Christmas Woes and a Happy New Year!

I will admit that I haven’t been attentive to my blog lately, but with the final month of 2011, you all know how it goes.

I was definitely looking forward to my Christmas with family last week when the evil monthly cramps attack just had to invade me on Christmas Eve. However, that’s not where the real woes come in. It came when I started to feel nausea on my stomach, and before I knew it, I was vomiting everything I have been consuming the entire day, even my daily tea habit and most especially water. I thought it was one of those times where I feel nausea the first day and then I’d feel well the next day and just wing it through the day. I opted not to go to Midnight Mass for choir because of my unhealthy condition, plus I might pass out in the middle of the mass, which can be very embarrassing.

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133 days ago • Epic Fail, Foodie, General • Tags: christmas, hospital, new year's resolution

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Finally finished! Now I can feel free and write articles and reads books and get addicted to PBB. YES!

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164 days ago • Quick Status

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I’ll be active again before the end of the month hopefully. NaNoWriMo and PBB fever.

176 days ago • Quick Status

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The word count widgets of NaNoWriMo isn’t available yet so I can’t place a widget of my progress of my novel at this point. So, I’ll just mention it.

As of 12:47 a.m. PST, I’ve written 7,163 words in my novel.

193 days ago • Quick Status • Tags: nanowrimo 2011, word count

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I’ve been busy preparing for the upcoming NaNoWriMo 2011 this Tuesday and will be concentrating on writing my novel for the entire month. This would mean that I would be more or less inactive as a contributing writer for Technorati and Blogcritics. Maybe I would sneak in a few articles here and there in between but it won’t be frequent.

196 days ago • Quick Status • Tags: nanowrimo preparation, semi-hiatus

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Beverage Review: Eat, Pray,Love,

(first published as Beverage Review: Eat, Pray, Love at Technorati on 10/26/11)

For all the readers and movie enthusiasts around, whenever you see the words “eat, pray, love,” it would automatically remind you of that bestselling memoir of influential writer Elizabeth Gilbert depicting her self-discovery journey in three countries: Italy, where she discovered the joy of pleasure (through eating); India, where she discovered the joy of spirituality; and Indonesia, where she discovered the joy of balance (the balance of pleasure and spirituality). The memoir became a huge hit with positive raves from literary critics everywhere that Hollywood became attracted with the story and produced a film adaptation starring Julia Roberts as Gilbert.
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199 days ago • Beverages, Foodie, Tea, Technorati Articles • Tags: black tea, eat pray love, elizabeth gilbert, republic of tea

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Saigon Cinnamon and Chai ♥

I found a recipe for homemade Chai¹ after throwing a bit of a fit that my Starbucks gold card is running out of its value points. I really can’t abuse my gold card this way just to get my dose of tea lattes, most notably Chai, Maccha Green, and Vanilla Rooibos Lattes, and then have to spend more money to add in the card. I had to do something to “cut down” from the Starbucks tea lattes.

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or more commonly known as “chai tea,” which is kinda redundant because “chai” is the Indian (?) word for ‘tea.” In Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog (spelling is “tsa” but it has the same pronunciation) and pretty much majority of the Asian language, the word for “tea” is “cha” [↩]

201 days ago • Beverages, Foodie, Hodgepodge, Special Ingredients and Condiments, Tea • Tags: chai, foodie, saigon cinnamon, tea

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201 days ago • Entertainment, Epic Fail, Filipino Entertainment • Tags: epic fail, fan hypocritism, hollywood

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An interesting article from the Wall Street Journal about today’s contemporary young adult fiction.

Seriously, Twilight-esque fiction is becoming way too overrated. Even I think that Twilight is overrated in itself. I still don’t see how appealing and “cool” a story is when it depicts self-infliction, suicide, incest, and all that.

Overrated. Simply overrated.

201 days ago • Quick Status, The Literati • Tags: contemporary young adult fiction

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Dear Save Blogcritics

Just a few minutes ago before I started writing this entry, I received an email as a BCC from you with a post to criticize Blogcritics.

I am a brand-new, fresh-meat amateur noob writer for both Blogcritics and Technorati who feels quite honored to be a writer of a major online magazine and an ecstatic one to introduce the “hidden gems” of various interests from books, entertainment, culture, and (in some cases) food and dining to the masses. This only means that I am unaware of your past issues with Blogcritics, and frankly, I don’t know what your grudges towards Blogcritics has to do with me personally. How you obtained my email address¹ and decide to include me in your hate mailing list by default, I’m unsure whether you’re trying to raise an army of current Blogcritics writers to take Blogcritics down or not or whatever your personal vendetta may be against a prolific community of writers.

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