Monday, January 30, 2012

Double Happiness

Imagine how happy I am upon receiving an invitation from Kate, a new friend, or scratch that -- I've known her years ago but it's just these past few months that we got close. Haha. So the invitation says that it's a joint celebration: Kate's son Gab's christening at the Basilica Minore and her birthday bash at a nearby clubhouse. And of course, without hesitations, I went! :)

Got no pictures during the baptismal rites, boo. Here are the pictures at the reception, instead.

The gang, minus me (cos I took this shot). Huhu.


Hello, baby Gab! :)
I love everything in this plate! *nomnom*

"Burned calories" through cam-whoring. Haha.

On me: Redhead polka-dot and khaki overalls, mocha belt, Solemate mustard flats

The birthday mommy, Kate. :)
With the adorable Gab. :)


Kate's birthday bash afterwards! Yay!

Got home past 12MN, dripping. All of us were soaking wet cos the guys were too game enough to showcase their muscles; they even considered throwing us into the swimming pool. Ha. Nevertheless, it was fuuuuun! :)

How was your day? Feel free to hit me bout it! Til next post! :)
XX

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Illusory Superiority

It's the first weekend this year that I wasn't able to go home and yes, got stuck at the dorm all because of flu. Add sore muscles to that, too. On a lighter note, this is my very chance to catch Father Thor, my favorite priest, in his 5:30-7PM Sunday service at the St. Therese of the Child Jesus Chapel at the campus' confines. And so off I went to church with some friends.

We were lucky to get some front seats. And the sermon was all about the Lake Woebegon Effect. Lake Woebegon isn't a lake mentioned in the Bible, neither in the atlas. It's Garrison Keillor's fictional town, with which he mentions in his radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. It's a town which is said to be where "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average"The Lake Woebegon Effect, the natural human tendency wherein one overestimates another's capabilities, was named after the fictional town.

So the Lake Woebegon Effect is synonymous to Illusory Superiority or other names such as Above Average Effect, and Superiority Bias. A Psychology topic in church, eh? But I'm not against that being taught in church. I'm just amazed that that thing being the topic, in my own perspective, is timely, very timely.

As a college student in a prestigious university in Asia, I always have this thought at the back of my mind that I am greater than some people who got into other universities, who got lower grades than mine, who flunked a subject that I didn't, etcetera, etcetera. There are times that I came to ridicule someone because of it. And if you give it some thought, maybe you, too, have had experienced whipping and being whipped by that Lake Woebegon Effect. And I just realized that it doesn't do any good for me and for my "victim". Though I know that I can be caught by its tentacles every day, I know that I can somehow prevent it from doing so with my own little ways and if I didn't, I can always try to clean up my mess and somehow (though I know I can't completely) alleviate the pain I made others feel. 

I don't know but I just felt the need to write this. I'll try to shoo off the Lake Woebegon inside me starting today.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Paper Plate Art

I did this while I was on a batch meeting for our graduation pictorial and yearbook last year. I used G-Tech 0.4 and an extra paper plate from our organization's open tambayan. Nothing important, just one of my many random doodles. :)


I recently started doodling on my Starbucks planner and I plan on doing it by installment or simply put, whenever I feel like it. After all, that's what doodling is for. Hoping it'll turn out great! Happy doodling! :)

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Dress-up Tuesday

I have been a member of my college academic organization for three years now and I can say that my closest college friends are in that very circle. Bondings from day to day vary and since the Brods and Sisses Night (an annual org activity where the sisses gives tribute to the brods and vice versa) is just a few weeks ahead, we dressed up a bit for our installment tribute to our brods and gave them chocolates and thank you notes afterwards. Here's what I wore. :)



Peach ruffled dress, studded heart belt, white pointed flats











Sunday, January 15, 2012

Lazy Sunday

Being a college student at UPLB who hails from a bit far a place like Bulacan, I usually spend my Mondays travelling to Laguna by bus. It takes me three to four hours to get to my dorm which is a few blocks away from the lower campus. Good thing my schedule for this semester entails me a Tuesday-Friday instead of Monday-Friday classes so I get to spend enough time at home during weekends. Or should I say more than enough when my acads aren't acting up too much? :)

Thrifted polka top with lace collars, Bench acid washed shorts, Parisian gladiators