Project Pie: Another Reason to Love Pizza

My husband and I became curious as we passed by Project Pie along Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong.  Its few parking slots in front were all occupied by cars and people seem to be having fun inside.  Since the pizza place was jam packed, we decided that we’ll go there some other time.

And that time came.  But at a different branch—in Bluebay Walk, EDSA Macapagal, Pasay City.  We grabbed the chance to spend our time there because we saw some vacant tables.  A friendly staff (whom I forgot the name), handed us a flyer so that we’ll get to know more about Project Pie.  

Our First Speaking Engagement as a Married Couple: True Love Waits

It’s thrilling to think that Zham and I will be given a chance to speak in front of young people about our inspiring (well, many said that) and God centered love story.

Way before when I was still single, I only used to talk in front of people during photography workshops.  Zham is with me, but we were in a group.  And now, it’s really funny to think that I’ll be a guest speaker with him—as his wife.

It was KKB (Kristiyanong Kabataan Para sa Bayan) – Pasay Chapter’s annual seminar for Love, Courtship, Dating and Marriage with the theme:  True Love Waits:  Maybe Someday, focusing also on “Genuine Love Exposed”.  The event was graced by 200 plus young people from all over Pasay.  Oh, the good old days!  I thank God because I had the opportunity to serve Him during my teenage years.  It was inspiring to see that these young people are doing the same thing.

Karen’s Beauty Post # 4: Glamourbox February 2014 Unboxing (BeloSpecial Edition)

This week is filled with “package arrival moments.”  First, my second order of anti cellulite and slimming lotion arrived from an IG online shop (actually this order is for my officemates).  Then yesterday, three packages arrived:  one from Lazada Online store (my most awaited juicing machine and retractable eyeliner), one from Sampling Room (full sizes of Sappe Fibre Beauti Drink, Whisper, and Calchews), and the last, the unexpected—one from Glamourbox (I was expecting this to arrive by next week).  I got excited and hurriedly opened this first among those packages that I have received.

This month of February, Glamourbox is offering a special Belo beauty box.  They opened their subscription last February 14^th, and upon notification, I immediately subscribed. 

Dear Tita Paring, Thank You For The Suman :)

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Lunch on a Sunday is a perfect time for food tripping for a church goer like me, especially if you attend church in Greenhills Shopping Center.  After our morning service in Jesus Is Lord Music Museum (our exact church location), there are too many restaurants to choose from for us to spend lunch, so much choices that sometimes it takes us long to choose where to eat.  Be it at V-Mall, Promenade, or G Strip, you’ll never ran out of options.

I usually spend lunchtime with different people (friendly much?).  Sometimes, I’m with my family, my in laws, my church friends, or just with my husband. 

Karen’s Sermon Notes: Are you a “1 Corinthians 13 Christian”?

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1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part,¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhoodbehind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Karen’s Journey to 140: Post # 1: Photojog with the Husband at SM By the Bay

I used to live my teenage years and 20s between 110 to 120 lbs.  I play basketball, dance, run, and EAT A LOT. 

My eating habits worsened since I started boarding and reviewing for my CPA Licensure Exam.  I don’t play basketball that much, I don’t dance anymore, I also don’t run that often, but I STILL EAT A LOT.  I munch on anything that I like to munch on while studying.  Brain food, you know. 

But that didn’t stop.  I loved to eat more when I started to write food blogs and restaurant reviews.  I did this as my past time and did this to compensate for the stress that I have at work.  I used to go to places each month, which means more food to discover and explore. 

That went on until now.  Last Sunday I did my weigh in.  The digits that I saw from the scale broke my heart… and I cried, literally.  I now weigh 186 lbs.

Enough with the crying.  I have to do something.

Karen's Game Post: Some Thoughts on Flappy Bird

I just learned of the game Flappy Bird because some of my Facebook friends have been uploading screenshots of their scores.  At first I just went on and scroll my feed, ignoring this kind of posts. But the screen shots from my fellow blogger Venus made me curious.

I downloaded this free game from the Apple App Store and played right away.  My first try was a fail because I don’t know how to play it.  You have to tap the screen to make the 16 bit (or is it 8 bit?) bird fly and flap its wings.  Then as you go on you will encounter those pipes above and below the screen, resembling those pipes you see on the Mario game.  You should not let the bird bump on those pipes, or else it’s Game Over.