January 23, 2009 at 11:31 am (Uncategorized)
Yes its been weeks since I last updated. But I have a good reason (excuse lol). I’ve been busy with school. Yes I’ve gone back to school! Yay for me! And I’m still working (which is getting slightly neglected).
I’m taking some Interior Design classes at the Philippine School of Interior Design. 
The classes are fun but they will be the death of my right hand (I’m blaming my freehand class). The classes at PSID are accelerated so one term is only 3 months but we’ll be learning the amount of one semester. I have classes Mon-Thurs 9-12 am, which is good since I’m more focused in the morning. Bad for my work since by the afternoon I’m pooped out (lets just say I have a pile of filing to do T.T
Anywho I should go back to work.
Oh yea I lost my internet connection at the office so I might not be able to update that much…But Ill try!
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December 27, 2008 at 1:50 pm (pets)
WE GOT PUPPIES!!!
On December 10 we got ourselves a chocolate lab!! He is the most adorable and annoying little pup ever (I had to give him my slippers so he wouldn’t chew on my feet!) He is growing so fast too!! He turned 2 months on the 20th. Oh his name is Milo!
Early this month we began suspecting that our beagle was pregnant. Pregnant not with beagle pups but with Cheagles. Yes Chihuahua Beagle pups. *Sigh* I don’t even wanna know how Whisper (my chi) could get Maxine(beagle) pregnant. Anywho this morning we woke up to a very sad surprise. Maxine had given birth but the pup was stillborn. It was so heart wrenching to see her lick and clean her pup. She wouldn’t even let us take her stillborn pup. It was hours before she would let us take him. And since it had been hours we began to think that she had only one pup. But 4 hours later Maxine began to go into labor again. And she gave birth to a healthy pup! We are waiting to see if she has anymore in her
I’ll keep you updated
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November 19, 2008 at 2:36 pm (random)
So I was thinking that when I get married I wanna get married to someone who is wealthy enough to support me and the 4-5 kids that we’ll have. Yes, I want around 4-5 kids . I’ll be like a work at home mom with some kind of business that can be managed from home ’cause I want to be able to stay at home with the kids. Since I’ll be working from home he has to be the main breadwinner or If the guy has his own business I would help him with it and all, as long as I can spend plenty of time with the kids I’d be okay. I even want to have a vegetable garden and craft room where the kids and I can garden and craft.
Maybe I can have this craft business, like sell craft stuff online or something, since there aren’t any craft supply stores over here. I could even sell finished handmade stuff if I have the time to make them. I’ve even been thinking about names for the business and what kind of stuff I’d sell.
I’ve been thinking about this kind of stuff for the last few months. I’ve even been looking at baby stuff. I really should find a boyfriend before I start thinking about all this. Am I crazy to be thinking about all this stuff? Maybe a tinsy bit…right?
Just so ya know this post is really how my brain thinks…in jumbled fragmented sentences and run-on sentences. I don’t feel like organizing my thoughts today :p
*edit*
oh yeah..I’m gunna take-up interior design. I enroll on Monday at PSID! Yay me!
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November 7, 2008 at 12:08 pm (Uncategorized)
So I got back early last Friday, October 31st. Yes it took me one whole week before I was able to get posting again. That’s not to say that I didn’t try to post earlier. I honestly did but it seems that my internet connection is against me still. *Sigh* I even had this post all typed up already, but I wasn’t able to save it before I got disconnected. Oh well.
Anywho as I was saying, I got back early on Friday. Really early. As in 3:50 AM early. That’s an hour earlier than our estimated arrival, not that arriving early made the flight seem less long. It was a long 13 hours, thank goodness I was able to sleep for most of the flight. My parents were lucky enought to get a free upgrade to business class. The airline wanted to fit as many people on the flight as possible so they upgraded some people to business to free up space on economy, which they quickly filled up. I wasn’t as lucky as my parents, although my flight was paid by my dad’s mileage, I wasn’t upgraded and was stuck in those tiny economy seats. It was one packed flight, which made space all the more limited. It was an interesting flight nonetheless since someone’s kid was crawling and rolling around, which can’t be that healthy with how dirty airplane floors are. I kept waiting for the mom to scold her kid but it never came. Even when we arrived he was crawling and rolling on the floor outside and all the mother did was laugh. I don’t know about you guys but for me that just seems so wrong. What if that kid got hit by someone pushing one of those carts? I hope that kids okay.
