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’shere and here.
midweek, peeps! make plans for the coming weekend!
it’s an awesome challenge blog… and it’s pink! I am beyond excited and just can’t believe my luck
a bunch of fabulous girls in this season’s design team who just simply ROCK. whoaa. watch out for the fabulous prompts starting next week. do join us please!
I am still here. but obviously unable to blog for the longest time.
case in point:
- I was drained of all creative juices after the “idol” competition, mojo decided to hibernate- I got sick for several days- I got well. but mojo decided to eventually take a leave of absence- I got busy at work- the homefront needed my undivided attention- work made me leave home and fly the local friendly skies- when I got back. I was too tired. got busy again.- I was introduced to facebook.- but I managed to do design team work for a bit here; which was like ages ago- got sick again (what the?!)- enjoyed facebook- then typhoon ondoy hit- putting my scrapstuff in a very depressing disarray- still enjoying facebook (ooh, I’m so busted!)
but I promise to get back on track. I missed blogging. I may have a couple of good news in the next few days thanks for hanging out just the same.h
dang this FB thing. my blog rhythm ia almost pffftt. and I haven’t started playing any of those games pa ha.
meantime, before I bring you today’s random wednesday 53, a photo to entertain you. but I swear if I see this anywhere on my way home while walking at night, I’ll have a heart attack!
first of all, I would like to THANK EVERYONE who congratulated me on my idol win. I swear if dear wasn’t looking at the time I was reading your comments, tears could’ve flown once again *ahwww.*
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max’s restaurant, last weekend:
tffee eating her caramel cake, the one that comes “free” if you order any of their combo meals:
tffee: ninang, ano tawag po dito? brownies din?
me: you read, it says caramel cake, di ba?
tffee: what color po ba ito? para namang brownies eh.
me:medyo cream.
tffee: hmmm. eh di dapat and tawag CREAMnies.
oh, snap. what a smart a**
♥ ♥ ♥
CARNIVORE ALERT!
it’s now official:SM, they don’t have it all.
I just recently found out, as in yesterday lang, that montereyhas pulled-out from SM bacoor. I surmised it’s a nationwide move, given the experiences I had with some other products that have managed to stay afloat in the consumer world even after “leaving” the giant known as SM.
take drypers diapers, for example. and if I am not mistaken, colgate too. these products aren’t in any SM grocery shelves anymore. and if I were to believe my sources, it all boils down to the issue of the latter charging astronomical fees for these products’ retention in all the SM supermarkets, including the SM hypermart.
what’s going on, SM? pera in favor of quality na ba talaga ang labanan?
anyway. noynoy aquino is making his decision known anytime now. to run for prez or not, today is a monumental day for noynoy. the siblings will be strategically in different places in the philippines to attend special masses for tita cory’s 40th day death commemoration. I think they’re mobilizing themselves for another obvious reason. I will vote for the guy. even if a lot of skeptics would say that he is not yet ready for the presidency, etc, etc. why, his mother was also a plain housewife then, but she did make a difference, didn’t she? I’m taking my chance for a fresh start at anything right now.
whose friend is this?
I am loving the new characters of new moon. here’s dakota fanning as “jane”. pretty, pretty girl:
yeah, I like lola madge. I may not always agree to all that she does in the interest of “self-expression” eklavuh, but I still like her. her 13-year old daughter lola leon (odabah?), reprised lola madge’s like a virgin look:
something I don’t totally like at the moment. that’s the manang in me.
ok, before I bid you adieu, I would just like to confess that after 10,000 years, I finally succumbed…
to facebook! no longer “primitive” in that department. HA!
next week, we’ll talk about everything in excess. happy midweek!
SCRAPFEST 7, 29 AUGUST 2009. so it happened. the much-awaited scrapbooking event in the philippines. and this time I am not just an attendee but a finalist as well. GEEZ. what was I really thinking when I joinedlast july 26?
I love beyonce. I watched her concert dito sa atin.I even made a layout about it. then a few days before the event, we, the 10 finalists received an email from the scrappinmoms organizers enumerating the initial instructions on the theme to be used for this year’s competition. I was a fan of beyonce until that very day I received the email. I hated the fact that the song, where our layout inspiration should take off from made me hit a solid, blank wall… “if I were a boy”.NAMAN!
took me days to arrive at an initial layout concept, and some more humid nights thinking of a possible picture to use. I told myself, it definitely has to be a new one, in either full color or B&W. reason being is that, I wouldn’t know what materials will be given to us as challenge kits. it can be really chaka, too colorful or heaven forbid, just plain bland. I had to play and replay layout designs on my mind. there came a point when I had a headache just thinking about it. I knew I had to be smart in the delivery of my interpretation. what is it about wanting to be a boy? bukod sa dati napapagkamalan akong tomboy? hindi ba ito adding insult to injury? I don’t want to talk about my frustration of not being able to project enough “femininity”. personally speaking, that’ll be too lame a topic (doing the “L” sign on my forehead).
