It's definitely high time for a new Raconteur's Rundown. I have to admit, I haven't been hands-on with my blog lately because I am 'very' busy with school works and other projects that I intend to do. I am trying my best, and I'd like to apologize with my posting schedule because it's a little bit off than usual. Anywho, let's get on to this one. :)

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I'd be lying if I said that this book didn't change my point of view in life. Everybody crosses a book wherein they think that everybody should be reading this. As for me, this the book that I'd like everyone to check out. The life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo changed my perception and made me hate myself so much. With the help of this book, I started to eliminate things that I do not need and I'm on my way to minimalism. (Though it's honestly hard, I will still pursue it as much as I can and I hope you do, too.)

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I've been a k-pop fan wayyyy back when Girl's Generation released "Gee", and 2NE1 released "I don't care" on the air waves. I didn't anticipate it, but the love finally grew back. I'm now stanning amazing groups that kept me smiling each and every single day. Korean pop isn't the only thing that came from Korea that stole my heart. I've been watching K-dramas lately (and yup, I'm still stuck with "The Heirs") and the way that they do their makeup is very cute and minimal that made me just want to try it. x

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Last April, I got my hair colored for the very first time. I've tried hair chalk for my hair before and green looks good on me. I'm proud to say that my hair didn't really lose much of its color when I had it because I've been protecting it with MY LIFE. (If you want a hair care routine for color-treated hair, just let me know haha) Unfortunately, I needed to color it back to a dark brown color because our school doesn't allow vibrant hair colors in campus. I'm planning on doing a pastel purple next year. :D

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During the summer, food trips had been inevitable. We've been trying a lot of famous stores that circles our perimeter. My personal favorite (right now) is WICKED KITCHEN (located in Maginhawa street) and TRI-MO SHAWARMA (located in Lagro, Q.C.) I suggest you and your family try going out for some food trip sometime. I suggest going to a food park in order to get a better range of selection in one place.

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That will be it for now! :) Thank you for reading and I'll see you on the next blog post! :D

It has been a while since we went to Bataan— A place to commemorate the moments before the second World War. I tried to find resorts around the area and found Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar. A heritage site right by the sea. It was a wonderful experience, and I learned a lot about our country's past too. Their food was great and the place was truly a picturesque sight.

As a 2nd year gift from me to you, I have compiled some of the clips that I got during our stay at Bataan. I hope that you'll enjoy these types of videos because I'm planning on doing more in the future. x

P.S. If you want to see a Photo Diary version of this trip, come back to my blog next week :)

This blog post might not be lengthy... nor full of surprises. For this week's blog post, I just wanted to commemorate this blog's 2 years of existence (+ post a new video on youtube & a photo diary to accompany it [which will be posted next week]) . I've never done a birthday blog post last year with the reason that I honestly never thought that I would be this 'hands-on' with a blog before; because sticking with one single site to open my blog is a big challenge. 

I've started with Blog.com (I don't even know if it's still alive to this day) then tumblr; In order to share my insights about different things. I just opened up one to serve as a personal diary for me. So that I can look back on the things that I've done. The thought of sharing things with others scares me but I decided to end that fear last late-2012 to 2013. I started with 20+ blogs to get things straight and started a legitimate blog through Weebly. I started sharing stuff on there. My friends started to find out about it and it feels great to find out that they read my blog even if Weebly's statistics aren't on point. HAHA x

Now we're up to 6,280 page views and counting. With collaborators and readers from Philippines, United States, Indonesia, Russia, Morocco, Canada, Australia, Denmark and more. I'm so happy that you guys read through my blog and I'm proud to call each and everyone of you as my friends. Online, and offline. 

I wouldn't reach this milestone without your help. Thank you so much.

Although Kylo looks entirely different now, I still love him and his blue eyes. haha :D