Project 365 #32 – 36

6 02 2010

Somewhat of a wretched week, but not all weeks are created equal. Nor are all photos of the day. I think #33 and #36 are some of my favorites so far, but they don’t really count since they are a few images compiled into one. Regardless.

February 1, 2010
Picked up my ice skates from Alex (he got them sharpened for me)! I haven’t gone ice skating since I got them back though, which is disappointing.

mittens and ice skates (32/365)

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February 2, 2010
Met my friend Hanna for dinner (see middle panel – she didn’t want me to take her picture) at Wagamama. Hot and spicy soup is one of the best things on a cold night. (Some others: good company and good conversations – both of which were present!)

wagamama with hanna (33/365)

February 3, 2010
Cecille and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. I felt blown out and took it out on pretty much every single person who I came into contact with. Sorry. :(

blown out, hanging out (34/365)

February 4, 2010
Went back and left myself a note in the empty space of the 3rd’s page, pretty much telling myself to chill out and not let things bring me down – especially things that just aren’t worth all the grief. (Read: my potentially to-be-dropped journalism degree.)

note to self (35/365)

February 5, 2010
Alex and I went to a very late dinner, and on the T ride back, caught sight of a girl drinking milk straight from the bottle. Milk is good for you! To whoever this girl is – I’m sorry I creeped on you, but you’re the reason it makes it worthwhile to always carry my camera around with me.

good for your bones (36/365)





Project 365 catchup #6 – 31

31 01 2010

Seeing as January is over, I owe whoever is reading (if anyone, and thank you if you are!) an update on my Project 365, which is rapidly becoming more and more boring and mundane.

January 6, 2010

We bought a wii around Christmas, and I’m sort of obsessed with wii tennis and wii fit. I’m awful at both of them. Apparently no matter how much I like yoga, my balance is really just wretched.

whee, wii!  (6/365)

January 7, 2010

Absolutely uninterested in getting out of bed.

lazy day (7/365)

January 8, 2010

Taken on the drive into Boston, because nothing else was interesting enough. Alex and I were going to get sushi, and I was much more interested in eating sushi than I was taking pictures of it.

not a night to focus (8/365)

January 9, 2010

2010 daily Moleskine planner (pocket).

things to do (9/365)

January 10, 2010

A failed attempt at making a red velvet cake, but successful three layer chocolate ‘bon voyage’ cake for my sister though!

(not so red) red velvet cake (10/365)

January 11, 2010

To-do list of the day. Mostly ordering textbooks and writing articles for a blog I interned at.

post-it note reminders (11/365)

January 12, 2010

Rescued a Christmas ornament that was far too pretty to go into a basement to get dusty and dingy. (And yes, this was how late it was when we finally took down our tree.)

rescued! (12/365)

January 13, 2010

Had a bad day, but it was remedied by a super nice and cute Starbucks barista who upgraded my drink and gave me a free cupcake. We had a conversation about Sweet Cupcake, and I went to get him a cupcake in return, but unfortunately, Piña Colada was out of season. If I didn’t have a boyfriend, I totally would have given him a hug, but there are only so many things you can do when there’s a counter in the way, and you don’t really just hug random strange boys anyway.

thanks, cute starbucks barista! (13/365)

January 14, 2010

Dropped sister off at the airport, hardcore creeped on people passing by while waiting with her before she had to go through security.

people watching in terminal e (14/365)

January 15, 2010

Spent the entire day in meetings or in a car commuting (and also what I’m convinced was the world’s slowest red line train). By the end of the day, was too brain dead and just determined to get a picture of something.

blah blah blah (15/365)

January 16, 2010

Went for a run! Sort of. My friend Emily was training for a half marathon she was planning on running once she got back to California, so a bunch of us accompanied her on her last day of training. Everyone else was much more successful than me, haha.

shoes shoes shoes (16/365)

January 17, 2010

Best brunch on the face of the planet. Cream cheese and berry stuffed challah bread french toast, with whipped cream. Of course, at this point, it was really just breakfast food for a very late lunch, but brunch nonetheless. I guess.

breakfast for lunch (17/365)

January 18, 2010

Moved back to the dorms. A “what’s in my bag” was totally necessary for the day. (My camera is usually in there, but obviously, things cannot be in two places.)

put your petal to the metal (18/365)

January 19, 2010

I don’t want to talk about this. Scott Brown won.

get out and vote! (19/365)

January 20, 2010

Random cranes. Miscellaneous wall decor.

cranes (20/365)

January 21, 2010

Got student rush orchestra seats on a whim, to one of the last showings of In the Heights with some friends. I enjoyed it, but walked away from it without actually remembering a single song (which was a first, actually).

