Hello December

Some of my instagram pics: (http://instagram.com/madjewelled) 

 1st row: my new parisian shoes, shawl and belgian chocolates gift from the secret santa we played, my group from work had our earlier Christmas party yesterday. I have amazing and kind colleagues, work is hard  but I'm surrounded by really nice people so I am loving it :)

2nd row: nips, i dont remember the last time i had this; our christmas tree is up, silver this time; and bayani brew from human nature, a really good tasting ready to drink tea with a taste of pandan and calamansi-all natural :)

3rd row: nyu at 3 mos old, just bok and his kuya deo ( bok is turning one year old) he's a grown up now

4th row: owl and collar necklace from hallohallomall free when u register. Amazing!  Register here to get free stuff! ^_^

and also Ehje's peanut butter i won from bazaar (I was in front of the announcer when they are looking for someone with polka dots on the clothes and someone told me my necktie (see ootd pic below) has polka dots so there hihi)

at St James Bazaar yesterday

my simple ootd hehe 

as for  December plans, hmmm I'm a sad panda when

plans didn't get push through so i just let things happen on their own for the moment.
Let's see what December brings and wishing we all have a wonderful December!

via

^_^

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October Photodiary

What a manic October!

I have snapped only a few pics from my phone, let us see...

1 and 2: Just Desserts Coffee Cake Bites, i ate a lot of this, seriously

3: Cukays Red Velvet bite size cupcake, wow, yummy, oh so soft!

2nd row: Puto Kutsinta and sweet corn that my boss always bring when we're doing overtime on weekends, how thoughtful :)

last row: 

7, New Jollibee crispy wings, hehe super small servings!

8. Bread Talk Steamed Cake, new discovery! it's like siopao bun + chiffon cake that mellts in your mouth goodness

9. Cat's shadow in our window



1. mike's new toy  (and i'm claiming it as my own too wehehe)
2. my human nature orders (nagkakaubusan ba ng toiletries!)
3. mom's pasalubong from bicol yey
4. i bought Bread Talk steamed cake for mike too, he agreed it's a really goood, sometimes it's not on display so you have to ask the counter for it
5. i  received EMS package from a friend and our EMS process here is really old fashioned and doesn't have a good customer service T_T whats new eh?!
thanks to M for claiming it

7. IL Mercanti, metrowalk
8. my bruised wrist :( i need to buy a new wrist rest
9. Bok's new bff, kitten Nyu


As for Halloween, well, we don't do trick or treat ever.
 My mom will just cook suman or biko every year as far as I remember. :) 


November plans?
hmmm well I'm very excited to go to Salcedo Market one of November Saturdays as we need to go to Makati for some errands
and I've been itching to have a new haircut since October so I'll be sharing all about that in my next post ^_^

via google images

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September in Photos

Hello October!

where did September go? 

So far, September has been a busy one at work and it will continue until October! aja!

Somehow, I was able to squeezed in some relaxation, what else could that be? watching movies and a  bit of food trips of course ^_^

1. on the first week of September I was able to meetup my bff len,  my classmate since elementary long time no see!
2. BubbleTea Honeydew Milktea lasang gamot
3. Sonja's Cupcake in our ref

4. Chocolates from mike
6. Toblerone and rice inuulam ko chocolate! ;p

foods from officemates:
5. my first time to try M&M's Dark Chocolate sorop!
7. SugarBowl Petite Brownies soooo goood! i googled and it is available only and S&R?
8. RPM PiliNut Garlic from Naga City, hong sorop!
9. grown up Bok


We also made a quick trip to E.Rod Sr. for some errands and dine at Panciteria Lido. mike was very happy with his breakfast meal.

On our way back, we passed by Connie's Kitchen and bought Joji's delight coco sugar and Connie's Kitchen Eggplant and Olive Sauce  (aylabit!) ^_^

I opened an instagram account but I was a bit lazy to use it XD

I've also lots of backlogs coming up too.  I'm just swamped plus our Globe tattoo is becoming not reliable lately.
I also received Liebster blog award from hanny and miss aileen a. I really appreciate it dear sissies. I hope to post a response really, really soon ^_^

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August in photos

1st "Ber"  month!  (I'm thinking of creating an Instagram account but afraid it would end up like my Pinterest account that I don't use....hmmmm )

 Let's see what i've been up to last August in addition to what I've already posted:

1. J.Co Donuts Avocado (yumminess, i really hope to try all flavors)

2. Crukitchen Cake  chocolatey!

3. Yogorino yogurt the best yogurt i've tasted

4. Mernel's ube cake (may ube cake pala sila and masarap)

5. Sophie's mom spanish bread

6. EngBeeTin hopia

7.Conti's Cheesepuff

8. Chatime Wintermelon

9. Pasta from Pancake house (i gave the bacon to ofismate)

July Photos

August already eh?! Sharing again some of the photos I snapped and oh they are mostly food. We don't dine out a lot for the past weeks as the rain made the days very cozy you don’t want to go out.  We watched lots of movies instead and indulged ourselves with junk foods eeek, will go back to regular healthy foods for august, pramis!

1-2 One night mike brought home spag and Pichi2x from Ambers, i love their pichi2x
3 Jipan Green Tea donut
4-5 YellowCab pizza (while watching movies at home) Thanks for my honeybunch2x
6 Tea-riffic Wintermelon milk tea from SM hypermarket pasig 
7 Chocolates
8 9 My new flat shoes and cutey rainboots from SM only P299each! 

June in Photos

some photos again ....

Hello July!

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May in Photos

I wonder how May pass just like that?!  


Here I am again compiling a month's other photos, it feels like I just created my April in photos a week ago. Thank God for such a productive and exciting month.


my May in photos :


1st and 2nd row:
1-5. I tried to snap a photo of the chocolates I received from my ever thoughtful mike and from my good officemates :) I ate too much again hihihi


6.Oreo cheesecake cookie, at Php50 big cookie and filling, from Sophie's Mom, I hope to try their cupcakes soon!

3rd row: 
-caramel frap, Starbucks happy hour 50% off :)
-lovely Estrels cake, officemate's treat, my first time to taste this famous caramel cake, it's good and not overly sweet 
-Yellow cab pasta and cheese pizza, officemate's treat again :)


4th row
-Pringles / Mang Juan/(I forgot photo for VCut)  this time! So there's something wrong with my ever beloved Piattos, as for someone who eat it regularly, I noticed that it seems to get thick and not crispy at all :(
-nori paper makes difference to lucky me chicken noodles :)


Looking Forward
- for Spurs to win the finals \m/
- survive again a month of stressful work @_@
- weekend food trip
- Amazing Spiderman movie ^_^


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April in Photos

Woah it's May! 

So I thought I should came up with a post like this every end of month, few photos from our phone aside from what I already posted.

1st row:

-Hot and humid weather = good excuse for Cornetto Choco Java :)

-Chocolates from mike...I eat chocolate almost everyday @_@

2nd row:

-Chocolates from officemate

-Milk tea :)

-Miso soup - my new reliable standby discovery 

last row:

-Jipan's - no sugar, no egg, no butter pandesal (it's been a week of no rice lunch (got bored of rice...))

-Colored Pan de coco fillings from mike's home

-Brew - our beloved intelligent dog, we will miss him

And I gained 2Kilos!!! from 38kg now at 40 @_@  blame it on the weather!

Will be very very busy this month, I need to render overtime -_- But looking forward on finishing my project, Bring it on!