Day 14:

Day 14: Appreciation

I'd just like to say thank you all for reading this blog. Ahahha, i have to cut it short from 21 Days to 14 Days. Ahahah. But thank you all soooooo much for reading. I'm nearing 400 page views, that's a lot to me. Ahahah.
Anyways, y'all are great! I really had fun blogging about my everyday adventures for the past 14 days.

For more of my blogs, I just started a new one.

ensemblebykoleenhernandez.blogspot.com

Thanks soooo much. Very much appreciated!


Signing out! Goodbye 14 Days!

Day 13:

Day 13: Do something new.

I found a new hobby today. Mixing and matching outfits. Wahahah. I've always been in love with those Polyvore Outfits on Tumblr.

So, to start a new hobby, I'll make those too!
I also wanna learn how to make clothes FROM scratch. It's too cool! And in that way, I can actually make clothes for myself! Ahahha.

Fashion actually speaks for itself. Your emotion, your feeling, your mood. It can speak for you when you can't. Well, that's what I think.
So, I'll start up a blog made up of all these outfits. A new hobby! Something to do!
The outfits I post can also show my personality and my "preferences".

Oh, well. Ahahah, my aunt actually suggested that I be involve in anything fashion. Ahaha, I was like,"WHUT?!?!"
Well, I'll never know what's ahead of me, right?

Day 13, Passion for fashion ?
💅👑👒👚👗🎽👖👠👢👞👡👟👕👔👜👝👛👓

P.S. The photos below are the ones I made just today.
And these aren't my clothes. NOT MINE.

New blog for this: http://ensemblebykoleenhernandez.blogspot.com/

Day 12:

Day 12: Foooooodtrip

Today, I tried something new. I found out about this restaurant in the newspaper. IHOP is located in Bonifacio High Street. Take a left from Nike.
It is the first branch in Asia and it's located right here in the Philippines. How cool is that?
Way to go, Philippines!

Anyways, the food lured me to come.
The waiting time wasn't that long, though there were a LOT of people.
The 2nd floor (where we eat) was kind of cramp. Maybe they should work on that.

Now, let's talk about the FOOOOOOD !
We ordered:
1) Double Blueberry Pancake
- It looked really good but it didn't taste as good as we expected. It was fine, though.
I actually wanted to try the Strawberry Cheesecake Pancake but they ran out of it. I LOVE strawberry!

2) Brocolli Cheese Omelette
- It was good but they should've added more spice to it. I love cheese, so that was good.
- The Brocolli also added texture to it. So, good job!

3) Egg hash brown thingy. (Sorry, I forgot the name.)
- This was the highlight of my whole meal. Ahahah. Everything worked soooo well together.
- The sauce tasted soooo good with everything.
- The hash brown added texture an a bit of saltiness.
- The leafy veggies added smoothness to it and a healthy factor. It tasted sooo well with veggies.

In addition, there are 4 different syrups on the table; Old Fashioned Maple Syrup, Blueberry Syrup, Brown Pecan Syrup(I think) and Strawberry Syrup.

We weren't bloated BUT we were definitely solved!

Afterwards, we went to Nike and American Eagle Outfitters (awesome clothes)!
Oh, and we saw Phil Younghusband, one of the soccer players from the handsome Philippine Azkals.

So, today was a goooood day!

Day 12, happy tum.

Day 11:

Day 11: Write about a short story.

I'll try my best. 🙈🙊
Word: Cane.

Lesdodis!
Here I go...

I alighted the bus about 7 blocks away from my school. I started walking towards it cautiously, making sure no one saw me. I was already bullied for being one of the smartest, I can't afford to be bullied for being poor and living in the poorest side of the town. No one should know. I held my books in my arms and buried my face as I entered the school compound.
The usual faces, the usual scenes. Nothing ever changes. No one ever makes a difference. There's always the popular-unpopular line. I was so sick and tired of it all.
At the corner of my eye, I saw my grandmother, the school janitor. Everyday I see her suffer and clean the whole school just to pay my school tuition. My parents passed away when I was just a toddler. She raised me up since then. I owe everything to her.
I walked up to her to give her a kiss. In a flash, everyone started to laugh at me, for the umpteenth time. Not only do they bully me, they bully my grandmother.
She can handle it but I can't. Some moments, I just feel like blowing up but I've always had to be strong for my grandmother.
I brushed it off and just ignored them, though I was burning up inside.

Jeremy spilled his juice 'accidentally' and dropped his melted chocolate.

"Hey, old lady, why don't you clean that up for me?" he said, as everyone laughed in unison.

That was the last straw! I grabbed my grandmother's cane. I hit Jeremy repeatedly with it, finally releasing all my anger.
I was rooted to the ground, shocked of my own strength and anger bottled up inside for years. I dropped the cane and ran away, feeling the eyes all at me and at the puddle of blood.


Okay, that was kinda out of nowhere. Sorry, I just watched PLL.
These aren't one of my bests. Ahahha, haven't been in practice for a long time.

Day 11, pens up!

Day 10:

Day 10: Share about a hobby.

