The Sunday Currently (vol. 6)

Currently

Reading

Still Harry Potter 4. ambagal lang haha. 

Writing

waley. oh, does this count?

Listening

to one of my favorite sounds lately: The Humming Fan

Thinking

about a future with jeckie. we love each other so much but sometimes our differences would kick in and we'd go ask ourselves, are we really the best for each other? how are we ever going to settle the tons of things we don't agree on, like --- how we prefer to spend our weekends, what kind of food to eat, can i not join his family/friends/sports bonding things? i'm such an introvert and he's such an extrovert. i'm so awkward at getting along with other people. i mean, i'm generally sociable but given the choice i'd rather not involve myself in any social activity. haha. huhu.

thinking about a future with him excites me to no end but i always forget that getting married is not just about the two of us. there's his world and his lifestyle that i have to get used to as well and it makes me anxious. this relationship is trying to change me, and i know it's for the better BUT IT'S STILL TRYING TO CHANGE ME. change is good right? the process could be unpleasant at first but if it's for the better... hm.

lol did i just openly discuss my plans to get married. 

Smelling

nothing.

Wishing

i had tons of money, and that the guy who promised to buy me a large pusheen would arrive this week!!! weeeeee!!!

Wearing 

the usual singlet and shorts!

Loving

the magic that is AI. here's a WIP of a cover for TRI Magazine, an imaginary sports mag dedicated to all things triathlon.

say hi to anne curtis, a speedo model, and a badass cyclist

haha this is photoshopped and i'm looking struggling at AI-ing it cos that's what i'm required to do malamang. nakaka-asar yung you can do almost the same things naman in photoshop but you have to unlearn them all while trying to learn AI because that's what you have to learn!

i love low-poly-ing stuff but it's so tedious. i'm looking at this tutorial, but i'm quite a spaz at geometrifying objects haha. i wish i had enough of that sense but i believe it can be developed naman! must. practice. hard.

Wanting

to run some 5k today but my tummy is so frkn heavy, thank you Chili's! <3

Needing

a full body massage, and some decent hand and foot pampering from a nail salon who wouldn't judge me from my awfully bitten nails. or i'll just grow them enough so i wouldn't feel insecure haha.

Feeling

a sense of urgency to cap off this project so i can charge na and get paid extra and pay my tuition in full and save the rest for good running shorts, a pair of quality insoles, this cool drawstring bag from Runnr, and hey... World Vision Run 2015!

How was your Sunday? :D

The Sunday Currently (vol. 5)

 

This week was hm. okay. i'm drowning in work. mostly freelance. stayed up all night last thursday and was up for some 30 hours just to complete the pages so i'm thankful for that. right now i'm working on the tons of revisions though. HAHA. despite the crazy amount of work, i'm actually learning a lot with this project! thank you Lord! 

Currently

Reading
Harry Potter 4 (again!) i read a page last night! haha!

Writing
Nothing! :D

Listening
to Pitch Perfect 2 OST. it's out in torrents now goys if you wanna download hehe! i honestly love the previous OST though cos it's more acapella-ish and has lots of voices jamming together, this collection (and the movie of course) is more modern acapella. mashups here and there and lots of solos. i'm not a fan of solos. haha i super love Das Sound Machine though. if they're gonna push modern, that's how it should be! more acapella techno and sound effects.

Thinking
how much i should charge extra for this project i'm working on. XD

Smelling
hm. nothing

Wishing
i had lots and lots of money. i suddenly want this new Kia Rio. grabe when did i start ogling over cars. this. is. bad.

very hyundai accent hatch. aren't they pals or someting

but with better interiors and oooh. control buttons on the steering wheel. i like that.

dibale wala naman akong pera. lol.

Wearing
jersey and skorts.

