it's a struggle
Done with the bulk of thesis writing and currently just waiting to be called by the thesis adviser at the Silliman University English Department/Faculty. It's quite a relief, yes, but I can't shake the feeling off that I have a lot of things I need to fix on it before I can present it on pre-orals schedule - I have yet to make with the grad school - next week. Next week is the last week of completion for school stuff for non-graduating students and I am a graduating students so...hi more stress in life. I'm not joining the March graduation, really. I'm quite content already seeing my status change into 'graduated.' Other than that...I'll spend an extra week here trying to get my book for the thesis really finalized before going home.
As to what's next...I'll most likely be looking for a job. There's really not much else to do afterwards. It's either I get it from the local Ateneo back home...or I can look for a private grade school where I can practice Special Education so I can realize, bit by bit, my dream of moving to Australia in 2 or 3 years' time. It's just...I think it will be difficult for me to look for a good agency to help me do this as I'm not going to be in a larger, more advanced metropolis like Cebu City but we'll see. I actually want to get a job that can help me do this and also, help me work on some of my personal projects on the side. That has always been the plan anyway. I also want to get my own place soon so I don't have to stay with my parents all the time I'm working.
....and considering this is an update of life of some sort and I'm due to be sleeping around 15 to 30 minutes from now, here are the highlights of the crazy things going on with me and my head. There's really not much that accompanies me everywhere but my head so...LOL.
First Things First, On the Subject of Personal Style
It seems like not a day goes by that I don't really think about this. I seem to be a lifelong lover of clothes and style...well, fashion, but I have a different way, probably a more distinct way of showing, establishing and exploring my own personal style. For one, I'm the kind who's always going through phases but I just wait on them to pass unless I really am fixated on a specific thing - because by then, I would really have to get that something. I got to think about this again because of a post I came across in on whowhatwear on how to establish one's own personal style. They presented 9 points on how to establish one's own personal style. Some of the points, I agreed with, others...not so much.
I still would maintain that going to thrift stores may help one establish her/his personal style. So does shopping everywhere or at least, maybe, window shopping everywhere...online and offline...and even when travelling.
(photo from fashiontoast)
Aside from the peek I had at the local thrift store today that never seems to...well...lower their prices as they are supposed to do a couple of weeks or so after they'd had new arrivals - annoying, yes it is - and the window shopping online on Forever21 and UrbanOutfitters I did last Saturday for stress relief purposes while trying to finish the bulk of my MA thesis to turnover to my thesis adviser, I find myself currently prefering everything loose, laidback and luxe. It's either a loose shirt or tank and a pair of boxers or some similar comfy shorts or some satiny, silky nightwear. I'm currently piling up on a ton of slipdresses, to be honest.
My unitown wardrobe here in Dumaguete City contains two of these I couldn't resis getting from thrift stores here. I'm bound to find more but I haven't been going out much except to pay for bills and stuff. I'll probably drop by that one favorite thrift store I have, Ally Mae, that can get quite expensive but their nightwear section is often always to die for. It's also the more affordable part of said store. LOL.
I'm a huge fan now of nightwear because they're comfy as heaven. I might've even succeeded on wearing a slipdress to dinner with myself in The Rollin' Pin one night last week, too. I've also worn the other red wine slipdress to dinner with some friends in Gabby's Bistro. The thing with slipdresses is, you just have to wear some sort of blazer or even a cardigan over them and you're good to go! I like the convenience they give that's really versatile - you can wear them at home for lounging around and later take it out to dinner dates with yourself, a boyfriend or friends. I find that nightwear are drama free they're currently becoming more and more an obsession I'm nursing. I don't mind though.
I'm not sure yet how receptive my mother will be with this huge change in style. She's too conservative, still, even when she's loosened up a bit.
I'm also looking forward to wearing these things to the beach this summer. I might probably pack a backpack or so of the comfiest nightwear should I and the girls from back home realize our plans to drive ourselves to the beach (because I would even if I were such a poor driver, LOL). And yes, I'll update the personal style and lifestyle blog from there. This summer will be quite eventful, I think.
Yep, the Ally Mae thrift store it is when I have time to do that this week for more nightwear stuff. I was lucky to find my second slipdress at just 35 Php (3 for 100 Php) at their branch right beside the first McDonalds' around here. That place was my favorite haunt for everything vintage designer.
