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Ooh lala, Stylish Bloggers!

I hadn't been that active recently, but I'm still very pleased & grateful for receiving a blog award from a lovely young lady named Elaine of Resplendent Rainbows --

The rules for this award is as follows:

1. Thank and link back to who gave you the award.

2. Share eight things about yourself.

3. Pass it along to eight other blogs that you’ve recently discovered and enjoyed.

4. Leave those bloggers a message telling them about their awards.

Now for the 8 random facts about me:

1. I like layering clothes (it's a shame that the Philippines is in the tropics).

2. I will go broke buying ballet flats & boots -- the ultimate weakness.

3. Have always been (and suspect will always) be one of the boys.

4. I drink gallons of tea (green, peppermint & fruit teas) and coffee.

5. Coffee drinking stops by 4pm, or I get no sleep.

6. I hate fresh pineapples, but will eat tinned ones.

7. I'm practically half blind and will not survive without specs or contacts.

8. I will never understand shallow and fake people.

And these are the blogs I've recently discovered and have found to be absolutely fabulous (there should be eight, but I hadn't been browsing around that much lately.. I feel bad, to be honest!) :

1. Krissy of Krissified.com

2. Mav of My Misbehaved World

3. GingerSnaps of Pretty Little Thing

4. PopBlush of PopBlushing

5. Gessyl Enchanted

Would this be called a vanity post?

I don't really know how it happened, but I somehow made it into somebody's list of hot bloggers. Is that roaring laughter I can hear out there?!? I do smell something though... some kind of shit, I know. Hahaha! Don't get me wrong, I'm very flattered, but being considered hot by somebody is just something I'm not used to.

But, I would like to return Marvin a favour by sending you guys to his blog (as if I have a following, but never mind that). Click here or on the photo below to see it.

Honestly, I think the other girls are wayyyy hotter.

Would you believe me if I tell you that I paid him to put me in that list? Harhar!

Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009

Because I'm a lemming, I didn't want to be left behind and just had to post about my nominations for the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009.

And because I'm also lazy, I'm writing this in a hurry -- the deadline's tomorrow!

Without prolonging the agony, I think the following blogs deserve the honor:

I'm kinda wondering if I should've nominated myself... but I didn't want to come across as too narcissistic. Hehe!

This writing project was possible with the help of Absolute Traders, My Brute Cheats, Business Summaries, Fitness Advantage Club, Events and Corporate Video, Events at Work, Dominguez Marketing Communications, Red Mobile, Budget Hotel in Makati and Blog4Reviews.com.

Routinely Routine

So where was the storm the news was warning us about the other day? These news people really do know how to hype things up when it isn't necessary. Tsk.

I'm not looking forward to it, if that's what you're thinking. I'm just saying that sometimes the news is so full of exagerrations.

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I seem to be running on autopilot recently. Maybe the trying to keep to a low budget is driving me up the wall, but I think I'm getting bored of my new routine... because it's too damn repetitive! I just show up for work, do what I gotta do for the whole shift, then pack up and leave. Not much room for thinking, let alone room for imagination.

So it's kind of funny that I feel I should do this meme today from Vlad of Stalking Minds. I had been bestowed the honor of being a --

Yup, that's right! Someone actually thinks I'm creative and I am most certainly happy about it! *throws confetti*

To accept it, I have to mention 7 Things that I love as well:

1. I love coffee. If drinking too much wasn't bad, I would've been sipping away all day -- but it is, so I'm won't be. Tsk.

2. I love sleeping in. Because I find it difficult falling asleep in the first place, so when I do get 'round to getting shut-eye, I hate waking up too early.

3. I love the internet. Because I'm a dick... I'm addicted to it. (Bah, I know that was corny, ok???)

4. I love cute things. Especially chubby puppies.

5. I love travelling. Because you only live once.

6. I love going to the mall on Wednesday afternoons. Because being in a mall on a weekday feels like freedom from work -- well, to me, anyway.

7. I love having Twix with my coffee. It's the breakfast of champions. Hehe!

So!

Any one of you guys care to join in the fun (because I find you creative too)?

