Liebster Award 🏆

I am so sorry this is a long overdue post!
Thank you again Tay for nominating me for the Liebster Award. I’m ecstatic to be nominated twice already. ☺️

The mechanics are different from my previous one but here’s how:

So here are the 11 questions for me:

1. What is your current favorite song?

I have a couple current fave songs but I’m choosing Middle by DJ Snake. 🙂

2. Who is your role model, and why?

Long live my grandma! She’s 81 now and she’s currently residing in Canada living by herself ever since she moved abroad since 26 or something. She lives simple and travels–sums up my goals.

3. What are 3 things you’re most likely to carry in your bag?

❥ Phone

❥ Credit card holder

❥ Swiss army knife (My true friends know about this😂)

4. Favorite dessert?

How about no, tha

5. Best place you’ve ever been to & why?

I would say Chicago. I’m living the dream right now and even though I know it’s just for a year, I could say that I’ve already achieved a big part of my dream.

6. Whats your favorite movie ? Cliche but ‘A Walk To Remember’. 😂

7. Your best memory from the past year?

Setting foot here in Chicago away from familiar people.

8. Where do you go when you want to be inspired?

Just somewhere quiet where I could be alone. Or just driving around while listening to chill music.

9. If you could do anything, absolutely anything, what would it be?

Travel. Travel. Travel. Nothing makes me more happy than that.

10. Where is your happy place?

My mom’s arms.

11. Last book you read?

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. Must read, btw!

About time for 11 random facts about me:

1️⃣ I used to not like pizza and burgers but ever since I came here in Chicago, there hasn’t been a week where I don’t eat one slice of pizza.

2️⃣ Kudo Shinichi is my soulmate.

3️⃣ I crossed my knees when I kneel down at church.

4️⃣ I prefer my coffee black and I love tea.

5️⃣ I let my baby sister call me ‘mommy’.

6️⃣ I am mesmerized by big butts. Lol.

7️⃣ Online shopping is my current addiction.

8️⃣ I love birthdays and surprises.

9️⃣ I have like 4 or 5 more blogs beside this 😂

🔟 I do crochets.

1️⃣1️⃣ I used to care a lot about people but now idk meh

Bloggers Nominees:

💋 Lyka

💋 Sheena

💋 Jamie

💋 Joy

💋Claire

💋 Angelica

💋 Joyce

11 questions for you ladies: (you can skip)

1. What is your biggest fear?

2. What is your greatest achievement so far?

3. Mommy or daddy’s girl?

4. Beer/Tequila/Whiskey or Wine?

5. Kinky or vanilla kinda girl?

6. Would you rather be in a beach or in a winter wonderland right now?

7. Do you have the one that got away?

8. What inspires you to write?

9. Best thing that you have right now?

10. Fill: I miss the/those time/times when _______.

11. Do you ever write something and then the next day you read it and you’re like eck this isn’t me and delete it afterwards? Lol

That’s it for me.

Your turn, babes! Have fun and just try to answer what comes first in your mind 🙂

Sunny Sunday

Finally the sun showed up on Sunday! Sheena and I were able to visit the Shedd Aquarium. Though personally, I find it dull to visit aquariums—I mean, fish? 🙄—except for the dolphin shows or interactive activities with the animals. So yeah I didn’t even bother taking pictures of the fishes. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Add me guys on Snapchat if you wanna see my activities especially this coming months because SUMMER 💁🏼 and summer means SUN and sun means FUN. Lol.

Snapchat: purtyme

Yours Truly,

G🐒

Ending My March with a Sigh

I was exactly fine 24 hours ago. I don’t know what and when it went wrong. All I can think of is how people disappoint me. No matter how good you are to them, they will always bring you down.

“They wanna see you do good, but never better than them. Remember that.”

Or maybe it’s just my PMS again. I don’t know.

Things I Look Forward To

Hello guys! Sorry for the short posts lately, I was not really inspired. I just wanted to say how hyped I am with what’s happening to me these past few weeks and for what’s gonna happen for the next couple of weeks. Here let me list down the things I’m looking forward to:

March

1. I-LEAD

Tomorrow will be the announcement for the qualified candidates to attend the 5-day leadership program in D.C. We wrote an essay about a leadership topic and then that’s it. I hope I get the chance to participate and if not, then better luck next time.

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2. Phone

I also bought a new phone—don’t worry it’s not that expensive—for a few reasons. First, I want it. LOL I need not to buy a new phone but I figured I deserve a new few things especially I’m earning my OWN money. 🙂 Second, my current iPhone is locked so I couldn’t use any carrier here on the U.S. so not net which is really hard and complicated sometimes. Lastly, my phone’s starting to crank up since I’ve had it for three years now.

3. Phone Cases

I bought this adorable fur case, sticker, and wine case for my phone. I love it and I may have splurged on it but who cares.

April

1. Night Nation Run

This I cannot truly wait! It’s a 1st running music festival, you know, DJ’s be playing while you’re running at every station and at the end of the musical voyage there’s gonna be like a big party or something. It’s going to be so much fun, don’t you think so?! I’m doing it with Sheena so we better be ready to run a 5K.

