Hannah's Confections

As I mentioned in my previous post, I started my business selling cupcakes and profiteroles; and I am very thankful because it's blooming and growing! I've added new items on our menu including cookies, dessert bars and squares and I now do dessert buffets! Thank you Lord! :)

Cupcake craze! :)

Profiteroles. My profiteroles are different because I fill them with different fillings, and not the usual pastry cream or whipped cream. When i first made this, I actually had no idea what to fill it with. We just ate it as it was, plain. But I made some chocolate ganache for my cupcakes and had some extra so I decided to fill it with chocolate. It tasted superb so it was a hit :)

Hopefully my business will continue to grow and will become a store soon! :) Visit our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/confectionsphilippines

Cheers!

There's nothing like heart-warming music that keeps you sane when you know you're "almost" not.

I am so sorry for the long title. I just can't think of a better and shorter one so there. 

I was downloading this movie soundtrack of Breaking Dawn part 1, which I haven't had the chance to watch. What a loser, I know. But I was fascinated by this song, when I was listening to the whole album, Turning Pages by Sleeping at Last. Oh my, how lovely. Sweet music to my ears. And I honestly thought a woman was singing, turns out it was a guy. Hahaha. *Sorry Sleeping at Last Fans. Anyway, I am loving it, and it turns out it was played during Edward and Bella's "special" scene during the movie. How lovely is that? Sweet song, sweet lyrics, sweet movie. Love.

Anyway, it's 1:27 am and I am still finishing my Physics 2 paper, that I need to pass later at around 2 pm. I am kinda disoriented know, given that it's morning already and I haven't slept all day. The lazy ass that I am, I decided to finish my paper just now. I know, I know, cramming, again. But it's at night where I am most productive, and I don't know why. Haha.

Honestly, today was a big blur. The day passed without me noticing it did and I was being sad for no reason. My friend even called me "emo". But yes, maybe I am being one. But I do not know why the heck I'm feeling this way. So I have to figure it out. Bear with me please because maybe the next posts will be more dramatic. Yes, story of my life. Sorry for the ranting.

So yeah, I guess I am at the end of my post. And I want to leave you guys with the lyrics of the new song I'm going to be addicted to, Turning Pages by Sleeping at Last.

Turning Pages

by Sleeping at Last

I’ve waited a hundred years.
But I’d wait a million more for you.
Nothing prepared me for
What the privilege of being yours would do.

If I had only felt the warmth within your touch,
If I had only seen how you smile when you blush,
Or how you curl your lip when you concentrate enough,
I would have known what I was living for all along.
What I’ve been living for.

Your love is my turning page,
Where only the sweetest words remain.
Every kiss is a cursive line,
Every touch is a redefining phrase.

I surrender who I’ve been for who you are,
For nothing makes me stronger than your fragile heart.
If I had only felt how it feels to be yours,
Well, I would have known what I’ve been living for all along.
What I’ve been living for.

Though we’re tethered to the story we must tell,
When I saw you, well, I knew we’d tell it well.
With a whisper, we will tame the vicious seas.
Like a feather bringing kingdoms to their knees. 

ISTILLLOVEYOUPARACHUTE. STILLMYFAVORITEBANDEVER. COMETOTHEPHILSPLEASE.

Cheers!

Song_1_Turning Pages
Song_2_A Thousand Years

CHRISTIAN DIARIES: Thank You Lord

Dear Lord,

Thank You for everything. People say that saying thank you Lord for the little things is overrated. But not to me. Being grateful for all the blessings that You've given me is one thing I want to be for the rest of my life. Lord, You've given me everything I need - a great, supportive family, loving friends, food to eat, shelter, a bed to sleep on and the greatest blessing, which is Jesus, Your Son, who gave His life for the salvation of our sins, my sins. And with that Lord, I am sorry for always failing to say thank You. Everyday I live my life carelessly, waking up in the morning and doing my usual routine but fail to say thank you. So Lord, I want to take time to say Thank You for everything, for loving me, for being faithful, for trusting me, for forgiving me, FOR EVERYTHING.

