It was very thoughtful of our neighbor, Mrs. Herrera, who lives across our house, to give us some parakeets * today for my nephew to appreciate. Really beautiful birds I must say. One's in the shade of blue and white and the other yellow and green. Very cheerful too! Don't have names for them yet...though m toying with the name Pico for one of them....

To start the persute of my passion of becoming a stylist/image maker/personal shopper (read:queer), I've been thinking of enrolling in make up school in HK. I know its not really necessary to know how to do make-up in order to become a stylist but here in the Philippines, a successful stylist is also a good make-up artist. Weird huh? Well, better safe than sorry right? It wouldn't hurt to have a degree in Make-up and styling. For all we know it may actually be put to good use in some unexpected situation in the future.

At the same time, I would have better advantage if my degree came from another country (of course, the country should be credible as a beauty central of some sort), especially with the mentality here of "if you get your degree from abroad, you must be good". It's sad but true that being credible also means getting experiences or coming from places abroad. They tend to be more of an advantage than disadvantage especially since the Philippines is not exactly know as some sort of a fashion capital in the world. So there....