Poetic Isolation

Last week my sister bought 2 boxes of Magnolia Pancake Plus, I don't know what's with her because we don't usually cook pancakes at home although we love it.

Pancakes are eaten all over the world. You can even find a lot of pancake recipes around. Pancakes are a type of flat sweet bread enjoyed by different people of different culture.

Pancake recipes vary too, but all have the same basic ingredients of flour, eggs and milk. It's always up to you if you want to add any toppings, but surely pancakes are always enjoyable to eat especially if I'm the one who made it.

Today I will share to you how my sister and I made our Magnolia Chocolate Pancakes. We love Magnolia Pancake Mix because it produces aromatic and buttery results. Plus, they are also really affordable and easy to find in different supermarkets here in the Philippines. This recipe will also serve as a step-by-step guide for you if you haven't tried making one.

1. Prepare all ingredients and materials needed.

Ingredients:

One box of Magnolia Pancake plus ( contains a NO NEED TO SIFT powder mixture and a free Chocolate syrup.
One large egg (not necessarily needed but my sister wanted to add one so)
Cooking oil (if you want to go for a healthier option, you may use olive oil)
One-two cups of water

Cooking materials:

frying pan
one large bowl
whisk/fork

2. In a large bowl, mix the powder mixture with the egg and water. Blend it all together with a whisk or a fork until everything is just combined. Once the lumps are gone, you're ready to go.

3. Heat your frying pan to a medium low flame. This is important to avoid burning your pancakes. Then add small amount of cooking oil in your frying pan. Be sure to add small amount of cooking oil or a pat of butter so the pancakes won't stick.

4. Drop your desired amount of pancake mixture in the pan. Wait till the pancakes turn golden brown. Make sure both sides are cooked. Viola! Your pancake is done :)

5. Once your pancakes are cooked, you may now add you desired toppings. In our case, we added chocolate syrup as our toppings. It's included in the Magnolia Pancake Plus package.
Here's what our pancakes looked like:

This time, you may now enjoy your pancakes. I hope this post will help you if you're planning to make some. Pancakes are always simple and yummy.Plus, it's very affordable and easy to prepare. Let me know your favorite toppings and if you could, share to me your pancake recipes.

Thanks for reading!

love lots,

Tin

Note:This is not a Magnolia sponsored post. This is not even a food blog. I'm just sharing ;)

Hello everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.(though my Christmas greeting is late hehe) Thank so much for visiting my blog. I really appreciate it :) It's nice meeting you even though our meeting is "virtual" hehe. Cheers for more worthwhile post to come and I wish you all a long and happy life ;D

Now here's a note I kept to myself for a very long time. I don't remember where exactly I got this but I've saved my own copy. Credits to the owner! I'm not gonna copy somebody's work here, I just wanna share this note to you which I think is a worth reading now that a new year, a new beginning is ahead of us.

Everything is going to work out. Your dreams and hopes will find their place in this world.
Smile freely. Your smile lights up your face.Your smile is one easy way to make someone’s day.
It will get better. Give yourself and life time.
Your fears are only as powerful as you allow them to be. Don’t allow them to paralyze you from living your life.
I know you get lonely but that doesn’t mean you are alone. There are so many people who love and need you. Loneliness comes and goes. It won’t stay forever.
It’s okay not to be okay all the time.
Don’t be afraid of the work ahead of you. That’s how you learn, how you grow, and most importantly how you get to where you want to be.
Getting lost is how you get found.
Don’t be afraid to take detours.
Vulnerability is not weakness.

Your life doesn’t revolve around a man. Your story is one about love of self before any other kind of love. Please don’t forget that.
Your scars might not be physical but they are still there. They are a part of you. Reminders of internal battles you have won. Don’t ignore them or feel ashamed of them. They are a part of your story but they don’t define you.
You are beautiful. Really, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. I know some days you don’t feel beautiful but even then YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. Let yourself embrace your beauty. Don’t dampen it with negative thoughts or cruel words.
If you don’t believe in yourself, and I mean wholeheartedly believe in yourself no one else will. You’ve got to have that faith and confidence in who you are, what you want, and how you choose to live. You have to believe in yourself. Your dreams, your talents, and your hopes for this life you have.
Don’t just give good advice take it too. Teach and learn. Learn and teach.
Do the things you love because you love them. Nothing else matters. Not compliments, recognition, acknowledgement, fame, or fortune. All that matters is how the things you love make you feel. Don’t shape what you love to fit into other people’s idea of what it should be. You are the painter, the canvas, the muse, the paintbrush, and the paint. You have all the ingredients to create something of your own.
There are no bad days. Only bad moments.
Choose your attitude wisely.
Don’t limit your happiness. There is no definition of what it means to be happy. You decide what your happiness looks, feels, and sounds like. It’s up to you. It always has been.
You are imperfect and that is a beautiful thing. Stop trying to deny that.
Everything is not about you. Everything is not about them. Find a middle ground between those two extremes.
Life is a give and take relationship. I hope you give more than you take.
Everyone has to start at the beginning you are no exception.
You are not broken. You are not shattered. You are not a lost cause.
Your art matters. Whether it’s your poetry, stories, songs, or drawings they matter. You matter. No one has to tell you that for it to be the truth. Have faith in yourself and the things you do.
You are loved.
Don’t bottle your feelings inside.
You are more than good enough.
Don’t hide your sorrows.
Your life is meant to be lived.
Don’t be anyone other than you.
Take care of yourself. Mind, body, and soul.
Make time for yourself to do some self pampering.
Be the best version of you. The best you you can be.
Mistakes and failure are not things to be ashamed of. They are the catalysts of growth and wisdom.
You are the main character in your story, stop sitting on the sidelines.
Laugh without restraint.
Dream without worry.
Love yourself the way you want to be loved by others.
Breathe. In and out. Breathe.
This is your time. Be who you want to be.

