Remember my ultimate new year’s resolution?

Well, the first part of Cooking Mama challenge happened tonight. Best time to play in the kitchen because I was home alone. I didn’t want my family, especially my mother, to be there while I make my desperate attempts to learn how to cook. I guess my mother has become hopeless about my cooking skills that everytime she sees me at the kitchen doing something unusual, she grunts and tells me to back off. Lols just kidding. She doesn’t want me in the kitchen because she knows the kind of damage that I can do. Heh.

First on my list is Mango Float. I said this before but let me reiterate that I am aware that Mango Float does not involve any cooking lol. But I guess I have to learn basic cooking skills first like measuring ingredients, chopping, mixing and plating. So don’t hate, appreciate. 

I bought the ingredients earlier this afternoon. On my list were mangoes, graham crackers, crushed graham crackers, cashew nuts, all purpose cream, sweetened condensed milk and Choco Baby. One thing I learned from it was how to choose the ripe mangoes aside from the obvious fact that they should be yellow. According to the friendly SM guy, the mango should smell good when you hold it near your nose. When I was picking my mangoes, I was still clueless. I followed my heart instead.

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I’ve been meaning to post these photos from Iloilo and Guimaras since last year but it has been crazy busy at work that I only got to sort these photos out today. Thank you Chinese friends for this non-working holiday. Happy New Year.

Anyway, we had a 3D2N trip to Iloilo and Guimaras last November for our 45th month (yes, we celebrate monthsaries hihi). I got the air tickets from Cebu Pacific last May and bought it for only Php 1,800.00 for two persons. Base Fare was only 4 pesos plus plus plus Cebu Pacific’s other excuses to get money from us (eg. web admin fee, aviation security fee, etc.) Lol just kidding.

On our Day 1, we toured the cities of Molo, Villa and downtown Iloilo. Getting around Iloilo gives you more of the cultural and gastronomical experience than the usual beach fun. There are lots of food to try and churches to visit (we’re not that interested on the latter, though). First on our list was Tatoy’s Manokan along Villa Beach. Based on what I’ve read, when you’re in Villa, you should definitely try Tatoy’s Manokan or Breakthrough. I especially loved Tatoy’s Baked Talaba - Php 100 only for 10 huge cheesy baked talaba. Heaven.

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I spent the last day of 2011 in a cheap salon. My friend and I were itching to dye my hair before the new year so five hours before Media Noche, we headed to a friend’s salon with hopes of getting a happy new hair.

I was kind of hesitant to get a lighter shade because it has been dyed solid black a year ago. It looked like a wig lols. I’ve been wanting to have this color back but my fave salon always refuses to dye my hair with brown. Apparently, a lighter shade will not be visible if hair has permanent black color. Also, effects could be damaging because black dye uses strong chemicals. So, I’ve waited over a year for it to fade and grow only to find out that half of it still has strong color of jet black. Hence, the accidental ombre. Heh.

It’s an ugly two-toned hair with medium ash brown at the roots then gradually darkening to solid black at the end - reversed ombre. Fugly.

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I rarely blog about our office events and parties because I don’t want to overshare my life lol just kidding. Or maybe I just don’t want my work venting and ranting be a regular feature here. But it happens anyway. So here’s what happened last night. (This is an excuse to blog about something and/or to post my self-appreciation photos. Heh.)

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After some grueling weeks of serious research and contemplation lols, I finally came up with a decent list of recipes for my New Year’s Resolution: The Cooking Mama Challenge.

Again, please remember that I have zero knowledge of cooking that even frying an egg is very challenging for me. Even cracking an egg open ad separating the egg yolk is quite a problem. So, don’t be surprised if you think the list has too many kid-friendly recipes. In fact, I considered the following, unfortunately, the boyfriend and friends didn’t approve: fried chicken, hotdogs, champorado and pancakes. Here goes the almost-Junior-Master-Chef list to which I have committed myself:

January: Mango Float

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Every year, we make a list of our New Year’s resolution or goals or projects, and oftentimes, we fail to do it. It seems like whatever list you make at the beginning of the year is definitely doomed to fail by the end of the month. Hah. THEY. JUST. DON’T. STICK.

Considering the stuff I juggle every week -work, school, business, it will be hard to commit to 3, 5 or 10 resolutions, hence, I’m only keeping one this year. I want this so bad and I am going to take this seriously. I will hold onto this whatever happens. This is a matter of life and death, yes. Here goes my ultimate new year’s resolution…

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The first week of the year has been crazy busy that “sleep” sounds so foreign to me now. Work has been so cruel and we expect it to be that way until the end of the month. It’s like the universe is forcing me to quit this job. But my bank account tells me otherwise. I’m confused. 

I miss blogging and I have lots of unfinished blog posts in my Drafts. In the meantime, let me clean up my inbox by answering your questions. 

But before anything else, here’s a photo of me after working for 15 hours last Wednesday. Heart is breaking because overtime work is charity work. :/

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12:00 AM Still awake and wasting some time on the internet. Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr. Oh, joy. 

12:08 AM I was reminded of airline promos during New Year’s Eve by a tweet from a friend. So I started checking on Cebu Pacific, Air Philippines and Zest Air.

12:19 AM Yay Air Philippines on sale! I instantly booked a flight to Puerto Princesa for our fourth anniversary in February. Actually, I asked a friend to book for me because my maxed out credit card was of no use. Trash.

12:28 AM I started sorting out my Inbox. I deleted hundreds of email from discount sites such as Deal Dozen, Metro Deal and Buyanihan. Note to self: unsubscribe to all this shit asap.

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Give me additional 10 hours per day then I could do that and all the other things that I wish to do every single day (eg. read a good book, take beautiful photos, watch at least one movie per day, play with our adorable dogs and sleep). 

One of my goals and aspirations for 2012 is to blog more often. Don’ ask me why ‘cause I don’t even know why I blog. Why do you blog? I’m curious. Just because. 

Anyway, to jumpstart this “Blogging Project” of 2012 a.k.a. “More Uninteresting Blog Posts” Project loljk, I created a new layout for my blog. Lots of freehand drawing and fonts with paint splatters of mustard yellow and sky blue.

I have lots of stuff to blog about but I just need more time or just better time management skills to get it done. Whatever it is, I’ll definitely find time for this self-appreciation piece of sh*t that I adore so much. 

Blog more often and let’s all laugh about this 40-50 years from now when I’m old and grey.