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Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

101 Truths About Me: #2 I laugh easily.

My personality may come strong and complicated but my source of happiness is plain and simple. Little things can make me laugh and smile. A good sometimes corny joke will do.

Here I list the things that can brighten my day:


* lasagna, any pasta and pizza (Italian Food)
* Adobo, lechon, sisig, palabok, goto, dinuguan (Filipino Food)
* butchi and fresh or fried lumpia, tofu, siopao (Chinese Food)
* Tacos and burritos (Mexican Food)
* Ramen and shabu-shabu (Japanese Food)
* Filipino Street Food (fishballs, barbecue, kwek kwek, isaw, betamax, taho, puto)
* Mc Donald's pancake and french fries
* burgers especially Stackers
* any salad will do especially Caesar salad and fruit salad
* Shawarma
* mushroom soup or any soup with garlic bread
* cakes especially Blue-berry Cheesecake
* ice creams (double dutch, Häagen-Dazs, Dairy Queen Blizzard)
* chocolates (Ferrero Rocher, Hershey's Symphony or Kisses with almonds and Macadamia Nuts)
* some junk foods (Marty's Cracklin Vegetarian Chicharon, Doritos, Pringles, Bread Pan)
* Starbucks Java Chip Frappuccino, Mango Shake, Pineapple Juice and Zagu
* big fluffy white marshmallows toasted in a bonfire :)





  • Family

Even though we clash and argue still seeing them makes me happy and thankful for having them as my family.

* seeing my mom arrived home safe and sound from her daily commute to work. 
Now I get too understand why parents always require their kids to go home and impose a curfew because they worry about them a lot and I am experiencing that now especially if my mom didn't arrive on time... such a state of paranoia.
* seeing everyone in one room all noisy and chaotic
* exploring and trying new things with them
* seeing my mom lighten up her face while asking if her nail polish color is pretty or a new blouse, shoes or bags fit her well
* seeing her happy watching teleserye, some show irritates me but I enjoy sitting with her in the living room and teasing her that she should stop watching anything on TV because it is making her upset be it a news or a stupid character in a certain soap opera.
* eating her home-cooked meal until I am full and she would proudly say her dish is too delicious that I was able to eat it all and I'll just say "It was fine but I'm just too hungry that I can eat anything disgusting at that moment." Of course she knew that no one can make me eat anything that I don't like even if I'm that hungry I would rather sleep than eat and vomit it all in the end.

There are tons of things that I can list here but my blog cannot accommodate all so I think this had given you a sort of a preview to the whole picture.



  • Writing

Yes, obviously this is my solace, my bliss something that I hold on to besides my faith when everything seems out of control.




  • Reading

It spells adventures and fun and nothing like that couldn't make me smile.


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  • Pictures

Another medium that takes me away.





  • Music and Movies

Need I say more?




  • Nature

God's gift to mankind, one of the masterpieces. A proof that we are love. Seeing the moon in its horizon is happiness already. Silence and tranquility with the wind breezing in an ocean and the waves splashing into the shore, it's noise and flapping feathers of birds... it's priceless.




  • Friends

They are angels sent from heaven. A hello would do wonders.




  • Babies

I always love kids and seeing one brightens my day in an instant.

Well, it's really impossible to have it all in this entry. Happiness for me is everywhere and I can say that it isn't about money for I don't have that but I am in my happiest state these days. It isn't about material things, having this or that and honestly the only luxury I can consider right now in my life would be having a laptop and a 24/7 net connection (in our present time this is already a necessity and it is true for me since my job is online) and a few trips in a restaurant once in a while.

photos: Google Images



Finally at 4:00 am today my sister and her fiancée arrived from their trip to Cebu and Manila and their first stop in Bicol is our house since they have to or else, I don't know ask my mom instead.
















I'm thankful that they're finally back safe and healthy and yes extra happy for the pasalubong. There are tons mostly food. Take a look at these:

The most appreciated of all would be my Krispy Kreme. Why am I making it such a big deal having a box of doughnuts? Well it's because until now Naga City still doesn't have a franchise of it as well as Dairy Queen and the nearest store would be about 8-hour bus ride or 45 minutes by plane and I can have it all by myself for my mom is diabetic (but still she'll have some too, I know that for a fact) and I am not guilty of buying it for myself.  But don't worry I won't eat it all in one day, I wanted to but I can't... calories, sugar and all that stuff.



