NASHVILLE

As I said on my recent post, I'll try to start getting to watching TV series and so I downloaded Devious Maids, Nashville, and with the recent death of Cory Monteith, I find myself wanting to watch Glee again because I saw a lot of new characters that I do not know and there's a hot guy I'm crushing on!! Jacob Artist! <3.<3

But the downloads are taking forever because I try to download one episode at a time and stop and play the downloads whenever I need to use the internet. The download greatly affects the speed of my internet. It becomes unsurfable (like there is such word but you get me). So the download is taking forever plus I'm only watching during lunch breaks and after work but I'm currently hooked to Nashville and Devious Maids.

Devious maids is still on its fourth episode of season 1 and I can't wait to finish the whole season. It's so intriguing. It's actually my first time to watch that kind of tv series because I mostly only watch the chick flick type.

NASHVILLE is asdfghjklqwertyfaufgsdjbvsibwu!!!!!@#$%^&*!!! OMG so cute. I downloaded the soundtrack of the whole season 1 and listening to it while typing this. I'm inlove with the storyline, the characters, the songs and everything about it. I can't get enough of it. I'm on the 6th episode now. Still downloading the rest of season 1.

If you are reading this and is not watching Nashville, you should definitely watch it. It's a musical type of tv series like Glee but the story line is of course, different. 

If you are watching it, let me know your thoughts about this! :*

xx,

Annie

5 before 25

5 bags I wish to have before I reach 25!!! 1 and a quarter year left. Yikes. I feel old.

Not in order.

1.) A Chanel mini flap bag

2.) A Prada (any Prada bag will be very much appreciated by moi)

3.) A Givenchy Nightingale 

Givenchy Nightingale photo from here

4.) A Balenciaga

Balenciaga Classic City Dune

5.) A Rebecca Minkoff mini mac bag. 

Mini Mac
Photo from here

The Secret is to believe that I will have all of these bags before I reach my 25th year mark in this world and so I believe. <3

I kind of regret buying my colorful Coach bags when I should have just got myself classics. What was I thinking? /wrist!! oh well, the more bags, the better. A girl can never have too much bag can she? 

xx,

Annie

Sarah Luzarraga

The only thing I regret with my friendship with Sarah is that I have not been close to her earlier. We have known each other's existence since college but only after I moved here to Cebu that we got really close.


I mean how could we have wasted so much college years not knowing each other? College could have been waaaaaay cooler if I had known her earlier. She is just so adorable it's impossible not to love her.

Janine, Joe and Dainie's joint birthday party
March 2010

Janine, Joe and Dainie's joint birthday party
March 2010
Photos from Nica's Facebook

We have had pictures taken together but we only knew each other by name and never really got to talk to each other.

Boracay 2010
April 27, 2010

Boracay 2010
April 27, 2010

The days before I discovered the wonders of makeup. Was such makeup newbies at that time. I didn'y even know that filling your eyebrows can make a whole lot of difference.

Boracay 2010
April 27, 2010

It wasn't until late 2010 that we got the chance to kind of know each other.

Psychos grad party October 2010

Blockmates grad party 2010

CAS, February 2011

Sarah, as my makeup guinea pig makeup model, Feb 2011

But it was only when I moved here to Cebu that we got really close!! Thanks to BBM and my cuteness she can't help but want to be my friend! No! But really, I don't know how or when we started sending bbms to each other almost everyday. I think it really started when we had our VNG (Voice Note Group) sending our voice notes almost everyday that got us really close to each other. After the BBM, there was Face Time, iMessage, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Viber, Wechat and now SNAPCHAT!

We are literally (virtually) inseparable. If there is one person who knows me more than myself, it would be Sarah. She totally knows when I'm having PMS (more than I would know) and she totally knows how to pick me up when I'm down. She is also the number one supporter, friend, sister, sulsulera, kontrabida, fitness buddy (ANYARE NA TE!?!?) that I have and I hope that a year from now, that still won't change. I know that close friends come and go but she is one friend I would want to keep constant.

But even before the BBM sessions, we were already friends before I came to Cebu. We used to hangout with the ex boyfriends and we used to talk about this one "friend" we used to hate. BITCH FITS about her (the "friend") all the time. That's what really started our friendship then and then I used to invite her and *** to eat out all the time because I wanted to hear stories about ***. hihi.

Now, we talk about ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE UNIVERSE. We kind of talk about about almost everything if not everything.