Health and Beauty, But Mostly Beauty
(my photos)
I limbo around pescetarianism and flexitarianism where diet and health is concerned but I'm definitely getting down for drinking non-dairy milk, eating everything brown or red and whole wheat and even to the point of changing my usual rice with mashed potatoes while out dining with friends or with just myself. At this moment, I have an ongoing obsession with the tuna pesto salad at the local The Rollin' Pin and am currently contemplating going back to Gabby's Bistro for their salad with the honey-mustard dressing. I'm not all too sure about life at all at the moment. LOL. I also do have an ongoing obsession with the food offered at the new Local Organic Cafe that's quickly becoming my favorite place to crash with friends or without. I'll probably blog about those soon as I'm freer as well but really happy that I'm not restricted to just the vegetarian pizza and pescetarian choices at my usual Dumaguete City haunts. Things were getting dull in terms of eating and drinking around here with just Nevas to choose from. Considering my current state of food and drink choices - flexitarianism in particular - you can easily assume I still eat some meat and bird (chicken) once in a while but mostly on very rare occasions now. I still avoid pork like a plague except maybe that one time I just had to eat the bacon a close friend's boyfriend made in school. Oops. Likely, I'm still stuck in flexitarian->pescetarian transition hell and the odds of going vegan...slim considering there are very little vegan choices around here which pretty much sucks.
When not invited to anything, dinner or whatever, I just cook for a friend and I...and this is where entirely pescetarian stuff go down that borderline cross vegan because I prefer those than eating the usual meat stuff. It's not really helping my food budget monthly when there's the farmers' market/tabu-an market a stone's throw away from the pad or room I'm currently considering my abode while here. Also the fact that I keep wandering around the organic section on some Thursdays and Fridays late afternoons. I recently discovered they have arugula apart from the fact they already carry kale which I've been abusing for the past two weeks...
(my photo)
Beauty...I'm still the usual foundation-eye liner-mascara-lip balm girl but with a quirk: I currently have an ongoing fixation with Human Heart Nature's cream lipstick in Coral Charm. The nude color it offers is something I couldn't resist. I also want to pick up more nude stuff from Maybelline or some other make-up line but I'll table that for when I can have enough money to spend on them. I maybe will get something red for the lips some other time too but I'm too lazy to put anything like those on as I prefer a more naked look but also the not too bare type either.
....and on beauty number 2: Sometimes, around the last couple of weeks, I'd fall asleep in bed with make-up and all on. It's dangerous and harmful for the skin, I know but as a normal human being - and I'm pretty sure this happens to most of us girls - I'm flawed and I just really feel lazy at times to remove anything from my face especially when really exhausted. When that happens, I just make sure to wake up really early the next day: say maybe 4 in the morning or 5 just to take an early bath and correct the mistake of last night. I'd remove make-up by then but probably only to put in new one for the rest of the day. LOL.
Since I'm huge on natural products to use on my skin and everywhere else, I'm still going for everything homemade. I just got lazy to make my usual toothpaste these days and I haven't really purchased any minty essential oil from my usual haunts for these things that I've reverted to getting a huge tube of Colgate. The regular one. I might be getting my eucalyptus essential oil from Human Heart Nature sometime this week though so we'll see what we can do about that next week. I usually get the peppermint one from Casa di Lorenzo but I didn't feel like ordering stuff from a separate store this time so HHN it is. Everything else is as organic as Human Heart Nature can get however. I am apparently a perpetual HHN stan.
And no, I doubt you'd want to see what comprise my closet and my dresser...thing. They're all but...dull and completely sane and normal. I'm not at all sure how to describe them at the moment. I'll try to put up a photo of it maybe later when I've fixed things around here and especially back home... All I know right now is I'm hoarding HHN stuff for future use...I dunno much either beyond that.
Have I added anything in my beauty arsenal aside from the tube of lipstick? I'm not sure. I'm looking forward to getting a new mascara tube off of Maybelline and probably a color tattoo or two in nude and in silver/white...and one in black/charcoal. I'm also probably going to later shift to using the liquid eye liners. I have no access to anything like it other than Maybelline here so I'm perpetually a blind bat regarding that. Lastly, I might also shift to getting liquid foundations because the cake ones don't seem to work much on covering skin blemishes. I don't have immaculate skin though I certainly wish I do but it seems that my HHN regimen I usually go for every day and night seems to be correcting that so...yay~
The Only Crazy Thing Around Here is Fandom
EBiDAN: Choutokkyuu, PrizmaX
AVEX: Da-iCE, Vimclip
from whatever obscurity they come from: White Jam.
and for the western contender/s: Tove Lo.
Those are probably my only remaining fandom at this time. I'm not even spazzing on Kamen Rider Drive or the last two episodes of Ressha Sentai ToQger because school first when it's already near-graduation this time around.
....and Some Crazy Real Life Stuff
It seems like our neighbors right across our place has decided that the weekends are the best time to put on party music and gather around whatever during mid-morning and lunch time ignoring the fact that there are students around their neighborhood who would rather be working on school work than party whatever. When I'm in this mood, I sometimes would like to think about throwing stuff at them in retaliation because I need peace and quiet but whatever. I've just stopped caring at this point. (Also, catcalling men from there need to shut the fuck up before I explode...we've just been ignoring them lately...)
