Launching of "Vee Creative: A DIY Feature"

I've always been a craft hobbyist but never really turned that into an online thingy but there's so many amazing things that needs to be shared and I don't want to stop myself from sharing it here in The Blah Blah Notebook. 

As I have mentioned in my blogging goals this year, I want to add another feature. Well, this is it now. This is really it. My friends, I'm finally launching VEE CREATIVE. This is a feature I'll be posting  at any random time. This is where I'll post  my DIY crafts.

Tatlong Araw Kasama si Rizal

Photo Credits

Abot-tanaw ko na ang Polauan Port ng Dapitan. Sa wakas ay mararating ko na rin ang bayan na tanging sa aklat na Sibika at Kultura ko lamang naririnig. Siyempre, bilang isang AB History na estudyante, interesado rin ako sa maikling panahong ginugol ng paborito kong bayani na si Jose Rizal sa bayan na ito. Kinailangan ko pang pilitin ang pinsan ko na si Leah na samahan ako sa paglalakbay ko upang payagan ako nang aking ama na makapunta sa Dapitan. Nakapagdesisyon na rin kasi ako na gagawan ko nang Thesis ang naging buhay ni Jose Rizal sa loob nang apat na taon niyang pamamalagi sa bayan nang Dapitan.

Ayy… ako nga pala si Josephine Valdez at nasasabik na ako sa kung ano man ang matutuklasan ko sa Dapitan.

#SittieCatesBookContest: Why I Love to Read Books?

Books? They’re my first love. I remember how I would work hard just to be part of the honor’s list in school so my father would reward me with a new book at the end of the school year. At first, it was a box filled with fairy tales, and then a book about the autobiographies of the presidents of the Philippines when I was in 2^nd grade. The next books I collected were about histories, trivias and other children stories.

I remember how I would stay at the library and scan the encyclopedia (Yes! I was a trying hard genius before). Usually, I read about animals, flowers, novel authors and scientist. I used to have a notebook filled with interesting trivias about them. I really can’t explain the feeling whenever I have a book on my hand but I just love it. It’s like whenever I get to open a new book, I’m about to take a flight to a new world and I so love the feeling.

The BOOKaholic side of me...:)

Patay na Pangarap (Dead Dreams)

It's kind of strange that I accidentally found ANOTHER piece that I wrote when I was still in high school. LIFE IS LIKE A ROSE was written when I was in my sophomore years. Two years later, I was 15 and in my senior year and was part of our school paper organization "The Pioneer", I was one of the news contributors and the feature writer who wrote Filipino feature articles.  This piece just actually came out of nowhere after hearing news on TV. The moment the news ended, I was already writing as if words just kept on popping out of my head. Anyways, hope my Filipino readers appreciate this piece written by the 15 year old me.

 

Photo from Citizenship 

This post is in Filipino so I would like to extend my apology for some of my readers who can't understand it. Feel free to use Google for translation... :D You can also read it in Definitely Filipino. It's my very first post there.

Punit-punit na Pangarap

Napakaingay ng mainit na lansangan...abala ang lahat  sa kanya-kanyang pagpapatakbo ng buhay...negosyo. May ngumingiti, tumatawa, umiiyak na mga bata, may mga tulala at mga paslit na naglalaro lang at walang kamuwang-muwang habang ang mga matatandang ale at mama na nasa malapit lang ay panay ang sigawan at murahan na para bang wala nang bukas.

 
Ilang segundo lang....     BOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM..............................
 

Getting to Know Ima Vee

I just noticed that I didn't have an About Me widget in any of my blogs. I forgot to add it. I used to put it here in my blog for my first month blogging but then, I really didn't have words to describe myself  which is why I removed it. And then I just saw Kraehe's last post in my dashboard[in the blogs I'm following section] which reminded me that I removed my About Me widget.

So I guess, I'm not going to put the About Me widget again for now since I still don't have a right description in mind but then this post will give you, my readers some idea about who really is Ima Vee:

GENERAL

My Name: Ima Vee           [My pen name which means I'm a Vee and Vee stands for the first letter of my REAL last name...I hope the former emcee of the Math contest I joined read this and find out the my name is not reneboy...hmmmpp]

My Hometown: Dapitan City, Philippines

Describe my body:  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....????? [thinking], 5'4"...I'm skinny and no matter how much I eat, I don't gain weight. Is 30 considered flat-chested??? Waist????? 24....... Hips??????? Don't ask... :-( P.S.... Don't ask my weight. 

My Hobbies: Draw and play with my brush and pen. Play guitar, keyboard. Surf the internet, write, and make fun with my nephew until he cries...LOL[not that harsh]:]

MY FAVORITES:

Food: I'm all smiles if there's Fried Tilapia or Bangus in the table.

Movie: The latest? It would be Three Idiots. All time favorite.....The Passion of Christ.

Books: Many to mention. Such books include The Princeton Murders, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Tagalog Pocketbooks, Tyler Series, Alamat ng Gubat :-], etc. and of course the Bible.

