My Pink Shoelace

I have always been fascinated with Sakura or Cherry Blossoms and whenever I am lucid my head is always full of images of a huge Cherry Blossoms tree with a bench beside it and a beautiful woman wearing a gorgeous kimono and a fan standing next to it. If only I have the talent to paint or to draw I would have produced this image in my head into something tangible.

Now for my second ink … since I have always been fascinated with Cherry Blossoms I finally got one on my left foot. It looks really really really nice! Though it was painful it was all worth it, the pain is completely different from that of the one on my neck with kokopelli. But with the first tattoo it was just one color and no shading so their was no pain afterwards. But with my sakura … the area where it was tattooed swelled for several days and its painful too. The pain let up after awhile though and it started peeling off like it should.

Now let’s take a look at below:

I’ve made a mental promise to myself that I would only have 8 tattoos and mentally I have already plotted out the areas to be inked. The next one would be on my left wrist … hopefully my name in Farsi or in Aramaic that is if I could get someone to do the translation for me. lol

I used to remember how some people back at my old work who cannot seem to make both ends meet. Even it was just 5 days after we received our pay they would start whining about not having any money left. Isn’t that crazy or what? I am not sure where all their money went to, they would end up looking for payday advance in just about any lending firm they could find. *sigh* I hope things are letting up though and that they’d be able to manage their finances a lot better.

I turned a year older yesterday ….

This is one those dates in the year where I am reminded of how mom would use to greet me the moment I wake up instead now … I woke up like I always did feeling old and empty. *sigh*

A close neighbor of ours cooked three dishes for me and I had a good fill during lunch. She’s quite an accomplished cook. After lunch headed to church, bought some flowers, got home and then went to visit mom.

One of the friends I never expected to remember sent me a nice ecard via email … it was rather surprising that she remembered without Facebook to remind her.

I’m quite pleased with how I spent my birthday, fancy parties were never my thing. If I was still working I’d probably have dinner with a few people … but now I think this celebration is pretty much what I liked best.

I have always been fascinated with the idea of capturing the beauty of nature. I managed to buy my own dslr a Canon camera a couple of months back and now I am planning to go South of Cebu and take photos to my hearts content. I’d still have to ask a friend to accompany me though and discuss transportation options.  I look forward to taking tons of snapshot of the beach, the people and the vast expanse of green … green as far as the eyes can see.

I have been a member of Asia Torrent for a while now and I’ve been quite active over at the forums. It’s fun to interact with people who share the same interests as yours and who are just as fascinated with Asian movies and TV series like I am. Though I gotta admit am not big fan of Korean TV series, the only Korean series I’ve watched and fell in love with was Lovers In Paris and at the moment I have no plans of starting to watch one. What has fascinated me these past few months are the Taiwanese dramas and Jdoramas. They’re amazing … plus they aid me in my Mandarin studies.

Anyways I was just foolin around last night thinking how empty my posts seem to be at the forums because I don’t have any “Signature” attached. So I decided to create one … and being a huge fan of Kenichi Matsuyama the end result is … take a look below:

~ Wo Ai Kenichi Matsuyama ~

Now on the actual signature its way bigger than the image above … had to resize it here. Hehehehe. Isn’t he cute or what???!!! I’d marry him any day LOL )

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After being a fan of the Japanese culture for a long time now, I finally decided to immerse myself in the kawaii culture. Not only with the kawaii lettersets that I have collected over the years but also in the form of my mobile phone. Since I still do not understand how hyper sim cards work I did not take the risk of buying a pink Docomo phone from ebay. Though I was very much tempted.

To date I have three mobile phones in my possession and many more have come and gone (am very fickle-minded when it comes to a lot of things and cellphones is one of them).

This little cutie here is a locked Bird mobile phone given to be my one of closest friends in the world. It was a promise she made when we graduated in High School and this little baby arrived at my doorsteps when I was in my second year in college. It is now showing signs of being used … it has been used quite well for a good number of years and mind you it is still in perfect condition despite the scratches.

The second one is a MyPhone, New Moon edition. Bought on a whim and used for about 6 months. It’s now back inside its original box, happily resting.

The third one which is what am currently using is a Hello Kitty flip phone. It’s a China Phone (bought again on an impulse) which sports dual sim functionality. I was strolling around the mall one day when I saw this baby displayed and I instantly fell in love with it. Bought it in less than 10 minutes.

- The Kawaii Culture which is associated with the Japanese culture has been very popular for many years now. Kawaii-ing your mobile phone involves loading (if not overloading) it with kawaii mobile straps in all colors, styles and designs. -

- All three of them -

I did research online on kawaii mobile phones and I’ve seen tons of really cute ones, they’re just adorable. One of the things I noticed with Japanese phones is that they are almost always flip phones. In all the Japanese movies and doramas I have seen, the phones are always compact, light flip phones offset by massive straps.

Let’s see what I’ve done with mine. Upon taking the images there were only 5 different straps on them. They have since increased upon posting this entry. (Will post new pics later on).

Upon taking these pictures my phone has 5 straps:

1. My Pink Shoelace dongle [it's something, I had made for my site, like a sort of cute mascot] Used it as a giveaway for a contest held here. I’ve kept one for myself.

2. A brown bear (so cute!)

3. A pink dongle with my name engraved on it and a matching pink slipper attached to it

4. Pink strap embedded with crystal stones

5. A cute miniature geisha [a gift from a friend who came home from Japan]

- This is the pink dongle with my nick name on it: Weng and my real name on the other side -

- The My Pink Shoelace dongle -

There you have it, the current object of my affection. My Hello Kitty flip phone overloaded with kawaii straps. I am still looking for a monokuro boo and rilakkuma cell phone straps but so far haven’t had much luck. next step will be to check out ebay. A friend of mine actually said the cell phone straps are heavier combined than the cell phone itself, found what she said very hilarious.

When will I ever have a body like that?!!! Lol I know with hard work, discipline, self-control, exercise, diet … uhmmm what else? I’ll get there but darn … there’s just too many great food out there waiting to be sampled. I wish there’s some sort of weight loss pills that work that is available in the market at an affordable price. That way I’d lose all these extra pounds fast without all the workout. hehehe.

Sharon has been looking all over the web for a sample copy of a medical resume and use it as the basis of making her own. She is on the market looking for a job and she cannot proceed any further if she does not have a viable resume with her. The problem is how to get started in making them. There’s a web site that offers to create one for you but there’s a charge to it and she is not yet ready to proceed with that.

Received an email earlier which landed on my bulk folder the subject said Shop For Hansgrohe faucet Online. I opened it up and saw a wide array of faucet designs in various colors. What got me hooked was the pink one I posted above. Isn’t it just lovely? Now I cannot stop imagining a pink kitchen full of pink items … like the one below:

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So so so cute!!!!

Junk emails have been piling up for the past three weeks and if you don’t continually clean them out they would continue to pile them up more and more. Then there’s this one email that talks about “what is the  strongest  best suppressant?” When you open it this email would give you link to take you to an online pharmacy that sells just about every imaginable diet pills and anti-suppressant pills in the market.

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