They do have a habit of jogging my memory back around late 1990s-2005 with pretty ancient r&b, easy listening music so I can probably find it in my heart to forgive them for the grief they're causing me.
kg*
As to what's next...I'll most likely be looking for a job. There's really not much else to do afterwards. It's either I get it from the local Ateneo back home...or I can look for a private grade school where I can practice Special Education so I can realize, bit by bit, my dream of moving to Australia in 2 or 3 years' time. It's just...I think it will be difficult for me to look for a good agency to help me do this as I'm not going to be in a larger, more advanced metropolis like Cebu City but we'll see. I actually want to get a job that can help me do this and also, help me work on some of my personal projects on the side. That has always been the plan anyway. I also want to get my own place soon so I don't have to stay with my parents all the time I'm working.
....and considering this is an update of life of some sort and I'm due to be sleeping around 15 to 30 minutes from now, here are the highlights of the crazy things going on with me and my head. There's really not much that accompanies me everywhere but my head so...LOL.
First Things First, On the Subject of Personal Style
It seems like not a day goes by that I don't really think about this. I seem to be a lifelong lover of clothes and style...well, fashion, but I have a different way, probably a more distinct way of showing, establishing and exploring my own personal style. For one, I'm the kind who's always going through phases but I just wait on them to pass unless I really am fixated on a specific thing - because by then, I would really have to get that something. I got to think about this again because of a post I came across in on whowhatwear on how to establish one's own personal style. They presented 9 points on how to establish one's own personal style. Some of the points, I agreed with, others...not so much.
I still would maintain that going to thrift stores may help one establish her/his personal style. So does shopping everywhere or at least, maybe, window shopping everywhere...online and offline...and even when travelling.
(photo from fashiontoast)
Aside from the peek I had at the local thrift store today that never seems to...well...lower their prices as they are supposed to do a couple of weeks or so after they'd had new arrivals - annoying, yes it is - and the window shopping online on Forever21 and UrbanOutfitters I did last Saturday for stress relief purposes while trying to finish the bulk of my MA thesis to turnover to my thesis adviser, I find myself currently prefering everything loose, laidback and luxe. It's either a loose shirt or tank and a pair of boxers or some similar comfy shorts or some satiny, silky nightwear. I'm currently piling up on a ton of slipdresses, to be honest.
My unitown wardrobe here in Dumaguete City contains two of these I couldn't resis getting from thrift stores here. I'm bound to find more but I haven't been going out much except to pay for bills and stuff. I'll probably drop by that one favorite thrift store I have, Ally Mae, that can get quite expensive but their nightwear section is often always to die for. It's also the more affordable part of said store. LOL.
I'm a huge fan now of nightwear because they're comfy as heaven. I might've even succeeded on wearing a slipdress to dinner with myself in The Rollin' Pin one night last week, too. I've also worn the other red wine slipdress to dinner with some friends in Gabby's Bistro. The thing with slipdresses is, you just have to wear some sort of blazer or even a cardigan over them and you're good to go! I like the convenience they give that's really versatile - you can wear them at home for lounging around and later take it out to dinner dates with yourself, a boyfriend or friends. I find that nightwear are drama free they're currently becoming more and more an obsession I'm nursing. I don't mind though.
I'm not sure yet how receptive my mother will be with this huge change in style. She's too conservative, still, even when she's loosened up a bit.
I'm also looking forward to wearing these things to the beach this summer. I might probably pack a backpack or so of the comfiest nightwear should I and the girls from back home realize our plans to drive ourselves to the beach (because I would even if I were such a poor driver, LOL). And yes, I'll update the personal style and lifestyle blog from there. This summer will be quite eventful, I think.
Yep, the Ally Mae thrift store it is when I have time to do that this week for more nightwear stuff. I was lucky to find my second slipdress at just 35 Php (3 for 100 Php) at their branch right beside the first McDonalds' around here. That place was my favorite haunt for everything vintage designer.
Health and Beauty, But Mostly Beauty
(my photos)
I limbo around pescetarianism and flexitarianism where diet and health is concerned but I'm definitely getting down for drinking non-dairy milk, eating everything brown or red and whole wheat and even to the point of changing my usual rice with mashed potatoes while out dining with friends or with just myself. At this moment, I have an ongoing obsession with the tuna pesto salad at the local The Rollin' Pin and am currently contemplating going back to Gabby's Bistro for their salad with the honey-mustard dressing. I'm not all too sure about life at all at the moment. LOL. I also do have an ongoing obsession with the food offered at the new Local Organic Cafe that's quickly becoming my favorite place to crash with friends or without. I'll probably blog about those soon as I'm freer as well but really happy that I'm not restricted to just the vegetarian pizza and pescetarian choices at my usual Dumaguete City haunts. Things were getting dull in terms of eating and drinking around here with just Nevas to choose from. Considering my current state of food and drink choices - flexitarianism in particular - you can easily assume I still eat some meat and bird (chicken) once in a while but mostly on very rare occasions now. I still avoid pork like a plague except maybe that one time I just had to eat the bacon a close friend's boyfriend made in school. Oops. Likely, I'm still stuck in flexitarian->pescetarian transition hell and the odds of going vegan...slim considering there are very little vegan choices around here which pretty much sucks.
