March 23, 2013: Year-End Foam Party!

Well, school's out in about a month. So, the wonderful organization of the Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants have organized a foam party to end the year right, and start the summer with a BANG!

I'm getting this out now because next week is Holy Week and right after that is the beginning of Hell Week. Oh look at that... play with words.

It's my first time going to a foam party and... what exactly do you wear to these things? I know it's supposed to be something that can get wet but shoes? SHOES? I sound like a girl, not surprised though. ^o^

Shorts, Shirt ans Sneakers. Yeap, I think I'll just stick with that... Should I just take something from my closet or check out the mall? Decisions, decisions.

To shop or not,
AnaRay

If someone does manage to bring a camera, I shall follow up with pictures.

Summing up the last of 2012

Right after Christmas and before the New Years.
Was a week of adventure with my family and peers.

Basically, my only rest day was the 26th.

As usual, we have an outing! This LK Escapade was hosted by our very own Daddy Danton in their home at Canyon Woods, Tagaytay. Since it is right after Christmas the weather was really cold at night and cool in the mornings, so I just wanted to share my "photography" of Tagaytay in the early morning.

~A Foggy Friday Morning~

I love this outing the most because we get to have our own version of our Christmas dinner. I know I didn't cook any of these and I usually just end up part of the cleaning crew (for around 12 people) but I still find it absolutely heartwarming.

~An LK Christmas Dinner~

And though a lot of booze was running around, we still had wholesome games of Werewolf, Taboo, Monopoly Deal and Wata! Booze games include the usual Ring of Fire, Beer Pongs and (for lack of better name) Lowest Card.

I got home at around 12AM on the 29th, and believe it or not, my parents thought it'd be fun to go all the way to Pangasinan (around 5 hours of nonstop driving) to visit Our Lady of Manaoag. Then travel another 3-4 hours to Subic. That is what I call a roadtrip. However, I do believe that I needed to be awfully thankful for 2012. It was fun and it's a year I most definitely will not forget.

~Our Lady Of Manaoag~

Good Bye 2012,
AnaRay

A month has passed!

Close to a month anyway, but it's been a barrage of quizzes then midterms.

So, to keep myself somewhat sane I began sketching fictional animals like the...

Rabbiphant. (Rabbit-Elephant Crossover)

and this Flying Pigster, with a little inspirational help from my friend Mae. (Bird-Pig-Hamster Crossovers)

lastly, the Flarhingo with a little inspirational help from Jeth. (Flamingo-Rhino Crossover)

The last two were written behind my philosophy readings so it's really messy. LOL.

Other than these, had a surprise celebration for Mae, which was cool and surprised me as well.

Then, had a really awesome 3D2N with the most awesmazing people. Lounge Kroo

And, ended October with this pose. Hahaha, I've always wanted a pose like this.

Over and out! See you blogworld around,

AnaRay

i'm busy without the stress... as of now.

September 7-8, 2012: A Whole New Year

Well, it is... for me anyway.

I've been out... celebrating with my family and family friends. I suck at gathering up my friends for my birthday simply because I'm lazy at that.

So, what have I accomplished now? Well, this monstrosity...

~A Thousand Piece Puzzle of the Scenic Route~

And, what has happened through out this weekend?

~Bellevue Macchiato Cheesecake~

~Chili's Birthday Surprise~

~Le Petit Cherie Blueberry Muffin~

And, what did I get?

~Camilla Eco Bag~

~Camilla Grey Backpack~

Okay, turning nineteen isn't something big. Especially when, you just got over turning eighteen which is a big thing here in the Philippines. A debut is similar to the Sweet Sixteen or Quinceanera. So, nineteen turns out to be big blah after that.

I'd like to quickly thank my family and family friends. And especially, to my friends who actually remembered my birthday and had time to greet me one way or another. ^_^

Three days 'til school,
AnaRay

August 18, 2012: Vogue Party

I do not like college parties.

Maybe it's because they're so far away from where I'm from. Or maybe because I don't drink alcohol. Or because I'm the kind of a introverted person. Or it's probably because these things are costly.

But, I need some points for a class and I just had to support a friend of mine who was performing that night. This party was held at Seventh High in Bonifacio High Street. Long story short, everything around it is expensive, think... Rodeo Drive of Beverly Hills.

~That is me... winning a necklace~

Once I get into these events though, I try as much as I can to have fun. Which means... I have to be outgoing and loud, which drains a lot of energy. Back in highschool, I probably would have loved these kinds of events but... things have changed I guess.

