This Year...

A bad habit I'm going to break:
:: BEING LATE

A new skill I'd like to learn::
:: BAKING?

A person I hope to be more like::
:: LAUREN CONRAD

A good deed I'm going to do::
:: TUTOR MY LIL' SIS IN ENGLISH

A place I'd like to visit::
:: CAGAYAN DE ORO / SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

A book I'd like to read::
:: THE LORD OF THE RINGS 

A food I'd like to try::
:: MACARONI SALAD

I'm going to do better at::
:: COMPLETING MY BUCKET LIST

Photo-A-Day: January 2014

What a way to start off the new year! Let's all hone our skills in photography and let people take a glimpse of our everyday life.

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Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!

Yep. It's the first day of a new year. Another year given for us to get better, do better... and be better than we were last year. It's another opportunity for us to be who we wanted to be and do the things that we wanted so much to get done and weren't able to do in 2013. Let's all try to follow our dreams while we still can. Remember: "It's never too late to follow your dreams or to dream a new dream."

And while browsing my FB news feed this morning, I came upon this post by someone I know from grade school, and I think this sums up what 2014 should be like for all of us:

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever. Happy New Year everyone!

Photo-A-Day: December 2013

Last one for 2013!
The intro says it all... it's beginning to feel a lot like...
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When Love Arrives...

Saw this excerpt of a poem by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye on my FB news feed a couple of weeks ago, and I thought this is worth sharing.

LOVE is not who you are expecting, love is not who you can predict.
Maybe love is in NYC, already asleep;
You are in California, Australia, wide awake.
Maybe love is always in the wrong time zone.
Maybe love is not ready for you.
Maybe you are not ready for love.
Maybe love just isn't the marrying type.
Maybe the next time you see love is twenty years after the divorce,
Love is older now, but just as beautiful as you remembered.
Maybe love is only there for a month.
Maybe love is there for every firework, every birthday party, every hospital visit.
Maybe love stays - maybe love can't,
Maybe love shouldn't.

Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to.
And love leaves exactly when love must.
When love arrives, say "Welcome, make yourself comfortable."
If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her.
Turn off the music, listen to the quiet, whisper, 
"Thank you for stopping by."

- When Love Arrives by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye.

Photo-A-Day: November 2013

Two more months left for 2013.
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Photo-A-Day: October 2013

Time does fly...

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Just something totally random.

Is it possible to fall in love with someone who is eight years younger than you are? (A question from the mind of someone who is nearing her 30's and vowed to never go out with anyone younger than her.)

I'm really confused as of the moment. My heart is saying one thing, but my mind is saying another. Which should I listen to? Heart tells me it's okay, but Mind tells me it cannot be. Absolutely. Definitely. Couldn't Be. Right?

And aside from the huge age gap, we are worlds apart. He's rich, I'm middle class. And he's maputi, I'm morena. He's young, I'm getting really old.

Bakit kasi lagi ka na nagpapakita sa akin ngayon? Dati, hindi naman...  nagpapapansin ka ba? Grabe... effective!

Photo-A-Day: September 2013

Starting the "-BER" months with this! Details on how to play along can be found in this amazing blog: FatMumSlim.

Photo-A-Day: August 2013

All set for this month's challenge. Again, do check out FatMumSlim's blog for the details... xoxo