Singapore 2012 Random Shots

Literally. I would only take pictures when I was bored so I ended up having these shots... I think this is my attempt to be artsy or something. I really don't know which direction I'm going..

Would you laugh at me if I say that this is part 1? hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha yeah I thought so too.

Singapore 2012 was one for the books. Oh man, I'd really love to go back here :)

Draft: Boat Ride Through The Sky Logo

I sort of (publicly tweeted) that I'm gonna create a logo for Gela because in my head, the banner is gonna be super plain and simple and the only graphic I can only think of placing on it is a logo. (A detailed explanation for why I only chose a logo will be posted when I've finished the banner)

I started doing something like this because whenever I read her blog she gives off this girly-girl vibe and scalloped borders are kind of like that way too (especially when the color is pink, which coincidentally, is her favorite color) plus it somehow reminds me of laces (which is also one of her favorites). Yeah don't ask why.

In the middle of fixing the boat (yeah, I don't like it as much now and the edges are super rough and I need a new shade of pink for the boat), I suddenly started doing monograms from the initials of Boat Ride Through The Sky (BTTS) and had this awesome monogram in my head that involved the letters forming a frickin' boat....I MEAN RIGHT? IT'LL BE SUPER COOL IF I PULLED THAT OFF!

Instead all I had were these:

I might still push through with it because I can't seem to get the B and S right. Maybe I shouldn't limit myself with the triangle no? I must research more on the types of boats! At the end of the week, however, if I'm still not satisfied, I'm dropping the monogram and focus on the boat instead.

In short, I'm almost there. I've also one thing in mind as a replacement for the boat but it's going to be a tedious process since I'm not really familiar with the pen tool.

PS: I freaked out because I forgot to place CLOUDS on the logo. Holy smokes. Her blog is called Boat Ride Through The SKY. And I have a boat floating on...nothing! Geezas.

Clouds Make Me Happy

I've been feeling down lately so I've edited some cloud photos from my recent travels. Sunny weather and clouds make me happy :)

Oh please be good to me, next half of the year. I'm not expecting much and I'm honestly expecting something worse for the days ahead so I'm bracing myself. Hope I'd come out alive, really.

Apologies and Updates

I was looking through my shots from the US Trip and I just realized how lazy I am in taking pictures. I think it's because getting the right shot for my photos would take time so I'd rather just live in the moment than waste my time capturing said moment. Did that make sense? Well, let me just simplify it for you: I always forget that I have a camera with me.

And so, this might very well entail the future of my Summer 2012 posts. I am truly sorry if I have weird, awkward, why are you taking a picture of your face and not the place, shots. Hey,  I didn't say I'm a professional photographer!

So that's now out of the way, I'd just like to tell you some things because I miss blogging:

• I have a new contract with Accenture for 3 months which started last week and so far, it's good. I don't want to jinx my whole experience so I'll just leave it at that.
• Last summer, a batchmate of mine from High School, Gela of Boat Ride Through The Sky, was looking for someone to redesign her blog and I volunteered! YES. FREE.OF.CHARGE. Well, it's not as if I have the right to charge but still. It has been a really really slow progress (changed the design twice already) which is why I still have NOTHING to present to her. Ugh, brain come on, you're better than this!
• Also, I've just discovered dribbble! How come I didn't know about this? I'm still debating if I should sign up as a prospect but I have nothing yet to upload so... that's sad. I should be starting up on some things yes? Any suggestions tho?
• A super duper random conversation while we were having lunch might lead me to the Olympics. Yeah, OLYMPICS. Again, no deets as of now but it involves my friend Polele. There's like the slightest chance that this thing will happen but you know, we'll see how things will go from here.

June is weird. Things are popping out of nowhere- I can't really decide if they're great or not.

Pic super unrelated: I think we're the only couple who doesn't take pictures as much. And I don't mean like we secretly take pictures from our cellphones but we've decided not to publish it because we're too cheesy kinda way because we're not even cheesy in our pictures! (case in point: Picture above) WE REALLY DON'T TAKE PICTURES. This picture is only 1 out of 2 from our lunch date at King Bee.

What does it say about us? I'm curious.

When Things Don't Go According To Plan

Certain decisions in life has made me lazy, uninspired and bitchy. Kinda like this dog. OH wait, this dog isn't as bitchy as I am. Wow my life.

You know, I was in 3rd year HS when I realized what I wanted to do in life: I wanted to be a web designer living in a condominium in Singapore.It was pretty simple, straight to the point and I was pretty damn confident about it....until I actually entered college.

I was surprised that the course I took did NOT involve doing web design. It was basically hardcore programming with a dash of management courses. You can only just imagine what I know- I was only into Photoshop and HTML and CSS and none of that PHP-JSP-.NET things. I was really annoyed by this fact BUT at the same time I wasn't going to let THAT hinder me from getting a diploma I desperately fought for when my parents wanted me to become a Nurse. I just, I had too much pride in me to admit that I was wrong. I WAS HELL WRONG.

Summer 2012 Part Four Preview: Coron Clouds

I'm a rebel so I'm jumping from one place to another for my Summer 2012 series! (Yet another excuse for my laziness lol)

Every shot I had in Coron was beautiful scenery and clouds. I'm pretty surprised that my sisters and I didn't manage to camwhore all over this trip. There was literally ONE shot in Malcapuya island. ONE.

Oh Coron, please stay like this forever.

Oh, We're Halfway There

Technically, there's like a day left until the oh-six but still, I think it's pretty appropriate to have a review of what happened the first half of the year.

The Blogworthy Workshop! Day 2!

So, I spent a good amount of time gif-ing this graphic, only to realize that I saved it as JPEG. Also, I didn't save a PSD file. Woohoo stupidity!