We (me and Jeth) each got a prize... She, an a-Jays earphones and I, a necklace from Qwin Accessories.

~About to laugh~

Right after the program, we had some dinner in Italianni's. One of the expensive restaurants around but it was where we ended up in. After that, some of them went back to the party and a few of us went out to look for dessert. Got myself some expensive gelato from Gelatissimo, and it was really good.

Alas, there's not really much to talk about.

AnaRay

August 10-12, 2012: The Aftermath

The weekend had been very nice. The rain has stopped and I was able to go out with friends and family.

Friday Night: Having at least some of my highschool friends around in our usual hang out place (Alabang Town Center), back in the good old days, was really awesome. This blast from the past was cool 'cause I really thought I'd be awkward with them since it's been so long for me.

Yet, I fell back to my old self and had a great time reminiscing the old days and sharing new stories.

Saturday Night: Me familia hightailed to UCC Coffee Cafe for some midnight desserts, hot cocoa and coffee.

Sunday Night: Grandparents head off to the US of A in business class. Just happy that I got to ate so much yummy food before they left. ^_^

I'm so lagged for some reason and I have to get ready for my one and only class tomorrow, which would feature an exam... well, screw my life.

Just gonna step out,
AnaRay

August 3, 2012: The "Heartless" Tumbler Project

For the past week or so, I've been playing around with the "assignment" given to me by a friend of mine (Louie). The "Heartless" tumbler was first inspired by my remake of a Kingdom Hearts character, an enemy actually, the Search Ghost. That was for my July Project: 31-Day Drawing Challenge.

So, Louie asked me to make one for his DIY tumbler. After playing around for a few days, I got to measure it yesterday and apparently my first draft was way too big. Link back to the first draft!

And, now the end product which I really hope would fit exactly to his tumbler or else I'm doomed. If it does not, I will keep this for myself! I still have no idea how to make use of computer programmed "art" like Photoshop or anything of the like, so this is completely hand drawn and colored.

 ~Final Output~

Oh yea, for this final output. I used these two magnificent products from Staedtler, 3B Pencil and Triplus Fineliner (20 colors). They are really nice and easy to use.

To see it "in action", I have it here in GIF form. I still suck at keeping it in the "right" angle so take caution!

Now that that's done, I have no idea what to do for the rest of August. Ideas?

Or, I'll just study like mad for the rest of the term.
AnaRay

July 28, 2012: Work in Progress

Apparently, my friend really liked the cartoonized version of the Kingdom Hearts, Search Ghost Heartless from a few days ago. Since, he has a DIY tumbler from Starbucks he asked me to possibly recreate it.

The problem is I forgot to test for the dimensions but I've been itching to start. I had him test it for me so it's about a little more than 3/4 of the 8.5x11.

So for testing purposes, I wrapped it around a can of Pik-Nik and turned it around. So far it looks really good (forget my careless photography for now), there may have been some slight alterations to proportions to fit the paper.

Still cramming papers to be submitted tomorrow,

AnaRay

July Project: 31-Day Drawing Challenge - Day Fourteen and Fifteen

Update!

Theme of Day Fourteen: Outer Space

~Drawing of the Day: Outer Space Indoors~

Theme of Day Fifteen: Fairytale 

~Drawing of the Day: Alice in Wonderland~

Finals had finally finished which only means that the hard part comes in now. But, before all that "shit" goes down, I had some time off of studies and papers, and silly projects for my classes. I spent it with my friends Lea and Winnona somewhere in Manila. I finally was able to watch American Pie (1&2) and now I get where some of the jokes originated from.

My mother took my camera with her to freakin' Korea and now I have to deal with my cellphone's camera. It isn't that bad but the flash just won't do it for me.

Done for the day,
AnaRay

i just realized after i typed it that my ending remark just rhymed with my name.

June 22, 2012: HBD Post to Melissa

Oh my effin' god, it's the 22nd of June...

~Jeth, Mel, and Me~

Congratulations Melissa, you have officially turned 19... which sucks, 'cause then it's your last year of being a teenager. And, OMFG... you're old. I know you've been so busy that I rarely even see you especially since this second part of the majors.

I must see you soon for there is a present waiting for you somewhere hidden in my bookshelf and I can't seem to find it. HOWEVER, I shall be stalking your classroom on Monday so that I may give it to you. I don't know if you'll like it but still, I will give it because it already has your name on it, and therefore it is yours. If you are not in your classroom, I just might go to your condo and knock 'til my knuckles hurt! IF you're still not there, I will find a way...

I miss you, and I'm sorry that I'm not smart enough to catch you guys in our studies.

