WOW! It's March!!! :)

Holy heavens it's March!!! I'm so sorry I've left you unattended for a while but there have been QUITE a few things that have been going on.  Let's start off with the crappy stuff that I can sum up in one go:

I WAS SICK. 

via

I was and sort of still IS sick. :(  Had a cold, then an on and off fever, and cough. There are remnants of a cough, and a wee bit of the cold but otherwise I'm chippy as an be. 

ONTO THE GOOD NEWS!

I have seen not only the Gorillaz and the Gin Blossoms in concert, but I have also seen the Deftones:

via

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand......ERIC FREAKING CLAPTON.

via 

And the Stone Temple Pilots are coming next week here to Manila.  To say that I'm excited is an understatement :)  We don't get gigs like these in Manila very often so I will grab every chance I get. 

I was sick during Clapton's concert in Hong Kong, which was unbelievably COLD, but it was fantastic. FANTASTIC.  Here I wrote a whole article about it :) 

Now moving forward, I have stopped smoking cigarettes (!), which I am quite proud of, and why I don't mind being so sick and I've also been hanging out at home more. Since I do a lot of hanging out at home, I've also have gotten back to re-imagining my space.  I still want to paint my room a certain color, and I would like to clean up the state of the 2nd bedroom.  So here's what I've decided:  I will hold a garage sale.  I'm just waiting for a weekend that is free (nowadays there aren't many long weekends like last year) and plan it for then. I just wonder who will buy a 3rd hand air conditioning unit.

As I go through the blogs I've been following, I see that the back log I've got to catch up on is ENORMOUS. :(  Up for the challenge.  Let's see what are the things that inspire me today.

I really really really really REALLY want this poster.

I love this post about 2D. It's giving me ideas :)

Have you watched that movie "An Education"?

via

I did and all I wanted to do was get on a plane and fly to Europe. *sigh*  I DO miss that continent. 

But anyway.  Biggest question is WHEN CAN I FRAME MY PRINTS and what do I put HERE: 

The wall looks so extremely plain and sad. :(  Hey artist friends can you help me out here??

Ok. No one reads this blog. Hmmmm......

Well it's nice to be back.  I've got a lot more stories coming up ;)

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Whooooweeeeee. It has been a while since I've blogged. A lot has changed since I was last here.

Biggest of all the events is that I'm seeing so many concerts now. I'm gona head over to HK in two weeks time to see the Gorillaz. Gorillaz "On Melancholy Hill"  I've posted it before, but well here it is again :) 

I've just seen the Gin Blossoms two nights ago wherein I relived my 16 year old self but forgot to wear my doc martens and flannel shirt.  That was a good start actually.

Apparently, I found out that Green Day will be coming over in January, and Aerosmith sometime in Feb.  Also in February, the Deftones are coming over (!) and I will again go back to HK around the 18th to see Eric Clapton.  My life is full of music anyway, may as well have visuals to go with the soundtracks. :)

I am single again after a long period and having a great time at my new job.  It's an interesting thing that everything seemed to fall into place recently.  Not that I wanted to be single or anything but events following that seem to be I don't know, something I needed. Perhaps the shock did it. 

Now that it is November, I don't understand this whole thing with the mustache.  What's up with that?  Why November? Can't we be mustachioed all year round?? Just a thought.

Still trying to figure out WHAT color under heaven I can make my room.  I know it will be in the faded sort of near pastel-ly range of color, and that the hue will be green or blue, but WHAT?  I must start before the end of the year comes.  I don't want my room to not be ready for New Years.  

Something like this hue of green...but a little more blue....does that make ANY sense?

 

via 

Or like the blue of that pillow all the way to the right of the frame but a little more green.

via

But yeah that PALE. :)  I'll know it when I see it!!! 

I'm loving all these prints that Team Manila made for our country.  I hope our Tourism Department gets a brain and decides to use them :)

I'm also, I THINK, becoming a bonafide girl after say, about 25 years.  I'm starting to like all these wedge booties.  And I'm starting to use the word "LIKE" a lot.  Like, right there.  

And oh the new job.  The new job is much like me being the fish and the job being the water.  JOY.  Not only can it make my career, but I know I can kick ass in it.  Which, I will. :)  So, though it has been a sucky year, the end looks like it's turning on itself and is giving me a little reprieve.  YAY ME!  YAY LIFE! :)

So everything is looking good coming into the Christmas season.  I hope I do more blogging soon, I really should get back into it. :)  I think I''ll re-dye my hair red just for the occasion.

Middle of the week

Today I've been reminded that in my country, everything is still pretty much the wild wild west.  Or EAST, rather.  I wish it was as fun as it sounds, but it is not.  The past month's drama over the tourist bus, where several lives were lost due to a disgruntled ex-policeman who wanted his job back, was unfortunately for the rest of us Filipinos, the start of a nightmare.  

Today, friends of mine are marking a death anniversary of their colleague, brother and friend.  This time last year, Alexis Tioseco a local young film critic and buff (sadly one of the last fans of Filipino cinema) was brutally murdered in his home and they killed his girlfriend with him for a bunch of computers or books.  The newly hired help is still being blamed for letting in the murderers.  To this day, the police have not only bungled up the process, but put in jail a man falsely accused of the murder.  Because this man was in jail, he could not care for his sick wife, and she died.  Anyway, it's such a sad story...if you would like to read more into it, please CLICK HERE.  Rest in peace Alexis and Nika.  I hope that at the very least, you two are together.

At the end of all this, is the police and their lack of well, EVERYTHING.  Between the backbone and education, they are sorely lacking with everything.  With all the technologies that are available now, everything they can learn online, they do not.  

