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.

the sunday currently vol. 6

Currently...

Reading

Harlan Coben's Tell No One, which was lent to me by my morning commute buddy, Chez. A short backstory, Chez and I used to be in a car pool on our way to work with 3 other people. Because I usually read on commute, she noticed, we had a little chit-chat about books, and then she was kind enough to lend me two books by Harlan Coben. It's been a while since I've read mystery novels -- although I've enjoyed it every time I get to read Robin Cook or Dan Brown.

Writing

Haha. Nada, other than the obvious. I've stopped writing on a journal for the last three months, which is no shock based on my records. 

Listening

Been listening to a lot of gut-wrenching, heart-hammering, self-inflicted hurt songs since the rainy season began haha. We are all guilty of this, I guess? :) Speaking of songs, something incredible happened yesterday. Because of the rain for the past days, I've been stuck with one of the most-played rain-themed OPM songs: Regine Velasquez's cover of Tuwing Umuulan. Haha, it's a classic, but also a very cheesy and snuggly song to listen to. So I was in a mall yesterday and then it turns out Regine is having one of her mall tours, and then she sang it! back to back with her rendition of Araw-Gabi, which is my all-time favorite OPM song. My mind imploded, basically.

Fact: Both songs are composed by the genius Ryan Cayabyab, who has perfected the art of  delicately describing how it is to love and let that love bleed profusely without bluntly saying I love you. God.

Thinking

Being 28 is the most comfortable skin and state of mind I've ever been in. I am certainly blessed to have this consciousness that reminds and makes me realize that everything that is going for me in life right now does not fall short of what I've wanted in a simple life, to say the least.

Smelling
Kimi's urine-soiled floor. Ughlk.

Wishing

To close the gap of my 6-month photo backlog.

Hoping

I really hope to wake up to a consistent early routine. I am so bad at tapping the alarm, and then going back to sleep completely, and then waking up 30 minutes later shocked and rushed at everything.

Wearing

A super comfy tee from Bench, which I wouldn't mind to have 20 pieces of and wear every day, and running shorts.

Loving

I've rediscovered my love (first love) for making videos, and I've missed that high from stitching scenes with the music bed.

Wanting

To bleed these realizations into written form.

Needing

To find time and the right mood and nook to do the above.

Feeling

Love in the unromantic but in the realest, most satisfying way.

Clicking

My blog layout. Popped up some of the label lists and widgets back in here. If I could just gather the willingness to learn CSS, but nope. Lazy ass wins.

The Sunday Currently blog link-up