In the Heights (21/365)

January 22, 2010

Water bottle spilled everywhere because I forgot to close it after coming back from the gym. As a result, my entire life became water logged and I had to dry things with a blow dryer or on the window sill. A+ Friday, really.

water water, everywhere (22/365)

January 23, 2010

Miranda and I were at Alex’s for brunch before seeing a show, and why Alex had his trumpet out while we were having brunch was bizarre enough (but not as bizarre and awkward sounding as this sentence, apparently), but the fact that I could make a noise out of it on my first try (albeit, an awful, dying elephant sort of noise) was also extremely bizarre.

And then he took it away from me. I can’t blame him. Or Miranda for somewhat making him.

confiscated (23/365)

January 24, 2010

My sister came back from London! Along with loads of sweets and things from Muji, she brought me back a pterodactyl. I’m obsessed. It dances (badly). Just like me.

not so terror-dactyl (24/365)

January 25, 2010

Too much rain.

rain rain, go away (25/365)

January 26, 2010

Alex is convinced that I don’t eat enough when I’m at school (probably true), so we usually make it a point to meet for a quick dinner once during the week. My skill in making aluminum foil hearts is apparently lacking.

trash heart (26/365)

January 27, 2010

Organization Technique #352 and Way to Make A Window Overlooking A Brick Wall Prettier #545.

floaters (27/365)

January 28, 2010

Heavy snow. I have a love/hate relationship with the word squall. Love how it’s always misspelled on closed captioning (or at least, that’s what it seems when I watch the weather at the gym in the morning), hate the association with snow and babies (two of my least favorite things).

squalls (28/365)

January 29, 2010

Too lazy to wash a dish before my 10am class, decided that yoghurt and granola from a red cup was a much better alternative. Breakfast of champions, right here.

breakfast of champions (29/365)

January 30, 2010

Spent entire day working through a mountain of never ending homework. I never want to learn about the history of media again. I might cry.

slow saturday (30/365)

January 31, 2010

Just got back into knitting – “just” being literally in the last six hours or so. Tried to make socks (failed), and am now considering maybe making a hat. Will probably be unsuccessful.

spiky (31/365)





Life, lately (outtakes).

12 01 2010

Things from the last week or so. Baking and birthdays, vegetables, etcetera. Mostly outtakes from my Project 365.

Which also included two stacked cakes made out of the rejected scraps from having to level it.



day 7 outtake



goooooooop





Project 365 catch-up (#s 2 – 5)

6 01 2010

January 2, 2010.

Alex and I went to see Ragtime. It’s closing next Sunday, which is disappointing, because it’s a really good show. (Also, apparently it is actually closing next Sunday, instead of rumors saying it was closing last Sunday, not closing at all, etcetera.) This was taken on the train back to Stamford, CT, where we had we parked the car.

hands (2/365)

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January 3, 2010.

Had an inexplicable need to make blueberry muffins. Unfortunately I didn’t have my usual recipe for lemon blueberry yoghurt muffins, and had to try a new one. It didn’t work. The result was definitely aesthetically pleasing, but they neither tasted very blueberry-y, or very muffin-y. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t what I was looking for.

blueberry muffin halves (3/365)

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January 4, 2010.

My friend Danny and I made a birthday cake for two of our friends’ birthdays. One turned 19 on the 4th, and the other turned 20 on the 5th. Therefore, there were a total of 39 candles on this cake.

And this cake? This cake was easily the best cake ever. I don’t know if it’s one of those cakes that need two people to make, or if it would work out if I just made it myself, but it was amazing, and also a great time. Recipe from smittenkitchen.com, a.k.a, my favorite food blog ever.

(We replaced the chocolate ganache with vanilla buttercream though.)

39 candles (4/365)

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January 5, 2010.

I carried my camera around aaaall day, from coffee with a friend, to seeing Alex briefly (and making a parade of chocolate candy around his kitchen counter), to the food store, and yet I ended up using a picture of my very (late) dinner. Vegetarian patty melt – chili-bean burger with provolone cheese on whole wheat bread – with a salad on the side. I’m by no means a vegetarian, but I like veggie burgers better than I like regular burgers, usually.

