CRAFTS/BOOKS/ART/OBSESSIONS

• ✔ Try air-dry clay
• ✔ Try modular origami by my lonesome, without asking for help (The Sonobe cube)
• ✔ Check out Pinto Art Museum
• ✔ Try Art Attack products
• ✔ Create my own scent for our diffuser
• ✔ Get featured in a broadsheet for my washi creations!
• ✔ Make handmade decor for Day's BB shower party
• ✔ Papel picado
• ✔ Received a review proposal for a new book from denmark
• ✔ Received a book launch invite like a real book blogger
• ✔ Collab with book-loving friends
• ✔ Learn the uke on my own
• ✔ Play an entire song in my uke without looking at the uke
• ✔ Jam with the gf with the uke
• ✔ Make my own jam! Chili Strawberry Basil
• ✔ Make my own solid perfume: Olive-Tangerine-Mint
• ✔ Attend Art Fair Phils. 2013
• ✔ Do papercuts with my own illustration, then do a freestyle one.
• ✔ Create handmade decor for a baby shower
• ✔ Create handmade boat origami tags for the baby shower
• ✔ Attend a baby shower
• ✔ Attend a Dr.Sketchy Alice-themed sketchmob event
• ✔ Join Ukulele Manila
• ✔ Draw on the streets using chalk at the Fort
• ✔ Fix decor for baby shower
• ✔ Create a handmade papercut of blog logo/banner
• ✔ Create a series of artworks (Dream sisters)
• ✔ Create a panda bento box for her and a strawberry one for me
• ✔ Try intaglio printing using an old cd c/o Serj Bumatay's tutorial
• ✔ Do a 3d papercut
• ✔ Do a hollow book surprise
• ✔ Wet on wet watercolor freestyle
• ✔ Finally start that mixed media book
• ✔ Buy my uke a soft case
• ✔ Buy a kalimba and play it
• ✔ Play a gamelan
• ✔ Watch plane takeoff and land
• ✔ Read Hello Sandwich book
• ✔ Receive surprise books through snailmail <3
• ✔ Experience that Takeshi's Castle thang
• ✔ Ride a bemo in Bali
• ✔ Experience silversmithing
• ✔ Pound coffee beans oldschool way
• ✔ Swim in Padang Padang Eat Pray Love beach
• ✔ Go commando!
• ✔ Speak Balinese to the Balinese
• ✔ Try lontar-palm etching
• ✔ Learn about wet on wet, watercolor from Tippy
• ✔ Receive Valerie Chua postcards
• ✔ Try hand-printing, using leaves and flowers with markers
• ✔ Try linocut
• ✔ Try making glue rubber for papercutting/rubberstamping
• ✔ Decorate home and workstation with flowers (statis in washi'd bottles!)
• ✔ Have a small musical studio with my guitar, uke, kalimba, harmonica
• ✔ Try basic printmaking with PAP
• ✔ Try ikebana
• ✔ Visit that library in the street
• ✔ Read and own books by hellosandwich
• ✔ Make yoghurt from scratch
• ✔ Make a felt toy (stuffed cake)
• ✔ Join a watercolor crafternoon
• ✔ Join Fernando Sena's art classes
• ✔ Learn about shading, drawing with markers, pastels
• ✔ Make a rubbercut with a rubber sole, hand printing
• ✔ Hand color with watercolors
• ✔ Check out Ronac Art Center
• ✔ Make a landscape painting out of pastel
• ✔ Make a portrait drawing of my mom and dad
• ✔ Buy myself mint pens (mmm mint Stabilo)
• ✔ Try Vinyasa yoga at BlissYogaManila (try yoga in a studio!)
• ✔ Paint using oil pastels in a huge board (15x20)
• ✔ Paint using tempera technique, watercolor
• ✔ Make an abstract painting using pastels
• ✔ Have classitex
• ✔ Be personally recommended to sell handmade crafts (twice)
• ✔ Create pastillas wrapper art
• ✔ Create a galaxy in felt paper using pastels
• ✔ Attend art workshop graduation
• ✔ Exhibit my "artwork" in an art "exhibit"
• ✔ Receive three medals for the art workshop: Most outstanding student, best in costume, best in group work
• ✔ Teach arts and crafts to kids (Je's pamangkins)
• ✔ Be the chosen leader for my art class haha
• ✔ Be told my art isn't bad by legit artists I idolize (Mark Salvatus! That indonesian artist!)
• ✔ Get recommended by a friend to design artwork for a store (Camille, Allie's friend)
• ✔ Be a dj for Jea's road trip ride
• ✔ Earn a certificate of completion with distinction for my online Art course (coursera)
• ✔ Get myself teal markers from Art Friend
• ✔ Pet chestnut from cat socrates
• ✔ Organize arts/crafts materials
• ✔ Give my books/art materials and stuff away
• ✔ Buy matboards
• ✔ Try and make my very own travel palette using airdryclay and altoids tin
• ✔ Start an online magazine: KATHA!
• ✔ Have my mixtape appreciated by a lot of people
• ✔ Have an offer to be a dj at Sidebar El Pueblo
• ✔ Sing my Fries song with gf jamming on the uke over IG
• ✔ Try a massage from hi-tech massage chair in mall, complete with inversion
• ✔ Make a video for my washi collage in instagram
• ✔ Punch holes in my belt c/o Mr. Quickie
• ✔ National Museum
• ✔ Spoliarium
• ✔ Check out Paper Popup
• ✔ Befriend my idols Kuya Robert KF
• ✔ Have fans of Katha Mag from abroad
• ✔ Be asked if Katha needed interns hehe
• ✔ Be asked if Katha can sponsor a student event
• ✔ Be asked if Katha can give tips
• ✔ Run in Inq 3K with Kate, run in the rain
• ✔ Cook using induction (last sale, sale in SM thanks Universe)
• ✔ Swim after running
• ✔ Fall asleep on my yoga mat
• ✔ Create customized merbirds (TnS birds, a portrait)
• ✔ Join the MuniPH X moonleaf event for Katha
• ✔ Art drive for Yolanda kids
• ✔ Appear on TV for Katha! :)
• ✔ Give Metric customized art, have Emily Haines ask me if my merbird is "breathing underwater"

