Wear It Your Way with Wacoal

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Now, Wacoal has hundreds of versatile bra with different designs that you can choose from. You can visit their site here. I chose this design because I can wear conventionally, asymmetrical or a strapless with the basic features of half cup, slightly padded, and has an underwire. What I really like about this is that it has convertible straps with halter style option. Not all versatile bra has this kind of halter style in the center.



 With this kind of tank tops, I might need to use the bra in strapless since I would seldom use a jacket in a tropical country. Though for now, I could use some leather jacket since it's starting to get rainy.



 As for the dresses, I love halter dress. Halter dress for summer, Halter dress for formal party, and also halter top for casual wears. Center Halter design for bra is made for this.

Don't Let Your Possessions Possess You

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Have you seen the Leap Year movie? It's a good movie to watch. It's about a girl wanting to be engaged to her long time boyfriend. Unfortunately, her boyfriend doesn't seem to think about that so the girl tries to follow her boyfriend all the way to Dublin, Ireland to propose to him instead. The girl experienced different kinds of misfortune on her way, and met a irish man that would get her to Dublin.



This is where my topic would start. The said Irish man asked the girl a question when they were waiting for a train, "If you only had 60 seconds and your house is on fire, what would you save?". And I can't help myself and think of my answer to that. Of course, my rational side answered, when our house would be on fire, adrenaline.rush would start to kick in, I would try to save everything that I can.



I've seen news about victims of fire incidents and even a live telecast of houses or apartments on fire. People try to save a lot of things while the adrenaline rush is pumping. They would mostly say "I try to save what could be saved, I didn't think if I could even lift it. I just grab everything that I could".

Back in the movie, the girl can't seem to answer the question and asked the guy instead. This made me really think. Without the adrenaline rush thing, without those panic attack moments, what would I get? My answer would be none.

I would spend that 60 seconds trying to check whether my family and pets are safe. I won't even look for my phone or such. Material things seems to have a hold to us now. There are a lot of people who admits that they couldn't live without their phone, laptop, and such. My mom always told me that I won't be able to take these material things with me to afterlife or these things won't matter when I'm on my deathbed.


One thing I learn whenever I decide to clean my room... really clean my room is to always learn to let go. I don't have a big room so I have to limit myself for keeping "trash" in it. In Buddhism (I'm not a Buddhist), they say that attachment to things are suffering. I think I kind of get it. I try to stop holding on the things I own even if it becomes useless. Of course we would say that this things has some memories blablabla... Hmmm... Not really. You, have the memories, not that thing. It would all be in your mind. I'm not saying that we should throw all our memorabilia away. What I'm trying to say is, decide if it is really a memorabilia or just a useless trash.

There are people who thinks that possessions are also some kind of a power. I don't know what to think about that but somehow, I get what they're trying to say. These materials could give you some leverage. In society, they based how happy and lucky you are through your possessions. But are they really happy?

My Snoring Cat

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Hera, my cat is a very sweet and loving cat. She always sleeps with me in my room and keeps me company since I'm usually scared sleeping alone.



Tonight is a bit different though, she doesn't usually sleeps on my bed, she'd rather sleep on my desk since I kept on rolling on my bed when I can't get to sleep.As I said, tonight is different since she decided to sleep on my side.

It's a bit weird since I could hear her snoring lightly and her snores sounds like from a human being! Anyway, I still love my cat even though her fur keeps on getting on my face.

And she even uses my pillow.

Sorry for the low image quality

Sorry for the low image quality

Goodnight everyone.

Keep Life Simple

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Just Keep It Simple

Sometimes, we complain about our life being complicated. Mostly, we complain about life is unfair, we're not genuinely happy about the things happening in our life, we're often jealous (which is why we said that life is unfair in the first place), we criticize each other instead of helping one another, and a lot more.
...blablabla...*complain*complain*complain*

I admit. Back then, I'm one of those people who often complain about life being too hard and all. I always seem to face a lot of problems that it often get me thinking if it will always be like this. I always thought "I have a lot of things on my mind right now. I don't have a time to think about that" (nature, self awareness, social issues, etc.).

I seem to always think of the worst in the past few years. Then I realized, I won't be able to enjoy this life if I kept on seeing the ugly side of it.