Loving
Chili's. <3 it's kindof becoming a regular thing. e kasi naman their receipts entitle you to free classic nachos for every 750 gastos on your next visit. so mejo nakaka 3 free nachos na kami this year HAHA. and grabe they're not just simple nachos ah. you know chili's. I FRKN LOVE CHILIS!

the free Classic Nachos

 jeckie and i had this last night:

Chicken Club Tacos 

Monterey Chicken

Apple Berry Cobler

everything is so frkn heavenly, i'm blown away at every bite. ay seryoso. haha relate na relate ako to the Cooking Master Boy judges who seem to be making all sorts of drugged expressions whenever they sample out Lui Mao Xing's food. wooooah naalala ko pa. haha #anime

remind me to rave about Chili's on a separate blog post!

Wanting
a car - like a hyundai accent sedan (red) or the new kia rio hatch (white).
a new laptop - like the Dell XPS 13 2015

Needing
MOAR MONEY

Feeling
worried about the task i left at work last friday. haha. sana matapos ko na bukas. lol.

The Sunday Currently (vol. 4)

Happy Mothers' day everyone! :D

Currently

Reading
nothing. i'll stop saying HP4 cos i haven't really read much since last month, i'm on page 339 of 407 though! haha

Writing
this and a Skype Qik post!

Listening
to some faint retro loving from the radio and being comforted by the fan's humming. ang init!

Thinking
about apologizing to someone.

Smelling
Kusidong Isda

Wishing
i'll get part of my referral fee this coming payday so i could pay off a ton of liabilities!

Wearing
sando and shorts

Loving
this pusheen stuffed toy i bought from some guy from Ateneo Trade. i gifted it to my boyfriend who's supposed to fly to india tomorrow, but it got moved to next week... so yey? haha

genuine pusheen merch by Gund! IT'S THE CUTEST!!! i only bought the medium one cos the large one (which i prefer) is gonna cost some baggage daw but it's okay, i just have to look for a friend who's in the US who can buy it for me and deliver it here when he/she gets home. HAHA Amazon offers free shipping to a US address, aaargh.

i was thinking of getting a my-shoppingbox.com account to have the large pusheen delivered, but good thing i researched their charging details first cos i realized i'm gonna be paying a fortune for shipping because of the item's volume. according to their site, if item's volume weight (length x width x height / 166) is greater than the actual weight (in pounds), you will be charged by it's volume weight instead.

so... for that 1.4 pound stuffed toy (actual weight), i'll be charged 10 pounds (because 19 x 7.5 x 11.5 / 166)! holy mole. XS

anyway, still looking for that kind friend from the US. haha

Wanting
to get over this project soon so i could play with this baby!

hello piano! jeckie and i picked it up yesterday at makati and i'm excited to learn again. anyway, i'm so lost with the tons of buttons. HAHA i always thought manuals are for the weak but heck i just succumbed to downloading a pdf version of the manual because crap i'm getting old. i'm not used to tinkering around foreign buttons anymore. specially if they're not touchscreen. HAHA

it's 2 years old and is lacking a pedal and a music sheet holder but who cares? i was supposed to buy a sustain pedal earlier but held back. i decided that it has to be my reward for finishing the project... so, see you next week pedal! <3

grabe lang how i forgot everything i know already. so far i was only able to extract some 1/4 of the second movement from Bach's Minuet, and i had to piece it bit by bit. it was fascinating though, how some scores slipped by completely and that one stayed. haha

Needing
some vindication for hating on a lot of people lately. haha

Feeling
super full.

How was your week?

The Sunday Currently (vol. 3)

new found love for wooden textures <3

Been eating a lot the past few days idk why.

Currently

Reading
Still Harry Potter, but not regularly cos i'm tamad.

Writing
beauty reviews. anoraw. i'm trying to round up a few products to recommend.

Listening
to the even louder humming of the fan because i just promoted it from the floor to my desk because ang inet!!!!

Thinking
of buying jeckie's officemate's piano before he leaves for india cos i don't want to wait a month and a half. plus i'm thinking of dedicating a few hours of my relatively free-er saturdays to learning scores just like the old times! <3

Smelling
nothing

Wishing
i had more VLs to spare! i just want to layout all day. lol

Wearing
singlet and shorts :)

Loving
the kids at church more than ever. i don't remember when i started teaching but awhile ago i realized how sad it would be once these kids graduate and move on to the youth service. i've grown so fond of them argh. haha teacher problems? now i know how it feels! mega advanced sepanx seeing that they won't be off to a new ground in 2 years pa haha! haaay life!