FRIENDS/LOVE

• ✔ Cook dinner together, with her actually cooking not just prepping ingredients :)
• ✔ Be brave enough to organize a crafty meetup with my idol crafters
• ✔ Received autographed komiks from an idol
• ✔ Collab with crafty friends
• ✔ Be part of the crafty team for a major craft event
• ✔ Check-in at Berjaya hotel, Makati
• ✔ Witness a lion dance at Berjaya hotel
• ✔ See more than 10 fireworks go off at the same time, Kung Hei Fat Choi!
• ✔ Receive a portrait done by an officemate's kid
• ✔ Make a mashup in my uke with the gf: One Day and No Woman No Cry and I'm Yours
• ✔ Make handstamped mini Vday cards for officemates and friends
• ✔ Receive a nice arrangement of carnation, chocolates and sparkly glitter from officemate
• ✔ Dream about something (talking to Smart peeps about them fixing my instagram) and having it happen the moment I wake up
• ✔ Send someone a parcel for Vday!
• ✔ Meetup with Apol to buy an autographed comic
• ✔ Watch Stars live! Meet and Greet, tell them I've been waiting for them for more than ten years
• ✔ Have stitches for my dental surgery. COURAGE!
• ✔ Mallhopping! Podium, Megamall, Rockwell
• ✔ Talk to French tourists at the beach
• ✔ Befriend granny and gramps from Canada
• ✔ Befriend people from Perth
• ✔ TWYK with Tippy, Ali, Aya, Richelle, Jeannie
• ✔ Artist interviews for my blog
• ✔ Meet and learn from the Great Fernando Sena
• ✔ Learn about is-is plant and local patchouli kadling
• ✔ Attend Wanderland 2013!
• ✔ Have my wallet back after thinking it's lost already
• ✔ Watch Nada Surf, Neon Trees and Temper Trap perform live!
• ✔ Experience a velcro wall
• ✔ Rip off my stockings in public
• ✔ Experience a bouncy castle
• ✔ Art sesh/Art appreciation sesh with Kesh at her pad
• ✔ Join Coursera's art course
• ✔ Book online hotel, backpacking! SOLO!
• ✔ Check out SM Aura
• ✔ Join a bookbinding workshop at 98b
• ✔ Check out 98b
• ✔ Check out Relik, dance with the gf
• ✔ Teach a friend rubberstamp-making
• ✔ Meet up with Niki and Patricia in SG
• ✔ Actually text using roaming
• ✔ Befriend people from Holland, Finland (Katja, Rik and Dave)
• ✔ Pet a white chow-chow pup
• ✔ Draw a pastel portrait
• ✔ Try fliptop with the gf (Para kang troll, lagi kang nangii-smol)
• ✔ Try beatboxing
• ✔ Be surprised by Tita Joy coming home!
• ✔ Taal Vista Hotel Tagaytay
• ✔ Artesania, first fair at BGC, manned Katha booth,
• ✔ First rubbercut commissioned stamp in exchange for MT tape!
• ✔ Be gifted a panda instax from Kate!
• ✔ Have our pseudo-daughter meet each other in Saguijo
• ✔ Watch TNS tribute at Saguijo
• ✔ Make friends with Kuya Robert <3
• ✔ Sing in front of vid, play uke for IG
• ✔ Own a basil plant, a succulent plant, an oregano and a rubber plant
• ✔ Have a legit housewarming
• ✔ Have Katha featured in Yahoo SE Asia, the possibility of being on tv, GoodHousekeeping
• ✔ Be asked to be an artist of the week because of my merbirds
• ✔ Have shoot in condo-it's famous now!
• ✔ Have me demonstrate my craft in tv, have me appear on tv, solar daybreak
• ✔ Create a happy crafter's creed
• ✔ Fall in line for a long time for TnS
• ✔ Hug Tegan and Sara, give them my art
• ✔ Have my art appear in the instagram of TnS
• ✔ Meet lovely new friends from TnS PH group
• ✔ Sing with uke in public
• ✔ Viber with Kate in Poland
• ✔ Watch gig at Saguijo discover new fave bands: Hanacbd, The Fridays
• ✔ Hangout with Carina/Karen/Evee/Lols/Jaff for Metric concert
• ✔ Touch her when she comes down from stage, get gold glitter from her in our hands, hug Emily Haines twice, give her my fanart merbird, have her ask me if "it's breathing underwater", have her fold it, placed in her butt pocket, talk to her about Live It Out, tell her it's my fave, have her tell me it's my fave too, clutch the setlist for some time
• ✔ Have photos with Metric members, hug them, get their autographs
• ✔ Pride March 2013, wearing Tegan and Sara masks
• ✔ Befriend Flying Ipis (Deng!)

