This is the semi-daily photo-diary of She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Expect posts accompanied with blurbs of what happened that day and the occasional pop-culture reference at 9:45AM.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Quick Room Tour

11:18 AM Posted by Unknown , 2 comments
This is just a quick post that I decided to do on a whim. You know how you tend to get incredible ideas in the middle of the night (or early morning, in my case) and you just have to do it no matter what? I don't even understand why, in the mornings (or afternoons, haha), I'm always so adamantly lazy that anything and everything is met with procrastination. But then when all the lights are turned off and everyone's asleep, I suddenly feel the need to be the most productive person ever. I wanted to tidy up my room, so I did. I wanted to reorganize my closet, which I also did (i'll probably do a closet organization tip post soon). I wanted to do all these blog posts, read everything, write a novel, paint a bunch of random crap and I can't afford to make a racket at two in the morning on a school night, no less.

Anyway, I had just cleaned my room and it kind of looks a bit more presentable, and I'm actually insanely proud of this. You'll notice that some parts are still slightly messy, but I find that if it's too immaculate then it doesn't look like a person lives there—not really, I was just too tired to straighten them up a bit.

Now, before I show the five pictures (wow, just five pictures? This isn't a room tour! It's a room layout tour! I think a room tour should show what's hidden in the drawers with organization tips or for inspiration or whatever), I want to say that I share this room with my older sister, but lately she's been sleeping in the guest room/library downstairs so all her stuff are here as well.


Here you can see the desk that I hardly spend my time on lately. If there's one thing you should know about me is that I prefer to study lying down on the bed or on the floor. 

But this is where I put my laptop (which my sister has started borrowing indefinitly). My tablet is stored in that small drawer with a bunch of pens and pencils. On the top drawer on the right side, I put all my art materials like paint, clay, colored pencils, markers... etc.

This desk actually belonged to my Dad. I believe this is the desk he used when he studied for the bar.

On that shelf thing in the right, I've just got a bunch of books, notebooks from previous years, some board games, an assortment of papers (watercolor paper, scrapbook paper, printer paper), make-up (haha, this is so laughable because I barely even know how to use make-up), perfumes and lotions.

On the left side of the picture, you can see steep stairs/ladder on the mirror which leads to my real room which is in the loft! I didn't really take a picture of the daybed on the left because I kind of forgot and I'm too lazy to do it now, so I'll probably make a better post soon.

The closet on the right belongs to my sister. In this room there are three closets; mine, my sisters, and what is now the linen closet. The loft is right above those built in closets.


This is the view from the loft. Oh! You can see the daybed in this picture! 


Welcome to my bed! I know, it's just a mattress but it's on a platform and i'm not really all that comfortable with those high beds because something could be down there and you just don't know and you can never be too careful. I'm just kidding (no, I'm not)!

In the left side, i've put up a bunch of my favorite photos of friends and family. Hopefully, this pile/collage would get bigger soon. And then you see a bunch of stuffed animals. My older sisters and I have been huge teddy bear fans our entire life. No matter how grown up I am, I still feel guilty if I don't at least include them in my life or something because I might hurt their feelings. Besides, "Toy Story" really made a lasting effect on me, and the "Velveteen Rabbit" fully convinced me that stuffed animals are alive and they have feelings, too, okay?

That pink flower lamp on the top left is the oldest thing in the entire house, according to my dad.


This is my ceiling. It's an "accurate" representation of the night sky. Haha, i'm kidding—when i say accurate, I actually mean that it's just... scaled? Err...

The constellations on this picture are Orion and Canis major. The size of the star (limited due to availability) corresponds to the magnitude, so the two big ones on the center are Betelgeuse (top) and Sirius (bottom). Like the photo collage, hopefully this one grows more as well. (Please send me glow in the dark stars in varying sizes, I would be eternally grateful.)


Last is this picture where it just shows the left side of my bed. There are two "shelves", one is mine (red) and the other is my sister's (wood). Honestly, it's still needs a bit more order but, it doesn't really look like a typhoon blasted it way around it so i'm currently leaving it as is.

I'll probably re-do this post sometime soon when i'm feeling more productive in the middle of the night.

