I dream of HongKong

Apart from the 7 degrees Celsius-opportunity-for-winter-fashion weather in HongKong, this is the reason why I wish I was in HK right now...

I am obsessed with this over sized sweater!

Ahhhhh...knits, stripes, pinks, blacks and yellows... sigh...

If you're in HK, H&M x Sonia Rykiel

Pictures and Stories buffet...

...take only what you want! =)

Hello everyone! How are you guys doing this week? I have been so harassed this week. Here I am thinking I've done all the things I need to do before work starts and I could just bum the week away but nooooooooo... tomorrow, I'm heading out way into the city just to change the district office of my TAX returns. I don't know where it is, but I see it as an opportunity for adventure. >.<

Baking

I knew my mum was a good baker and a good cook. I only got the cooking part (not even at par with my mum's standard I bet!) but I love watching people bake. I love watching baking shows from Lifestyle and Discovery Travel and Living, I can't get enough of them. But watching my very close sister-friend Nuna Grace is far better cause of the following: the smell of the cookies roaming the entire house is intoxicating--trust me the smell is always perfect. She has kookie cookies and we'd always have profound conversations in the middle of mixing flour, butter and her secret ingredients. I think at the back of my mind, I kind of remember when I was young and my mum would bake and we'd watch her. It is such a stress reliever watching her bake, help her from time to time. The best part? Tasting the delicious cookies! Yummy!

Macaroons with almonds and Macaroons with cranberries

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie with walnuts

Jollibee

Delicious Filipino burger chain. I love eating here, there's a Jollibee store everywhere. I think this was 2nd week of February, I was craving for burger and was frustrated because companies were offering me jobs in the south and of course I won't take it cause I live in the east... and blah blah... So I asked Nuna Grace to share the afternoon with me and have burgers and fries at Jollibee. Summer was fast approaching, I love how the Jollibee store in my town has a cool ac and a new kick ass interior.

My burger meal

Filipino Tasting Burger

Fries *drools*

I also love the cheap rice meal here, 49 bucks in pesos, a buckeroo in US dollar and a dollar and 50 in Singaporean currency. How cheap is that? I can just order, sit in the corner enjoying the cold ac (it's really hot in my country now!) and eat. No washing of pots and dishes. I love the convenience. But not to eat everyday, we don't want to gain some more weight.

Beef and mushroom with loads of fried garlic

What I had for lunch last Monday! ^.*

Cheezwhiz diet and Lunar New Year

The week before Lunar New Year, I have been suffering from severe acidic reaction to food. The only thing I can eat without suffering from that burning sensation in my stomach was slice bread and cheezwhiz. By Saturday, the acids have died down and I had me some good old baked chicken. By Saturday, I was a happy bunny!

Looks like crap but tastes awesome!!!

Then since it's Lunar New Year, I had some sticky rice cake for breakfast before joining the festivities in Chinatown! Awww man, I want some right now~

So that's it for me. I'm really hungry now... I should go out and grab some grubs! Enjoy your dinner everyone! I'm out! =)

Whole Week Round-up

Hi guys! I know I've been gone a full whole week. I got so busy, I didn't have time to log in. I also had a 3 day problem with my internet so I haven't updated you guys with what's up.

It's so funny, now that I am not bumming... I am having a hard time to write about new things. I was out of the house everyday this past week yet I couldn't find anything interesting to blab about.


Monday:

I got a job interview in some company I was worried about because of the Valentine's Day/Chinese new year fiasco. I woke up a little late (was thinking of going there at 8, ended up coming in at 10) but the day went pretty well as it progressed. Everything was finished by 4:30 and by 5 I was signing my job contract. I will start on 22nd of February--there goes my plan with Oma to go with her to Daphne's prom.

Well, this isn't really Ren's blog without Renism... I was in the process of being interviewed by the British client. His accent was so beautiful, I was just staring and smiling thinking he was still talking about the interview process when i realized he was already asking the questions. It was funny. Finished signing the contract around 5:30 in the afternoon after we were informed that we will just receive a sms for our schedule, I went home immediately cause it was hot and I was tired.

