in the 'hood

this is my favorite day of the week.  and there it goes...

before the sun set i went outside for a walk and saw our nearby cosmetics shop.  i went inside and checked what they were selling.

apart from inexpensive makeups, they also have avon, but the brands that i would not choose if i am staring at their catalog, bath salts, at-home hair treatments and makeup brushes.  ooh, makeup brushes!

i have been searching for an inexpensive blush brush since my body shop blush brush is now disfigured.     its just 3 years old and barely used.  oh well...

when buying makeup brushes i always choose the ones at the back, coz the front ones were probably touched and rubbed a lot of times by a lot of people to check if its soft or the bristles are rough.  especially in packages that can be opened.  even if i do wash it before use, i still don't want to think that my brush has been contaminated.

this one's soft and cheap.  what a deal!

one more brush i bought is a face brush, which i saw on youtube is a great exfoliating brush.  just apply cleanser on your face and brush gently in circular motion.  its supposed to get rid of whitehead and blackheads.

good luck to me!

next is an eyelid protector when applying your mascara without smudging it on your eyelids.  i was so happy!  i was searching in ebay for something like this and turns out i have it in my neighborhood!?!

the hole in the middle is for your upper lashes, to allow you to put mascara on every single lash without smudging on your eyelids.  the top part is for your lower lashes.  and the bottom is for combing out your lashes afterwards.  

kudos to the one who invented this!

i also bought a nice smelling nail polish remover.  ok first, when my sister bought a nice-smelling nail polish remover before,  it was not so easy to take off your nail polish and it takes a long time for you to finish.  so i went back to acetone-based nail polish remover, which removes np as fast as melting them and keeps the np in the cotton ball and not on your fingers.  this one, however doesn't smell as strong as my normal acetone bottle, just a little.  it also rubs off your np with ease, but with black np i've found out that it drips the np on your fingers and so making your fingers look like a farmer's finger at the end of a long day.

and when i passed by a cold store guess what i found!?!?!?!

wheeee!!!  curly tops! you found me at last!  

i wasn't able to buy much coz i ran out of money but tomorrow for sure i'll buy more!

happiness!

anyways, i did not do anything today, apart from cleaning the room.  it has been decided that laundry and grocery will be done tomorrow coz its bambi's off, so today i just lazed off in the afternoon sun.

in the morning i talked to bambi's mom and she was ok, i saw jared and he was concentrating on staring at another monitor.  he is kind of darker than when i last saw him.  and he was oblibivious to our faces on the screen.

in the afternoon after talking to my brothers and mother in ym i have found out that my mother in law talked to two of my aunties, who lives near their house and she was still saying that i can't go to their house when i go home.  i can't believe that she still hasn't moved on!  my mother and i agreed to let her do what she wants, we'll just let her be.  as far as i know, she has forgiven me already.  if she is still telling people about what happened then that's her deal.  i am shutting my mouth on the subject.

on another subject, my half-sister, rj, is going to celebrate her birthday on the 11th and today my mother and her father had a fight.  he left them, which he usually does for a while to cool off so im sure he'll be back.  that's why i promised rj i'll send something to let them celebrate her birthday.  

my two brothers are still undecided on what to do with their lives.  i told them to stop their illusion that im gonna bring them here because i wont, not without a college degree or a decent job experience.

kristelle, on the other hand, is suffering from migraine for 4 days now.  i am also going to ask the office about her uniform's encashment coz she said she would like to have a CT scan to check if there is something wrong.  i sure hope not, but im really hoping she will realize that excessive fatigue and excessive eating, along with turning on the ac after a long walk, is bad for her health.  she keeps ignoring her body's warning that she is not living healthily.  wake up sis!

curly tops

curls in 20 minutes. dare to believe?

i have been enjoying playing curls with my hair with my new hair straightener and i even wake up 10 minutes earlier to give me enough time to curl my hair in the morning, which is not my usual habit.  i even bring it to the office in the afternoon to curl maricel's hair :D and she loves jml wet straight pro, too!

