with regret…

 

I have decided to say goodbye as a design team member of pink ninjas. I would ike to thank its founders and blog owners, nely and ally for their gracious understanding.

incidentally, their blog is coming out bigger and better in 2010! a design team call is also ongoing.  please check it out here

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read all about it!

 

my friend, the über talented ana santos asked me to talk about my burning passion for scrapbooking and actually listened to me blabber. and to prove that she isn’t gonna leave while ”I’m so into it”,  she even bought me my favorite frap.

so here’s the lowdown on the full story of her interview with me.

*thanks, ana!

see more of her relevant written work, foreign correspondences and recent achievements here. oh yeah, she can also do your make-up, mind you

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buzzed again!

 

and I don’t mean being buzzed by an alcoholic drink! I meant this kind of being buzzed…

 

I’m staying for another year creating with buzz and bloom™! see the full announcement here! 

apat na kami na pinay doon, mga kapatid! woohoo!

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a hero among us

 

CNN hero of the year efren peñaflorida. kabitenyo. our household voted for him. I feel so mighty proud of him right now.

click on the image to get to the full story

TGIF

 

meet enday (not related to ondoy), my mum:

you can call her wendy, wendeline (as in fall in line), wen (kailan?), wends (mga hangin?).

it’s not her birthday and it’s definitely not mother’s day. I just thought  I’d share this pretty layout I did of the one person who can read me, and probably my thoughts (gasp!) even from a mile away.

hug your mom today. she probably misses your bear hugs already.

have a fruitful weekend, peeps!

 

wapak!!!

at just half past one in the afternoon, my little town of kawit was virtually a ghost town. there are only a handful of tricycles plying the streets. all government-owned elementary schools and basketball courts were transformed into makeshift viewing halls with meager amenities for the attendees. people flocked here, even in the heat of high noon, just to watch “the pacman” in a widescreen together with a sardine-packed crowd. this is the closest my kababayans will ever get to do ala-MGM grand garden arena. but who cares?

mabuhay ka, manny! mabuhay din si nanay dayo-nee-zsa at jinkee…

 

bagong bag, alahas at sasakyan na naman ito para sa kanila (and God knows what else).

PS:

la diva was a tad offtune in the beginning of their performance, noh? buti they were able to redeem themselves towards the end

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TGIF

 

what 2009 song are you?

that’s prompt #24 at pink ninjas challenge blog.

I don’t usually scrap photo-less layouts, but I am making an exception on this one. I love the upbeat song “I gotta feeling” by the black eyed peas. there is something about it that connects me to a stream of positive vibes when I hear it. it is so monotonous in terms of lyricism, but what the heck, I like it

come play along! see the design team’s takes here

happy weekend, peeps!

 

TGIF

 

SATURDAY, October 31 @ 12:20 A.M.

picture this: the winds are too strong, the sound they make are a tad creepy. galvanized roofing are flying everywhere, trees and plants are starting to get uprooted, and my poor puppy bailey is whimpering in fear… so what do you do when a super typhoon packs a helluva wind and strikes your little town on hallow’s eve, which began at early dawn?

you don’t sleep.  

naturally, napuyat ako. I slept the whole day, skipped lunch and wake up intermittently just to go to the bathroom for water breaks. that afternoon, tffee was supposed to attend the trick or treat party at the island cove because we didn’t have any celebration in my place of work. since this is the case, I never bothered to have a new costume made for her. I also didn’t know if her angel gown (an old one) was available, and my sis-in-law didn’t advise me if she was able to find it at all. in short, I thought my date with tffee was totally called off.

MONDAY (a holiday),  Nov. 2nd @ 8:00 A.M.

tffee said her gown was ready that saturday. but since she didn’t see me (I was sleeping, remember), she thought we weren’t going to island cove anymore. oh, no! my niece wasn’t able to go trick or treatin’ and it’s getting clear as the skies after typhoon “santi” hit that this is all MY fault! darnnitt.

to make up for it, I bought treats that same day and packed individual bags which I then handed over to all our kamag-anaks within our family compound. I asked tffee to dress up, and I put facepaints on her face haphazardly. she merrily went house-hopping and filled her neon green pumpkin bag to the brim with goodies. the little girl was a happy “moo-moo”.

and that’s how the scripted trick or treatin’ ended that beautiful november afternoon. good times

have a great weekend, everyone!

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question!

what is your opinion when you hear somebody say:

“libre po ito at walang bayad.”

redundundant na ang dating, di ba? weird.

 

a month and a day…

 

ding, ding , ding, ding!!!

I am still HERE! floating by, but still very much here. let’s see… in my last post below I did say I was gonna be back. but alas, hindi nangyari. what gives?

I will not make another set of excuses, because my case remains the same. and for all that happened during the typhoon-ridden month of october, I apologize. for all my personal windfalls (got sick, got busy, got lito, got sick again, got hilo) during the past month, I apologize. and to all my loyal readers who are my dear friends, I apologize. it’s not fun jumping from one blog to another only to land on a stale blog entry (ouch!). total waste of time, noh?

and to quote the illustrious senator jovito salonga during the mar-korina (or is it kori-mar? haha. ) wedding:

“near-perfect, but not perfect. so long as we are humans, we can never be perfect.”

makes sense to me. 

anyway, I have a few projects coming out of the scraproom. these are all I’ve got. hopefully as the day progresses, so does my blogging.

xøxø ♥ to everyone!

pink ninja prompt #19: what kind of ninja are you?

pink ninja prompt #20: if you were a cartoon character (got a little patriotic here; lots of buzz and bloom™, too!)

pink ninja prompt #21: skin marks

pink ninja prompt #22: costumes!

to see the rest of the pink ninja design team takes, jump here 

this one is entitled “outtakes” because it is what it is. and if you will recall, the best shot was used for my birthday layout here. just don’t mind the grammatical error on the journaling. o-ha, I’m sure hahanapin ninyo kung asan ang maling grammar!

lastly, a breast cancer awareness layout that SHOULD’VE debuted in october. this is my 3rd year doing layouts bearing this theme. if you want to see the other two, it’s here and here. 

midweek, peeps! make plans for the coming weekend!

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