So, I made some revisions on my layout and added the spankin' new "About the Author" page. I hope you all like it.
One of the items on my to-do list was to polish the look of my blog site specifically the side bar. There used to be a lot of items there - stat counters, blog roll, categories etc. Since my home page (blog) displays my most recent entries, the length of the sidebar looks pretty decent. But when you open a short blog entry, scrolling down to look at the sidebar could be quite tedious. Call me OC but if I personally am bothered by this, I felt that some of my readers would have the same sentiment. For me, it's like a cluttered desk and I don't like a messy workplace :P So, I made some revisions on my layout and added the spankin' new "About the Author" page. I hope you all like it.
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I love weekends. I get to stay in bed longer, no emails and phone calls to attend to... I have two whole days just waiting to be filled up with new discoveries and experiences. So yesterday, I did not get out of bed until 11am. My sweet hubby made brunch for us. After eating, we decided to have siesta. Our initial plans of playing badminton in the morning and watching a movie in the afternoon/evening was scrapped. We decided to stay in. Talk about lazy. Ha ha.
But there are some errands that we have to run so we did manage to haul our a**es off the comfy bed and got ready. After dropping off the comforter to the cleaners, we decided to grab a quick bite before we scout for badminton centers. We were back again to my old turf, Binondo and were discussing where we would eat when Myke suggested Masuki for some Chinese noodles. As with any other girls, I'm pretty excited to share with you some trinkets I've got for me-self :)
It seemed that cravings for saccharine typically associated with girls is quite the opposite for hubby and I.
I don't really like sodas, chocolates, doughnuts.. basically anything sweet with the exception though to ice cream. But I'm still quite choosy with ice cream flavors. Anyway, Myke on the other hand likes chocolates, sodas, cakes, doughtnuts. (Ugh. Thinking of them makes my teeth ache already.) And confronting him and basically banning him access to the sweets at our pantry usually turns into a debate - with him ending up with the silly grin on his face while wiping chocolate smudges off his chin and me in the sofa seething. Nakakainis makipagtalo sa matigas ang ulo. I know my MIL (mother-in-law) had been keeping watch of Myke's eating habits. And she always reminds me to be conscious of what I put on the dining table cos Myke sometimes would just be a total binger. She wanted me to prepare more healthy food choices and so, she asked me to come with her to a seminar last Sunday to be more educated on the subject of healthy eating. The seminar was entitled "Prevention and Reversal of Heart Disease" that was spearheaded by the NeedHealth Ministries. The seminar wasn't too much of a bore. There were lectures on healthy eating choices - benefits of drinking water, eating less animal-sourced products and there was also cooking demo on how to prepare vegetarian dishes. For a fee, you could also enjoy a vegetarian buffet lunch which was composed of red rice, black beans, kidney beans, camote tops and vegetarian tocino. There was also boiled bananas, some green mangoes and singkamas with vegetarian bagoong. I love dresses. It very easy kasi - saves me time (and less stress) thinking about which tops go best with what bottoms. With a dress, all you have to think about is your accessory (and shoes, of course) and you're ready to go. For my next entry of Style Diary, I've collected some of my dress ensembles. I've donned these on different occassions (from L-R): friend's wedding at Calaruega, company event and our engagement session (aka prenuptial pictorial). What are your favorite dresses? :) Our plans to play for badminton today fell through so hubby and I decided to go malling instead. It has been a while since he and I watched a movie at the cinema and we also had some shopping to do anyway. Turned out that we won't be seeing any movies - he didn't like any of the films which are currently showing. He wanted to watch "Sanctum" in 3D which unfortunately, wasn't available in Robinson's Manila. So we ended up walking around the mall and buying stuff. We spent quite some time at the Japan Home Center. I think it was Myke's first time to go into their store :) One of the things we bought are these furniture 'socks'. You put them around the legs of your tables, chairs etc. para di siya masyado mapudpod sa kakahila. Ok rin siya lalo na if you're living in an apartment because the 'socks' muffle the thudding and scraping sounds of the legs against the floor. Di mo na mabubulabog ang kapitbahay mo sa baba :P Bright yellow ruffled blouse + black gartered belt + blue tulip skirt + nude bejeweled flats I wore this outfit when we shot our company's Customer Care AVP. And a lot of the feedback I got was that I looked cute like Snow White(?!). It's probably because of the color combination and the tulip skirt reminded some of a ball gown. So, I'm calling this my "Snow White ensemble". Ha ha ha! The bold colors will definitely make you stand out. During the shoot, N from the ad agency took notice of my skirt and she said she bought a dress that had the same skirt. That's how we found out that we bought our items from the same brand / designer. Hi hi hi! Talk about same tastes :) I got a nice surprise this morning when I checked my blog stats. Aside from checking the number of site visits I had, I also make sure to check which sites had the most referrals to mine. I noticed that apart from the usuals, I have a few of referrals from Sheng's site. I knew instantly that she had probably uploaded the feature that we were discussing last month. I saw Sheng's post at Girltalk (Wedding and Engagements thread) asking for contributions for DIY projects. I immediately submitted my DIY lace gloves for consideration. She liked the idea and so we exchanged a few private messages. And now the article's up in her site! That's I what call blog love :) Go read more about the feature and also check out Sheng's take on life's Sweet Simple Joys :) Thanks, Sheng! xoxo Just want to share this very easy, no bake recipe that I got from a Nestle recipe booklet. The ingredients are readily available and preparation is a breeze :)
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