033 | same shit everyday, a planner doodle I made for my Project 365, Counting Idle Moments!

Can you believe it?! I think January flew so fast! Lol. Maybe I was just too busy lately to notice it’s February already. Haha! Well, how was first week of February?

Mine can be summarized by the photo I posted above. SHITTY. I’ve been experiencing loads of crap, stress, and drama the whole week. Plus, my internet has been so choppy lately too. January was a good month, I hope February eventually turn to a good one too.

On a brighter note, it’s been a known fact that there are people who release their stress and depression by means of eating, and well, I’m one of those! I’ve been randomly craving for food lately which I helplessly follow leaving me a bit over on my weekly budget but at least I get to eat what I crave for. Haha! I get to eat my favourite Subway sandwich (Roast chicken sandwich) for lunch on Monday, then yummy home-cooked sweet and sour pork meal lunch from my mum on Tuesday, a cheesy and creamy chicken lasagna dinner f(House of Lasagna) on Wednesday,  a fresh cooked shrimp (from Century Park) dinner on Thursday, and a nice tuna sandwich and warm huge cup of Starbucks’ Signature hot chocolate on Friday. Awesome. :>

Oh yes, while I was in Podium last Monday to get my Subway sandwich, I passed by a restaurant near the escalator and saw their French dipped roast beef sandwich, I’m kind of interested in trying that one too. Lol. Maybe I should bring a nicer camera whenever I eat and take nicer photos right? Lol.

For those who are working very hard on their Project 365 this year, how are you guys keeping up with it? I’m doing ok so far. I’m really hoping to finish it! My uploading is pretty laggy due to my busy workload though. :/ I’m planning to post a summary of my 365 every week here on my blog (just to have a decent regular update cos I want to keep this place alive!) and I kinda miss old school style of blogging. :]

I’ve been wanting to have a new theme for this site for ages now and good thing I wasn’t that busy this week so I was able to come up with this spazzy new theme! I fell in love with the wood background I used the moment I saw it, I was actually browsing for something I can use for a project study and saw the wood texture and used it for my design but the client made me take it off and leave the design plain so I tweaked it a bit and used it for my blog instead. Sweet, instant theme.

I haven’t been coding for ages too so pardon my codes, recycled everything here actually. Hahaha. This is like a patchwork of all my past themes… the codes I mean. I’m trying to revive this domain bit by bit!

I’m teaching myself how to make my own tumblr theme. Heehee, sorry cos coding isn’t really my thing so I’m pretty slow to code. :>

Btw, for more recent updates you guys should just check my Project 365, counting idle moments. Posting them on both tumblr and flickr now, not on a daily basis though. It’s prety tough for me to update on a daily basis. :]

Hello 2010 photo by me using my point and shoot camera :]

Hello 2010! How was your holidays? Sorry if I haven’t been updating stuff since my previous post, things have been quite busy. Lol. :] December was perhaps the busiest month I’ve had for 2009. My first post of year will be a photospam of all my holiday photos. lol :]

warning: photospammed entry ahead :]

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Our first every polymer clay pendant’s before and after baking photos :>

I had my first polymer clay sculpting attempt last November 30. It was a non-working holiday so I met up with Den, Eiya, JV, and Ate Fae at Trinoma for JV’s despedida. Den and I have been so eager to make clay accessories for weeks and we have been watching Feye make clay orders via webcam so on the 30th we finally had our first clay experience at JV’s super far house. The pics I posted above is the result of our first try! Yes, we failed but it’s ok. We can always try again. :>

I brought my clays to work and people in my department became excited about it and sculpted some clays too. They really browsed at clay tutorials how to mold them and created a few food miniatures such as cake slice, donuts, cupcakes, carrots, oranges, mini Hershey’s kisses, and Toblerone. They even researched ways on how to cook the clays using the microwave since we don’t have any oven at the office, we only have a microwave. It was really really fun! We were able to successfully cook some clays using the microwave! I brought them home and turn them into cute little earrings! Here’s a photo of the cake slice’s finished product. :> Well, so what do you guys think?

Aside from attempting to make polymer clay accessories, I’ve been tumblring again! Since my boss blocked this blog in our office, I decided to open my tumblr once again! Lol. Oh I’ve joined the formspring.me craze too! Formspring.me and ask me anything. :]

Lastly, I’ve been in a phone hunt lately too. I need to replace my beloved Samsung D900 slider phone because I’ve been bringing it in and out of the repair shop for the past 6 months now. Do you think I should switch to a touchscreen phone (Samsung Star Wifi) or a smartphone (Samsung Omnia Pro B7320)? Yes, I’m a Samsung fan. Heehee.

