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This blog belongs to anne, a twenty-something girl who looks anywhere from 16 to 18. People say she's always smiling. One day she hopes to make a difference in someone's life. She likes blog hopping and reading about people's experiences. Her semi-addiction to shopping leaves her with lots of clothes and purses. She likes the color blue and prefers the temperate warmth of spring & fall, which most of her outfits are geared around. She loves to travel to different countries, which coincides with her love for world cultures and history.
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OK, the new domain is still under construction but the blog is up and running. Yay! Check it out: http://anne.mangopapaya.net. See you there!Labels: blog Sorry guys!
I know I haven't been updating lately. I am actually NOT on vacation, sadly enough :( I'm just in the process of purchasing my own domain and sorting out all the details that goes with that. But once that's all sorted, I will be back in the blogging world. I promise! :D Labels: blog Away We Go... or not
Looks like this is my 100th post on this particular blog. WoOt! :D *does happy dance*Anyhoo, I participated in my first blood drive today. I was SOOO nervous! Even the medical personnel noticed! The lady who I met with said that she could feel the cold coming from my hands before she even touched me! LOL. :P Plus, my pulse was faster than the normal pulse for my age and my blood pressure was a bit high. Hahaha. I had a lot of indirect compliments though. One of the ladies wanted to see my ID to make sure I really was over 18 before I could donate blood. Heehee :D Another lady said, "Are you sure you weigh more than 110 lbs.?" :) (You need to weigh more than 110 to donate.) My friend, Ci, came with me as support because I didn't wanna go by myself. I was really grateful ♥ especially since she hates seeing blood as well. She sat pretty far enough from the blood, but close enough to still chat with me throughout the blood donation. The thing that hurt the most was the finger stick in the beginning. I don't understand why it hurt more than the actual giving of blood. Hahaha. I don't think I'll be doing this anytime soon, but I'm glad that I faced a fear. I am very proud of myself :D Ebry scored some free advanced screening tickets to see Away We Go. The movie looked interesting, but I was feeling a bit tired and weak, so I opted out. I hope I didn't miss anything really good! x_x Look! The lovely Karen bestowed upon me 3 different awards :D Thanks sis!    Treasured Award
Got this award from Karen :) Thanks sis! I'd like to pass mine onto Ate Irel, Tiffy, and Jess :) Thank you guys for being regulars ♥ Anyhoo, I've been thinking of buying my own domain for years now, and I think I might finally do it this year. Hahaha. But I'm still unsettled on what name I want. I want something I can use in my personal and professional life. interesting blog
Ahhh, the lovely Karen over at My World??? gave me this award. Thanks sis! I'd like to pass it on to Irel and Jessica! :) personality type
William Beckett (of The Academy Is...) posted a test on his blog about a personality types. It piqued my curiosity so I decided to take the test too.The test concluded that I was either an ENFJ or an INFJ personality type: ENFJ – "Persuader". Outstanding leader of groups. Can be aggressive at helping others to be the best that they can be. 2.5% of total population.As an ENFJ, I am:
new layout!