Wanting
to change this layout. AGAIN. see? that's why i don't believe in buying themes. i tend to change my layout a lot. :(

Needing
to buy a bike. srsly.

Feeling
excited for the saturdays to come. and also kindof indifferent to the recently concluded MayPac fight. ewan ko ba. the 9 and 11am church services were halved (as expected) haha! and as usual, the malls are unusually less crowded for a sunday XD

yesterday was the first day of this digital illustration class i enrolled in at CIIT (tomas morato). i was raving about the opportunity to study multimedia arts so i started with 1 module muna, just to see how it goes and to see if it's any good studying at CIIT haha.

i was so excited to attend class that i woke up 9am, 30 minutes past the start of lecture! i was so frkn panicking that i skipped taking a bath and a breakfast altogether. i brushed my teeth, washed my face, grabbed a shirt and leggings, put some make up (anything to look like i just woke up), tied my hair, put on my headband, and wore shades. i was at school at around 9:45am. it was kindof embarrassing. on the way i was hoping someone would arrive later than i will but haha, 1 hour late. oh yes.

it was fun! i learned a lot already! adobe illustrator is like magic! everything is so easy peasy if you know what to click. also, i figured i have to struggle unlearning a lot of techniques i use in photoshop cos they now seem manual as hell. and i thought i was already working smart?! uhm nope.

i made this on our first lecture! paki-bati yung watermelon please. i was looking for easy fruits to trace but that cute thing appeared on google images even when i specifically searched for grapes. you sweet ball. 

we're on to tracing objects using shapes and the pen tool so far and i'm frkn excited. sir says he's gonna teach us manual low-poly techniques. i was crying inside. i want to learn so bad. looking forward to next week!

How was your week? :D

The Sunday Currently (vol. 2)

Before I dive into a crazy pool of work, here's the second of the series! :)

Currently

Reading
Jaqen H'ghar x Arya Stark fanfics from ff.net and archiveofourown.org. i'm kindof heavily shipping the pair right now. i don't care about their freaking age gap haha. i used to ship gay pairings long ago so this is sort of an improvement on my moral standard of things.

Writing
a couple of drafts about financial management and skincare. lol. when will i ever get to complete my writing assignments. urgh.

Listening
to the loud humming of the fan.

Thinking
how much of a dope i am for getting scammed on this download site. you see, i was able to successfully score a copy of this german film starring Tom Wlaschiha (read: Jaqen H'ghar). obvious problem was, i couldn't understand a thing. since it's romcom, i figured it wouldn't be too hard to do some guesswork to get what the movie's about. but still, i wanted to understand what Tom was saying. hearing him speak german got me super kilig though. i so love his voice. <3

anyway, i was out and about the interwebs looking for subs and i was getting really desperate cos there's simply none. until i viewed this download site with a seems-legit list of files i needed, but when i clicked the download link, a popup window reminded me that it's only for registered users. so sure, i registered. it's free anyway. but on my second download attempt i got a new reminder saying the file is available only for premium users. okay, premium. got it. what's a euro and a continuous weekly billing (unless cancelled) anyway. i'll pay, get my file, cancel the subscription, and continue swooning over Tom. :3

after paying for subscription i got back to the site and found that they have no available files for download. seven hells! i also realized i paid premium for a different site (www.streamdo.sk), not the one hosting downloads. i'm freaking offering this site to the red god!!! and to make matters worse, i couldn't find where i could cancel my subscription, feeling they made it so such that they could leech more money from dopes like me.

anyway, as if i'd leave it that way. i was able to cancel my subscription via www.2co.com (the scammer's payment processor). so beware of this site even if it seems like your only hope: www.downburg.com. i can't believe how they can stomach a scammy business model.

oh, i haven't mentioned the movie, it's called "Mann Kann Frau Erst Recht" and it google-translates to "Man Woman Can Certainly". yes. certainly. haha

Smelling
the new curtains' ugly textile scent. urgh.

