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alyssadashrub-blog · 7 years ago

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Iced cafe mocha and iced coffee (so much caffeine tho, that's not healthy XD)

AAAHHHHH!!!! WHAT THE HECK!? ANOTHER!? I AM SHOOKETH!! Iced Cafe Mocha : Favorite thing to do on rainy daysOh! I absolutely loVE rainy days!! So freaking much!!!!!!! Sometimes I’ll climb on my bunk bed and just listen to it drumming on the tin roof a meter or so above me, sometimes I’ll sit on the veranda and take in the scent of the damp air, I love to sit outside when it’s storming too and watch the lightning over the mountains, sometimes I’ll open the fire and just let the warmth soak in (especially if we have a sick lamb and I’ve been outside)Mostly tho my favourite thing to do is to have a hot shower and stare out the window (we live on a farm in the middle of nowhere so no chance of peepers) it’s just... the feeling is wonderful Iced Coffee : Do you like reading? If so, what’s your favorite book?Oof! Yes I love reading! At the moment I’m in the middle of Jasper Joans, turtles all the way down and a huge book of Brother Grimm fairy talesTheir all really really good, but my favourite has to be ‘We Were Liars’ by E. Lockheart Man.. that book messed me up I swear, before I read it I could not give you my favourite �� but it definitely beats most other books I’ve read simply because I just made so much of an impactAlso honourable mentions include:Stolen - by Lucy Christopher The boy in the striped pyjamas - by Joan BoyneAnimal farm - by George OrwellEvery terry pratchet book in existence, like the wee free menEvery John grEEN book in existence!!The hunger games series The divergent seriesA thousand splendid suns - by khaled hosseiniAlso the silver brumby series!!The call of the wild - by jack londonBlack beauty- by Of course the Harry Potter series but I haven’t finished the books yet 😬😅And the original whinnie the phoo books!! Ugh my childhood!Also I’m going to start reading human acts - by han kang which looks amazingUgh and Percy Jackson!!And Skullduggery Pleasant I can’t think of more but these are really good and the list is so long anyway 😂😂😂

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jenikkaluna · 6 years ago

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Connext Holdings Presents The Miss Philippines Earth 2019 Beach Wear Competition

Amidst the rain and storm last June 28, 2019, Miss Philippines Earth (MPE) sponsor, Connext Holdings recently presented the Miss Philippines Earth 2019 Beach Wear Competition at Matrix Creations Events Venue still following this year’s theme, Blossoms of the Earth.

Each candidate presented themselves wearing their summer-themed dresses with their swimsuits underneath that made the audience feel warm and sunny despite the bad weather. But these girls are not all beauty, they all are surprisingly driven to promote their advocacies in helping protect and preserve the environment.

The presenter of the event, Connext Holdings is also an advocate of sustainable business practice and reaching out to provide insurance to every Filipino.

“This (event) is a dream come true for me and a promise that I was able to fulfill.” said the President of Connext Holdings, Mr. Jonathan L. Ramirez expounding how the event was all just a dream that’s starting to become reality as shown on an audio visual presentation of their latest barangay project in Valenzuela City, Metro Manila where one hundred (100) attendees were given means to earn and be insured at the same time.Jonathan Ramirez ended his speech saying,“Magtulong-tulong po tayo para protektahanang bawat Pilipino” which earned him a resounding applause from the audience.At the end of the competition, special awards were given to three (3) candidates: Face of the Night–ChelseaFernandez, Tacloban City; Darling of the Crowd–Janelle Tee, Pasig City and Best Advocacy–Maricres Castro, Muntinlupa City.

