Author: Yap Jin Wen

Editor of THREAD by ZALORA PH ✨ A curious soul with a penchant for horror 👻 Passionately exploring the world with endless questions. 🌎 A dedicated enthusiast of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle. 💟
Health & Wellness

No-Fail Gifts For The Sporty Friend In Your Life

Pressies that’ll make the heart pump There’s bound to be someone in your life who lives to work out — aka the hardest person to shop for during Christmas. Well, mainly because we’re not exactly a gym rat ourselves, anything sports-related sounds entirely foreign. Like what do you look for when buying a protein shake? Or how do you choose the best kind of badminton racquet? Though that … Continue reading No-Fail Gifts For The Sporty Friend In Your Life

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Christmas, Festivities

Kitchen Tools To Hoard If You’re Cooking Christmas Dinner This Year

Everything’s *chef’s kiss* Christmas — it’s the most wonderful time of the year, but also the most stressful. As we slip into the final countdown to the big day, many of us are running around like headless chickens, doing our last bout of shopping. While you scroll through the endless catalog pages trying to scoop up every item on your gift shopping list, don’t forget the essentials … Continue reading Kitchen Tools To Hoard If You’re Cooking Christmas Dinner This Year

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Home, Lifestyle

Have An Awesome Dinner Gathering At Home With These Must-Have Tablewares

“Lovely indeed” We’re pretty sure many have penned this down as their number one to-do list once life returns to normal. A lovely dinner with friends and family, complete with a buffet spread of mother’s best dishes. While all we can do now is patiently wait, perhaps we can get a head start by collecting fancy tableware first? It’ll take some time to hunt for … Continue reading Have An Awesome Dinner Gathering At Home With These Must-Have Tablewares

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Home, Lifestyle

Stuck At Home? Try Having A Bridgerton Garden Party With The Fanciest Tableware

Time to partea! Social life lately has definitely been lackluster. Thanks to you-know-what, we’re still pretty much stuck at home. We miss hopping around town to experience new restaurants, the light-hearted banter with people, and the puzzling flavors that never ceased to surprise our tongues. There’d be at least a few months more until we can relive that life again. For now, bring the revelry indoors … Continue reading Stuck At Home? Try Having A Bridgerton Garden Party With The Fanciest Tableware

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Kids, Parenting Tips

6 Kid’s Bags That’ll Have You Want To Bag It All

Keep calm and #carryon Schools may not all be ready to embrace the kids back yet, but with that announcement possibly coming in a few months, there’s no harm in prepping for back-to-school. We know little junior has been waiting for years, if not months, to pick out his new bag. And with the new year fast approaching, there’s no better way to start afresh than … Continue reading 6 Kid’s Bags That’ll Have You Want To Bag It All

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Gadgets, Lifestyle

All I Want For Christmas Is: Tech Edition

Make it a December to remember! Almost everyone these days is into tech and regularly interacts with the latest gizmos — robot vacuum cleaners, Bluetooth speakers, virtual assistants like the Google Home Hub. It doesn’t take a village to tell you that people are fascinated with advanced gadgetry, hence when it comes to gifting, tech gifts are a breath of fresh air. Though, here comes the difficult … Continue reading All I Want For Christmas Is: Tech Edition

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Health & Wellness

Stress Relief Exercises To Squeeze Into Your WFH Routine

It’s all about the work-life balance Reality check: WFH arrangements weren’t what we thought they would be. Initially, we’d romanticized having extra hours for self-care things like workouts or a hearty full-fledged breakfast. Little did we know, instead of that ideal life, we’d be in sweatpants all day, waking up five minutes before nine and blurring the lines between work and private life. Without even … Continue reading Stress Relief Exercises To Squeeze Into Your WFH Routine

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Home, Lifestyle

These Furniture Pieces Will Make You Love Working From Home

Better productivity starts here! Whether you accept the new norm of working from home or not, many of us have indeed been hunching our backs over a computer for a few months now. Such reality hasn’t been exactly kind to our postures nor mental health. One, because we lack the proper furniture, and two (a result of one), unorganized space renders irritability. For the sake of … Continue reading These Furniture Pieces Will Make You Love Working From Home

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Health & Wellness, Lifestyle

Beauty From Within: Vitamins For Glowing Skin & Stronger Immunity

Double duty vitamins? Yes, please! Nobody’s a stranger to the adage “beauty comes from within”, but exactly how many people really understand its definition? Like the majority, we tend to stop at it being a reminder that real beauty comes from lovely thoughts and unique personalities. But that’s not the whole story for what you put in your body shows up on your face as well. … Continue reading Beauty From Within: Vitamins For Glowing Skin & Stronger Immunity

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Home, Lifestyle

5 Essential Kitchen Tools & Gadgets For Beginner Cooks

Basic but grate! When you have a white belt for cooking, stories of burnt fingers and oil splatters may haunt you from making headway. You need not be afraid for all you require are just the right kitchen tools. Sharp blades that cut and grate without having your fingers in the way, a stand mixer that does all kinds of strenuous labor, a digital scale because … Continue reading 5 Essential Kitchen Tools & Gadgets For Beginner Cooks

