vetlongwalks home & pf

and yet, there's no trace of it in or out of my pet house. while i love the idea of decorating for the christmas holidays, the cost of decorations is just too expensive. haha, i'm super cheapskate that every time i attempt at buying christmas decors, i usually end up calculating the total decor costs and often end up returning the items to their shelves. i just couldn't convince myself of the practicality of shelling out moolah i could use for something else, such as paying off credit card bills. speaking of credit card bills, i learned a hard lesson on it. friends, do not make the mistake i did. it was truly stupid of me to let someone use my card to pay for her airline ticket purchase. what initially cost a little over 7K reached 13K now due to interests. the original purchased happened july of 2011, and i only was paid php 500 pesos for it until now. haha, i know, it was my fault for trusting. like i said, it was a hard lesson. add insult to injury i came across a provis...

this post won't be about how creative i can be. primarily because, i'm not creative. I'M JUST NOT, sadly:( what i am, however, is CHEAPSKATE and someone who apparently IS unable to throw away damaged items. every time i'm at the metro ayala home department, i never fail to check out the foldable wooden breakfast table on display there. i also never fail to check the price tag, and the said table costs almost PhP500. the price tag always keeps me from taking the said product to the counter and have the cashier ring it for me. so it was for quite a long time that i endured eating in front of my trusty 5-year old eee surf without a decent table. i would just hold my plate in one hand, and eat with the other hand. now, as i've been much of a couch potato of late, i quite expectedly put on back the weight i lost. the plastic stool broke when i sat on it and caused the demise of the stool. i was about to throw away the damaged stool when i noticed a half-an-inch-thick...

per my usual Saturday routine, i woke up late. after i prepared myself some rice, hot dog, scrambled egg, and coffee for brunch, i found myself with nothing much to do. well, i got a text from tes informing me about a basil valdez show over at casino espanol tonight. a friend of hers and jam had free tickets to the show. but as it was raining when i read her message, i told her i'd consider it if the rain stopped. however, as the afternoon passed - my body craved to just stay at home and thus finally declined going to the show. to occupy myself, i decided to bake myself some cupcakes. i did mention in some past post that i'd try to start baking as a hobby. well, here are proofs of my first attempt:

and there were TWO. OK. so, i have no flare (oops, wrong) flair for drama. LOL!!! admittedly, the attempt was just "EHK!?/%". whoever said that finding a catchy introduction to a post is easy was either lying or just pure genius. well, i know of one genius whose command of words is out of this world. incidentally, the genius (what i endearingly call my friend the nevergirl ) was actually the person who gifted me with one of the two "lights" in my home right now. oh, scratch that. in her words, the lamp wasn't for me - but a present for my little house! nevertheless, mine or not - i love it, and it's yellow to my added delight! presenting... Little Sun this solar powered lamp is something she picked up at tate modern, in london. it's a little piece of beauty by an icelandic artist named olafur eliasson . if my first light is all the way from across the world, the second one is from our own philippine island that is coron, palawan. i scored this ...

yes, that was the plan . i'm weird and difficult as i am now, and i can't afford to add 'christian' to that list. people have their own perceptions about christians, and more importantly if a lot of people find me difficult to get along with now, how much more if they learn that i want to follow JESUS. how will they react? will people i know start to stay away from me? will they think of me having an early midlife crisis? how can i tell my mother that i no longer wish to accompany her to our annual devotion to a particular saint? i maintain my respect for my mother and her beliefs, and i have nothing bad to say against that specific saint and all others for that matter. but recent events have led me to form my own belief system. i honestly don't know what happened. this desire to follow JESUS came as a huge surprise even to myself. one of my closest friends c even reminded me of how i VEHEMENTLY HATED GOD for some of the things that happened to my life. the...

managing one's finances is a skill i believe an individual should learn. the world's tough and getting tougher. one of the best defenses to cope with changing times is to be financially responsible - to know how to deal with money. personal finance is one of my favorite topics. i love it not because i've acquired the skill to perfectly manage my finances (or lack thereof, haha!), but because i find the topic relevant and interesting. more importantly, i love it because i need help and is yet to learn, acquire or be financially responsible. if on the outside, i may appear OK to most people, but believe me - i'm like many who struggle with handling finances. while i may not be in deep financial mess as some people, i'd like to hope that i will never be. but as they say, the world is round and nothing these days is predictable. thus, it's best to equip oneself with knowledge on financial or money matters. learning about money matters is very important whether you...

in my previous post, i mentioned that i'd like to start a hobby - baking, specifically. while i'm still uncertain whether i could be truly serious about it, i somehow found myself buying these at the grocery this afternoon: the bottom item isn't exactly a stuff for baking. it's actually a bamboo sushi mat. well, one of these days i'd like to try making my own maki or kimbap, too. so, while i'm still convincing myself that starting a hobby will be good for me and that actually factoring in the ingredients in my household budget will be worth it, i'm just making do with preparing my own crepes for breakfast, cheapskate-style. hehe, as i've mentioned before, i'm financially-challenged so buying all the right ingredients is something i've yet to do. the goal for the time being is making sure that what i prepared is edible, haha. well, so far nothing untoward has happened to me while i've been stuffing myself with nothing but these; crepes-hot...