Bouncing Back

I'm still buried in midterm crap, but I just had to announce it: I'M SINGLE and FABULOUS. I can now breathe. No turning back. I can now rest at night knowing that I finally did the RIGHT thing. 

And I'm IT!

This one coming from The Polkadotted Owl :) Y'all should drop by her blog. 

The rules:

1. Go to your pics, pick the 6th folder and the 6th pic.

2. Tell who and what.

3. Pick 6 people

A shot of the Quincy Market during my summer stint in Boston, the place, as you can see, is just totally swarming with a gazillion of people! I just lalalaloved the lobster roll I had for lunch that time!

Here are the six fab chicks I've chosen:

Snickerdoodle Champagne

Rosemarie

PracticallyPerfect

Sassy Stilettos

Snow White and the 76 Dwarfs

THAT GIRL

Back on the Radar - and I'm It!

And the week just got worse. I ate this granola yoghurt mix from the gourmet section of this sketchy mall nearby - and I end up sick. 

My apologies to Snickerdoodle Champagne and the Polka Dotted Owl for disappearing for quite some time. It's only today (yes, while I'm running a temperature) that I've gotten the chance to log into my blogger. 

This one is from Snickerdoodle Champagne. 

Step 1: respond and rework—answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, add one more question of your own.
Step 2: tag other people.

1) What are you wearing right now?

Oh. I just woke up, so I'm wearing a pair of Krispy Kreme boxers and a sand-colored tank top.

2) What was the last thing you read/are currently reading? 

A very exciting chapter from Ben Rosamond's Theories of European Integration, "Intergovernmental Europe?"

3) Do you nap a lot? 

Yes. And this often gets me in trouble. 

4) Who was the last person you hugged?

The bf.

5) What is your current obsession/addiction? 

Putting together an Italian playlist

6) What is the last thing you said out loud? 

F***!

7) What websites do you always visit when you go online? 

My e-mail, blogger account, facebook

8) What was the last item you bought? 

Traditional Medicinals, Think O2 tea which promotes mental performance

9) What is your most challenging goal? 

ATF

10) If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would it be? 

Shucks... it would have to be either in the upper east side of NYC, a villa in Havana or in Italy.

11) Favorite Vacation spot?

Nothing beats the shopping rush of Hong Kong

12) Say something to the person who tagged you: 

Thank goodness we bumped into each other in the blogging universe! 

13) Name one thing you just can't resist no matter how bad it is for you:

Chocolate. Chocolate. Chocolate. 

14) What is your favorite item of clothing? 

Shoes = lalalalove

15) Favorite pair of shoes you keep going back to over and over, even though your closet is over flowing with a zillion others?!

Hmmm... my black Steve Madden patent ballet flats. Safe and durable. I've walked all over NYC in them last summer and they're still in tip-top condition.

16) Name one thing you can not live with out: 

MAKE-UP and my HAIR DRYER!

17) If you could be someone else right now, who would it be? 

ATF's significant other.

Who am I tagging?

Debbie

Orchestrated Destiny

Rosemarie

And Another Blog Award...

It seems that blog awards are on the rage for everybody lately :) Before anything else, I would like to thank The Blonde Duck for giving me this award. I just started following her recently, but I am already so hooked! She is such a vivacious woman, not to mention a talented writer. Do visit her blog and read for yourselves! :) 

The rules of the award:

1. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. 

2. Show the 7 winners' names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with “Honest Scrap.” Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.

3. List at least ten honest things about yourself. 

And the winners are....

Starting Over at 24 - Now this guy is the greatest and hottest blog guy on the blogging world for me. He is honest, sincere, and helluva funny. His posts never fail to crack me up! The guy blog I love!

Sex and Two Single Girls - I would consider Bee and E's blog the female counterpart (somewhat) of SO's blog. If SO's posts are great to read especially since it throws all my "guy accusation" right back at me, I love SATSG because I could totally relate with the stuff they go through.

belle etoile - My favorite celeb and beauty blog!!! Do drop by her blog and you'd see what I mean - amazing amazing finds!

Glamour Kills - My blog world hermanita.

Good Gals Inc - *self-explanatory*, but sometimes I think it deserves to update to "Great Gal Inc"

Orchestrated Destiny - A new favorite. Deep, deep girl, with intelligent things to say. 

Sassy Pants - She gives me my daily dose of blog love. 

For the ten honest things bit of this award... I'll be blogging about it in a separate post :D

New Year's Award

I've been wrapped up with preparations for my first teaching lecture tomorrow *hearbeats* that I wasn't really able to post anything, though I've been catching up on your blogs everytime I take quick breaks. :) 

Another blog award comes my way, thanks to the knockout bombshell Good Gals Inc. I am very fortunate to have met such a beautiful blogging friend, but inside and out. 