Wishing
i had more free time to waste

Wearing
shorts and a milo marathon singlet

Loving
my boyfriend more than ever. he's leaving for India early May for some work assignment and will be gone for 6 weeks. sepanx much. i'm really excited for him cos he's having it nice and steady with his career. i'm feeling sad though cos we won't be able to see each other for a while but oh well. there's skype naman. hehe my saturdays will be considerably free-er without him though just in time cos classes are starting soon! haha why do i sound like an undergrad.

there's also something i want to do while he's gone... ano, mag workout! HAHAHA i'm imagining some 6-week transformation program so that when he's back i'm fitter na! woooh! lololol

also, i'm really getting crazy over Tom Wlaschiha, i asked jeckie for permission to date the guy in the rare case i win a date with him under the utterly remote chance that there's even a contest with that kind of prize! he said no and i tried to bargain saying if he won a date with Emma Watson, i would allow him! still no though. he only agreed if he could join too, and that Tom will be the third wheel like whaaaat. T____T

aaaargh, seriously, it's not like it's going to brew into something serious you know! all these celebrities granting dinner dates with their fans are just out there for publicity. like reaaally. is Tom even dating? i'd like to know plz.

oh boy. i love my boyfriend but aaargh Jaqen.

Wanting
that Merida Big Seven 20 still, or any small framed mountain bike with hydraulic brakes that can be adorned in red or white or both.

Needing
some time alone with the Lord (of light. chos). i feel like my spiritual journey is at a stall. and all the inspiration i get from the church, the ministry, and VGmates are short lived. :(

Feeling
pressured over the tons of pages i still have to work on. lol. XD

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hm, that's it! how was your week so far? :D

The Sunday Currently (vol. 1)

i decided to start this series of Sunday Currently posts as an alternative to life-lately-s and my-week-in-photos because the former doesn't really have a proper format, and the latter i can't sustain cos i suck at taking pictures. i see a lot of bloggers doing this too and it's fun reading about their lives without having to go through a brand placement! hehe

btw, do i have to be tagged to do this? cos i'm tagging myself now hahaha

ETA (May 1, 2015): uhhh, do i have to credit who invented this thing? cos i'm tamad to research. tag me maybe :) 

Currently

Reading

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, which was shortly interrupted by 4 leaked episodes of Game of Thrones, which i regret watching because it's such a huge cliffy, and now i have to wait a month for the 5th episode. why didn't i think of this earlier? argh.

Writing

this update, and my Jaqen H'gar post! HAHA as for pending stuff, tons as usual. a blogger never really runs out of backlogs, no?

Listening

to some retro lovin' from the radio

Thinking

about how to go about the many pages i have to design for this current gig i'm working on. i'm so happy and blessed i got recommended for another project right after i finished the last one. hopefully i never run out of opportunities. i need to save up for my tuition fee! <3

Smelling

nothing. uhm, it's really humid though but it doesn't smell like anything in particular in this part of our house (dining).

Wishing

that my mom would snap out of her paranoia about microwaves. she bought one last friday because she was thrilled about the microwaved mug cake i made recently. but now she kept the appliance hidden in its box cos she got scared of the negative effects it will have on us in the long run. this household needs a lot of counseling from mythbusters. 

Wearing

some tattered shirt and holed shorts. typical home clothes.

Loving

Jaqen H'gar. madly at that. i'm actually drafting an entire post for him. you just wait. haha

Wanting

to save for a bike (a small white-red Merida Big Seven 20 PLEASE!) and my tuition fee still. hehe

Needing

another bath. it's just so freaking hot. XD  also, i need to recommit myself to my daily devotions. :)

Feeling

relieved and cool about life, finally (which is rare cos i never run out of things to whine about esp my work haha). after a long chikahan slash VG-turned-one2one with grace yesterday, i realized that i shouldn't be taking myself too seriously knowing that i tend to be overemotional about things. but that's not really what we talked about HAHA, it just dawned on me while we were talking to each other.

how's your sunday? :)