How to Look Good in Profile Pictures

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funny, video, youtube

Such helpful effective tips.

Food!

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food, Food trip!, Food: Cocktales, Food: Golden Fortune, Food: Peanut Butter Company, Food: Singapore, Food: Xocolat

I don’t think I’ve ever posted food photos here, and what better day to start than today! It’s Blog Action Day and the topic is food.

Before I begin with the food photos, all of which I have never posted on The Lunch Buddies before (if only because I’ve forgotten), I’d like to give a simple message so that this post is not just a photo dump: Don’t waste food! My heart breaks every time I see someone leaving behind food and dumping it into the trash. We’re currently facing a bleak future where our energy resources will be completely depleted, and it’s our duty as human beings to save the planet so that the future generations can enjoy it as much as we do. So much energy goes into producing food, and when we throw it away, all that energy is used for nothing, when it could have gone into other more useful things. Just because you pay for it doesn’t mean that you have the right to waste it! Money is not going to save our planet! Every time you decide to leave behind food in a restaurant, think about all the things that went into that dish, where those ingredients came from, how much energy was used in creating it, and remember that all of that will be wasted as well.

Finally, the food photos! And don’t worry, I didn’t leave a single gram of any of this!

Bon Appetit!

Xocolat – Oriental Chicken Salad

Makan Makan Singapore – White Chai Tow Kway (Radish Cake)

Makan Makan Singapore – BBQ Wings

Golden Fortune – Beef Balls

Golden Fortune – Hakaw

Peanut Butter Company – BBQ Wings w/ Rice

Xocolat – Xocolat Chicken Pasta

Xocolat – Pork Belly

Flaming Wings – Smokey BBQ Chicken Tenders with Ranch Dressing

Xocolat – Frozen “Hot” Xoco

Cocktales – (I have no idea what this is called but it had melon, mango and bananas in it.)

 

 

 

 

Sitcom Insecurity

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New Girl, Zooey Deschanel

You know when you watch a sitcom, and you’re just “Oh, wow, I wish I had friends like that.”

Anybody? No? Just me? Okay.

It’s not that I have terrible friends with no sense of humor, but there’s just something so quirky and likable about TV characters that make me want to be like them. There’s probably a sitcom out there with a group of friends similar to my own, with a person in my situation, but I don’t want my life on screen. It’s too real and too raw, and I would probably end up depressed because oh hey, TV Me is solving all of her problems while still looking fabulous and getting a boyfriend to match, while I sit here watching TV. No! I want to watch a group of people with antics so zany and hilarious and so totally different from my life because I don’t want to be me, I want to be someone else.

I’ve been watching New Girl, a new sitcom starring Zooey Deschanel, and I’m like, “Oh wow, why is she so pretty and so adorable and so perfect and why does she get to hang out with all these guys who just love her and would do anything to keep her from getting hurt, and… why am I not like that?”

I have issues. Is this a sign of insecurity? Probably. I’m going to go study now.

(Yes, I do realize that somewhere up there, I’ve left behind my original topic and moved to another one but whatever.)

Getting over the slump

(I don’t know about you guys, but this is a regular occurrence for me so I know better than to give it too much thought.)

Have you ever had the feeling where, right after a major event (an exam, a project, or something similar that requires lots of thought and work) ends, you suddenly feel like you have no idea what to do?

That happens to me all the time. Everything suddenly stops, and I find myself with too much free time on my hands, and I don’t know what to do with it. And I miss it all, the work, the stress, the pressure, and most importantly, the people who I used to see everyday but now rarely talk to. It’s sort of sad.

And what hurts the most is the fact that I want to reach out to these people I’ve grown to like and care about, not knowing if they too feel the same way about me. (They probably don’t.) Later on in my life, I will want to talk to them, ask about how they’re doing, chat and laugh together like old times. But it’ll be different. Without the common ground that once bonded us together, we’re now just two people with very separate lives.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, let me put it this way: imagine working with a friend over a project for a couple of months. You started off as acquaintances, but as you worked together, you realized that he/she is actually a really great person, and you want to get to know him/her better. Unfortunately, the project is over, and you two are only just barely good friends. Now there’s no excuse for you to talk to him/her, you slowly drift apart, and you miss all the fun times you had, and you wish that you could have had more.

It’s like an addiction, really. And now I’m suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

(I’m not talking about crushes, by the way. That and this are very different things.)

It's Christmas!

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Christmas

Well, no, not really. But lookie, it’s snowing! At least, on my blog.

Anyhoo, since I’ve been real busy for the past few days, what with academics and org work and of course, my dear Season Berry (which I will plug some more later on but not now), I haven’t been able to blog that much. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to know about the boring stuff that happen to me in school anyway.

You can still catch my posts at The Lunch Buddies, my joint food blog with my friend Bea, every week!

In the meantime, here’s a little Christmas present: a wallpaper of a Christmas lantern in Ateneo! It was pretty so I took a photo, tweaked it a bit, and voila! A lovely Christmas wallpaper to go on your desktop! You may click it for the full image (size 1200 x 800, let me know if you’d like it in a different resolution!)

Have fun and see you all soon~