A Greener Selection

In my previous post, regarding Mango Papaya Vinaigrette, well, it was perfect for salad! I tried it kaninang dinner. At first, if you'll taste the vinaigrette lang, para siyang tangy or maasim. But if you put it on salad, masarap siya.

I bought Dole Greener Selection salad. I want to prepare the salad personally sana. I mean, prepare it from scratch. However, I want to try first the two dressings we have here at home. One is the Caesar Salad Dressing which I bought at S&R. The other one is the dressing/vinaigrette I made kanina.

Greens with maling and belcube cheese. Plus the mango papaya vinaigrette. Yummy!

Since I want a taste of something different aside sa greens lang, I added few bits of maling. Just enough to satisfy my taste buds. Also, for additional flavor, I added 2 Belcube Creamy Ham Flavored Cheese by Laughing Cow. It was soooo good!

The Belcube Creamy Cheese is actually a spread. 2 cubes of cheese is not bad naman siguro diba? I'm starting this diet palang naman. Para di mabigla.. If my tummy is sanay na with these greens, tsaka ko na siguro itotodo.

I will have no rice in my diet. Promise. No cheat day yet, because I want to lose weight agad. Full effort ito! :) Next time na ako magcheacheat day kapag payat nako! hihi.

Anyway, you should try it. Salad with bits of maling and laughing cow belcube cheese. It's not really light nor heavy meal. Just right. Atleast, it's a start. :D

Mango Papaya Vinaigrette

Since I am planning to go on a diet, I made a salad dressing. After eating at Mary Grace Cafe kasi, I said to myself, Im'ma try the dressing they have for their Prawn Salad. It is the Mango-Papaya Dressing. It's good huh!

Here's the ingredients:

1 Large Ripe Papaya
1 Large Ripe Mango
1/4 cup of Olive Oil
1/3 cup of Apple Cider Vinegar 
1 Tbsp Honey
Salt and Pepper. 

1. Peel and put Papaya and Mango meat in a blender. 
2. Add the remaining ingredients except salt and pepper.
3. Blend well.
4. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

It's kinda tangy because of the Apple Cider Vinegar, but it's okay, it'll blend well in the salad.

Will share to you later my dinner. Will try it with salad.

Truth About My Weight

Hello! Today's Sunday. My mag-ama went out for a basketball game. John kasi would always play basketball kapag Sunday, sinama nya si Johann. Perfect time for me to blog! :)

I just want to share to you (if I have readers. lol.) some things about me and my weight.

When I was dalaga, I was thinner. Chubby, but thinner, compared now. My height is 5"1" and my weight before is from 115lbs to 118lbs. It even went down to 108lbs to 110lbs but average would be the first weight I mentioned. I fit a size Medium in most of the clothes. Large kapag masikip sa arms. Sa arms kasi talaga nagkakatalo. I have brusko arms so if Medium ang damit pero masikip sa arms, I change it to Large. So yeah, Medium to Large ako. Get the picture?

I really looked young, pretty and blooming then. Kasi comfortable ako sa everything. Clothes, face, tummy not showing etc. Now kasi, I feel bloated, fat, parang my clothes kept on shrinking on me na hindi na ako kasya sakanila. Haha!

When I got pregnant, I was not that fat. I gained weight but not too much, so I figured, mabilis babalik ang katawan ko. Johann was not that big din when I had him. First few months, I was a typical na nanganak. Still the same weight when I was pregnant. But as months passed, I gained and gained.

Preggy. 6-7 months na yata ako nyan. 

I am a stay-at-home mommy. Johann's malikot but I make it bawi sa food intake lagi. When I am depressed or stressed, I eat. When I am pagod, I eat. When I am happy, I still eat! Haha. No exercise.

Honestly, that is may be one reason why I seldom go out. I am so conscious of how I look and how I weigh. I get ill-tempered that I can't wear any nice clothes anymore 'coz hindi na kasya yung mga luma kong damit. I also seldom buy clothes that's why I have only a number to choose from. I am not kasi a type of person na would wear sexy clothes or fitted clothes kahit mataba. May iba kasi, mukhang suman sa damit if they wear uber fitted eh. No offense meant to those who wear clothes like that. It's just that it is not me. I am not comfortable with that eh.