But then again, it's your special day and I'm wondering if you'll actually get to read this. Considering that everyone already flooded your Facebook with the "Happy Birthday" comments. But if you don't get to r ead this... I... will... be... sad. And, a total waste of all the thirty minutes I spent on this.

Even though this is a very long way to greet you, I have yet to say it so...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL!!

I want you to know that I love you like a sister. I wish you all the best and that your studies would totally turn out awesome. And, I cannot imagine my college life without you with the laughs, the dramas, the "sabaw" moments, your cooking and the sleepovers I had. I'm sorry for the annoyingly long post, but it's hard for me to summarize something like this.

Lovelots,
AnaRay

P.S. You have not yet returned my Bible and I need it... like really bad.

May 25-27, 2012: LK Summer Trip

It took us around six hours to finally get to our destination that is... All Seasons Resort in Morong, Bataan. Six hours because of waiting for each other, stopovers and some detours. And that meant, Carl had to drive at night.

The 3D2N, I guess you could say could be easily summarized. Two days was for travelling to and from the place, and the 2N was partying 'til morning, or somewhat like that, and the 1D was spent at the beach and sleeping it off.

Though a lot of my friends drink, I absolutely try to avoid it at all costs. Because, my body can't take a lot of alcohol in one go, which happened during the trip (couldn't stop shaking, hard to breathe and etc.). I can take sips and that would mean that a bottle or a cup(?) of alcohol would last me an hour or more, to be safe. In summary, there are parts in alcohol that trigger my asthma and so... no alcohol for me.

But, let's divert the topic to the happy times...

let's go to the beach, yea?

According to my friends, this was the best beach we've ever been to. See, there were times where it was too rocky, too dirty or whatever. But, the beach has it's own flaws as well, not exactly the cleanest but passable, the sand is really fine but there are still some rocks out there (really little ones) and lastly the waves are strong but you gotta time it right!

The reason why there are lesser pictures of me was because I was already experiencing severe(?) sunburn so... gotta lay off the sun. Opting to wear a pair of shorts and a hoodie or shirt, I became the unofficial (but since I usually have the camera) photographer. I like being the photographer because I never leave my eyes from behind the camera, thus, the pics are either waited out or the lucky shots.

waited out...

lucky shot...

scene shot with Erika as my main focus.

Though you can only see here are the waves and the wonderful beach, we've also had some indoor fun in case the night comes around. We had stacks of cards, a pack of UNO, a pack of Monopoly Deal, a game of Twister, those with high tolerance of alcohol had Beer Pong, and a brand new twisted way to play Twister.

see me waaayyyy back playing some serious tetris!

because twister can be so much more fun...

Instructions?

Place a shot for each circle.

Spin the disc. (To get most to play we just said, "Spin mo lang!")

Pick a card. (It's facedown from 1-6)

Then take a shot. (Some shots are Ice Tea, some are chips and the others alcohol)

...Yes, you have to down the chips like a shot.

There were a hell of a lot more drinking games after that but I was too busy playing a brick game (the tetris had really weird tetriminos) to remember.

but, i do make an appearance once in a while.

traditional bucket of ice cream

I love these people more and more. I can't go to every outing not because I don't have the means to do so, but sometimes the time just isn't right with my schedule. I wish I could go to every single one of them but I can't... So, though I'm a bit more quiet than before, it just means that I'm trying to place everything in memory.

As sentimental as I can be, these people got me out of my shell. I used to hate wearing a pair of shorts, or dresses, or anything pretty. I used to like just staying at home and staring at the TV. But now, I wear a pair of shorts; I get to go to amazing places like this; I'm a lot more talkative; and I've got another family.

I dunno if these people actually read this blog of mine. But hey, just writing this post already made me smile.

meet the crew... well, most of us!

Lovelots,
AnaRay

"lovelots," is how i signed most if not all of their retreat letters...

May 14, 2012. Roadtrip to the North.

Though I had recently gone to Subic, my Lounge Kroo wanted to go up North again for the summer.

May 14 was a perfect time to actually go there 'cause I have to enroll in DLSU then they'd just pick me up on the way. There were four of us: me, Yani, Gabo and Mike.

It's been a long time since I've been in a roadtrip since my family usually takes trips to places that need a plane ride to get there.

The truth is, I was a bit nervous to get in the car. Yeah, they've all got them driver's license that I have yet to apply for but still... Manila to Bataan, isn't exactly a short trip. Since they came from the South, it would take three highways from there, or two highways from Manila. Totaling more or less 300km back and forth costing us waayyyy too much gas, and toll.

