FMS Photo-a-day Challenge

Sunday, January 01, 2017

book

For god-knows-how-many years now, I had been trying to complete this 30-day challenge from Chantelle Ellem --it's called FMS Photo-A-Day (details on how to play can be found on her blog). I had once been fortunate enough to complete a whole month, and that was last July 2014 (I remember it 'coz i blogged about it hehe!).


This year, I will --once again, try to accomplish this month's photo-a-day challenge. I'd feel more amazed if I can do more than one month, but let's not push it too far. For now, I'm aiming to complete this month's challenge, and will strive to do next month's.

First day's photo prompt is FAVE COLOUR. First thing that came to my mind was PURPLE, of course. It has been my favorite for a decade now. GREEN is my all-time favorite, whereas PINK is my secret personal favorite. Confused? I'll put it this way, when it comes to my personal things and trinkets, I would always pick purple items. For household items, or furnitures, or anything that involves the HOUSE, I would most likely pick something green (or white). Pink has been a fave, but I replaced it with purple almost immediately. However, in instances purple is not available, then the next pick would be the pink ones. So, pink is still a fave, but it's just our little secret.

I took a pic of my pens using my phone for today's prompt and used the app Snapseed to enhance the photo:


It is now humbly posted on my Instagram. I'm trying to be artistic. Minimal, but still artistic. I'm not sure if I have achieved that with this photo. The back-side of J.K. Rowling's book, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, seems to have done the photo justice. Or so I want to believe. :) 

Just another New Year post

Sunday, January 01, 2017

holiday

It seems I'm getting the drive to blog when a year is either already ending or just beginning. Maybe because it's a time to reflect on what has transpired over the past year, that I check on my social media accounts to see the new places I've been to, people I've met, and other things or experiences. Then I go check my blog and see it's empty. It makes me sad, but I never seem to find time to just log-in and type away.

The reason why I have time NOW is because I'm all by myself and got nothing important to do. I am in my sister's place in Doha, and they've gone to Dubai for the New Year Celebration and to take the kids to the many theme parks that Dubai holds. So with my phone on my left side, TV remote control on the right, and B&O A1 speaker (my sister's) in front of me playing Katy Perry's "I'm Still Breathing" (aptly so), I decided to give blogging a go.

As it is the first day of the year, what best to blog about than NEW YEAR's resolution? When I was in grade school (--and high school, too, I guess) we had always been asked to write it all on a piece of paper on the very first day of school right after the Christmas break. Who knows what our teachers do to them, maybe memorize it all and laugh behind our backs if we break them.

So before the year ended, I have decided to make a NY resolution:

I read somewhere that we don't need a new year or a new month to set new things to do or achieve. However, most people, such as myself, really tend to have this competitive attitude to be better, do better on a new year, or a new month. Like, sure, I can start learning a new language anytime, but this is more challenging this way. ^_^ Right?

So, bring it on, 2017! 2016 was okay but I know you can do better.

2 years, 5 months, 9 days

Saturday, December 10, 2016

blogging

...that is the amount of time between my last blog post and this one.

The description on the right (about the blogger) is just fitting. Lazy. No one is really ever too busy?! (or so I tell myself!)

So, just like before, I will try to squeeze in some life moments into a single post.

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...actually, I don't think I can. I tried to look into my iPhoto and can't really decide which ones to post. There were so many places, a lot of new people, different kinds of experiences, fun times, and misadventures.

Just the same, that same year -- in November, I got a job in a start-up BPO company, stayed there for almost 2 years (with 3 months off LOL!) and I have to say it was the best days of my "working" life. I might do an entire post on that after this not-so-lengthy make-up post.

I have re-discovered my artistic self (which I will have to do a whole separate blog post about, too!), and traveled to many new places. I'm actually out of the country right now. All of these boring details on the next posts to come. This is just some preppin-up, 'coz I swear by my 7-year-old laptop that I will be a devoted blogger from now on.


Yeah, that's me and my trusty mac. 

"I will never let go, Mac... I'll never let go."