i will start my salon soon!  support me!  XD

well, yesterday, my usual boring routine was disturbed when i have to go to my boss' chocolate shop again to take pictures.  and i have to pass by the mall to ask for free calendars for his daughter, hear me say 'pity me, i don't know what date is today... do you have a free calendar? :)' haha, no, not really...

i know the time, do you know the date?

im slightly patriotic.  do you have a calendar with philippine holidays?

i got home late and my consolation was that bambi already cooked and i got free chocolates from my boss' high-end shop... yipee, choco goodness! i wonder when i'll be back!

i have reinforcement!  i totaly finished my flat tops chocolate ;(

then, and my boss' daughter noticed that my face was glowing, and she asked me what foundation i use, so i instinctively said benefit and she was already saying 'i love benefit!!!' when i remembered i woke up late that afternoon and just used pond's powder... well, nevermind, it was probably the honey and orange that changed my face this week anyway, coz maricel noticed my face last saturday, too.

but confusion came today, coz my new bare escentuals foundation came in medium tan, i was using medium beige before and some days i think it makes my face lighter than it is. so i checked the swatch on my hand, and it is slightly nearer to my skintone... although looking at it from the sifter's cover, it looks really dark.

i will start using them tomorrow and see if benefit can make me buy a new foundation faker (coz i am finishing my first buy) or ill go back to bare escentuals...

and this is my new nailpolish!  i totally love this!  i can't show you how to make it coz i am way too lazy to take photos of step-by-step instructions but basically i painted my nail pink, then painted a litttle half of them red, and on the line separating the two colors i painted z-like blue.  i then used konad for the white dots on the pink.  it is so rocker cool!

irish will totally love this when she sees it!

want.more.chocolates.

my boss gave me one box of their precious chocolates ($47/kilo, or 27pcs) this week and seriously, im having sore throat from nibbling these, but i cannot stop.  i am addicted :)

all for me!  okay, i gave maricel and irish 2 pieces each... im not that selfish...

chocoholic. and my lips today are no. 3 from my 22k lip palette.

no. 3 closeup... i love that pink shade!

full face.







anyways... during our 3-hour break yesterday i curled my hair a little:

i am that dork who used flash in front of the mirror

and realized that this angle is better...




what else did i realize this week?

• that my new blush smells soooo good.

• that you should always charge your camera.  for the second time i went to our workshop with a dead battery (such a loser!)

• that i have cravings before my period.  super kain.  and after my period i always lose my appetite.  kahit gutom na ko ayoko namang kumain.  i just eat when i think of jared and the future, and i don't want to be sick in the future.

• that bambi's ipod is a retard.  after i fixed it last week it started having tantrums again.  and that stupid loser face shows up in the screen:

• that the more you sleep, the more you'll feel sleepy.  seriously.

• and that i miss my son sooooooooo much... he's walking now, take a look:

jared with bambi's mother

city centre day

eid mubarak!



jalil gave me this chocolate treat coz it was their version of christmas last week. expect me to bloat again hehe.


so since we had three days off, on the third day after the house-cleaning and self-pampering, in the name of shopping, maricel, irish and i went to city centre, the one mall that i can't bring bambi to because it's so damn big that he can't and won't keep up with me.

so, half of my hard-earned part-time job's salary was spent in less than 6 hours, apart from maxing my card out again, which i don't feel bad for because in one week i'll be able to pay for it again.

i was looking for a new blush, new work shoes and lip palette. but as usual, i got the nonessentials and was not able to buy the workshoes. but im so happy with what i got:


VaVaVoom cosmetic bag (freebie), minx blush, 22k lip palette, mikajy lip brush, and sephora mascara and eyeliner (both brown)

i also got a new checkered casual top and a turtle neck from forever 21 but no pix yet until i wear them :)


-and konad mini nailpolish in green and yellow until i use them.

verrry nice cover art for my blush

blush with highlighter close-up:

22k lip palette, the only lip palette in the mall with all my favorite shades

imagine my surprise when i gto home and saw twilight at the back ^^

my new friday ritual essentials:

only bd1 each from va-va-voom!!