I'm excited to work again, I hope my job is not as stressful as the first one. But there's one thing I'm bringing with me on my first day-- Ma'am Cel's advise. Bring the good things to work and learn from the bad ones. I can finally get a new pair of Havianas!!!

Tuesday:

Spent the day with Ate Grace and Mama Eds (Mama is uncle in my hometown). We went to Ateneo for Ate Grace's appointment. Then we went to Riverbanks so I can get my NBI Clearance for my new job. The line was so friggin long, I decided to wake up early the next day and just get it from the neighboring town. It's easier when I have to come back for it. We also headed to Chocolate Lovers which was perfect and deadly. I had to control myself from all those sweets. It smelled heavenly too. After that trip we headed to our last stop which was the mall where we had KFC (Yum-o!) and a good conversation.

"Yummmmmy!"

I also suddenly remembered my uncle (My dad's youngest bro) so since I was heading their town the next day, I plan to drop by and bring some fruits.

Wednesday:

Woke up bright and early to go to the nearest NBI kiosk and get my name cleared. It turned out, everyone had the same plan as me. When I got to the office, the line was more outrageous than the office in Marikina. I decided to go to Megamall to get my clearance instead. I've been hearing that even though the line is long there it moves faster. Dropped by my uncle's place and saw both My uncle and his wife. Talked for a while, even got complemented that I was losing weight. (Yay! Slice bread and cheezwhiz diet!) Stayed for two hours then headed off to Dianne's place to get some stuff I needed from my old office.

I got to Megamall around 12 and the line was really long. It reached the 3rd floor. I had to line 3 times, first one was to pay for the clearance, second one is to get my picture taken and the last one was to get the printed clearance. I was really hungry so after I paid for my clearance, I went to KFC to get something to eat then fell in line again for the second time to get my photo taken. It took an hour to get my photo taken then the shortest line ever was the third one. After 1 hour and 45 minutes, I got my clearance. Yey!

I was done around 1 in the afternoon. Went around the mall to look for clothes. Tuesday night, I went through my office clothes and found out I got a few left ( some went missing after Typhoon Ketsana) so I went around the mall to look for new ones. This is a new for me, ever since my sister moved to Singapore I don't bother clothes shopping anymore except when I am in Singapore. I had fun shopping by myself. I got a few pieces I really like. I'm going towards the Ugly Betty Fashion I think. I can't wait to earn money so I can buy more.



In the afternoon, I got a call that tells me we were moved to March 1 (Bummer!) and had to go back to the office the next day to sign a new contract. Geesh!

Thursday:

Boring day ever. I stayed at home until 2 in the afternoon then left for the office. Nothing exciting. Stayed home all day Friday to. Told Oma I can finally go to Daphne's prom on Friday. My last hurrah for bumming!

Saturday:

4 malls in 6 hours. My body is still aching right now. We looked for stuff for Daphne's prom.




We couldn't find age appropriate prom dress in the first 2 mall we went to so we hopped on the tram and headed down to Makati. We found the one all of us liked. It was on sale too! 70% off... Oma was so happy.Daphne was finally prom ready!

We can't wait to go to her prom, well bring her to prom and go home with her after the prom. While Daphne enjoys her prom, Ma and I are off to Shang to watch JLC's new movie or the Meryl Streep "It's Complicated" movie.





That's how my week went. This is my last week of bumming, I;m using it to organize things I need to do before work week starts next Monday. I still have some posts I need to upload or to write. I need to find time to do that. But I am happy to say, Tyler Grady is part of the AI Top 24!!! Woohoooo!!! And John Park too!!! It's so hot already, I think summer is here! Roadtrip!!!!

Valentine's Day FAIL!

Valentine's Day and Year of the Tiger!

Happy Lunar New Year Everyone! I had some sticky rice cakes today so I am a very happy girl! ^^

oh and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!

Why thank you for the gifts my valentine!

Anyways, enough about dreaming back to my topic. So since it's Lunar New Year, I decided to do something new with my looks.When I got home from my China Town Festivities, I colored my hair Chocolate gloss. Yummy!

