San Francisco Trip: Day 03!

Warning: Picture Heavy!

Ok, it took me so long to finish this post.. Its been sitting on my draft for a long time.. I got side tracked and I just got busy.. Sorry for the delay.. Anyway, I'm moving tomorrow.. Ugh

Another continuation of my trip to San Francisco.. More pictures this time.. Third day of our trip, we decided to go Sight-Seeing :] The view was really nice. We parked all the way up so we can see the beautiful view of Alcatraz.

Photographer: Niegel Leoncio

Pretending its  my house.. hahaha! I wonder how much the houses here.. millions of dollars I assume! "/

At the Pier.. The air is so cool there.. So nice..

This man is what they call "one man band".. He's so talented! ahahah! He's the drummer, guitarist, vocalist in one! :)

Walking down the streets of San Francisco..

i Love PANDAS..I have a secret obsessions about Pandas.. well now its not a secret anymore right? Whenever I see Pandas (stuffed toy, figurines, statues etc) I get all giddy.. its weird. hahah! But I don't own any stuffed Panda. ahahah! :)

Fisherman's Wharf! Such a nice place.. Very crowded..

Fresh crabs.. Yummy....

Closer view of the Alcatraz.. I bet its so lonely out there for the prisoners. I'd get crazy..

This man is painting using spray paint! He drew the outer space with the bridge and San Francisco City.. It was so cool! :) I wish I can paint like that :D He was selling it for only $15. It would have been a nice souvenir! Should have bought it!

This man is so crazy, he swallowed a sword and let a random girl pull it out from his throat. The sword was full of his saliva. So gross! I wonder what else he swallows.. lol

Of course we gotta have some clam chowder soup! hmmm.. so yummy!!! Love it! :)

Then we went to see the seals. Ohhh! I got so excited!! I think this is my favorite place out of all the places we went to! They stink but they are so adorable!! :) I just want to hug them! Haha!

Walking back to our car..

OMG its so tiring to walk up..

Then we went to Japan Town but some of the stores were closed already. It was passed 6pm and it was a Sunday.. so I wasn't able to buy anything..

Then before the night ends, we decided to eat at the Barracuda Japanese Restaurant.

It was a great Japanese place. Decent. Good food. Good Ambience. Attentive Servers.

I had a "hello kitty" drink. Yummy! Haha!

Adrian's Birthday Ice cream..

Make a wish! :)

Thank You guys for reading my long entry. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. :) There's a Day 04 but not much pictures because that's when we were heading back to LA.

Wish to be back again there sometime next year. :)

Anyway, please pray for our love ones in the Philippines..

Tropical storm Peping is now upgraded to a super typhoon category. This is expected to be stronger than tropical storm Ondoy as it will bring not just rain but strong gusty winds. It's expected to affect NCR by Friday night or Saturday morning. Please pray and prepare. BE SAFE EVERYONE

Julu Jewelry + My Pretty Sample Bag!

Hello everyone! I missed you all!! I will try to go through everybody's blog today and see what you all are doing. :) Like I said on my last post, we are moving on the 1st of October so I've been pretty busy.. + of course work. "/

Anyway, I came across to Rae's blog, a talented young woman who makes piggies out of socks. Very cute. Btw, she is having an awesome giveaway! I posted a link on my sidebar about her give away! (wink)
http://rae630.blogspot.com

Then I saw her post regarding her swap with Stephanie from Julu Jewelry. I then clicked the link and saw that she makes earrings. When I saw a particular earrings, I thought, oohh!! I must have that one! So then I ordered it. To my surprise, she gave me a bonus earrings! What a sweetheart! And look how she decorated her boxes with bows. Super cute! I'm a sucker for cute packaging! :) Look at the paper stars she made! I want to learn how to do that! :D
http://www.julujewelry.com/

So this is the earrings I ordered. Grey pearls with rhinestones for only $12.00. :) Super Kawaii!

Then this lovely woman added this cute earrings as a bonus because she just opened up her store :) I love dangling earrings. This will be cute for a blue/purple dress.

