De(slightly)stress.

The first days of my last year in school are finally over. Yay!! I'm stuck with five or so readings already, though. As for the time being, I'm taking a ~*break*~ from school works... for an hour. I still couldn't post the rest of my Chinatown trip with Nixie for the same reason --- school. Though hopefully I can post everything by this week!

One afternoon at the library. 

My then plain orange notebook turned into this with some recycled magazines 

and a magazine plastic cover. I must have been inspired by our Emerging Technologies professor

with "Imagination is the fruit of human creativity." Okay, what? 

Of course, Happy Father's Day to every dad in the world!! :)

Four things to tell to our fathers as the priest imparted earlier in his homily:

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

I forgive you.

I love you. 

Short ones but can mean everything.

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/edit. Not really the best post for the month. Lol

Moonleaf Pioneer

To date, Pauline and I have made numerous plans of meeting each other after last sembreak's fun-slash-photoshoot with her and her friends but every plan failed. However, we finally saw each other again... with a new blogger friend, Cheska! Cheska and I have never met before and our Twitter conversations randomly just popped up when Pauline started to tweet us both. We missed you, Bei! :)

So to start off, we had this planned at the recently opened Moonleaf Pioneer at Globe Telecom Tower I near Robinson's Forums. It's in Mandaluyong. When I arrived there, both of them weren't there yet so I ordered an Apple Green Tea for P60, no sugar. You could say it tasted bitter is better for me. (No pun intended. Lol). While waiting, I took photos of random stuff around the Moonleaf branch. The signs caught my attention and I really liked the refreshing green color. 

Minutes after they both arrived. We shared stories and had our early dinner. Much to my surprise, other than being Blogger bloggers, the three of us have another thing in common --- we have the same age! 

Pauline and I.

Meet Cheska! :)

The Last of Summer in Chinatown

To add to the last memoirs of summer 2012, I ventured through the busy streets of Binondo-slash-Chinatown again but this time, with one of my good friends, Nixie. We purposely went there to have a taste of the food --- fried siopao, xiao long bao and some more! Although for now, I present to you a photoset of the street photos I took and with the editing, I guess I was inspired by Merphi's (1 || 2) recent trip to Taiwan. (She's one of the best photographers ever!) 

Chinatown, Manila and Taiwan... not too far, eh?

We are family!

For the first time, I was the one who initiated a family get-together as the summer-ender for us students in the family since we're starting another school year this week! I'm excited to go back to school! Though I haven't had any back-to-school shopping yet. :( 

It wasn't anything special but an intimate dinner. I think we filled the place with our voices, though. Haha! We decided to shift away from Asian cuisines for a while since we've been eating Chinese food mostly during the weekends. Anyway, we had our family summer-ender dinner at Shakey's in Cainta. There's already one there? Yep! They opened a new branch in the area and might as well say that fast food chains are starting to boom over the place.

Mojos and chicken! These really made my night! :)

...with garlic bread

This dish remains to be mysterious...

As usual, yung "nahiyang" slice. Lol

Desserts are served!

Vanilla sundae with that strawberry thing.

Plain raisin oatmeal cookie for me! 

Boys in Chinatown... almost!

Photos above from Raniel Hernandez.

A week ago, an itinerary to Chinatown was set. It was only me and Raniel who originally planned about it then he invited some blockmates. Only two of them were "G!" about it hence, a photowalk-ish adventure commenced.

Summer-ender giveaway from Hershey!

What's up, everyone! While I'm busy looking for a decent copy of Photoshop CS3, I blog hopped for a while and found this awesome giveaway. Though I also have seen this on my Twitter timeline. The giveaway sounded really interesting and all... besides, a planner, a satchel bag, an oversized hoodie, a mani-pedi treatment and sweet, cute cupcakes are at stake! Now who doesn't want that? Join here now :D

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Snack Size

Everything in this post feels and looks like snack size. In short, merienda. Internship has never been this fun with happy internmates and good food! :) Days ago I posted our very first lunch out at Banapple Ayala Triangle. This time, presenting one of our ordinary days at the pantry.

Of all the prominent milk tea places in metro, Moonleaf Tea Shop is be one of them. Their branches just keep on multiplying by the week. Just weeks ago, we were so thrilled of the news that Moonleaf was having a new branch in The Columns, Makati and to add more to the hype, it's near to our *coughs* office. However, we got disappointed that it only opened for a day! Eventually, we had the time to go out, finally, to buy a drink from there. It was actually my first time to ~*formally*~ enter a Moonleaf store since I tried it out before from a food bazaar. Anyway, we grabbed something from there and went straight to the pantry as some of us still had agendas to finish.

We also got to eat doughnuts from Cello's Doughnuts and Dips from their Taft branch c/o Tina. :) As usual, their products were the best! They have another branch over at Katipunan (and many others! Check out their site here.) so I suggest to go grab something from Cello's.

Hakka Milk Tea, Jasmine Milk Tea and Peppermint Milk Tea.

Busy? 

Think again! ;)