BIG FAIL. EPIC.

I wanted my roots to be covered so the color was smothered all over my forehead and also in the eyebrow area cause I wanted them to match. I left the color for an hour! And Yay! I love the color of my hair. It matches my eyebrows and unfortunately...my forehead. The color won't leave. I have a Bradley Cooper face! T.T from my eyes down, my natural face color but my forehead looks like I stood in the sun for hours. Oh no... And I have an important job interview tomorrow! I hope it fades tonight, but if it doesn't... I hope powder won't let me down. =/

Tyler Grady

Just caught AI on TV. Yay! He survived group performance. 1 more to go and he's ready to shine in the top 24! John Park made it too!!! Yay!

Spotted: Manny Villar

Pardon the lack of updates, I have to sort out first the stuff I want to talk abouthere. It feels like I have 10 million ideas in my head but when I sit in front of my lappie to start my posts, I tune out blanks.

Tomorrow marks the official start of campaigning for politicians dreaming of running my country. Not like they weren't doing some campaigning before, some had an early start. There is one politician's name you will not see on my ballot paper. I was just bitchin' about seeing him everywhere just over the weekend. The name is Manny Villar. I know it's campaign period already but his campaign strategy is irritating. His "get in your face" strategy gets to my nerves. Geesh, you see him on TV every 10 minutes, you hear his stupid jingle everywhere... Aurgh! He's irritating as hell.

I will not vote for him for 2 main reasons. One is because his campaign is expensive. When he gets to be president, how will he get back the tantamount amount of money he spent during his campaign? How much has he spent on premiere TV and radio spots? Second, The C-5 extension project he refuses to clear the issue

He is even freakin everywhere online...

He is in Cluster Map



In Google



In Facebook



Even in YM



Please choose wisely Philippines....

And now a conundrum, Is it worth to vote for a candidate you believe in the most even if he is not winnable? Or vote for someone who has fighting chance so the one you dislike the most will not win? 3 more months to go...

Okay, I will not blog about Philippine Politics for a while, I want a lighter topic for this blog. ^.^ Will post about what I've been doing after my week round up of interviews.

Short and Sweet

Fuck this, I swear on my grave, I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR VILLAR. He is everywhere. It's getting on my nerves to see his fake smile. All the websites I've been to has his face plastered all over, not to mention every 3 freakin minutes he's on TV? Can you say desperate?

That's Very Hot: Choco Boy and Random thoughts on a Friday

First of all, I want to share with you something that's making me laugh lately. It's funny, sometimes in a weird, gay awkward way but it's addictive! It's probably the background beat, it's very hypnotizing. At times, I find myself dancing and saying

"That's very hot! That's very hot!"

I haven't been blogging much lately and that's because I want to give you guys polished posts. Or informative posts... I need inspiration so for now, random ramblings will have to do

• I won that 7 for mankind calendar that was being given out at some website I am following. Hahaha! I told you I love joining contests.
• I am so happy because I found out that my old scanner is working! Yay! FInally! ( Well I did change to XP from Vista...when I was using Vista-- the program said it was incompatible and won't run!) This one is a great discovery because I needed a scanned copy of my passport sent out before 5 pm. I was so relieved and happy!
• MY cable TV has a new channel. Yay! I just discovered we got FOX Asia. How awesome is that? Dear cable company, you rock! Yesterday, I saw The Simpsons, White Collar, The Unit, Reaper...
• I love spam! I had some spam and some Christmas Ham sauce to go with it. Here in the Philippines, we have this condiment we mix with rice when we don't want to eat it dry. The sweet Christmas Ham sauce was a great contrast to the Spam's saltiness. (Not a food connoisseur, I just like sweet and salty foods)Not very healthy, eat only once a month, or twice if you really must.

• I think we finally hit Summer Season, the days are hot but sometimes at night, it's windy. I like it though... Not sooo hot, my fan can still handle it. ^^
• Down with Love was great! It was funny, romantic and crazy. You should check it out at MY SOJU! It's funny and I die a little when Jerry flashes that dimple (fan girl much?)

