Everyday Life

A month ago, to my horror, I broke one of our Canon lens. It was just the 18-55mm kit lens but it was one of my favorite and trustworthy lens and one that I used mostly for blogging.

Two weeks ago, we found out that our other lens was causing our DSLRs to crash. I don’t know how or what to call it. Simply put, every time we use our 28-135mm lens to both of our DSLRs, it makes an error, making the body of the camera turn off and dysfunctional. We’ve been using the 28-135mm lens together with the 30D but since the 18-55mm broke, we used it with the 400D as well. Whenever the 30D crashes before, we thought there was a problem with the body of the camera. However, when we used the 28-135mm lens with the 400D, it crashed as well. So that’s when we discoved that there’s nothing wrong with our 30D…it is most probably the 28-13mm lens.

As if fate is playing a game on me, this all happened towards my Husband’s birthday. Since we don’t have a proper point and shoot camera, I cannot let it happen that we don’t have a good camera on his 30th birthday. And yes, as OA as I may seem, I cannot live without a DSLR these days. We still have our telephoto lens and the 50mm lens, however, having no other lens used for shoots and events, patay ang negosyo hehe. So I had to order new lens this week.


Thursday Thought Bubbles (sharing with you some of my thoughts throughout the day)

8:03am
morning tea number 1: half a slice of margherita pizza from Baker’s Delight.

8:55am
wow, too early for my package to arrive. it’s not even 9:00am.
not expecting the package til after lunch time.
they (the online store) are really good. will buy from them again.
must call husband to tell the good news.

9:01am
voila! my new baby wrapped in styrofoam wonderland.

9:49am
i wanna go home. i wanna go home. i wanna go home.
i wanna go home and play with my new toy.
i’m so excited, it’s been a loooong time since i’ve bought a new gadget.

10:00am
green tea time. cup no. 1 starts now.

11:14am
i really wanna go home. now na.
green tea cup no. 2.
must eat the other half of my margherita pizza.
need nourishment.

11:25am
email received that a former “workmate” is going back to the office after resigning for two weeks.
what the hell just happened??? freaking unbelievable.
according to the email, he deferred his resignation and will be back next week.
naloka kaming lahat kasi mega-organize kami ng going away party and gift niya
at mega-dalamhati kami tapos ngayon babalik siya. isang malaking kalokohan.
not that we don’t want him back, not that we can turn back time.
it’s just unbelievable.

1:12pm
i forgot about lunch again!
second time this week.

1:40pm
my wormate just gave me this heart-shaped stress ball.
baka sa inis ko sa trainees ko, instead of just squeezing the stress ball in my hand,
i might throw the ball at them. god help me.
don’t get me wrong, i love what i do but once in a while they really get on my nerves.

2:30pm
yay! an hour and a half before dismissal time (parang school hehe).

3:47pm
Ayoko na magtrabaho!!!!! I really just wanna go home.

3:50pm
Will go home in 10 minutes. 🙂 🙂

4:33pm
ngek! nandito pa rin ako sa office.
will really go home now.

Presenting our new baby: Canon 17-85mm IS USM Lens

I can now shoot as far as this…

and as near as this…

Photos taken from our balcony, us being on the 3rd floor of the building.

Husband and I never usually go to the shops early. But this morning, as soon as I woke up, I just dressed up–no, breakfast even!–and went out coz Husband wanted to take me shopping for a toy that I’ve been wanting to own for soooo long.

Yesterday, we saw in a shop’s catalogue that the toy that I want will be on sale starting 13 April (which is today). Here in Australia, when something is advertised and you really want it, it is advisable that you arrive early at the shops to buy it or else, later in the day, it will be sold out.
So at 9:30am, we were at the shops already…went straight to where we could find “my” toy…and there it was…my big Wall-E!!!!

The box says “InterAction Wall-E”.

It talks, moves its head and hands, lights its eyes up and wheels around.

The amusing thing is it responds to your voice. When I call out “Wall-E!!!”…it replies back to me and says, “Eee–vaah!” Aliw!!!

Eyeloveit! 🙂

Wanting to take a break from cooking breakfast and spending some quiet time alone with the Husband, I surprised him with a “Good morning Baby, breakfast time at McDo!!!” this morning.

I ordered the usual: 2 Sausage McMuffin Meal and an order of Hotcakes. When I got our orders, I immediately noticed the new packaging of Hotcakes–they’re now using paper, as in cardboard.

I don’t know when McDonald’s started using cardboard for their Hotcakes packaging (we seldom eat McDonald’s nowadays even if we just live across the street from it) but I’m glad to see that they finally made the change.

And for the first time, I ordered coffee from McDonald’s and I’m surprised that I like it. I like the taste of their coffee so much I didn’t finish drinking it inside the resto but instead brought it with me to the shops while I do grocery. Take note that it’s a Latte too–I’m never fond of Lattes. I wouldn’t mind buying their coffee from now on.

Chicken Spumante (Toscani’s, Parramatta)

Appetizer
Name a color you find soothing.

Light Blue.

Soup
Using 20 or less words, describe your first driving experience.

Empowering but you carry a very big responsibility–you and your passengers’ safety.

Salad
What material is your favorite item of clothing made out of?

Cotton.

Main Course
Who is a great singer or musician who, if they were to come to your town for a concert, you would spend the night outside waiting for tickets to see?

Lea Salonga

Dessert
What is the most frequent letter of the alphabet in your whole name (first, middle, maiden, last, etc.)?

A