Can you finish this sentence?

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I cannot wait to tell you all about the Big Bang Bazaar that happened this weekend (and by all, I mean the good, the bad and the ugly!), but for now, I just want to know what you think.

If it’s not evident yet, I am a romantic.  Hopeless sometimes, but I think most of the time hopeful.  I like to think that everything has a purpose and that we were brought to where we are for a reason.  But that doesn’t necessarily mean I surrender everything to fate.  Some things, I make happen still.  Or at least I’d like to think so.

And some things just come to me.  I like imagining things, and sometimes, it almost feels like I willed myself to make something happen.  Like I thought about it too much that it had no other choice to be here.  Like the night I met Dylan.  I said, I miss feeling something powerful.  And when I first met Dylan, I was just superbly annoyed.  Like amazingly annoyed for no reason whatsoever.  The rest, as they say, is history.

So how about you?  Do you still remember the times when it felt like you willed something to happen?

How about you finish this sentence for me then? :)  It doesn’t have to be addressed to the night you met me; I don’t love myself that much (haha).  Think of the night you met this person and see if you willed this person to be in your life.  What were you thinking then?  What were you doing?  Do you think fate brought you there?  Was it a coincidence?  Was it purposeful?  Or was it a mere happenstance?

Let’s make this your dead letter. :)

How is the RH Bill worse than Martial Law?

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I couldn’t help but react to this piece of news I spotted when I visited Yahoo! Philippines’ homepage.  According to EX-Mayor Lito Atienza of Manila, the Reproductive Health Bill is worse than Martial Law.  From what I can derive from the newspiece, he gave this statement because the bill is “unconstitutional” and “anti-life”.  Also, it compels women to take drugs that will destroy their bodies.

Now, Congressmen who would support this measure will be given an additional P10 million their countrywide development fund or pork barrel.  Atienza was quoted quipping that it would be their “condom development fund”.

What really baffles me is how he finds this bill worse than the Martial Law.  Isn’t Martial Law the law that ignited the silence of journalists?  Suppression, lifting of habeas corpus, abductions and growth of desaparecidos, not to mention the inhumane treatment of political prisoners?  How is the RH Bill, whose main goal is to educate people of proper family planning, worse than the law that shutdown all media establishments and cost the country billions and billions in deficit?

Ang labo lang para ikumpara ang isang bagay na naglalayon iangat ang pang-unawa ng Pilipino sa isang batas na pumatay ng maraming Pilipino.

Did they not hear the news?  Even the Pope okayed the use of condoms.  The Pope himself recognized the fact that these things, however artificial, can prolong life and prevent the transfer of disease.

Besides, isn’t it also included in the RH bill that information must first be disseminated, individuals educated of how to use and when to use these contraceptives?  The RH Bill isn’t just wanting to throw pills and condoms in their faces; it aims to tell them how to use them PROPERLY so as not to destroy female bodies.  With proper guidance and monitoring, these contraceptives will not only control population growth.  This bill can actually make the Filipino smarter when it comes to proper family planning.

Minsan talaga mas mabilis ang bibig kesa sa utak.  At nakakahiya, sa totoo lang, na dokumentado ang mga minsang pagkakataon na yon.

Please be more careful with your words, Mr Atienza.  You are insulting the RH Bill supporters, who all want to guarantee a family life of more quality than the ones we have now, by inciting they are worse than the most cruel dictator this country has come to know.

Read this piece of news from Yahoo! Philippines and Philippine Star.

Modern garden gnomes

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I really don’t see the point of having garden gnomes but for some reason, people find it as a need when it comes to decorating their front yards.  From what I’ve read, garden gnomes started becoming a trend because of the local myth that gnomes help your garden at night.  This little mister started spreading across Germany, France, England and wherever gardening is a serious hobby.  (Thank you, Wiki.)

Now, the thought of having a tiny dude with a long beard and sporting a red hat hanging out in my front garden is not particularly appealing to me, so imagine my delight when I saw these modern garden gnomes.

For the record, I wasn’t really planning on having a front lawn.  I’m more of a backyard person.  But these gnomes are just so damn cute!

Click on the gnomes to see where you can buy them. :)

Oh and for the record, I don’t think I can ever be a garden person.  Something about kneeling on dirt is not so appealing to me.  But that doesn’t mean these gnomes are not cuuuuute. :)

Creative office dressing

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I think I have to come to accept the fact that even though what I wear in the office is appropriate, it is endlessly boring.  If someone were to observe my daily stylings, that person would say I have taken my liking for gray to a whole new level.  The only window of creativity that I often work around is the fact that I purposely use my shoes to accentuate whatever it is I’m wearing.

I mean, even Carrie Bradshaw would roll her eyes at me and say I am putting too much pressure on my shoes to make my outfit stylish.

Chictopia is always there to the rescue.  It is filled with endlessly stylish people and I find myself often in awe at how creative they get.  In short, I believe I need another trip to the neighborhood seamstress to fix me up some of these things.  (Recent weight gain has prevented me from fitting outfits that are not labeled S or M.  So I’m in denial.  Won’t you be?)

Now, who wouldn’t love an amazing printed blazer?!
In any other day, I would avoid pink like the plague. But I believe because of this outfit, I have completely changed my mind about it. :)
And here I thought orange seems so prisonlike. Don’t you just love how the color just pops off the page?
I’ve always known I would need a double breasted blazer soon enough. I absolutely adore the color blocking!
I knew I loved peach even before this. :)

So from the looks of it, I just have my new Monday to Friday look.  Hahahahaha.  I can so feel HR people rolling their eyes at my choice of color.  But really, who wouldn’t love the chicness of all these?  I so want to run to the fabric store already.  Now, to hunt for that seamstress…

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For those who are wondering about the guidelines of the 500th Blog Giveaway, I’ll post them as soon as I finalize the set of prizes.  Though those might not be much, I promise you’ll enjoy getting these free stuff. :)

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Chuck and Blair forever

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Excuse the fan mode moment.  I was having a bad morning at work when I saw this photo right now.

Chuck, get her back already! The freaking Prince just arrived with her freaking shoe!

CW writers better make them get back together already.  They’re so perfect!  As to why Leighton Meester’s face wasn’t framed as perfectly as it is now on Gossip Girl, I have no idea.  Either way, I am glad.

Damn that jawline, Westwick!

(fan mode end)

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