Welcome! If you're here to snoop into my life, you've come to the right place. I say so much shit here like I owe the world an explanation for everything I do. Here, I document my life, little wins, disappointments, and failures, and if the movie and book "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were a person, that would be me. 

So Hi. 

I hope you will enjoy your stay. I'm a couple of months late but who reads this anyway, right????

As you all know, September is also the beginning of every Pinoy's Christmas LOL. I could hear my dad already blasting Christmas carols off his phone. Takes me back to that time when we still reside in Manila and Mom is still alive. We'll have every Christmas decors out. My brother and I usually decorate the Christmas Tree, while my mom and dad put up the grass in the corner of the ceiling with ornaments and lights. Christmas used to be my favorite holiday. But it gets sadder, duller, and boring as the years go by. Maybe it's because I'm getting older too. Priorities have changed and life moves so swiftly.

Going back to the September blog. In the first week, we threw Stevie a birthday surprise at Tuan-Tuan. His girlfriend, Gail had asked us this favor a few weeks before little did she know she'd be engaged to him the very next day lol Congratulations to this newly engaged couple!!! 

On the 3rd week, I dragged another friend, Mina to come with me while I had my laptop fixed lol in return, we had dinner with a little pampering on the side. We took videos, photos and had soo much fun! 

My friends and I were supposed to watch the Circus Music Festival on the 30th but was later rescheduled due to non-stop rain. The funny thing was, we already booked an Airbnb near the location to save ourselves some time on traveling. So despite the concert being canceled, we still all agreed to proceed with the booking. Sayaaaang yun! We won't be able to refund it na. Full Blog will be posted soon. (kapag sinipag hehe)

On another note, I was rushed to the ER at 2 a.m. due to some difficulty in breathing, I also felt my arms up to my jaws going numb. The doctors ruled it out as Acid Reflux. But I was goddamn scared, I thought that would be the end for me. I was staying over at my friends in Manila when that happened so I was away from my family. Had to call them one by one to let them know if something were to happen, at least alam nila, literal nag bibilin na ako! Since then, my life has changed. 

I have never been hospitalized since I was a kid. Aside from the annual APEs my companies required us to undergo, my health was doing good. Nothing to be worried about, until that day. I quit vaping and the nicotine withdrawal was sooo bad. Subconsciously put my focus on food instead. I did gain some weight to cope. If I'm not eating I'd feel the strong urge to vape and that went on for a couple of weeks. As of writing, the nicotine addiction has definitely gone. It's the additional weight gain that I'm struggling to get rid of now. Grabe life! Why u gotta be so hard??? So that is my current agenda, to get my body back on track. Sana lang magawa ko lol I was in my thinnest last year!! 

But heyy the bottom line is I made it, I'm still alive. 

Now onto my Netflix department, 

I've been really into series recently. I've watched "Dead to Me", and "Santa Clarita Diet" which both got canceled for some reason. Total bummer! coz I enjoyed those shows. 

Another series that I enjoyed was "Peaky Blinders" which wasn't typically my type of genre coz they're all about Mafia, guns, actions, and bloody British/Irish accents, more actions. But this girl stayed despite her being clueless 70% of the time. Tommy made me stay hehe. He was such a badass. I just love how Cillian portrayed him, they cast the perfect actor for the role.

I wasn't expecting to see Marshall Eriksen and Mike Hannigan together in a film but they starred in the movie, "I Love You, Man", it was okay, I just can't look at them without seeing the characters they portrayed in their sitcoms LOL

Top Songs for this Month

1.) Glue Song - Beabadoobee

2.) Norman Fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Rey

3.) Shake it Out - Florence + The Machine 

4.) The Pool - Stephen Sanchez

5.) Wave to Earth - Bad

That is pretty much it. Oh, and I'll be publishing the backlogs one by one so stay tuned.  

xoxo

Grace

This is perhaps the most spontaneous thing I've ever done in my whole life.

 August 12th, I was supposed to stay home that Saturday, but I got to talking with my friend, Jobelle and we ended up meeting for a brunch at Kapitolyo. I remember that the Tattoo Studio where I had my first two was just around the area so I asked her if she would like to get some tattoos which she was totally down for lol 

I sent PintaDon Tattoo Studio a message that same morning, knowing they're always booked on weekends, I didn't set my hopes up for a slot. I was mainly trying my luck. I sent them the designs that I had on my old phone. Buti dala ko! and they happened to have an ongoing promo for their Anniversary. MEANT TO BE!!! On top of the free minimalist tattoo, we will also get a 10% discount for bringing a friend. Initially, they told us that they might have to book us for separate time slots since they were fully booked that day. We said it was fine if one of us had to wait. We were just soo hyped to get inked.

We stayed at her condo's penthouse to kill some time while playing Ukulele. Then headed to the Studio at 1pm. 

Upon entering the Studio, there were indeed a lot of people. The staff assisted us with our reservation, while the other one printed out our designs for sizing preferences. It wasn't too long til Jobelle got called to the "operating room" LOL

I wasn't really sure about the placement until the very last minute. Such little time to think about a permanent decision pero ginusto ko to dibaaa?? so I just went with my left ankle and arm. I've heard that the ankle spot can be painful but I couldn't care less at this point. If I'm getting hurt at least it's something I want lolol

Quick restroom selfie while waiting for my turn.

Don, was my artist that day. When he saw my other tattoos he asked me where I got them and I confidently said, "Here, last year". Told him, Neil was my artist before who coincidentally was in charge of Jobelle. 

Everyone there was just so cool and most of the customers were women!!!! I repeat WOMEN! Isn't it nice seeing women taking over something that was traditionally for men's art expression? I barely saw a male customer. 

He laid me down on the chair and started with my left arm. I was wearing shorts and they were nice enough to hand me a blanket for my legs +100!!! 

I didn't anticipate how painful it would be, it was an 8/10. I was shaking for the first few minutes because of the pain lol It got tolerable though and it was a tiny one so I'll live. 

Then we moved to my left ankle. I was silently praying it wouldn't be as painful as the first. Well, it was, lol in fact a little more like an 8.5/10. You would certainly feel the needle piercing through your skin and bone. 

I got two Angel tattoos because of my mom and brother. As all of you know, they're both in Heaven and this is my way of remembering them. "Angel'" is also part of my middle name. 

The whole session lasted for about 40 minutes. After that, Jobelle and I sat down to make some chika then we were asked to have our photos taken along with the artists! 

Nice to see you again, Neil!

And Jobelle got these. 

Since I'm a returning customer, they gave me a loyalty card na nakaka pressure kase gusto ko yun makumpleto!!! Who knows I might get a 5th one before the year ends. Also, they issued me a new Referral card so if any of you want to get inked, DM me!!

My dad who absolutely had zero idea I was getting tattoos went mad lol but when I told him the reason behind it, he calmed down. A LITTLE. He was still furious and like every parent would say, "binababoy mo lang katawan mo". Well, he said as long as it's not a huge one. WAHAHAHAHAHA OKAY

I really do recommend PintaDon Tattoo Studio!! The fact that they squeezed us in despite the late notice was remarkable. The whole experience was surreal and I enjoyed every bit of it. Will I get a spontaneous tattoo again? HELL YES!

xoxo

Grasya