040: Brain Drain

For the past three days I’ve been struggling with coming up with a proper detailed outline of Baroque Art and Architecture for my history class. Although I have lots of resources in the form of books, old notes, and the wonderful Internets, it’s one of the periods of Western history that I never really understood. Sure, it’s over-the-top ornamented, and it’s time period is generally 17th to mid-18th century, but what about regional differences? How do I differentiate it from Renaissance and Rococo, which precede and succeed Baroque, respectively. Sometimes there is clear delineation in the styles, but often there is none.

My brain is squeezed dry and put in a blender.

039: Orange You Glad?

There was a time when I was sorta obsessed with the Orange-Brown combination. That’s when I bought my belt which was orange on one side and brown on the other. The top which was sent by my cousins in the US was orange and beige, and I made some accessories of the same colors during the time, too (forgot to wear them here). That faded, and is now replaced with other favorite color combos. Recently, though, I’ve been given this red-orange handbag and a pair of sandals of almost the same color (by different people at different occasions). I wouldn’t pick out these items by myself, but now that I have them, I kinda like ‘em!

What colors should I pair with these? Ideas are absolutely welcome!

Struggling with the creaking orange chair. The shutter snapped before I could get a proper position

038: Channeling Klassen

In preparation for a report I’m supposed to be doing next week, I took out all my history books and some of my old notes. One of these is History of Western Architecture by Winand Klassen. I like how informative this is and is easy to read. Besides, it’s not like I have many other choices. This book was only a gift and I never bought the so-called “bible” of Archi history (Sir Banister Fletcher) because I was kuripot.

The trouble now is trying to be concentrated enough to read because the heat is really not conducive for work at all.

037: Flush Photography

Um, so yeah. Haha.. This was the only opportunity I had last night to take a selfie. We (along with my aunts and female cousins) treated my cousin’s Japanese wife-to-be to dinner and a little bridal shower. She’s actually my cousin’s wife already since got married legally in Singapore. But next week they’ll be having their church wedding here, and the Japanese relatives are coming!

The geisha top was not chosen because of the Japanese thingy, btw. It was the only sorta dressy blouse I had that matched beautifully with my plum skirt and allowed me to overeat without showing any belly. LOL

Taken at the washroom of Abé at Serendra

036: Come on Down

This is my Rockstar shirt. I love my rockstar shirt. It’s so…… rockstar. LOL

035: Heroes in a Half Shell

Okay, so sometimes I can be totally ridiculous. I’ve been carrying my laptop around all day in this ultra-padded bag with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme running in my head. Funny thing is, in my history class we were discussing the Renaissance period so obviously the names Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael were mentioned.

When I got home I knew I had to do something related to that. I didn’t have a mask, so I got one of my crocheted headbands and made an eyepatch out of it. Of course I needed a weapon, so I took out a broken golf umbrella. Thus, the 6th ninja turtle is born (the 5th being Amorsolo, the Pinoy ninja turtle LOL)………..

034: Through the Looking-Glass

Through the looking glass where everything is backwards of what is, I’d probably be wearing one of those five-inchers behind me.

THANK GOD I’M ON THIS SIDE

“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”

-”Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There” by Lewis Caroll

033: OMGWTFBBQ!

Beach House! I knew I had to have a “proper” lunch today to keep my strength up because I’m still sick. Last week my lunch consisted of cheese sandwiches, or instant noodles and iced coffee. Not much nutrition in that. So today I had a real rice-and-viand lunch. The nearest good place to eat was Beach house (thanks to suburbandude’s suggestion), so that’s where I went. Good thing I was there a bit early so there weren’t as many people yet. Around noon it gets quite crowded and the line to the counter gets really long.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t eat ice cream afterwards.

Next time na lang, manong.

032: My Medicine

First day of the so-called “Love Month” and I’m down with a cold. I had been restless all morning and afternoon, likely because of my sickness, but more likely because I haven’t emailed my boyfriend yet. I do text him a lot, but he rarely responds because the charges on his phone is a lot more than mine. So email and IM chat are our primary communication channels since they’re practically free.

I felt a lot better after going online.

Lovesick, perhaps? I just miss him a lot.

031: Put your feet up

What a day! My mom and I went to SM North to find shoes for her to use on cousin’s wedding. Little did we know that there was a 3-day sale going on! Waaaah despite the perks of lots of discounted items, there’s the multitudes of humans shopping and milling around. There’s also the long, long lines at the washrooms. We had trouble finding a perfect pair of sandals with the perfect color, height and style. Plus, I lost our parking ticket (which I thankfully got back). So when I got home I rested my feet a bit before going on to watch the amazing Roger Federer win the Australian Open once again.

I did have a lot of fun, though, despite all the tiring hassles and aching legs. I have fun looking at the shoe styles and fitting those outlandish designs and sky-high heels just for the heck of it. Here’s the craziest one I tried on: faux alligator skin multicolored patent leather on 5-inch heels!