Keep life simple? How?

My no. 1 rule: Don't Expect Too Much. This has been my motto since I went to college. Of course high school is very different from college especially in getting your ideal grades. Even if we give our very best there are just times that we don't get what we deserve. We can't control everything.

Eliminate Distractions and redefine your goals. Sometimes we tend to get lost in our track on our way to our goals because of all the distractions. These distractions usually jumbles our priorities and ends up being on our top list. Know the reason why we keep on doing things that we normally do. Why do you keep on checking twitter or facebook all the time? If you don't have a good answer to it, then maybe you should minimize the time you're spending on it.

Focus On The Things That Would Let You Grow As A Person. One of the reasons why I started blogging is because I see this as a way to develop myself by writing my thoughts and reflect about the hapennings in my life. What about yours?

Be Kind and Smile. Chances are, people would be a lot kinder to you. Smiling would definitely give you a positive aura and a smile to someone is a gift to a person. There are lot of things for you to smile about. Be grateful about a lot of things.

Start your day with a smile and a prayer. Enjoy a simple happy life.

Procrastination At Its Finest

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Assess your avoidance. Figure out which tasks you don’t like and why. Wanting to achieve productivity means getting to the root of the problem. Chart your common avoidances and find out which are leading you to procrastinate the most.

Make time for breaks. Working on a task for a long period of time is really exhausting. This makes procrastination inevitable. To avoid a burnout, schedule regular intervals of breaks but be careful, most of the break time gets us to procrastinate. You can also consider this as a small reward for yourself.

Evaluate your timing. Assessing how long it takes you to finish a variety of tasks will help you learn the severity of procrastination habits. This will also allow you to improve your speed and time management skills.

I hope this helps.

I don’t really like cramming and it’s a great feeling when you finished a task and you have an extra time before the deadline. It’s better than sneaking a time for yourself and feeling a bit guilty while you know you have to do something and by the end, all the stress and pressure would come to you.

The Best Way Out

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The Best Way Out Of A Difficulty Is Through It.

I have been procrastinating for a week now. I have to design a house for my uncle and he needs it by two days from now. I'm not a licensed architect yet, I'm just an incoming 4th year student and I am s@#* scared that I might do something wrong.

So yeah, I presented my design to my uncle and he likes it. Now, I have to give my working drawings by wednesday. The only thing I've finsihed by now is the first page which consists of exterior perspective, vicinity map, and the site development plan. You might think that at least I've done something but NO, I still have a LOT of things to do.

I don't really like to procrastinate but due to having a lot of fears about the columns, I can't start on floor plan. I know I can't just run away from my problems and it would only create much bigger problems like I would end up cramming this project. So I did a little research, go through my notes and hoped that I wouldn't make a mistake. If I did something wrong, then I would have to accept and face more difficulties that would come. I'll always try to remember that the best way out of my difficulty is through it and not running away from it which I normally do.

When I finished this design, this would be my first ever project that would be build. So yeah, look at the sunny side, this is a great opportunity for me. By the time you're reading this, hopefully I'm on my drawing table finishing the working drawings. Wish me luck.

It Is Never Too Late

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It Is Never Too Late To Have A Fresh Start With God.

Three years ago, I was struggling with my religion. My parents were once a part of a Catholic group named, Couples For Christ (CFC). I grew up with that kind of community to influence me a bit. I sometimes, got a chance to go with their prayer meetings when I was little. I could still remember their praises and songs.
When I went to high school  my mom worked abroad which also made my father to stop attending the prayer meetings since he wasn't so much of a strong believer. My mom was always the one who encourages him to go. Long story short, after my mom left, he never went to those prayer meetings and we don't go to church anymore.

By that time, my faith was weak. I became an Agnostic. Even though I studied at a Catholic School, it didn't really affect me. Sure, studying about the lives of different saints is inspiring but it kept me thinking if can't we just be a good person even without a God, or if there is, at least we could go to heaven or wherever we have to go if we were a better person.