Go ahead, check her creations out.

This is her latest (image from julujewelry.blogspot.com) and it reminds me of the Twitter logo. So cute!

My order from My Pretty Sample Bag came in Friday and I was so excited! Remember my review regarding My Pretty Sample Bag? If you still don't know what it is, let me refresh your mind by clicking the link below.

http://withadriyah.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-pretty-sample-bag.html

http://myprettysamplebag.com/

For $5.50, you will get 3 samples, and for $9.00, you'll get 5 samples! What more can you ask for? Shipping is already included.

So I got Revlon Runway Collection Nails, Beauty So Clean Sample and a NYX fake lashes. Revlon Runway Collection Nails is $7 something at Walmart already so this is really a great buy! :]

And oh, I'm selling my Studio Moisture Tint SPF 15 in Medium. If anyone is interested, please email me at ayaleoncio@gmail.com

STUDIO MOISTURE TINT SPF 15 IN MEDIUM

Used 1x

With Box

Original Price: $29.50 + tax

Sale Price: $23.00 + shipping

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On the other note, a bad news happened last September 26 back to our hometown, Manila Philippines.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090927-227193/No-rich-no-poor-for-Ondoys-onslaught

These photos were taken by my sister in law after the Typhoon. They have lost their home, car and their properties were destroyed.  A lot of people died, a lot went missing. Thank God my family is safe, shows that God is great and I know everything happens for a reason, we just have to believe.

The water reached their roofs, some people were stranded by their roofs crying for help. That's how deep the water was. The inside of our family's house was full of mud. They weren't able to get clothes.

Please pray for them. I read that another Typhoon will come to the Philippines in 2-3 days. I'm hoping it won't be as destructive as the Typoon Ketsana/Ondoy.

They need us, they need our prayers.

Typhoon Ondoy is the worst one that the Philippines experienced in the last 4 decades. Let's extend our help by donating. Call ****ABS-CBN Foundation USA toll-free 1-800-527-2820****

Hope you guys had an awesome weekend! Back to work tomorrow :[ *sigh*

Update from Work

Hi guys!! I'm blogging through my iPhone.. This is the 1st time I tried updating from my phone.. I'm currently at work doing Another 16 hours.. Another sleepless night!

I haven't read any of my blogger mates' entries & I miss you all.. Life has been pretty busy lately. It's been so stressful especially this month.

After a month long of apartment hunting, we finally found a place to stay.. It's located in a very nice area however I won't call it my "dream place" to be because it doesn't Have a walk in closet or a huge bath tub and all the things you want in a house. But it's pretty decent and not that expensive so I'm still thankful for what God has given me :] at least I'm not a homeless like thousands of people out there :[


We are moving on Oct 01.. So it's going to be a pretty busy week then my aunt from London is coming to visit on the 12th & she'll be staying with us.

Also it's been more than a month since I started the "no make up buy" thing, and so far so good. Adrian offered me lots of times to buy me make up but I refused. It's okay.. I can wait.. I let go of some things that I don't use that much so I can save for our new place.

I'm breaking out on my forehead - probably due to stress and having sleepless nights. I don't like it.. feeling so depressed. My self esteem has gone low.

I only have 1 day off this week (Sunday) but I gotta pack my things so I can't really go out and enjoy yet..

Sorry for the long rant. Hope you guys a good weekend! :) will be back soon!! :)

Random Updates: 7

Hello ladies! Do not ever think that I have abandoned you all.. I have been so busy with so many stuff lately :[ I can't handle it. I'm asking God to give me more patience. I'm the type of person who gets really impatient and sometimes I think of giving up!


Work - so busy.. too many paperworks. Not enough salary. 3 days of Furlough. Stupid Governor took all of our Holiday pay.


