Odds & Ends

29 May

Read my blog post on beautiful Istanbul (day one!).

I just got home from a trip to Way Up North with ze gang: Nikki, Elle, Addi, Mai, TJ, Justin, and MJ. We were there to dip our toes into the famed climate of Baguio, to chubscout the local cuisine, to sniff around the evening ukay ukay, and to abuse Nikki’s amazing iPhone fisheye lens (all such photos here are hers). It was a chill and relaxing beginning to my Great Summer of Funemployment.

30 Mar

Last Monday, Chelsea and I celebrated our graduation. She had her lunch at Peking Garden at Greenbelt 5 while I had my dinner at Serendra. It was fun to show off our unemployed selves to our family and catch up with those who were visiting from the States. I wore heels from Charles & Keith and a dress from Azucar — gotta start my “adult” life as colorfully as possible.

26 Mar

Kitkat Pecson: double degree in AB Communication and BS Management, 2012 and a recipient of the Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts in Graphic Design! It feels good to declare it — after five years and four summers, I finally graduated yesterday! I’m very grateful to my family, friends, and partners in crime for all their love and support. I really couldn’t have done it without them. Imagine all those sleepless nights and cups of coffee drained without accompanying heart-to-hearts, lunch dates, eye-widening conversations, panicky midnight texts/calls, and funky photos. I’m also very grateful to Ateneo for a most kickass college experience. From the freshie orientation seminar to being Creative Director of LFC and Executive Creative Director of Aegis 2012, my professors who demanded 110% and my peers who encouraged me to color outside the lines, all the basketball games and bonfires, and all the enlightening lectures and oral exams, it has been one heck of a ride.

Ateneo split the commencement exercises in half: the School of Management and the School of Science and Engineering on Friday and the School of Social Sciences and the School of Humanities on Saturday. I chose to graduate with SOSS because I’ll always be a Comm girl at heart. My sister/cousin/BBG and my Lit major friends also graduated on the same day, so I had crazy people to share the experience with.

I also like to think that I looked pretty fierce and ready to conquer the world! I bought a little black dress from Mango and a dramatic shoulder accessory from K8LA. My shoes were from Charles & Keith. Chels arrived in a one-shoulder nude piece and she looked fabulous. It was a pretty day for the Pecsons.

20 Mar

I had a Skype date with Rieg and because we’re so mature, we had a moustache showdown. I confess that she pulls the look off better. It must be her background in theatre. Anyway, see the time stamps? Whenever we go online, we always chide each other because we “have only five minutes to Skype, fo srs kthanks”. Then it morphs into a 3-hour cyberdate, with one of us blearily blinking at the dawn and the other munching on lunch. That’s how best friends roll.

15 Jan

Matthew, Hipster-in-Training

This is Matthew, my baby cousin. He’s 1/3 of a set of triplets and this week was his first time to be without them (doctor’s appointment, see). He’s also a hipster-in-training!

Taking Pictures Of Food 101 (He started doing this without any cue from us)

I also let him have a go on my iPad. This is his beautiful drawing:

What he did was make grids and then meticulously color everything in. I do believe his obliteration of lines and borders is a commentary on the lack of privacy in a tech-savvy modern society.

He gets it from his ate, of course.

(Source: kitkatpecson)

14 Jan

Here are mixed highlights from T-Project’s two-day bazaar at the Ateneo A-Fair.

The Brian Tenorio liked our designs! (Shirts designed by me, Kasey Albano, and Rob Cham). I’m just annoyed that I wasn’t there in person when he passed by the booth. Sayang! But thank you for the shoutout, sir!

Nautical shirts by me. And that’s my first ever watercolor painting.

Ina (who is part of the softball varsity!) passed by the booth.

You can see all of the T-Project photos (you might be there!) here.

This is my snow globe from the Kennedy Space Center. I like how it looks like it’s launching when you shake the globe.

There was a booth for dunking your professors. They were raising money for beneficiaries.

I took a break to take some photos of Ateneo’s attempt to set a new world record for a unity dance. About 300 people did the shuffle for five minutes!

All in all, I was quite beat last night but it was a fun two days.

2 Dec

Last weekend, I went on a rather spontaneous road trip to Naga with my friends Addi and Marvi. We had to do a business audit so we decided to report on my family’s restaurant business in Naga. I quite literally just rang up my grandparents to let them know we were going and on Saturday the three of us were in my sedan and off for the 7-hour car drive.

Although the Philippines is a small country, traveling to the various provinces takes hours because the highways are two-lane only and snake around islands, mountains, and forests. Cars, trucks, jeeps, and tricycles play hopscotch with each other and road constructions entail hour-long delays. Still, I find the ride enjoyable because the Philippine countryside is quite beautiful — look out the window and you’ll see rice fields, hills, and trees skim by. If you look closely, you can pick apart the different textures and shades of green and it’s refreshing to the eyes of a city girl.

Naga is slowly developing but it’s still a rather laid back and pleasant provincial city.