Paper Cut Project No. 1

I'm trying to channel my inner crafter, and turn my idle time into one of creative productivity. Our office operation has been suspended this morning due to the inclement weather here in Manila and since I was already wide awake, might as well get on with the project I have wanted to start with for so long: Paper Cutting!

With construction papers, X-acto, a metal ruler, and a cutting mat on hand, I put into production the concept I had while I was on my way home from work.



It also happened to be my BFF's birthday yesterday, so this was the design I had in mind with this first ever Paper Cut project. I obviously need to work on my cutting skills, but I think I have gotten the ropes of doing it, more or less.

Just when I think I have done something that I can be proud of, I see these amazing Paper Cut arts over at Pinterest!

With more practice, I'm pretty sure I'd get to come up with really amazing ones someday soon. Lao Tzu did say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step :)

I ABSpire!

I don't know what has gotten over me but when August has started, I suddenly feel like losing my belly fats. FOR REAL! I think it is after taking a bath one day and seeing my protruding stomach that I am shaken out of my reverie, and the feeling of determination to get rid of it once and for all has sunk in.

I have shared to Jen my plan, and she has told me about this 30-day crunch challenge, which I am, surprisingly, actually adhering to!



Before I started doing the challenge, I asked myself this: whose abs do you wish to have? I easily came up with three answers, and I would like to call them my ABSpirations! #badpun



I've always envied Nicole Scherzinger's abs in this Baby Love MV. Her tummy is flat, even if you look at it from the side! Oftentimes, I stand in front of the mirror and look at my tummy from the side, and I get disgusted at what I see. But hopefully, not anymore!



I never knew Krystal had such a gorgeous pack of abs. Well, that was until I saw this picture of hers and wanted to have them, too! My goal is to have a flat tummy, but getting a defined pack like Krytal's here would just be an added bonus.

And finally...



Sehun's tummy is the sexiest tummy out of all the male KPOP idols out there, ever (at least for me *wink*)! Sure, his tummy isn't as manly-looking as, say, that of the members of 2PM's, but his tummy is the kind that I'd like to have (I'd like my future chuva to have Taecyeon's or Chansung's abs, though).

I like to wear form-fitting tops but I have grown self-conscious every time I wear them because of my bulging tummy, and sucking it all in is hard to do.

I'm on Day 9 of the challenge now, and I sure am hoping that I have lessened my belly fats come Day 30. That is actually saying something because before when I do crunches or sit-ups, I stop at Day 2 and intentionally forget about doing it thereafter. LMAO.

If you have any other belly-buster regimens, please do let me know in the comment section below? :)

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It took a lot of will-power (and a mini coaching sesh from my voice of reason) to refrain myself from asking how things are going around you. My heart wanted so much to know that you are doing just fine, but my mind got the best of me, and I'd like to think that i pretty much did the right (and practical) thing.

I wanted to show you that I still care, because I do but I wasn't so sure that I want that anymore. You may not know it, but you had my heart in your hand. You were so unaware, that you didn't even have any idea that you were already tearing it to pieces.

Until it hurt so much that I just had to pull what's left of my heart from your hands. Because inasmuch as I loved you, I remembered loving me more.

I tried my best to make things good for you, and I hope that they will. I wish I could be there to smile at you when things fall into their rightful places, but I won't be.

I wont look back anymore. I'll be working on me now.

A blog in pictures: Coffee + Seoul = Perfection

See what my cousin Ginny has to say about Cafe De Seoul over here!

Chuvaness asks: What if you saw your ex?

I'm not sure I can legitimately answer this, but I had an ex-"love" anyway. And of course, I am talking about none other than the great #thewalls of Rafa.

I see him at random times and when it happens, I always get surprised to the point that my mind goes haywire. I cannot think of ways to handle the situation and I will always end up running towards the other direction, or pretending I didn't see him, or hiding. We did not break up, because there wasn't a relationship to break in the first place. He was, however, the greatest love of my life to date, and that is something that I cannot erase from myself no matter how hard I try. Seeing him reminds me of the joyous past, how things disintegrated, and how weirdly disconcerting it is, the way we act now as if we never knew each other (or worse: as if we had gone through the worst break-up ever). Those are probably the reasons why my mind goes nuts whenever I see him.