here's the new addition inside my happy bag

im so excited to use them all!!!


photo time:

looking for new workshoes

looking for a new blush after sephora

parang pang-ID ko lang hehe

omgomgomg...

hello kitty heaven

huling-huli sa chikahan!

kami na lang ni irish ang natira after 5 hours!

color of the year

im spent.  my legs were aching for two days.

perfume samples. i want to buy moon sparkle! (if ever, my third escada)

*$hoppines$* 

introspects...

today was a milder version of the usual hot and humid august. usual jam-packed morning since we have to squeeze our work into six hours each day... sometimes only four hours for me if i have to go to my boss' new chocolate shop. stay there until 5 or 6. realization no. 1: distraction freezes depression

i tasted that piece of heaven called chocolate cheesecake jam again. this time being caught, hehe... i told her i was thinking of showing the middle part (where i bit) to show what's inside the chocolate when i make the brochures. no more arguments there, she thought i was officially working ^_^. realization no. 2: murphy's law is always in action


so these past few days i've been having nightmares that wakes me up in the middle of the night and squeeze myself into my husband's arms. but i usually forget them in the morning. realization no. 3: fear subsides when you are hugged

i also miss jared most these days. sometimes too emotional it's become oa. i don't want to have moss' aura of constant depression, as in everyday. comfort her today, tomorrow she's still the same. but sometimes i realize i've become like that to bambi, and he has given up the reassurances and the comforting. maybe moss is contagious...

i don't understand why she repeatedly goes back to the part of her that hurts. and i don't like if i will someday be like that. if she is contagious, then i better stay away, a little each day. realization no. 3: you could be influenced by depressed friends


look at my current mood. i found punkmoods again. how touching to have a drawing of how you are feeling on a certain day...

the chocolate wrapper

yesterday instead of going home at 2 because our ramadan timing is only from 8am to 2pm, i went home at 9.

i didn't wander off, not in this heat! bahrain is having it's worst summer yet, not because of the heat but mostly because of the humidity. imagine getting near to a big bonfire and you'll feel how we feel when we go outside.

thankfully 100% of the places here are air-conditioned, you'll only suffer when you go out.

anyways i got home late because for the first time in 6 years i have a part-time job. oh, wait, i had a part time job before, too, in a candy store. hmm, and now in a chocolate store? i might have a calling in the sweets business (*wink wink*)

my boss's wife is starting a chocolate shop and as part of the build-up team i also got to wrap the chocolates which are heavenly. and who loves chocolates more than me? omg, it's like going to chocoheaven. just going inside the chiller room which smells of chocolate to select which ones to wrap makes me smile..

and after designing them i couldn't help but giggle in delight because they're so cute!!! who would eat these after all the wrappings?



luc, the choco-wrapping master, was with me, and she is a pro! i love her designs!!!

the shop is supposed to open on the 1st of september but it's still empty:



the chocolates came from lebanon early this week, the accessories came from dubai and the furnitures will come from china. they are suppose to arrive tomorrow. so there's too much to do!

maybe that's why madam is stressed.

not me, i love designing, what more if there are chocolates in my hands!!! i tasted one and i sighed... i have never tasted a chocolate like that! that was the best ever. i think there are sweet jams and cheesecake and crunchy sweet things inside and they all melt in your mouth... such pure happiness...

that's why even if i went home at 9 i was still hyper... see the evidence: (i love my hair btw)



and i was still able to cook a mean adobo... which was already devoured when i remembered to take a picture.



a quick tip from my sister, she said when you add the vinegar - don't stir yet. just let it simmer for a little while and your adobo will be magically sweet!



fast forward to today, it was pretty much the same sched, escept that luc was not there. i was with nina, who howeebwee wraps chocolate... we decided to go home at 5 and i was able to catch bambi at home! his sched is from 7pm to 1:30 in the early morning, so basically he's free the whole day. imagine that...



addie: a cute house by a'ali... imagine jared playing in the yard. i missed him so much when i saw this!


oh, this is my face today. my eyes are sparkling in chocolate excitement!!!