Nobody can be really certain about the future. We will never be sure of what may come ahead. Some changes and challenges may come and those might be hard for us, but for me one thing is for sure, if you have the courage to keep going everything's gonna be alright. Somebody online once told me that problems/loneliness and all those negativity surrounding us are just like the shell of the turtles. They will never stay forever just like happiness. But if you think the world is too mad for you bear, then you gotta be smart enough for yourself. The note above is just another text to give us advice on how to deal life and to make it worthwhile. If you start losing your own conviction, then that's the end. Everything's always up to us.

Tin :)

Thank you for reading. Once again, Happy New Year!

photo by Roanne Rae

another adventure. another day, same sky, same friend, same feelings

Last Wednesday (Dec.19,2012) my best friend Love and I went to Sayaw Beach at Barili for a refreshing trip. It's somewhere in the southern part of Cebu. Somewhere very far from the City where I breathe.Went out of town to celebrate my last day of being a teenager together :D

so...but really, the reason why is because Love have this commitment with her co-majors to shoot their own game show as a project. She's taking up Communication Arts, it's one of her requirement. I also have this personal that I'm feeling so not well on that day and on the past few days. Let's just say my life had a very slow pacing. Need to get away was my drama.

Perfect timing for the start of our Christmas vacation.

At the bus...

Barili was farther than I expected. Around 2 hours from the City Terminal.

That's love dreaming lolx what a cutie, I took the pics.hehe

I don't really mind the long hours of travelling. The bus had its own music player ( the one that looked like a tv above). Most of the songs played are the songs on my Dad's playlist and some reggae.

I didn't only enjoy the ride and the long talks we had but also fooling around. Sorry if this is being mean. Love actually did warned me not to take photos of this couple behind us.But I did :D and I feel good.haha. Say hi to our disheveled hair *.<

Cheers for the both of us!

COOL DOWN:

Now this is what welcomed us when we stepped out of the bus:

An uneditted photo. As you can see the day isn't bright and the sky is gloomy. Exactly my type of weather :D

You have to get down that wide stairs to get into the beach. If you're still riding to reach the place you'd doubt if you're really going to a beach because all you see are in green :)

CATNIP:

A photo of the beach I took. Editted the exposure to make it look brighter but the truth is out there its sooo cold,windy (notice how the trees bend) and the waves are soooo high. (I'm not even exaggerating) that's probably one of the reason why you cannot see anyone swimming or even trolling in the shore.

Sayaw Beach is a catnip for cats who are hungry to waves,colds and unexpected adventure :)

but maybe that was the best part hehe another good thing about the beach is that once you get there, you'd feel like you owned a beach resort. It's so silent in there and we're the only ones who were making noises. Creepy?

While the comm. arts people are busy doing their own thing. I did took a hipster-ish photo of myself.LOL

Perfect jump shot for you <3 :=":" big="big" capture="capture" for="for" haha="haha" love="love" p="p" thanks="thanks" the="the" to="to">

Now how could we ever let the moment pass without having a photo for the both of us? hehe

Here's Love summing up all I feel --->FREE! *bow*

WORN OUT:

What I wore on our trip :) hehe

Nail Polish from Diffi. The color is Turtoise :) I really looked hard for this color and only found it in Diffi. It's actually a nail polish brand from Thailand. Can't even read the script at the back of the nail polish.lol. I think the color's pretty cool and it matched my shirt so well!!!

Aztec overload!!!!!!!! Wore my own DIY handprinted Aztec shorts

Know how here

Arm Candies!!!!!!!!

I love the pop of colors in my wrist :)

from Gold spikes to Colored Skulls

"love"

MAYAN:

It was already dusk when we decided to go home.

Love with an up close shot of her chinky eyes hehehe we both have chinky eyes but her eyes are smaller than mine. A co-major of hers did asked me once during our trip if we are sisters.lol.

Cool pic. , I'm the suicidal creature behind her wearing a blue printed dress.kidding.Not gonna end up killing myself as long as I have Love as my best friend #char