Then when I started as a freshman in college, I met someone who introduced me into satanism. It was really different to what I believed in the past years, they say that demons are well...the opposite. They even have a website (you can ask me if you're curious) where they have this teachings and meditations.
It wasn't about praising Satan or the demons. Their goal is to empower yourself through meditation and open your eyes to what is happening to the nature and the energy of the earth. They said something about wandering spirits which I could really really relate.

In short, it was the kind of thing I want.

For almost 2 years and a half, I became almost a satanist. Almost. They have this ritual that makes you a real satanist. I didn't do it. I admit I'm still scared that this might be something that I don't really want. Instead, I just keep on doing the meditations and indeed, I empowered myself in a way I couldn't imagine. A little bit.
They have different kinds of meditation. For those who are beginners, intermediate, and for those who could do a lot. I was only on the beginner state, no matter how hard I try. Maybe before I get to the intermediate level, I would have to do the ritual.

Anyway, I just stopped. I don't even know why. Maybe it's because of our tight schedule in class or maybe I'm just making excuses. Since I started in Satanism, I can't tell a single soul about this. I know what their reaction would be. So it felt like a tiny bubble at first and it kept on growing until it felt like I couldn't hold it anymore.

Then I said about it with my ex-boyfriend (he's my boyfriend at that time). He's not much of an active Catholic either, so I thought maybe his reaction wouldn't be so bad. I have never been so wrong. Anyway, from then on, my ex-boyfriend became super religious and started to give me advice and such. It became really annoying.

Before we broke up, he gave me a book entitled, The Purpose Driven Life. It was only this vacation, when I started to read it. That book was something. Made me turn around 180 degrees and tried to see the real thing. The Bigger picture. I can't tell you enough how grateful I am to the person who gave me this book, to the person who wrote this book, and to God who never gave up on me.

Indeed, It Is Never Too Late Too Have A Fresh Start With God.

Look At The Sunny Side Of Life

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Hello there! So this will be the official start of my journal. Entitled, lesson for the day. I decided to put it that way so I would try to do my best to look for the morale lesson in my ordinary everyday life.
Yesterday, we got the result for our AUSAT exam. It's a kind of exam where every incoming fourth year students would have to take for a day. It's a mock board exam that prepares us for the future architectural board exam. It consist of 16 subjects and categorized into 6 parts.

Sadly, no one passes the said exam completely in one take. Even if it's only a mock exam, it's one of our academic requirements to get our "Research Method in Architecture" (RMA) subject for this incoming school year.

Mostly, my classmates managed to pass 2 subjects out of 6. I, on the other hand, only managed to pass one subject and unluckily, one of my exam paper was trashed because the computer had an error (it was an automated exam) saying I didn't shade something about my student number

Instantly, my efforts were all put in the garbage. How could I make a mistake like that? I've been taking automated exam for 3 years and I never had a problem like that. They didn't even tried to manually check it.
Worse is, I'm not the only one who had a problem like that. There are also other who had the "same error" as mine. So automatically, we have to take the subject we failed. So for next month, I have to retake 5 subjects.

I was pretty bummed the whole day. All I did was sleep and sleep and eat. Yeah, that's how I reduce my stress, annoyance or anything, but fat.

Then something happened, suddenly I got tired for being a self loathing person. Just because I wasn't able to manage to pass a lot of subjects (I'm not expecting to pass all the subjects) doesn't mean I would just give up. I still have a chance. We could still have a retake.

I can't give up and I can't fail this time either, or else, I wouldn't be able to take the RMA subject.

So Lesson For Today?

Look at the Sunny Side of Life.

I might have it bad but still, I have a month to prepare myself for the retake. On our first take of this exam, we only had a week to prepare. So the sunny side? I have a month to review. So what if I only had one subject managed to pass. At least I passed, there are others who didn't pass a thing.
I should be really thankful for that.

Bathroom Philosophy No 2 Continuation

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Hi! And again, welcome to my Bathroom Philosophy! In the last post in this label, I've talked about opening my own nonprofit charitable foundation someday as my purpose in life. So after some research, I realized that there's a huge possibility that I wouldn't be able to do it.


I stopped for a moment, thinking if I should really pursue this one. And what a better way to think about this? I got inside my bathroom and think.