Apartment Hunting - I saw this nice apartment complex nestled in a nice place. It's a gated community with so many amenities. Gym on site and all of the stuff you can dream of in an apartment. I was excited because they have a walk in closet. I mean c'mon who doesn't want a walk in closet right? So, we went there and talked to the manager and let me tell you what! She is rude! So many people complained how lazy she is, how rude she talks to the tenants and how she milks money outta them. I was appalled! I told myself, I cannot live in a place managed by a person like that. She is the manager from hell! She said we can only have 2 parking space so whenever there's guest coming, after 9pm they need to park OUTSIDE THE GATE or else she'll tow it. So yeah, I lost my walk in closet :( Our contract is almost over and I need to find an apartment ASAP.

Health - been so tired lately. Stressed and all. I'm trying to finish my San Francisco Posts. I'll do it one of these days. Can't wait to get another vacation. This time, I wanna go to Catalina Islands and just relax there.. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOMMY!!!

Look at Macho! He's gotten so big! So cute! :)

I'll see you guys next time. I just really made this short and simple to tell you guys I MISS YOU ALL!!! and yes I'm busy tweaking my blog page as well. This is just temporary. This is not the layout I have in mind. I want simple.

Cabazon Trip, Fuz Love + New Skincare

Taking a break from my San Francisco Trip Posts, I decided to make this post dedicated to my Cabazon post and my prizes from Fuzkittie ^^

I have been sleeping all day. Feel like a pig.. :p

CABAZON TRIP

Anyway, so we went to Cabazon after the day we arrived from our San Francisco Trip. I love Cabazon.. They have my fave stores and the hubby's fave stores too!

They have CCO there :], UGG (which has the same price as the ones in the stores.), 7 Jeans for All Mankind, Ed Hardy, Diesel, Gucci, Burberry, Dooney & Burke, Michael Kors, Tagheuer, and a lot more! :] You gonna enjoy your trip if or when you decide to shop there.

So I got this True Religion cap because they were having 20% off. I thought it was cute :]

Adrian also got me some boots from UGG to get ready for the FALL season! seriously cannot wait for the weather to get colder. I am working on my skin care for the weather change too.

I got the long Black ones.. I think they're cute! So comfy! i want another one.. possibly a short one :]

He also got us matching Jack Purcells :] I'm going to wear it for work. Its cute :]

and he chose this blouse for me. :] He's so sweet. Haha. <3>

FUZKITTIE LOVE

So I won Fuzkittie's "Thank You" Give away. I feel so loved and well blessed.. Thank you so much Fuz!! This is such a sweet package. I can't thank you enough :] Look at all the goodies she gave me!

Check out her blogspot! She is awesome!

http://www.fuzkittie.com

She gave me 2 Lancome mascaras! Yay!! Can't wait to try them :]

..and my very 1st Paul & Joe lipgloss!! Yay! :] The happiness of getting something new :]

and this super cute "fuzzy-kitty" :] Its now on my phone! So kawaii :]

lovely fish earrings! My mom wants it..but its mine! ahahaa :P

Thank You again Fuzkittie for this generous prizes :]

NEW SKIN CARE PRODUCTS

~H2O + Skin care. I 1st saw this at San Francisco. They don't have much stores and I was lucky because they have one at Glendale Galleria but its like an hour and half away. I thought it was worth the drive. Adrian drove me there of course!

I only bought one full size but the SA there named Josh who is super nice gave me samples to try. I tried it and loved it! :] Especially the mud mask!

According to H20+ website, Sea Results Overnight Perfecting Peel is a liquid peel formulated to revitalize and smooth skin’s surface, this high performance treatment delivers balanced tone and clarity, prevents clogged pores and potential breakouts, all while revitalizing and brightening dull complexions. Reveals a softer, more youthful you.

Sounds great huh? I've only used it once so I have not seen any results yet.. Review to come soon! :]

Random.. hehe.. My mother checking out the bag I gave her. Its a Dooney & Burke bag :]

meet MACHO! :] a full breed Pitbull. The dad is a violent pitbull who killed my sister cat :[ I know so sad! The mom is a short pitbull and gave birth to some puppies (I don't know how many!)

I want to take him home but our landlord won't allow us to have any pets. The parents adopted him. He's so cute! :]

Well, that's my update for now! Hope you guys are having a great weekend. Love you all! :]