Day 3

so today is day three of being stuck in bed after having four wisdoms pulled out.

all i have to say is I AM BORED and i wish that these things would heal already. it also doesnt help that i have twenty million things to do and im leaving for europe in a week and a half.

i wish they'd given me stronger pain killers so that i can just sleep this boredom off. UGH. 

why are they called wisdom teeth anyway?

sorry!

i've been a baaddd baaaddd blogger as i have not posted anything new for the past month!

sorry!

but on to new news, i just had my four wisdom teeth taken out. so now i have angelina jolie-esque lips and swollen cheeks and numb mouth. life is beautiful!haha but really i am ok.

that's all im gonna update for now since i am still feeling bad from the teeth operation and i am craving food that i can chew so much.

i took my new seagull TLR camera for a spin today. we picked up my brother and my dad from playing golf and i got to try the camera out. it's kinda confusing to use. 

We ate at the clubhouse and i felt like a pregnant elephant after.

im begining to like sundays. 

oh and i got a haircut, i am now the proud owner of what they call "full bangs".haha!

Dress from Forever 21

Long sleeved guys shirt from Celio

Sandals from Zara

rockin' sundays

The sky was pretty today, sort of melancholic pretty that should've some sentimental folksy song as background music.

And this is me looking like a boy. i know i'm gaining serious weight when i start wearing guys clothes and use my jacket a lot to hide the "fats" haha.

Jacket by Alice Temperley for Target

Team Manila Men's "pling" shirt

Fafi for Le Sportsac bag

H&M polka dot footywear

I need a more "mature" wardrobe. I should be dressing like a teenager anymore.

It's britney in denim, b*tch!

Kakalurki! (translation:kakaloka!) What year was this again? At least she still looks very pretty and very sexy save for the horrendous denim dress. When and if britney makes a comeback she should seriously hire a stylist. and justin with curly hair?forgeddaboudit!!

although i must say im still rooting for britney, i wish she'd make a big comeback.

Freaky!

two posts back i had a the secret list, where i had a list of things i wanted and was trying to make the universe give them to me. well whaddya you know?i kind of got them. let me recap the list and see 

 

1. I will travel - CAN ANYONE SAY TOOOKYOOOO???

2. Business to be very very good! (throw some customers my way guys!haha) - I got a couple of big projects but it could be better so im going to continue willing customers my way...

3. I will receive a new seagull tlr camera- I GOT IT! wooo!! hoorah for the new camera, its hard to use!hahaha!

4. I will receive that cream city bike with saddle bags that i saw in that sports shop at the fort- Well not exacty the cream bike i was lusting over! when we got there it was out of stock. a week later i was going around Cartimar's bike shops and was getting frustrated because nobody had something like what i wanted. just when i was about to leave the sales girl pointed me to a dark corner of the store an pointed out a red city bike. it was LOVE at first sight. plus it was on sale. ha!

me thinks it's time to make a new list stat!

so whip it! whip it good!

I want hats like these and be a lego girl for halloween. what you guys think?

Long story short

after a harrowing 3 hours in the newer swankier but still irritating Philippine Airlines ticketing office, i have ended up with tickets to Tokyo for October. I have no idea where im gonna stay or where im going to live but im going! not bad for the first choice of Laoag to visit Vigan and Pagudpud, after all the brouhaha i am ending up in Tokyo!! TOKYO TOKYO TOKYO!!!

I'm kinda ecstatic. another cross off the list of places i have to see before I die. 

now where do i send a complaint letter to PAL?

Lazy sunday.

woke up at 9 to watch the pacquiao-diaz fight, went home, took an afternoon nap then went to hear mass at 6.

now i am gonna watch dazed and confused, and hopefully be asleep before 10 as i want to get up bright and early tomorrow to start another week of work.

more posts soon.

*i should stop jumping in pools with my clothes on. now i have the sniffles*

The Secret

i am sure that everyone knows about The secret phenomenom. does it really work? that i am still trying to prove. One of the rules is that you have to tell the universe what you want and constantly think of it, constantly trying to make the universe give it to you. that and it has to have positive connotations, no i will not's, it should be all i will have's and i am's. So im thinking hey, maybe my trying to will it to me is not enough why not put it out here in writing so that everyone can will it for me too? genius isnt it? haha here's a list of the things i want to happen

1. I will travel

2. Business to be very very good! (throw some customers my way guys!haha)

3. I will receive a new seagull tlr camera

4. I will receive that cream city bike with saddle bags that i saw in that sports shop at the fort

That's it. i'm not a greedy girl, little things make me happy.