I enrolled back to boxing and even gym. (Dati pala, kaya ako payat kasi, nagboboxing ako sa Elorde and nagggym ako sa Fitness First. Sarado na kasi Elorde sa SM Southmall kaya nakakatamad na sa malayo magboxing.) Anyway, I enrolled in a boxing gym located in Madrigal Business Park, Alabang. 4 months ako naka-enroll. Come 4th month, medyo tinatamad nako. Lost few pounds. But ever since I stopped, I gained again. I have been telling John, if I really want to lose weight, dapat consistent ang gym ko. Since I am not enrolled anymore, pano ako magwowork out? Sis in law ko kasi, payat na. Pero it took her more than 2 years din, bago na maintain yung figure. Kasi, hindi natatanggal gym nya. There would be times na she's lazy to go but atleast, anytime, she can come back. That's what I want. Pero siyempre, we're not that mayaman naman. So dapat, once enrolled, sulitin. Which I didn't.

Why am I gaining? It is because I am a rice person. Take note. I eat lunch and dinner. Twice lang ha? Pero since I eat rice, I keep on gaining weight. Usually pa kasi, 1 and half cup rice ako. Haha! If masarap ulam, hanggang 2 cups. lol. In between meals, I seldom eat. Pero if eat usually fatty food. Ice cream, chocolate, sweets, or junk food. Diba? Sino ba naman di tataba non?

However, there are people who I really idolize for their dedication in losing weight. They are Mommy Fleur, Mommy Cheryll, Tina de Guzman and Joanne Avila (friends of mine) and Marie Flores (also a friend). I have been observing them for almost 2-3 months now. They are losing weight. Kailangan talaga ang mind set. San ba nakakabili non? Pa-order nga ako.

I tend to be tamad talaga kasi at times. Pero as I said, I need my mind to be set in order for me to get back into my dalaga weight. Exercise, eat well and control.

Ate Che of Out of The Box Ideas, told me, I should reveal, make kwento and blog it so the whole world (lol. daming readers?) will witness this. Para mag-pursige ako magpapayat. I will start again tomorrow. Jogging, diet and control. No rice, no sweets etc.

Will update what and how I am doing about this project me, soon! :)

Current weight: 145lbs. Kapag busog, 148lbs. Haha! :D

Great Finds 1!

I am a sucker for home organizing stuff. Post its, notepads, utility boxes, boxes with dividers, baskets etc. Since our house is so cluttered, I really need those! Hehe. And did I mention, my mind is cluttered too? Haha! That's why may post its and notepads.. I love to list my thoughts! :D

Believe it or not, I can be soooo organized at times, pero pag nagmamadali, I tend to put things anywhere nalang. However, may cycle cya, once I notice that it is so messy already, back to linis, ligpit and organize na.

So anyway, I passed by Daiso Japan Home Center in ATC last Monday. Here are the things I bought:

Toothbrush holder with cup

see? mga pang organize ng kung anik-anik.

May, my bestfriend, bought this liquid soap. I got inggit, I bought two, to try. Hehe.
Mabango cya infairness and soft sa skin.

Handy Medicine Organizer for me. John already has his, ako naman.

Rack with stand. 

Basket for whatevers

Those are really cheap! Great finds too! 

Q: What are your recent loots/finds?

     Would you prefer the cheap ones or the expensive ones? 

Lunch Date with Twin!

Hiyee!

Yesterday, my best friend/twin, May, and I decided to have a lunch date. It has been 3-4 months I think, since we last saw each other. Take note, we live in the same village ah! Hehe.. She has been busy with work, ako naman, been sick, been busy and our free time just doesn't jive. Buti nalang, we were both free yesterday.

That's my twinee May @ Chili's.

We had lunch in Chili's Alabang Town Center. It was our first time to eat there. Food was really great. We ordered Triple Dipper, it is like a platter that consists of Chicken Crispers, Wings Over Buffalo and Southwestern Eggrols. I am a whatever foodie so I loved all three! Hehehe. Then we also ordered Grilled Shrimp Alfredo Pasta with Mushrooms as added topping. I love anything with shrimp and mushroom. So yeah, I liked, no, loved the pasta as well.

Top Left: Triple Dipper, Top Right: Grilled Shrimp Alfredo Pasta with Mushrooms
Bottom Left: Logo, Bottom Center: BlodyMary, Bottom Right: Zombie

We wanted to make sulit of our lunch date and since we needed to go home just before the sun sets, we ordered alcohol/cocktail. Yez!! sa tanghali po yan. Haha! Mine was BloodyMary and May ordered Zombie. We didn't finish drinking it eh because we were sooo full already. We spent 3 hours yata eating and chikahan.