Will I be really able to reached the pinnacle of my career? Only I can answer that question. We always say that if we work really really hard, we could make our dreams come true. I'm not optimistic nor pessimistic but rather, I'm realistic. I will give my very best to reach my dreams however, let's not forget that there are also setbacks in life and each individuals are limited in different ways which is why we always say that Life isn't Always Fair.

I'll stop about the Career Life Talk. Another question popped in my head, "Do you really have to 'hands-on philanthropist'?" One thing I learned from my soul searching is to always see the bigger picture. What's my main agenda? To help spread awareness to people.

It doesn't really mean that I should start my own foundation. I could still help by being a part of an existing foundation. Yes, I want to play a bigger role with that, but I'm also contented with being a part of it. If would have a chance to start my own foundation and meet people that could help me build this dream, I will definitely grab the chance but if not, I would still be a part of a foundation someday.

Either way, I'll still be happy to be able to help spread awareness to the people. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if what would happen in the near future.

25th Wedding Anniversary Of My Parents

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Last January was my parent's silver wedding anniversary  They weren't able to celebrate due to my additional expenses in my tuition fee at school and I do really feel bad about it. I tried to give them something despite having a very very low budget. I bought some flowers and cake, tried to get them to the cinema and gave a girt certificate for a whole body massage.



Of course, they were surprised to see me pulled that off. We're not really into giving gifts to each other. They were thankful for that one night and I'm  glad they like it.

Unfortunately for me though, I'm not. I know they deserve so much better than that. They should have a big party, or another wedding ceremony, or a vacation trip somewhere. Instead, they were celebrating their 25th Anniversary in the mall.

So for the next January 2014, I would really make a big  BIG surprise for them. I want to create a big SCAVENGER HUNT for them and make them go to three different places around the country (something's wrong with my Dad's airport so it's impossible to make it outside the country) while looking for the clues.



Here's where the 'BIG' part is: by the time they got back from their trip, the last spot of the scavenger hunt would be at their WEDDING CEREMONY where everyone is waiting for them.



Bummed part? I don't think I would have the right amount of money for that even if I asked for my brother's help. Wedding ceremony is really expensive but I don't want them to miss that.

For now, my problem is where will I get those money? Saving money from my allowance isn't enough so I have to get a part time job while I study. But in this country it's hard to get a part time job especially with my 'always' loaded schedule of subjects.

Any suggestions? I would really love to hear some. I really need it.

Why Are We Always Busy?

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My guidance counselor once asked me, why is that our generation is always-on-the-go? And I answered truthfully, "I don't really know about the others, ma'am, but basing on my schedule, I really have to keep on moving."

Here's my schedule from last school year:



It was really fully loaded. Lots of subject to take, each of them gave us an assignment, research, plates, and so on. Mostly, we crammed everything to the last minute. I'm not going to teach you how not to cram or such thing. Answers are always simple when we try not to complicate things. To stop cramming, we just have to discipline ourselves, right? The thing is, it's to hard to discipline ourselves. Easy to say, hard to execute.

What I'm trying to say is, we we're always busy doing something that we forget to see what we we're really looking for and what we have to really see. For example, I was too busy to myself, I can't wait to get a bit older to start working and be successful. I was too focused on myself that I forgot that my parents isn't getting any younger either. I didn't even notice that my brother was also doing good in his job.

I was missing things about my own family even though I live in the same house with them. I want to be successful for them and be able to give them things they want but by the time I got to be successful in my career, I already lost the opportunities to just be with them and be contented.

I'm not saying to slack in what we have to do, but sometimes we tend to forget why are we doing things that we have to do and become lost somewhere in the way. Just a simple advice, try to step back, see the whole picture, remind ourselves and breathe.

Bathroom Philosophy No. 2

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Hi there! Welcome to my Bathroom Philosophy Section! I'll say this again, I know it's crazy but come on! Let's admit it, everyone of us ponder, reflect, and so on about our daily lives in our bathroom. Here we do our little and big life decisions which is why I want to record all my thoughts and share it with you. I hope you enjoy it.

I hope our bathroom is this awesome!

So while I was in the bathroom, a question suddenly pop in my mind. What's my purpose in life? Pretty heavy, right? Reminding me of all the philosophers I've heard, asking the same questions themselves.

