Life in MegaPixels

For 2 weeks in a row, I have seen myself inside Marionnaud at Mall of Asia, lovin’ every minute of my stay. If I had an endless stash of cash, this is the one store I would definitely splurge on. They have every brand I love – MAC, Makeup Forever, YSL, Becca, L’Occitane, Origins, Skin Doctors, L’Oreal, and a hell lot more! If the US has Sephora… the Philippines has Marionnaud. Boasting of 1200 sqm of pure bliss, Marionnaud proves to be the ultimate destination for ladies who want every bit of pampering from perfumery, skin care line, make up to health bar and spa. Who says the mall is all about shopping? I beg to disagree. The Mall of Asia is all about shopping, having fun, splurging and pampering…and ultimately having a good time!

I had an intense conversation with one of my good friends today. Not passionate intense, but more on “conversation with depth”. Nothing philosophical in nature just pure friendly chat, trying to figure out why the world is round… while waiting for him to call me back, i saw this on my email. This made me really laugh, like woah! it’s my insanity kicking in! hahaha!

I’m so bored today. Just reading through some blogs, watching movie clips and at 4:35AM, just about to start a Grey’s Anatomy marathon. Talk about boredom, this is probably the most boring weekends I ever had… save for the Chinese dinner at HapChan, nothing overly spectacular happened today. Just before starting my dvd marathon, I’d love to share this… saw this on the login page of gmail. I just find it so cute… enjoy!

Just a couple of things I’m experimenting on at the moment…

I can’t seem to understand the world… lately, it’s just been too frustrating. At work, everyone’s frustrated. No one seems to be happy with everything that’s going on. I’ve been hearing about people wanting to leave, people who are about to leave… and sadly, I’ve witnessed people close to my heart who have just left. I do not intend to leave at this point, I am still pretty happy with the work that is slowly being passed on to me… But at the rate things are being managed lately, I might also have second thoughts. But I hope that day won’t come just yet.

Looking at it from another perspective, I see this as an opportunity. For people to grow, to lead and to take ownership.  But I guess I will never want to be in that position. At least, not right now. I just have too many things going for me personally… things that I would have wanted to pursue, things that I would want to share with someone… but sadly, life has it’s wicked claws all stretched out, ready to crush my dreams to pieces. I’ve been waiting all this time, but it’s come to a point where the apathy and the utter lack of sensitivity has killed me, emotionally. I guess i’m tired. tired of waiting, tired of hearing all the lame excuses, tired of just being here.

Thursday night, I agreed to accompany a friend to Gateway to have his lens inspected for any defect. Someone from Davao is interested to buy but doesn’t have any relative here to make the purchase for him. Another friend from the forum was suggested to make the necessary checks… and so off we went from Makati to Cubao, on a super traffic thursday evening. What was supposed to be a simple dinner at gateway, ended up to be a not-so-posh dinner at the food court and a long night of partying at Piedra for the Uno Launch!

What would you do if you are just sitting around in the house, with absolutely nothing planned for the entire day… and then someone invites you out for lunch?

If you were me, you’d reply “SURE AS LONG AS WE’RE NOT HAVING LUNCH AT MCDO, KFC OR JOLLIBEE! Please, no fast food for me!!!” In a matter of seconds, I hit the shower, put on my usual jeans, tees and a pair of havaianas, grab my bag and head out the door with my wet hair.

Apparently, my good friend Renzo had to met someone in greenbelt to sell his lens… and wanted to go out for lunch. He had nothing planned that day as well, so we decided to just grab lunch and work out the itinerary from there. No definite plans really. Just playing things by ear. Lunch was good, although we ordered more than enough for 2 FAMISHED people!

After lunch, we ran out of things to do…so we decided to put our stuff in the car first and just go around shopping. We went to get some new fashion magazines. I got one bridal and fashion magazine, and Renzo got his male fashion mag.

Not knowing where to go, we decided to hang out at Seattles Best and browse through our new finds. It was really great… we managed to find a lot of neat stuff in there! And like a light bulb hitting us, we thought of watching a movie. I knew Ann wanted to do something to so we invited her to join us. We decided to watch Pursuit of Happiness.

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I’ve been wracking my brain since last night, trying to think of something to nice to say about the movie. I didn’t like it that much, but I can’t say I didn’t like it as well.  Content-wise, the story has some depth. After all, it’s a true to life account of how a man has succeeded from the bottom up. This guy is the living proof that when you hit rock bottom, just hang on tight because there’s just no where else to go but bounce up. I certainly believe that. I just hope I don’t have to go through the shit this guy went through to get to where he is now. It’s as though nothing worse could ever happen to him. Not that I don’t believe these things could happen, but I just felt it was too depressing, too overwhelming. I’m not fond of watching movies that are downright negative so to speak. I like the feel-good movies that are not so out of this world, simply because I use movie as a medium to release stress. I think the movie was just too stressful to watch… I went out of the theater with a heavy heart. I hope the next movie that I’ll watch is something light and funny.

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So much for the movie. Sunday night started with burger and some photography talk at Sango… and capped with dessert at UCC! Sigh! What a weekend!

I received this in the mail today and I just can’t help but laugh about it. This is really my kind of humor… funny, witty and obnoxious! haha

Inviting everyone to our first ever exhibit at the FPPF Chamber in Intramuros Manila…

I woke up today feeling helpless and empty. Nothing to do, nowhere to go. and no text message from my hunee. Such a boring day. Does God want me to rest today? Or does he want me out there doing something creative? I was supposed to be playing badminton… but I just felt too lethargic to even think of doing something yperactive… I just wanted to hang around a coffee shop, working on some photos I needed to edit. But damn, I felt too lazy. Talk about lazy sunday afternoons. I just had one of those.

Luckily, a good friend called me up, asking if I could check out some hotels for him… and asked me to go with them for lunch. I didn’t have anything to do so I thought, WHY NOT?! I immediately hit the shower and walked to the spot where he picked me up. We had lunch at Gloria Maris… Yummmmyyy!I so loved the food, esp the veggies. In this kind of lifestyle, it is very rare that I get to eat vegetables coz I haven’t really been cooking much. Although if I do have time, I probably should start working on a vegetable and fruits diet. Ah talk about diet… it just pains me that I can’t sustain it for more than 2 weeks. Totally rubbish!

After lunch, I told my friend about this new place in Taguig that is still under construction but with some shops already open… and he was so eager to go after I told him about the crumpler store! So back to Serendra again…this has been my hang out lately. I just love the peace and quite of the place right now… I hope it won’t be too traffic when the other stores open up…

After hanging out, we decided to go to rockwell, since they had to go meet some friends too. We just went around the place, bought some gifts for their friends who were celebrating their birthday and just hung out at starbucks… I got me some mags and I was really enjoying browsing through it, I didn’t realize we were all sitting across each other in the table minding our own business. haha! sorry!!! I was so engrossed with the magazines that I totally forgot I was with my friends… didn’t mean to be rude really.. sort of just got carried away!

When they had to go meet their friends, I went to check out Santi’s Deli. I am an addict of Santi’s Deli… I just love their antipasto and the fresh olives and cheeses… yuuuumm!!! cold cuts! I bought me a couple 100g packages of salami, some cheese and Paulinis Bruschetta that I am so addicted to. I would’ve wanted to buy some borsoin cheese but at 300 bucks, it’s just not worth it, considering that I might not be able to finish it before the expiry date. So i let it go. I’ll just check out Connie’s Kitchen on Saturday at the Salcedo Market.