As sponsors of the pageant, Connext Holdings picked the top ten (10) candidates that best represents their advocacy and awarded each as a Connext Advocate. The winners were: Elmarie Dewara ofAltavas, Aklan; Mariafe Loayon of San Remigio, Cebu; Keena Mae Del Mar of Esperanza; Agusan del Sur; Janelle Tee of Pasig City; Chelsea Fernandez of Tacloban City; Shanon Tampon of Caloocan City; Maricres Castro of Muntinlupa City; Dani Acuña of Romblon, Romblon; Karen Nicole Piccio of Maasin, Iloilo; and AnaMonica Tan of Tagaloan, Misamis Oriental.

Miss Connext 2019 will be chosen from this top ten (10) list and will be announced on the coronation night of the Miss Philippines Earth 2019.The judges’ big winners of the night as best in beach wear were: Bronze–Janella Manuel of Valenzuela City,Silver–Emily Brumby of Tanauan, Leyte and the Gold medal was awarded to pageant veteran Chelsea Fernandez of Tacloban City. The coronation night will be held at The Cove in Okada, Manila on July 10, 2019at 3:00 PM to be able to utilize the natural light and not waste energy as explained by Carousel Productions Vice-President Lorraine Schuck in an interview.

Lastly, should you be interested in the services of and doing partnership with Connext Holdings, you may contact its subsidiary companies at the following:Connext Insurance Agency, Connext Philippines and Dialex Telemarketing–(02) 820 3345,Connext BizFranchising–(0977)633 7136, Xypher I.T. Solutions–facebook.com/xyphersolutionsph,Black Knight Logistics–(02) 820 3345 loc. 210,The Chamber Restaurant–(0916) 630 8076.

Connext Holdings is a conglomeration of different subsidiary companies (Connext Insurance Agency, Connext Philippines, Connext Biz, Xypher I.T. Solutions, Black Knight Logistics, The Chamber Restaurant and Dialex Telemarketing) rooting from its purpose of improving the lives of every Filipino wherever they may be.

#Connext #Connext Holdings #Insurance #Miss Philippines Earth #MPE #Connext Holdings Philippines #Insurance Agency #Pageant #Beach Wear Competition #2019

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thecinematichorse · 8 years ago

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Once there was a dark, stormy night in spring, when, deep down in their holes, the wombats knew not to come out, when the possums stayed quiet in their hollow limbs, when the great black flying phallangers that live in the mountain forests never stirred. On this night, Bel Bel, the cream brumby mare, gave birth to a colt foal, pale like herself, or paler, in that wild, black storm.

- “Born in the wild wind”, The Silver Brumby

#The Silver Brumby #The Silver Stallion #Bel Bel #gif

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kangaracharacha · 8 years ago

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Ice-cream asks: Cotton candy, strawberry, coffee, mint chocolate chip, toasted coconut, pistachio, salted caramel, birthday cake, moose tracks, orange sherbert, peanut butter, mocha, black cherry, chocolate marshmallow, toffee, dark chocolate, superman, cherry, dulce de leche, ginger, blueberry lemon, butterscotch, brownie batter, key lime, and green tea.

yooooo my evening’s gone to crap but this made me feel better so thanks :3 also I just answered them as myself I don’t have no energy for characters rn

cotton candy: three places you want to travel to?

germany, ireland, egypt

strawberry: a language you wish you could speak?

ehhhhhhhhh german I guess? mostly because I want to go work there at some point

coffee: favorite cosmetic brands?

none cause I don’t wear makeup everrrrr and I’m allergic to like everything to do with skincare

mint chocolate chip: indoors or outdoors?

outdoors

toasted coconut: the beach or the pool?

beach? neither cause I can’t swim

pistachio: manga or anime?

neither, super not my thing (but it’s cool that other people like it everyone to their own stuff)

salted caramel: favorite movies?

oh gosh. Singing In The Rain is my favourite ever, it’s exactly what I need at every moment of my life. Also every Captain America movie. Moana was amazing. Guardians of the Galaxy (one and two). Apocalypse and dystopia movies, as long as they aren’t hardcore zombie thrillers - stuff like How I Live Now, War Of The Worlds, The Maze Runner trilogy (a bit scary tho that second movie is too much for me), uhhhh lots of other ones I can’t remember now. The Divergent series was way better as movies, I really like those but not the books. Also horse movies, even the shitty $4 ones, though the absolute best is Secretariat, and I’m gonna stop now because this is getting long (I could go on about movies forever tbh).

birthday cake: favorite books?