OK, I got tired of my old layout and I was itching to do something really simple.Funny thing is that I seem to have had a harder time making this simple one than my past graphical ones. Ironic :P Anyhoo, I hope everyone's having a great extended weekend! :D One Lovely Blog Award
I got this lovely award from Irel over at My Drama. Yay! Thanks! :D And I'm supposed to pass it on to three other people, so I'm tagging Karen, Tiffy, and Pahn! :) Thanks for visiting my blog guys! I am very grateful and truly appreciative! :) Freaky Friday: Alone in the dark
This my Anything Goes Challenge entry for today which is a reblog from my Sanriotown blog...My friend, T, and her boyfriend recently purchased a house and she invited me and 2 others over on a Friday for a little gathering between friends. We haven't seen each other in months so we had a lot to catch up on. T, who LOVES scary stories, decided to tell us one of her own that had happened recently. Her neighbor across the street had recently lost her husband to diabetes, I believe. Well, one day, T's mom and niece, Laila, came over to keep T company when her boyfriend was away. When T's mom was strapping in Laila into her car seat, Laila said, "Tell that man to stop staring at me!" But when T's mom turned around, she saw no one. She told Laila that nobody was there, but Laila insisted, "The man keeps looking at me. Tell him to stop!" T's mom didn't think much of it and just thought that Laila was imagining things. A few days later, T, her mom, and Laila were visiting her neighbor and Laila said to T's mom, "The man is looking at me again! He's crawling towards me! Tell him to stop!" Of course, T and her mom don't see anyone there. When T's mom tells her that this has happened before, it really freaked her out. Apparently, because of complications with his diabetes, her neighbor's husband had to have his legs amputated, so it would make sense that he would be "crawling" towards Laila! XD So of course, my friends and I are freaked out by all this. When we left T's house later that night, we all left together and ran to our cars in a hurry without looking at the house across the street. I was so freaked out and my heart my beating really fast! I barely got any sleep that night! Needless to say, I don't think I ever wanna go over her house by myself... EVER! 2009 Flower Mart
 I checked out Flower Mart last year and found lots of cool handmade jewelry, but didn't really buy a lot of stuff. I checked it out this year with a friend since it was near our work and we were on the hunt for Mother's Day gifts.  It was overcast and drizzling when it started so there weren't many people out and about. It wasn't until around 5.30 or so that it started to fill with A LOT of people.  I got a kick out of this stand so I took a picture of it. I didn't buy anything from them though. I bought funnel cakes :D from the stand across from it.  This is my attempt at being artsy, but I couldn't get a better shot without backing into some vendor stands. Hahaha :D (The official website has their own bunch of pictures.) I walked away with just 2 handmade earrings: one for me and one for my friend for Mother's Day. I'm heading to NYC this weekend so I'm hoping to get more stuff there :) Labels: blog, friends, fun, shopping Sweet Saturday: My First Crush
I told Pahn that I was gonna participate in his Anything Goes Challenge so here we are...I actually don't remember if Lawrence was my very first crush, but he might as well be because I don't remember any crushes before him :P Anyhoo, I was in 3rd or 4th grade and he had just moved into our neighborhood. He was a year or two older than me and a lot of the girls liked him. Possibly because he was older and there was a certain je ne sais quoi that just made people want to hang around him. Plus, he was fun :) to be around. I think what drew me to him was that he picked me. There were all these girls hanging onto to him, but he hung out with me the most. He talked to me the most. The funny thing is, I don't even remember what he looks like. I just remember holding hands with this tall, skinny guy, but for some reason I can't see his face >_< I didn't have the guts to tell him I liked him, so my neighbor and good friend, Gien, did it for me. She told Lawrence I liked him, but never waited to find out if he liked me too! x_x So I never knew! Hahaha. And I was too much of a wuss to ask! :blush: We still remained friends and acted as if nothing really happened and he later moved away that year. Apparently, he came back years later, but I had already moved to the U.S. at that time. Gien did tell me that he did ask for me, and was disappointed to find out that I wasn't there anymore :( But she also told me that I wasn't missing out on anything because he wasn't cute anymore! Hahaha! :D Google site analytics
I run Google Analytics on my blog just out of curiosity and to monitor the kind of traffic and visitors I get.Take a look at the Keywords section which lists the search keywords people have used to land on my blog:  I didn't even know there were slash pairings for Iron Chef America! But, I guess if you look hard enough, you can find slash anywhere >_< Though I don't remember talking about any of that in my blog. Seems like that search landed on Saturday, April 25. Weird @_@ donut holes are yummy
My friend and I were craving Dunkin Donuts munchkins so we hopped into her car and tried to navigate our way to the nearest one, which is quite a feat when the city streets are almost all one-way streets.When we got back to her parking lot, I noticed this car parked in front of hers. Totally tacky but gave us a laugh, nevertheless.  On a side note, I'm getting tired of this layout so I'm working on a new food-inspired one :) I'm hoping the transition will be smoother than the last one! disqus & Gossip Girl
Wow, did not realize the extent of coding work just to manually integrate DISQUS into this blog. But I'm glad it worked out :)Anyway, my friend was telling me about Gossip Girl, which I've seen promos of, but have never really watched. And, she's come to the conclusion that I could be one because I know everyone's drama and secrets. She's right! :D I could definitely write a book about people's dirt, drama, and secrets; but, of course, she knows I won't do it. There's a reason why my friends trust me with this stuff. They know that I can be trusted :) Still, I imagine it would be fun to write a "scandalous" book :P Labels: blog ta-da!