Hence MY personal want to move out of here.  I can't even trust my policemen!  :(  Sad sad sad times.  

To go into something that is a little less depressing, I saw this saying today: 

"THE WAY I SEE IT #2"

The most important thing in life is to stop saying "I wish" and start saying "I will".  Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities like probabilities.

I'd like to think that that is how I view life.  Nothing is impossible.  It's a matter of you getting it done or not.

Anyway, I'm sorry if today's entry was a sad one, but well, that seems to be the general mood of the day.  

Anyway, here's a song to help us all along the way.

It's been a long long time :)

Wow.  It's been a long, LONG time since I've written.. Nothing particularly happening over here, just trying to get the financial crisis that is/was my life on track :)  Now I'm back! :)

So since I've left this poor little blog,  I've been trying to get organised and have tried to get back to a 

'healthy' routine; you know, with exercise and all that jazz.  So now, I've been going back to pilates and yoga classes.  Sadly, last few weeks I've been sick (yes weeks :( ), and I have not had a chance to catch up.  Hopefully, tomorrow I can attend the class and get back into the groove.

I've been sick on and off for a few weeks now, the last bout of which I had fevers on and off to add on to the lovely cough and cold I was trying to nurse. I'm much better now, and can actually sit down and do work for an extended period of time. 

Anyway!  Now we're all back and healthy, I've gone through some blogs and want to share with you some stuff I've found :)

Book jewelry. I love eet!

Digging these paintings.  For some reason, I'm beginning to like art work like these, ones with smudges or the like.  It seems to make the piece more interesting in my eyes. :)  Go Mr. Bongiovanni!

I love the simplicity of this dress.  I know I can wear that ANYWHERE. :)

 

via

 I am loving all these gardens!!! 

I would LOVE a trench coat like this:

via

All the cool uses for chalk board paint. :)   Makes me want to go out and get some. :)

I am no where near being a girly girl, but this picture really threw me into a loop of girlishness....

via

I would love to have even just one Chanel No. 5 bottle.  Just ONE. *sigh*

I want my kitchen to look like THESE!!! 

I wish my back looked like THESE pics:

via

AND

via

But with tattoos :)

Speaking of...I really should get my phoenix done already.  *gulp*

But I must keep reminding myself that it will be beautiful.  All the pretty colors....hihihi!

Till next time :)

Saturday musings

Just some stuff I've come across today:

I personally don't know if I could do these to my old books, but they are really cute ideas :)

I'd love to make this but I don't know where I can get the rope.

I am going to have this dress made!!!!

Lovely site :) Love this site too!!! :)

Especially for THIS photo.

I heart this dress so much.... 

...and this sweatshirt.... 

My poor friend (who's a designer) had carpal tunnel this past week...  I'm just spreading the word :(

SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!  I want everything from there!

Perfect for the weather here in the Philippines!   Plus you can cover it up if it is too risque.

 I would totally love it if SOMEONE did this for my birthday :)  Yes, I am a Harry Potter freak. And YES, I'm 32 years old.  Weird but those books changed my life.

Nice thought for the day :)

via

The last few weeks I've kind of been out of it.  Even if I'm on detox, I'm not feeling like I'm aware of everything around me. I'm been so lethargic and indifferent to stuff going on around me.  Though I love to stay home, I think it's becoming unhealthy.  Ah but maybe age is also catching up with me, telling me to stay put and such.  Fair enough.  Then of course the 3 day migraine didn't help matters.  Ah well.  I'm trying to take care of myself, so far I think it's working.  I just need to maybe cheat a little and give myself a shot of coffee on Monday morning!!!!  OR go back to Serenitea today and buy me a few mugs :D Yeah I think that's what I should do :) 

Been craving for those for a while now...hehehehe!!!

Monday...sometime in June

I've come to a decision today, 

that I will use my next pay

check into making my house

a pretty place to stay.

I will buy shelves with no elves, 

A desk for success,

frames with no names,

and more bins for other things.

I don't know why I'm rhyming

& I know that my timing

is a little off

like the shelf paper lining.

*bow*

via

Ps. It was nice to get a mention in THIS blog.  I love my neighbors :)

Steady Sunday

As I type, it's overcast and the room has darkened a bit.  It's 4pm and it looks like it's dusk already.  The wind is getting stronger, which usually means tonight there will be rain.  

I love this kind of weather.  :)  Reminds me of England!

Then of course, reality bites me in the butt:

The mountain of dishes yet to be cleaned. *sigh* Didn't know porkchops took this much work :) hehehe!!!  Twas worth it though.  

O there it is.  I know why I'm a moving sloth-like today!  It is because I stayed up for the England vs. USA!!  Yeah that ended up at 5am Philippine time. A draw.  A DRAW I TELL YOU!  Ah well, the boys will come back fighting.  I can feel it!

I like this saying:

via

Oh and I think I want the jewelry in THIS SITE. Fawn fawn fawn over the rings.  Gorgeous :)

Yesterday, I'm happy to inform you, that I got a hand held blender!  I'm excited to use it for smoothies and soups and sauces. :)  Thanks to C who bought it for me!! :D  Not bad either, since it was priced under Php1000.  

Here are a few links I found browsing the blogging world today:

How to make the great scrambled eggs

Loving these bloomers. They look so presko. 

I love the first dress. I don't know if it would suit me but I like it :)

That lovely dress came from THIS lovely lady :) 

So there you go!!  Oh hey, do you like the new layout of the site? :)  I tried to put together something that had green and hot pink in it.  This is as close as I could get! :)  I hope you like it!!

Happy weekend! :)