{ back in the world of reality }

After 9 days of my vacation in the Philippines, I'm now back to my current real world. No choice but to stay just thinking that this is the best for me and my future family.

I'm happy anyway, spending my 9 days with my family and Arie. Though it is a stressful stay since I'm taking care of every detail for my wedding this december. I met some of my prospect suppliers and actually booked some of them already. One of them is Jasmine Mendiola, my hair & makeup artist. I admit that Jasmine was on my shortlist of makeup artist but she's not on top of the list. It just so happened that all those MUA with good reviews at W@W were already booked on my wedding day. I haven't met Jazz personally, but I've seen her portfolios over her blogsite and I'm ready to give my 100% trust on her.

Can't wait to show you the save-the-dates I made for my VIPs. This are my designs inspired by different STDs over the internet acquired from my years of research on having a wedding that I truly wanted.

Oh, I forgot! I think I might be giving away fans too...but still thinking about it since it costs 120@. Aren't they nice?

Credits: recolored floral paper from Shabby Princess

I'm proud of my designs! My printer, Printed Matter praised my designs and the owner Phoebe even asked me if they could display my designs in their shop. Why not? Who am I to decline such great pride and honor? Oh, Phoebe! If you're only needing a freelance graphic artist, I'm very much willing to apply...hahaha

I'm torn between two florist...April & Karen Yu or Teddy Manuel...I love both of them and eversince I started planning out this wedding both of them are the only ones on my very shortlist. But now, I dunno who would I be getting.

P.S. Something wonderful happened to my life last July 21, Friday. Still, only few people now know about it but everyone will eventually know...and I'm ready to shout about it to the whole world...soon!

{ complaining but feeling guilty too }

an engineer from our broadband provider went to our condo this afternoon to find out what's really wrong with our slow connection coz i've been complaining for a week already, to be exact. i feel all the guilt right now coz i realized that i wasn't so nice to him, i even shouted on him once while i explain...he can't blame me anyway coz i've been so disappointed with the very slow connection we've been experiencing for the past week. and it's so ridiculous to be paying a broadband while our connection is worse than a dial-up.

i've been complaining everyday, i felt no action is being made. i even talked to the customer service manager today to escalate the problem myself. they always tell me that everything seems to be fine...what? am i lying about your slow connection? you're giving us a different broadband rate compared to the previous ones we had since we started subscribing last december. please stop telling me that maybe i've been downloading large files that might be causing the slowdown. i just wanted to point out that you should adapt to the needs of your client and you cannot blame us for using P2P applications, video streaming etc....hello?! i didn't subscribe a broadband internet to check my emails nor chat via yahoo.

{ my birthday month }

i didn't notice that i haven't blogged for a very long time. forgive me, but my attention was grabbed by other things.

:: designing ::
well, i've been very busy doing some stuff that i really want. it's for a designer call in a certain scrapbook shop last june. in a week, i spent almost the same hours i've been in the office to create and create digital designs. i knew that i would be shooting for the stars but there's no harm on trying. my lack of experience as a designer that sells her stuff could surely be my downfall but who knows whether they would consider some newbie that all that could offer is her passion. (sigh!) guess what? i didn't make it! not because my designs are not good but...i didn't realize that the positions were all filled up...stupid me! well, at least, should there be another designer call, i'm ready for my portfolio and ready to go!

:: 6 months to go ::
there are still a lot of things i need to attend to for our wedding. i'll be going back again to the philippines in order to possibly take care of those things myself.

:: 27 ::
july 18, 1979, the date i was born...now, it's 2006, i'll be turning 27 soon! i still don't feel inside that i'm an achiever but i know that i'll be having better years ahead of me. god is good!