Coloring by numbers

Day 3 of my socmed hiatus and I am really trying to change my habits...

So yesterday after work, before watching my usual kdrama online,

I colored a page from my sister’s coloring book... I didn’t finish the whole page but it was enough for me...

This morning though when I woke up, I grabbed my phone to check and as usual it has been quiet...

So I opened the coloring by numbers game I have installed on my ipad and did a few...

I already did a few when I first installed the app

And I discovered something...

I can color using photos taken by my camera!

Hahahaha

I did a few of my face and gawd it is not easy!

It would really take time...

If they did not have to call me in for lunch I would not stop and take a break from it

So I wonder how long will I last with this one until I get bored again and look for some other game to kill time...

Perhaps going back to my pending reads...

Will get back to you on that...

It took me to do a socmed hiatus to blog again

As the title says...
I'm back to posting here because I promised myself
that I wouls let go of social media - particularly Twitter and Facebook
and even Instagram and just stay connected thru messenger apps,
email and text.
Gawd! When I first thought about it I thought I would literally cry...
I have been immersed in socmed esp because of my fangurling
for the past 2 years and yeah I fuess I would have to recalibrate
and change my habits so as not to be too dependent...
As you can see I haven't been blogging like I used to...
There are alot of other hobbies or habits I let go in lieu of my fangirling
and socmed...
But I guess this isn't counted as socmed...
I plan to chronicle my days off socmed...


Today is Day 2

I decided to start early instead of starting on Ash Wednesday because
something personal came up and I had ro immediately attend to it
So this prompted me to deactivated earlier than I first planned...
I said goodbye for now to a few of my contacts online so they would know
at least that I did not die haha

So this morning, instead of my usual habit of going online on Twitter to
be updated, I just checked Viber messages I missed during the night and then
What else to kill time? I installed a coloring by numbers app haha
I colored a few until I had to be picked up and go to school...

I downloaded a few news site app kn my phone, Twitter has been my
newspaper ever since so I need alternatives during this hiatus to be updated.

I also thought of blogging about this hiatus and so I downloaded the blogger
app too

And I am on the way to work now while I am writing this on my phone

Adding a screenshot for you to see what I am doing at the passenger seat haha

And so... In a few minutes I will be at work so I won't need to go online much except for work so I have a whole day to get my mind off my socmed hiatus...
Sort of like those withdrawal pangs people go through haha...

I can do this!
One day at

It took me a year to blog again...

I remembered to check my blog and lo and behold...
My last post was more than a year ago...
so what happened?
I guess I was too stuck on other socmed platforms like Twitter and Instagram to bother much and sit down and really blog about something...
Or perhaps...
Taking time out to write about something is not what it used to be for me...

I don't know...
I usually post something because I feel like it...
Well check out my Twitter feed and IG and you'll know that I have been busy fangirling over
this phenomenal loveteam from the Philippines... that's a different matter altogether...

Anyway...
what is there to talk about?
My life is still the same old same boring one from last year...

My birthday last Wednesday just passed like usual...
Stayed home and ate with family to celebrate...
Maybe perhaps as you grow older... celebrating doesn't matter much...
Or I I said to myself I celebrated my birthday last month already with a trip to Boracay so...

When I came back to work yesterday and treated my ofcmates for lunch...
One of them asked me... what was my birthday wish...
And off the bat I answered...

For time to stop...

Of course as expected you can't stop my ofcmate with such a vague answer as that without her prodding me a bit more...

I just said that that was the first thing that popped in my head...
I don't know what I would've answered if I were given more time to ponder on it...

So of course my other ofcmates just had to ask more...

And I had the time to rethink my answer...

Perhaps what I meant...
I wish I had no worries in the world...
I wish I can have more than a day to do things or not to do things...
I wish that time would stop and the day will not end...
I wish that I didn't have to care much about whatever or whoever...
I wish I can be so carefree...
I wish simply for time to stop...

Perhaps it's because I am getting old...

With age comes cynicism...

If only I can go back to being younger...
If only I have no cares in the world...
Just thinking of getting even with my playmate who beat me in our last game of tumbang preso or patintero or jackstone...
If only I just had my mom's sermon to worry about or what my friends would say about my new haircut... who cares anyway?

If only I can go back to being younger...
but come to think of it...
there are perks to being older too...
Can you name a few off the bat?
I can be accountable for every decision I make and just have my conscious to guilt trip me...
well including my parents too and self-righteous people...

I can be accountable for every mistake
for every expense...
Wait! Scratch that... I want somebody else to commit the mistakes...
I want somebody else to spend for me...

If only I can have unlimited source of everything that I want and need and wish for
like Aladdin with a genie from a lamp granting not just 3 wishes and no conditions...

But I don't have a lamp...

All I have though are other things that matter...

I have family...
they love me as much as they can...

I have friends...
They're not much...
but they can stand my aloof, crazy personality and idiosyncrasies...

I have the experience of the past 36 years to help me survive and go forward...
It might not be much...
I might always be ranting or raving whichever the mood strikes
But hey...
I'm still grateful...
I just don't show it much...

Let's play caption this

I told you I'm not in the mood to blog...

I'm actually lazy now and can't think of captions for these photos...

So go ahead and play around with it...

And try to spot me in the photos as you do...

last few photos taken inside Sumaguing Cave

Sagada Outing and Outreach

I miss blogging...

I miss taking photos too...

But since I'm not much in the mood to blog so I will just upload photos here and share the links to my album during our trip to Sagada a few weeks back...

Thank goodness I grabbed the chance because it's my first time to go see Sagada!

Day 1 in Sagada

Morning of Day 2 in Sagada







And the final album contains photo of our outreach and our last day in Sagada

To see the rest of the photos click on the links below:

Sagada Day 1

Sagada Day 2 Morning

Sagada Day 2 Outreach and Day 3

Zipline & CableCar Ride in Boracay

Now I would love to own a GoPro too!

(Rented this one during our zipline-cable car adventure in Boracay last April 23, 2016)