Last time I saw her was December 2012 when we had lunch in Robinson's Ermita. We were supposed to go to Boracay last May 2013 for the labor day but then she had to cancel the last minute because of work. #grownupproblems

Exactly one week from now, Sarah will come here to Cebu to visit moi and we already have itineraries planned out and a lot more good things shall happen when she comes here because this is how our conversation goes nowadays and weeks before and even months before next week comes:

NOT VERBATIM.

ANNIE: I want to color my hair.
SARAH: Me too. Let's pacolor our hair when I go there.
ANNIE: Okay.

ANNIE: I will buy an iPad mini, please accompany me to buy when you come here.
SARAH: Okay.
ANNIE: OMG I'm so excited to buy my iPad mini and I want to buy it with you so you can help me choose.
SARAH: I should totally help you decide because there are A LOT (sarcastic) of designs to choose from.

ANNIE: I want to decorate my room. Please help me decorate my room.
SARAH: okay!
ANNIE: I'll shop for organization stuff later.
SARAH: Wait for me to go there so we could shop together for your organization stuff!

ANNIE: You know, maybe I should just stop breathing and just breathe again when you come here. :))))

Because we totally want to do a lot of things together when she comes over! I AM SO EXCITED FOR HER TO COME OVER CAN I JUST TYPE HERE? asdfghjkl!!!!!!! :D :D :D

Sarah, if you are reading this, I really CAN NOT WAIT for you to come over. We have totally gone cray and our friendship is so cheesy I bet it makes other people cringe but I don't care cos I love you this much



































































































































































































(to infinity and beyond)




xx,

Annie

I want to TRY to not be ME

For once in my life I finally want to do something about my life instead of just ranting all the time. Ranting is boring but most of the time it's what get through us life so thanks for my friends who had been putting up with my random rants mostly work related and mostly about the most non sense stuff about well, hating the world? If that even made sense.

I've been liking to do some things I have never liked to do. For one, I want to start doing exercises. I have been dreading exercise my whole life and now, I finally want to do it. There was only this one time during my senior year in high school that I really gave exercising a chance. If you call dancing your ass off an exercise then yes, that was my only shot at trying to exercise. There are actually quite a lot of things that I want to do that never really liked but is willing to give a chance. I always seem to just stick to what I'm used to do and be boring and not really discovering new things.

Working out: I want to give time to fitness for a lot of reasons with my health as the number 1. I have been feeling a lot of different feelings/ailments that I'm not supposed to feel at such a young age and I'm thinking that maybe it has something to do with my sedentary lifestyle. Since I don't get any exercise at all. I'm guessing that I only do more or less a hundred steps the whole on a normal day. That's just crazy! I don't blame my body for being this weak. MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Watching TV series: I never never never really liked watching tv. Maybe my adhd (not really) has something to do about it but I always get bored watching tv series. The only tv show that I watched from it's season 1 until the end is 90210 and The Carrie Diaries (still waiting or season 2). I know I am missing out on quite a lot of tv series that my friends are always raving about like TVD, PLL, Hannibal (Hi, Sarah) and etc so I'm actually trying to add this past time to the things I could do when I am bored. Since I found out about Youtube and all the amazing videos I can watch in it like makeup tutorials, vlogs, etc, this has been my favorite past time after I finish going through all my social media news feed. Don't judge me for being so nosy. I know you all are too! 

Sneakers: Fit flops is the greatest invention in the slippers/sandals industry. I always resort to wearing it if I don't feel like dressing up or want comfortable foot wear. Hihi.

Blogging: I want to come back to blogging but I want to blog more relevant stuff than my usual rant posts. My blog is such a cloud of negativity. I am not surprised I don't have much hits because who would want to read a blog full of negativity anyway? I want it to have more sense and more of what is really happening in my life and I want it to be more colorful and have more pictures. Out with the Annie last year whose past was so dark and boring. In with the cheerful Annie who always has good news to share! Are you ready? YES I AM.

Taking pictures: I just want to capture more out of everything in pictures. Back in my freshman years in college, my friends and I used to be addicted in taking pictures, even the most randomest pictures, and then we post it on Multiply. I REGRET NOT SAVING ALL MY MULTIPLY PICTURES :( I think I lost half of my college memories in digital with the lost of multiply. I thought I could just go back anytime and just grab or look at it there anytime but I was COMPLETELY wrong. Multiply decided to shut down the whole site and when you go to multiply, it will all just be like this:

Just like Friendster, Multiply took all of our memories, JUST. LIKE. THAT. 