3. Moving in with a new family

I’m gonna be moving out to this crappy house, finally! Oh my god, you guys don’t know anything but I have been living in a hell for months now. People here are so noisy, weird, and I don’t know if they’re even human. Possibly not! I mean like how can someone be so insensitive and play their music so fucking loud in morning and before freaking sleep time. Oh yesterday morning, I was still sleeping and dreaming when suddenly there’s this music blaring to the point where I thought I was dreaming about it then I woke up. Oh my gosh, so fucking rude damn it. DIEEEEEEE!

4. Indiana

State visit wohooo!

5. Lighthouses visit

My friend, who also happened to be an intern, planned this trip to visit the Lighthouses nearby Chicago—I’m not sure. Actually, there’s this CHI Squad that we created and the members are all interns from across the world. We kinda go together to different places when we had the chance. So now this trip, probably we’ll go the weekend after the run. Whew, my weekends are full!

May

1. St. Louis, Missouri

Spending a 3-day vacay in that state doing sightseeing and camping with CHI Squad. 🙂

2. Washington, D.C.

If I’m qualified for the program, then I can go to the capital of the United States. *fingers-crossed*

June

1. Duh, my birthday!

Seriously if you guys have any plans on staying here on the U.S. for more than a month, just make sure you’re not under 21 or else you’re gonna miss most of the fun—I mean if you’re aggressive like me.😂🙄 SO FINALLY, I’m turning 21! Did you guys know about wearing a sash and a crown when turning 21? No? Well it’s a thing here, maybe I should do it lol. 😏

Bitch, that’s gonna be me when the bartender asks for my I.D.

2. Niagara Falls

Still pending. But would it not be amazing to see the grand scenery of Niagara Falls?!

3. Color Run

Haven’t bought tickets we’re still thinking about it. Psyched!

July

1. Lollapalooza

It’s amazing how the tickets sold out fast. I had to wait for like two hours just to get past through the front gate and buy the tickets. But this is so far my most awaited event. I’m so ready! 💁🏼

2. Coldplay Concert

Sheen and I bought tix for their concert. We were aiming for a JB or Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato concert but the tickets were soaring and mostly were sold out anyway. Let’s rock! Lol okay they’re not exactly a rock and roll band. 😂 But hey, they’re not that bad.

3. Foam Glow 5K

Another run. Hell yeah! Sheena and I are a serious runner. 😂

4. Las Vegas, Nevada

O.M.G. I’m 21 by that time! 😏 NYEHHEHHHEHEHHEHEHE 😈 Need I say more? And what’s great about us going there, it’s a company paid. There is this CPE convention that accountants should attend in Vegas but who says we’re required to attend that boring lecture? Lol hopefully boss won’t require us to attend the lecture and let me and Sheena wander around the Sin City. Also, there is going to be a night/ball event or something because it’s our boss’s wedding anniversary. Grand, I know!

5. Page, Arizona

We might drive by the Antelope Canyon when we go to Las Vegas if we have chance.

I’ll stop here for now. I remember it’s Monday tomorrow. Good night guys!

Disclaimer: Gifs aren’t mine.

Cookie Friday

I’m feeling better now. Thank God.

Hooray for today! There are two reasons I’m happy. 😀 First of all, today’s Friday which means salvation! I never thought I’d agree to my mom about this but given any chance of no work days I will totally spend it on my bed sleeping or watching TV. I work five days a week, hell, I need a break. Wow. I’m starting to sound like an #adult. 🙂 Another thing is the Girl Scout Cookies finally came in today. I ordered like three boxes of cookies and as soon as I got my hands on them I devoured it lol. You may not know it but I’m more of a cookie girl than a cake girl. 😛

Have a fun Friday!

Fat and Sad

I am so taking back what I said yesterday about writing everyday. I’m so freaking lazy lol. Last night, I talked to mom via Skype and she was like you’re so fat already and I was like I know I should just resort to using pills lol and she was like are you crazy. Hmm should I? I kennot. HUHUHU I blame the cruel weather in this windy city! I can’t even go out without my coat. In fact now that I think about it, I haven’t gone out without layers since I came here. I just keep telling myself today that tomorrow would be the last day of the week again. I can do this. I’m homesick too. 😦 I’m thinking of visiting my country this Summer but idk I’m not sure yet. *sigh*

Weirdest thing today is happening. My music’s on shuffle play and every song playing reminds me of him. I mean it’s like my damn phone knows exactly where to hit me.

Anyhow, I wanna start this thing called 100 Happy Days—it’s an eon thing I know haha. I won’t be doing the exact thing but maybe just write stuff about everyday. I was thinking maybe I won’t have titles like Day 1…Day 100, you know, cause that’s too mainstream. I will put those on my tags tho—you can see them at the left side of every post—for me to at least keep track of the days left. At the same time it will be my countdown until my last day here in Chicago. So expect to see me posting random shits here everyday lol.