It's 2:15 am, i've done the thing i've been telling myself to do for the past other 2 AMs lately, and i'm going to go try to sleep (but not before reading a fic or five and checking tumblr).

"Good night"

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Time Turner

Plaid button down from Tommy Hilfiger, Black skater skirt from @glambitionph, Turquiose oxfords from Parisian at SM Department Store, Hat from LOFT, Doraemon Laptop Bag from a gift

I took a really difficult midterm today for USAFORD. We were all expecting to take a standard MCQ type test with scantrons, but instead we were subjected to writing 3 essays about US Foreign Policy. It was hard and unpleasant and I am so glad that it's finally over.


A few moments later, my friend Sarah gave me a Time Turner--oh how I wish this one worked for real. Then again, maybe not. Even if I did go back in time, I still wouldn't be able to answer that dreaded midterm.


Isn't it just the most beautiful thing ever? You can even see the writing on the sides and asgfaslks ♥ Thannk you, Sarah!!!


I actually didn't wear accessories to school today because I was already running late, but then Sarah comes along and gives me a time turner out of nowhere and now I feel complete. My sister loves to make fun of me because there was this one time I was already headed out the door, but I came back because "I almost forgot to accessorize" (which was in reference to a bunch of tumblr posts).


It's kind of a shame that I'm wearing plaid today instead of tomorrow for #WinchesterWednesday. I woke up and it just felt like a Wednesday and I know it's stupid, deep down I knew it was Tuesday because of that midterm but you know how some days just feel like... Wednesdays? Now I feel like I'm in a never ending Tuesday (and I even woke up to Asia's "Heat of the Moment", too)!


These are one of my most favorite shoes but I rarely ever wear them because I'm not too sure how to pair it with my clothes. It's kind of a good thing I have a hat with the exact same shade of turquoise ♥


I also want to use this Time Turner to rewatch a lot of Doraemon episodes. I heard the new movie will be pretty sad and kind of like Toy Story 3.

When I got home, my dad brought out our owl (from my previous post) and I took the opportunity to snap a few photos.

Enjoy!








Monday, March 10, 2014

House Pride


Dress from Greenhills, Black Cardigan from Ross, Grey Wedges from Lucky brand

Okay, I know this is sort of a late post, but when we got back last night, we were all so tired and stuffed and just wanted to crash on the bed and sleep for the week.


Gold bangle as a gift, cross connector ring from Forever 21, cuffs from H&M


But wait, why am I so "dressed up" (if by dressed up, you mean wearing heels)? 


Yesterday was the baptism of my nephew, José León. 


We were instructed to wear something inspired by the mafia, and i'm not really sure I understood what that means because all I thought of was black and gold et voila.... mafia.


I think I did a good enough job because I ended up having the same motiff as a Johnnie Walker bottle.


I specifically wore this dress yesterday because it matched the tablecloth on the restaurant my family and I are going to eat in later on in the day.


See how pretty this restaurant is? We ate at the Golden Bay Restaurant for dinner.


Notice how the embossed pattern on my dress totally fits with the tablecloth, right? I was so excited, too! When we got to our table, they instead laid out the red tablecloth and it made me feel so bad because I own the exact same dress in the exact shade of red as well!


This all looks so Gryffindor, huh? Which fits, too because my nephew is named after the lion. I initially named this post "Gryffindor" but then I noticed that most of the colors present were more Hufflepuff than Gryffindor, which kind of doesn't make sense because I'm a proud Slytherin, but there isn't a speck of Ravenclaw here anywhere... basically, I'm not really sure what to name this post.


This is Circus (follow her on instagram @instacircus) and she took the opportunity to claim a bishops hat napkin! We forgot to take pictures of the food because when it arrived, we were so overwhelmed that we had to dig in immediately. The food here is amazing! (I think they have their menu available online as well).

We actually booked a VIP room (which is why the tablecloth is different).


And here is the cake I made for Leon. It's chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing and it's supposed to be a lion, but whoaa, baking cakes in your toaster oven is hard. I don't even know how to ice properly and baking this cake was a disaster. After baking, I passed out and slept for 13 hours. (I baked this on Saturday night so that I won't have anything to worry about on Sunday morning).

Next time, I'll definitely try harder with baking cakes, or maybe I should just stick to cookies from now on.