A huuuuuge hobby of mine is watching TV Series. I'm hung up on a loooot of TV Series.
These are a few. :)

1) How I Met Your Mother

The outline of it alone is really intriguing. It makes you wanna watch it. Finding out how Ted met his wife, telling his kids how he met their mom. It's always a "WHO? WHO? WHO?!?!" for us audience.
And every episode is very different but it's all linked in some way. The show is realllly hilarious. My favorite is Barney. He's such a jerk but he's funny and deep inside, he's really genuine and he has a heart. And he loves Robin.

You have to watch the show to truly understand how amazing it is. All time favorite. You can watch it again and again and not be bored!
It is truly legend- wait for it- dary.
LEGENDARY!


2) Pretty, Little Liars

PLL is a very intriguing show as well. Finding out who killed Alison and who A is. It will leave you wanting more and more episodes.
There are days where I watched PLL the whole entire day. Only potty breaks and meals. Ahaha.
The loveteams will give you butterflies in the stomach, the clothes they wear, oh my! And the ultimate mystery.
That always leaves you hanging.

Find out who I am.
-A


3) 90210

Now, this one's ridiculously addictive. If you miss even one episode, you'll be totally lost. You CANNOT miss an episode.
And the ending of an episode will always leave you hanging! The whole storyline of 90210 is pretty jumbled up. Many stories into 1. And you'll never know who that character ends up with. And the clothes!
The mysteries and the lying and most especially, the unexpected.

Always expect the unexpected here.


I also watch New Girl, Jane by Design, THE WALKING DEAD and loads more.

So, that's one of my top hobbies. Ahahha. I'm sorry if I blabbered about these shows. I love them. Ahahah.

Day 10, TV TV TV TV! 📺📺📺

Day 9:

Day 9: Hold a Garage Sale!

My grandparents are hoarders, I'll start with that. They have things from 20-30 years ago!
There are pros and cons to it but we finally decided to raid and clean up the huuuuuge stock room filled with sooooo many stuff from many years ago.

That happened a few weeks ago.
And today, finally, we held a garage sale.

My sister and I made flyers. No photocopying. With bare hands and markers! Ahahah. We made about 20-30 flyers.

At first, my aunt and I went down the street to give out but we got lazy and more of shy. Ahahahha. So, not much people were coming at the moment.

Suddenly, we saw these whole bunch of people out of nowhere! Turns out one of our 'kasambahay' brought all of them to our garage sale. Those people told their neighbors and it was just a chain reaction! Ahahah.

We're gonna continue this for Prob'ly a week or less. We have loads more to sell! They were all very cheap! Some free, some 5 or 10 pesos.

We started at 3pm, ended at 7pm. Ahahah. We got about 2,000 pesos! Ahahah.

That concludes Day 9!

Day 8:

Day 8: Go somewhere you've never been before.


After being in Canyon Woods, Tagaytay for Day 6 and 7, we were finally leaving.
It was great going to Canyon Woods again.

I kinda grew up in Canyon Woods. We'd always go here since toddlers.
We were all packed and ready to go.
Before leaving, we played a little arcade games. Heeheehee.

And off we goooo! We weren't home bound yet since we had to go somewhere else first.
This leads me to my Day 8 objective.

I was going to a church I've never been to before. All my life, I've only attended Word International Ministries churches (WIN).
For example, WIN Singapore, WIN Betterliving, WIN New Jersey.

This time, we were invited by this Pastor who was a close friend of my parents' close friends. This was my parents' close friends' former church before leaving for Singapore.
So, yeah. Well, before that, we had to kill time. The service started at 4.30pm but we had to leave Canyon Woods at 12 pm.

Further down the road, we saw Yellow Cab! As if it was calling us, we were drawn to it.
We were soooo full, afterwards. The place was overlooking the Taal Volcano. Great View. Great food.

Afterwards, we went to this mall.

Soon, we headed to the Church. We got kinda lost but thank God, we reached the place.
The Praise and Worship Team was beyond amazing. And I really felt God's presence. Ahahaha.

Overall, it was a great experience. Very friendly people and very blessed church.


Day 8, AMEN!

Day 7:

Day 7: Sporty Day

I haven't had that much exercise since last November. Living in the Philippines, I started to become a lazy bum, a couch potato. I was gaining weight, ahahahha. I HAAAD to do something to get my bum off the chair. 

Since we were in Tagaytay, we woke up at 7 or 8-ish. And TADA, we managed to play some badminton and jog!

We were all exhausted and drained. It was about noon already. We went back to the house in Canyon Woods and ate delicious lunch, finally. 

I was so motivated to do something. After digesting the food, we swaaaaam! Woop, woop! 

I gotta say, it was tiring. I was drained, afterwards. The Indoor Pool in Canyon Woods is a really, relaxing place to swim in. Not crowded, nice ambience. What else could I ask for? 

We finished at about 4pm. And went back to have snacks. We were all sooooooo starved!

Adterwards, we had some fish spaaaaa. Cue the fishessss! 

