheels. Really, it was like the life cycle of a grasshopper.
Tough nut to crack. It’s like getting trapped in a middle of a sudoku. So, itinabi na lang muna sya. Almost forgotten.
Earlier today I though, I was browsing thru google for places in Manila to buy a cheap 4-wheel luggage and suddenly I remembered this trolley. I restarted the google search, this time on how to use the trolley but there are no helpful documents. Di ko matanggap na hanggang dun lang ang kaya nya, somehow I know that there is still something to this trolley that still needs to be cracked! I decided to look for the box. After rummaging thru the christmas box of presents in the storage area I found its box. So, it is called “portable folding traveling barrow”.
It was easier to look it up after that. This is the most helpful picture I saw in the internet.
It looks like it alright. And I have manage to stretch out the wheels like that. But why does it have dimensions at the bottom. That’s the part I haven’t seen before.
So I got the trolley and examine it once again. I noticed that the nut is not pushed to the very end of the slot. I pushed it and then I heard a click. I turned to look at the trolley and there! May pangil s’ya!! nyarrr!
That’s what we’ve been missing. This is how you will be able to put a bag on it. I happily showed it to officemates and 1 boss. (I’m sorry but I was really that excited. Finally!) Boss even said that I should keep on working on it, baka mas marami pa syang hidden talents, baka nagiging airplane..
This portable one is ideal if you don’t want to check in your baggage like I do.  It can easily be folded to your bag when it’s time to put the bags at overhead compartment. It is easily folded and unfolded without the need for struggling and wrestling. Also, there’s no need to strain your back or shoulders with your bag as you can just pull away your bag to your heart’s content. But wait, there’s more, according to their website it weighs only 1kg on itself but can carry as much as 20 kilos. Now it’s not a grasshopper but an ant!
Now I don’t have to buy a trolley travelling bag after all. This little gift (for free) saved me some thousands there. I can’t wait to use it this Sunday for my trip back to Manila. I love it!
And that’s how the mystery of the chinese travelling trolley was solved. Case closed.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Toes Socks for my sleep, sugar for my honey…

030320122482-polaEvery one I guess have something weird going on when they sleep: some talk (my mom does, it runs in the family, actually), then walk, others laugh, or fight, or kick or wrestle their bedmates (I swear I got a good dose of kicking and/or wrestling from my ate back in the days) if not the weirdo-circus-contortionist inspired positions while they’re off to dreamland.



As for me, I tend to sort-of  break my neck..bending it in such an angle that almost scared one of my best friend-officemates during a sleepover. SmileAlso, I don’t rest my head on the pillow, I like to put the pillow on the top of my head (just barely touching the top of my head) that it looks like I am pushing the pillow to the headboard with my head. And that doesn’t even include the socks.
Yes. Socks. I do wear socks every night to sleep. I don’t know if it counts for weird (my roommate sure does think so. Winking smile) And it is not for vanity (like sealing moisture after putting lotion on feet. I read that somewhere). It’s more like a “can’t-live-without-thing”, like how, for example, a friend of mine can’t sleep without a mosquitero (kulambo, mosquito net.) at her feet. (She likes feeling the texture of mosquito net at her feet and she can’t explain why either.) Well, as for my case, it’s the socks.
Maybe it’s because I tend to get cold-feet (literally.) That might be the reason. Sleeping without socks to me is like being naked in the middle of Ayala Avenue. Never EVER comfortable. And cold.
All I know is that I love the feeling of some cover for my feet. In fact, pag natutulog and walang socks, kahit paa ko na lang ang magkumot, ok na ako.
Sad pag walang socks, buti na lang I have these cutesies as bedtime buddies.
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Matagal ko na gusto magkaroon ng socks na may 5 toes. I think they’re super cute.
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I got these at the general merchandise store/shop downtown. Di ko alam ung tawag sa socks na to until last Thursday, while window shopping nakakita ko ng similar socks na may tag na: toes socks. Bingo! Araw-araw talaga may bago tayong natututunan. Nerd smile
Each costs 55 pesos. I think mahal s’ya at 55 and di pwede tumawad so I only got 1 at one time and 2 the last time. Meron pa naman akong isa (not pictured), the overused one, a foot sock given by my aunt. It is made out of cushion-like material..super comfy kaya overused talaga!
So that’s it for me. How about you? Do you have some sleeping weirdness to share? Or some sleeping buddies you can’t live without other than dear Teddy? Maybe a pillow or blanket you have since childhood that you refuse to send to the laundry at ayaw mo palabhan? Haha. I am dying to hear each and everyone of them. Please feel free to write your thoughts.
“Til next time. On your positions. GO(odnight)!Sleepy smile
Red heartthe pinay bargainista

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Toe Socks, 55 pesos each. Local store