I have a funny dog

I was browsing through unsorted pictures trying to organize them neatly into folders when I came upon these pictures.

Meet Obama (aka Bam, Bambam, Bama, Chewbama)

He's a Pomeranian. A BIG Pomeranian.

 He makes this face when he chews his food. Any food. It's like he doesn't really enjoy whatever he's eating.

 

Yet he goes back to eating whatever it is, nonetheless.

Almost Christmas!

I'm also almost done with my Christmas shopping! Just a few more gifts to go!

And with the obligatory mowdel shot:

Vagabonding: Bangkok Blues

First time I stepped foot in Bangkok was back in December 2012. I wasn't sure if my parents would allow me to travel alone with the boyfriend so I begged them for months to travel with us to Bangkok. I wanted to see more of the other Southeast Asian counties; I was tired of just staying in Singapore whenever we'd "travel the region."

Maybe just to shut me up, they agreed.

And that started my love affair with the city with the longest name ever.

As soon as I got out of the airport, I immediately knew that Bangkok was going to be one of my favorite cities. The sights, the sounds, the smell... Everything just appealed to me. There were a lot of people but I wasn't bothered one bit. Traffic was terrible but you rarely hear anyone complaining about it, let alone blast their horns to try and make everyone move out of the way. You get bombarded by so many different aromas with all the food being cooked but it just makes you want to stop by the first food stall that you see and eat to your heart's content.

Everything just blends well together and gives the city its character. Well, at least that's what I think haha.

After that short visit, I knew that I had to come back. I have yet to see a live Muay Thai fight. I have yet to explore the other tourist-y spots within Bangkok. I wanted to go back and eat at Al-Sana's again. More importantly, I wanted to see more of Thailand outside of Bangkok.

I know that it may seem romantic, but I can honestly say that I really love Bangkok and if I can, I would like to spend more than a few days there. A few months would be good!

A few months to get used to all the pretty ladies walking around who aren't really ladies. A few months to get used to blindly handing over the fate of my life to the tuk-tuk driver whenever I give up trying to walk any further. A few months to get used to haggling my way over everything in order to maximize my pocket money and not be broke in a span of a week.

Wat Benchamabophit, aka "The Marble Temple" 

 First tuk-tuk ride ever! #BuwisBuhay

We were lucky enough to witness some sort of ordination (or baka pray-over, ewan)

Gold leaf. Ang yayaman ng mga statue, pramis. 

 One more thing that I absolutely adored in BKK: Overly-friendly cats and dogs! <3

Well, I did come back, but it was only for a couple of days (My lao affair with Laos is a whole other story.)

Perhaps the year after next, I can save enough to go on an extended trip across the Indochina peninsula -- starting with Bankok, of course!

I'm still alive!

I just saw that my last update was two years ago. Though it seemed as if I was super busy with work, I pretty much just spent the last two years traveling whenever I can to wherever I can.

Fun, no?

Well I decided to go back to writing.

What about? I don't know.

I can write about the places I've been to the past two years. Or I can write about the crossroads that I'm making myself face these past few months. Pero emo eh, so we'll see.

But as always, I'll probably just write about whatever I want.

So if there's anyone still reading this...

I'm baaaaaaack!

Why, hello there!

I haven't been online that much lately since I just started with my new job and I've been too lazy to go online when I get home.

Days have been pretty much uneventful too, so there's nothing much to write about -- except that I just spend my money buying more books lol.

Like yesterday, I was able to get these three:

Yep, it's about all the conspiracies lol

It's Slash! Who doesn't love Slash?

They finally had this in stock!

And just last week, the boyfriend and I decided to get a camera. We're not into the whole photography thing that's very, very popular these days, so a simple point-and-shoot Canon IXUS 115 HS would do. It's about Php10k (which we got for installment at 0% in 6 months) and it has all these nifty features like toy camera, miniature and fish eye settings. It also shoots HD video.

Perfect for taking pictures of my dogs XD

Plus points coz it's metallic pink!

Star-strucked: Pepe Smith

Boyfriend and I were passing time in Megamall yesterday and as we were going down the escalator, I saw someone remotely looking like Pepe Smith going up the escalator and I lost my footing and almost fell my way down from the 4th to the 3rd floor.

So back up we went and started stalking. I'm bad at stalking famous people.

Finally, we saw him go inside Data Blitz and saw that everyone was on the opposite corner from where he was looking around. As in! Walang lumalapit.

So I gathered up the courage and approached him...
Me: "Excuse me po, pwede magpa-autograph?" (That is so unlike me.)
Pepe Smith: "Ah, sure, sure!"
*Signs my handy-dandy notebook*
Me: "Sorry po, nastar-struck ako sa inyo eh. Pwede po magpa-picture?"
Pepe Smith: "Of course!"

Hence I got this:

I so could've done a better pose but my face was twitching all over.

Yeahboi!

I lose my composure when I'm around rock stars hahaha.

I got my earmuffs on!

Saw this displayed by the window of an electronics store (forgot which lol) and I thought that I just had to own it.

Audio-Technica Limited Edition (says so in the box) Earmuff Headphones. There are two colors available, brown and black. I got the brown ones as I do not have that color yet and it's seldom I find the color brown appealing.

Php2,999. Okay na for that price, I guess.

The headphones. (No flash.) They're super duper soft.

It's brown and the band is covered with some faux leather type of material. (With flash.)