I totally enjoyed day 2 of Arriane's blog workshop. I'm beginning to feel like this day might be the best yet! Why? Let me count the ways:

Finally! The Blogworthy Workshop!

I know, I know. I'm sorry I'm still not blogging as much as I promised myself I should (I feel like I've been repeating this intro since forevaaaaa) but things are getting in the way like laziness, the internet, and unexpected gimiks here and there but nonetheless... I think I'm BACK and this time, for good. (Oh no, wait wait.. I don't want to make any promises)

Anyway, moving on.

Part of my 2012 goals is to go back to blogging. Go back to blogging? You stopped blogging? Yep, I started blogging waaaaaaaay back in 2003, during my crazy fangirling ways with Formula One hottie, Kimi Raikkonen. (Okay, I'm stopping myself because that's for another entry)

Now everybody's suddenly blogging that it's really hard to stand out and get followers to read yours right? Right. Enter Arriane's creative blogging workshop BLOGWORTHY. It's a 3-day workshop where she'll guide you to make your blog super amazing. Exciting isn't it?

On Being Benched

It's been technically 2 weeks (well a month, if you're counting my US vacation) since my Accenture contract has expired and I'm beginning to hate all the spare time I have. Okay, wait maybe HATE is a strong word. I don't really hate it, it's just how I handle being benched is what I really haaaate.

You see, being benched means I have no deployment to a certain project so I get to dick around the internet more do some internal stuff for our company. I've been tasked to do the following:

1. Revamp our logo
2. Create a company website
3. Revamp/Create necessary collateral things for the company

And I've only accomplished the first one and just almost done with the second (stock photos, halp me)! The first two should've been done like in 2 days max but now I'm cramming to the last minute. What the hell.

I blame the internet and my really short attention span because I get easily distracted with cute K-pop idols and (more recently) hot Hollywood superheroes. You know you can easily get interviews and funny clips of them just by searching through the tags in Tumblr? Yeah, the moment I click that link to Tumblr, everything changes. The intention of staying there for 5 minutes just so you get some sort of "inspiration" IS OBVIOUSLY A LIE. 5 minutes turn into 5 hours in a snap. But seriously, how can one resist this? I'm definitely not holding myself back. Geez. I.HATE.YOU.TUMBLR.

Lol, my priorities at this moment. Someone hit me on the head or something.

PS: I'm just lettin' this out there because of reasons

Kbai.

Summer Part Two: Cruise with me Baby (Florida, USA)

Again, before anything else I would just like to say: HELLO! How is the blogosphere? How are you Jenn (lol my only follower)?

My apologies once more for not updating as often. I've been battling jet lag for 2 weeks now; I guess my body is in denial of how AWESOME our trip to the US is that it's not trying to adjust to the normal Philippine time. As a result, my eyes are carrying cargos again. Hey body clock, we need to talk.

Anyway, going back. On to the ~adventure~

This is the second of a 4-part series for Summer 2012. The first one can be read over here. Please also do note that Part two is split into three. (Henceforth, this post will be called Part 2.1)

Summer Part One: San Juan Batangas

[Disclaimer: I blogged about this 2 hours ago and then my google chrome decided not to publish it. GDI]

I apologize for not blogging frequently as I promised my self I should. It really is something to dedicate 2-3 hours for a blog post, mostly because my grammar kind of suck and I have a limited vocabulary so I tend to think 4-5 minutes for the correct term. LOL. Anyway, before anything else, allow me to say that-

My Accenture contract has expired last week! I am not quite sure how to deal with this fact- I kind of want but at the same time I don't. Well, everything went by quicker than I could say Holy Guacamole. So now I move on and do something during my down time (?)

Moving on to the post, this is the first of a 4-part series so hold on to your panties ladies!

Wow, Fantastic Baby

Big Bang is back! The Kings are back!

I would love to do a music album review but Gandang Gabi Vice is on so maybe some other time. For now let me post my favorite song in the album. The chorus basically describes me because this whole stress thing just moved on to another higher level and I just want to let loose and dance.

And hey, I really can't wait for their comeback stage next week cause of this video below. Oh sweet geeezas Tabi, I love you:

Hair!

    

Around this time last year, I was convincing myself to get a pixie cut. It took the first quarter of 2011 for me to screw whatever my conscience told me and I finally did it around April. With that hair, it honestly felt like I can do anything- nothing can ruin my plans for that year! (well, I was wrong 'cause everything went the other way...)

So anyway, I don't know what's up with the first quarter of the year that I have this hair dilemma again. Now, I'm thinking of coloring my hair purple....or wait a bit longer and let my hair grow so I can get a digital perm. I'm leaning towards the former, because I haven't done a dramatic (lol) hair color before. On the other hand, I haven't experience getting a perm so that'll be interesting as well.

One thing's for sure though, whatever I choose between the two, I'll definitely getting a pixie hair cut when I get bored with colored/permed hair.

Shake it Out

Ola! I've finally come around doing my blogger and now it's here! I've moved out of wordpress (for now) and back to blogger to practice my css skillz. (My site's not done though, my weakness is footers -_-)

Honestly, I really didn't know if I can pull this off mainly because the template designer is SO different from 6 years ago and I had to research a whole lot to know how this new template designer works. (kudos to Pugly Pixel. Seriously, you have no idea how that girl changed my web design passion) Well, it paid off, I guess. :)

Anyway, Hello! Welcome! From now on, I will vow never to blog about ranting and negativity and all that jazz and just focus on getting my web design groove back on. I've taken the first step, which is to START (really), but that's relatively easy in my book (ok, maybe it took 4 months). The real challenge is to be consistent- this really is something I lack (as evident on, well my life... more on that on the next entries)

Here's to hoping my fatigue and laziness will never hinder me from doing what I love!