Since I’ve gotten back I’ve been trying to read up on all the blog posts I’ve missed. It took me around two days to catch up on SouleMama, one of my favorite blogs to read. I love the daily stories about her family and her life. Her life may seem so normal but its so extraordinary as well. I wish I could live like her someday. You should all hop over and check out her blog ….Oh and she has great photos!
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September 16, 2008 at 9:56 pm (construction, family, random)
I know I haven’t posted recently but I have very good excuses!
First off, as I said previously my Si-chiak & Si-chim where here. They were able to stay at the newly renovated Jack’s Suite (err…room). They were pretty much out everyday and they returned to the States last Saturday. Guess that wasn’t a good excuse.
Secondly I’ve been busy trying to find and organize my stuff, which really has no place to go now. I’m really feeling the impact of have no room and no storage. *sigh* Oh well. I’ve been obviously sending hints to my parents and brothers about my storage problem. I recently told them that I don’t care if I don’t have a bedroom as long as a have a walk-in-storage room. After all I can just bum in their rooms
Lastly, I’ve been busy lately preparing to leave for the States. I’m leaving tomorrow and will be there for a month or so. Yay! So I’ve been preparing my work and turning it over temporarily to my brother’s PA. I’m making some instructions (with pictures! ) right now just incase she didn’t get everything that I dumped on her. I love making little instruction manuals with lotsa printscreens. Yes I’m weird. Anywho I’ve been so busy preparing work stuff that I haven’t even started packing or at least staging the things I need to bring. I haven’t even organized my Ipod and the music I want to bring with me. But I have somewhat prepared my flash drive for the trip with all my crafting templates, instructions, recipies and others.
So finally (I say finally because I’ve been doing a lotta stuff while typing this post) the renovation pics! *drumroll*
Before
Okay so my before pics are really start of renovation pics. So I forgot to take pictures before we started messing with the room. Sorry, I’m only human.
Now for the Afters
Of course the room has to get approved by the boss 
Well this post might be my last post for awhile. Unless I can find a connection when I get to the States
Oh yea its my birthday tomorrow! Yay! Happy Birthday to me!
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September 3, 2008 at 3:08 pm (construction, family, pets)
Tags: chihuahua, dog
Done with the renovations. And we finished at around 1 am on Sunday. The Sunday my Si-Chiak & Si-Chim (chinese for aunt, thats married to Si-Chiak…Did that make sense?) arrived. They arrived at 5 am by the way. Man talk about finishing right on time…well actually we aren’t totally finished since we pretty much stuffed all our stuff into Jeremy’s room since Si-Chiak is staying in Jack’s room. So when they leave we got lotsa cleaning to do. I’m gunna end up with lots of stuff that has nowhere to go since I not only gave up my room but also my two tables that had a significant amount of stuff ( ok there was lotsa junk too). Did I mention that my closet is now in the foyer? Well it is. *sigh* It’s weird having my closet in the foyer…It feels like my clothes are hanging outside. LOL. Oh well nothing I can do about it for the moment.
Sorry I don’t have any pictures of the rooms…I kind of didn’t have time to take a picture before Si-Chiak came and I don’t wanna barge in and snap photos. So I’ll post them when I can take some pictures.
Though I don’t have pictures of the rooms I do have hundreds of pictures of my cute and cuddly chihuahua, Whisper. Just so you know Whisper is the wrong kind of name for a dog that barks like a chi, not very whispery at all. These are when he was still a pup (he’s about 1 1/2 years old now) When he was still a pup he would sleep almost everywhere like
boxes…
bags (his bag)…
in our FOLDED comforter (he wiggled his way in)…ok so he isn’t sleeping in this picture but he was sleeping! :p
next to my monitor…
When he was sleeping in better places he was in adorable positions like this…
Man I can just hug and cuddle this dog to bits. When I first got Whisper my dad didn’t want another dog in our house (We had around 8 at that time). But in the end he became Whispers biggest fan.
