Rebirth of my Personal Blog

Hi my non-avid readers out there! I know a lot of you are excited to see me post in this blog again (self-proclamation at its best).  I, at last, was able to get a chance to get rolling with my need and desire to relive my blog interest and of course, where in the world should I start doing it?? HERE!! In my ever so lovable personal blog/diary here in blogger.  

I never thought I can still revive this blog after losing my personal domain which I find very sad.  I am trying to see if I can buy it back but some chinese or whatever shit already took it!  I swear, who the hell wants to name their site I AM DEAH (DOT) COM if your name is not deah.  I think it is a gaming site.  I just want my domain back *cries*.   I am to blame for it anyway due to the fact that I basically abandoned this site.. THERE GOES YOUR PUNISHMENT!

Enough of those sob-worthy stories.  On the positive note, I am still able to revive this blog even if I have to use the good 'ol ...blogspot.com subdomain.  I'll leave it just like that for now and who knows, I might get another domain soon *winks* 

So what's up with me?  As you all guys know, I am now married to the love of my life and yes, we are now living together here in Canada!  That's some major news and if you are following this blog, you will know how we endured having a long-distance relationship for almost 6 years before getting married, and another almost 2 years after the wedding, living apart with each other which is the most excruciating experience that I ever have to endure.  I mean, its hard when you're still bf-gf but when there's already that marriage-thing, it tops another 100 level notch of difficulty.  I am very glad and very blessed to now live with him and be together for as long as God allows us to be.  Things are not perfect but that's what marriage is about.  Its about having to commit to the other person and to adapt to whatever situation you are to be faced and do it together.  I never expected a smooth sailing ride for this phase of my life, but I must say, I am lucky enough to have the most imperfectly perfect partner that anyone could ask for.   I love him so much for that. 

Still have no kids but I believe God has a plan for us and he will bless us in the perfect time.  We just have to work for it. I really want to have a child but its not something that I can just force ourselves into it. I believe that things will fall into place in the perfect time that God has planned for us.  We just have to keep our hopes up and pray pray pray! NEVER LOSE FAITH!

In my professional side, I AM NOT A RETAIL SLAVE ANYMORE!  Well sort off in a way that I don't have to deal with customers face to face and I don't have to do all the normal stuff that a tangible store would have me to do.  I work for an e-commerce business now and I am managing it with 2 (going to be 3 soon) staff members.  Its a nice workplace, has its ups and downs for sure but I think I am in a better place right now compared to my years of retail job.  I also do customer service for them but its more of a virtual type where we only do it through emails/tickets.  Its better approach especially for me because I better represent myself and my thoughts through writing than through spoken words.  That is one of the reasons why I love blogging because I can express myself better in writing compared to other mediums. Too bad I am such a lazy bum that I can't do blogging consistently but I will seriously do my best and be more of a consistent blogger and commit myself into this than before.  Especially now that I have my own space here at home that I love, I have the perfect tool to do so, and the perfect platform that, even after years of hiatus, still kept my posts intact and did not erase it.  I OWE IT TO GOOGLE! I have to thank google and blogger for this.  I seriously appreciate that you guys did not delete my posts compared to other blogger platforms that I've used before that completely erased all my articles.  Not that their of-substance but, those posts are still something that took a lot of my energy and brain cells and it is really devastating to realize that I can never see nor read those posts ever again.  So that's why I am appreciative of what blogger has to offer.  I promise to never leave this platform as long as they still exist.  THANKS BLOGGER!

To wrap it all up,  I am really hoping this is a start of a more productive blogging life for me.  I would like to keep that interest alive until I still can write my thoughts. Nothing lasts forever in this world so we better use our skills as long as we still can.  I will also maintain another lifestyle blog and will be using wordpress for it.  I would consider that as a more professional blog than this but blogger would still be the home of my personal thoughts.  Seriously, who doesn't enjoy my nightly blurbs?? As I was rereading my contents here, I am seriously laughing at everything I was reading.  I can't wait to bitch on things again.

Thanks again for sticking around and expect more from ze me! 

Hit me up with a like or a comment if you enjoy this blog.  That can seriously boost my blogging morale! LOL!! 

PS, if you guys noticed, I changed my title into a non-jejemon type and also my subtitle is more friendlier than before.  I guess this is part of the "Adulting" process! HAHAH!

