Feeling French

I love Plazuela de Iloilo. It makes me feel like I'm not in the Philippines, let alone Iloilo. It always has this Italian/French feeling which makes me want to go there, walk around their mini plaza, taking the view around me, sipping a cup of latte and when I feel tired,  sit on their metal chairs while reading a good book and imagine I'm at a cafe in Italy. I also love the fact that it is not overpopulated unlike the other malls here in Iloilo which enables me to relax my mind. Just a day before our 1st long exam in our accounting subject, I dragged my roommate/friend/classmate/foodmate Ivanne to try out one of the cafes here in Plazuela called Amular Photograph Studio+Cafe. As you can see in the name, it's a studio an cafe in one which makes it even better because that would mean 2 of my addiction together. I love the feel inside the cafe, so relaxing but not the type that would make you feel sleepy,especially in the afternoon when the sun shines so bright it hurts my eyes so much yet I love to stare at it directly, watching it go down while sipping their Lattes with ice cream instead of whipped cream.=)

What I also love in Plazuela is their sunrise exercise which I religiously join as long as I'm here in Iloilo. And also the wide variety of culture dishes they offer,they have Italian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese and of course Pinoy! I'm also excited about the soon-to-open dessert bar! Which is a bad thing because what's the use of all the exercise i'm doing if it will all go to waste because of the restaurants surrounding the area. And not to mention, Starbucks are just a few steps away from it. Ugh,

Get Spotted 2

I'm so sorry if I haven't updated this blog for a really long time, I had been spending so much of my time on my tumblr account lately. I had put up a giveaway, so if you wanna join, just head over to my blog and follow my instructions.=)

Anyways, the pictures above are part of the week 3 of Get Spotted at Upv. If you don't know what that is, just read this post. They are some detail shots of outfits of my fellow Iska's.=)

That's all for now. Gotta study.=)

Thrifting

I've been on a lot of thrifting lately, and I found lots of good stuff. This is one of my favorite thrift find. I love the flower details on the side and the fact that it's crocheted. And I got it for only Php 100. Watta luck. <3

I Can't Believe I'm 19

Last Monday, July 25, I celebrated my 19th year of existence in this world. I didn't have a big celebration because I'm not that happy knowing I'm one year away to the the end of my teenage life. Nevertheless, I thank God for all the blessings I received all throughout my life. I'm really blessed for having a life I'm living right now. I may not have every thing I wanted, but I know I'm having things more than I deserve.

That day, I brought to school a homemade chocolate cake made by my mom. My friends devoured them. I guess my mom makes delicious cakes,eh?

After our Law class, I asked my roommates to go to Garden Cafe. I've been itching to try out this place for a very long time, but never got to go there because it only opens at night during weekdays. Good thing that day, our law class ends at 7pm,so it was a perfect time to go there. We planned to have dinner there but when we ordered, the waitress told us that only drinks were available that day because their chief was absent that particular day,of all days. 

I was really heartbroken. So,since we were so hungry, we decided to eat dinner at Jollibee first, then just come back afterwards to have coffee.

We came back after our dinner then. We tried their coffees and I have to say I didn't like it as much as liked those of Book Latte's. But we just enjoyed the place instead and forget all about the coffee.

The place was really nice, it felt like I was just home with a homemade frappe.

The interiors were so cozy, it made me wanna sleep there.

I loved the wall decals. I wish I had them at my room too.

It was already past nine when we decided to go home. I made a note to myself to come back and give them another chance,maybe next time, with the chief present, their coffee would taste better.

Desperate Enough

Last Friday, we were asked to help for the preparation of Pasundayag by our accounting professor for an exchange of +5 points to our first long exam. Because of that 5 points that we were so desperate to take, we end up being the first people to arrive to the place where we were gonna do the preparation, we even beat the faculty and staff whom we were gonna help. But nevertheless,it gave us time to have breakfast first and consume the much needed energy that's gonna be eaten up afterwards.

It was so much fun helping the professor dress up because they were so "jologs" and they made us laugh all the time. We almost forgot that they were also the same people who made us shiver inside the walls of the classrooms.

Top and shoes: Thrifted

Jeans & belt: Freego

GET SPOTTED

University of the Philippines-Visayas College of Management is a college which offers only business courses, namely BA Management, BA Marketing and BA Accountancy, so it is only but natural that the students pay little attention to what they wear (we don;t have uniform btw!) and anything that is associated with clothes for that matter. It is very common seeing students wearing jeans and tees and slippers, and anything as long as it means comfort. But there are some others who take up courage and stand out of the crowd and wear something not ordinary, or if it is ordinary or common, they usually add up something to spice them up. I always have fun watching this people and I always get the urge to snap up a picture of them. So I decided to come up with Get Spotted.

Actually, it was an old project which I planned very long time ago, and if you read my other blog, you can see my post about it here. Time had passed and I totally forgot about it. But just recently, I had the idea to finally work on it and that is how GET SPOTTED was born. It is actually a little different from Style Files since it doesn't focus on one person only. I take pictures of fashion-forward students of UPV, both the Miag-ao and the City campus,and post them here and it's facebook page for other students to see and get inspiration from.

I grabbed the chance today since it's our foundation week and students from the Miag-ao campus came to join the Pinta Banas,Pinta Alagyan (Street Painting).

Here are some pics I took:

Ditch the very common plain canvas shoes and replace them with one that has unique design just like Chin Payofelin.

Kill the boredom of tee+jeans look by cuffing the jeans at the end. Complete the look by wearing leather loafers and leather bracelets,and of course! nail art.

Hate looking too girly with dresses? Why not add up faux leather jacket and a boyish necklace to the dress just like what KYRA DIANON had done?

Still can't get away with jeans and shirt tandem? Why not wear distressed jeans instead to add an extra oomph to the outfit like MARIEL RIBA RIVERA?

Loving photography? Why not use the camera as an accessory instead just like what JANNAH BURGOS?

Pile up bracelets to complete the outfit for the day.

(sorry,didn't get her name)

Love looking like model off-duty? Why not pair up cuffed jeans with a loose tee like CLEO HAUTEA?

check out more pictures at the FB PAGE.