I was TAGGED by Au..

So here are the  random facts about me..

1. I am a scrap freak. As in mahilig akong magtapon. When hubby and I are cleaning the house, he normally calls me... Ms. TAPON. Kasi tapon ng tapon.

2. Like Au, hikain din ako when I was a kid, buti na lang, di na ako sinusumpong ngayon. But I think, nagtransform lang sya to a different kind of allergy. Para kasing meron akong Skin Ashma. My skin easily gets Red. Most of the time, I don't know why and how.

3. I write simple poems when I was in HS. And I don't like poems without  rhymes. Sometimes, I still write pero bihira na.

4. In GS, I was an avid fan of Introvoys, then I liked Green Day in College. When I started working, I begin to like Parokya ni Edgar.... until now.

5. When I was still living with my parents, I hate washing dishes. I preferred ironing clothes than washing dishes.

6. I hate being late in the office, meetings and in appointments. And I expect the same. Exception nga lang mga whole day event.

7. I am a Lola's Girl when I was a kid. And I am a little naughty. I remembered, nag-contest kami ng pinsan ko ng pahabaan ng buhok. Then, I asked my Lola to cut my cousins' hair short because she has lice. Hehe. Guess, who wins?

Now, it's time for me to tagged 7 people:  Cynch, Elapot, Angie(daphne), Maknoll, Jeff ni Pia, Pao, Joanne Yap. You have to try it. It's fun.

Pahabol ngayong Linggo

Ariel & I stayed at home yesterday. We did some cleaning. As usual, I was a scrap freak. I scrapped... as in trashed a lot of things - those I think that will have No use for us in the future. I remembered an article that I read that those things unused for 6 months must be scrapped because it invites bad forces.

After the cleaning, I scrapped again. This time.. i didn't throw anything but I created ... this LO.

Materials: Acrafts & C. Arte PPS, Bazzill CS, Vellum, Fibers, Ribbons, 7 Gypsie Ribbon (Remember), Eyelets, Brads, Metal Frame, Metal Charms, Zig Pen, Cbox Inkpad, Ranger White Dapper Paint, Prima, Chpbrd: Gin-X & FP.

Jounaling:
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Sugar is Sweet
And so are You

You are indeed very sweet
One our 3rd day in Bangkok, before going back to the Phils.
You were still able to Surprise me with ROSES.

I love them for their unique color
But... I LOVE YOU MORE....

Simple LOs for the Week

Able to finished a LO last night. This is very simple. Just did some Cut & Paste.


Materials: Urban Lily Rocker PPS, C. Arte Chpbrd, Ribbon, WRMK Country Thoughts, Blk CS, Colorbox Inkpads.

Also started this LO last night and finished today.

Materials: CS, ACraft PPS, Vellum, K&CO fabric, Buttons, Crafting Studio eyelet, TLC buckle chpbrd, Zig Pen, Letter Stickers: Cbox & Urban Lily, Ribbon, Inkpads: Versamark & colorbox.

This 2nd LO was a scraplift from scrapbook etc mag may/june issue. Also copied the journaling from Rebecca Cooper's LO.

Whole Day Leave

Hubby & I took a whole day leave today. But we were not really able to rest. We still left home the same time we're leaving for work.

We're lucky that there was no traffic in SLEX at 730am. We took our bfast in Jollibee C5 and went to UP Graduate School. Hubby was supposed to file LOA.

From UP, we drove to Edsa Central. We're there @ 9:30am but found out that the Bank opens @ 11am. We need to change some data from their records. While waiting, we visited the 88 Store and bought some things: File Organizer, Car Cellphone Hanger & Sink Strainer. We also visited the SOGO store. When the bank opened, it only took us 15mins to accomplished the forms.

From Edsa Central, we drove to the store of Ms. Vivian to buy Scenic Route Papers and Monogram for her latest Challenge. Able to buy more than papers (white paint & KF Aluminum TAB for hidden Journaling.

From the store, we went to Greenhills and had our lunch in Yoshinoya. We also shopped for Blank DVDs and Modem. At 2:45, we were already driving home. Traffic was already building up but we're still lucky that we reached cavite @ 430pm. Chinchin had a bath 1st before going home.

A very tiring day. Hubby is actually sleeping now... kaya sleep na din me... Night!

2nd Saturday of June

Last saturday, hubby & I just stayed in the house doing nothing. we just ate, watched tv, slept & scrapped.

Some of the scrap projects i finished are shown below:

This LO is mostly made from my scrapped papers. Trying to make use of them. Not satisfied with this because it looks busy. Anyway, journaling says: Summer spent with You is so much fun.

Also started working on my altered box. This is not yet done. Just covered the box and painted the top & bottom with LD glitter glaze. Still needs to cut the pps for the front opening of the box.

