HAPPY NEW YEAR!
HAPPY 2012!
Well, we all hope that this year would be a good one, a great and superb one.
As for me, I wish the same but with a little something extra (by extra I mean big deal!)
I want to have a clear path, an enlightened and decisive mind and a courageous heart as to where my career is heading. For now, I still consider myself lost and of no clear directions so far.
More than that, there is nothing I would want more than LONG LIFE, GOOD HEALTH, PROTECTION AND HEALING, of course HAPPINESS for my family and loved ones. Nothing more than that could matter more to me -- a self confessed sensitive family member. LOL! :)
Well,I hope this year could be a lot better than 2011 was ;)
I have my fingers crossed on this and Dear Lord I hope you bless these wishes, hopes, prayers and aspirations to reality as you please :)
How did our new year celebration go?
HAPPY. I was laughing and I enjoyed the fact that despite firecracker bans in our city, the new year merriment was still a loud one with a multitude of firecrackers.
Talk about a quiet new year that even the oldies would hate. I personally (& I say this in a non-offensive way) think that officials pro on the firecracker ban are a little bit KJ. haha ;p. Firecracker accidents are a result of malfunctions, individual carelessness, pride and hard headedness anyway.
Nothing beats celebrating the holidays with your family :) :)
disappointment?
--Well I kinda wanted new shoes for the holidays. I was so excited to have new POSHIES for Christmas so I ordered. I patiently waited for order confirmations but none came. I still kept my hopes up since the first transaction I had with posh pocket shoes was good and the shoe quality was well, superb!. I waited, resent my orders and texted but still, no confirmations came. SAD. I was wishing to open their holiday gift box on Christmas eve and planning to wear the shoes while welcoming the new year but to no avail, my plan did not actualize even if I sent my orders early on and repeated them with high hopes. Gawd disappointment. I still would want their products though. Product quality comes a long way talaga and it is what keeps clients pursuing despite some rough patches with the service. Upholding some optimism, I shall try to order again with a happy face. haha.
DECEMBER WAS SUCH A MONTH OF BLISS AND IT WAS CAPPED OFF WITH THE MOST ANTICIPATED AND CELEBRATED FAMILY AND FAITH HOLIDAY! :)
the thing I really wanted to rant about was Brahm's lullaby and Pasta. well what about them you may ask--nothing really but some crazy pop up ideas and unexpected thought turnovers that occurred to me while I was at some place or while I was doing other stuff, completely and partially unrelated and related--in some sense. :)
* Brahms Lullaby
--- Rijel Andrei J. Sotalbo gave me this player where preinstalled (by him) tracks were present. I came across this lullaby introduction to an upbeat Christmas Song while I was skimming through a one-early-morning-sitting-in-the-couch moment. Once it reached my ears, this sleepy feeling came over me and really silly (I know) but that is the only moment I realized that the song does really calm you down to sleep. I initially (for quite a long period of time) thought that it was just well advertised, overrated and a product of media mind-conditioning tactics :) hehe.
I love the lullaby now. It has eased the unsure insomniac in me. :)
* Pasta.
--- Well I love pasta. I love eating pasta and I love tasting and discovering new ones or different versions of classic ones on different pasta places! I love making pasta too. My love for making (by making, I mean cooking) pasta was preceded though by my fascination on eating them.
--- Yesterday afternoon, I ate pasta at one of the local places in Baguio City, CUCININO @ Porta Vaga Mall. I consider me and my friends a regular there since we love the place and we kept coming back. It has a chic, adorable and classy overall feel with affordable foods and beverages. And this thought hit me (not in a total conscious way since I was preoccupied with something else at that moment) that I should have my own, individual PASTA CHALLENGE. Not an eating challenge but a cooking challenge. I would have no opponents since this self challenge is just an i-dont-know-but-its-kinda-exciting thing to do. I will aim to cook different pasta sauces, and post those creations here, in my "speck of dust" blog. In the end, I would also aim to make my own pasta, from scratch! I am excited and I feel giddy even if I know doing this is just for my own delight. I pledge to make this pasta challenge happen!
oh and yeah, I haven't told anybody about this yet-- I just blogged about it.haha. It would be a tiny little secret confined in this tiny space. haha :)
--- Of course I thought about expenses. I would just try to fit the ingredients in a budget and do my best to avoid failing as what I make could land on our dinner table too. :) sponsors are welcome! haha. Will think of a list of to-do pastas in the coming days :). Wish me luck! :)
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Will update on my self-set blog backlog and will do posts on Christmas, New Year, Gifts, Manila Trip and some random memories, all for the sake of my cyber diary.haha ;p
Cheers!,
