SweetSimpleJoys

Up now on the wedding blog:

Check out the complete instruction on how to do this DIY hair vine.

I was scurrying yesterday to find a suitable phrase for my post at the wedding blog. And you know where the search led me?

Pablo Neruda.

The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.

Deserted like the dwarves at dawn.
It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!

Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.

In you the wars and the flights accumulated.
From you the wings of the song birds rose.

You swallowed everything, like distance.
Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!

I was lingering over the others, E.E. Cummings or Emily Dickinson. But, “Nah! They’ll have their turn. It’s Pablo’s today.”

That was yesterday. And today, I’m yearning to read a book. I mean really read. Curled up in bed. A book in my hand. Breathing its pages. The smell of paper.

This was my destiny and in it was my voyage of my longing,
and in it my longing fell, in you everything sank!

Oh,  I remember those days. And I miss them. It’s been a while since I updated my collection. And now bookstore trips have been mostly about books on DIY crafts, weddings, photography. I wish I can read a book the way I used to read a book. Just like before.

Early this year, one of our hard drives died on us . Yes, it literally just crapped out. My dad said that some drives do expire after certain number of years. It happened on some of his computers as well and the only thing that we can do is contact the manufacturer and ask for support. As if that’s easy.

I was really upset because most of our files were housed there. Our photos, our movies, our MP3s, our softwares. The demised hard drive was our storage disk.

But months later, we forgot about the lost files and seamlessly moved on without them.

So while I was going through my files and folders, imagine my delight when I found some photos that I thought were lost forever. (I also found scanned images of D’s drawings which I posted here.)

Among the photos were those of our first trip to White Beach, Puerto Galera together. These are not the original pictures, but smaller and edited copies of the hi-reso images. I was probably going to use these somewhere that’s why they were re-sized and tweaked and stashed away in some forgotten folders. But I am glad that I still have these photos saved. A reminder of how beautiful the place was. Especially because D was there with me.

Trivia: D claimed that he would have proposed to me in Puerto Galera had I not “ruined” his plan. (Huh? It wasn’t my fault. Hahaha.) But we had the lying-on-the-sand-under-the-moonlight moment and I can only imagine now how it would’ve been utterly romantic if he proposed right then and there. But whichever way he proposed, it doesn’t matter. I love him just the same. Even more now.

This was D’s offer to appease me after we got into a little “misunderstanding” two days ago.

Pasteleria Ilustrado’s Sans Rival. I ate this together with 2 orders of  Siomai House’s siomai (what else!). Yum yum!

I think I’m having a sweets-craving phase. Two weeks ago, we trooped to Festival Mall in Alabang to buy Pasteleria Ilustrado’s Baked Cheesecake, another favorite. Sadly, they ran out of it. But instead of settling for the sans rival, I decided to sample one from Cravings’ dessert spread. I haven’t tasted any of their cakes so I asked for the bestseller. Hence, the Choco Caramel Cake.

The first bite was both heavenly and sinful. After that, it was just flat out sickening. It’s too sweet for me. And D bailed out early so I had no choice but to finish off the whole mini cake myself, while being regretfully reminded of the delicate and balanced taste of Ilustrado’s desserts. For someone who has no sweet tooth (craving for sweets occurs rarely for me), it was torture. And it didn’t end with the last bite. I woke up the next day sick in my throat, perhaps because too much sugar has coated it.

I might still try their Devil’s Food Cake though. The marshmallow icing looks promising. But yeah, Pasteleria Ilustrado’s Sans Rival is definitely a treat!

I love you D!

While I was rummaging through my file folders looking for some photos, I found these:

These are D’s early inked drawings of the comics character, Spawn. Spectacular, isn’t it?

Now the next one is more like a destiny:

I love Kenshin and Kauro! And Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin) is my all-time favorite Anime series. In fact, my usual nick is Shinta, Kenshin’s original name in the series. And I had this on my desktop as a wallpaper when I first met him online:

It’s written in the stars!

This blog’s been hurting from neglect since my last post. But I’m back now with some TLC to stop the pain and make up for days that it went un-updated. I’ll be a more doting blogger now. I’ll do my very best.

So for the comeback post, I’m sharing with you two images of a flower. A calla lily.

The first one is an image I got from the net along with a tutorial on how to create a calla lily vector. I didn’t follow the instructions (because I don’t have the software he used). I decided to do it my way.

Here’s the result of my stubbornness. Quite close, but not nearly as good as the copied image. I’m proud of this though. Creating a vector of an image is no easy feat. D even thought I downloaded it online. “No, I made it myself.” Because I couldn’t find a decent calla lily vector on the net. And happy that I was able to make one. I love this vectorizing thing. And blogging too!