Jerine
Jessica
BearBear
Vicks Inhaling Man
Naoko's Cooking

Hell hath no fury like a mouth ulcer

It's been cold, wet and dark lately. Apparently, we've got 2 low-pressure areas waiting to wreak havoc in the country, so it's no joke. It's miserable -- heck, I'M miserable!

So what did I do? I wore a yellow top. I swear, it works. It makes you feel all summery and bright and all the Sesame Street shit you can think of.

Unfortunately, it doesn't help me not think about a large mouth ulcer that has taken resident in my inner right cheek. It catches when I talk and when I eat, so I can't gossip or enjoy my food (which is a tragedy in itself). I've bought gallons of mouthwash, hoping it will go away tomorrow.

I feel like Vito Corleone, with wads of cottonballs wedged into my right cheek -- only it hurts!

Hayl meyk yu an offah you kent reh-fushe.

Anyway, there's this (new) meme from Jessica, right? She has given me the Honest Scrap award, sort of forcing me to tell y'all what my 10 deepest darkest secrets are.

1. I still love watching anime. I think it's the fountain of youth (or permanent dorkiness, you decide).

2. I'm a sucker for anything cute, short and round with eyes being 2/3 the size of its head. Spiders and roaches, in whatever form, are excluded.

3. I absolutely abhor scary movies (which some of you probably know already).

4. I don't get manicures. Maybe when I turn 40 and my nails become disgusting even if they're clean, I'll change my mind.

5. I have AT LEAST four pairs of shoes that I hadn't worn since I bought them.

6. My budgeting is so terrible that the bf spent nearly 2 hours fixing it for me to accomodate all my existing debt and still leave me with Php 600 savings a month (maybe I should sell them shoes).

7. 95% of the time, I order a tall Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks -- hot or iced, depending on the weather.

8. I've been mobile-less for nearly 2 days now. Gotta pick it up when I get home tonight.

9. I keep a tube of lipstick in my office penholder -- for emergencies.

10. I park at least 2 pairs of black shoes underneath my office desk.

Wtf, it's nearly all about shoes!

I would like nosey-in on these people's secrets as well (should be 10, but only got 5):

Quintessential Babble
Family, Health & Home
BUM-spot
We Heart Freebies
Aterhea

High and dry

Eversince that hectic couple of weeks when I couldn't manage to draft a proper post, I think I've let this site down a little bit.

Maybe it's writer's block? Can you really call it writer's block when I'm technically not a writer? It's probably just creative drought, or maybe it's just because I'm plain tired.

Apart from that, I had been wanting to change my layout for a yonks. With limited design knowledge, I've tweaked an existing one I've picked up somewhere in the internets and made it my own. I'm still not entirely happy with it, but it'll do for the meantime. I was getting sick of pink.

Also, I thought it was time I gave thanks to the lovely people from Entrecard who never fail to drop something in my inbox.

Here are my Top 3 Entrecard droppers --

Rosilie

Pinay Mom Blogs

DJ Tammy

Many thanks, ladies!

A Blogversary and A Meme

I've been invited to a blogversary celebration last Saturday by Lena of Pinoy Mom Blogs. I was so flattered that I had beeninvited that you'd think the Queen had invited me for tea at the Buckingham Palace!

I was a little nervous about going because I don't know anybody there except Lena, who I've only seen so fleetingly and have never spoken to apart from blog comments. So this is quite a new thing for me. Guess I was in the mood to socialise?

Moi, Cherry, Lena & Mike

It turned out to be quite a nice afternoon chat, actually. Only 2 others showed up, but was worth meeting Cherry & Mike (who had been taking photos using his T77 -- wut up!). I learned a thing or two about blogging from the conversations and I really enjoyed their company.

And with that, let me end this post with a meme!

This Fabulous Blog Award had been given to me by DesperateBlogger and I'm absolutely chuffed!

As a condition for receiving it, though, I'm apparently required to pass it on and list down five of my addictions (do I really want to embarrass myself like this?).

1. Internet
2. Cute stuff (this could be anything tiny or furry)
3. Coffee (just a little)
4. (Herbal) Sleeping aids
5. Lip balm (It's chronic)

I would now like to pass this meme on to BearBear, Jerine, Edelweiza, Roanna & Sheila -- who are no doubt more fabulous than me!