Weekend recap

This post is just a weekend recap so watch out coz it's picture heavy! :D


Friday night, Cindy and I just went out for drinks locally and ended up drinking a bit too much (more Cindy, not so much me hehe) I'm not a heavy drinker so it resulted in a hangover the following day. Not happy!

 At a local Korean restaurant that opens til late:

We ordered a whole load of various food which I later puked out. Nice.

Black raspberry wine that Cindy ordered two bottles for just us. It's ultra sweet! Doesn't taste much alcohol (but it was strong for me)

Ended the night by Cindy getting way too tipsy and not able to drive us home. Lucky one of her brother's friend was nice enough to fetch Cindy's car and then drive us. They had to walk back to Chatty after LOL.

Saturday I went with Fi and her man all the way to The Entrance, Central Coast for Winnie's 24th. She celebrated it with two other people that have their birthdays around the same time. I remembered she did the same thing last year where they hired out a beach house for the weekend with a group of friends but that was just in the northern beaches area. This was a good hour or so drive away. It just reminded me that I have a pretty bad case of motion sickness. I don't get motion sickness when I'm the one driving, but I do when I'm the passenger, doesn't matter how bad or good the person is driving either. I've just always had motion sickness even when I was young. That goes the same with boat rides too. I hate it!

I bought a bottle of black raspberry wine for Winnie and some of us to have but they didn't like it too much haha.
 

They were there since Friday and we didn't get there til late Saturday afternoon. The house they hired had a pool, if I had known I would've brought my bathers for a swim!

With Fi and the birthday girl:

  

 

Can't go wrong with the Asian peace sign yo!

 

Sunday morning (more like lunch time) Jun and I headed out to Davidson Park for his sister's baby shower. It did rain a bit but it wasn't pouring.

With the expecting mum Jen:

 She's due sometime in January and having a baby girl.

Cute baby galore:

There were so many cute babies! I've always thought that baby showers were only for ladies to attend since the ones I've been to in the past were all just ladies, nowadays even the men go. Next thing, women will be able to attend 'bucks night' events :D

With Lani (Jun's cousin) and Hazel(Jun's sister):

Lizzie and Uncle Jun haha:

 

Soon-to-be parents opening presents exciting!! =P

Hazel handmade everything that's in that box (above). It had blankets (pictured), booties and various size beanies. It was such a thoughtful gift!

Yummy cupcakes made by the lovely Hazel:

 Puto (Filipino muffin things) and some torta(?)

This is what Jun and I got for his sister:

It's a baby bag that we filled with baby bath products and breast pads .. Jun was like "Noooo don't get my sister breast pads from me! That's just wrong!!" LOL.

I was browsing through one of Donna's magazine and saw that Mimco is having a collaboration with Barbie and released out a collection this month 'Barbie loves Mimco'. Checked out their website and saw these:

(Image credit to mimco.com)

I don't find much of it to be like "Wow I gotta have it". But I think the hair accessories and the cuff bracelet are both pretty cute, the price isn't though! Just check out the bag (AUD799.00) yikes! Overpriced much? i wonder how much it cost to make the bag. I reckon Mimco is a pretty big ripoff. When I go to Melbourne this boxing day, I hope I can find a decent bag from their warehouse. Oooh and can't forget Sass & Bide warehouse :D

xo

Excuse you

Out of curiosity, I wanna ask do you get offended in any way when someone mistakes you for another ethnicity? Take note, to me ethnicity are your roots ie my ethnicity is Filipino and nationality is plainly saying your citizenship or where you grew up most of your life ie. Australian. 

So far this week, I've encountered it twice the past few days. First time was at work when a patient was having a chat with one other patient, my colleague and myself when (dunno if he was joking, but I hope that was his intention) he said he just found out he was part Iranian (referring to my colleague) and then he turns to look at me and says "And I also found out I'm part ... ummm ... CHINESE!" then laughs, referring to me. Now, him assuming I was Chinese was not what took me back, but the fact that just coz one is of 'Asian' descent does not necessarily mean they are 'just Chinese'. Asian does not equal Chinese! 

The second encounter was when I was buying some products at Mr. Vitamins and as I reached the counter and placed my items down, the register woman turned to me and abruptly said "I met you in Thailand!" My reaction was "What?" with a wtf-look. She continues to say that "Yes I'm sure I met you in a Thai resort". I just stare at her blankly until she says "Oh, you just look like this girl I met in Thailand." I replied "I'm Filipino, NOT Thai" and believe me, I did not look pleased. Not pleased at her manners to assume 'where I came from' when I'm merely just a customer buying my items, not sitting down for a cup of tea chatting about where we may have met /roll eyes. I don't care if anyone thinks us South-East Asians all look the same. That is not the case TYVM. Everyone is distinctly unique in their own way!

Maybe I'm coming off as "Don't call me [insert ethnicity here] how dare you!". But yes I felt insulted because one would assume without a doubt or without question where 'I came from'. And another, why would one talk that way to another when they don't know them at all nor anything about them. I usually come to the conclusion that they're not well in the head. I know if I was curious to know what a person's ethnicity is for any reason, then maybe I would ask in an appropriate situation as to not offend that person in any way. But I would not dare assume that for example by looking at a person of East-Asian appearance and think "Oh yeah she's/he's Chinese".