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Uncategorized

Christmas Party Outfits For Kids That Are Sure To Impress

When your kids #sleigh While other parts of the world start talking about Christmas as soon as Halloween’s over, we Filipinos have already been on it three months prior. Rain or shine, good or bad, we never cancel Christmas. We just find ways to work around it, even if that means scaling down the shindig and inviting a smaller circle. With the vaccine rolling out, we … Continue reading Christmas Party Outfits For Kids That Are Sure To Impress

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Home, Lifestyle

Fancy Hand Washes & Sanitizers To Keep Viruses At Bay

With these, you’ll be in safe hands! Hand washes and sanitizers used to be a mere accessory for bathroom counters and kitchen sinks, until the pandemic hit. Now that scrubbing hands has been hierarchized on top of the pyramid of combating Covid-19, we’re seeing them re-entering the body care echelon as a major contender. Even the way we shop for them has changed. It used to … Continue reading Fancy Hand Washes & Sanitizers To Keep Viruses At Bay

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Health & Wellness

The Best Gym Equipment To Motivate Your Next Workout At Home

The pandemic is no excuse to slow down We’re sorry, the gyms still aren’t safe for us to frequent yet. Though, don’t take that as an excuse to not squeeze in a workout or two into your routine. At times like this, moving the body is important for building up strong immunity. Whether that means religiously following exercises posted on Yoga With Adriene or simple stretching … Continue reading The Best Gym Equipment To Motivate Your Next Workout At Home

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Home, Lifestyle

6 Easy Ways To Refresh Your Bedroom Without Breaking The Bank

Bedrooms that make you go “Nama-stay” Instead of the usual scroll through on IG for the latest fashion trends, we find ourselves more captivated by pictures of lust-worthy bedrooms. Even the desire to spruce up our chambers grows stronger by the day. Understandably, since it’s where we spend most of our time and feel most safe at (especially with the pandemic still raging outside). A … Continue reading 6 Easy Ways To Refresh Your Bedroom Without Breaking The Bank

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Health & Wellness, Lifestyle

Wellness Tips: Practising Self-Care Amid A Pandemic

You got to nourish to flourish With the pandemic taking a toll on all aspects of our lives, the least we can do is slow down. Ask yourself this: when’s the last time you’ve taken time to make yourself a hearty breakfast or been stern with not taking any client calls after 6 pm? A long time ago, we figure. Let’s not further starve ourselves from … Continue reading Wellness Tips: Practising Self-Care Amid A Pandemic

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Kids, Kids Fashion

Comfy Shoes Kids Won’t Mind Marching In Day In, Day Out

Literally solemates! Now that we have bid adieu to the wet season, we’re finally embracing the warmer months of blazing sun, tank tops, and sandals. It’s tempting to drive straight to the beach, but with the novel virus still lurking around, it’s best to stay far away from the crowd as we can. A nice stroll around the neighborhood can compensate, which we believe little … Continue reading Comfy Shoes Kids Won’t Mind Marching In Day In, Day Out

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Home, Lifestyle

Surprising Things You Never Knew You Could Make With An Air Fryer

We didn’t even know that The air fryer, in our opinion, could just be the greatest invention humankind has ever developed, ever! What Is An Air Fryer, Anyways? Before plunging into the realm of air fryers, we had no idea how many types there were. After a bit of digging, we discovered cylindrical ones, those that resemble a toaster and even an oven too. But if you … Continue reading Surprising Things You Never Knew You Could Make With An Air Fryer

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Home, Lifestyle

6 Must-Have Kitchen Appliances For People Who Hate Cooking

We’ll have one each, please Call it the greatest love of all time, we humans do have a special relationship with food. Some flavors excite the tongue while others conjure nostalgic memories of grandma’s homecooked food. As much as we want to keep this feeling alive by recreating those recipes ourselves, there’s always the other side of the coin. Not everyone likes to cook, especially those … Continue reading 6 Must-Have Kitchen Appliances For People Who Hate Cooking

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Home, Lifestyle

Make Your Bed With These Bed Sheets To Feel Cozy During Rainy Season

Another reason why you always hit snooze With cold weather comes the need to snuggle up in a cozy bed. Not forgetting that it should be nicely layered with the softest sheets and warmest blankets. It’s little details like these that make us anticipate a rainy day. If old bedding hasn’t been doing you justice lately, now’s the time to bid them goodbye and embrace the … Continue reading Make Your Bed With These Bed Sheets To Feel Cozy During Rainy Season

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Home, Lifestyle

Knick-Knacks You Need In Your Life To Create The Ultimate Zen Room

Welcome to the No. Stress. Zone I n a time where all events become amplified via social media platforms, it’s easy to get lost in our sea of emotions. The negativity you absorb from distressing news jumbled up with the stress you’re already dealing with can really brew a severe breakdown. Before you even reach that tipping point, be heedful of your mental health and there … Continue reading Knick-Knacks You Need In Your Life To Create The Ultimate Zen Room

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