what is it about a boy and a girl and what makes them uniquely diffrent at the same time? why do boys have it easy? why are girls so mabusisi? crispin, basilio, nasaan kayo?! hehehehe. then like a bolt of lightning, I thought: I am going to do a layout about menstruation. haaa… pero tanong: can I pull it off?
okay. so that settled, I asked mybff for a last minute photoshoot (thursday night) at a cheapipay photolab at, would you believe, the ayala MRT station. I needed her indomitable kulit factor to help execute my concept and “direct” the photographer, who turned out to be the branch manager as well! poor guy, he had to sit on the floor just so he can take the shot that I specifically want. but before all that chaos went about, I did show him some pegs for reference. aba, ginanahan ata. ayaw na namin pa-picture, sige pa daw. suuuuure
I didn’t see the actual photo until saturday at noon, when ems handed them over to me. talk about taking risks. I told ems, malimutan na niya lahat, wag lang ang pictures ko.
earlier at the fest grounds, I checked out the participating LSS. bought some new thickers and a couple of possible patterned papers I can use for the idol challenge. we were told to buy materials from at least two LSS, a pre-requisite for all idol finalists. it was a blindsighted purchase, but I was happy with my loot.then it began. we were prompted with the instructions and were given a full four hours to finish each of our entries. saw the challenge kit (ugh.), made peace with its contents and went to work. I said in my last related post that I will just enjoy the process no matter what. I cannot afford to be overtly competitive since I am already three seasons too late anyway. besides, what have I got to lose?
image: april lim
halfway through the competition, I felt a throbbing pain in my cranium. my cheeks are flushed and I was gulping a liter of bottled water every five minutes. this is not good. I ricocheted to the bathroom like a pelota ball would. I was getting hungry and already dry at the mouth. Panginoon, tama ba itong nangyayari sa akin? just let me be in the finishing top 5 and I’m good to go. at least I’d die in the battle fighting to the last string of my gut.
image: diane miraballes
I made a booboo. since my layout base has been 8.5×11 all throughout the competition, I was sooo ready to submit 10 minutes early into the deadline. then BAM! it was supposed to be a 12×12 entry pala! big thanks to my co-finalists who made me realize this. I wanted to give up because I was so tired already. but at the back of my mind, I was knocking myself on the head. andito na ako eh, ngayon pa ba ako susuko? so I used the patterned paper I bought earlier, eyeballed my original layout, pressed some rub-ons and prayed hard I make it to the deadline. tick-tock… last two minutes. photofinish!
image: diane miraballes
the scrappinmoms started introducing the 10 finalists one by one. and using the world-renowned urong-sulong process of elimination, suddenly there were just 5 of us.
middle five, L-R: LG, myself, candy, diane & lee
image: liza bermudez
around this time I could feel my bladder about to explode. I didn’t mean to let everybody know what I was feeling, but when I muttered that I want to pee already, host liza talked back on the microphone! so sige, wiwi break muna we were back to the cliffhanger after relieving ourselves. and for some reason, the electrolytes I released made me want to just get everything over and done with.
and then we were 3…
image: liza bermudez
these two ladies you see in the picture above,diane andlee, have been awesome since day one. quite honestly, to get this far into the competition was an honor for me already. but it wasn’t meant to end that simple…
* * * WARNING:kenkoy pictures ahead * * *
image: diane miraballes
image: liza bermudez
image: diane miraballes
I bagged the 2009 scrappinmoms idol 3 title!
image: issa lucido
image: tin yao
image: liza bermudez
after my name was called, what happened next were scenes scooped straight out of a real beauty contest: I cried (yuck. there, now you know mababaw luha ko!)), I waved, I did a wee speech, beso, hugs, struck a pose, and had a locked jaw from too much grinning…
image: liza bermudez
image: liza bermudez
my bff ems also won the top prize for the on-the-spot layout challenge!
note that in my post title, I put an open and closed quotation marks to the word idol. it is undeniably a big word and has put me in a fleeting position since the culmination of the event… but I know that there will always be a better, craftier and spunkier scrapbooker out there. I believe with all my heart, that the philippines is a treasure trove of truly amazing scrapbookers. I’d live and die chanting those same words.
tadaaa…
image: april lim
for now, I will enjoy the tag “idol” . there’s simply a VERY nice ring to it that I could not resist
a couple of days ago, somebody sent a text message to someone and the word spread like a plague… BEYONCE HAD DIED!
huwatt?!
so I told my friend B that it couldn’t be true. “here, I am looking at a US-based gossip site”, I snapped back. “walang balita tungkol diyan.” fast forward to nighttime. I got home and my mum yelped: “anak, patay na daw si bayonci, beyanci, beyonci ba yun? plane crash daw kasama angina!” wait, I’ll go home muna and check the internet, I told my mum. nai-stress na ako talagaaaa. kamamatay lang ni MJ, noh!
went online and checked the same US-based gossip site. nada. I called my mum on the phone: “mum, wala talaga. hoax lang yung balita…” mum said, “ay, thank God.”
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thanks for hanging out just the same.
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