Celebrate joy!

Before we got married, Dennis and I attended a marriage prep seminar in church wherein we got to learn about the foundation of marriage and the practical ways to not only make a marriage work but to make it work for God's purposes. I remember we were running late to the seminar that day and so I was thinking of booking a grab in advanced, but then he suggested that there were many taxis so let’s just hail one instead. I agreed but in my mind, I knew that my suggestion was better. So later on, when he realized that too, I told him "sabi ko sayo eh..." So imagine when the the topic that day was about wives submitting to their husbands. God really does go before us, huh! :P And one speaker said that when wives and husbands agree on something, walang sisihan dapat and dapat walang "sabi ko na nga ba eh..." with matching iling pa and tsk tsk tsk in the end... #tamangtamaakobes

It was I think our first fight as a couple and it was about...   Odiba, napapanahon! Kung Hei Fat Choi narin sainyo, mga besh! I asked Dennis' permission to tell you guys about this, so thanks babe! lol! About the same time last year, he requested me to cook tikoy for him which I readily obliged, with a sweet smile and a pinky promise.

I was the girl who reads chick-lit, Sweet Valley High and love stories when I was young... I was the girl who penned poems ever since I could write -- with the single goal of making the last syllable of each verse rhyme with the next verse -- you would laugh if you saw my poems :P I was the girl who likes watching romcoms and would wistfully wonder when my time would finally come when I would meet the One. So I have a lot of ideas on what love was all about -- thanks to the books and movies I devoured ever since I was a child. At 25, these are my definitions of love: Love is friendship on fire (the good kind, like I believe that love is friendship in the best sense of the word but with romance and passion) Love is putting the person's happiness before your own Love is a choice I felt like I had a pretty good grasp of what love was all about at that time and hey, that's a pretty good set of definitions don't you think?

Do you remember this beauty campaign of Dove years back... which door will you choose? I chanced upon this reality show wherein they look for people who dress up and who are made up the "wrong way" -- and the idea is to give them a make over. There were two girls on the show and what I liked about the show was that they don't transform you into someone else but they actually do the opposite. They asked the girls to take off their make up, wigs and everything that they put on to see what's beneath all of those. While the first girl was quick to follow and she eventually realized that she can actually be beautiful with a different kind of clothes and without all of those frills and layers of lace) the second girl was not.  She was going through the motions but every time a new set of clothes was presented to her by one of the hosts, she admitted that she doesn't like any    of it. When they also suggested that they change up her hair, she was a...

I think one of the keys to being your naturally glowing self is to take good care of your skin and your body. Sans the make up and the many things that you can opt to do today, it really is important to go back to the basics. Having a good base is the key! So days before my wedding, I headed over to Bianca Festejo Salon for my hair make retouch and for my facial. The roots of my hair were already showing so I touched up on that and I also had hair treatment! Win! 

We saw Bird Box the other day and so did over 45 million Netflix subscribers around the world and it was a pretty good movie! It was a psychological thriller that haunts you with questions long after the credits rolled. So what for me made the movie worthwhile? 1. The mystery of the "creatures" I saw a post of a friend that this is the evil in the world. It's a force that lures you in and kills you. So where does it come from and why did it decide to show itself only now? Just like evil, it has always been there but there is a time wherein its force will be much stronger and there will be a time wherein it will have a following (the psychos in the movie) that will push the advancement of the evil force in this world. Creepy, right? But it actually holds some truth. Pwede! I can buy that theory! For me though, I initially thought that the creature is the media. What??? I am taking a more literal take on this, wherein it creeps from the screens strai...