Love,

Happy Day

Good news people. God loves us. Yes I know what you're thinking. It's old news. We've all heard it before from ministers, pastors, priests, even our friends and family. It's a common thing to say, you know, that God loves us. But, it never gets old.

A while a go in our lesson in Theology, I was once again captured by the things that our professor said. Usually, in Theology classes, I get so bored I nearly fall asleep every single time. Maybe because the topics for me are boring and uninteresting, but this morning, it's different. Our professor discussed about God's love. He says salvation came out pf God's love for us. And for me, it is true. God loves us so much and despite us having sin, he saved us when He gave Jesus to the world to be crucified for our sins. When we look at the new testament in the bible, it narrated Jesus' birth to Jesus' death. A child was born to us by Mary out of a miracle and He shall be named Jesus, to become our Savior. We see how Jesus grew up and ministers to people about God's word. And then one day, He was arrested, nailed to the cross, tortured and died, to rise again. All the while we see the process, but we fail to consider the purpose.

God loves us so so much that He was willing to sacrifice His son to die for our sins. I know I know, it's old news too. But we always forget it. You see, we live in a world that's full of sin and suffering and a lot of us have our own problems and hard ships in life. And most of the time, we only see that and blame God for it. But, don't you think God is just testing us? He loves us that much.

More than that, when we have problems, we say that God doesn't love us that's why we're suffering; but my professor said, WE WERE NEVER WORTHY OF GOD'S LOVE, EVEN CHRISTIANS. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US WERE NEVER WORTHY. But nonetheless, GOD LOVES US DESPITE OF OUR UNWORTHINESS. That is the beauty of God's love.

We must always remember that. ALWAYS. In every circumstance.


Thanks for reading. God bless you! :)

Cheers,

FEAR

I am apologizing to you guys for not posting something here on my brand new blog for a really long time. Honestly, it's not that I'm busy with school or anything, it's just that I can't think of anything to post. I am blanked out for the past few days and I haven't had anything to celebrate, except for the fact that I have put up a small home based business.

Honestly, I am not in the mood to be happy about anything. Call me depressed or sad and all that, but it's what I am currently feeling. Been feeling down for the past weeks. Maybe because it's the pressure I get from the coming up NMAT exams. I am really nervouse because this is the first time I'm taking it and probably the last. I regret not taking it last April :( Anyways, I have to review now because the exam is two days away and finals are coming up too. Too much pressure, yes. But this morning I was a bit uplifted with our lesson in Theology 4. My current professor is a Singaporean substitute for my original professor who is currently in the hospital because of stroke. My current professor shared a lot of things today that somehow gave me encouragement. Expectations are really killing me. And I think it's not from my parents or my parents pushing me to pursue medicine, it's me. I am my own fear. Our professor said some things about expectations that gave me smile. He gave the meaning of fear;

F - False

E - Expectations

A - Appearing

R - Real

It opened my eyes. I was seeing false expectations for myself, and now I realize that I am the one bringing myself down. It's not them, it's me. So now, I am pushing myself to see clearly, to be able to shove all the false expectations behind and see what's real. I am praying to God for guidance.

Thanks for enduring my lengthy post, and please pray for me so that I can get a very high score in my NMAT exam! :)

I'll leave you with this.

“Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about” (Jer. 33:3).

Cheers!

Sweet blessing

"I've been wandering around this universe, equipped with my own personality, wondering what the future brings."

 It has been a busy couple of weeks. My second to the last semester in college is nearly ending. Just in 3 weeks I think. And it's frankly frightening, especially because my NMAT exam is coming up and I am nervous as ASDFGHJKL! :( I haven't reviewed because I've been busy with other requirements in school and my business. But I know that if I really want to venture into medical school, I have to freaking study now.