Hahahah! Well that's it my dear friends. Let me go and look for something interesting to write! ^^

*edit: I forgot to be excited for the return of CSI Las Vegas! My fave character is back!!! Sarah Sidle!!! Yay! And this season She's Sarah Sidle-Grisom!!!! Yay!!!!*

Side Serving: My 2 cents on Philippine Politics

I am not always an airhead talking about useless stuff. I am very much into politics. I believe the voting is a great privilege and I make sure I do it responsibly. After all, we the Filipinos are the ones who will have to suffer the consequences of choosing our leader.

I am saddened by the choices we have for presidents this year. I am not totally sold on Noy because I have yet to see his platform. His TVC's are made up of Filipino Showbiz personalities, but no platform. I want to vote for him but I would like to know why I should. I think that's one of the problems why his popularity is decreasing. We don't know what is his plan for the country. Yes, he promises not to be corrupt but what is his plan for the country? In the end, I think if it boils down to making educated choices-- I will vote for him because he is the lesser evil.
(**He goes to our clinic for PT treatment, he's very nice, very simple and only has one security guard who stays outside of the clinic when he gets treatment. Aside from being treated by our chief Physiotherapist, he has no other VIP requests. He even wears whatever gown is asked of him, once he wore pink! He is even easier to work with than those rich Filipino patients. He is very likable!**)

Part of me would like to vote for Gibo. I like his platform but I am turned off with the washing off his hands when it comes to the current president. When asked if he would convict her when she steps down--he says it is not his place to convict her. Yes, I know there is the judicial system but there is also such a thing called PRESIDENTIAL PARDON. She may be guilty but she may not serve her sentence. Ring a bell ERAP Estrada? (Now third on the presidential race!) Don't even get me started...

And now, another man who may possibly be my president in a few months... Manny Villar



So who do we pick? Good leaders are so hard to find nowadays...

Contests

Oh I've gone post crazy! Too much excitement. I know in the days to come I will crash and burn and silence will rule this blog but for now, indulge me please.

I want to share to everyone that I love joining contests. I don't care what the prizes are. I just like the high I get when I win even if I get the consolation prize. My rationale behind this is there will always be someone I know who will need/appreciate the prize I get.

I've won loads of stuff from this peculiar hobby of mine. I got Honda shirts and MTV shirts from MTV, Concert tickets to see Black Eyed Peas, Hoobastank and Boyz II men, Movie premieres like Home Alone, Chasing Liberty, calendars, bags etc.

So what is the point of this entry? I don't know but if you're living in the Philippines I want to share that Studio 23 is once again sending friends on a trip. Gimik Spot this time is to Dubai! Just answer the questions posted on the TVC via e-mail and you're good to go. But you should hurry because today is the last day.

Last Year, They were sending friends to Korea. I was a finalist but I didn't win. I really really wanted that trip but I guess there's another time for visiting Korea. Winning an all expense paid trip to another country would be so awesome! I love to travel and traveling for free would just be great!

So what are you waiting for? You don't lose anything when you join contests! Try your luck... it might be on your side! =)

Another Home

Wow! The plan of moving to a new blog has finally happened. I didn't know it would happen soon because I didn't know anything about blogger. I had the idea of moving about 2 years ago but it never materialized cause I was so busy doing other things and so lazy about learning new things.

I actually love blogging. I have been blogging since 2004 and with everything else, change is inevitable. My posts are usually scattered so I hope moving would actually help me organize my thoughts. I'm excited to start this blog!

When I first started blogging, I was too shy to share my thoughts. But since 2010 has started, I promised to do one brave thing at a time and I think sharing my thoughts publicly is one brave move.

My sister also inspired me to blog more. I used to be lazy, thinking my life is such a BORE and no one would read me. But I am just putting it out there for me. She does recipes and stuff in her blog which can be helpful to busy people like her. You can visit her at http://jinginsg.wordpress.com. I just like people to see what I cooked for lunch and if you would like the recipe, you can politely ask and I would happily obliged.

So here's to the new blog. I hope you would enjoy it!

Hugs,
Ren