<3 Deah

=) deah

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My Latest Addiction: Baking French Macarons

I recently found a new addiction, I called it 'addiction' since even if I go to work, I would go to the baking aisle just to look for the ingredients that I need to bake another batch of it. I am addicted to perfecting the art of baking those finicky french macarons. French macarons are those colourful meringue-based cookie filled with your own choice of fillings (cream cheese, buttercream, ganache, etc.) It is completely different from MACAROONS which are make of those coconut meat. Since I seriously can't find a bakery here in scarborough that sells these delish sweets, I decided to just learn how to make them. Learning is easy, but the actual process is the complete opposite. It took me four tries to finally achieve a perfect result. You need to have accurate measurements of ingredients, right temperature even humidity is a factor, and a whole bunch of patience. I consulted almost all video tutorials that you can find in youtube just to know what would be the right technique in making them. The first try, the cookie was undercook since a lot of the cookies were stuck from the parchment paper and they were super hollow. I made it with my friend grace and what's so interesting about it was we manually beat the egg whites! It was baking/arm exercise at once! I had a lot of fun baking them but although it was not the result that we were hoping for, the cookies with the buttercream filling that we made tasted good. The second batch that I made was almost there. The only problem I encountered was there was still a bit of cracking on the shell but it was not that hollow and, the chocolate buttercream that I made became so runny because I forgot that I placed my butter on the stove top so it was all melted. It was so tasty but, the filling was dripping whenever I try eating them. Third, was the worst! I can't even believe what happened. The cookies became soooooo thin and hard! If you are from the Philippines and you know the cookie "Pasencia".. yep! i discovered the art of making those cookies accidentally! HAHAHAH! I was so disappointed by that batch. I even had my friends over when I baked them and because of that, they witnessed my epic failure. =p For sure, that third try made me inspired to try to really perfect the 4th batch. I seriously went to read all the articles about the failed macarons and how did that happened. I tried to remember everything I've done wrong and took note of it. I checked the consistency of the batter, the right way of "macronage", measured my ingredients compared to my "that-would-be-fine-i-guess" way of measuring, and making sure that the batter was set properly before putting it in the oven. I am so glad that I got my freaking FEET! my parents even ate half of them. I am a happy macaron-baker! hopefully I can continue making almost perfect macarons coz for sure, I would be baking more of them and play with different flavours and colours. I want to make a chocolate macarons with cream cheese filling tomorrow. Hopefully it would yield good results!

Here are some images of my macarons baking journey. Blame this new addiction to me not blogging often (yes blame it to others!)

This was the 1st trial

The super failed trial

my 2nd one

and this was the 4th try! see those much-loved feet!! =)

If you have any questions and comments on things about french macarons, I would gladly answer them if I can. But I want to let you know that I am no expert on this. Thanks for stopping by =)


=) love love love *watching Kristv as of the moment, hence the last words*

=) deah

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One-Stop Salon Day

I admit, today was one of those boring days. I didn't go to work because...

I ended up being all alone here at home. Due to my boredom, I was able to do some house chores.. oh better termed as, ROOM chores since I only vacuumed my room =p And since the weather was not that bad today, I decided to go get the much-needed sunlight from the outside world and raked our backyard. Finally, a tangible person/s showed up! My sis-in-law and grace came back from their job interview. Hoping for good results for them and for....

I didn't know that grace brought her creacut with her. We did some girly, salon-ish bonding, went on to cut my fringe and I can say that I am impressed on how easy it was to use that tool. After that we went on with doing our nails and grace did some cute nail art for me =)

pardon if its not that clean by the edges but I seriously love it! it was a combined design by the both of us though she actually did it. Oh and did I mention that after 20 years of not doing my toes, I finally decided to pamper them and give them a decent pedi *hurrah hurrah - screamed by my toes* 

We also stopped by mcdees and satisfied our midnight cravings. I decided to try their coffee frappe and I liked it. It was a bit creamier compared to the iced capp from tims. Not bad at all, but I don't think my tummy liked it. You know why... 

That would be it for me.. Today is my cousin's birthday by the way.. Love you always ate din! mwah!!

I am excited to see my lil erika and bff tomorrow! shopping day I guess! time to give my other blog a glimpse of how I do my shopping. Goodnight everyone and thanks for stopping by!

=) deah

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Nightly Blurbs v.5

Its been a while again since I posted in my blog(s i actually posted 3 updates today.. yep! i am rollin') I can't think (again) of a title so might as well just do my ever reliable title.. jangjangjangjang!!!

my nightly blurbs!!!

and I took the time to browse through my posts to know how many of this have i posted before and.. yes! this is my 5th version of my nightly blurbs.. my randomness and result of my boredom.

lemme begin by,,

• Yes.. I didn't get the position that I applied for. It was ok.. I guess, as I said on my last post, God gave me a sign for me to go to the next step. I am not closing my doors to the possibilities that my current company can give me but in a way, I want to experience new things as well. God has a better plan for me, that I don't doubt. Hoping for the best. He'll bring me to the right path for sure ;p

• For the friggin longest time, at last! I was able to hang out with 2 of my bestfriends! last saturday, I saw camille after... i guess 7 months! omg. i just counted and it was really 7 months! wowww! we went to our friend's place to hangout and also, were able to watch that stupid gayweather fight (uhuh! pacman forever baby! lol) so funny how the whole house rejoiced when we all thought mayweather lost! hahhaha! well, it was cut short when we all realized we were all wrong. Its not everyday that a whole bunch of people in one room all got something wrong at the same time. hahah! you can imagine the gayweather hatred in that room for sure! I just did not like the fact that we didn't go home early.. So i missed the planned breakfast at Ikea the next day huhu.. but apart from that, I enjoyed hanging out with my closest friends here in Tdot.. its been a while =) 