Authors: I can't pick one... J.K. Rowling, Lurlene Mcdaniel, Lisa Gardner, Bob Ong, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gilda Olvidado, etc. and of course, tadadadada..... Ima Vee[even she makes a lot of typo in her posts...LOL]

Songs: I'm into alternative rock and OPM songs and pop songs sang by girls with lyrics that make sense of course. Doesn't matter if it's new or not. Sometimes, I found myself listening to RNB and ballad. Some of my favorites are Stop and Stare, I'm Like a Bird, Come Back Down, perfect Memory, Say Forever, Playing God and many others. But my all time favorite is A1's One Last Song.

Artists/Bands: Nelly Furtado, Sixpence None Richer, remy Zero, One republic, Faber Drive, paramore, Eraserheads, MLTR [I'm also a fan of the 90's], Westlife, A1 Lifehouse, Dashboard Confessional, Bruno Mars, Rico Blanco, Sarah G., Regine V., Avril Lavigne, Ogie A., demi Lovato, ahhhhhh.... Alison Krauss, Juris F., Simple Plan, Ely Buendia, Secondhand Serenade.... SO MANY OTHERS...

P.S. I sometimes sing along with Lady Gaga and Beyonce... LOL... that's a secret.

Drinks: I love Fresh Milk.... sometimes coffee.

T.V. Shows: For now, I love watching MYX and UFC in Studio 23 and Justice League of course.

DVD Series: Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Smallville, Prisonbreak

Snack: Skyflakes with Tuna[either hot and spicy flavor or flakes in oil] French Fries dipped in ice cream.

Anime Series: Naruto... Lovely Complex and Rosary Vampire

WEIRD....

• I can't sleep with pillows under my head. I don't know why.... hmmmppp...
• I don't sleep lying with my back flat on the bed. It's the other way around. Gets?
• I eat hot rice mixed with raw eggs. Ever heard of it? My roommates before didn't like seeing me eating those.
• After my school uniform in high school, I don't like wearing skirts. I feel gay. But definitely, I'M NOT A LEZ... 100 percent Girl. The last time I wore skirt was in my older brother's wedding. never happened again. 
• Sometimes, when I get bored, I read my book upside down.

That's all for today... For any questions, just leave it on your comments.

Me As A Traveller

I’m not much of a traveler and I hated riding on buses. Yet I’ve been to many places but I haven’t appreciated much of the places and the environment I passed and have been surrounded by because every time I got to one/fourth of the destination? My head would spin, my stomach would turn and the next thing I know? I’m all over my vomit. Yuck!!! So gross!! I know! Anyway, that was when I was still in high school. I’m more comfortable on bikes and motorcycles than four-wheeled vehicles. It took me three years for the realization to strike me. The bus maybe is one of the dirtiest transportation medium to be in because you got to filter the moist, dirt, dusts in your face while you’re sitting next to the window, you got to smell weird odors, trashes of boiled eggs, junk foods and even saliva but after three years of getting used to it, I found out that life here on earth is like riding the bus.

Unpredictable. You won’t know whose going to be your seatmates. There’s the silent miss who keeps on leaning her head on the window staring at nowhere. There’s the old lady who boasts about her children’s achievements and then changes to a dramatic mode saying “They are living away from me now”. There’s the chubby gal who never stops munching junk foods that you’d be lucky if you are offered to eat. Then there’s this sophisticated chic who shows off her touch screen phone and retouches every time the bus stops. You got to listen to the snores of an emo who sleeps with his ipod on the maximum volume and his headphone as big as an earmuff. There’s the impatient suitcase bachelor who glance at his wristwatch every ten minutes with folded forehead. Then there’s this noisy teenager who keeps chewing her bubble gum for an hour and fingers fixed on her phone narrating how dramatic and uncool her life is. There’s the innocent kid who stares at you until she gets to her destination with her mother. Then there were the ever jologs guys who tries hard to get your phone number. There were also the good guys/girls who are kind enough to offer you seats. Somehow, you share time with them like friends who walks in and out of your life. You share time with them but they’ll have to go and leave. Unpredictable.

Exciting. You got to visit different places every time it stops by. You get to see beautiful views that are rarely seen and not usually appreciated by others. You get excited by events you might witness by just passing by. And just like the seatmates, you get to know and exposed to people with different attitudes which will help you mould your character. Fantastic.

IRRITATING. Yeah! Life is not complete without downs. It can’t be all ups, ups, and ups. That would be boring. Yes!! Traveling is not always going to be exciting. There are times when you get stranded when the bus goes “moody”. And you have to wait for another mean for transport when you are standing by the highway in the middle of an uncivilized location and you got a cell phone which is out-of-coverage or else low battery. Usually it’s waiting that makes you irritated. According to a Factory Engineer of one of the prestigious companies of Philippines, waiting is a waste. Yeah! That is definitely right but sometimes you have to wait because hurrying might go wrong. Everything has a reason and to get to that reason, you have to wait. Just like waiting for a barge and your bus is last on the line or the line of the crowd gets bigger and the door is just like a dot in your sight. Hahahaha!!! And unluckily, you are in a hurry!!! And you have a nth level talkative seatmate who keeps on talking about things that are unnecessary. The conductor keeps on asking for your ticket when you already had one.

Either way… though we get unpredictable, expecting and irritating experiences in our life, at the end, we still get to our destination…. Our purposes… The important thing is we take things in a positive way. We learn from what we see and enjoy every moment of our journey.