The rules of the award are:

- You must be a true lover of the New Year to receive this award. The person to whom you give the award must also be in love with the New Year.
- List 5 things that you love about the New Year. If you can't limit it to 5 things, then keep going till you run out of space.
- Pass the award along to as many people as you like. That can be 1 or 50. It's up to you! But keep the New Year cheer going.
- Let your recipients know that you have tagged them by leaving a comment on their site. Also, link back to the person who gave you the award.

Alrighty, here we go.... 

5 things I love about 2009 so far

1.  I've met so many new and wonderful bloggers such as Snow White, Rosemarie, USCEMILY, and A Duck in Her Pond.
   
2. I'm now transitioning to a healthy lifestyle, and believe it or not, I am now beginning to drink lots of water (I this is weird, but I am not much of a water drinker, and I am quite lazy when it comes to chewing food). 
3. Yesterday was my first Italian language class, and I sooooo love it! The people, our professore, Martin... the entire class was purely benissima!
4. My relationships with the people I care about are strengthening - I was able to overcome my hang ups from the previous year. 
5. 2009 welcomed me by making one of my greatest dreams come true. I'm now teaching!!!

Now I'd like to pass this award on to the following fantabulous New Year's chicks:

Sassy Pants

Snow White

Rosemarie

USCEMILY
The Blonde Duck

Practically Perfect

Mrs. Buckingham 

Chloie

Tina

Debbie

Sex on the beach

Victoria

My First Happiest Day in 2009

The department chair just gave the green light at 4:00 pm this afternoon. 

I so cannot believe it. 

This is my dream come true.

I am teaching. Yes. Teaching as in an entire class of 41 university undergrads. 

Tomorrow.

8am. 

This is it.

This is really it. 

Help me God.

And Here Comes Another Fab Blog Award

As Kirby from Good Gals Inc. would put it, "I am seriously loving this blog award stuff!" :D I am unbelievably honored, touched and happy for having received another award from a blog I just followed this morning. Thus, let me take advantage of the opportunity to thank and introduce a truly beautiful blogger, Soon2bhealthybride. As we welcome 09, let us all support and follow her prepare for her BIG DAY! Yay! What are y'all waiting for - click that link! :) 

Here are the rules:
Find the beautiful ladies that you follow.
Give them this award.
Hopefully it'll truly mean something to each and everyone of you.
Don't be shy to give it to the same person!
Don't forget to tell them!

And here are the BEAUTIFUL BLOGGERS I religiously follow:

A Glimpse of Sarah

Amanda C. Bee

Bama Belle In The Big City

belle etoile

Bergdorf Blondes

Between Raising Hell & Amazing Grace

Blushing Bride Bulletin

elefantitas alegres

Glamour Kills

Good Gals Inc

In My Overactive Head

Life's a journey

Little Miss Optimist

Make the most of yourself

Newlywed Stilettos

On My Way to Being a Healthy Bride

Practically Perfect

Pretty in Pink

Sassy Stilettos

Sex and Two Single Girls

Sex on the Beach

THAT GIRL

Une Belle Vie

WAITING FOR THE RAPTURE

Have a beautiful New Year everyone!

A New Blog Award for the New Year

I am so happy and grateful that Kirby from Good Gals Inc. tagged me in this award. She is such a sweet and wonderful person so y'all should head off to her page and discover for yourselves!

1. Put the logo on your blog or post. 

2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show GREAT ATTITUDE and/or GRATITUDE! 

3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post. 

4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog. 

5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.

Difficult, difficult... here it goes....

1. Practically Perfect

2. Make the Most of Yourself

3. In My Overactive Head

4. Blushing Bride Bulletin

5. belle etoile

6. Glamour Kills

7. Little Miss Optimist

8. Starting Over at 24

9. A Glimpse of Sarah

Enjoy the coming New Year's Eve everybody!!!

Have Yourselves a Merry Fantabulous Christmas!

This is it everyone! Merry Merry Christmas! Let's pay it forward and share our blessings, material and otherwise, with at least three people today in honor of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future!

My First Blogger Award Ever!

Oh-Em-Gee! I sooo couldn't believe it when I was reading through Jenny's post over at Practically Perfect and saw that she has awarded my blog!

"This blog invests and believes in proximity - nearness in space, time, and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind of bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award."


THANK YOU SOOO MUCH JENNY! You truly are Practically Perfect!

