Sentro

Sentro located at Greenbelt 3 Makati City

 Fried Kesong Puti

5 Stars

 Inihaw na Liempo

5 Stars

Chicken Adobo

4 Stars

Stained Glass

broken glass... like broken promises...

This started a few months ago- this kind of moment when I feel like I am abandoned and lost. Where in I feel like everything is in place but something is missing. It’s a splinter like feeling but I am bothered and uncomfortable just by knowing it. After what happened to me within the past 6 months, I can say that I have little improvements I am more worldly, optimistic and a bit wiser when it comes to dealing with lot of things. But like what I’ve said, I have occasional weird moments when I feel like there’s a lingering itch not painful but prickly… so now I’m writing. 

Actually, I knew where it was coming from. I am so afraid to admit to them let alone admit it to myself. They now have their own lives and I have mine. We are growing apart and I can see the signs waaaaay before but I am afraid to deal with it. It’s the law of nature, a cycle of life and I knew it was bound to happen. People change and people grow. The only permanent in life is change. It sucks that we have to deal with it. 

It’s tricky because it is not every day that you can talk about things like how you are so close before and how you are not today. And I knew that they too are in a confusing limbo. Where things are forcedly categorize as normal or just a “bump in the road” covering the harsh and inevitable truth that things are no longer exactly the same as it was before.

   

I just couldn’t imagine what happen in between. Maybe it’s just me.

…or maybe not.

Entry Five: This is Why I'm Broke....

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

Planner 2012

National Bookstore

Dickinson's Toner

Healthy Options

Feather Earrings

Local Market

Nail Polish

SM Dept. Store

Spongebob Hanky

SM Dept. Store

Eye Glasses Cleaning Solution

EO Optical

Baguio's Finest

Here's the two favorite food I ate when the BBRC gang went up north and experience the freezing breeze of Baguio...

Strawberry Taho

5 Stars

Lechon Kawali @ Cora's Place in Mines View Park

5 Stars

Entry Four: This is Why I'm Broke.... (I'm hopeless)

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

Black Mini Skirt with Flower Ensembles

Forever21

 Long Sleeves Tee

Forever21

Diary of A Wimpy Kid Cabin Fever

PowerBooks

Bookmarks and Cutesy Wire holder

PowerBooks

My New Eye Glasses

Frame: Bayo

Lens: EO Optical

Panasonic Ipod Ear Phone 

Astro Vision

CBD

CBD located at AYALA Triangle...

 French Fries

5 Stars

 Hickory Beef Brisket

4 Stars

 CBD Cheese Burger

5 Stars

Grilled Chicken

4 Stars

Entry Three: This is Why I'm Broke.... (Ooops I Did It Again)

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

Peep Toe Flats

Celine

Round Toe Wedge

Celine

Office Supplies

 National Bookstore

Small Travelling Purse

Local Market (cheapest item)

Entry Two: This is Why I'm Broke

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

Chanel Tea Rose Blush On

Rustans Makati

HTC Desire Z

Tipid CP

Blue Buckle Bag 

Tomato

Red Patent Wallet

Tomato

Pockeet Vanity Mirror with Led Lights

Belle and Nails Spa

Wish Cross Pendant Necklace

St. Pauls

Notebook and Green Gel Pen

Muji

Black Satchel Bag

Tomato

NEEDLESS TO SAY: Entry three will come out waaaaaaaaaaaay too long after this.

Heaven and Eggs

Heaven and Eggs located at Glorietta 4, Ayala Avenue Makati City

Angus Beef Steak with Steamed Veggies

5 Stars

Chic Boy

Chic Boy located at Buendia Makati

Lechon Cebu

5 Stars

Entry One: This Is Why I'm Broke

"You know that thing when you see someone cute and he smiles and your heart kind of goes like warm butter sliding down hot toast? Well that's what it's like when I see a store. Only it's better. " - Rebecca Bloomwood from Confession of a Shopaholic

I am Hannah Echiverri... and this is why I am broke. 