Ahahha, it was my second time. Still very ticklish! They ate the dead skin off my feet. There were three types of fishes. I got the chance to try them all. 

Then, we had foot massage. Uhhhh, how relaxing. 

What a way to end the day.

Day 7, successss!

Day 6:

Day 6: 2nd Roadtrip

I just came back from my 3 day stay in Canyon Woods, Tagaytay. Man, that was a very fulfilling weekend. 

Well, half the day we were in the car. And, when we finally stepped on the Tagaytay land, I was like, "Yesssssss, finallyyyy!"

So, that was my roadtrip. Lemme show y'all the pictures!

Interluuuude

I'll be gone for about 3 days. So, I won't be able to blog about my Days.
Although I'll be doing the Days, I can only blog about it on Monday.
So, I'll call this the interluuuuude, with multiple u's.

My family and I will be heading to Tagaytay today and to Laguna on Sunday. So, no wifi for the 3 days.
But, when I come back I'll blog about it.


The interluuuuude begins.

Day 5(Part2):

Day 5 (Part 2): Share your friends' craziness. 

Ahahaha, this one's fun. I wanna show you why they're my friends. Because they're as crazy and even crazier. AHhaah. These are some of their retarded videos. 

I miss these people. Oh man, everyday, I'm a day closer to seeing y'all again.

Cheers to Sarah, Sen, Laya, Ash, Abel, Pauuu, Noy, Mart, Matthew, Josh, Jon, Pocholooo. See y;all soon. *wink wink* 

Day 5:

Day 5: Share something craaaaaaazzzzy/ embarrassing.

I've done some crazy, stupid and embarrassing things in my life. I'm sure everyone has, ahahha. I have some videotaped in my iTouch. 

Imma let the videos do the talking. 

Here ya go. 

The one above is my sister and I. Our crazy video airplane trips. So, this is what we do in our flights. We were singing to "Brighter Than The Sun" by Colbie Caillat.

Ehehehehehe.

The other one above is "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat. Ahahhaha. Pardon the ugly face.

This one's Animal by Neon Trees. Ahahahah, this is the craziest, I think. We were kinda high and plain crazy. The flight attendant saw us, by the way. At the end.......embarrassing!

Well, there ya go. Some of the crazy videos in my iTouch. I have loaaaaaaads more. For now, that's it!

Ahahahah, hope y'all enjoyed our retarded faces. 

Day 5, wadduuuuup! 

Day 4:

Day 4: Draw someone special.

AHAHAHA! This is funny because I'm horrible in drawing people. Drawing, in general. I'm bad at it. Ahahha.

This someone special is special, well obviously. Ahhaha. She's been with me through everything. She's just a crazy and weird as I am. She's very outgoing. I tell her everything. Her jokes are lame, like mine. She's very special to me. I miss her so much. And I love this girl.

So, this is my rendition on her face.

Ladies and gentlemen, Sarah Pino.

Day 3:

Day 3: ROADTRIIIIIIIP!

I absolutely love road trips! Ahahah, not so much of the headaches part but other than that, it's so much fun!

We left on Tuesday, around 1pm. We were headed for Batangas from Manila. Oh and I was wearing matching green socks and green bag! Ahaha.

We were stocked up with Cinnamon Rolls and Mamon from Red Ribbon, Bread Pan, juice and bottled water. We get hungry easily.

After about 45 minutes, we knew we were close to Batangas since we started noticing mountains and trees and buffaloes and mountains. Oh, And we passed by this yellow car that looked like Bumblebee from Transformers. Coolest thing!






























We had a stop over at a Petrol Station and we bought ourselves some Starbucks, yesssss! And a potty break, Ahahha.

Heading out to the road again, my dad drank his Starbucks while eating his cinnamon roll while DRIVING. Oh man, Ahahah. We were all like, "DADDY, mamamatay tayoooo!"
Translation: "DADDY, We're gonna die!!"
Well, he did it anyways and we didn't die. Ahahha. Oh, and we saw signs like "Pay Toll." Ahahah, and I made a joke. "This is pay-toll! Pay-toll-ity." Well, it sounds much funnier said than read. Ahahha. It's actually "fatality". ;)

After twists and turns and long winding roads, we finally arrived in the Municipal Hall of Alitagtag, Batangas. My dad had errands to run and he also wanted to show us our great-grandfather.
He was actually a Mayor of Alitagtag a long time ago. He has a statue dedicated to him, like all the other past Mayors.
Well, it was really cool knowing that. Ahaha, we kept taking pictures with him.

Across the road, there was this big Catholic Church. It was the place where my grandparents got married. It was really cool to know our family background and to step inside that church. I must say, the church was really big and grand, even though it was kinda old fashioned. I love old-fashioned.

After visiting Alitagtag, we went to another part of Batangas to visit some friends.

And after that, we went home, tired but satisfied. Roadtrips are fun, we bonded, laughed. I love roadtrips.

So, that was my Day 3. Roadtrip, accomplished successfully!

P.S. Sorry for the photo spam. I just wanna show you what I saw. Ahaha.