As you know (I’m assuming, since it’s on my about page and all), I am a Filipino – someone who came from the Philippines. Since the Philippines is such a small country, a lot of people have probably never heard of it or if they had, they know little about it and its people, so […]
{Letters} How Singapore Got Its Name + What IOS7 Taught Me
Dear Nikki, Tada!!! Here is the letter you requested! I still can’t get over the fact that you actually asked me to give you a letter and hand it to our colleague to hand to you when she flies to Manila next week! I mean… who does that these days?? LOL. Anyway… I was going […]
Fat to Fit Kate: How She Lost 20 Kilos
Well hello there, weight loss buddies! 🙂 Last month’s thinspiration interview was so well received that I thought it would be a good idea to do another one. This time around, I found blogger Kate @ Relokate (formerly known as Fat to Fit Geek). I was so inspired when I read her weight loss story that […]
Thinspiration: How Chrissete Lost 25 Pounds
One of the things you need to lose weight is a thinspiration – someone to look up to, one who has your ideal weight or who has lost a lot of weight and is serving as an inspiration to you. So I decided to show you one of mine, my friend Chrissete! She has lost […]
16 Things To Do When You’re Feeling Down
Sadness is my least favorite emotion. But what can we do, sometimes things happen and we can’t avoid it. Life is unfair that way. What should you do to make that heavy feeling in your heart go away? (1) Sob fest. Get it out of your system and don’t let if fester inside of you. […]
Nasty News
I woke up this morning to the bad news that the Boston Marathon had been bombed. My thoughts immediately flew to my fellow A-Z challenge blogger who runs Another Clean Slate, as she had just chosen to blog M for Marathon Monday which was all about the Boston Marathon. I knew she didn’t participate in it […]
4 Pics 1 Word
I found out about this interesting game when my friend started posting for help on Facebook. It’s an app available for Apple and Android. The game goes this way: you will be shown four pics which all pertain to one word, which you have to guess by correctly forming it in the answer box from […]
Twitter Photo Filters
Twitter recently released its own set of photo filters, so I decided to check them out. Unlike in the famous Instagram, you can opt to keep your picture in a normal non-square format. If you want it to be square though, you have the option to crop your pic that way. If you don’t fancy […]
RIP Steve Jobs
I’ve never met the guy in person, but I really idolized him, way before I bought the iphone where I found about his death or this macbook that I am now typing this blog on. I idolized him the moment I heard his Stanford commencement speech, the one where he said: Sometimes life hits you […]
Babbling About Brains
Memory is a very tricky thing. Especially my own. See, people are usually very amazed at my excellent long term memory. I can recollect scenes from the past quite vividly or remember poems or song lyrics by heart. I can recite quotes from movies or TV shows or books verbatim. I also remember everyone’s birthdays. […]