A Time to Brag!

Before we left the Philippines, our friend Mye gave us something priceless! It was a mug with our photos on it!

She is a professional events planner who's taking every event in the world in her hands, all by herself! She named her business venture Mye Events, and she is open for reservations! So you better hurry up you guys!

Here's a memorable photo of the turnover ceremony which took place at our favorite Aling Foping's in Matina Town Square:

You bet it was the coolest we got from that trip back home. It was awesome how she thought of conceptualizing a gift for us amidst her busy schedule. Mye Mye my friend, I hope you know how grateful we are for the thoughtfulness! This was not the first time, and I bet you'd be surprised to know that I have a place for your thingy in our room! Remember this one?

Legit-LookingWedding Rings

At long last! We managed to get new set of wedding rings in our latest trip to the Philippines, it is one of my "only in the Philippines" story where you could buy cheap jewelry!

Getting these legit-looking wedding rings was really an achievement on my part, everybody's noticing it, or at least someone would already care to ask nowadays, you're not married are you? Happy!!!

ALL STARS

*Guest post written by our friend Sergio Chaney

I can't wait to watch another episode of "Project Runway All Stars" Worcester directv. It is by far my favorite show. I usually am not a fan of reality or competition tv, but I am a fashionphile and "Project Runway" is right up my alley. The cool thing about the "All Stars" this season is that all of the people on the show have been in other seasons of "Project Runway" before. They are really the most qualified and some of the most memorable people that got kicked off the show before. They are all really talented and know what they are doing, so it makes this season even better than some seasons before. Some of the clothes that they have come out were absolutely amazing. I wish that you could buy some of them! I can't wait to see who wins this season. I feel like everyone is qualified and would be a fabulous designer. I have my personal favorites, but usually my personal favorites are not the ones who end up winning. I'm trying to stay quiet about them so that I do not jinx them!

Deciding On the Bedroom Wall Photo

We have a lot of good photos in my opinion, and I am having a hard time which one to put in the bedroom. Before DC Fotografia's pro bono photoshoot, Honey and I already went to the photo studio in Davao to strike the best couple pose. We didn't have good wedding photos as our wedding was unplanned and a big joke, therefore I came up with a plan and set aside a neat budget for a studio shoot when we went to the Philippines last month. You might be wondering why we didn't do it here, and it is because I don't think we could afford even the simplest studio shoot in San Jose! Dang! So the trip to the Philippines was all worth it in terms of taking good photos, thinking that we already compensated for the engagement photos that we missed and the best part was that we got almost all of the good edited and raw photos for free! Only in the Philippines!

I got five soft copies of the studio shoot, and I picked the one where we put on our original first wedding suits...

Of course deciding on the best photo is a conjugal thing, but then I know that Honey would just pick whatever photo he thinks is the best without factoring in some sorting and sleepless nights, that is why he is a man in the first place. I want a photo of us both facing in the camera and as much as possible with both our wedding bands visible, but then as of this very moment, I couldn't find any except for this...

I will definitely convert the photo that I will pick to black and white in order to fit into my chic bedroom idea. Right now I think it would take me another week to decide on which photo to blow up... My mind is also multitasking, it is telling me to go to Michael's to check out wall frames! Oh my!!!

Bedroom Makeover - The Plan

Looking for the best small bedroom ideas...

This year would mark the beginning to initiate this plan. I have always wanted to have a chic all white room with a hint of powder blue, pink, and yellow. I am conceptualizing how to do these without being too tempted by Ikea's wonderful bedroom ideas! The most important thing is to do the makeover without replacing a lot. I want to achieve my desired concept by keeping majority as is, to save cost of course, because I don't also want to be impractical. We have a small box of room, but this is one of the biggest among all four rooms in this house. It is painted with powder blue, half is covered with soft floral wallpaper with a hint of soft pink, lavender, and blue. Our queen-sized bed is almost black, our study table dark mahogany, our TV stand brown (which I really dislike), our dresser is white, our laundry basket is cream, our carpet is beige, our door is ugly brown. Majority of those I mentioned will stay the same except for the laundry basket and the TV stand, which I will replace hopefully on payday! The major makeover will take place in the form of curtains and bed sheets, plus a huge black and white couple photo somewhere around these walls. I also want to buy a standing oval mirror!

Right now a lot of wants are flowing inside my mind but I have to keep the spending in the low low, a $1000 maybe? How I wish! Budget time...

Photo-shoot for Free!

Now I could say, that despite this stressful Philippine travel, I did not regret coming home! There is no way I would regret this, I have accomplished important things for my family and spent time with them which is the most important part, plus, we got a complimentary photo-shoot from the best guys ever! An old friend, and previous Pastor named Benjie Lloyd Dela Cruz started photography as a hobby, together with his cousin Kuya Aying and they invited us to have a couple shoot for FREE! We were like, for real?!!! For real indeed, and there is going to be a take two before we go back to the United States next week! We are now thinking of renting an outfit for the next photo-shoot, white long gown and white suit for Honey as a matter of fact, crossing our fingers that we could actually find this in Davao City!

Pastor Lloyd or "Kayode" as we call him, named their rising business venture DC Fotografia. They cater different types of photo-shoots as per client requirement. Here is a snapshot of their photo-shoot package/s:

I will post more updates as I go on, including the photos taken by DC Fotografia... Right now its time for lunch!

First Wedding Anniversary

January 4, 2012 - so I figured this post is a month late! Haha! First wedding anniversary, same as the wedding itself, nothing fancy. We just ate at a Korean Buffet in Sunnyvale and took one photo as a souvenir...

Khloe and Lamar

Guest post from: Kent Lara

In case you haven't heard the Kardashians are taking over the world. I have recently started watching the Keeping Up With the Kardashians spin off Khloe and Lamar and I really am getting into it. It has all of the Kardashian family with only about half of the drama. You get to see more of Rob on this show than any of the others since he lives with Khloe and Lamar. You also get to know Lamar a little better when he is on that show and not training or away playing in a basketball game. Khloe and Lamar's relationship is an interesting one. They were only dating for about a month or so when they decided to get engaged. The whole Kardashian family was all up in arms when they made the announcement of the wedding because they didn't even hardly know Lamar at the time since he had only recently stepped into the picture. Check out GiveADish.com to find out if you can get Khloe and Lamar on your local stations to catch up on all the action.