can't wait!

This is so exciting! I can't wait! 

Let's all go, friends! :) 

money matters

starting today... which is incidentally a pay day... I will be tracking my daily expenses.

this is going to be tough.. but I really need to grow up and start saving money.

no more unnecessary spendings!!!


started today gassing up.. gas is now 55.35/liter.  It's incredibly expensive... But what can I do about it? My 500 pesos only gives me gas that I used to pay 300 pesos for.

At least I have a car..

I found out most of my regular expenses are the ff:

• car payment
• gas 
• groceries for the house 
• phone bill
• internet bill 
• credit card bill 
• SHOPPING! 

I need to eradicate shopping in my life!!!! >,< 

get used to it

it's a pretty peculiar thing knowing that every single time i wake up... face the day... i definitely know it's a challenging one.  

i don't know when this lurking feeling of doom will end but then again i also know God will always see me through.  

i was also thinking, if i didn't do what i was doing right now... i can't think of what i could be doing? sounds like a tongue twister.. haha but yeah life would be so boring and routinary. 

i still can't get used to it... i don't think i'll ever will... but I thank God for the opportunity to be doing what i'm doing... being part of a team to make a small change in the Philippines and how things are run over here. 

so challenging... but then again, nothing worth it ever comes easy.  

photo from pinterest.com

study mode

highlighting with a flourescent marker brings me back to the old days....

Rest in Peace Giovanni

Im really saddened by the news that Vania and Kuya Santi's son passed away. He had just turned one. I'm praying for your family and for the soul of Giovanni. Really sorry for your loss.

Put your feet back on the ground..

Today I have probably experienced a lot of lows. During these times I know its just God's way of speaking to me.

I guess lately I've been having a lot of victories that I slowly forget things that are important such as having grounded faith and being totally grounded myself.

Its my first time in a very long time that commuted through public transport navigating through the streets of metro manila without the comfort of my car, in the blistering heat and riding an ordinary bus and a jeepney.

These are the things my coworkers go through everyday. I'm so privileged that I start to believe I deserve it but in reality I'm just being blessed by God.

I've been going through a lot of oppression lately and I've started doubting again. However, God continues to remind me that all the things I do is not my doing. Its through His grace I am able to perform my tasks and do my job.

I am so sorry Lord for being too complacent and content when I should always be aware of You and Your grace. I know as well that You and only You can get me through this.

All my hope and trust is in You. This is Your work, not mine. The skills I'm using are from You so technically its still You.

Thank you Father for blessing me with so much.

midget

Found this photo from Angie's album from our farm trip last Saturday.

I'm really a midget w/o heels.... >,< hahaha! 

TKDK

Yesterday, I was my parents' driver so I drove them to Rockwell because my dad had a meeting at Bel-Air.  

I was with my mom and Celine while my dad was having a meeting... I realized how much I don't really like shopping at Rockwell coz everything is just on the high-end side. 

Thankfully, I got something on a bargain which is a Tokidoki shirt at Anthem that I can wear for my dressed down days or for going to production.

(photo taken using camera360's jelly filter)

Here they are! I'm wearing them with my super used pants and just flip flops today.  So cute right? The fabric is thin so it's just perfect for the Philippine climate. Original price was 3,500 and I got it for 925. 

I got a Harajuku Lovers tote bag as well.. It's pretty huge. 

(photo taken using camera360's cool filter)

I like how I can put like tons of stuff inside... and I got it at 1400+ but the original price was 4000. I sort of couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the reductions on the stuff I got.  Got both from Anthem.. 

Seems like I'll be using them for a long time.  So yeah, I don't hate Rockwell as much as before. He was kind to me yesterday. haha

Fields..

At the farm today... Woke up at 4:30am. Angie picked me up as we will be giving workshops on natural products here at the social innovations camp at the enchanted farm.

Lovely day today! Currently having my 3rd breakfast after one round of walking around the whole place. Pretty cool hanging out eith Angie, Sarah, Luigi and Mike.

