{ Tooooot!!! }

I won the Jen Caputo Logo Contest! Out of 35 people who joined the contest and over 100 designs submitted, Jen picked 7 of her favorites and 5 of them are mine! Many from the digi community praised my work and for that I can say that it boost my energy to create more digitally, at least I now confident that I could do more the digi-way...my passion.

By the way, I got this book today...I haven't opened the book cover yet but I hope it's a good buy.

{ wedding update }

i believe that almost 80% of the wedding preps were DONE..but sometimes, i think that we have a still long way to go. anyhow, these is the list of our booked wedding suppliers as of today:

1. CHURCH: St. Peter the Apostle (Quirino Ave., Manila)
2. RECEPTION: Baluarte de San Diego (Intramuros, Manila)
3. HOTEL: CENTURY PARK (Pablo Ocampo, Manila)
4. CATERER: Henry's Catering
5. FLORIST: April & Karen Yu
6. PHOTO: Mimi & Karl
7. VIDEO: Buddy Gancenia
8. HAIR & MAKE-UP: Jasmine Mendiola
9. INVITATIONS etc.: PRINTED MATTER

{ look what i've got }

nothing else but my new toy...

i got it in a very nice deal with lot of freebies included like the tripod, camera bag and of course, the Kingston 1GB CF memory card.

i'm still on the process of figuring out every features it has...soon, i hope i could take much better photos. though i already have my wonderful toy now, surely, i'll sill won't forget arie's point & shoot canon IXUs 700 to be along with me on times that I can't bring along my baby toy.

see my scrapbook layout to witness how i enjoy using my new cam.

another thing why enjoy my world digitally right now is because of WACOM's wonder...the INTUOS tablet I recently had. Designing is far too different from an optical mouse coz my hand could freely move like using a paper and a pen. woohoo! digi rocks!

{ 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!

{ having a bad day }

~ i had a bad day, the camera don't lie ~

the moment i arrive the office today, bee chew (the agent's sister/staff) called me up to inform that arie didn't pass the interview for a "very demanding" job with stanchart. yes, that means he's still not goin' here with me. my only hope is that edmund (the agent) could still get him in there, or better yet find another bank where he could get into...i'm still with high hopes though but i don't expect too much.

anyway, i'm sooo excited to go back (again?) in the philippines. i'm already not in the working mood everyday at the office and wanna go back. sigh, still two days to go...

ok, i'm off here for now. i wanna start a new layout but i'm not in the mood. oh gosh! i almost forget that i need to transfer my things up to the master's bedroom and start to sleep there before the weekend. bye!

{ 05-26-06 }

***blinkie winkie***
i've just finished creating my blinkie. i'll be officially using it starting today as my siggy especially on digi-scrapping sites until i come up with a new design...i bet i might be using it just for a couple of days...LOL

***hectic***
for the past 10 months, i've never been this busy at the office. it's ok, i don't complain...

***yummy lunch***
my fellows and I ate at manhattan fish market this afternoon...so yummy! actually, it's my first time to eat there and definitely not the last...it's a $7 lunch yet we came out the resto so full & satisfied, not bad!

***saturday & sunday***
here we go again with boring weekends, nothing lined up to do...no movies, no malling...hope not to be tempted to watch x-men coz i want to see the movie when i go back to manila...so, am here just planning to stay home the rest of the weekends ...hopefully i could make new scrap layouts

***new bag***
lacoste and samsonite bags are on sale again in singapore...thanks i have lots of friends in there and i've availed 2 bags again...so excited to see them now but have to wait 'til tomorrow...

***digi kits***
i'm very much tempted to buy scrapbook stuffs...hmmm, let me think how much i'm willing to spend...where to buy? i'm currently eyeing at least 3 shops...what to buy? that would be a great headache...