I had a great time kasi kwentuhan galore kaming dalawa. That's actually our usual naman so, nothing new. Hehe.

In the bus on our way home. Oily and ngarag na! Hehe.

Missed her so yesterday was a blast.



Chili's Alabang Town Center
LGF, Corte de Las Palmas Expansion, Alabang Town Center, Muntinlupa City
Tel no.: 846-2647

Right Brained Person

Hello everyone!

How was your weekend? If you'd ask me, it went well. Saturday midnight, well, technically, Sunday na pala yun. Sunday nang madaling-araw, I helped my brother-in-law's wife (bilas) with decorating the balloons. Mind you, I am expert with that. Haha! Not really expert pala, I know quite a few tricks in decorating balloons in parties!

So yeah, went to their house to organize and decorate the balloons. It was the Christening of my husband's nephew kasi. Honestly, I was not able to take photos of the event 'coz my camera is broken. In the process of having it fixed. So I am still waiting for them to upload the pics.

Anyhoo.. since I already mentioned about decorating balloons, I want to share to you some of the pics taken from 2 of the events happened last year.

Christening: Balloon Pacifier and Balloon Cloud

Christening Event

Christening: Balloon Arc

Christening: Balloon Pillars (small)

Christening: Experimenting Balloon Designs

1st Birthday: Swags, Balloonderitas, Balloon Arc

1st Birthday: Balloon Arc

1st Birthday: Don't you just love those balloons? It makes
the area better for a party. 

1st Birthday: Concept by me.

I am grateful of the talent I have. (Sabay, about me pala yung post ano? hehe.) I can be very creative in a lot of ways. I get excited everytime they ask me to help them in planning or decorating these for parties. God gave me this kind of talent and creativity, might as well share to others. These, by the way, were made/done for free. But if you want me to help you with decorating, it may come with a price ofcourse, but cheaper cyempre. :)

Aside from that pala, I am not only creative in decorating/planning designs for parties, I also apply my (being a right-brained-person) with editing and designing invites, souvenir stickers/cards etc.

Invite

Stub

Print out for the souvenir

Tarpaulin

Invite

I still have a few more in my external hard drive. I usually lend my help by editing/designing these (above) for them to use in the party itself. Plus, hindi yan bara-bara. I put my heart and mind into it ha! I want it to look nice din kasi. And if I'm not mistaken, my reputation is also at stake here. They know kasi that maganda ako gumawa ng mga ganito. Hihi. Unlike sa ibang nagpepersonalize, mejo template na kadalasan ang meron sila. Right?

Atleast though, I can say, I am still good at some things aside from being a mother and wife to Johann and John. :) These things also help and save me from the boredomness at home sometimes. Hihi.

If you want my help/services feel free to email me, message me or leave a comment. :)

Some backgrounds, designs, wallpapers used in making print outs above were from the internet websites which I was not able to recall/note. Credits to those who made those. But layout/design/edit are purely mine. :)

Positivity!

I have been following, reading someone's blog since I've been a mommy. Well, I have been reading people's blogs but there is a certain person I always check everyday! Hehe. Stalker lang ang dating. But no, and I don't know. I was searching kasi something before in google when I stumbled on Mommy Fleur's blog. I got hooked because she's a fun mommy and blogger. So everyday, I check her blog. There are a few more mommies/bloggers I follow but I really don't forget checking M.Fleur's blog. Teehee..

Anyway, just checked her blog and she blogged about Good Vibes and Simple Happiness. You can check it here.

I will quote from her blog: "Take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back".

I really should keep that in mind. That's one reason why I love reading blogs and making entries. Blogging is my tool to release stress. Makes me happy and relieved. 

#positivevibes #goodvibes

What ruined my weekend

Sorry if the title of this post is a little bit 'Nega'.

I just want to let this all out, just for the record.

A friend sent me a text message last week. He said, "Traydor!!!". My initial reaction was like, "Ha? Ano daw? Bakit ako traydor??" That was what I thought, so I replied to him with "Ha?" He replied back and it was just some prank message that has so-so meaning of what or how you replied on the first message, "Traydor!!"

So what I did, I tried to text them all to my close friends. To my surprise the following morning, I received 18 messages and 4 missed calls. It was hilarious! I replied back ofcourse. I forwarded them the so-so prank message reply and said peace!

