Quest for the True North

Belle de Jour comes to Cebu

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I got converted to the Belle de Jour  way when a friend in Manila sent me a Belle de Jour planner last year as a random gift. I loved it from the moment I lifted it from the package. It was not like the other planners or organizers that I’ve had. It had an expense tracker, a birthday tracker, a menstrual tracker, and a vacation tracker, to name few. There was a quote for the week every week, and every month there was a theme and tips for the season.

But the best part was that it came with 36 discount coupons to different boutiques and coffee shops!

So when I heard that Belle de Jour was soon releasing the 2009 power planner, I reserved mine right away. Here it is now!

It’s a lot better than the 2008 planner, although that one was already love. I especially likee the cover design.  It has more discount coupons, too! It has 60!

I’m not sure if Belle de Jour has been to Cebu in 2008, but I think not, because I didn’t see the planners sold anywhere here, and I didn’t hear of any Belle de Jour girls here. So when I received the invitation to the launch of the 2009 planner in Powerbooks Cebu, I signed up right away, even though I had an exam that day.

And I have no regrets. The food was great (especially the chicken chimichanga!), and I went home with a lot of loot. I won a free session to a dermatology clinic in addition to the goody bag filled with goodies that I haven’t sorted yet.

The speakers were good, too. The first one, Happy David, the founder of Get Happy Accessories, spoke about “Discovering your True Passion”; the second, Katrina Dy, the Fashion Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, talked about “Becoming your own style icon”; and the third one, Nicole de los Angeles, Beauty Editor of the same magazine, spoke about “Exposing your Natural Beauty.”

I know, the topics are so kikay, and so girly. Belle de Jour, by the way, is French for “It Girl,” so you get the idea why. I was mostly wondering if the speakers knew my college classmates and schoolmates. A lot of them are working now for the media, fashion magazines included. I wondered if my college batchmates, who were nenes and dugyots until two years ago, were like the Belle de Jour speakers when at work. I would probably laugh if I see the transformation.