prints & textures

top: Mango, tartan skirt: Zara; sandals: Payless shoes

Cocktails at Niner Ichi Nana with two of my buds, El Union Coffee's Kiddo Cosio and Uncle-of-the-year Sean Kobayashi. #goodtimes

tartan

tartan skirt: Zara; camisole: Asos (borrowed); pumps: Janilyn

Forgive me but, call it a 90s grunge thing (which i totally grew up to and love), an autumn trend thing or what, I am absolutely loving tartan right now. Wore this to the MTV Pinor (re)launch with my fellow athletes from Viva Sports Management.

my girls

"You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'."

- Jennifer Aniston

just because im being emo and thankful for the gift of girl friends ;)

my college peeps (l-r: a blurry Katsy, le me, Sui pea, Gel and Bop)

my Cathy

the wahines! (l-r: Cesca, Kim, Amy, Kagey, le me, Tin, Nina, Jam)

Cesca, Tin, Nina, Mia, Kim & Miguela

Tin & Lorraine

me, tin, ces, Nica, & Lor

visitors

A gloomy day at the construction site made brighter by these two little cuties! They made me miss my Skip! Maybe next time I'll bring my dog to keep me company at work...

nautical

shirt: Folded & Hung; shorts: Collezione; wedges: gift from my BFF Nina {on Kim: Tommy Hilfiger} -- photo from kimcamjones.blogspot.com

Last week, I was invited by my good friend Kim to attend the Spring 2013 Collection launch of Tommy Hilfiger in Manila. I brought my ever fashionable bro Enzo to the fete and we enjoyed some all american hors d'oeuvres, wine and music while watching the fashion show. Pretty good night i should say!

For the full story on this, check Kim's posts here and here. 

patchwork

dress: topshop; shoes: Sperry; bag: Chloe

my cousins from California were visiting for the holidays and I wanted to take them out in the city while they were here. And Nina wanted to do some last minute Christmas shopping and her cousins Kelly & Charlie tagged along. Thus the day dubbed Cousins Day Out. And of course we had our third musketeer Kim join us!

photo from Nina's instagram feed

courtside

I was invited by Nina to watch a PBA game last week since she got tickets from her friend/client Coach Luigi Trillo of the Alaska Milkmen.

And they weren't just tickets...courtside!! We were literally stepping onto the court. Haha I haven't watched a PBA game live in a long time so I was really excited :)

Nina, Isabel, JJ, Chef JP, Fabio, Gerard and Jed kept me company during and after the game :)

ran into Erika Padilla at the game and interviewd Fabio and G!

fun night in the city!

out & about

went out for dinner & some shopping with a bunch of chatty gals whom i absolutely love :)

#whatiwore F21 dress which i cut off the sleeves, Junk studio skull necklace

Tin & I with little Santi! :)

Lu|Lu's mexican steak with fries and truffle mac and 5-cheese :) who had a happy belly???

Kim, le me & Kage

Noey, Tin & Jam

#girlsNightOut

#wholesomeversion

After dinner we went for some drinks in Barcino and found these surfer boys. hahaha

photo from Jam's instagram feed

MSA Parties Rock!!

Last August 30, the Manila Surfers' Association hosted a party at The Balcony in Makati, mainly for membership signups and for the new member to meet and greet the oldies. :p

the MSA membership card

So what are the perks of becoming an MSA member? One, you get discounts in a lot of surf shops here in Manila (just present your card!). Two, medical insurance for surf related injuries (such as getting stitches from reef or fin cuts), and  three,I think even discounts at surf resorts in popular surf spots in the Philippines*!

*please verify with the MSA

And also you get invited to parties like these!!

(photos by Allen Aligam) :)

sign up sign up sign up

with NSanty being retarded as usual

Ava, Marco, Berta, Anna)

chef Mako seems to be pretty happy to be surrounded by these guapas :)

Buji, Gerard Sison and Mia

Beer drinking contest!!! Woohoo!! Go surfergirls!

hotdog sandwich eating contests

i dunno what happened here.

I'm surrounded by surfer/celebs! Actress Ana Abad Santos and Chef JP Anglo of Junior Master Chef Phils

And of course, as always, MSA parties are fun because we get to see our surfer friends fully clothed and because there's always a lot of surf stories, great music & boooooze!! 

to become a member of the MSA, click here.

scaling walls and stuff...

my friend Lorraine asked us last week if we wanted to join her for some indoor wall climbing action last week at the fort. I'm not new to this vertical challenge but the last time I went up a wall was maybe... 2003?? Hahaha almost 10 years ago! So I was definitely interested in trying indoor wall climbing again. And with much needed girl bonding time, what better way than hang out AND exercise too? :)

and my friend Kage coined the term

#socialclimbing

and so it is...

something to do when the surf is flat! :) cross training!

next week again ladies? 

one fine (sun)day

{disclaimer: long photo post :)}

Before the crazy weather started and cool (read, not rainy) afternoons were still present, my friends and I went for a run/skate/tambay on a Sunday. We drove to UP Diliman and ran a few rounds of the acad oval since it's closed to traffic on Sundays. A nice chill day, capped off by an impromptu dinner!

portraits and such by the awesome stealth photographer Charlie Gomez who joined us that day :)

Charlie

Nina of chandelierbythesea.blogspot.com showing us that flexibility is the key

Joncybabycakes (bananapancaketrail.com) served as our body guard.
THE ONLY GUY WOULD SKATE WEARING HIS PRADA SHOES.

we ran into our good friend interior designer James Razo also! No actually, he literally ran into us! Hahaha Nina and I were semi-panicking when this guy was charging towards us.

a little bit of stretching

I dunno what's funny...

#whatiwore

{nike free runs, leggings with zippers from people are people, ipod Nano nike + app!}

After, we wanted to go to Sogbu for dinner, but unfortunately they were closed that day! Pffft. So we decided to take our chance and went to Van Gogh is Bipolar along Maginhawa St. They're usually by reservation only but we were lucky that they were able to accommodate us!

chech out Van Gogh is Bipolar on facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/vgibipolar

Nina so pretty!!! chandelierbythesea.blogspot.com

BAM!

Joncy's angry bird

photos below are from nina's instagram feed. follow her! @nina_santamaria on instagram!

Till our next random Sunday out!