259 til I say good bye to the city of Chi. But who’s counting? 🙂

Btw, I am totally pms-ing! I hate it. 😦 I am feeling a whole lot things today!!! Ugh.

Whatever. Babush.

02.13.2016

Just had our Pre-Valentine’s lunch here at the office. We had salad, spaghetti, meatballs, cookies, chips, pizzas(as always) and sodas. Anyway, I’m not here to share my lunch experience. I’m here because somebody got this great big bouquet of roses and everyone’s cheering and teasing. Apparently, someone anonymous sent our co-worker the flowers and now she’s got the rest of the day to think about who this mystery guy is. 🙂 Man, that must feel great. I’ll live tho. 😛

Happy 4th WP!

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NOTICE ME!

Today is my 4 year anniversary with WordPress and I finally decided to register a custom domain name for my site. I was kinda thinking of registering it to my name but I digressed cause I mean I’ve been with this name ‘simplicityismymiddle’ for four years now. I’m sentimental, I know lol. So that’s all for now. Just dropping by to say hello and greet myself Happy Anniversary with WordPress! 🙂

YAY!

P.S. I’ll be posting a lot of Chicago stuff soon. :p

Day 1 of 366

I officially welcome 2016. Happy New Year from Chicago! I can’t stressed enough how grateful I am for 2015. I have this two great things that happened this 2015. First, I graduated from my 4 year degree course and march at the age of 19. 🙂 Second, six months after I packed my things and went to Chicago. Man, I’ve never been so happy.

No more resolutions lol it just doesn’t work for me. But I’ll try to be more positive and keep looking forward to everyday. Carpe Diem, right?

So here’s to a new year…Keep dreaming and don’t stop just because you think it’s impossible. Your actions are directed towards your dream so keep going darling cause you’re on the right track. Have a good one!

Meet SheenaDora

Basically, she’s the fattest and shortest woman alive and just my luck cause…she happens to be my roommate. She’ll be pissed when she reads this. 😂 Anyway, she came here three months ahead of me so she pretty much teach me everything there is to know. When I came here, she begged me that we moved in together I was like okay sure why not. But then, I regret it the second I discovered she was a mess. She tosses her things here and there. She leaves her used tissue wherever. She is so damn loud I cannot take her anymore. Oh god please. 😒😟 Anyway, if ever I kicked her out of my apartment just for your safety I will post a picture of her so you’d say NO when she asks if she can be your roommate.

Hi Sheena, peace out yo. 😹✌🏻️

You guys, stop it. 😂 Just kidding. She is really pretty, smart and crazy.

But yeah, I might still kick her out so watch out. I’m serious.

C H I C A G O

Ever wonder what I am doing here in Chicago? No, we don’t ca—...okay 😒 I’m telling this for those who care and don’t just bc I like to annoy the hell outta you. 😛 Well, I am here for my internship. Ever since I graduated college, I had been aiming for this opportunity. I applied then and I waited like it was the most frustrating waiting game ever. There was not a day where I don’t check up on my status. Until, they finally found a company fit for my degree. I was placed in an accounting firm in downtown Chicago—long live the city! The city is amazing. The weather is extreme here and it wasn’t called the Windy City for nothing. I couldn’t go out without my coat wrapped closely around my body and my hands shoved in my pocket. Did I mention it’s snowing in Chicago? Because oh my god the first time I experienced snow, I totally and literally jumped out of joy. It happened on my way home with my roommate—she’s annoying btw and she knows it 😉—and I didn’t see it coming because it was dark and I thought it was just raining but then I felt there was this tingling sensation every time it hit my skin. That’s when Sheena(roomie) screamed it was snowing. We both squirmed loudly like a little girl! We got lost on our way home and we were freezing cold but damn it’s snowing who cares. 🙂 Also, it’s so cold in here I dont sweat at all. Lol maybe that’s the reason why I already gained 10 pounds since I came here. Sheena and I enrolled in gym but seriously waking up shivering from cold isn’t exactly motivating so nah pig life it is. So far, I am liking it in here. I get to see and meet different kind of people. I see people with rainbow hair and gothic attires and nobody bats an eye. Lmao If it were in my country, he/she is gonna be a mile radius head turner. It’s just so fun in here really, I barely even feel the days passing turning them into a month already.

5am Thoughts

I woke up half an hour ago and can’t sleep since then even though I just drifted off 5 hours ago. Anyway, I decided to just open my laptop and see what I can do and this apparently is what I am doing right now.

It’s been more than a month since I came to Chicago. 🙂 Yes, and I still have 12 months here to go. I’m not homesick and never was since I first came here. It’s weird? I don’t know. Maybe because this is what I wanted in my life since god knows when: to explore and be away with people I know. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family more than anything but for me it just doesn’t mean getting to see them everyday. I talk to them everyday, if you’re wondering. I’m loving my life here except well the weather lol. The first time I set foot outside the airport it’s so freakin cold I almost wished to go back. 😅 But everyday, I learn to love and accept the abnormality of the weather here although there’s not a day I don’t say “Oh my god, it’s cold today”.

Anyway, that’s all for now. My moment for writing just flew out of my body lol.