Season of Wilting Can Be Actually A Godsend Too

Hello beautiful souls!

Oh how much I have missed this. 2019 was such an eventful year yet I did not even even get an entry once. Even with months of not publishing a post, I never did miss a year except for the previous year.

I, somehow got locked out of my blog and when I tried everything but eventually failed, I was so crushed. I have worked on this blog since I was 22! I have blogged my lows of lows and my highs of highs here and maybe it could be God's grace that I retrieved this baby after how many months.

Grateful for November

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Hello beautiful souls~

How have you all been? I know; weird that I have two blog posts within a month but hey, I have this urge to write this up because God is good and He deserves the recognition from this girl here.

Farewell My Mid-20s

Hi God,
Yup, I cannot believe that your kid is no longer in her mid-20s. I have finally and officially entered the late 20s spectrum T__T. You brought me so many opportunities, blessings and also challenges that I had to overcome at age 26.

Being Stuck in a Rut Can Actually Be A Godsend

Sun ready to set on Bled

Hi there. How have you all been? I know, I know... I didn't keep my word on doing a monthly appreciation post like I said at the start of the year. 
You may be wondering what's my excuse this time. Well... To be brutally honest, I was just not feeling it. It is shocking, I know and even the present me cannot believe how I left behind what gave me such good energy (and this includes editing video clips I took during my travels). But yeah... I was SO unmotivated.

February 2018 | Finding Happiness and Fighting For It

Hello beautiful earthlings!
Have you been well? I hope you guys are happy and healthy and that your February was awesome.

January 2018 Appreciation Post

Hello beautiful earthlings!
How are you all? I'm here today to share my favourites and highlights of my January 2018. January was such a happy month and I am still as happy and excited and I really pray that you feel just as happy and excited as I am.

ESthetics: Things I Learned in 2017

Hello beautiful earthlings!
Happiest new year to you and to your loved ones. I hope 2017 treated you well just like how it treated me well. May your 2018 be filled with peace, happiness, love and more blessings.

Es finally #graduatES

Hello beautiful earthlings!

Character Development Unlocked 

Experience Level Up: +1 and additional faith
Weapon: Degree (increase in strength) and Cap (increase in initiative)
Accessories: Robe (HP +5)
Outfit: White Dress (well this makes me look like a superhero/white mage/ Final Fantasy character 😆😂) 

EsTrails: European Singles Congress 2017 in Hallingdal, Norway | #SFLBestLifeEver

Back in July, my friends and I headed to Norway for the yearly European Singles Congress. We were originally to host the event but due to the Ireland's high costs it was decided to move it to Norway. I saw this as an opportunity to travel to another country.
At the beginning of the year, I was planning to save my annual leave because I had planned to go to Korea this year as a graduation treat to myself but it never happened and I don't think it is going to happen for the rest of the year.
I am not sour about it that I didn't go to Korea this year. This year's ESC was something.

With this year's theme of United Together in Christ, I've learnt to work with people. I really wanted to reflect on this year's theme and apply it to my life. We all learnt how to work with each other especially in difficult times.
During that weekend I've received my assignment from God. At first it was tough to take in but all I could do was surrender everything and follow His plans because His plans are always greater than the plans I have for me.

Somewhere in Norway - in between Hallingdal and Oslo 😂ㅋ

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I hope your week is going well so far! I'm all good and happy~ I'll see you guys in my next post.
Peace and Love,

Personal: Birthday Ramblings

Great are You Lord over all
We will declare Lord You are faithful
Great are You Lord over all
Great are You Lord
You are the strength of my life Lord
It doesn't matter what may come my way
You are the strength of my life Lord
I'm holding on to You

I am thankful to my God for blessing me another year on this earth. Thankful for my blessings: my family, my friends, my workmates and my job. During my early 20s, I struggled with self-doubt and dealing with failure. Who knew that during in my mid-20s that I would experience my own success through self belief, perseverance, fervent prayers and encouragement of family and friends? I still have my doubts and I feel that I should already be accomplished but yesterday I was reminded and received affirmation and said

"Wow, you've already achieved a lot. You have been to places and you'll graduate."

To receive such affirmation made me realise that my life's timeline is different to others. Whoever reads this and stuck this far into my ramblings, if you feel like you are in a rut, I pray that you will get to feel the way I feel now. I am happy with the timeline that I am blessed with and would not have it any other way.

For the past few years, I've been scared turning another year older but now I'm happy to be 26. Not all children are blessed to live that longer. And I have realised this week that another year means another year of blessings and to be a blessing.

