I love this blog and have been live with it since last year that I will still maintain it as an online identity for me. I thought about closing it down but I think I will still maintain it. It has grown with me and to close it down now would be like leaving a dear old friend. Life has been challenging lately. New avenues, new things to try, new ventures to be tried. But for sure, this year has gotten really interesting and I am looking forward to a nice ending for 2009.
XOXO
EV
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Yes, It has finally arrived. Friend R was kind enough to give me this planner that I had been wanting online. I first got wind of it via multiply and then I saw some ads and went in search of their website. I love this planner. It makes you more organized as well as giving in to the individual in you as well as being an eye candy of sorts. They have free coupons to go with the planner from shops and restos as well as a card from ‘Philosophy by Mikaela” which entitles the cardholder to 15% off of services for the whole year as well as a free haircut and hair treatment on your birthday. Just looking at the planner makes me want to plan the next few weeks of my schedule. If you guys want to check out their website. Just click on 
It seems like it was just yesterday when I came into the year 2008 full of misgivings. I was then just a month into motherhood. Out of a job and everything was a mess in my life. I don’t really know how I survived 2008 but somehow miraculously, I did and I came out of it a better person(I hope). 2008 was not a bad year for me but it wasn’t that good as well. My first quarter was full of troubles, emotionally and financially but little by little I was able to crawl my way out of it. By March of last year, I got a job that paid average, my idle mind was at work once more, made new friends, reconnected with some old ones, and made interesting discoveries to what I could handle. The first quarter was full of realizations about myself and how capable I had become but I still needed to learn more. After all life is all about learning new things everyday and growing with the things you learn. The 2nd half of the year was spent on learning a new set of skills for my new job and trying to reinvent myself through my blogs. One is for my everyday experiences and the other is seen through the taste and lens of a foodie. Well, I have always loved food and eating experiences hence I decided to venture into this new outlet. Also, the 2nd and 3rd quarter had me interested in internet marketing and into the realm of virtual businesses. By now I had already envisioned to be working freelance and being my own boss with being in charge of my own time. I have no doubt that I could hack it but it was becoming increasingly harder since I still had some left over financial obligations from 2007. Made some new cyberfriends that have been really good to me. Started my crusade to make myself more culturally and socially learned and I think most of all was reconnecting myself with extended family. I have become a person more strong(I think) with what I had to go through and am still going through. I faced new challenges and made the best out of whatever life dished out to me. The last quarter was full of interesting things happening. Together with high school friends we organized our 10th year reunion and it did happen. Not as grand as we had hoped but something really nice. Visited friends and family whom I haven’t seen in a very long time and discovered more interesting sides of me. And best of all watching Z grow up little by little is the highlight of my 2008.