Luckily! I've read a book months ago entitled, 'The Purpose Driven Life' by Rick Warren. I'm not going to say a book review about it right now but what will I say about it is that, it gave me a chance to see the bigger picture of what to think about. It's not really a help-self book which opened my mind more about the things around me.


I'll get straight to the point. What I think about my purpose in life is to promote awareness among us about the nature which is seriously getting damage continuously.

Sure I want to be successful in my life but does that answers the purpose of my life? It's just the part of it. I want to be a successful Architect someday, earn money for myself, pay back my parents for all the things they gave to me, and a lot more.

But after all of those? I want to build a charity for the animals or be a big part of it. Now, you might think this is just a spur of the moment and I've just thought of it because I'm in the bathroom, I don't know it yet. This thought just kept on recurring in my mind for some time now but somehow, that idea doesn't stays on my mind for quite long.



In the end, the animal charity might or might not be just a spur in the moment but I really LOVE that idea. Today, I hope I really found the answer in my life's purpose. There! I hope you enjoyed reading this one as much as I enjoy writing it.

P.S. If you're a Christian, I really do suggest to read the book I've said earlier. I'm not that strong believer but that book really helped me a lot. If you're not a Christian, uhmmm... You can absolutely read that one but there's a lot of stuff about God and the bible in that book.


So, How about you? What do you think as your purpose in life?

Bathroom Philosophy No. 1

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Hi I know the title is quite off but I tell you, this is really true. So while I'm writing this post, I am REALLY in the bathroom and I'm just posting through my tablet. Don't ask what the *!@# I'm doing here other than typing.





Most of the people say that whenever we were inside the bathroom, we suddenly think of the best ideas and philosophies in life. I admit I'm one of them, sometimes I even felt a little overwhelmed by those.



Unfortunately, by the time I got out of the bathroom, my ideas just *poof!* gone. I can't even remeber a thing or two about it. All i can remember is that i had the best idea in my life.



So today I thought why not "record" it? I'll try to write my thoughts and ideas while doing my thing. I know it's kind of disgusting and really REALLY EMBARASSING, but hey, I think this idea is just really great and I hope you guys enjoy it.


From today onwards, I'll try to record all my crazy ideas while in the bathroom.


Completely unrelated, I just saw this one.

College: To Go or Not To Go?

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As I said in my ‘About me’ Section, I am currently a college student taking BS Architecture. This is something I really wanted for myself and thankfully, my parents are very supportive in our life decisions. I am really really thankful for they let me study no matter how high my tuition fees are.

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• Learn from the pros and work for free. A lot of Institutes and firms offer a 2-year training and mentorship from the professionals which is very practical because you will definitely learn from hands-on pros. No more unrelated subjects and no more student loans.
• Get connected. Try to find like-minded people in your community and also find ways to be connected with people who will help you get to the top and reach your dreams and goals.
• Teach yourself. Not going to college would mean that you won’t be able to get the same knowledge that a college student would get. You've got to do all learning to yourself. There are some studies says that not going to college actually makes you a better learner, more mature, self-reliant, and motivated. Why's that? This is because in college these things are taken care of and you're simply told what to do, in other words, spoon feeding.

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Designing My Blog

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Hi there! I think I'm getting addicted to blogging. I know I don't have any consistent viewers yet. I've just started so I'm not really expecting much but I do hope that someday I would make a lot of blogger friends and subscribers.

For today, I just want to talk about designing my page. I got this template from btemplates.com and it was an awesome site! Do most of the bloggers got theirs on this one? There's a lot to choose from and it's easy to use. I saw a lot of templates that I want to use and it's all free! Right now, I'm using this template named OrangeLine from the Deluxe Templates.

A picture of the template before I downloaded it.

It has a feature where there's a slideshow showing your featured posts. Problem is, I only have 3 posts in total including this one so I decided not to put it for now. It was also great how easy it is to just change you templates. I'm starting to wonder how often do the other bloggers change their templates. Sad to say, I don't have any blogger friend right now.

So for the mean time, I would research more about blogging and know more things about this. Bye!

P.S. I love this app, Blogger-droid, I could easily create a post on the go.