Sunday, Sunday

So I've decided that this coming week is "braids and dress" week.  Then again I will try.  It's hard especially in the morning when I just want to get up and GO. I have practiced this hairstyle for a while and have been wanting to put it to use this week and I think I've sort of figured it out. First and foremost, my hair is so straight I need to wet it.  Then patience takes over.  :)

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Or something like that.  Just in case you want learn also, HERE.

This should be an interesting week.  It'll start off with me ending my first ever DJing gig tomorrow night. I dunno how that's going to go, but it was not an easy decision.  I need to prioritize my day job over nighttime excursions and sadly, one of the biggest and most important meetings in my company happens on Tuesday morning. Must be responsible. 

This week of dresses and braids, I will also look forward to finally buying my shoes, buying a new AIRCON UNIT and hopefully have enough for THIS:

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And another dress ;) About Php5k all in all :) 

Anyway, here's to big hopes for the coming week :) Have a great rest of a Sunday! :)

A band from the Philippines

I personally adore, ADORE this band.  I would like to share them with you because they are such lovely people and they play awesome music.  YAY! :)  Apart from that, this is a good, steady weekend soundtrack.  They made a couple of recordings with my cousin EO on drums. I wish I was on drums for "Get Rid of that Man"  Hands down, my favorite Toi song  :) ENJOY :)

To learn more about them, check out, www.toikingdom.com

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Happy {random} Sunday!!!

Popping in quickly today to say HELLO!  And also to say that I want to do this little project :)   Awesome little project I can do to spice up my wardrobe...or better yet, make as presents! :)

I wonder if this site delivers to the Philippines.  I would like a lot of their patterns....who am I kidding.  I want them ALL. 

I would also like to go on this trip. Coron is one of our islands here in the Philippines that is beginning to catch on as part of the tourist route.  I would like to go before it gets all out touristy.  Would you like to come with? :)

I would totally wear this is if it actually got COLD here in Manila.

Watched the Stone Temple Pilots on Wednesday night. I will post the online article of that when it goes up on www.atthewomb.com :)

 I'm actually going to start a couple of new DJ gigs this week...overly ambitious, I know. I mean a 9-5 day job, then now a total of THREE DJ gigs a week?  I seriously need not go out.  If I can continue on this non smoking, non drinking streak, I think I will have it made. :)  

I usually play Top 40 stuff, no house for this lady.  I am not an avid fan and find that genre a little too repetitive.  Don't get me wrong, I like it, but since I don't listen to much of it, and it really isn't my forte, I try not to play it and leave it to the experts.  I am, after all just one year into my DJing and I'm still learning the ropes as far as I'm concerned. 

Anyway, I'm off to make my lunch packs and ready made coffee for the week :) hehehe :)  It's money saving time if I want to be able to go on that trip!!!  As well as the one I'm planning for Vietnam and Cambodia! :) 

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. 

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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:

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand......ERIC FREAKING CLAPTON.

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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"?

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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?

 

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

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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. :)

 

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 I am loving all these gardens!!! 

I would LOVE a trench coat like this:

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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....

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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:

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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 :)