Peace and Love,

Other: Fan Account on meeting Vanness Wu

Hello beautiful earthlings!
This is probably the only blog post that I will have with no photos whatsoever.  I know it has been a while since my last post and I am here with a post that is nor related to my normal posts.
Like the title suggest, I met Vanness Wu!
I just saw him shopping at H&M in Dublin shopping the Balmain X H&M collection.  We exchanged a glance and it took me half a second to realize, oh my gosh it was Vanness Wu.  I walked back and excused myself then asked if he was Vanness Wu.  He nodded and I said I was a fan of his, he extended his hand and he shook my hand!  I was so starstruck that I did not have the guts to ask for a photo with him.  I became so shy because I did not want to bother him anymore and I just said to enjoy shopping and have a nice night.  I went into the elevator, shaking and texted my seastars and one of my closest friend, Merrusa!
Gosh, I was completely starstruck.  He is so handsome and so tall!  He was with friend and he was nice enough to smile to me too!
Today is just a great day! 
That's it for now and I promise I will be good with my future posts that is way long overdue! Have an amazing weekend!
Peace & Love!

Other: Cousin's Wedding

Hello beautiful earthlings!
How have you all been?
A couple months ago, my cousin got married when we were in Philippines and I was her maid-of-honour.  My sisteres were bridesmaids and my brother was the best man.

This is my goddaughter who was one of the flower girls!

The happy couple finally wed.

Ate Norlyn and I photobombing the photo session of the bride and groom.

My sister Steffi and her boyfriend Mark did the whole garter thing but instead of a garter, it was a yellow ribbon.
The wedding's colour theme was rainbow.

This little lady had the same dress colour as me! Isn't she adorable?

Archie (of BigShots Styles and Events) is the wedding planner who also is my cousin's best friend.  It is so cute how they all helped out for my cousin's wedding.

My second degree cousin Athena with my aunt wearing green!

Aunt Jinky (we call her Mommy Jinky) is like another mom to me. So glad to be reunited with her because of the wedding.
Everyone got emotional as we saw our cousin walking down the aisle. I am wishing the couple happiness in their married life and healthy and happy pregnancy for my cousin!
I'll see you guys in the next post!
Peace & Love!

Birthday Post

Hello beautiful earthlings!
So yesterday was the day I hit my mid-20s.  I am thankful that God has blessed me another year to live my life to the fullest. I am blessed for everything that has happened during the previous year.  It was definitely a memorable one.

Froyo and Grown-Up Conversations

Hello beautiful earthlings!

So, my best friend since 5th Year secondary/high school and I met on this beautiful Saturday.  The weather was fantastic and today was and still is a good day to be happy.

I walked as usual to town and I just had to take this beauty.  Dublin is beautiful.

I have not seen this lady in about 4 months! She moved to a different county for work.  We had so many things to catch up starting from her new career!

We had froyo at Yogism while we talked about our jobs, our goals for the future and our future holidays together.  We have been friends for almost 8 years!  Even though a lot of things have changed, I believe we still are the same girls back in school laughing so hard during our lunch time shenanigans with the rest of our friends!

I am so proud of the independent life that she is living now.  She kept telling me that it is not glamorous to be living independently since there is this thing called bills to pay.  But I admire her courage for living away from Dublin for the first time and away from her family.  It takes guts to go somewhere else, live on your own and start a whole new career.

I am happy for her and I cannot wait for me to do the same thing in the future.  I cannot wait to live on my own and be my own independent, strong woman (this is my ego trying to be another superwoman wannabe).  But for now, I'll enjoy the things that I have.  I'll enjoy my next few years in college because it will soon be all gone.  One day, I'll graduate and I'll be working for the rest of my life.  It is scary I know but it will be worth it.

To bestie, if you are reading this, I admire and love you so much! And I will visit you in the "countryside" soon enough! :D

Peace & Love!

Being Superwoman

Hello beautiful earthlings~

This  post is not travel or beauty or food related.  This post is something personal that I want to share with you beautiful earthlings.  You have the choice to close the tab you're in right now or continue reading.  I pray constantly that God will use me as His instrument to bring happiness and inspiration to others and to let me show people the love God has for us.  I hope that you find happiness, inspiration in this post and most importantly I pray that you may feel God's unconditional love for you.

As the photo and title suggest, this post is being or trying to be Superwoman by another superwoman wannabe A.K.A. ME!

