Photo A Day Challenge (Feb 27 - 29)

Below are my photo a day challenge for the last days of February :).  I made it! yey! :D

27.  something you ate : Sour Punch - pamatid-gutom sa hapon :)

28.  Money : new 50.00 bill.  I like the bright red color of the new bill, and because of that, I will hold on to this  for a while longer hehehe :)

29.  something you're listening to : Dia Frampton! I loved her in The voice Season 1, so glad she came out with her own record.  Some stations are now playing her song "The Broken Ones" on air.

So that completes my February Photo A Day Challenge (at least half of the month since I joined late).  I hope I can complete the succeeding months :)

For March, here is the new list from Fat Mum Slim's Blog (http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/):

I'm thinking if i should bring along my camera (since i have a small, compact point and shoot type one) so i could get better shots.  When i looked at all my Feb photos, almost all of it were taken in the office.  My favorite shot was taken last Sunday in Eastwood for the Night challenge, since it was the only photo I have taken outdoors :P.

My challenge for March : to take more shots outdoors and to be more creative.  Soooo excited to start! :)

Photo A Day Challenge (February 18 - 26)

Since I started doing this Photo A Day Challenge, i tried to stay true to taking pictures every day, but i admit there are days when I did forget (memory gap moments :P) so i just took some of the pics I forgot the next day.  Anyways, here's my photo a day exhibition (naks!) for this week:

18.  Drink

19.  Something you hate to do : working on a weekend!!!! (and doing numbers at that! :P)

20.  Handwriting : obviously am a book nerd :P

21.  A fave photo of you : this was taken in Singapore last April 2010 :)  i took a picture of this photo stored in my iPad :)

22.  Where you work : the JB R&D office :)

23.  Your shoes : my favorite pair of Sanuk sandals :)

24.  Inside your bathroom cabinet : i don't have a bathroom cabinet so I just took a picture of my bathroom shelves :P

25.  Green : my mom's curtains

26.  Night : taken at Eastwood a few hours ago :)

Yey! i completed two weeks worth of photos and I managed to write about it 2 weeks straight! hope i can keep this up.

till next week! :)

Photo A Day Challenge

My friend Claudette is doing this photo a day challenge and being the curious cat that I am, I decided to find out what it was and where it all started.  I found that it was a challenge started by a blogger, Chantelle (www.fatmumslim.com.au).  I love a challenge so I decided to try this one out.  This is the list for February:

Since its my first day, and I am already late in joining the challenge i decided to do the whole week's photo a day thingie (addict mode ON! :P)  so i took five pictures starting from number 13 to 17 :)  Here they are:

13.  Blue

14.  Heart

15.  Phone

16.  Something New

let me explain this one... i was given a new project yesterday and it requires me to do project management, so i need to review!!! :P

17.  Time

That's the last of it :)  I will try to do the photo taking challenge daily and will try to post on a weekly basis (or daily if i can).

Why did I decide to do this in the first place?  To have something else to do aside from work hahaha! :)  i need to keep things light and relaxed and fun even for just a few minutes in a day to keep my sanity in check :)  Plus, this will more or less make me update my blog weekly! yay! *crossing fingers*

till next week!

valentakaw and spantastic date with the girls

As usual, I have no Valentines Date plans, but I was pleasantly surprised that fate has something else in mind for me this year.  Though my date is not actually a romantic one, I had a blast :).

Ghina and Regine called me up to ask if I want to go on a Spa date with them.  I agreed, besides, I don't have anything to do on a Sunday anyways.  It was a pre-Valentines day date of sorts for us three since all three of us are single.  We went to Ace Water Spa in Pasig.  The place is really nice, though smaller compared to their first branch in QC, I like this location better.  The building is new and there weren't too many people.  We changed into our swimwear and excitedly went into the spa area.  We tried all there is to try including the hot herbal pools which was supposed to be strictly timed according to the lifeguard.  We were supposed to try the sauna but when we entered, we literally cannot take the heat, so we just opted to stay in the hot herbal pools.  We stayed for a while there, enjoying and relaxing and laughing and just being silly :P.  Afterwards, we realized we were super hungry.

Since we were near the Kapitolyo area, there were a number of restos the girls haven't tried yet.  Since Regine wanted to have breakfast food (and she has a huge crush on Elmo Magalona who kinda endorses this place) we opted to try out Milky and Sunny.  

The menu has a lot of options and we were excited to try out a lot of things.  Our tummies were grumbling by then so we got the Breakfast Big Plate, a meal complete with rice and hash brown. We also ordered the bacon tostadas, a recommended dish from a blog I read.  We enjoyed the meal so much.  The hungarian sausage slices dipped in spicy vinegar was really good! :)  We were soooo full after this hearty breakfast fare (at 9:00 pm) :P.

menu specials 

bacon tostadas

Breakfast Big Plate

Happy tummy! :)

Our baby girl, Regine :)

It was a really fun day with the girls and one of the best Valentines Date I had in a long time :)

musings

there will always be people who will hurt you.  they may be an acquaintance, a random stranger, or worse a friend (or "friend") or even family.  there will be others who will go out of their way to ostracize and intentionally hurt you.  there are no exemptions, no prerequisites, no conditions.  there are people who, just to make themselves feel better or who feel they have the right to hurt people just because they think their meanness justifies their reason, will actually make it a point to make you feel "unwanted" and will go to great lengths to treat you like an outcast. i know. i felt that.  i have been treated that way by people who i considered to be my friends.

bottomline is you just have to learn to let go.  let go of people who do not see your value and move on with your life with the people who do.  the saying that when a door closes, a window will open or better yet, another door will, is true.  there will be people who will be worth your while.  worth the friendship and worth the trust.  you just have to learn to see, choose and accept who they are.  life will not be fair every time.  we all have to learn to adapt.  you can only take so much crap in your life.  there will come a point wherein you have to weigh things out.  you will have to see if all this and all that is worth it or not. on the other hand, look at it as life giving you the chance to sift through the people in your life. once the sifting is done, you may have been left with only a handful of people, but for sure they are the best of the lot.

in the end, you will know who are worth keeping.  thank God there are people who stay true and still believe in you and whose definition of friendship and family is the same as yours.