Geek Trip: Mighty Beanz

I was on a routine site visit with my colleagues a few weeks ago when one of them told me about this new toy her son is so OBSESSED about...Mighty Beanz! Her son collects them, races them, trades them, etc! So the geek in me got so intrigued! Intrigued enough to go to Rustan's and purchase a few just to see if I get inspired enough to collect them. And this is what I found:

They're little plastic beans, with little metal balls inside that causes them to twitch and jump. They also have colored film on them that give each of them a special character.  The ones above, from L to R, top row first, - Astronaut Bean, Drill Sergeant Bean, Football Bean, Musketeer Bean, Hotdog Bean, Bloodhound Bean, Snowboard Bean, and Karate Bean!  Beans are either common, rare, or ultra rare.  From the few packs that I got, I got mostly commons and one rare - the Drill Sergeant Bean.  You can only get rare beans from the multi-packs, and you can only get the ultra rare beans from the six packs.

I think they are a great collectible!  And fun for kids 5 years old and above to collect, trade, and play with!  Plus each bean is only P49.75 so it won't break the bank for Mommy and Daddy.

So far I've only seen them in Rustans but will keep a look out on where else they can be purchased!  Mighty Beans were created and manufactured by Moose Enterprise, in Australia.

The Shiny New Toy

So last weekend Caleb got a few shiny new toys! Chuck & friends from Tonka!  We got him all five small trucks - Chuck the Dump Truck, Handy the Tow Truck, Tucker the PickUp Truck, Rowdy the Garbage Truck, and Boomer the Fire Truck!  Here's a picture of the five of them together!

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Caleb loved playing around with his new trucks! He just loves things with wheels!  It's great that we have five of them coz Caleb now likes to throw things!  So at least he will go through five before we have to go and clean them up.

Hey...and Mommy got a new toy too...

I love it!

Addicted to angry birds!

Frontseat Romance

This morning, my husband and I were on our way to work, when we noticed the couple in the blue car in front of us kissing. So at first I thought it was cute (this was right before we entered McKinley Road from Fort Bonifacio), then when they just kept on kissing I thought...hmmm...(this was about a minute into McKinley road), then when they kept coming back for more I thought...'Get a room!' (this was about the time we reached Santuario de San Antonio)...then when we saw the guy licking his lips...I thought...eeww.

So note to self and to everyone, the car is not exactly private space.