Speckles n Spectrum

I know I had this mention in the post Happiness Is... but I wanted to add pictures for I am very much visual... :)


So here's my list of fave food once again...

• Italian Food

• Filipino Food

• Chinese Food

This is my fave kind Sizzling Shawarma coming from a local eats named Haidnhor.

•  mushroom soup or any soup with garlic bread

Now, I'm missing Kart City and Nay's House in Tarlac. They have the best yet affordable soups I've ever tasted. For quick grab Campbell's will do.

• cakes especially Blue-berry Cheesecake

I crave for Starbucks... yum!

• 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)

• Besides Alkaline Water... Starbucks Java Chip Frappuccino, Mango Shake, Pineapple Juice and Zagu (drinks but decided to include it here anyways)

Zagu: Chocolate or Creme Brulee with extra choco bits :) 

• big fluffy white marshmallows toasted in a bonfire :)

That's it... just seeing all of it in photos make me happy already :)

some photos from Google Images

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:

• Food (of course)

* 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.

http://nymagirl.deviantart.com/art/Photography-love-VI-109772893

• 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.

As I was able to take some time browsing for a few blogs I happened to notice that my blog compared to others  seem like a kindergarten's scrapbook. Mostly the blog designs are simple and the color palette is neutral and most use white as a background color, professional looking for professional bloggers. But I don't claim myself as one, I am just a blogger period. I just happened to like writing and expressing my thoughts in details with accompanying photos some of the time but still I know I needed to modify my blog designs to make it a little decent looking. Something that would say that the writer is on her mid-twenties and not a punky teen although I act more like a seven-year old according to them (OK fine, I do) modifying the design is the best I could do for now and about the picture quality... it kinda frustrates me that I still don't have a  DSLR up to now while I've been such an addict to photography since childhood. Well, that's something my family considers as luxury for I am the only creative soul in this area among us. So, I'll have one someday and I'm going to save for it, I shouldn't have waited this long to realize that huh?

And I just discovered recently how photo blogging is too tedious. It suck up my patience all down the drain but still all that process is rewarding after you see the final layout but still some of the photos are as stubborn like me, they don't want to stick to the rules and keep popping out in the wrong directions... aarghh!

Back to my blog designing: Considering all aspects, functionality, sleekness, quality, simplicity and uniqueness I opted for this new color palette. Everybody seems to have white so I like mine in black, it is simple enough yet  striking and intriguing. I was thinking of purple at first but it was to loud almost like a banner that's screaming my personality and I don't want that I want something that will still be me but in a subtle way and won't strike so much as a punky, melancholic college girl not that I am still in that stage.

Professional looking but with attitude so it is now. Well, that's just my personal view of the new design.

I wanted to try the neutral scheme too, basic white background and black ink but maybe some other day for redesigning a blog page is too much of a hassle. It takes too much time with all the color combinations, layouts, fonts and sizes preferences, plus adjusting the gadgets to have the same color scheme and yes the worst HTML.

I'm not the super techie person and my knowledge of some sort of computer stuff is just based from research and non-stop reading on the subject and I haven't had any basic tutorial or classes attended to learn them. I just do it all on my own. If there's something I wanted to do I just Google it and my patience and ever attention to details had paid off now I had removed the Blogger navigation bar on top of my site and it looks like just an ordinary website and not just a blog. And if you are going to click the colored words in every entry in this blog (they are called hyper-links) and I was able to made them in such a way that if you click it a new tab will open, that would be less hassle for readers since it'll be able to let them open another page but it won't navigate them away from my blog.

So what do you think of this new design? Pretty sleek or still crappy?

(photo credit)

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)

Not so pleasing in the eyes yet... too lazy to take pictures of each item now... some other day :)