Ignorance plays a part in it. But living in such a diversity of multicultural backgrounds, you'd think maybe people would know better unless they've been living under a rock all their lives...

I'm sure everyone has come across something like this sometime or another so I'd like to know what you think!

If you're a fan of Goji berries, than you'll love dark chocolate covered Gojis! A friend at work introduced them to me by bringing them into work to snack on. I've heard of the Goji hype and how it's supposed to be a good antioxidant for your body. I haven't tried the drinks nor am I interested in how good it's supposed to be for you, but if it's covered in chocolate and tastes good than pass it over :D

They usually sell them at vitamin stores and they're not too cheap. For a bag of 200g or 300g, expect to pay around AUD$12 -AUD$15 for a bag.

My favourite is the dark chocolate one but you can also get them in milk chocolate.

Check this out it's a picture morpher that morphs any profile photo together. You can see what you would look like morphed with a celebrity or what your possible child may look like with your S.O haha. Creepy but it's funny.

 

 Check out Jun and mine's morphed child. Doesn't even look like either of us :S

Try it out on Morphthing.

p.s I've figured out how to fix the paragraph breaks problem I've been having so I hope my posts don't look like one big monstrous paragraph about to devour you.


xo

Update from lil ol' me

I've been meaning to post but haven't got around to doing it. Nothing too interesting happened last week. So just a short update. I've been in a bad mood since last week because my licence got suspended for a period of 3 months from dec til march which means I won't be able to drive during Christmas, New Years, Jun's birthday and Valentines!! You might be wondering how I lost my licence. It was when I was picking up my mum from the airport in September and got caught doing LESS THAN 10KMS over the speed limit. If that doesn't make sense ... I apparantely was going somewhere between 81-89 KMS when the speed limit is 80. WOW WATCH OUT SPEED DEMON ON THE ROAD ... seriously, offences like these in Australia, especially in NSW are considered almost criminal /GASP.

I did put an appeal for it 2 days after receiving the letter and I'm going to the magistrate in 3 weeks to see if they will allow me to drive. They charge you a fine of 80 bucks and then to appeal, another 80, what do they think this. a charity? I don't give out free money you know?!!#!@#$#$% They say if you pay the fine, you're pretty much admitting that you're guilty. But if you don't ... then they increase it every 2 weeks or month or so until you pay it. So what choice do you have? I also applied for a new job but they haven't phoned me back when to start, but when I do start, I'd need to drive since they are no buses that go in that area. I'm just hoping I get my licence back or atleast let me drive during certain hours for work. 

Last week, one of our high school friends Nita came down to Sydney from Indonesia to visit us so a few of us met up with her in the city. So far, 3 of our friends from high school who no longer live in Sydney have come down for a visit. So this boxing day, Fi and Christina have booked our flights to go to Melbourne for a weekend to visit Sangita who's in Melbourne. Looking forward to it!

And last weekend, we were planning on doing something silly for Halloween but that didn't pull through it. Doesn't help that we don't celebrate Halloween in Australia anyway :( We just ended up going to Fi's place in the city for dinner and then to a bar with Christina and her buddy. Here's my FOTD. Some blush and eye make up. I haven't been using foundation at all and just stuck to bronzer and blush or highlighter for everyday but my skin has become so oily. I think it's also because it's alot hotter now since it's summer. I've been using blotting paper like crazy.

I used the Etude House blush in 'Happy Peach'. 

 

All you need is to lightly dab the puff sponge directly onto your cheeks and then blend it out so you don't look like a clown like I did in the first pic below.

Woah my eyes look real wonky it's even freaking me out O.o

Blended out:

Since Etude House is a Korean brand, I think their range was made for more fairer skin tones, but I don't think it looks too bad on me and I'm tanned, once blended in of course. Most of my blushes are more coral shades. But I say, you can never have enough blush :) MOAR BLUSH I SAY! MOAR!!

With flash (cheek color not so obvious)
 

I've noticed the bags and hollows around and under my eyes have become more noticeable especially in photos. It actually bothers me because I think it makes me look sickly like a junkie and old. I'm currently just using M.A.C's fast response eye cream but I don't think it helps much. I gotta admit I do sleep late and then I over sleep on top of that :( I also received my nail pens from the lovely Nikki. I really wanted them because I had purchased nail pens from Morning Glory and I found them so easy and fun to use but they didn't have all many colors and of course I knew Nikki used them in her nail tutorials so I was happy I was able to get my hands on so many colors. Thank you again Nikki!! Now to have some fun with them :D 

 

GlossyBlossom nail art pens from Morning Glory: 
 

I've been watching videos from this Filipino home cook on YT and I think he is wonderful with coming up with such easy but tasty snacks for people that can't cook but try to ie. me. I had a go and made his 'Bread rolls' a few nights ago.

I think it's such a quick and easy as well as tasty for a breakfast snack. All you need are pieces of bread with the crusts removed, strips of ham and cheese, mayo, egg and bread crumbs and you get this ... the cheese and mayo melt and it's crunchy on the outside. It's deep fried so I wouldn't say it's easy on the diet.

I think the guy is a genius for coming up with dishes like these and putting them up on YT for people to try out ie. me. Check out the video. You don't need to understand what he says coz he clearly shows how to do it. It's so easy!

ps. I am going to be so pissed off for the rest of this entire year and maybe even next year if the magistrate does not allow me to drive. Amen.