My first post for the new layout! WoOt! :D There's still little tweaks I need to make, but I'm just really excited that I was able to do it. Took me a little longer, but I got it done! Yay! :)My commenting system doesn't work with Blogger Classic so I have to use the Blogger system for now. I'm just so excited right now! :P new Blog(ger)
Since I started using Blogger again, I've just been using existing free templates and mucking around to personalize little things here and there. But since I've started missing real web design a lot more, I've decided to design my own layout :)Unfortunately, since my knowledge of XML isn't as extensive as HTML or CSS, I'll have to revert to Blogger Classic in order to fully implement it. I decided to tackle it all last week, but it didn't work out as well as I would have hoped >_<
I refuse to give up though! :D So if the blog is acting a little nutty, that means I'm still messing around with it. Labels: blog the rhinovirus sucks
I've been hit by a cold earlier this week and I'm still recovering. Seems I've passed it onto my friend/coworker, and it's hit her harder. We were supposed to go shopping on Saturday but we ended up just hanging out at her apartment pigging out on Chinese food and watching Hana Yori Dango and the first season of Ugly Betty. Fun times!Anyhoo, Irel tagged me to do a meme so thought I'd give this one a shot. 1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4. cabinets stood open, with files stacked on top of the 2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. Ouch, I didn't even stretch it out that far! 3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? CSI: Miami... watching it now 4. Without looking, guess what time it is? 8p 5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time? 9.30p 6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? The TV I'm watching and the TV downstairs that my brother is watching. 7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing? About an hour ago, driving home from my friend's apartment. 8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at? the TV 9. What are you wearing? tank top, v-neck top, and shorts 10. Did you dream last night? Yes, I had powers and I had a boyfriend who was a shapeshifter or something. 11. When did you last laugh? A little while ago. My brother was teasing me about being short and unable to reach something. 12. What is on the walls of the room you are in? A rosy burgundy wall w/ a china cabinet at one end and the TV and entertainment center next to it. 13. Seen anything weird lately? Hmmm... not particularly 14. What do you think of this quiz? Ehhh... 15. What is the last film you saw? The last part of "How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days" before I started watching CSI: Miami. 16. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy? A private jet so I can travel wherever I want, and a bunch of other things. 17. Tell me something about you that I dunno. I am a Capricorn. 18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? For people to be able to get a chance to live in each other's shoes so they can appreciate what they have more, or be able to give more. 19. Do you like to dance? Not in front of strangers... 20. George Bush. Glad he's out! 21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? Hmm... 22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him? Ehhh... 23. Would you ever consider living abroad? Depends on where... 24. What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates? "Come in and join me in paradise, my child." 25. 5 people who must also do this meme in their journal. Ummm... go crazy guys... Labels: bad, blog, friends, fun, Jdrama, Ugly Betty February: Blogger of the month
 My blog over at Sanriotown, stick it in the fridge, ended up on Sanriotown's bloggers of the month for February! Very cool! Two of my fellow guildees, shesroyaltree and theotakutopian1 made it as well. Congrats to us! ^_^ whoa!
Wow! Seven months since my last post. That's crazy! I've been busy working at "paperie" but I now have a "real" job as a graphic/web designer for an investment-ish company. Yay! I started in June and I like it so far. The people are definitely great and the atmosphere is friendly. I'm still getting used to being a new person. Since I am younger than mostly everyone here, it's a bit hard to fit in, but I'm not gonna give up. I gotta get back into the swing of things -- Queen Bee-style! ^_^
back to the blogging world!
It's soo weird blogging again after being gone for nearly two years! I was debating between either Blogger or LiveJournal. I've used Blogger before...way back when it started and remember having a great deal of fun with it. Who would've thought that I would be returning to where I started?Blogger was a jump-start for me into the blogging world. After Blogger, I've used Greymatter, Movable Type (albeit for like 2 posts. lol!), b2 and later WordPress, which I used for quite awhile. Unfortunately, college work started taking a toll so I was unable to keep up with my regular blogs and had to take a hiatus... My old blogs were on anne.sakurapixi.com, anne.euphoric.nu and http://bluemango.chimerical-dreaming.net |