Well thats all for today..:D
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August 28, 2008 at 5:15 pm (Uncategorized)
I’ve never mentioned it but I have a DA account. The links always been in the Link section. Anywho I’m currently in the process of uploading some old work to DA.
Here’s a sample of the stuff I’m uploading:
If you’re curious about my other uploads or ya don’t have anything better to do just click on over to my DA account.
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August 24, 2008 at 3:39 pm (craft, random)
I forgot to mention that I found some Japanese craft books in National Bookstore in SM North Edsa. I was like ”Ah! Japanese craft books!”. Good thing it was early and there weren’t any people around or else I’m sure I would’ve gotten some stares. Too bad I can’t read Japanese since all the instructions are in Japanese. Booo…oh well I’ll probably still get one since there are lots of pretty pictures
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August 24, 2008 at 2:14 pm (construction, craft, crochet)
Tags: bags, crochet, renovation
Its been more than a week since we started renovated Jeremy’s & Jack’s rooms and we still have a week before our deadline of August 31. It looks like we’ll be finished in time…well I hope we will. As I said last time we had to redo all the electrical wiring and moved almost all the outlets and switches in the rooms.
We also had to patch the walls that we didn’t cover with drywall. The walls in this building are all badly plastered. Actually its pretty hard to find good plasterers here in the Philippines. We’ve finished moving the door and adding a wall to Jeremy’s room. (this is the same view as here )
This is the progress of Jack’s accent wall. The wall is made from individual moldings made of EPS (expanded polystyrene shapes). The moldings we make and sell are made from expanded polystyrene coated with a special kind of cementitous coating called Decobond.
Right now the rooms are being painted and on Wednesday the flooring is coming in. I can’t wait to see the finished rooms
As I promised here is the picture of the finished bag along with some random flowers that aren’t attached.
Just realized that this picture isn’t all that clear. Sorry ’bout that. Right now I’m crochetting some slippers for my brother. Haha hope it comes out wearable. I’m also trying ot make a bag with a flat bottom based on this tut on laughingpurplegoldfish’s blog
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August 18, 2008 at 2:26 pm (construction, family, food)
The building that we are renting is a warehouse, office, and a house. The first, third and fourth floors are the warehouse areas that house our stocks of imported construction products. The first and third floors are the office areas. The second floor is where we currently live. The area of the second floor isn’t as big as the other floors since it has an area thats a mezzanine. Living in the same building that you work in has its pros and its cons.
Pros:
- You don’t have to wake up early to go to work
- You save on gas and time since you don’t have to commute to work
- You can still cook lunch
- If you forgot something at home or at work you can get it easily
Cons:
- You’re in the same building basically 24/7
- You might have work even after work hours and on weekends or holidays
- If you’re sick people at work might bother you
- Some of your home supplies end up in the office…especially scissors
The thing that really bugs me is that I’m in the same building 24/7 but the pros out weigh it since I really enjoy those things.
Right now we are renovating my two bros’ bedrooms so our house looks like we are half moving out and half moving in. There are clothes and boxes from my brothers’ rooms all over the house and even outside in the stairway.
On the left is Jeremy’s (my dihia) room and on the right is Jack’s (my sahia) room. We are re-covering most of the walls with drywall (gypsum board) because the walls in this building are all horribly plastered. We are trying to get it all done before the end of the month, when my Si-chiak comes.
Heres a short Chinese(Hookien Dialect) lesson: Ahia = eldest brother; Dihia = second eldest brother; Sahia = third eldest brother; Si-Chiak = Si – fourth/ four, Chiak – uncle that is the younger brother of my father.
On a yummier note, I made some cooks from this recipe. I added 2 eggs instead of 1 though, which made it a little too dense. 
But it was perfect eaten with milk or warm with some ice cream. Jeremy said that it tasted like black forest cake when he ate it with strawberry ice cream. Isn’t black forest made with cherries though? Weird.
I finished the crochetted bag I posted last time. I’ll post a picture of it next time
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