What's Up, BPS?

I am coming out of hibernation.

After my last scheduled trip for the year was over, I felt that a cleansing was in order. Aside from indulging in lots and lots of fruits, I also took stock of the things that I did during the first half of the year and decided to just sit back and take a breather. These are some of the seriously mundane stuff I've been up to so far.

I became hooked on Booksale and scoured their shelves every week for "new" cheap books I could add to my pile at home. I'm slowly going through my takeaway at the rate of one to two books a month. Also, I finally shook the nine year old layer of dust from my LOTR series and found the series enjoyable.

Some good reads that I walked away with from Booksale are The End of Oil by Paul Roberts, The Last Empress by Anchee Min, The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner, and The Best American Non-required Reading 2007.

I cleaned out my closet but then realized that I am left with very few normal, everyday clothes, so I set off to find me some new ones.  

Shopping for good quality, well-fitting clothes can be a real chore. There is almost always something wrong with the fit, fabric, color or cut in the clothes I pick out even in usually reliable Zara and Mango. I had to get creative, taking into consideration the very limited retail options here, and walked away with these from Gap, Promod and Bayo.

These flared, stretchy Gap jeans were really hot when in the store because they gave the illusion of shrunk thighs. I was worried that they might shrink further after washing as is the usual case with new pairs of jeans. These, however, expanded, so worry not when you have to jump up and down a couple of times to get into these jeans when trying them on in the store. Chances are, they'd fit just right after they've been washed.

My youthful godfather who has very good taste in bags, shoes and everything fashion-related gifted me with this printed tarpaulin shopping bag from Marni. I haven't said Thank you! yet only because he's so far away. So I'm saying it here and now: Thank you, Ninong, I looove it.

I'm trying out a new look. I haven't had the chance yet to give the maxidress and sneakers look I last posted here a try, but I've already worn my Chucks with other outfits and I'm pretty pleased that they look quite worn now, just the way I want them to be.

And lastly, my big news (my friends would know that for me this is worthy of the terms "big" and "news") is that I'm finally roaming and endangering the (back) streets of Western Metro Manila with me behind the wheels, of course.