AFRICA

Let us take a moment to sit back, bask in the hot hot summer heat, listen to the steady drone of the electric fan no doubt trained on you or the hum of the air conditioning unit and appreciate the beauty of the Dark Continent otherwise known as Africa. 

Colored pencils on an index card hehe I went on a spontaneous room cleaning spree last night and decided to let my paints rest by keeping them inside a box underneath my desk. Since I had the urge to do something fartsy earlier, instead of creating a huge mess, I made a smaller mess by using colored pencils. It's been such a long time since I last used them and it feels weird but at the same time oh so nice, I'll surely use them more often now!
On another note.................................
Did you know that African elephants are the largest living land animals? Now you know! 

Africa has been dubbed as the Dark Continent since at the time that the dubbing was taking place, it had yet to be explored thoroughly by..explorers. I was planning on bombarding you guys with a buttload of facts but then after wracking my brain for anything juicy that I learned from my Social Studies class, I couldn't come up with anything hehe.

I love Africa; the wildlife, the culture, the people and especially their music. I am such a sucker for songs that have strong drum beats or whatever you call them. I actually cannot bring myself to call the music from that continent, songs because the word 'song' seems so flimsy and that it's simply not enough to name such wonderful sounds. I'm really having a hard time translating what I feel whenever I hear something African-y into words, all I know is that for me it is pure eargasm especially when I hear the very low bass notes being hit and then all of a sudden a chorus of girl voices go on top and then LALALA I'm drowning in warmth because of the sounds hehehe. 

Here are just the gems I unearthed on youtube that urged me to write (and draw) about Africa! I hope you guys like them :D







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Revisiting The Most Beautiful Ukay Spot in the World

A few hours after GOLD, my family and I dragged our sleepy buts to our car and headed to Pangasinan for my grandmother's, uncle's, nephew's, cousin's and dad's birthday celebration. After getting a measly 2 hour slumber in the comfort of my own bed, it was no surprise that my sister and I slept throughout the 4 hour trip.  We were greeted by warm smiles and this beautiful piece of work.

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To kill time, we went to the amazing Wagwag ukay ukay but and on the way we passed by this uber provincial/scenic view of the tobacco plantation and so we took pictures of it and the kind man tending it.

Going back to The Most Beautiful Ukay Spot in the World felt like a homecoming of some sort hihi. The first stall thingy we went to had a huge pile of clothes that were only for P5 each!! Now that we had a lot of time on our hands unlike the last time we went there, we definitely scoured the place for treasures and boy did we find them!

This shirt has been on my mind since we last visited and when I finally made up my mind (with the help of my friends) that it isn't sacrilegious, I asked for its price and found out it wasn't for sale HUHUHU turns out the shirt was acting as their protector to ward off business bad luck 

Drama mama photo

Unlike the last time we were in the area, we got the chance to explore other neighboring ukay ukay places! The other's aren't like the huge one that we love but they were good in their own ways. 

Shady looking Winnie the Pooh costume hehehehe

I WAS SO TEMPTED TO BUY THAT ONE HAHAHA

WANTED TO BUY THESE TOO HAHAHAHA

We came back after eating at a carinderia on the side of the road hehe and played with the fluffy dogs at home.

Just some colorful brooms hihi

GOT THIS FOR 5 PESOS NYAHA GOD BLESS UKAYS

I bought an ice-skating dress I dont know why but it was only for P50

Velvet sweater for P50 again HAHAHAHA

 AND FINALLY!! I bought a Harry Potter sweater for yep you guessed it only P50!!! HAHAHA I really really really really love ukays <3 .="" p="">

Katy + Perry: A Story Told Through Pictures and One Great Aw

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Katy the Dog

I woke up quite late today and when I stumbled out of my room to greet the world, I stumbled upon this adorable adorable puppy!!! Ahh my mum's been talking about getting a new dog and then that topic got pushed back and then this week it started up again. My cousin's dog gave birth, I think and that's how we bought, Katy our new dog hehehe. Get it, Katy and Perry? Hehehehehehehe.

My mum and Katy who looks like she's worried already

Katy the worrier 

Strutting, Mewling, Oinking

On our last day in Subic, we decided to stop over at my grandparents' home in Pangasinan. It's like a 2 hour drive from Subic and a 4 to 6 hour drive from Manila. My uncle together with his family lives with my grandparents and they have a totally wicked pig farm thingy in their backyard!

The clouds were way pretty on our way

I think I have GOT to quit taking pictures of the sky hahaha

When we reached the town of Mapandan, my sister took a break from our singing session in the back seat and had a go with driving our car.

Now what fascinates me the most about their house is that it's like a mini zoo. For realsies. They have pink pigs and native black ones, a ton of dogs and various insects I guess lurking in the mini garden thing they have at the side of the house.

This fella's name is Small! He's apparently too wild to be let loose

Some random dirty pig herrrrng

This one right here is Brownie! He's like the sweetest thing ever to grace this world..joke. He's really mellow which is a breath of fresh air because Perry is such a rascal like 99% of the time.

Just look at him getting all worked up for my uncle! Adorrrrrrable

2 day old Wilburs hehe

This dog doesnt have a name...joke my cousin apparently was the one who named him and since they werent there, my uncle just couldnt recall this poor guy's name 

MOTHER PIG COMING TO SQUISH YOU TO DEATH 

Scary looking native pig...apparently we ate her daughter...so sorry

Before you get to the pig place thing, you have to pass by this nifty 'work station'. It's a place where you can roast stuff, a place full of lumber and other farm-y stuff that I do not and will never know the function of. Too bad tho cos I seriously am itching to build a house. Haha weird.

My uncle in his zone~

What's also cool about the house is that my grandmum has a gajillion memorabilias(?)! She keeps every photo that we send her, she even tucked away our Zoobic tiger cage picture in her cabinet hehe so cute. Plus she has like tons of figurines and toys from way back. The best part is this cupboard door that has writings on it like old telephone numbers!

Ancient family picture!

My mum hahahaha

Okay, lastly, I wanna talk about Chona. Don't really know the spelling of this wonderdog's name but it's pronounced like sauna but with a ch at the beginning. She's super old and is the most harmless creature I've ever seen. When I first saw her, she was looking at our car and just staring. She then slinked off to go eat her food and go do doggy things. Sad thing tho is she looks super tired with her eyebags which my mum says while going all Cesar Milan on Chona is due to her old age. But the cutest thing is this trick that my uncle does. He calls for her so she lazily goes up to him while he's seated on this super duper comfy chair, he pats his thighs so she goes up and rests her fore legs on my uncle's thighs. He then says 'higa' which is tagalog for lie down, and she does!! She cuddles and rubs her snout against my uncle's thighs! Hehe it was a sight for sore eyes.

Our trip has been filled with so many animals. I never really was a fan of them...until Perry came strutting and mewling in our lives hehe. So to those who hate animals or just generally dislike or simply do not care for them, well I just have one thing to say........................................................................................................hi hahaha joke. Animals are da bomb. 

Here's Perry's hipster picture.