Mango Kreme Cake: The Official Doughnut of Summer...  yep, it's back :)




Some Cebu Delicacies 
(took only a few pics of some since I 'm a bit lazy it's too early in the morning and I haven't slept yet)




And yes everyone is up so early...

And we have new stocks for the boutique: dresses, shirts, blouses, bags and finally shoes...

Not so pleasing in the eyes yet... too lazy to take pictures of each item now... some other day :)
(Please bear with me for the not so hi-quality pics, my phone camera is the quickest and easiest I can grab for unexpected happenings like this coz people are actually getting a little impatient of my capturing regular stuff of the day and my camera phone make it a little subtle since they thought I'm just texting or what, not that they don't know I don't like texting... hehe)

So good morning everyone and may you have a happy and blessed day, I'll be off to bed in awhile very grateful for all the blessings that He showered me everyday of my life :)




My sister and her fiancée are out-of-town on a Cebu vacation so my mom decided to check the stores if everything's fine there.

As usual we found Jay's brother texting like forever and Tita Fe tending the stores...



Accessories







Bags




And as always we messed up the display and tried everything we like  :)
 (I'll post only some of the pics since my mom didn't approved every photo of her :)

 
And since nothing really fits me I just settled for this one bag I love... I wanted to buy it but well, I agree with my mom it's not too practical since I won't use it that often for I don't get out much and when I do I don't like to bring anything just a few bucks and keys even wallet I don't carry that... but still it might be of use comes special occasions... hmmm... if no one buys this it means it's waiting for me to get her... hehe maybe I can even have it as a freebie by then... wish, wish, wish... patience brings good things... crossing my fingers now.

It's a Gucci Replica: looks like a native bag with detailed golden brown embroidery so chic and classy. The ribbon could be detached and you can use it as a scarf instead.


Ukay store. (2nd-hand garments)




Don't worry Plus size girls we'll have something for us but it will be too limited since most of the clothes available from the source stores don't have much for our size... yes, too bad but somehow there are a few items available for our size... I got one here last december :)


It's really not so easy to be in this size specially if you live in a country where most girls are petite, you get discriminated even with the availability of clothes sizes... it means a lot. That's why I get most of my home clothes in the Ukay section and it comes for free... and that's one good thing being a plus size but there aren't too many reasons left for me to be glad being one but I am accepting it anyways I have no other choices but I'm not saying I'm not doing anything to get back into shape... just you wait.

Started the day at 10am, it's still pretty early for me for I usually wake up around 2pm or 4pm but then I've tried to sleep early last night before 12 midnight...  hehe Well, I don't usually sleep at night I am a nocturnal being had always been since college days and it's still true up to now.

It's my mom who had waken me up because she's been too excited about her visa application and wanted me to scan her documents and email it right on the dot. She even missed work just to make sure I'll do it for her today but she's using being dizzy still about her UTI as an excuse instead.

We had a stroll then downtown... bank, drugstore, fruit vendor...


My mom raised her eyebrows for these junks but I've protested that I haven't had one junk for months now and I promise that this will be eaten spread-out over the days of this month so cool... approved then but with lots of grunting and nasty comments from her :)


Ate at our fave local resto which offers the best local delicacies...



Balanced diet (is a must now, sigh)... all these with one cup of rice and lots, lots of water... 

Sinigang na punaw (seafood), some veggies and sweet & sour pork 

This was the first time that we ate at the 2nd floor so I wasn't able to discover this until my mom went to use the wash room at the 3rd floor. This little piece of art is hanged on the right wall of the stairs heading to the 3rd floor...
Made of bamboo and every piece looks like a sort of flute and painted with different designs from top to bottom.


I'll google this artist later...

My mom can't start a week without a parlor visit so while she had her mani and pedi... I got my haired shampooed just to have something to do and also it needs it too since it's getting a little oily and felt heavy :)



Checking if it looks fine now :) Well, my hair is hopeless... haha

Heading to the boutique we've discovered these:

This is the oldest of all Biggs' Branches... that's bad.



As well as Banco Filipino... so yes, the rumor is true.


Dropped by at Blue Pearl Boutique...  (see Cats Are Missing so Mice Will Play for the story)


Finally went home...

Tofu and buchi for snacks :) 


jonavie or nene, my late sister's god daughter

And there goes my first junk... Wild Willy's Real American Chicharrones: Leslie's Newest Snack ...tsk.tsk.

It's something I'll be looking forward to buy every time I'm in a grocery store... crunchy and yummy just like how Chicharrones should be  :)




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