TRAVEL

• ✔ Party at Almi's place, Batangas
• ✔ Chill at Jo and Cois's place, The Fort, balcony wind is awesome
• ✔ Bali!
• ✔ Get a massage in Bali
• ✔ Baler
• ✔ Surf at Baler, even with my period
• ✔ Ten years, Multiple entries, US VISA!!! Thank you, Universe!!!! :) <3
• ✔ Check out Subic with Kate and the ates
• ✔ Check out SG by myself
• ✔ Check in at a hostel
• ✔ Live in a new hotel-like condo with a pool

FOOD

• ✔ Crescent Moon
• ✔ Pomegranate yoghurt
• ✔ Cook Chicken Binakol with buko and tanglad (NOM!)
• ✔ Cook ginisang sayote
• ✔ Eat muscovado pudding (nom!) and earl grey macaron at chez karine
• ✔ Eat truffle pizza and stella salad at Stella
• ✔ Eat Jollibee Tuna Pie
• ✔ Eat Carmen's Best Salted Caramel ice cream
• ✔ Eat at Echo Store
• ✔ Eat at Chez Karine (muscovado pudding, earl grey milk tea pudding, strawberry panna cotta)
• ✔ Drink Wintermelon milk tea from Chowking
• ✔ Drink plain milk tea from Moonleaf
• ✔ Eat Red Ribbon brazo
• ✔ Eat tempura oysters from Pino
• ✔ Cook ginataang kalabasa, my fave!
• ✔ Taste that Kewpie Sesame Soy sauce
• ✔ Eat at Madeca
• ✔ Try Sebastian's Ice Cream: Green mango and bagoong, cookie dough, salted caramel, sapin-sapin, champorado, blue cheese
• ✔ Try Iya's cupcakes, Php25, red velvet
• ✔ Try Merry Moo, salted duck egg, roast pork ice cream, horlicks
• ✔ That tofu salad from Wild Ginger
• ✔ Try Speculoos crunchy
• ✔ Try TWG Canele and madeleine
• ✔ Drink TWG Lover's Tea
• ✔ Try all flavors at Bono gelato
• ✔ Drink kopi luak
• ✔ Drink coconut coffee
• ✔ Eat Tim Tams strawberry
• ✔ Eat authentic suckling pig and fried duck at Bali
• ✔ Eat authentic nasi goreng, ayam goreng, beef rendang at Bali
• ✔ Try Mochi Japanese cream (blech)
• ✔ Try eating at TWG: Canele, macarons, madeleines, tea jelly and clotted cream with lover's tea
• ✔ Try dulce leches cupcake
• ✔ Try preserved apple and grape chips
• ✔ Eat at PF Chang's
• ✔ Eat tsukemen at Mitsuyado sei-men
• ✔ Play a whole song (mashups even!) on my uke
• ✔ Learn about printmaking with the PAP
• ✔ Learn about art with THE Fernando Sena
• ✔ Join Alessa's watercolor workshop
• ✔ Experience making art using nature prints
• ✔ Monotype, Drypoint, collagraph!
• ✔ Shading, pastels, pentel pen drawings
• ✔ Try TWG french earl grey tea
• ✔ Try a chocolate souffle!
• ✔ Eat at Lu Gang
• ✔ Eat at Dong Won resto
• ✔ Eat durian ice cream
• ✔ Eat Magnum Gold?!
• ✔ Eat at Ramen X
• ✔ Eat cold soba from Family Mart
• ✔ Eat red velvet cupcakes and peppermint patty cupcakes from Cupcakes by Sonya
• ✔ Eat Manchego cheese
• ✔ Drink guyabano mojito from Madeca
• ✔ Drink razzmatazz from Jamba Juice
• ✔ Try truffle fries from Brgr Project
• ✔ Try rootbeer float from Brgr Project
• ✔ Cook chicken asado using leftover roast chicken (chop onions, garlic, shred chicken, place olive oil and chopped onions inside rice cooker, squeeze around 7 calamansis atop shredded chicken, place chicken inside cooker, lowsodium soy with two more calamansi inside, a bit of honey. YUM!)