Top View of my altered Box

Side View

New LO - GROW

Just Posted my entry in the PS BLOG for the June Challenge.

Journalling:
First we fall in LOVE
Then we GROW in LOVE
And NOW....
All I wanna do is...
GROW OLD with "U"

Materials Used:
Provo CS, Rouge de Garance PPS, LD Stamp, LD Glitter Glaze, Colorbox inkpad, Sakura & Dong-A Pens, Chpbrd: Gin-X & Maya Road.

Techniques Used
Handcutting.Tracing patterns, Stamping &Dry Embossing.

THERE are still GOOD PEOPLE out there

Last Saturday, we left home early for a wedding that we need to attend in Siniloan, Laguna. Instead of passing SLEX, we needed to pass by Tanay Rizal due to some important things that we need to do in Pasig : go to my parents house to give the construction tools needed by my dad & to give my sister's tuition fee, meet with BIL to give the old gas stove for Ariel's Ate & meet with Ariel's friend (Peter & Marose) who are also going to the wedding.

Everything is going smoothly, not until we reached Antipolo. Ariel saw that the car temp was increasing. We stopped and they checked it. The radiator is very hot. It was lucky that we stopped few steps to a car repair shop. The mechanic saw that the blower was not working so he bypass "something" to make it work. They also give us water for the radiator. They charged us 400pesos.

We thought that we are already safe but when we reached the Zigzag road, the temp is again increasing. Ariel put some water in the radiator. They we drove again. In Teresa, our car stopped automatically, Ariel had a hard time starting it up. However, we were still able to drive till Morong when the car totally went down. Ariel called our mechanic but still it didn't help. One of his friend (Ariel) was coming from Angono. After 15mins, they came and checked the car. They helped us looked for a mechanic. The mechanic was still taking lunch so we needed to wait. Peter & Marose just went along with Ariel to the Wedding Venue. They are needed there at 1am and it was already 12nn.

While waiting, Ariel went to the near vulcanizing shop and ask for some water. He is willing to pay but the owner did not accept it. He also asked for some water from the owner of the house where we stopped. Few minutes more, the mechanic came. He checked it and asked Ariel to drive more to the vulcanizing shop. After checking using water & air, he found out that it was that radiator. It might be cause by the non working blower that morning. He accompanied us to Morong town proper to the Radiator Shop and ask us to come back to his shop after the repair to tune up the car.

The repair was done at 2pm. We took lunch under the Mango tree near the shop. We bought lunch in a nearby cafeteria. Borrowed utensils & tray. My bad that I was not able to took pix of us. It was a special moment Ngarag na ata ako sa disappointment at init. The repair man charged us 250php but Ariel gave 300. We think it was not enough for the work done but he was just good. Then we went back to the car shop of the mechanic that 1st check our car and had our car check, he said it's ok. No need to tune up. Ariel tried to pay but didn't accept it. He said that we are still far from our destination. We know we owe him some amount because he drove to the place where we stopped and even drove with us to the radiator repair shop (about 500meters away from where we were). We felt really good after that incident. There are still good people out there. GOD bless those people.

Puerto Galera Gimik

Out of no where, hubby together with a newly wed friends, planned for a long weekend get-away. Hubby & I planned of going to Casa San Pablo or the Farm but decided to join our friends in PG. Di pa rin naman us nakakapunta sa Puerto kaya ok na din. We left cavite Sunday because hubby & i still needs to attend his college friend's wedding last saturday.

We had so much fun although there were some glitches:
a. Morning headache (migraine)
b. Moody me - our friends were late: they were supposed to be in our house at 6am but they arrived 7am.
c. We don't know the direction going to Batangas port. However, thru text from friends, we took SLEX and Startoll.
c. Traffic going to Batangas City.
d. Arrived in Batangas Pier @ 9:30am. Next Boarding Boat is 10am. The "INIP" strikes me again.
e. Boat Boarded at 10am but left the pier @ 11am. Kainis noh?
f. A/C in our room in not working. Needed to transfer to another room.
g. Henna details.. didn't know that it can't get wet after 2 hours. All of us are 1st timer.
h. The Banana Boat Ride was traumatic. they allowed 12 people in the boat. The 1st Drop was not a drop but a "THROW". It hurts in the eyes and throat (nakainom kme ng madaming tubig). The 3rd drop was so far from the shore. We needed to struggle a lot to reach the shore . I am not a swimmer that's why I got so tired. But we still want to try it again but not with the same boatman!. He's BAD. Hehe.
i. Going home, the water is not calm. There were waves. We even got wet inside. It was scary but hubby said that it is normal. We are very thankful that we arrived safe in Batangas Pier.

