I’m thinking of what to give my cousin as a belated Christmas gift. She is in the US that’s why I haven’t given her a gift yet. Better late than never, right? Anyway, I’m thinking I’d let her choose from Zenni Optical’s huge selection of Holiday frames and surprise her with what she’ll choose. They have a huge wonderful variety to choose from and I’m sure she’d love at least one from their selection. I love this one in particular and I’m pretty sure she’d love this too, we have almost the same style:

I remember on her last visit here in the Philippines about a couple of years ago, she ordered her prescription glasses here because she thought it was much cheaper here. Well, she actually bought the frame from the US and then brought it here and ordered her lenses here. Looks like she’s not familiar with Zenni Optical or else she would have ordered her glasses from there. And I’m going to tell her about it, I’m sure she’ll be glad to hear about it for they have high quality eyeglasses with very reasonable prices.

I finally finished listening to the Twilight Saga’s audiobooks and I loved it! I am actually glad I watched the movie first before reading the books because if not, then the movie would have been a huge disappointment. As always, the books are better than the movie but I’ll still be waiting for the release of the movies to complete the saga.

Watching the movie actually helped my imagination while I listened to the audiobooks. I had to watch the movie again because it kinda confused me which parts were actually in the movie. Haha! And it made me love audiobooks so I’m now looking forward for more.

I have so much to blog but don’t know exactly where to start. I’m still on holiday mode. Haha! All I can say right now is December 2008 was a very expensive month for me… that is why I don’t like going to malls. But it’s okay, it was worth it. I enjoyed it. Just bear with me, I would post about stuff in the next few days. TTFN!

Yesterday, my nephew and I practiced cooking for Christmas day. We’ll help prepare our Christmas day food by making Char Kway Teow and Cheesecake. Anyway, while I was browsing the net for recipes, I came across this no-knead bread recipe and it reminded me that we have a bread maker. I told my nephew about it and he didn’t believe me. So, we asked my mom she asked ask to help look for it. While searching, we found our hot air popcorn machine! I missed that one! I think I asked before where it was and they didn’t know. Now we can make popcorn anytime we want without any hassle! And it’ll be perfect this Christmas vacation since my nephew and I are planning to watch a LOT of movies on my dad’s new home theater furniture and TV! Yay!

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a junk art artist? I’ve always been fascinated by those who could create something that’s three-dimensional, and those who could create something who could create something from junk or objects that’s just lying around, from nuts and bolts to ball lock pins. Take a look at this one for example:

It’s a junk yard fish created by Joe Pogan using various found metal objects. Amazing isn’t it?

I was browsing Etsy earlier today, looking for wedding gift ideas for my friends and lookie at what I saw:

Haha! I mean, who would want a faucet on their jewelries? No offense, I’m sure there are others out there who might like it but not me. Not that I think it looks silly but I just don’t know what it is for. I always think of those charms as something that you really, really like or something that you can relate to or something that symbolizes something.

If somebody tells me to buy a handheld a couple of years ago, I would just laugh at him and tell him I didn’t need one. For me, that time, handhelds are for executives or someone who’s got a really busy schedule and I didn’t. My life before is just office, home and then Anilao on weekends. But now I want one! Take note… not need but want! Haha! I just realized I need it for reading purposes when traveling. Books are bulky and I need all the space I need when packing my stuff when I go on trips.

I envy my friend… she called me today and told me she and her friend are scouting for snowmobile exhaust accessories. I’m envious because I want experience snow, especially the in the Himalayas. I’m thinking that if I’m going to dream of snow then I’d better dream big. Haha! I’ve always wanted to go the base camp of Everest, it’s one of my greatest dreams as a mountaineer.

Anyway, notice how the weather changes so fast? Seems like December is getting colder every year. Do you think it’s possible that someday soon we’re going to have snow here in the Philippines too?

A few weeks ago, the bebot twitters were talking about mineral makeups and we found a couple of sites that offer free samples, one of them is local, Ellana Mineral Cosmetics. So, I filled up their form and waited for their email. I was pretty excited when I got their email, asking me to deposit P50 for the the shipping fee. So, I bothered my mom and asked her to deposit the money to the bank and here’s what I got in the mail today:

I had to laugh when I opened the package and saw what’s inside. I hope they’re not expecting people to fall in love with their products with this much sample. Those ziplocks are about 2 inches big each. I was expecting at least small tubs of each, or even a small tub of at least one of the samples, or at least they could put in a more presentable sachets. Oh well, there’s money I’m never gonna see again.

But I’m going to give them a try. I trust Kathy when she said that the Make-Up Primer, Lip Scrub and Lip Treatments are good. I also want to try their cheek tint. We’ll see…

Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. I’m gonna go now and compare prices of computer memory for my pc.

I have a new blog… well, it’s actually not so new but reformatted it and made it into a new movie blog. I have at least 700 movies in my collection and it’s still growing so I’ve decided to give it more focus and create a separate blog about it. It’s not going to be about movie reviews, well maybe just a little, it’s going to be more like how the movie affects me or what I liked or dislike in it or how I could relate to it. I only have a couple of posts there but I’m working on it now. If you wanna see it, click here.