 Nature's Gate Natural Shampoo and Conditioner

Healthy Options

 Alba Botanica Terra Tints lip balm

Healthy Options

Lip Liner

Muji

Banchetto's Finest

Banchetto: Food Market located at Mega Tent Meralco Ave. Ortigas, Pasig City. Every Saturdays and Sundays only from 11pm to 3 am.

 Cordon Bleau

3 Stars

 Beef and Mushroom

3 Stars

 Maki Platter
3 Stars

 Roasted Beef with Mashed Potato

3 Stars

 Shawarma Rice

4 Stars

 Banana Chocolate Crepe

3 Stars

Monster Burger

5 Stars

High School Drama Goes Corporate

Disclaimer: I wrote this entry as an abridged version of my speech for the Career Orientation Week that I was supposed to attend but wasn't able to. 

When the headmaster handed me my diplomat and flipped the tassel on my graduation cap, I knew it was the beginning of a new life. As I clenched my fist and looked at the remnants of my student life, I knew I have to bid goodbye to my youth and welcome adulthood. I have high expectations and fruitful dreams. I am ambitious and passionate because back then, I knew what I want and I am so geared up to fulfill it. I perpetually remind myself that immaturity is no longer an option, bullying is not a way to get respect and ignorance is not an excuse to commit mistakes. Everything should be done according to what is right and what is best for most people. I can still remember the vast happiness and unexplainable excitement I have on the day of my graduation. I am so ready to leave my childhood life and be an adult. I am so thrilled to face people who are worldly and open-minded. I am so ecstatic to meet people who will cut shit and owned up to it because after all, adulthood is the real world.

Boy was I wrong the whole time…

High school is a dry run to prepare us from facing what comes after because the real world is much depressing and repugnant. The real world is just like high school. The difference is people are wearing suits and paying taxes. I am so disappointed when I find out that the real world also has jocks, nerds, outcasts, preps, sluts and royalties—and seriously, each one of them is exactly the ones I hated or loved when I was still in my teen-ish years. Bullies have stronger bites; back-stabbers have deeper stabs and ass-kissing are more than just a power-sucking-make-out. People in the real world are hungrier for success and power so they CAN and they WILL eat you alive if you go against their way. So in order for you to survive, you have two options; go against them and be eaten alive or be one of them and eat the weaklings down to their very last breath.

Five years after my graduation, I am tediously performing the latter. I chose not to be eaten alive and be the one in power. I kissed ass even licked foot to get what I want. I am a heartless bitch and I am not afraid to show it. But being an asshole is not what I signed up for. Even if this is a matter of choice, it is not something I want. I tried to escape, quitting from one company to another only to end up doing exactly what I have escaped for. It is a horrible travesty and it sucks that I can’t do anything about it. So for whatever crap I will do in the future… I am sorry. People like me are not born asshole; I just had to be… so I could fit in and survive.    

What's Inside My Bag?: Tina Lee

For my second entry of "What's Inside My Bag?", I am featuring my good friend Tina Lee. Tina is an online freelance writer and a shop-aholic as well. We both love shoes, bags and MALL SALES. So without further adieu, lemme introduce Tina and her brown Satchel bag...

 Tina posing for my blog while holding her satchel...

 - Kate Spade yellow wallet

- external hard drive (full of downloaded movies and TV series)

- Panasonic Lumix camera (she's a blogger as well)

- Fibrella umbrella

 - inside her satchel bag is her bag organizer

 - zapper (for protection...)

 - her passport

- her key

- e-cigarette and its liquid solution

 - Maybelline pressed powder

- Cinema Secrets blush-on

- Face Shop concealer

- Body Shop retractable brush

 - Revlon lipstick

- Laura Mercier lip gloss

- Maybelline lipstick

 - Pocket tissue

- inhaler (she's asthmatic)

- antacid 

- toothpaste

- pocket toothbrush

- Jhonson and Jhonson Baby Cologne