Overall... we had fun since the weather was fair. We tried the henna tattoo (min of 100php), bananaboat ride (100 per person), snorkling (special rate for our group - 4 pax for 1500 including gears rental) and of course we shopped for souviner & pasalubongs. Accomodation is 2500 for 2 bedrooms with A/C and cable TV. Hubby enjoyed swimming, looking for unique stones and feeding fish. It was all worth an exprience.

More Pix in this link.

some thoughts

muni..muni...
inis sa work...hay...

i am not feeling well
i am not doin good
i need some time alone
if i need help, that i am not sure

some things irritates me
some things are not good as it seems
thinking a lot of things
worrying about everything

tell me if i can bear it still...
tell me if i can endure it still....

wala lang.

Gonna be a Long Weekend for Independence Day

Already excited for the long weekend although I know that it's gonna be a very tiring weekend. Tomorrow, we'll be attending a wedding in Siniloan Laguna. but we still need to visit my parents and meet with my BIL in Pasig. The wedding is at 3:30pm but need to be there at 1pm for the pix taking. Hope we can be home early to get enough rest for the Gimik on Sunday. We might go to Puerto Galera or Casa San Pablo. It will be my 1st time for both palces and already excited.

EK'07

Ariel's newphews celebrated their Birthday in Enchanted Kingdom. We're there are 1145am. We rode the balloon ride and roller coaster before eating a domino's pizza and spag. We tried the realto and pirates 4D.

The party started at 3pm till 5pm. it was fun, esp. the pix taking with Princess and Wizard.



Side wento: While others are busy with the games, we saw the monkey outside the resto and took some photos.



After the party, Ariel's cousins and pamangkins tried the RIO GRANDE. We refused to go because we don't want to get wet. Also, we're not able to bring clothes. Besides, Ariel was feeling sick. We decided to leave the park @ 6pm.

More Pix are in this link.

New Blouse & A Cabinet

Forgot to blog about this blouse that we bought this friday. i love it. will be using it for his friend's wedding on saturday.

btw, i also want to share our cabinet in our room. i designed it and my dad made it. isn't it cute?

attended a summit

Hubby and I attended a ASEAN summit last night. Joke only. Actually, we had a dinner with 3 Malaysians, 2 Indians and 1 Filipino. It was a treat by the Malaysians. They are our Subcon for Burn-in and they want to treat our Indian visitors who happens to be Ariel's counterpart. He is Ariel's Offshore/ Product line manager. They were forced to treat us in an Indian restaurant because one of Ariel's visitor is a vegetarian.

We ate in "New Bombay" restaurant located in Makati. I didn't enjoy the food that much because I am not a fan of spicy foods. However, they are not as spicy as I expected. But hubby enjoyed them. He missed those foods (He stayed in India last 2004 for a 5-month taining).

It was just too bad of me not to take pix of the food because I was so shy. Nagmukha akong muse. Ako lang girl eh. I really not intend to join but Mr. Teoh knows me and he asked Ariel to bring me.

Some of the foods we ate are:
The long and thin white rice - my 1st time to see that kind of rice
Chicken Masala
Chapati

Fried Mashed Potato with some onions (forgot the name)
Mushroom with red sauce (forgot tha name also)
Fish with red sauce (forgot the name too)
Gobi Masala
Fished wrapped in red breading (dont know the name)
Verdict:
The foods are ok but it will not be my choice. I would rather go for pasta or burger. The foods are not spicy but after some time, you would taste the spiciness of the foods. However, I loved the decoration of the resto and their dining table.

PS: Got Pix from this site

Friday Night - We had a Break

Got this cool Stuff Toys from Saisaki. Hubby and I had our Friday date. We took the Ultimate Buffet- Saisaki, Dad's and Kamayan. Loved the tempura, the crab stick, the lechon de leche, the fruits, cakes, cream puffs. We almost ate everthing. We are so full but we definitely had a good time. Can u see it from his face?
This is hubby, wanting for more ice cream. takaw noh?

Envelope on the GO

Did this envelope inside the car on our way to the Scrapfest. Hubby was going to a "Binyagan" and I'm bad to forgot to bring the "Ampao". It was just good that I have my scrap stash with me and was able create an alternative. We are not even sure if the baby is a boy or a girl so to be safe, I used yellow and brown flower. Not bad huh?!

My Valerie Salmon Outlines Challenge Entry

Uploaded today my entry to Valerie Salmon Outines Challenge.

Journaling:
Being with you is more than everything. You can make me cry,smile,laugh,wacky & crazy! I enjoy every moment with you.
Materials:
Bazzill CS,
PPS (AL,WRMK for the title)
Flowers (HS & frm divi)
Others: Brad, Eyelets, Inkpads, LD stamp, Embossing Powder, Key Metal Charm, Ribbons, Fibers, Glitter Glue, Rickrack, K&Co Heart Chpbrd, Zig pen.

