Manila Ocean Park

(mmm, seahorse)

We went to Manila Ocean Park the other day. Commuting there was actually an adventure itself. Went on 2 trains and a long walk in Rizal Park to Manila Ocean Park. The last time I went to MOP was 2 years ago. It was inspiring and I could see that they were really trying their best for the conservation of the marine life there. The signs regarding the fishes were readable and really...informative. Now? It seems that there are less fishes than 2 years ago, I wonder why? Some fishes which were shown on the signs were also not present in the said aquarium. I also noticed that some of the signs are not readable now.

(Shark napping?)

Besides, the only reason we went here was because of their summer promo! Which included the trip to antartica / penguin exhibit. I was really excited on seeing penguins for the first time! Penguin is my favorite animal ♥

PENGUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN.

We also took pictures with them for 400php♥. Expensive yes but really worth it for me to see them up close and feed them ♥. After the exhibit, we had dinner at Makan Makan. Interesting place! Not a lot of customers though, due to the interior design and ~feel~ of the place? Hmm. Beautiful view of Manila Bay + delicious food + violin/guitar ensemble + with Ram = worth walking from Rizal Park to M.O.P. ♥

Teh Tarik !

The interior design of Makan Makan. It was supposed to look like an asian street market of some sort.

Sorry for the awful writing and thank you for reading!

Birthday

My Chocolate toffee birthday cake from Kitchen of Cakes and Coffee.

(I bought this yesterday at their Tomas Morato branch with my dog after work. Yeah, I brought my dog at work. It's because they wanted to see him plus the fact that it was my last day there. I'm sure I will miss their company. Walking with Taba is fun, he understands my commands whenever we cross the street or walking at the right place. He's not scared of cars also, which is a plus. Also very friendly with people. Brought him inside KoCCo - thank you for letting him stay inside! He was well behaved, I'm so proud ♥ ).

Sooooooooooo. I sang `Happy birthday to me` around 10pm on April 4 because I wanted to eat my cake early, haha.

Spent the day with mama and a friend at Ace Water Spa. I really love swimming!

As for the doodles, will upload soon since I have a lot of time now.

Kawasaki #2

More Kawasaki goodness ♥. I would like to explain that even though I referenced this doodle from Ms. Audrey Kawasaki - that I would like to put my copyright/trademark on it because it is still hand drawn by me. I would not like someone else saying `Look at my original sketch! I'm so awesome!` or `I made a drawing out of Audrey Kawasaki's work!`. Hmm, maybe what I'm trying to say is that you should make your own work instead of stealing somebody else's hard work - even if its just a referenced sketch. I used to know someone who just edited works and claimed it as her own `sketch` without proof of a hard copy. Sigh! Just random ramblings.

Kawasaki

No projects coming in the office, so I doodled. Yep, this is a doodle. This is a lazy way of doodling for me I think - because instead of scribbling random objects I just lazily copy/reference something in the internet. This is Audrey Kawasaki 's drawing, erm, I don't know the title. Sorry! Even though this is just a reference drawing, I learn something. Aaaaaaaand doodling like this keeps me at peace.

Nail Polish

I did something silly over the weekend that I had to write about. I bought and applied nail polish on my nails for the first time! I'm not really a girly girl who uses make-up and other kikay stuff, but these past few months I've been looking for sparkly, shiny silver items for reasons that I really can't explain. This is my latest obsession - shiny shimmering silver nail polish. I bought 2 pieces of nail polish from Etude House. Sooooo...how does it look? I hope it looks fine for those who are experienced with this stuff. As for me, I'm quite satisfied with it that I'm planning on buying the other colors! Heeh. (Also, this blog is not living up to its name. Ugh, I must scan my doodles!)

Evanescence

My mum and I went to one of my favorite band's concert yesterday. We're so lucky that we got patron tickets! Jumping, screaming, and singing in front was so much fun. I was really sick at that time but it didn't matter ---it's Evanescence! My voice was all sore the day after though --but totally worth it. Best night ever!

Celebration

Ahh, this is hard to describe. I've been staring at the screen for a while now.

We went to Cubao and did some errands. There were Dairy Queen stalls EVERYWHERE. After the errands, we took a break at my favorite coffee/tea shop. We went to our reserved dinner place after. It was a really nice and cozy place. The setting was really romantic(sorry for cheesiness!), decorated with valentines decor and candlelit tables. The dinner was really good too, delicious 4-course meal with wine. It makes me embarrassed talking about this~ Ahh! I'm not really used to this stuff, and wine for dinner makes it really...formal? Hmm. It was really ~nice ~.