Luntian Bags

hi, ichay! congrats with this great venture of saving the environment your way what makes it even better is you’re helping a community in san teodoro.

anyway, i make and sell all-natural handmade soaps and i was thinking of giving your bag out for free to my customers who order and buy a certain quantity of my handmade soaps.

maybe we can work something out

i’m excited with just the thought! will e-mail you now.

Hello Ichay!!!!!
I applaud you for this challenging and worthy undertaking. You are truly making a HUGE difference in people’s lives. I want to support you on this and I will talk to Weng (sister) about ordering from you a bunch for gifts for her friends and my friends too. I will have her contact you about price and delivery. Congratulations!!! Anything I can do from here,just let me know….Mae

hi ichay! i am so happy to discover your livelihood project! we also use cacha bags for our groceries here in Frankfurt, and i’ve thought to myself several times, the time will come when someone comes up with this idea in the Philippines. so i’m doubly happy to know it was you! congratulations, sis! good luck!

Great job Ichay! Nice blog! Na-guilty tuloy ako cos my blog has walang katuturang travel and gimick… Anyway, your project is very very good. I shall do my best to promote it whenever i can. All the best.

Hi, Ichay!

I gave the bags i ordered from you last Christmas to my friends and family. In fact, your bag has traveled to Baguio now!

This is my way of supporting your project and my own little way of saving our planet.

Keep up the great job!

Hi Ms. Ichay,

I’m Joseph Henry Interior Design student from PUP, I have watched you in a Sweet Life’s episode, it is about your luntian bags, I really like your project on saving our mother earth and at the same helping out fellow Filipinos. It would a pleasure for me to be a part of your team in doing that project. I can provide new designs for your new collection of luntian bags; I can do both manual drawings and computer works.
Ms. Ichay, I would like to hear from you if your office is still hiring for some talent and I’m willing to work in your team. I also insist if I can in touch with you in person so that I can show you samples of my work. You can contact me at watercolor1987@yahoo.com, 0919-3430079.
More powers to you and to your team. God bless…

Dear Ichay,

Thank you so much for your dedication to both the livelihood program and the environment! The project is inspiring.

My husband I wanted to give our guests at our wedding a giveway that was meaningful and environmentally friendly (and not something that would be shoved into a dresser drawer afterwards). We decided to use the turtle bags as giveaways for our beach wedding in Boracay. The bags served as the perfect beach bag for the weekend and will serve as grocery bags in the future – the perfect sustainable gift for our guests!

Many thanks,
Andrea & Jaime

I feel I have known you for years but truth is we have not really met except I believe I saw you from a distance from your in-laws’ wedding anniversary years back. I also asked for your contact number, remember? I am the other Mrs. Bulaong at UA&P and the ISM colleagues of Wyn Wyn and Hammett, your Anilao neighbors. Of course my husband Ben is the cousin of Raul’s dad. I now know why Cora and Totoy are so proud of Raul and Ichay!

I am interested in the idea of your bags as giveaways for my daughter’s wedding in LA. I hope she can afford it and say yes to the idea. HOW DO I GET TO SEE YOU AND THE BAGS?

Rosal Bulaong

Got a sample of your bags in Good Shepherd. Interested in ordering some for Delimondo Food Specialties. Please get in touch with me at 8449140 or at the above email.

thanks.

Dear Mam Ichay,
How are you Mam Ichay? I know for sure, that you don’t remember me at all nor can even recall how I happen to meet you.
I searched for your name at facebook and I found 1 link (myinnersail.blogspot.com) I’ve gone through your blog and I was glad
to kknow that I am not mistaken, you are the Ichay Bulaong whom I am looking for, a wife of my former boss in Video Post Manila,
Raul Bulaong.
Let me recall, how did I met you in July of 1993, ’twas I think, sometimes in 3rd or 4th week of July 1993. I was working then in Dna Narcisa
Bldg in Paseo De Roxas (bldg not existing anymore, it was replaced by equitable bank i think) in one of the event management company i think in 3rd floor
if i can still recall. The name of the company was Wharton Powers, we were the ones dealing with the retail booth at the Glorietta and Park Square area.
I was then working as an exhibition designer. Our boss in Wharton was then Mr Ortiz and Dean Dayao. My superior was Rikki Pichay, a very good designer.
One Sunday, during those times (3rd week of July 1993) I found an ad in Manila Bulletin that Ogilvy & Mather was searching for an advertising artist.
And coincidentally, you are located above us, in the same Dna Narcisa Bldg along Paseo. You had me interviewed, you were then a Direct Marketing Manager
of O&M. During the course of the interview, you had told me, whether I would like to work in computer graphics field. I said, I had no experience.
But you still insist so that I meet your husband Raul Bulaong. After few days, I met Raul Bulaong, through your recommendation. The following days, he (Raul) introduced me
to Ding Achacoso and Bonbon Jimenez who was our MD during that time. This moment, that I really treasured as long as I live in this world, when I worked for at least 10 months in
Cinevideo where I gained exposure and experience in this particular cutting edge industry. The Computer Animation Industry. It is indeed beyond your knowledge, that you opened
a door for me in this career. Although, I didn’t spend too much time working in the Philippines, after Cinevideo I moved to Imagineers with Miki Ramos, worked there for at least a year as well.
Then, the next 3 years, I spent working in the same field in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. And in1999 I moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, I found myself working
in the State Government-owned TV Channel in Dubai, Dubai TV owned by Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai Emirates in UAE.
Where I gained more and more experience. Worked there as an on-air news graphics controller, working with Quantel Hal, Paintbox and Avid.
While I still worked on some 3D graphics. In short I spent the last 12 years in UAE. Last 2 years I was in Aghani Music TV (Arabic Music Channel) owned by
the Ruler of Ajman, UAE. I developed the TV branding from scratch. With all those years of absence in the Philippines, I had an opportunity to travel in many parts of the world
with my family. I am in expatriate status in UAE.
To you, Mam Ichay and Sir Raul Bulaong, you made special role in my life when you opened door for me to dive into this post production in television career.
How I wish to meet you 1 day, I know for sure Raul B won’t recognize me anymore almost after 18 yrs since I left Video Post Manila in1994.
I am known in Cinevideo and VP Manila as Brezhnev, my colleagues used to call me by that name. It is because I graduated in Moscow, Russia (USSR) after
having completed state scholarship for almost 8 years.
Again, I am very grateful to you both.
If it is not through you, I would not have been doing well in this field. Im returned back to Manila to stay for good in January 2011.

Thanks again.
Nilo M Agustin
former Cinevideo Arts Philippines artist (July 1993-March 1994)