Yes, it was funny to read all of their messages until I received a reply from a friend. Well, I consider him as my "bestfriend". We may not see and talk to each other that often, but I consider him that. Any way, his message contained his feelings on what I texted him, "Traydor". It really hurt me so, that I cried. That prank message backfired me. At was no fun at all anymore. :(

Just to tell you, that friend of mine and I had a misunderstanding. I was sulking on the fact that he has been ignoring me when I invited him to my son's birthday. I did not receive any reply at all. I would have understood if he just told me he can't make it because of this or that. He ignored me as if, he didn't care.

To make him notice that I was sulking the hell out of what happened, I erased him on my Facebook. But, as I expected, he didn't even bother to ask me why. Oh yeah!

Then prolly, he thought, I was serious when I texted him that "Traydor" message. May be it made his emotions come out. But, is that even "THAT" serious that he would say those kind of things to me? Haay.

I would not elaborate everything that he said but it sure hurt me a lot. :( He did not even bother to ask me how I feel and why I even texted that message. He just shoot me and ended our friendship right away. :(

I may be "tampo" but, I never thought of something worse than what he thought I was to him.

I missed him ever since. We haven't seen nor talked for quite a while, then it ended just like that. He is the only guy (aside from my husband) I trust so much that I even made him a "Ninong" for my son.

Haay.

Sorry. My pride might eat me alive but, as of the moment, I don't think, I can do the first move.

Thinking of getting a job??.... Not!

I have been pondering on this ever since Johann's 1st Birthday. As you all know, I am a "Stay-at-Home Mom". I really enjoy being a mom. No doubt that. It's just that, there comes a time when in I think about a lot of things like our monthly budget, plans for Johann's future, things I want and need to buy, expenses, and believe it or not, boredom.

I just became a home buddy when I gave birth. But mind you, before that, I rarely stay at home. I enjoy more when I'm out. Now, I'm always home taking care of Johann. He's even more bored than me that he keeps on crying just to go and play outside. That's a different story though. Anyway, it is kind of  boring at home.

I am just too lazy to go outside because if I go out, I usually worry Johann being a handful. I really can't go out with him without John. I am the type of person pa naman who becomes irritable when it's hot. If Johann's malikot, ako din, naiinitan. Hehe!

Any way, I want to work already. For the past months, I have been trying to check for job openings/postings in Jobstreet. I saved a lot of searches. But, I am still not passing my resume. I need a "GO" signal from my hubby.

Yes! A "GO" signal! Well, he doesn't want me to work. He wants me to take care of him but most especially Johann, ofcourse. I understand what he means because as I mentioned earlier, Johann's a handful. He is also so attached to us or more on me, that he cries when we leave him with my in-laws. It tears my heart if he cries like that. Nakakaawa.

Oh well. So far, John agrees naman. Only if Johann is already 3 years of age. He may be handful that age daw but hindi na din siguro masyado kasi madali nang mapagsasabihan. We're still not sure though. Also, John has a condition. If he gets a job in Singapore, he either does not want me to work anymore or if I already have one, I have to stop.

Hay. It's hard to choose. As if, I have. Eh my hubby nga ang may ayaw. Boo!

Don't get me wrong okay? John is not that kind of husband na mahigpit on things. He let me be. Only when it comes to this lang because he doesn't want our baby to be left with his or my parents. Dami na kasi kids sakanila so madaming inaalagaan then my parents are not at home most of the time.

I'm torn but yeah, we'll see in the future. I know whatever decision I'll make it'll be for the good of my family. Goodluck!

For the meantime, I have to deal with it. So far, I am happy. May be bored at times. Buti nalang Johann and John are always there to cheer me and make me laugh more. Teehee.. :)

I am an artist...

Hmm.. Some people don't know is that I am an artist. I take photographs, I edit videos, I graphic-design, etc. These are just some of the things I love to do when I was in college. After college, I still love doing these however, there is a very long story why I took a different job line. It actually lessened, I mean, what I do love the most.

And then, I got pregnant. Well, I soooo love being a mom to my one and only son, but sometimes, I miss doing those things I loved and still love.

Yes, I do take photos still but, mostly just random pics of everyday life, and not in a professional way. You know, something that has more meaning into it, or something that has concept and all that. I know for my self that there is still one rule in being an artist, "THERE ARE NO RULES."

I do miss editing videos as well. Even segment/commercials of TV shows. I miss ABS-CBN. Really.

Haay.. Once I recover in being a mom, cyempre kahit ilang months nadin yun, I'm still struggling since there are a lot of milestones na I experience with my baby, I will soon get back to what I have left off. That is being an artist. Graphic design man yan, video editor, photographer or the like.