I'm not sure how I'd handle it if #thewalls suddenly surprises me with a visit. Or maybe I'd have the very same reaction Marina Abramovic had when she saw Ulay once more.


(learn a little bit about who Marina and Ulay were here)

My reactions on the video were:
1. The handsome guy at 0:50 (HELLO KUYA WHOEVER YOU ARE ANG GWAPO MO!!!)
2. OMG WAIT LANG!!! (When Ulay sat down in front of Marina)
3. HOSHIT! ;______; (When Marina opened her eyes, and a smile started creeping up her face)
4. ;___________________; (When Marina started tearing up)
5. ;___________________________; (When Marina reached out to Ulay)
6. /STABSSOMETHING (When Ulay left)

No words were said, but I felt the love they had for each other. I'm not sure what happened to them afterwards, if they ever got back together, or if they remained friends, but the 60 seconds I spent looking at their body languages, facial expressions, and the way their eyes spoke, made me wish that they get their respective happily ever afters, whether in each others' arms or not.

I hope I'll be as calm when a similar situations happens between me and #thewalls. I hope my mind will stop going haywire.

The 2013 Birthday Wishlist (The Materialistic Kind of Post)

This is me trying to cut down on being too materialistic, haha. Oh I want these for my birthday pretty please, Santa Claus? *puppy dog eyes*

(1) Day One for Mac - I have the Day One app for my iPad, and I'm hooked! I like journals, but I get too lazy and tired to write down my thoughts at the end of the day. This app helped me get back to journaling, and I cannot end a day without writing on it. Well, okay, I don't write on it every day, but at least I try to. I still like the good ol' pen and paper, but Day One, with its form and function, provides simplicity and ease of use, and these are the reasons why I have fallen in love with this app.

(2) Ascendo French-English Dictionary - You know that I am an etudiant de français, lol. I try to infuse the things I've learned from the French classes I took into my daily living so as not to forget, and this would be the perfect companion for that! How can I not want this when it has this function/feature? I just need this in my iPad, haha!

(3) iTunes Gift Card - Or I could buy myself Day One and/or Ascendo if I am gifted with an iTunes Gift Card instead? LMAO!

(4) Black Flipflops - Because black goes with just about any outfit and as Rain has put it, black looks good. *bricked*

(5) Blue Instax Mini 7S - Because I want this, and I need this in my life!

Hey! I can dream, can't I? ;)

Twenty three!

One of the things that Emily Owens and I share in common (aside from our humongous stupid crush on Will Collins) is that we both aren't birthday persons. I'm not one to make a fuss about my birthday because frankly, I don't think I am worth the fuss. I wake up on my birthday every year feeling great, like nothing can ever pull me down, or nothing can go wrong, or I can get away with anything, but I'm just a regular human being, and special treatments (because it's my birthday), while very much appreciated (I cannot stress this enough), are things I am not really used to getting.

But still, every year on my birthday, I am thankful. I am thankful that the Lord has given me yet another year to live; thankful that my mom and dad decided to have me, keep me and let me experience living life on this wonderful world; thankful for the family and friends that make life more enjoyable; thankful for experiences that educate me, experiences that quenches my thirst for knowledge and maturity.

Years back, I would make this mental list of things that I want to get for my birthday. Looking back at it, I feel so materialistic, lol. But hey, I am materialistic, though I am very much trying to minimize my being that. As I turn 23 (can I panic for a little bit?), I think my birthday wish list has become more mature (naks, pats myself in the back) because there is nothing that I want but...

Happiness, per se, is broad, too generic. If I am being specific, I want to be happy because my mom is healthy and is safe from evil and harm, and because I make her happy; I want to be happy because my dad is no longer stubborn, is finally determined to lose weight and get well; I want to be happy because my sister has finally graduated from college, and will start working soon, and is on her way to finding her own happiness; I want to be happy because I can go to Korea with my friends, or to Singapore with my family; I want to be happy because I can finally enroll myself in a Multimedia Arts course; I want to be happy because I can finally do the things that I want to do, things that I can say are worth my time, things that I am actually passionate about; I want to be happy because finally, I am in love with someone who is in love with me, too (now I know this is a tall, tall, very taaaaaaaaaaaaaall order).

I also wish for optimism. I will be happy. I'm on my way to happiness!

Happy birthday to me ;)