I hope Facebook will never have to face these kinds of problem and that just gave me an idea to personally save all the photos with myself (ofcourse) in it. *mental note* Maybe I should a lot a few days for that. Since we're talking about Facebook, I'm now back on Facebook and I miss chatting with my friends. The reason why I deactivated it was because I was spending too much time in it (not completely this but let's just put it this way) and at times when I tried to go back, I always felt alienated with it like I no longer belonged in it. (DRAMA QUEEN right here) Now that I'm back, I can now chat with my friends again. Especially Princess, my friend from Japan and Marj, my high school friend, who I only get to chat with (most of the time) on Facebook since we are no longer in that stage where we are text-y to each other but Facebook felt fine. Do you get what I mean? Do I even make sense? 

I just wish I get myself a nice point and shoot camera though. I am totally into taking pictures and looking at beautiful photos again. :) I'm not really particular when it comes to gadgets because I don't consider myself techy and I do not know much about cameras so yeah, a nice point and shoot camera will do.

Socialize more: I kinda went through a stage where I didn't like to socialize much and a fun weekend meant staying at home and resting since I was so stressed at work the whole week or pretty much just because that was my routine, I felt so comfortable with it that going out did not sound as exciting at all.  I did not want to go out and socialize because I feared rejection and I feared that Cebuanos wouldn't want to be friends with me or talk to me that much because I did not know how to speak Bisaya. I want to socialize more now and meet new people because people are just so interesting aren't they? I just need to make myself look equally interesting as well. How to do that exactly, I really don't know how. So good luck to me. 

There are quite a few more things that I'm not really into but would like to try to do and see if I get interested to these stuff like:

Play PS3 games and be hooked.

Join fun runs and actually run and not just walk.

Wear sneakers (again) I used to wear a lot of sneakers back in college and I even collected Chuck Taylors back then but I stopped wearing them after college.

Do art?? (maybe?) Not really on this one because I don't have any creative juice in my body

Post blog posts with lots of photos for visual stimulation (CHOS)

BE MORE FUN

Be less self centered. (really. HAHA) 

Be technically advanced

xx,

Annie

And THIS is exactly why

We want to be partners, not mothers.
Women did not fight hard and work harder for equality and independence just so men could slack off and mess up. Don't get us wrong. We love taking care of you. But it does rankle us if you ask us to plan your life. We will tryour best to give you advice but we wont make any big decisions for you. You wouldn't be able to respect us- or yourself -- if that happened. "It would be hard for me to date a man who needs me to fix up his life when I had to go through so much trying to put mine together," says Dani, 29

----Article in p.68 of Cosmopolitan Philippines June 2013 issue

And this is exactly why.............

Don't wanna say much but reading this felt soooo familiar it felt like home.

xx,

Annie

I was supposed to write something but I read a blog post that left me speechless. I guess I'll just go back to work

I recently colored my hair and it's lighter now. I like it but I miss my dark hair. Thinking if I should go red or go back to black.

Benefits of the good food

I'm looking up the internet for different ways to incorporate chia seeds to your food since it is not widely used here in our country and I found this post http://wellnessmama.com/4981/10-uses-for-chia-seeds/ which was really helpful for me so I'm posting it here for future references.

I'll be doing my healthy grocery shopping later and is looking forward to trying new food to eat other than our staple rice and ulam.

Healthy grocery shopping list:
Quinoa
Chia Seeds
Oatmeal
Almond milk
Banana
Strawberry
Malunggay
Pineapple

So while checking out the Rustan's sale yesterday, we passed by a demo stall which had a juicer display that it's "The only juicer that can EFFECTIVELY juice Malunggay with stem" and so we checked it out and even had to taste their malunggay juice with pineapple. I had two small cups and it was SOOOOO good I can't stop thinking about it! Good thing that my sister has an extra juicer that looks like the juicer on display and I'll borrow it for my office. I am so excited that I can now juice here. Although I don't mind getting my juice readily prepared by ate Mila. She is the best. I told her that I want my lunch to be healthy because I am trying to lose weight so she sent me baked chicken or fish and veggies for my lunch. LOVE HER.

MISSING MY CUTE NIECE! SO MUCH! She was not in the mood yesterday so she was all sungit to us when we were at the mall and she slept early last night because she did not nap in the afternoon so I absolutely miss her. She was so sweet this morning though. Although I was half asleep, I can still remember how sweet she was hugging me while I was sleeping or lying down on top of me while she was preparing for school. When I woke up she already left for school. I miss her so much and seeing her so cute and sweet like that makes me want to have my own kid soon!!!! My sister must be so lucky to have the cutest and sweetest and wittiest baby in the world. If you've seen her pictures and find her cute, you have yet to meet her in person and be swooned by her cute personality. She is so smart for a 2 1/2 year old baby!!!

xx,

Annie