Roaring Twenties

Champagne, champagne!

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I succumbed to wearing a simple LBD! 

...but made sure to wear party lashes on.

EEEs 

Happy birthday, Robin!

with the girls

With the bday girl Holly. It's been a month since she's arrived from San Fo but I only got to see her yesterday!

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Nini's shepherd's pie

Robin the burger thief

Truffled mac'n'cheese. The best.

Alecsandra, my mini-me!

iPhone addict

wine for me + Heineken for Riz

bought crazy bands with Riz and I chose the "rocker" bands :))

My caprese salad was tastyyyy.

tito Bing's grilled Caesar salad

ham & cheese sammich

The biscotti is reallyyyy good.

Mum brought home this cake made out of traditional tsokolate from Cebu. It's the Filipino version of a mud pie and it tasted just right- not too sweet.

Woke up to this! Received the certificate to my patent for my modular chair/furniture series made by rotational molding. At last!!!

my dad is the sweetest!!! And we share the same birthday!

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After arriving from our batch teambuilding at Laguna, Nini and I rushed to 2nd's at High Street to attend Church Simplified. I also had a table reserved for a small dinner with the family after church. My mum and brother were supposedly arriving in time for dinner, but their flight got delayed for 2 hours so we had no choice but to start without them (sadness).

The food at 2nd's did not disappoint and the kids loved their burgers and mac'n'cheese. The atmosphere is always nice and I love that we get to spend our Sundays with our CS mates there, too. Apparently they're not officially open yet- they're just slowly spreading the word through friends and tweets so there's no huge sign outside the place. There's a small one but it can't be spotted if you're just a passerby- the sign says 2nd's and it's where the old Mag:Net used to be... Oh and btw, it's called 2nd's just cos the owners all have day jobs, and their 2nd one's being restaurateurs. Oh and that "back for 2nd's" line applies to this place, too.

My birthday was great!!! And nothing can ever beat the feeling of getting the leadership award PLUS my first-ever patent on the same weekend. A very positive start for me! I'm looking forward to that official acceptance letter to the Filipino Inventors Society. The geek in me always seems to find ways to kick my artsy side's behind. Which is never a problem, I think. But these two should be partners.

Couldn't have done it without the help of my dad. Without him, 2 years [of working on the patent] would've been 4 or more, and the Php 2,500 fee of trying to apply for the patent would've cost me Php 80,000. It's probably an advantage that our company always goes through this process whenever a new product is made. Hooray for royalties indeed!

GAHH the next invention is on its way!

♥

Cold night out//Sammi's 21st

Sam celebrated her 21st birthday last Friday at Members Only

By the end of the night, I think I convinced her to follow my "no smiles-just stare into the cam" trademark look :))

See, this was us at the beginning of the night

Erika, Ianna and Pia

First thing I remembered about Sam when I met her in CSB (2007) was her coooool tattoo. And Issa told me that tattoos on feet hurt A LOT. I said to myself "woah, badass girl." :))

Their crew, missing "the silencer" :))

She has a white iPhone but it hasn't been unlocked, so she's using her BB for now... She also wants to replace her Canon with a GF1 but she tried carrying mine and said it was heavy as well. So.....

Paolo arrived and was silent with his BB for a while...

Pao's kicks

Justin getting hugs from Ivor

Pao is a cake murderer!!! Caught in the act :))

This thin cover-up did not help at all... All night I was wishing I had brought a leather jacket with me since I was freezing. Stayed in one corner with P while taking photos and watching people go craycray :))

Pia's booties from F21

There was a really entertaining crying sesh thanks to Rica and Ivor.

Will had these cool thrifted boots on

Super fun night

It's been a while since I've partied with friends (okay fine, I've cheated on some days by dropping by and staying for a few minutes) and I can say that I'm SO not used to the clubs anymore. One look at the girls and I was able to realize that I haven't been shopping for quite a while, too. I miss wearing dresses and heels!

Pia and I ended up just sitting in one corner, laughing and conversing from our spot. But that was also mainly because it was so freakin' cold. The entire night, I was wishing my thin cover-up was a thick leather jacket, and that I had worn thick jeans as well. Even some of the guys ended up on the couch with us just to evade the AC breeze.

But even if this was the case, I had a blast just taking photos, chatting with friends and looking at people getting affected by the..al... merriment. We stayed for a couple of hours before deciding to head home since we were tired from days of staying til the wee hours of the morning at our friend Tisha's place working on our condo scale model, aside from doing our own plates and attending classes for finals. I was just lucky that Riz and I didn't have any gigs for the entire week... But that's about to change this week. More deadlines (thesis, plates) and final exams. I'm not complaining anymore since this is becoming a pattern and I just really CAN'T WAIT to see my family and friends over the holidays!!!

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These were the shoes I wore:

My new Topshop Wisteria wedges finally arrived!

As you all know, I haven't been shopping for quite a while now thanks to school (I'm only last 4 terms, including my exhibiting term) so I was the last to know when these wedges arrived in our local Topshop stores. I had no other option but to buy the ones in the color that I wanted through an E-bay seller. It cost me more than the original price, but I was fine with it... Until customs decided to charge me Php 3,800+ when they arrived here. I went loca and decided not to claim them til I earned money... Thankfully a shoot I did made me earn some money and decided that I was going to try to beg them to lower the charges when I had the time to head there early in the morning...

On the same day that I decided to visit the post office (our professor told us that he was going to be absent), my driver told me that my tito had already paid for it, and that THEY LOWERED DOWN THE "TAXES" TO PHP 500!!!!!

Wow, all my tito had to do was sweet talk the post office attendant... In Filipino we refer to it as pakiusap. They were saying how they weren't going to have a Christmas party, nor a Christmas bonus, so my tito said that he could keep the Php 500 after telling him that his niece (me) was already having problems of how to pay them the original fee of Php 3,800+.

I seriously can't understand the whole system at customs now... And I can't believe I was willing to pay the original amount since I thought they were strict because of the new administration and the laws they were implementing.

BUT OH WELL... Enough of this. I'm happy I have new shoes!

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