The trip in itself was fun and confusing, and tiring and frustrating as well. Fun because well, obviously, it's a roadtrip, foodtrip with Yani's Presto and laughtrip with Gabo's driving skills. See, this may probably be the first and last trip that I actually get to see a chicken cross the road, a bird fly in front of us, a dog suddenly crossing in front of us (almost costing us our noodles, literally) and a sudden loss of road. Thank God, Gabo got us through that alive. Even though we got lost more than a few times.

Upon arrival to the venue, I was happy to get out of the car and disappointed to see the place. It was truly run down and I wouldn't want to stay in it for an hour much less a 3D2N stay. So... no, thank you sir! But since we were already there, we thought of just looking at the places with the most promise and the "meh" places. We were happy to find the East West (first we saw after the disappointing house) and All Seasons (the last we saw before leaving with heavy hearts), both were good. But, we took the All Seasons because they offered us the whole resort exclusively.

On the way home from the Capitol, Mike took over the wheel and drove us back home. Not exactly the easiest thing, though we no longer have any chance of getting lost as much, there were no lights in the highway... plus, it was raining so badly... and, we were driving at nighttime. Though my best friend right there had driven these highways before at night, it still proves to be hard to go through with the lightning and rain.

This trip was tiring as hell, considering we all woke up early at around 6AM to get ready, we got home around 11PM and still we had to discuss a few things. I fell asleep in front of my laptop and was gone for the next few days.

I don't have the pictures yet because Yani hasn't uploaded the random pictures from the trip. Only those of the place that we will be staying in.

Peace and love from the South,
AnaRay

yes, there's such a big difference with the South and North of Luzon.

April 30, 2012 - May 1, 2012. White Rock.

This is a super belated post because of reasons to be posted on the next post.

As well as it being the end of April, it is also the first trip I take up with my college friends on the way to White Rock to enjoy some of the summer sun. Though one of us wore so much sunblock as well as avoiding the sun at all costs.

Picture overload. Thanks to my fried Louie.

It's not everyday I commute for a very long trip. So getting on a bus felt like we were due for a field trip again. However, there were no professors to tell us what to and not to do. I can say that the trip to was a total snooze. Of course, that's what happens when your friends wake you up at 5am when you barely had any sleep the night before.

L-R: Me, Jiou, Brian, AJ, Mel, Michael, Zig and Louie.

From photos again and again, you'll notice there are only two of us girls for reasons I have no idea. I didn't participate so much in the planning of this trip so I just went with the flow. Side note, thanks to Brian and his mom for the welcoming lunch at their place, hihi. (^_^)

Is this Baldo or Mickey?

White Rock is a place that would be enjoyed by people of all ages. However, be very very careful at beach part because the rocks are very sharp and there are some random objects in there. I was really afraid of walking through that watery death trap because I've always been very careful of my legs, scratch that, my whole body. I don't think I have a scar on me.

Hair in Motion.

But still, that doesn't mean that I don't take up challenges. Like beach volleyball, honestly I suck at this. There were slides there, one that looked like a toilet bowl, a super steep slide where you skid on the water, and the seesaw slide that I was screamed my head of 'cause it was really weird. Then there was a pool with a few kayaks in it. The wave pool and there was a surfing pool but it wasn't available for our use. We ended our day trip in the beach with the kayaks.

Slide Mel, slide!

I hope... we don't fall.

Conquered the triangular thing-y.

After such a tiring day, we headed back to our hotel and had dinner at MeatPlus. It's a really good and affordable place for steak and stuff like that, you know a "man's" meal 'cause I really couldn't finish my meal. To wrap it all up, most of us had massages at Tonton Massage. The pajamas they gave were really comfy and I was doing some "waterbending" while there. I shushed by the staff because we were giggling too loudly.

If I didn't know that, I would've laughed my head off when the massage actually took place 'cause I'm really sensitive and I had to concentrate on not laughing. Thus, I was very very stiff, the lady had to tell me to "relax".

On the way home, I, along with Brian and Louie, had the opportunity to have some Pancake House, where I almost felt like puking rainbows. The others had taken into some watersports. We got to meet up with Brian's mom before we left the North to return to Manila. Also, got to watch some Legend of Korra.

Manila greeted us with heavy rainfall, a real downside to our sunny expedition. Taft Ave. was flooding up so thank God my dad actually got around to picking me up.

Plus... plus! I got to watch The Avengers when I got back to Alabang, where it was really dry.

That is a long post for two days,
AnaRay

so what been eating me for the past few days here at home? check it out on tomorrow's update.