On other things, I am so excited that my little business is flourishing! Yes, let me introduce to you,

Hannah's Confections! Finally I've established a name. And I am really thankful because God blessed me with this. I've put up a facebook page with a menu and order form. Hopefully, every pastry will become a hit! :)

Come visit the site! https://www.facebook.com/confectionsphilippines

Well, this is the end of my post. Cheers everyone!

Sense of Simpliciville

My first outfit post! Yey :)

Well, it's not like most of those fashion blogs who tell you the brands of what they're wearing. Most of my clothes are from bargain finds with only a few pieces which are branded. In my opinion, not everyone can afford fashion finds that are branded, and there are nice pieces in bargains, you just have to find them. So here it is! :)

On other things, I am so nervous to take NMAT this December 4. It's the admission test for aspiring students of pre-med to take medicine proper. I heard that the exam is way harder in December than in April. That's pretty much the reason. I am counting on God here, I will review, I promise but everything is in God's hands :)

I am also psyched to tell everyone that I am starting a home based business selling home baked cupcakes, profiteroles and eclairs! Yes I am excited :)

Okay, I am gonna review now. I have an exam on Physics 2 on Monday. 

Cheers!

Life is beautiful.

Last November 6-7, 2011, me and my family had been given the opportunity to come back to Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bagac, Bataan. We went there almost 2 or 3 years ago and the place wasn't that fully developed. I went there 3 times I think and this time it's the 4th. The place was much more beautiful and the vibe is very historical. When I first went there, I felt like I was transported 100 years ago. And it felt good to see how wonderfully creative Filipinos are and how Philippine history is much more interesting than I thought. We had a tour of the houses; 4 houses I think. We went to the replica of the old University of the Philippines. Some of the parts of the houses were from the original.

Those were holes where the students held up hammocks to sleep in.

It began raining so hard during our tour so we had to put on rain coats. I also had to walk barefoot because my sandals are not waterproof. After that, we decided to go and play table tennis, since they offered it at an hourly rate.

Then we went swimming in the pool. The water was so cold, we had to move around all the time to prevent ourselves from shivering. It was still kind of raining at that time.

After we went swimming, it was around 6:30pm. We then took a bath and got ready for dinner. There was a cultural night where there were ethnic dancers performing different cultural dances.

This is what we had for dinner.

This is fried chicken. The chicken wasn't dry at all and the skin was tasty. But the sauce was simply ketchup, I wished it was gravy though.

We also had Fried Fish with Tausi Sauce, black beans and tofu. The fish was crispy and not soggy at all, and so as the tofu. The sauce wasn't enough though.

This is Seafood Kare-kare. The sauce was good, but the seafood wasn't enough. It seems that the only seafood here is prawns. It should've been called Prawn Kare-kare rather than Seafood Kare-kare. A hefty price for such a small serving. We also has dessert; braso de marcedes and something like baked meringue which had a sweet custard inside. I don't know what it's called but it was good. The Braso de Marcedes didn't disappoint too.

After dinner was the cultural night. There were 4 dances I think and they also serenaded us with cultural songs during dinner. The last dance which was the Tinikling which was really interactive. They had the audience dance with them, I was too scared to try hahaha. I enjoyed watching though. After that, we took pictures and me and my sisters took outfit posts too.

The next morning before breakfast, we went to the beach to take pictures again. Unfortunately we weren't able to view the sunrise. It was so hot outside then. We then went to ride a kalesa.

The kalesa ride.

This was our room number.

This was where we had our breakfast. Really cool ambiance.

I had tocino with scambled eggs, garlic rice and also native hot chocolate.

After breakfast, we packed our stuff and prepared to go home. But we took a lot of pictures also.

After that we took off, and went to the nearest market. We purchased octopus, mamali fish and tanigue fish. Then it was a 1 hour ride home. This probably is the greatest place I've ever been to, more then Singapore. I feel so grateful to God for being blessed with an opportunity like this. Thanks for enduring my very lengthy post. :)

Cheers!