• Last monday, we went to visit my bff ever and saw her two bundles of joy! omg! i miss erika so much and enrico was sooo big now! i can't believe he could grow that fast in 4 months time!!! we went to the mall to just hang out and ate some congee which is so missing in my life.. and waa! panicked for we saw this store that sells cheap chucks and sports apparels! Thank God I don't have that much resources or I might've bought the whole friken store! Thank you Beechoo and Susie for introducing me to that store! for sure the hubby will be so happy to go to that store and buy him some chucks =) 

• Today is such a friggin annoying shift.. annoying but ok-ish since its not that busy.. annoying coz i feel like its such a waste to go to work for only 4 hours.. and most of all, starting at 6 pm? really... everyone is trying to get home while I am trying to be at work.. sighss! *patience is a virtue.. I am a very positive person (tells that to myself repeatedly)*

• I posted a review of my holygrail products, some h&m event sale on thursday, and coupon codes for ELF and michaels. I am soooo productive today here in blogger.. what has gotten into me?? hehehe.. 

• lastly, I WANNA GO BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES ASAP! i miss my hubby soooooooo much!

that's it for my blurbs. oh another thing, I just wanna reach out to every annoying customer who loves to shop at retails stores! first, it doesn't mean that if we're on the other side of the counter, we're dumb. SERIOUSLY! we aren't! we went through job hunting process, applied using internet.. we went through the whole interview process.. and got our jobs because we worked for it. So don't think small towards retail people. Next, if you purchase an item, it means you don't own that money anymore.. don't go to cs desk saying that that's your money coz technically, if we talk about the main thought of barter, it means you already gave something to get that thing that you want. so anything you give for something in return makes it NOT YOURS ANYMORE!!! seriously.. you make me freeegin sick! I just hate how lenient retailers here in the west side of the world. try to go to your homeland and do the same thing.. goodluck on that! don't go telling me that you are not an immigrant for I studied canadian history and yes... every single person in Canada emigrated from somewhere else.. third, i hate when you tell customers that this item is not available when in the first place, they were the ones who's asking if we have it and when we say we don't, they would do a whole lot of commotion saying uhhh why don't you just close or uhhh its says here or there you guys have it. seriously!! again.. if we have it, why would we say we don't??? retail stores' main purpose is to sell goods and if we have it for sure we want to sell it. PLEASE!! I could go on with all the stupidity that's going on inside a retail store but i might just explode everything in here so i better stop and shut it. If you're reading this, please don't be these type of customers. In short, don't be stupid!!!!

Kraken was out.. time to go to my safe haven and relax myself.. again, another 6ish shift tomorrow.. i have to ready myself for another annoying day ahead.

=) deah

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I am Hopeful but not Expecting

I had an interview for a new position at work today. I am hoping I could get it because I want that to be my stepping stone in going to the path where I want my career to go but, I am not expecting that I'll get it just because I am just staying away from the heartbreak it could partake unto me. A way of saving myself I guess. =)

Anyway.. enough of that topic. Another day of mishaps I guess.. Our van went berserk today just when me and abbie were on our way to work. Just great! Twice in a row.. I wonder what would happen tomorrow. God, I know this is part of a plan. Whatever's coming tomorrow, please let it be something nice. Let us break this spell.. 

I registered for this GLOBE DUO service from a local Philippine telecom company wherein I just have to register a globe number for the service and voila! you could call that number by any means that you prefer as if you're just calling someone from Canada. They would even provide you a 647 (not sure if a 416 number would be available still) number. I immediately used it right after payment and called my hubby deary =) *umm eww?? deary? really!* Globe is having this introductory offer for this service and right now it only costs $10 (usd) for a whole month of use. Depending on your local courier rates, that is really a good deal especially if you have unlimited evenings/weekends calls included in your plan. So the 10bucks thingy is just until May 11, 2014 and after that it will revert back to its normal rate which is $25 per month which, if you actually call someone oftenly, is not really a bad rate compared to other services like that annoying owtel whatever company and the likes. You are not bound to any contract at all and since it is a prepay service, no call agent would bug you every day! ugghs! i remember my hatred with the owtel company! really? you would bug me endlessly because I incur $3.00 worth of call that you forced me to effin take!!! beware of them.. REALLY!!! Anyhow, if you want to know more info about this service, go to this website:

http://duocanada.globe.com.ph/

if you are not from Canada, there are some options there for i think US, UK, and Korea. I am not sure about other countries though.

SOOOOO... I think that's it for me. I still haven't updated my inlovewithsale blog. I will try to do it tomorrow for I am feeling sooo sleepy right now and I have to attend to my hubby's text messages =) dammit i miss him! CIC please heed my plea! hope they would process his papers soon! And if you want to see my review about the NAKED PALETTE by Urban Decay, please do check out my new blog WHAT DEAH SAYS =) hihi! yeah I am a frustrated blogger! haha 

love love love *ala kris*

=) deah 

=) deah

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