You see, I want to become a superwoman.  I wanted (and still do) to do everything and do well in every aspect of what I do from being a student, an employee, future career woman, daughter, sister and friend.  I was never really the "I-MUST-BE-BETTER-IN-EVERYTHING" (Let's abbreviate this as IMBBIE) type of girl.  I did not care but being one of the top students last year in my class brought so much happiness and pride to my parents.  That feeling stuck with me.  Nothing beats the feeling of making your parents so proud of you.  I let that feeling drive me into becoming this IMBBIE person.  I wanted to make my parents happy and proud of me.  I wanted to compensate the years of doing so bad in college for three years to being one of the top now.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to become a superwoman in every aspect of what you do in life (well, that is what I would like to think).  I wanted to fulfil the roles I mentioned above in a superwoman level 99 way that I forgot to be a superwoman in the number 1 role I have in this life: a  daughter of God.  How come I forgot? You see I thought that by trying to become like Superwoman or any awesome heroine in a Final Fantasy game, I would become invincible.  I thought I would not tire at all.  But boy I was wrong,  Unlike any strong female video game character (I wish I was though cause they're so pretty), I am human.

"To err is human."  - Alexander Pope

Unlike Superwoman who has no known weakness, I have a couple of my own and I make so many mistakes.  First, I am very temperamental.  Another is that I have this bad habit of not saying no to people.  I want to please the people around me and because of my superwoman mentality, I thought I'd have all the energy in the world to do all the favours people ask of me, to do well in college and do well at work and be a filial daughter to my parents to be an awesome sister and friend. This then put so much pressure on me.  And one of my biggest weakness is NEVER telling people what I really feel especially when I feel something negative.

This overwhelmed me so much that I felt like I was about to break.  Our sistar Bianca saw my tweets and said that it is IMPOSSIBLE becoming superwoman or any other fictional heroine.  We are human, we tire all the time.  I was so tired at the end of the day that I did not have the energy to even pray.  How bad was that?!  How can I not have a conversation with the One who created me?  How can I not pray to the One who died on the Cross for me to be saved?!  But it did happen.   I became unhappy that my sisters Nikki and Steffi and even my mom noticed it and asked if I was going through depression.

I realized why becoming a superwoman two/three weeks ago did not work for me and made me unhappy.  It was because I did not pray for it.  Nowadays, no matter how exhausted I am, I try to force myself to walk to and from college/work everyday because it is the only quiet time I'd get to have a one-on-one with God.  For the past week, I have been praying to become a superwoman in terms of being a filial daughter of God, a filial daughter to my parents, a loving sister to my siblings, a hard working student, a hard working staff at work and career woman.  For the past week, the weight of the world on my shoulder has lighten a bit.  It is still a challenge at times but it became better.

I don't know if you are still with me in this post but basically what I'm trying to say to all my fellow superwoman wannabes is that it is okay to take off your sexy, superwoman heels and take a breather and just do things that relaxes you or do nothing but rest.  Also, know that prayers make things better.  It might not get better instantly but it will happen in God's perfect timing.

"I can do all this through Him who gives me strength." - Philippians 4:13

I hope your head is not hurting from all the words I have written but I have this feeling that God wants me to share my story.   To my fellow superwoman wannabes, may you find the strength to continue being awesome. God loves you so much so don't forget to thank Him today.

Peace & Love!

Beyond Happy

I had my Economics exam this morning and I was so nervous and scared. So I said my prayers that God may give me the courage to face this exam and guidance. A couple hours later, when I saw the questions, they all spoke to me! I have studied every single part! I was delighted so I gave a big thanks to the Big Guy up there.

In the evening, my friend and I were talking about God and our faith. She then quoted the lyrics of the song God is Able by Hillsong. I listened to it and said a little prayer.

The lyrics:

"God is for us  

He has open arms 

He will never fail us 

He will never fail us"

moved me to tears and made me feel God's love for me. I am such a blessed child of God!

A couple of minutes, I opened my blog to write up this post but then I noticed that I received a comment! It was from Miss Sophie of http://miss-sophie-beauty-lifestyle.blogspot.de.  She said that she had nominated me as one of the blogs that inspires her! I am so honoured, speechless and beyond happy!
My blog is nowhere as good as hers or as good as the bloggers she has mentioned! So I am still wondering how I fit in that category but I am so blessed! Thank you Miss Sophie! And thank you to my Lord!

I hope to improve my blog as soon as my semester finals finished! And do the "very inspiring blog" award post! Also I have so much reviews piled up and ideas and hopefully I'll learn how to give this blog a new makeover!
Wishing everyone a great week ahead! Be happy and stay happy!

Portugal Trip (Day 1 - 12 April 2014)

Hello!

I decided that I'd blog about my Portugal trip with my family that was just exactly a week ago.  We flew from Dublin to Lisbon with Aer Lingus.

