Darwin got his visa!!

I thought I wouldn't be able to post anything today as I was just feeling gloomy lying in bed and watching South Park and I was not supposed to talk to Darwin either because I was still mad, but with this news which we were waiting for like a week, well whatever, I am sooo happy now!!

The picture is not clear but that's it! It's a visitor visa and I'm planning to get his work permit, etc fix here instead as people in the immigration here are much nicer.

So the countdown begins! 29 days to go and he's finally here!!

Gates vs. Jobs

My Visual DNA

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I got this nifty thing to do from Kari's blog. It's kinda cool coz the readings actually describe me.

I had the self-control...

...to not buy anything today and use my credit card. For a change, it was just really WINDOW shopping. Hehe!

My nephew's pre-school graduation

AJ, my nephew, will always be the apple of everyone's eye in the family because he's the first great grandchild, first grandchild, and first nephew. Now living in the small island of Hawaii, he will graduate pre-school soon. Maybe the next time I'll see him he'll already be in grade 4 or high school (I don't know). Maybe he won't even remember me (tita Jenny who??). Sometimes when I talk to my sister in YM voice call, I'll hear him talking in the background too and he already got the American accent and twang it's so cute!

Can't bear to be without you

It's quite a boring day.. nothing much happened.. so I decided to post this image that Jasmine (my sister) sent me. It's cute and made me smile. It would really make me smile though if she really meant it. HAHAHA!! Joke...

My Lush loot

It's not a loot, but whatev

I passed by the Lush store today since they have a 15% off on all products that contain cocoa butter and this is what I got:

...and that's a total savings of almost $9. Hehehe

I am loving the Smitten hand cream.. the scent is really lovely.. but I've yet to see the effects of the moisturiser. Hope it will do wonders.

The perks of living alone - something to smile about

Living alone gets lonely and stuff. Eating dinner by myself. Lauging by myself. Yada yada yada. On the brighter side, there are some perks on living alone...

1. FREEDOM - to do what I want and when I want to do it. I can get up, cook, wash the dishes, do the laundry, clean my flat, go out, etc. etc. anytime I want to.

2. Less mess to clean up.

Back when I was living with my parents and sisters, we all have our share of duties when it comes to cleaning the house. Unfortunately, my sisters are not as cleanly as me

I especially hated cleaning the kitchen after my mom cooked coz it looked like a hurricane has hit the kitchen. Plus she uses too many pots and pans and I don't like washing big stuff.

I also lived with Darwin and his friends. But they are boys. And boys are dirty

Besides, I'm only 1 person. How much mess can I make?

3. No pointing fingers on who's turn it is to wash the dishes, put out the laundry, clean the bathroom, etc. etc.

4. CLEAN bathroom and toilet. My sisters don't really like cleaning the bathroom so I end up doing it. I don't really consider it cleaning the bathroom when you leave the dirty rags behind the toilet and don't take out the trash. When you just put some toilet duck in the toilet bowl, that's not cleaning at all. Don't even get me started when I was living with boys.

5. No bickering. No shouting. No fighting. AHHHHH peace and quiet at last!!!

6. Lots of ME time. Pamper myself without anyone disturbing. Put some face mask, play some relaxing music, grab a magazine and lie down. Hehehe...

7. There is only ONE rule and that is MY rule!!

8. Answering to no one. Parents tend to be stricter to their female daughters. I.e. "Who are you with? What time are you going home? How are you going home?" Same thing applies when you live with your partner/husband. You have to answer to him. So I think every girl should try living alone for awhile and experience FREEDOM before settling down.

9. I can arrange things in the order that I want to. I'm a bit OC you know..

10. I can walk, sing, dance around *****. It's quite liberating actually.

I thought I wouldn't come up with a long list but there it is.

How much mess can I make?


But on most days, it's like this

Shopping (of dorky stuff)

My sisters and I went to this new store which has an opening sale. I wasn't planning on buying anything (only my other sister who wanted to get the Pink PS2 hahaha). But when we got there most of the stuff were 20% off... so I ended up buying a few things for myself.

The EyeToy Kinetic Combat. I wanted to get this ever since my friend Jem suggested that I might like it. Hehe.. It's not just a toy but a different approach to exercise. I'm soo excited to try my new workout and impress my friends with some flashy Kung Fu moves hahahaha... (and drop down a size in pants).

It's not a high-tech branded speaker but it's heaps better than the crappy sounds coming from my laptop speaker (and it's only $10).

Let's learn Chinese CD. Maybe I'll learn a few Mandarin phrases?? Lol. Honestly I kind of lost my interest to learn Chinese because I don't like the Chinese people here. Chinese people in the Philippines they say to you "I give you big discount." Here, they say "no discount." Hmp.

But since it is a part of who Darwin is, I will try to learn (naks).

This one is a bonus. One of the store assistants approached me and asked if I had an iPod. I told him "yah" even though I only have a fake iPod (LOL) and he gave me this card which entitles me to 3 free songs from the iTunes Store. I have no idea how much one song is so I checked the website and it's only 99 cents. Hahaha.. Still, it's free. Everyone loves free stuff, including me.

Send One Your Love by Stevie Wonder

I have just finished cleaning my files and putting them in order (again) and saw the mp3 file that Darwin sent me this week. It's 'Send One Your Love' by Stevie Wonder. If you haven't heard the song before (like me, HEHE) here's the mtv (it's old, so no flashy effects here, thanks to YouTube by the way). The song is really really beautiful.

Herbal Heaven

Wouldn't everyone be smiling?

Darwin has booked his tickets to NZ

I am so excited!!! Hopefully (and I'm also praying), it would be smooth sailing frome here...

The new coca cola commercial

It's soo cute!

Easter Sunday

Stole the pic from Darwin's Flickr. Hehehe

Went to my parent's house for the weekend to celebrate the easter holiday. Had some fun with my sisters and cousins just lounging around playing monopoly and watching South Park DVD marathons.

Another easter chocolate

From my sister's boyfriend. How nice of him. Hehehe He gave each one in the family a chocolate egg. I sometimes tease my sister that her boyfriend is a kiss ass, but I guess that's one of the reasons we've grown to like him.

My chocolate easter bunny

I left my desk in the office and when I came back, there's a chocolate easter bunny in front of my pc that my manager left for me. How nice of her :)


This is what's left of it now. I think that's enough chocolate for the night. It tasted good too by the way.

Jumper dress

So sue me. I love this trend. I bought another one on my way home awhile ago. Almost the same as in the picture above. The other one that I have is in black, more of a straight cut and different material. A little shopping therapy that made me smile!

Long weekend coming up

I guess one of the reasons to be thankful for Catholic invasion in the whole world is that it has a lot of holidays! (Although I am ignorant to other religion's holidays, but what the heck.)

No work (yet with pay) from Good Friday until Easter Monday. Yahoo!!!

Public Library

I love reading and so one of the things I like living in New Zealand is the public library access. All the books and magazines at my fingertips for FREE. Instead of buying books that I will just put away after reading, I can just go to the library and borrow them. And there's no limit to how many books and magazines you can borrow. Plus there's a lot of new books available. I can go on and on raving about this. If only we have this kind of public library in the Philippines.