friday's 10 happy things

Something doesn't quite add up to this week. I think my introversion has spiked up, because all I yearn for in my floating moments is to escape the daily routine: sit with a cup of tea/coffee or tuck myself in to a cave. Nevertheless, everything went on as they should, and so did the things that made me smile:

1. New journal and pens. I deliberately did so, to sort of break the fogginess of my mood this week. I just knew I needed something tangible.
2. CBTL talk with my bestfriend over some matcha. Heart-to-heart talks are the end of me.
3. Caffera. A tiny camera-themed coffee shop in Maginhawa :) Darn cute!



bodies #believeinfilm #35mm #film #VSCOcam

A photo posted by April (@grewlegs) on Aug 2, 2015 at 2:15am PDT



4. Books for Less' 20-peso book saaaaale! Braved the first day of sale, and it was a combination of sweat and trigger happiness. 17 books for only $8 :) :)



all for the price of 1 regular book 💘 #dugotpawis #booksforless #booksale #books #VSCOcam

A photo posted by April (@grewlegs) on Jul 31, 2015 at 8:58pm PDT



5. I volunteered to revamp Q's blog, and had a blast. The layout's super simple, but I enjoyed it so much, I swear I almost wished it was mine hahaha.
6. New small notebooks and a bookmark. Again. I think I'm taking jotting down stuff seriously. I now have a separate notebook just for this list. It's actually fun, you know.
7. Cappuccino Muscovado + Sansrival at Cafe Mary Grace. My newly discovered definition of perfection.
8. Polly's Iceland posts. The colors are so rich, I want to slurp it.
9. Lea was killing time and open to entertain some questions, so I took a shot, tweeted her and got an answer in 1 minute.
10. FLAWLESS.

Let's all dive in to this weekend, shall we? :)

nuvali: seda hotel

 

bolinao: by the beach i

hong kong: yau ma tei community centre rest garden

Had a few minutes to kill before our airport pick-up arrives, so I crossed the street from our hotel and walked around this rest garden with huge trees. I wanted to get closer to the people to take photos of how normal this day was for them, but fear of being shoo-ed got the best of me (as always, bleh).

friday's 10 happy things

Hello! I decided to start on another blog link-up, the Friday's 10 Happy Things! I usually cannot fight not sharing it when I see/hear/feel something amazing or something that simply made me smile, but since I'm trying to shut myself up in social media, I thought it would be suitable to just keep them to myself for a week, and then dump them all in this list. So basically, it's a list of things that made me happy this week. Let me go ahead and just start:

1. True Confessions with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler - Oh my, how I would love to get my own swivel chair and be the fourth person in that table?! Tina Fey is my hero, and Amy Poehler is just always hilariously smart. And then there's Jimmy who has a darn cute laugh/snicker :) I'm that loser in school who just want to be friends with this group.
2. Let's not go further: the release of the first Sisters' trailer. Those parts where Amy says 'I don't get this dress, one of my apples keeps rolling out of the bag' and Tina says 'yeah, congrats on that wrestling championship' just make me want to step it up and be a better person in life. And my life after this.
3. The list could be done with those two alone, but let me just keep going for compliance's sake: I made a video of my recent travel to Malaysia, and this made me realize that video editing is probably what I really love doing but I only got diverted into taking photos.
4. I made a Google Sheet to track my savings for my next year's travel. Yes, that trip needs serious amount of discipline to save up for that I had to put it in a tracking sheet, with COUNTIF formulas and all.
5. I spoiled myself by getting a Swirl Rewards Card :)
6. Sarah Geronimo in The Breakup Playlist :D With her cute/rocker chick/law student/perfect messy hair in a bun vibe.
7. I am quite taken by the awesomeness that you can now send GIFs in Facebook Messenger. I feel like I communicate better through GIFs haha!
8. When you're in the shower just thinking about life.
9. My nephew, Francis' almost daily goo'mohnin' voice messages.
10. Omigosh, I learned how to change the fonts in my blog without using the ones in the template. It is such a game-changer in my non-programming world.