bury me in this dress

I am promoting a total stranger’s business because I love her designs. amberLuke is a side business of Chie Acosta. Medieval ages-inspired leather journals.

I have a leather journal I bought from Author during a bazaar. It cost me around P2,000 and the design is much simpler than amberLuke’s. The journal on the left costs 265 pesos. It has 60 pages only though. I’m requesting for a journal with more pages.

Chie also sells quaint copper seals for use with wax. I am so going to order one which I will end up not using again. I already have a seat at home. Whatever. It’s so lovely.

Check out amberLuke’s website for other leather items. It’s not updated though so you have to email Chie for the updated prices and designs.

I was shocked when I saw her recent photos but unlike most of you, I think she still looks great. My only gripe is she can easily shed her extra weight since she’s rich enough to have a trainer 24/7 or have a weight-loss surgery done. Just look at Janet Jackson and Britney Spears now! Ordinary people like us don’t have that luxury. Hmmp.

(photo from GossipGirls)

I found out through BoingBoing about Hospitalis, a hospital-themed restaurant in Rida, Latvia.

It is a must-see place if you like gore things. The restaurant looks like a medicine cabinet, while you are treated as a patient and taken good care by the long-legged waitresses in nurses uniforms.

The food is served in flasks and operating-room’s dishes and isn’t that cheap (7 and more lats per meal), but this is a bizarre experience that is worth breaking the bank. Besides, the place is owned by local doctors, but unfortunately, the president of Latvia, who is also a doctor, declined his appearance at the opening once he realized how weird this place actually is.

 

I don’t know if the food served there tastes good but the design is awesome!

Uh the food doesn’t look appetizing at all. Still, when I find myself in Latvia (yeah, right) I’ll check out Hospitalis.

Source: Fun Fever

I was about to sleep when I stumbled upon http://superhyperreal.com/ and was blown away by the photography of Jing Quek.

Aren’t they great?! Check out his website to see more of his photography.

I got envious of Marco’s Battle Royale so I made one of myself!

It’s easy to make. I just used the Aly’s Vintage Photoshop action, particulary “Black & Color” and “Old Canvas”, colorized the result, then added the Battle Royale logo.

Because of this, I was inspired to make the Flickr group Battle Royaled. It’s for photos inspired by the movie/manga/anime. Please join if you are a fan!

Here are some of the ones I made for my Plurk friends.

My friend Joe Christ ordered large Coke Light at Jollibee the other day and this is what appeared when the personnel punched it in.

Korean F4

I only found the ones on youtube but I prefer to watch the avi. They’re available on clubbox but I don’t have an account there. Meh. This will do for now.

Aria, I love you!!!

I miss my cat Aria dearly. She hasn’t come home for weeks but the neighbor’s maid said that she saw my cat in the hills, squatters area near my house. She also said that good cats do that when they are sick and want to die. I’m devastated.

Aria is my first cat. She helped me during my depressive stages just by being there as I cried. We were very close. She would sleep beside me most of the time. I even shared some of my food with her. Maybe it was a mistake when mother and I bought Vyolette. Aria felt threatened and she became mad at me. She ignored me and spent most of her times outdoor. Vyolette gave birth and we kept some of her children: Elmer, Barney, and Midnight. Aria must have felt that we didn’t want her anymore so she grew more and more distant. She never became friendly with the other cats.

Late last year, Aria refused to come home after giving birth. She neglected her litter and they died. We only saw Aria from afar and she became so thin. She probably wasn’t eating anymore. I told the maid to catch her so I could bring her to the vet. The doctor said there’s nothing wrong with her except malnourishment. I left her in the clinic for several days though. When we brought her back, Aria was pretty much her old self. Sweet, sleeping next to me, wanting to be stroked, etc. Before we left for Hong Kong last December 29, she was still her old self but when we came back on January 2, she was gone.

I don’t know how to make her come back. I miss her dearly but she doesn’t want to come home. Maybe she’s really dying like what the neighbor’s maid said. Still, I am devastated and I cried a lot earlier. I just want her to be with me again. I don’t want her to die. She’s not even old.

The year didn’t start out right for me. In fact, it was very painful. I was with my family in Hong Kong then. Hong Kong Disneyland to be exact. Ironic since it’s the happiest place on earth as they say.

The trip turned ugly when I became over-excited in Vivienne Westwood store and shopped like crazy. The sale drove me wild and it became too hard for me to resist. I bought a bag, a wallet, shoes and sunglasses – all of them I charged to my credit card. I also happened to impulse-buy a Lumix FX38 camera right before I went to the Westwood shop. So once again, ladies and gentlemen, I have credit card debts. I never learned eh? Mom went ballistic when she found out how much I spent. I would have too if our places were reversed but she said some pretty harsh words which infuriated me. Of course, that resulted to much drama which ruined the fun in the trip for everyone. The shopping spree and the drama happened on the 30th of December when we were still in Kowloon. We transferred to Disney on the 31st and the moods were much much better then. However, things became nasty again on the dawn of New Year and I don’t even remember what triggered it. I just got so fed up that I wanted to quit working for the family business and move out of the house as soon as possible.

Things are much calmer now but I can’t afford to move out. I can’t afford to quit my job as well since I need money. Since I don’t want to become overburdened with installments and interests and all that credit card shit, I want to pay as much as I can ASAP. Now I’m selling my Nikon D80 (waaaah), my ibook, my Canon Ixus 60, and even my whole toy collection (It breaks my heart to part with my Gloomy Bears and Nyanko plushies). *sigh* I brought all of this to myself. Now I’ve finally learned my lesson because I don’t want to use my credit cards anymore except to pay for my blogs’ webhosting. I’m happy with my Vivienne Westwood buys and the Lumix but I can’t afford to make the same mistake again because I have nothing of value left to sell anymore. Yes, lesson learned.

This is another must-see for me but I doubt this is going to hit the big screens here in the Philippines. It’s not even sure if it’s going to be shown all over the US but it has found a distributor already.

It stars Kevin Corrigan (of Band Wagon and the sitcom Grounded For Life) and Jimmi Simpson (who I first saw in Loser), two hotties I want to see more on the small and big screen.