My birthday outfit, consists of a red and white striped dress, black military jacket/blazer (Yes! I finally bought it!!), my school dogtag, my favourite black flats, and my black fluffy shoulder bag. :]

Well, I wasn’t able to write a decent entry about my birthday so I’ll just do that now + happenings.

I spent my twenty-fourth birthday with someone I just met that day. I mean, I spent almost my entire day with people I don’t really know. I was out for a photoshoot that day. We have to shoot store photos of RSC Ermita and RSC Galleria so I was out with some RSC people, the photographer our office hired, and his assistant. Yes, I know what a weird way to celebrate but I had fun anyway! I dropped by the office around lunch and went back right after the shoot was over to finally celebrate my birthday with the office people and had the usual dinner with my family after work. :]

The next day, I found out that I share the same birthday with the driver of the fx I take going to Greenhills from Megamall and the people inside the fx greeted us! It was so weird yet funny! It was the first time strangers suddenly greeted me happy birthday.

I spent my weekend by watching New Moon at Trinoma with Den and Eiya on Saturday and nursing my grandmother the whole night till Sunday morning and slept the rest of the day.

When Monday started, I was just shocked with the news that our boss wants us to use Outlook Express instead of Gmail for our company emails. It was kind of shitty cos who on earth uses outlook express these days? US! Later that day, I found out that my boss blocked this site (my blog) again! Like what the hell is wrong with him again?

The whole week was pretty much the same with the other weeks except for the fact that there are less workload this week and that I’ve been trying to teach myself how to mold polymer clay and how to make accessories out of it cos I might open an online shop with Den with polymer clay accessories as our main products.

I went out with the office people last night. Had a few drinks and laughs. It felt sooo good cos it’s been a while since the last time I hung out with them. I went to Greenhills after that to meet up with Eiya, Cy, Kat, and Mike. It was a fun night!

However and on a brighter note, I’ve been pretty active on Tumblr lately and I finally got a googlewave account. :] Feel free to add me ok? Just tell me yours so I can add you guys too. I’ve been getting my shopping wishlist lately too. Hahaha! I managed to get a new pair of shoes, black tights, and clothes. Woots. :]

Happy Twenth-fourth birthday to me! :]

I celebrated by twenty-fourth birthday yesterday (18th November). It was perhaps one of the happiest one I had in years.Yes, I was so busy because I had a work-related photoshoot but it was really fun. It doesn’t feel like working actually but it was pretty tiring!!!

My day started pretty early for me. I was already working as early as 7am. I had lunch pretty early too and went back to the office for some stuff and continued with another photoshoot afterward. After the shoot, I went back to the office to decently celebrate my birthday with another girl cause we have the same birthday. So yes, there were a lot of food! And sorry, no pics available! Haha!

After work, I had a nice dinner with my mum, my brother, my brother’s gf, and my mom’s friend at Libis. It was really fun! I’ll update this one with photos whenever I uploaded them. hehe.

A box of happines, brownies! Baked by Azeined :]

I didn’t expect October to be that fast! It’s November already and there have been a lot of happenings in my life lately! It’s like WOW! I couldn’t believe it myself. Hahaha!

More photos below :]

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Sorry if this is being a bit tad cliche and I’m sorry if you’re being bombarded with these things but this is the least I can do to help. There are still thousands of people who needs rescuing and help and for someone who is fortunate enough be dried and comfy and is still capable to go to work today, I really have the urge to help and call everyone to help as well.

I have friends and most of my colleagues at work lives in Marikina, Cainta, QC, and Pasig areas, some of them are ok now, some are in evacuation centers, and some haven’t answered a call or text yet. I have relatives living in San Mateo, Rizal whom we can’t contact yet. Hopefully everyone’s fine.

I was repacking goods earlier and was also lurking around the net while working and found these ways to help the Ondoy victims:

1. Ways to donate to the Philippine National Red Cross via the PNRC web site

2. Compilation of drop-off points and where to donate @ burymeinthisdress.com

3. More compilations from Bianca Gonzales’ blog

4. TULONG TOMASINO!

5. SAGIP KAPAMILYA: Tel Nos: 413-2667 / 416-0387

6. They are now accepting donations at the San Juan Arena too.

The Wish; 15″x20″ illustration on strathmore paper; mixed media. This is one out of my 24 thesis illustrations for a children’s book.

