Distractions

update: the failed quest resulted instead to chocolates, chocolates, and more chocolates, as mentioned here.
dark chocolate covered almonds + andes chocolate mints = bliss.

on a similar note, due to the inevitable, accumulated stress lately, Melvin actually gave in and accompanied me in my long overdue shopping therapy.

i so love the fact that yoshii fits in the bag with or without his pouch! ^_^

In Limbo

limbo

Noun

in limbo not knowing the result or next stage of something and powerless to influence it

found out my mom's got three cysts on her breasts. two on the left and one on the right. she's real scared about it. especially since our family's got a history. her mom had breast cancer, so did her cousin. i think some other relative had it too. we still don't know whether or not the masses she has are cancerous. hopefully we'll know soon.

i haven't decided on an emotion yet. confused and stuck in limbo at the moment. my mom's positively scared though. hope her check up tomorrow renders good news.

suddenly the quest for the bag seems... blah. the quest ends here.

Quest Day 2

apparently, the continuation's today. >.<

so we trooped along to podium during lunch break to continue our search. this time for lassie's shoes and still my ever so gorgeous bag. we were able to find cute not-so-high-heels for lassie at a reasonable price of 400php. i, on the other hand was left disappointed. to numb my depression a bit, we indulged ourselves to a scoop each of sebastian's chocoholics anonymous ice cream.

the best ice cream i've ever tasted so far. the best part? it's sugarfree! they use halo, "the good sweetener", and according to the sign... zero calories. too good to be true? maybe. but hey, the calories, should there be any, and the price (95php per scoop) are worth it! heaven. ^_^

...And the Quest Continues

i just don't know when.
all efforts last night were futile. i wasn't able to find anything even close to resembling the same bag. what i was able to find were 2 pairs of nice shoes. one was white and had white and green straps. looked real nice and real painful. although i didn't feel the pain yet when i tried them on. the other one was dark, glossy (not shimmering) blue, which was totally weird coz i didn't like the way it looked when i tried, but i swear it looked nice on the mirror. was not able to take pictures coz we were kinda in a hurry. did not purchase. have to think about it more. will provide pics if i decide to buy.
i ended up with 200g of dark chocolate covered almonds and a pack(/box?) of Andes choco-mints. must. last. at least. 2. weeks.
(edit: pics posted later... here)

Quest Day 1

thank God http://www.blogger.com/ isn't blocked here...

my quest for the gorgeous bag starts today. lassie and I are planning to go shopping this evening, probably at megamall or at st. francis. maybe we'd even get to browse at podium. she'll be looking for emerald green shoes to match the green semi formal she's going to wear this saturday at ate gretz's wedding. and probably a clutch. me, i'm going to look for the bag. hopefully i'd be able to get something similar without burning a hole through my dilapidated wallet.

speaking of wallets, thinking of buying a new one, too. (there goes my September pay check. budget? what budget?!) geez. ooohhh, a new pair of wedges perhaps? decimated my last one from celine.

to think i started watching the confessions of a shopaholic this morning, didn't get to finish the movie though. besides, i don't think i'm that... um, severe? i don't spend money i don't have.

anyway, wish me luck!

Wanted

please please please... help me find this or something similar. if it's not the exact same thing, take a pic and mms or email me. a different color's ok. i just love the design so so so so so so much!

i want, i want, i want... gosh! i sound like a brat. hahaha.

(edit: found the bag here. too expensive. T_T)

Learning Compressions

ok, so i managed to compress the first episode of fringe from 702mb to 189mb. the video quality degraded too much. so did the audio. hey, i'm new at this, give me a chance.

anyway, i have the following facts:
1. i obviously don't know anything on compressing movies yet.
2. i could probably live without compressing the movies and directly burning them into tv-watchable formats. 4 movies in a dvd is not so bad.
3. for the series though... either i learn more about compressing or get stuck with watching them on laptops/pc desktops.
4. or hey, i could convert them to psp formats and plug it to the tv. (downside: i'd probably burn out the psp during marathons. besides, i got 4G space only)

anyone got any ideas to make me even remotely literate on this field?

After X Years...

why don't they have calibri font?

is this cyan? the background's black, so i'm assuming this won't really blind anyone. leave me a note if it hurts. (edit: did kinda hurt... changing to... umm, coral?) (edit... again: background used to be black. not anymore)

had a blog site before. kinda misplaced it. went searching via confirmation emails, found the address, visited the site... didn't appeal to me anymore. so here i am. starting anew.

so after a while, i'm blogging again. i'm not really sure why. my theory at the moment is maybe i'm missing "just writing" and not caring what people say or react to what i publish.

anyways, here goes...

currently hiding out in the room i share with my two younger brothers coz a new-old split-type is being installed so we can have the whole unit (technically, it's 2 units) air conditioned. we're on the eighth floor and sure, the higher you are, the cooler it's supposed to be. but hey, this is metro manila, even the 31st floor's hot and sticky. yeah, from experience. they're boring a hole for the electricals to pass through, necessarily making a racket of a noise in doing so. it's sunday and i just hope we're irritating the hell out of our filthy, lying, dog/puppy-hating neighbors.

recently learned how to burn movies to dvd in a format watchable on tv-dvd-players. (yeah, i know, it's a bit late) learned an iota about compressing movies today. right now i'm at 63% of the practice run. should this be effective, i'm re-burning 90%, if not all, of my "collection". now, if only i can find the time.

speaking of finding time, after 2 months of OT, i finally had the leisure of checking my facebook account again. approved and ignored pending invites, and got congratulated by uncle mike on my re-joining society. should try and play some games later tonight.

pining for a shopping spree since last month. haven't had the chance to, though. hopefully next week. i so so so so need a new bag. and probably a new pair of shoes.

seriously, why don't they have calibri fonts?