Dear 2012,

May you be awesome and fruitful and full of wonderful surprises.

Love,

me

Sent from my iPod

Winner!

2 Sundays ago I have been feeling under the weather when I got an awesome news from my sister! I have been following Chuvaness for the longest time and I got really lucky I was one of the 10 peeps who won swag from her. :) 


My friends and I love her and her blog.  She is chica. :)  The stuff got delivered to our house and I couldn't contain my excitement.

I got a number of different things which I liked so much!

Chuvanotes and Pepper Lunch and Team Manila notebook

I am a notebook addict and these two are such a wonderful addition the things I have now!

Manansala x Freeway Mousepad

Enjoy Cards

I can't wait to use 'em all.

  

 Burlington socks

a bunch of really soft socks

GCs

can I say WOOT! :)

Thank you Thank you! I never ever win anything so this was such a nice surprise. YEY.

Meet Kourtney

Early this month, I got myself an iPod touch.  I have been planning to get one for the longest time and I just couldn't wait anymore. :)  So, I went and got it with Marl and Gracie. My iPod shall be called Kourtney.  I really don't want to go into details why I named her such, but lets just say she has two sisters. *wink*wink*


Here is a photo of her. Such a lovely thing if I may say so myself. :)  32G of awesomeness housed in a pink rubber case with Blue and Pink Kandies. I have been toying with her since the day I got her and I am hooked. I love that I can do everything with it.  Check stuff, play games and read.

Lately, I have been enjoying these apps the most.

Something Quick

I've been meaning to post something for several days now but been kinda preoccupied with stuff lately. I got a new toy and I have been doing nothing but tinkering with it since last week. I will write all about Kourtney next. :)

Oh, something exciting happened to me over the weekend but that is for another post. For now, just wanna say - I am still alive. 🙆

Sent from my iPod

TIA

For those who have no idea what this means TIA stands for This is Awkward. :)  Yep, I am hooked!  I am all caught up with this MTV series, thank you very much.  I love Jenna and it is absolutely possible that I am in love with Jake. :)  It is totally high-school, super fun to watch.

2nd season will start next year. I cannot wait. Woots. 


BTW, I am seriously running out of series to watch.  :|

Friday. Friends.

 

Gracie and Marl moved to the Eastwood site which makes my daily grind way less sucky.  Actually, it had been pretty awesome the past few days.  I miss laughing this much!  We would laugh about the silliest things and mostly I love having friends in the same building. :)


  This week we realized, now that the three of us are together in the same site, it could be challenging to keep within our budget! Yes! We find ourselves roaming the Eastwood mall to find which restaurant would bust our pockets next every night.  This is not good.  So over dinner last Friday, Marl and I made an agreement that we would only splurge during Fridays.  Gracie quickly agreed when I told her about this plan :)  Also, this way there will be something really nice to look forward to at the end of the week.


  To start the Friday habit, we ate at Pasto.  I really enjoyed the food and the price won't break the bank.  It is an Italian cafe that serve pizza and pasta the way I like it.  I can't wait to bring my other friends here.  It can be an after drinks kind of place - if you're sick of good ol' chinese or starbucks.  :D   I wish I had a better camera or just the good sense of taking more pictures, but here are the things that we ordered to share because we wanted to try different things as much as we can. :)

Spaghetti Alfredo with shrimps.  This can be ordered with chicken if you are allergic to shrimp.  Creamy parmesan sauce with black pepper.  Good.  

Arrabiata.  Now, this I really love! :)  Mildy spicy but really good - ooh, and it has bacon. *swoon*

Greca.  We were suppose to order Vegetariano but we realized Gracie might not like it.  So we opted to get this - which is also an all vegetable pizza. So, that kind of confused me a bit. :P  This is really yummy.  It has olives, capers, artichokes and feta cheese -which Marl loves. :D

To round it up, we ordered Raspberry iced-tea - REFILLABLE.  Yey!  I just wish we tried their antipasti too but we can always go back, no?

2011 Reading Challenge



As you might probably guess, I like reading.  I've always been in love with the fascinating opportunity we get, to be part of another universe - a different life while reading.  Beginning of this year, I took up a reading challenge over at tumblr.  I love this challenge!  It actually gave me an excuse to read as much as I want; not that I need an excuse anyway. :)

A couple of weeks ago, I just completed my challenge of 50 books! woots!  I read all sorts of stuff - but of course my all time favorites are Memoirs, Period Novels and yeah, YA books. I also found myself liking the dystopian novels which took me by surprise quite frankly because I like reading how things were before my time and not how it would look like in the future.

I read 50 wonderful books and the year is not even over yet! Isn't that exciting?! :)  Some of these books are beyond awesome, some I almost didn't finish because I lost interest halfway through but ultimately - books are LOVE. :)

Just like any other reader, I have favorites.  My top ten are as follows:

10.  Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
 9.  Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
 8.  Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler
 7.  One Day - David Nicholls
 6.  Looking for Alaska -  John Green
 5.  Divergent - Veronica Roth
 4.  The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
 3.   Dash and Lilly's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
 2.  A Thousand Splendin Suns - Khaled Hosseini
 1.  Millenium Trilogy (Girl with the dragon tattoo, the girl who played with fire and the girl who kicked the hornet's nest) - Stieg Larsson



I know my number 1 choice is kind of cheating but I don't really care! LOL.  I love these novels!


Oh, and before I forget, the books in this challenge, they are all ebooks. :)  I still love the old school books, but ebooks are easier for me to carry and I have several choices whenever I need a quick read fix. So, I don't hate ebooks at all! :)