I’m also trying to get into the habit of reading at my own leisure for my own pleasure, instead of cramming for a class. Right now I’m reading The Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi.

dinner (5/365)

(I swear all I do isn’t food related. Maybe.)





Hello, 2010!

1 01 2010

I never understood the purpose of tying strings around fingers in order to remember things. It never worked for me – instead of looking at the string whenever it got caught on things and remembering why it was there, I always got annoyed and took it off. Consequentially, I always forgot about whatever it was. Or just never bothered to tie a string around my finger.

a string around your finger (1/365)

So here it goes – project 365. A year in pictures, let’s see how long this lasts!

Also, Happy 2010! I hope it’s as good as, or better than, 2009. :)





No real need for words.

31 12 2009





Merry (late) caffeinated Christmas!

27 12 2009

My sister and I got the family an espresso maker for Christmas, and two burns (questionably three, I’ll know by tomorrow if it blisters or not I suppose) later and I can successfully say that I can make lattés! Hooray!

It tastes pretty good too, even though I honestly can’t tell good coffee from okay coffee. I know bad coffee and really good coffee, but inbetween gets kind of iffy. Although, everyone seems satisfied and lattés are always better than drip so, success!

Also, having an espresso maker at home is good because a) it means that my life at home can be just as caffeinated as it is when I’m at school (maybe this isn’t actually good) and b) it means I’ll spend less money on Starbucks because I can just make myself a latté without getting out of my pyjamas. And not getting of my pyjamas? That’s great.

Lately all I’ve been doing is listening to Ingrid Michaelson and practicing Handel (my wrists hurt). I’m also writing articles for a blog five days out of the week. It’s mostly clean tech/sustainable and environmental living, and since it’s a blog by nature, it’s easier to write because it’s more conversational than all of the news articles I spent last semester writing. The volume is greater, but at least it’s good exercise.





One sees clearly only with the heart.

25 12 2009

I spent this afternoon rolling out sugar cookies and dropping out globs of toffee chocolate chip cookies. I think I made at least 100 cookies today alone. The sugar cookies went off to Alex’s family in recycled glass jars, and the toffee chocolate chip cookies went quickly into stomachs. Yum.

Also! There are six ways to win my heart (sort-of). One of them involves copies of The Little Prince.

I started collecting copies of it when I was in Manila and I found a copy in Tagalog in the National Bookstore a few years ago. Since then I’ve been getting as many different copies of it as possible (particularly when we travel). It’s kind of a useless thing to collect, to be honest, but I absolutely love The Little Prince.

Alex gave me The Little Prince for Christmas. But not just any copy of it. A giant, pop-up version of it.

This is love. Seriously. Also, I’m six years old.

Merry Christmas everyone!





I should be banned from the Internet while under the influence of cold medicine, really.

14 12 2009

Fact #1: I have a love/hate relationship with Dayquil. (Don’t even start with me about Nyquil – Dayquil is bad enough but for some reason Nyquil increases my tendency to be a little more ADHD than necessary.)

Fact #2: I fully support Christmas lights during all times of the year.

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Fact #3: My wedding (which I’ve pretty much already planned) is going to feature red velvet cake, because I don’t care how trendy it is right now, it’s my favorite and I can’t explain why.

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Fact #4: Apparently I’m a pretty awful girlfriend. (If I had a dollar for every time Alex told me I was being mean to him in the last week – disregarding cumulative for the entire time we’ve been together – I’d be so rich it isn’t funny.)

Oh, also, apparently I’m boring.

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Fact #5: Once you get past the one month mark*, it is not acceptable to intentionally take couple-y photos. Exceptions: engagement, wedding, baby, important anniversaries after, etc.

Fact #6: I’m a hypocrite. And a traitor when I actually end up liking one of them.

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Fact #7: This post will probably be deleted as soon as I have enough sense to stop taking Dayquil or get better. Which ever one happens first.
*And by one month I mean never, really.





Ho ho ho, we decorated the tree… without you.

2 12 2009

Earlier today, I went to see Alex after work and then stopped by home to get dinner and pick up a sweater I got in the mail. (Thank you, Black Friday sales on cashmere sweaters.)

Apparently in the three days since I went back to school, my family decided to decorate the tree without me.

Merry Christmas!

…hmmph.