We stayed at this hotel called HF Fenix Urban.  I can't remember how much my parents paid for a night (we stayed there for four nights).

• Pros
• The hotel was 15-20 minutes away from the airport.  
• Very accessible to restaurants and public transportation such as the Metro.  
• The breakfast buffet was excellent.  They serve different food everyday but the fruits, baked beans and Vienna sausage was always there as well as the cereals and all sorts of juices and different types of breads.  
• The staff was very accommodating.  I had a problem with the room I was staying in.  The toilet flush was not working so it was a huge problem for me and my baby room mate.  When I informed them that they sent the maintenance up and it was already fixed within 15 minutes! It was great!
• The rooms were in excellent condition everyday.  They were clean in the first place but the fact that they make our beds is a plus.  They also change the towels everyday even though I didn't request any new towels.
• FREE WIFI! I heard that in some hotels you have to pay for the WiFi! Even if there were times that it was slow it's such a plus that it was for free!
• Cons
• The only con I could think of was the fact that we booked 4 double standard rooms and they were not even on the same floor.  It would have been convenient that the rooms were in the same floor since we were a family on holidays.  The staff told us that Agoda should have been responsible for it and so on but we overlooked it.

After checking in the hotel, we decided to tour around the city.  Our hotel was only 5 minutes away from the Metro stop called Parque.  The fare was really cheap (€ 6 for a 24 hour ticket pass which includes bus, metro, ferry and tram access).  The transportation in Lisbon is also veyr efficient! They are always on time! Unlike Dublin!

The Monument to the Restorers in Restaudores Square

The Gloria Funicular

The Gloria Funicular at the top near that leads to Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara  
The only thing that I don't like about this tram and where it brings you is that it's full of graffiti!  I hope that the tourism board of Lisbon could fix this since it's not a good sight to see and a lot of tourists get on that tram. 

Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara



After the sight seeing, we decided to have dinner. We stumbled upon this restaurant called Andorra Restaurante.  We were just looking at the menu board they have on displayed and the staff pushed us to have dinner there and got us seats.

A puff pastry made of haddock 

Mussels in butter and spring onion. It was delicious!

My main course: Grilled salmon with rice and salad on the side. 

• Pros
• The food was delicious
• The grilled salmon that I had was soft and very tasty and it tasted really fresh
• The price was really cheap.   I have read other reviews saying this was an expensive restaurant but compared to the country I am living in, a main course dinner costs more than €10.  This was just below that
• The toilet was clean! I have this peeve when it comes to dirty toilets of restaurants.
• Cons
• It took the staff to serve us our food so long and we were starving
• The staff also put a basket of bread and some butter, cheese etc on our table.  We thought it was complementary but apparently you have to pay for it.  I guess we were just not used to it

So this is day 1 of our Portugal trip.  I'm sorry that this post is a very long one! Hope you enjoyed reading this! I hope to have the second day up soon!

White Day 2014 at Dublin's Oya Cafe

So my sisters and I decided to have coffee at this small cafe called Oya Cafe for White Day this year.  It is located in Richmond Street, Dublin 2.

So this is what the counter looks like.

With my "sister".

The place looks really cosy with enough chairs and sofas for customers.

Matcha Green Tea Latte: The real reason why we came to this cafe. It was my first time having such a thing and it was PERFECT! I did not even have to use the packet of sugar they gave me!

Caramel Spongecake: It was really good! The caramel was not too sweet and the cake was really soft.

Chocolate cake: It was reall good!

The price of the place is very affordable.  They have a bunch of offers written in the chalkboard however the Matcha latte was not part of any offers since it cost € 3.  The cakes are at € 2.56 each which is not bad.

The overall experience of this cafe was GREAT!  I really love how small and cosy it is! Plus it is quiet unlike your mainstream coffee houses like Starbucks. Most of the time, we had the cafe to all ourselves.  The place is also clean even their toilets!  Seriously, the toilets in Starbucks (both in Westmoreland Street) are filthy!  Management should do something about it really.

I really recommend this place!

To God be the Glory

Yesterday, our exam results finally came out! I really wanna thank God for saving me and letting me pass all of my modules! I did not do that well on my actual written exam but my assessments made up for it. I could not be any happier.

And today, I received a call saying if I could start working as a Data Input Clerk. It really broke my heart how I had to turn the job offer down since they wanted me to work full time. I am a full time student and my studies are on the top of my priority list.  God has His reasons and maybe that job and I were just not meant to be. Mom told me to just keep the prayers up. I guess it's a little less of me and a LOT more of HIM.