OH MAN. okay. so like, Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody is my great love (and everything else she’s written tbh). I grew up on Enid Blyton’s collective works and The Silver Brumby series by Elyne Mitchell. Artemis Fowl, Ranger’s Apprentice, Lionboy, Phantom Stallion. I’ve recently read The Darkest Minds and I’m really excited to finish that series sometime, and the Illuminae series is one of the most mindblowing things I’ve ever experienced. Some little books called Sun Catcher and The Boy With The Tiger’s Heart are favourites of mine. The Scorpio Races. And like movies, I love apocalypses - the Wool series by Hugh Howey comes to mind, and again, Obernewtyn (seriously someone read it I need to talk to people about it). I could go on and on but I won’t.

moose tracks: favorites for manga?

I don’t read manga, but I have forayed into the world of comic books with Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye run and the Old Man Logan series and I enjoyed those.

orange sherbet: favorites for anime?

I’ve only ever watched Vampire Knight, which was eh average, and like probably a bit of something else. I’m not into anime.

peanut butter: favorite academic subject?

The creative part of english. I used to enjoy math too, and I still do now that high school is over, but years 10-12 it got exponentially harder and I wasn’t interested in it at all (I like the money-related real world maths). But yeah, english. Art was alright too, except in year 12.

mocha: ideal weather conditions?

If I have to be outside, a sunny day and a cool breeze. My true love, however, is a thunderstorm in the middle of the day - a power-out, freezing cold, sit by the fireplace with a book kind of storm.

black cherry: four words that describe you?

sharp, withdrawn, imaginative, brave

chocolate marshmallow: favorite brands of candy?

sour straps of any kind. those teeny tiny jelly beans that explode in your mouth. killer pythons.

toffee: a card game that you're good at?

it’s a toss-up between uno and magic: the gathering. also occasionally cards against humanity.

superman: do you like sweaters?

so we don’t have sweaters in australia (or we don’t call them sweaters idk), but I do really love hoodies. like, a lot.

cherry: do you drink tea or coffee?

nope.

dulce de leche: an instrument you wish you could play?

harmonica. also, I would like to be able to play violin with more than mediocrity.

blackberry: have you ever laughed so hard you cried?

for sure. yesterday my family and i cried laughing because I made a horrible joke about my cat dying in my wardrobe (it was better than it sounds I swear)

ginger: a new feature you wish tumblr could have?

to be able to follow blogs with a specific one of my blogs. and then have like, a main feed, where everyone you’ve followed shows, and a feed for each blog. so like, I could follow marvel blogs with one blog and horse blogs with another blog and then when I want to just look at marvel I can just look at marvel and when I just want horses I can just look at horses and wehn I don’t give a shit what comes up I can go on the main feed and it doesn’t even matter.

blueberry lemon: favorite blogs?

@winter-is-ending, @puffandproud, @sunshineverse and @disruptedoriginal, @omg-hawkeye, @oneshot-twoshot-redshot-blueshot, @petite-madame, and more that I can’t think of right now

butterscotch: what color are your nails right now?

normal? no colour? idk

brownie batter: do you like sushi?

seafood and I are old enemies

key lime: where do you want to be right now?

right where I am

green tea: favorite flavors of ice cream?

chocolate, double chocolate, triple chocolate, chocolate with fudge

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rachelisnotatwork · 6 years ago

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Week 8: in which we get rained on a lot and drop into NZ for the weekend

The week started...pretty grey and cold. We had a day to explore Alpine National Park, which thankfully has a lot of its big views visible from the car because it wasn’t very inspiring to get out of it. What all the tourism brochures neglected to mention about Alpine National Park (and in fact all of the Snowy Mountains region) is that there was a huge forest fire in 2003. This is part of the ecosystem etc, but it leaves a lot of Mountain Ash corpses sticking up, bleached white, above the brush. That plus the thick, grey cloud diminished the beauty of the view somewhat.