This is a simple LO but it took me a week to finish this. Wala Lang. Just for the heck of it. Hehe. But I love this pix of US because wedding pix are supposed to be cheesy but this one is different - wacky n crazy. Hihihi.

something to ponder

I got struck by this email by a friend about the Philippines. Pardon me because this may sound Patriotic but I know I am also guilty. Per my other friend this was written way back 2004 but it didn't reach me.


THE BETTER SIDE OF THE PHILIPPINES 

The following was written by INTEL General Manager Robin Martin about the Philippines :
 
Filipinos (including the press, business people and myself) tend to dwell too much on the negative side, and this affects the perception of foreigners, even the ones who have lived here for a while. The negative perception of the Philippines is way disproportionate to reality when compared to countries like Columbia , Egypt , Middle East, Africa , etc.
 
 Let us all help our country by balancing the negative with the positive especially when we talk to foreigners, whether based here or abroad. Looking back and comparing the Philippines today and 1995 (the year I came back), I was struck by how much our country has progressed physically.
   
Consider the following:
 1. The great telecom infrastructure that we have now did not exist in 1995. 1995 was the year the telecom industry was deregulated. Since then billions of dollars have been invested in both fixed line and cellular networks producing a system with over 5,000 kms of fiber optic backbone at a world competitive cost. From a fixed line capacity of about 900,000 in 1995 we now have over 7 million. Cellular phones practically did not exist in 1995; now we have over 11 million line capacity.
 
2. The MRT, many of the EDSA flyovers (including the Ayala Avenue flyover), the SKYWAY, Rockwell and Glorietta 4, the Fort, NAIA terminal 2 and most of the new skyscrapers were not yet built in 1995.
 
3. If you drive to the provinces, you will notice that national roads are now of good quality (international quality asphalt roads). I just went to Iba, Zambales last week and I was impressed that even a not so frequently travelled road was of very good quality.
 
4. Philippine exports have increased by 600% over the past eight years. There are many, many more examples of progress over the last eight years. Philippine mangoes are now exported to the US and Europe .
   
Additional tidbits to make our people prouder:
 
1. INTEL has been in the Philippines for 28 years. The Philippines plant is where Intel's most advanced products are launched, including the Pentium IV. By the end of 2002, Philippine operations became Intel's biggest assembly and testing operations worldwide.
 
2. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS has been operating in Baguio for over 20 years. The Baguio plant is the largest producer of DSP chips in the world. DSP chips are the brains behind cellphones. TI's Baguio plant produces the chip that powers 100% of all NOKIA cellphones and 80% of Erickson cellphones in the world.
 
3. TOSHIBA laptops are produced in Santa Rosa , Laguna.
 
4. If you drive a BENZ, BMW, or a VOLVO, there is a good chance that the ABS system in your car was made in the Philippines .
 
5. TREND-MICRO, makers of one of the top anti virus software PC-Cillin (I may have mispelled this) develops its "cures" for viruses right here in Eastwood Libis, Quezon City . When a virus breaks in any computer system in the world, they try to find a solution within 45 minutes of finding the virus.
 
6 . Today a majority of the top ten U.S. Call Center firms in the U.S. have set up operations in the Philippines . This is one area in which I believe we are the best in the world in terms of value for money.
 
7. America Online (AOL) has 1,000 people in Clark answering 90% of AOL's global e-mail inquiries.
 
8. PROCTOR & GAMBLE has over 400 people right here in Makati (average age 23 years) doing back-up office work to their Asian operations including finance, accounting, Human Resources and payments processing.
 
9. Among many other things it does for its regional operations network in the Asia-Pacific region here in Manila , CITIBANK also does its global ATM programming locally.
 
10. This is the first year ever that the Philippines will be exporting cars in quantity courtesy of FORD Philippines. (I have an idea this article was written between 2001 - 2002, so this operation should have been on-going for the last 3 years or so. CYN)
 
11. The government is shedding off graft and corruption slowly but surely. This is the first time in our history that a former president is in jail and facing charges of plunder. Despite all odds, we are still pursuing the ill-gotten wealth of Marcos now enjoyed by his unrepentant heirs.
   
Next time you travel abroad and meet business associates tell them the good news. A big part of our problem is perception and one of the biggest battles can be won simply by believing and by making others believe. This message is shared by good citizens of the Philippines who persevere to hope and work for our country.
 
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER FILIPINOS!!!


I know I am guilty of looking only at the negative sides about the Philippines but I still believe that we still have HOPE!.