Hmmm... much like Jenny, it is quite difficult to nominate just eight bloggers - hours and hours in front of my laptop has taught me that the blogging universe is just sooo huge and filled with so many interesting people and stories. Nevertheless I shall try my very best to award eight more very deserving bloggers :D

1. Waiting for the Rapture - Aside from being a great friend, G's blog is hip, interesting and funny in all the right places! She is also perhaps the only person who fully understands my posts with all the confusing codes and all considering that she's in on the faces behind the names. Her thoughts about life, love, music... anything and everything under the sun is truly refreshing!

2. Bergdorf Blondes - Shasta was my first follower (other than my Gs who know me personally) and I guess all of you would agree that nothing compares to that adrenaline rush you get upon discovering that there is that first person out there who thinks your blog is worth following. I love her fashion pictures of her daily outfits, and if I could have an older sister, I'd want it to be her! She is my fashion fairytale come true!

3. belle etoile - I just sooo love her celebrity posts! It's amazing how she has the patience and energy to find all the juicy and glamorous pictures of models and celebrities, that I often find myself drooling in admiration and (at times) envy.

4. Glamour Kills - A fresh find I discovered over at belle etoile's, this young lady is just really fab! If I wished Shasta could be my elder sister, now this lovely girl I'd want for a younger sister! Extremely pretty and fashionable, we share the love of pink, Barbie, make-up, clothes, shoes... you get the picture!

5. Good Gals Inc. - Also a recent blog I've stumbled upon from Mrs. Stiletto's introductory Mondays, this gal really is good! Reading her posts make me realize that how a relationship could always be constantly full of surprises.

6. StartingOverat24 - Ok, he is the only male blogger in this list, but I've been hooked on his blog ever since I even started blogging here at blogger. His posts always makes me laugh and it is very very interesting to read about a guy's insights on dating and relationships. I find that I could really relate to his experiences.

7. Newlywed Stilettos - She is just one of the nicest and I mean NICEST bloggers around! She began this Monday tradition wherein she would introduce a couple of new bloggers in her Monday posts, and through this I got the chance to meet and read a lot of other amazing blogs! Thanks Mrs. Stilettos!

8. THAT GIRL - This girl's got me totally hooked! Her posts are extremely entertaining and insightful. From the few weeks since I've started following her blog, I feel that I've gotten to know her more from reading her posts! Such a beautiful individual.

Mineral Make-up Weekend!

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE GRAND
MINERAL MAKEUP WEEKEND!
When: December 20 and 21, 2008 (10am-6pm)
Where: Greenmeadows Clubhouse
(inside Greenmeadows Xmas Rush Bazaar)

After the huge success of last year's Mineral Make-Up Weekend, we are bringing back the much-awaited event this week!

The Mineral Make-Up Weekend brings together different mineral makeup brands in one venue to celebrate mineral makeup and create more awareness about it. Six brands will be joining, and as a treat, FREE SAMPLES will be given away to all pre-registered visitors, as well as free makeovers and skin consultations.

Moreover, talks will be held by skin specialists, makeup artists, and MMU brand owners as they showcase their strengths and advantages, and show us how to create simple yet stunning day and night looks.

FREEBIE ALERT!
We are giving away 300 FREE mineral makeup lootbags, worth Php500 each!!! Plus a free mirror if you come on Saturday!

To avail of your free loot bag, here's what you need to do:
1. Post about this event, together with the banner, and a link back to this site on your multiply blog or blogspot. (Just copy the text above until this part - procedure on how to avail of free loot bags, then include a link at the bottom.)
2. Send your blog entry URL together with your full name, address, and mobile number to claudbaron@yahoo.com, with subject: MMU Weekend. Also, please indicate if you are a mineral makeup user or newbie.
3. Only one free loot bag per blog, per person. Sorry, but we cannot accept submissions for your friends.
4. To claim your free loot bag, simply attend the event and present a valid picture ID at the MMU Room Registration area.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON MINERAL MAKE UP WEEKEND

The "New Look" (six-hour salon day)

Took a brave break from exams. Fortunately, I left the salon feeling fabulously new!

Also, I would like to thank Mrs. Stilettos for the warm welcome! All new bloggers feel free to drop by her page be lurved!

Ciao Italia!

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning
of always.
                                            -Dante Alighieri

I've been suffering from Roman Fever for quite some time now (had been doing some self-study prior to hell month of exams), and today I took myself one step closer to my "Milan Fashion Week" dream by enrolling in Italian lessons! Class begins on January 10 and I think learning Italian would be a good way to welcome 09! :) Luckily, I was also able to convince A (a close guy bud) to join in the fun (I now have a guaranteed partner for dialogues and all other pair activities :D)! I'm totally psyched!

MILAN 2011 it is!

Also, Mrs. Stilettos has been sweet enough to start a tradition that welcomes new bloggers into the world of blogging. Visit her page and feel the love!