This was also the only time we’ve been at significant altitude in Australia. This meant snow (moderately exciting) but also high winds, which meant getting out even briefly at the viewpoints was somewhat unpleasant.

Since it was not actively raining when we reached the top, we decided to go on a walk from the weirdly named town of Dinner Plain. The walk was also fairly weirdly named; A Room with A View. The first thing we viewed was an enormous black snake, that was waiting patiently to cross the path in front of us. This was a bit surprising as there were patches of snow still around in the mountains and my limited understanding of snake biology is that they don’t like the cold. This one seemed pretty happy though. We think it was a red-bellied black snake, which is venomous, but only in a probably lifetime of miserable health complications after an ITU stay, rather than an instant death way like most Australian snakes.

The path was also really badly signed so we were quite pleased to find the eventual view point. The views were pretty good and from there we realised that we had done the circular walk the wrong way (there were actually arrows on trees but you could only see them from the other side). Did make it easier to find our way back though.

Our Airbnb had a tin roof and Marcel casually commented it would be nice to have heavy rain because he liked the sound of it. He probably regretted that statement, and I definitely did, when it teemed with rain overnight. The sound on the sloping tin roof, a few feet above our head, was not dissimilar I imagine to being stuck inside a coffee grinder. Not much sleep was had.

Alpine National Park is continuous with Kosciuszko National Park, which is just over the border in New South Wales. We had booked a night there, so headed out into the relentless rain the next morning.

Now Marcel was feeling rather guilty still about his corvid murder of the week before, and saw an opportunity to redeem himself. The rain had brought out a number of eastern long-necked turtles into the road, and every time we saw one Marcel would stop the car, turn around, drive back, get out in the pouring rain and move the turtle. He was feeling pretty good about this...until he drove over a magpie that decided to pay zero attention to the oncoming car.

I have always been keen on visiting the Snowy Mountains as they are home of the silver brumby in the Silver Brumby books I loved in my childhood. Unfortunately so thick was the mist and the heavy rain that we didn’t see much of it.

Weirdly though when we descended into our town for the night, East Jindabyne, the sun appeared. We decided to try a little walk in a low area of the park called Sawpit Creek.

It was beautifully sunny and there were lots of adorable wallabies around.

Feeling optimistic about the weather we decided to head back into the park...only to find if we went even a small distance up in altitude, the thick clouds and rain began again.

We abandoned it and headed to our airbnb for the night. A proper storm came on so we could watch lightening across the lake. That and the sad face of the random cat that appeared by our screen door. Now I know cats in Australia are terrible invasive predators...but this one was super cute. So we let it inside and fed it cheese.

The next day we had hoped the weather would be better locally so we could explore the mountains. It was not. Never mind we thought, we are driving to the coast where there are some beautiful beaches, the weather must be better there so we will just enjoy them for the day. The forecast for there was also teeming rain.

So in utter desperation for something to do to fill the rainy day...we headed for Canberra. Now Canberra is not the world’s most exciting capital. The National Museum there is pretty decent though. We ignored the opportunity to pay to see the visiting exhibit featuring “treasures of the British Museum” and instead went to the free galleries. Which whilst not particularly cohesive on the history of Australia featured cool things like a mummified Tasmanian Tiger head, a collection of glass eyes and spear heads made from wine bottles. It passed the afternoon well.

Fortunately the next day dawned gorgeous. After a week of pretty much solid rain it was blue skies and sunshine all around. Unfortunately we only had one hour to look at the best of the local beaches in Jervis Bay (we picked Hyams) before we had to head to Sydney.