When not invited to anything, dinner or whatever, I just cook for a friend and I...and this is where entirely pescetarian stuff go down that borderline cross vegan because I prefer those than eating the usual meat stuff. It's not really helping my food budget monthly when there's the farmers' market/tabu-an market a stone's throw away from the pad or room I'm currently considering my abode while here. Also the fact that I keep wandering around the organic section on some Thursdays and Fridays late afternoons. I recently discovered they have arugula apart from the fact they already carry kale which I've been abusing for the past two weeks...
(my photo)
Beauty...I'm still the usual foundation-eye liner-mascara-lip balm girl but with a quirk: I currently have an ongoing fixation with Human Heart Nature's cream lipstick in Coral Charm. The nude color it offers is something I couldn't resist. I also want to pick up more nude stuff from Maybelline or some other make-up line but I'll table that for when I can have enough money to spend on them. I maybe will get something red for the lips some other time too but I'm too lazy to put anything like those on as I prefer a more naked look but also the not too bare type either.
....and on beauty number 2: Sometimes, around the last couple of weeks, I'd fall asleep in bed with make-up and all on. It's dangerous and harmful for the skin, I know but as a normal human being - and I'm pretty sure this happens to most of us girls - I'm flawed and I just really feel lazy at times to remove anything from my face especially when really exhausted. When that happens, I just make sure to wake up really early the next day: say maybe 4 in the morning or 5 just to take an early bath and correct the mistake of last night. I'd remove make-up by then but probably only to put in new one for the rest of the day. LOL.
Since I'm huge on natural products to use on my skin and everywhere else, I'm still going for everything homemade. I just got lazy to make my usual toothpaste these days and I haven't really purchased any minty essential oil from my usual haunts for these things that I've reverted to getting a huge tube of Colgate. The regular one. I might be getting my eucalyptus essential oil from Human Heart Nature sometime this week though so we'll see what we can do about that next week. I usually get the peppermint one from Casa di Lorenzo but I didn't feel like ordering stuff from a separate store this time so HHN it is. Everything else is as organic as Human Heart Nature can get however. I am apparently a perpetual HHN stan.
And no, I doubt you'd want to see what comprise my closet and my dresser...thing. They're all but...dull and completely sane and normal. I'm not at all sure how to describe them at the moment. I'll try to put up a photo of it maybe later when I've fixed things around here and especially back home... All I know right now is I'm hoarding HHN stuff for future use...I dunno much either beyond that.
Have I added anything in my beauty arsenal aside from the tube of lipstick? I'm not sure. I'm looking forward to getting a new mascara tube off of Maybelline and probably a color tattoo or two in nude and in silver/white...and one in black/charcoal. I'm also probably going to later shift to using the liquid eye liners. I have no access to anything like it other than Maybelline here so I'm perpetually a blind bat regarding that. Lastly, I might also shift to getting liquid foundations because the cake ones don't seem to work much on covering skin blemishes. I don't have immaculate skin though I certainly wish I do but it seems that my HHN regimen I usually go for every day and night seems to be correcting that so...yay~
The Only Crazy Thing Around Here is Fandom
EBiDAN: Choutokkyuu, PrizmaX
AVEX: Da-iCE, Vimclip
from whatever obscurity they come from: White Jam.
and for the western contender/s: Tove Lo.
Those are probably my only remaining fandom at this time. I'm not even spazzing on Kamen Rider Drive or the last two episodes of Ressha Sentai ToQger because school first when it's already near-graduation this time around.
....and Some Crazy Real Life Stuff
It seems like our neighbors right across our place has decided that the weekends are the best time to put on party music and gather around whatever during mid-morning and lunch time ignoring the fact that there are students around their neighborhood who would rather be working on school work than party whatever. When I'm in this mood, I sometimes would like to think about throwing stuff at them in retaliation because I need peace and quiet but whatever. I've just stopped caring at this point. (Also, catcalling men from there need to shut the fuck up before I explode...we've just been ignoring them lately...)
They do have a habit of jogging my memory back around late 1990s-2005 with pretty ancient r&b, easy listening music so I can probably find it in my heart to forgive them for the grief they're causing me.
kg*