• ✔ Eat at Spring by Ha Yuan
• ✔ Eat at Charlie's Grind and Grill
• ✔ Peel an orange in one strip using hands
• ✔ Cook citrus bacon pancakes with honey and salt
• ✔ Eat ginataang santol
• ✔ Drink French Earl Grey Tea from TWG
• ✔ Eat at Wooden Spoon Katips
• ✔ Eat at Escolta Ice cream shop and snack (mint choco chip, adobo, taste test)
• ✔ Eat Nayna's salted caramel sauce
• ✔ Eat a buckham pear/Australian pear
• ✔ cook chicken curry
• ✔ Eat at Red Crab, buffet
• ✔ Try Magnolia's Honeycomb and Kesong Puti ice cream
• ✔ Eat at changi, eat at teresita's halo-halo
• ✔ Eat at Hooters
• ✔ Eat at Maple
• ✔ Eat at Texas Joes
• ✔ Eat at Meat club
• ✔ Eat at Namnam
• ✔ Eat at Cibo: Lamb, truffle pasta, caviar/salmon pasta
• ✔ Cook mom-style adobo
• ✔ Cook sunny side up maalasado
• ✔ Eat Fontina cheese
• ✔ Eat radishes, raw, with butter and salt
• ✔ Eat Brie de meaux (stinky!) with honey
• ✔ Drink that gross ginseng drink--or PEI PA KOA
• ✔ Eat duck rice from SG
• ✔ Eat fancy mushroom risotto with bacon and truffle oil
• ✔ Drink Milk tea from koi (ice cream milk tea with pearls)
• ✔ Eat a Singapura special at Mcdo: Beef Rendang burger, curry fries, rose mcfizz)
• ✔ Eat hot almond paste, cold aloe vera jelly with honey lemon, cold lemongrass jelly with aloe vera
• ✔ Eat at Quick Snack Carvajal-- lumpia, oyster in tausi
• ✔ Eat plum powder li hing mui with apples, indian mangoes
• ✔ Eat at Kuppa: Breakfast linguine, tapa, mochaccino, sberry cake, cristina pizza
• ✔ eat a fig!
• ✔ Eat at Wrong Ramen, tonkotsu
• ✔ Drink that Japanese cheesecake roasted milk tea with pearls
• ✔ Eat Gyudon at Jipan <3
• ✔ Eat at Gelatissimo: gelati: ricotta, pear and walnut, pannacotta and wild berries, caffe ristreto
• ✔ Eat Sukiyaki and Okonomiyaki at Jipan
• ✔ Eat Alagao salad at Crescent Moon
• ✔ Eat Beef Teriyaki set meal at Jipan
• ✔ Eat Japanese cheesecake from Jipan
• ✔ Eat Ramen from Chopstix
• ✔ Eat at La Creperie, Shang
• ✔ Eat at that ramen place in Shang
• ✔ Taste Salted Caramel Ice cream from Nestle
• ✔ Taste Salted Caramel ice cream from Ritual
• ✔ Taste Salted Caramel cupcake from Sophie's Mom (EEYUCK)
• ✔ Eat at 8065 Coffeeshop
• ✔ Eat at Wooden Spoon Rockwell
• ✔ Try Bronuts
• ✔ Watch Made in Candy and get free samples yay
• ✔ Eat Lotus Biscoff
• ✔ Eat at that swanky Ramen Place at Glorietta--have roasted pork cheeks, gyoza, shio ramen. Nom
• ✔ Taste Cuppacakes J--My new fave cupcakes place
• ✔ Cobo Milk tea
• ✔ Salted caramel and red velvet brownie from Moonleaf
• ✔ Commune- too sweet :(
• ✔ Liver, century egg and tofu from Mann Yann
• ✔ risotto with porcini mushrooms
• ✔ risotto al tartufo
• ✔ lemon yoghurt, lemon peppermint qq at happy lemon
• ✔ a gantea wintermelon lemon (YUM)
• ✔ make my own wintermelon citrus cooler
• ✔ Taste calamansi curd with banana bread and mamon mmm
• ✔ Cook instant arrozcaldo
• ✔ Cook ampalaya with egg
• ✔ Eat chocolate taho
• ✔ Eat onion rings from Racks
• ✔ Eat at Brasas