READY SET GO!WILL IT MY WAY GUYS.haha!

here duck-y duck-y

my mom is currently building an organic farm somewhere in the northern part of palawan. when i found out that she was doing that i automatically said that i want to have a duck farm. its always been the boyfriend and my dream to have pet ducks. you know how like Joey from Friends had a pet duck.haha Above pictures are my ducks in the farm.theyre so cute noh? although i wish my mom bought all white ducks for me. but hey, who's complaining? I have ducks!!

oh zooey!

there are only a few hollywood actresses that i truly love, their personality, the roles they play and the way they dress. and the way they dress in a way that you know that they do not have a stylist on speed dial to dress them up in every single occasion (i got turned off with nicole richie at some point because of all the Rachel Zoe brouhaha)

out of the top three that i can just vomit out right now would be kate bosworth (i know her fashion game went up when she cut her hair and gained 5 pounds) Parker posey, just because i am 95 % sure that she is crazy all the time ( don't you just love the way she talks?) and last but not the least Zooey deschanel. i love love LOVE her quirky style, her face (i like girls who have a certain character OOMPH when it comes to faces) and my newest obsession about her, her MUSIC. We've heard her sing a couple of lines during bridge of terabithia but i was amazed at her songs with her two man band with M. ward (is that even correct) She and him. i read in Nylon Magazine that she writes her songs too. 

so her singing (and were not talking aggy deyn like singing here) her offbeat roles (ALMOST FAMOUS!WEEDS!) and her fab fashion sense, i can now definitely say she is my ultimate hollywood girl crush *sigh*

check out http://www.sheandhim.com/sheandhim.php

and http://www.myspace.com/sheandhim

you can listen to her dreamy songs there thats been on the repeat track in my player the past few days

SORR-Y!

sorry haven't updated in weeks, i was too busy doing nothing that i didn't get to update. BUT! im back and will have new posts and photos to follow.

Cheers!

tooth hurts

i think my left side bottom area wisdom tooth is growing and now i'm in pain. 

will blog tomorrow.

HOT.

just when i changed the stores display window the sun came out again. i think summer is using its second wind.

and this is the construction on the street.its killing me im telling you.

Mutant lobster

Mutant lobster! must've taken 15 years before it could be this size

we didn't even have a pot big enough to cook it in. 

bring out the high blood medication! 

rockNroll!

such a random thing meeting Pepe Smith at my friends house last night. 

he really talks with an accent

and he really says rock and roll ALOT. 

salamat dr seuss

Dr. Seuss is actually a great source of inspiration for making dresses for me right now. like this picture, its so full of pattern ideas, color combinations and just plain whimsical giddiness for making clothes.

 Oh the places i will go reading them Dr Seuss books again.

 

Migraine.

there is road work being done outside the shoppe and it is completely freaking me out because i cannot concentrate with my work because of the incessant pounding on cement.

i apologize in advance to our customers if parking will be a bitch for the next month or so.

we love britain and girl friends!

since i was going to meet up with my friend kiting who got back from london i decided to wear my brit things. Luella bat shirt, Paul Smith velvet shoes, and a wool hat that was a gift from kiting that she bought from Camden Markets. we will see if my going to london on July will finally push thru this year.

here are some pictures of me kiting and nina, the dramatic threesome from fashion design school.

After several guys, continents, fights, and a couple more pounds later here we are still friends and i think we will be forever.

picture 1 My sartorialist esque shot by nina (ugh i look so wide) and please disregard my face

picture 2 kiting and i

picture3 nins and kiting

writer's block

i'm totally experiencing writer's block at the moment. i know i wanted to write a post about something earlier but i totally forgot about what it was i wanted to write about.

maybe i'll remember it tomorrow.

mirror mirror on the wall

i've always wanted a mirror like this.it super perfect for time when you want to put on make up, plucking your eyebrows and staring at your face.haha

there was a shoot for sense and style magazine at the store yesterday and the guy who was doing make up brought this and a shitload of WOWOWOW make-up (i love make up even if i dont put it on all the time) he even had all the Fafi collection Mac make up. *DROOL* he had like 3 humongous bags of make up that opened up like 4 times for more compartments. 

learning how to do make up (like take formal classes) is on my to-do list this year. well one of the bazillion things on my to-do list, that is.

cupcakes turned out to be a dud!HAHA! turns out the recipe that i got from the net is the matabang cupcake recipe because it uses shortening instead of butter so it has less taste and less density. Its not bad bad, just needs more sweetness and density to it. not bad for a first timer thought! and my buttercream frosting turned out great, i added food coloring to make it pink so that it'll look nicer. yes even stuff i make on the everyday has to have a little bit of character in it.hehe

AND i love my new bowls! i got the set of four for 40% off at rustans and these Zaki designs bowls are made from recycled materials DAW. but they're pretty nonetheless. 

Sunday not so bloody sunday

such nice little surprises this sunday! makes me feel so happy even if i'm still semi-sick.

i had a bright idea of baking cupcakes today so will be doing that in awhile. Will post pictures later! 

writing skills

i was scanning thru my posts and just realized that my writing skills are crap. after 5 years of no "formal" education (formal in the sense that i attend normal classes like english 101 or whatnot) all the things i've learned from my one year stint in college has gone out the window.haha OH WELL.

i wonder how i got those B's and A's in those essay assignments in ateneo before, i can't even form a good sentence nowadays. these are the moments when i regret leaving the academic world. sometimes i dream of going back and earning that degree in whatever (that's the parental brainwash of "you have to have a degree" kicking in) but then i remember those excruciating MATH 11 classes and then i don't regret it anymore.HAHA!