Its also only here that i get to see my dad haha

Happy anniversary trese printers!

Wonderful work for the past years.... Inspiring working with such enterprises :)

In other news..

I'm testing out blogger app for iphone... Pretty curious how this will work out.

Anyway, i chopped of probably 40% of my hair last tuesday. I honestly dont like it. It lacks volume and oomph but then again i needed to chop it off so i can grow out my processed, damaged hair. I cant wait til all my hair will be my original one. Haha

I feel pretty strange with straight hair.

the answer is yes..

angie has just come back from kota kinabalu...

oh malaysia, when can i go back to you? well, who am i to say? i've only been to a small part of malaysia in johor bahru when i was in college just coz it was just a train away from singapore...

anyway, we've been telling each other for a long time that we wanna travel together.  initially it was korea, then it was thailand... but the current flavor of the month is: HONGKONG!

i was like... there's nothing to do in hongkong... the inns are incredible shoebox-sized (well, the ones i can afford) and not much to see...

but when i thought about it... the food over there is pretty good! so that got me excited >,<;

one thing she was saying we should do is go to disneyland.. just to have nice pictures for our albums. haha! at first i was like, no! but then after awhile i realized it could be fun.

she's in charge of looking for tickets.  we're hoping to go around october or november.  yay!

ramblings at 4:50am

there's just not enough hours in a day, days in a week, weeks in a month, month in a year...

each day should be lived to the fullest. time is something that we are privileged to have but it's also something we shouldn't waste.

in my 20's i could say i still have a lot of time left on me... however, last night, on uberfact's (oh yes! such a reliable source of information thru twitter) it says there that left-handed people like me die 9 years earlier on the average than right-handed people...

what? so being more creative than the righties actually have a price?

anyway, i just think that days should be spent in anger and frustration.. it should be spending appreciating what you have, being grateful for the present and working hard for your goals, whatever they may be.

such realizations coming to me at 4:50 in the morning... my body clock and sleep patterns are pretty messed up.

mature!

i just saw a photo on facebook and literally stuck my tongue out to one of the people there...

so mature at 26!

photos are no longer just photos..

so i recently got an iphone 4s coz i was getting extremely annoyed by how fast the battery life of my galaxy ace drains... i literally have to plug it 2-3 times a day! i know i got myself to blame for that because of all the mobile internet stuff i use like kakaotalk, surfing, twitter, facebook and all these things..

anyway, i caved...i actually told myself i'll never get an iphone but... but... but.. micray and chad are such good convincers!

Anyway, I've been so obsessed with camera/photo filter apps lately that I have a total of 4 of them: Rakuga Cute, Photowonder, Line Camera and Camera360...

Why... Why... Why do I have to get sucked in to all of this!?

Now I can't just take a photo.... I gotta edit it first and put a fram before uploading >,<

Exhibit A

Celine Before Rakuga-Cute

 Celine After Rakuga-Cute

Must i be enslaved to this cuteness?

Exhibit B

Me and Ate before Line Camera

 Me and Ate after Line Camera filter and border

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah >,< burdensome and life changing!!! this is madness!

cruel day is so friggin cruel to me

40 minutes of noisy crying...
a cursing, ranting blog post...
deleting that cursing, ranting blog post...
10 minutes after all these..

I'm fine.

Back to friggin regular programming.

Goodbye cruel day!!!!

negatives to positives

today feels extremely busy...

I need a break so I'm here.

I'm liking this.  So appropriate.
I'm feeling a bit down lately. Emotional/mood swings..

Feels kinda crazy.

I'm hoping to rise above this and be a better person.  Haha!

yes, oh yes

from pinterest.com

towards you

I'm wondering when my next flight out will be.... and where to? 

picture from pinterest.com

who is that?

Me!

I'm slightly embarrassed... >,<

change

I still can't believe some of the things you tell me.

I don't know if you've changed or you've always had it in you.

Either way, it makes me happy.

i love you

yes oh yes!