After a run in with an annoying question talking parking warden, we finally made our way to Esther’s flat, dumped what must have been an alarming amount of stuff at hers and dropped our filthy car back at the airport (sorry Hertz).

We then headed back into town. Earlier in the day I’d been talking with Marcel about how Australia was fine for a visit but I didn’t like the population’s right-leaning stance and casual racism. He said he didn’t think they were that racist. As we walked by the harbour bridge through the botanical gardens, we found ourselves calling the police as a man screamed racist abuse at non-white tourists, spat in their faces and hit one of them. No joy there in being right. Also the police were extremely tardy on bothering to turn up despite the fact that area of town must have had a lot. Despite this we enjoyed a lovely dinner with Esther before heading back out to the airport for a night in an airport hotel.

The reasoning for this was that whilst we were in this part of the world we might as well “pop” to New Zealand. It is a 3 hour flight from Sydney to Auckland, but that is a lot fewer hours than it is from London and it is a lot cheaper.

So on Friday we headed off to New Zealand. After the customary lengthily grilling at the flight counter about onward flights (really tempted to ask how often people, with hand luggage only, who are citizens of a rainy island with so-so social benefits, illegally emigrate to other rainy islands with so-so social benefits) we headed off.

We arrived to find… it starting to rain. Luckily it held off for a bit that evening so that we could go to a night market and stuff ourselves full of weird food including bubble waffles with our hosts Anita and Pete.

The next morning it woke up...beautifully sunny. Which was unsettling as this is NZ and it likes to rain on us in NZ. I did however remember that New Zealand sun= basically like shoving your body into fire and slathered myself with factor 50 before heading out. We meandered in the warm sun down to a market for breakfast, on to a chapel on top of a hill (never realised before how hilly Auckland is. Too hilly is my brief conclusion) and then after meeting up with Kate, we wandered slowly along the sea front, stopping for drinks, before we got to a Breton galette place about 10km down the shore.

After stuffing ourselves, we waddled slowly back home. To find that no matter how thickly you slather on the suncream, NZ sun finds some way to chargrill you, and my forehead and patches around my neckline were pretty much maroon.

The next day we’d planned to go to a place called Piha beach. The weather forecast suggest it would be cloudy but wouldn’t rain there until the mid-afternoon. We had brunch. The sky gloomed ominously. We headed to the beach. It started to spit cold rain into our faces pretty much the second we arrived. I would have thought this was our standard NZ curse, but this was the second time the exact same thing had happened to Anita, so I think she was our Jonah of that trip.

When we got back to Auckland, Marcel and I decided to head over to Devonport, a little village suburb of Auckland that you can get to by ferry. We confirmed our suspicions that Anita was definitely the jinxed one when we enjoyed lovely sunshine all afternoon whilst a dark cloud glowered over Auckland.

In the evening, reunited, we headed out for Mexican, and then to an ice cream store called Giapo that did weird flavours. Now I thought you’d just go in and order your weird ice cream. But no. Instead you are admitted in your pair/group/alone to stand around a small table, whilst a server brings out a selection of their favourite ice creams for you to try and discusses each one. I imagine it similar to being at a wine tasting, only more socially awkward as none of us were expecting it and weren’t really sure how to praise ice cream in an appropriate manner. I did ended up going for one of the ones our server had introduced but I hadn’t thought of, guacemole with strawberries. The ice cream was delicious. The corn nacho crumb that it was coated in I was less keen on.

We ended up finishing the night (and the week) watching The Meg, a gloriously terrible Jason Statham shark movie, whilst all shouting at the screen. Hilarious fun and reminded me of long-ago weekends down in Dorset.

Ways I thought I might die in Australia this week: fairly minimal as the rain prevented us leaving the car much. Perhaps just an apoplexy of wrath from the rain refusing to shut up as it banged down on our tin roof earlier this week. Oh and falling off a steep mountain pass in our car. And getting bitten by a surprisingly cold-tolerant snake.

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