Favorite designer

Whenever people ask me about who my favorite designer is and i say Luella Bartley im mostly met with blank stares and a who is that question? Luella hasnt reached houeshold name status yet but she's been steadily building her cred as a designer for a couple of seasons now.

i love her kooky style, the fact that she's a mother of three, is not super duper thin (yey to healthy looking people), doesnt seem to wear heels a lot (based on her pictures), is from a small town in england, loves nature and she surfs.haha that was the clincher for me. so its just not her designs that i admire but the whole luella bartley package.

I was in HongKong for holy week this year when i saw that she had a shop in one of the malls there. of course i had to scream "luella!" and run towards the shop.I got to buy two shirts from her spring summer 08 collection which was inspired by bats and sort of a floral rock and roll look.. i wanted one of the Dip dyed floral dresses but then my gash i think they were going for 30k for a dress and thats like not even in the same stratosphere of my budget. so i got the yellow and black bat shirt, and the white batman shirt pictured above.

photo from style.com

Silver linings!

my friend neil gave me these shoes for my birthday, it's actually part of his new products under his NJ sneaks brand. don't you just love how flashy shiny it is? i think girls are naturally attracted to shiny colorful things. hehe the shoes also comes in patent red (which im contemplating on buying!) black and white. heck i want them all!haha too bad im perpetually broke so i always just wait for gifts to come my way (everybody now!kkuuurrippoooottt)

since it's the rainy season now, i've been busting out my sneakers because i hate getting my feet wet and also for being practical because the rain might damage them. ALTHOUGH I've been using my velvet PS sneakers a lot nowadays that defeats that "its practical" purpose. hahaha

Tanyth Berkeley

Last year during my trip to the states one of the cities i visited was new york, and one of the things one my list of things do in new york was to visit a museum or a gallery. i was supposed to go to the Marianne Boesky (not sure if i spelled that one right) gallery which features up and coming artists and far out artworks. ANYWAY, that didn't happen so i decided to just go to the MOMA instead. and one of the artists that they had on exhibit was Tanyth Berkeley's photographs.

Born in brooklyn, NY Tanyth is known for her portraits of very unique individuals that she knows. when i saw the life sized photographs of her subjects i couldn't take my eyes off of them. the color saturation, the subjects, the way she portrayed them in her photographs were so beautiful and so sad and so ethereal at the same time. i couldn't spend much more time in the MOMA after that because my head hurt after all the beautiful things that i saw.

you can check out her work at the site of the bellwether gallery --> http://bellwethergallery.com/artistsindex_01.cfm?fid=83&gal=1

sex and the city

i got bored and the mic that kept showing at one point irritated the hell out of me. i mean c'mon? nobody noticed that the boom mike was showing a couple of times during the movie (it was in this scene where carrie was talking to big about marriage or something)

the clothes were great but after two hours of poor story line and forced dialogue i was itching for the movie to end. i still encourage everyone to watch it though, its worth seeing even just for the clothes and for SATC closure.

i just hope they wont make a sequel.

hippie chick (hippie chic?)

Images like these make me want to cry.

perfect lighting, that full on stare to the camera and just the overall look, plus ive always loved that kind of blonde. when the sun hits it its seems liketheres a halo around your head. too bad im allergic to dye and im morena so that would look kinda weird on me.haha

i went thru a hippie/rocker chick phase a couple of years back, i had really long hair wore tie-dyed shirts and ripped jeans, tons of silver bangles (which i still wear up to now) and listened to a ton of 60's and 70's music (which i still also LOVE up to now) although i never looked as good as the girl in this picture.

i totally forgot her name, who she is and why she was featured in style.com i just loved the whole thing so i just grabbed it and saved it in my computer. maybe ill make some clothes with this look in mind, isnt hippie chic back in style again?

*photo courtesy of style.com*

I want to ride my bicycle

Ever since i got to buy that japanese folding bike from evangelista i've always dreamed of using it to schlep myself around town. but as we all know that is close to IMPOSSIBLE here in manila.

First it's hot, second its dangerous. i dont even drive here because im so scared of other cars what more ride a bicycle around the city. and third, well.. its REALLY hot. haha i think thats one of the main factors on why i dont use it much. i wish i lived in a colder climate country that actually encourages you to ride a bicycle instead of using cars.and they have bicycle rentals everywhere, like the bike shown in the picture. i know a lot of places in europe do that and i think some places in the US are starting to do that. so for now the most action my bicycle will ever see will be riding it around the boyf's village at night.

hello

im putting up this blog for whenever i feel like talking about useless nonsensical stuff.

and...

it's also yet againANOTHER distraction from work.