My thesis was probably the last set of illustrations I did using traditional mixed media. Just to give everyone a  little background, I was an advertising arts major and I used to draw and paint a lot (every single day of my 4 years stay in art school I guess). It has been 2 1/2 years since the last time I touched my pencils, brushes, and paints and I have to admit I really miss them.

My mum’s been slightly bugging me to paint something for our living room but I know she wants to me paint something really huge like 3ftx5ft type of painting and I still don’t know what to paint so I don’t know how I’ll start with that one yet. :/ Plus, I don’t know where I’ll get a canvas as big as that. Heehee.

Recently of my officemates brought up an exhibit topic asking us if we’d like to hold an exhibit somewhere and I find it really interesting. I’ve been itching to paint some personal artworks that’s not really as complex as what my mum wants but at least I’ll be able to paint again on small canvases. We’re also planning to sell the artworks we’ll exhibit so it’s really interesting and fun. Haha!

The problem is, I don’t know where I’ll paint yet.

You see, we wanted to get a little bit more creative with this exhibit so instead of using the normal canvas, we want to explore on paintings or artworks on something useful like sneakers, shirts, etc. Well, what do you guys think?

And before I end this,would you guys mind to answer a little survey?

1. Would you be interested to buy hand-painted items/things?
2. If yes, on what items would you it to be painted? Sneakers? Shirts? Bags? Mugs? Plates? or Plain canvas?
3. If no, why?
4. If our exhibit pushes through, would you be interested to come or pay us a visit?

That’s about it. :]

I was in Trinoma with my mum earlier. It was the first time I went there with her and my 3rd overall visit. It’s quite far from where I live so I rarely go there. The only reason my mum decided to go there today was because she needed to get some items from their store using her GC.

Well anyway, we went window shopping while waiting for my brother to finish his classes but we ended up spending the rest of our time inside Zara! And yes, I confess that I’m a Zara-freak but don’t get me wrong. I’m not a brand-conscious type of person as a matter of fact, most of my clothes are from tiange however if ever I’d buy something branded, I’d always go for Zara or Topshop. Hahaha! :/

I’ve been looking for military/navy inspired clothes for the past months (It’s because of Girls Generation/SNSD’s Tell Me Your Wish and I know it’s freakingly mad hahaha!) and earlier today, I finally found one!!! And yes, I saw it in Zara-TRF. Hahaha! I was so hyped but broke that I begged my mum to buy it for me like a little kid begging his parent to buy him a new toy but!!! but!! she refused!!!

She told me to save/invest for it however the last time I saved up for a Zara jacket I ended up buying something else instead because 1, I find it really really expensive; 2, it was sold out already; and 3, it’s a furry knitted wool long cardigan so I’m not sure I can actually wear it in a tropical country. So I changed my mind and totally failed. I wonder if I’ll change my mind with this one… hahaha.

Like everyone else, I have a pretty long list of things that I want to have. They are either gadgets or clothes, shoes, and bags. To name a few I’d like to have a:

1. New laptop. Any brand will do really as long as I can work on it.
2. DSLR! It seems like I won’t be buying one this year after all. I was saving up for one so I can buy one on my birthday but I need the laptop more so I’ll buy the laptop first. This one can always wait.
3. Samsung Jet. Hahaha. if I can’t get it, I’d get a Samsung Star Wifi instead :] I bought it last Christmas :>>
   
4. Military Jacket or any blazer will do. Haha. :] – thanks  mum <3
5. Uniquely cute and comfortable ballet flats. I love flats. Most of my shoes are flats and most of them are really cute. Well, I have 2 new black flats now. I’m planning to buy a blue one next time.
6. Ankle boots! Hahaha. Flat ones please.
7. Headbands! I want this nice little red headband from a store which I don’t want to mention anymore. I also like Anne Curtis’ really expensive headband.
8. KPOP &  JPOP CDs!!! I heard that GG/SNSD’s Tell Me Your Wish mini album will be released in Manila on October 2, 2009. I’ll surely get my copy. I hope 2ne1 will release their mini album in Manila too. :> Thank you friends for the SNSD cd as birthday gift.
   
9. Shirts, blouses, and dresses.
10. Bags. I like big bags because I carry a lot of stuff everyday. I also like a particular red laptop bag from Fully-booked High Street.
11. Temptstation accessories. It’s one of my favourite Greenhills store. Haha.

I can go on listing everything I want but I guess these are the things I’d list for now. This entry’s getting pretty long already and I have to sleep so goodnight! :]