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February 20, 2010 at 9:30 pm | Filed under camwhorage, the helga manual
A few days ago, Lauren wrote about her new signature scent and I thought I’d follow suit even though I don’t exactly have one. I’ve never really been particular about the perfume I use, so long as it doesn’t make me smell like a matrona (the only matrona I like on me would be my hair and I’m still searching for that perfect, non-burgundy shade of matrona red) or smell cheap.
There are particular scents I stay away from, like Avon’s Sweet Honesty (which is something I imagine titas from the 90s would wear), herbench body sprays (which is the crap I used to wear in high school, heh), and this Kris Aquino for bench perfume/cologne that I smell on every other girl I ride with on the MRT.
I don’t spend much on perfume, either, and the four (well five because I have two of one) bottles I currently have were all given to me. My relatives from the US love giving/sending us lotion and body sprays for gifts and it’s very much appreciated.
The four scents I use:
From left to right: Paul Smith Rose, Harajuku Lovers Love, Ralph Lauren Lauren Style, Bath & Body Works Sea Island Cotton.
Bigger photo of the kawaii Harajuku perfume topper:
Out of the four, I obviously use Sea Island Cotton the most, as it is my day perfume. I just love how clean and powdery it smells, like fresh beach resort linen. Sometimes, I start with a few spritzes of Rose and then just spray on Sea Island Cotton later in the day. I use Lauren Style when I go out at night. Love smells a lot like Rose; Fragrance X describes this (Love) as:
a playful perfume bursting with exotic scents. The top notes include sparkling bergamot, pink pomelo, peach, and bamboo leaf mist, the middle notes include water peony, living hydroponic lace rose, jasmine sambac, nectarine, creamy paperwhites, and egyptian jasmine, and the bottom notes include ylang ylang, vanilla orchid, sensual musk, and blonde wood.
That’s a lot of scents! Perhaps I’m boring but if I didn’t own a bottle of that, I wouldn’t even be able to imagine how all those combined would smell like, heh.
My all-time favorite scent would still be Elizabeth Arden’s Green Tea (or anything green tea!). I love it like I love the best diet pills in town!
What about you guys, what perfume, spray, or cologne do you use?
January 13, 2010 at 4:16 pm | Filed under memes and such, the helga manual
Came across this while looking up info on orlando resorts (the internet is weird, I know).
You are Gold Cheetah, who possesses feminine attraction under your bold and youthful attitude.
You are very modern up-to-date woman.
Unlike your kindly appearance, you tend to be short tempered and rather too sensitive and sharp.
You are really a clear-cut type of person, and can be hard minded.
When young, you will go straight to whatever you are aimed at, and therefore you may experience clash of ideas with your parents.
You hate compromising, and may wish to quickly leave home and live on your own.
Once you have set an objective, you will put in your maximum effort to achieve the goal.
You will also use anything to get what you want, and this may seem rather attractive and cute to others.
In ordinary every day life, you can differentiate your ideals and reality.
You tend to think hard about interests and calculation.
You are a quick minded person, and therefore can carry out things cheerfully.
You are very humane, easy to get on with, and honest.
Your characteristic is that you look very logical sort of person at first.
Your realistic personality is better suited to stay working rather than to become a housewife.
You will be able to keep both your career and your family.
If you stay just as a house wife, you can be rather too strict on education, and become a nagging mother.
Cheetahs Characteristics and Profile:
1. Cheetahs are challengers who know when to quit
2. Cheetahs like to win outright
3. Cheetahs are extremely positive thinkers
4. Cheetahs want to succeed more than most
5. Cheetahs have a lot of pride
6. Cheetahs are curious and like to try new things
7. Cheetahs talk big and act big
8. Cheetahs like to look cool in front of others
9. Cheetahs jump to conclusions but are well-meaning
10. For some reason, a lot of people with the Cheetah character like barbecued beef
#10 kind of puzzles me.
Find out yours here.
January 7, 2010 at 3:53 pm | Filed under lists, the helga manual
AKA a bunch of ~New Year’s Resolutions~ I may or may not keep because I may or may not be a believer of resolutions.
1. Go blonde. Or at least get blonde highlights. The boyfriend replied with a violent NO! when I told him this. Someone’s just gotta deal.
2. Eliminate one kind of meat from my diet. Fish does not count (I barely eat fish anyway plus I can never live without sashimi/sushi), I’m never going to cut out chicken, pork is too accessible… so. Beef it is. Bye bye beef, 2010.
3. That said, only eat chicken hot dogs.
4. Stop obsessing about my weight. It seems like every damn year, I aim to lose weight/whittle my weight down to 105 pounds. I’m turning 25 this year and that has got to stop. Ever since the boyfriend and I got together, I’ve become more appreciative of my body but I still have days when I could pass for someone with BDD. Enough.
5. Take more photos and put to good use the camera I won from fizzer.ph aka Baby Girl. A few photos I’ve taken:
LOLJK, I didn’t take that last one.
I’m learning, I’m learning.
6. Blog more here. I’m on Tumblr everyday because it’s easier to clutter that place with short, random, and stupid stuff. Now that I’m done with my Project365, maybe I’ll have time to get back to blogging.
7. I will spend more time with my family. I had such a blast with them over the holidays and I just realized how much I missed all my relatives. I barely saw any of them the past couple of years, always feigning being too busy whenever one of them had a birthday or a party (I was really just nursing a very bad hangover from the previous night and couldn’t be bothered to shower, get dressed, and travel from Point A to Point B only to get drunk again). That’s gotta change.
8. Stop biting my nails. Very unlikely.
9. Stop coming to work hungover. This roughly translates to: stop drinking so much on weeknights.
10. Learn to cook at least one soupy dish. I’m thinking tinola.
11. Wear slippers during the commute to work. Save my feet and my pretty shoesies the stress since I walk A LOT (and barely wear sneakers). Perhaps not everyday, just every now and then.
12. Work out once a week. I used to be able to work out 3-5 times a week and it’s true that once you stop and break your momentum, it gets harder to get back into it. I usually work out when I get home from work at night (I’m too bleary in the morning) which is pretty late so maybe I can work out on weekends. I’m just blabbering here (so I won’t forget) because I’m the only one who reads everything written in this blog. Kohler faucets are pretty.
13. Start my days earlier. THIS IS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO DO but I’m putting this here anyway. No pressure, Helga. Really.
14. Save up for something big. I don’t even know what, but it’s nice to have a goal, no matter how hazy-bordering-on-unknown lol.
December 8, 2009 at 6:33 pm | Filed under lists, the helga manual
I got this from Alex who got it from another friend of hers. I have been meaning to write this list for a couple of weeks now, hoping for some help from the boyfriend (lord knows I find excuses for my flaws that I am aware of) but he apparently can’t think of five reasons not to date me. Or perhaps his ignoring my question was just his way of not breaking me like a stack of dainty glass tiles, heh. Anyhoots:
1. I am incredibly needy and clingy, like Bella Cullen. Oh yes, I just compared myself to one of the most annoying characters to have ever been written. It’s all true, too.
2. I smoke and drink a lot and it’s going to be a hard habit to quit (which I will get around to, eventually. I’ve managed to cut down a little on both, though, so yay me). I say this because the boyfriend doesn’t smoke and only drinks occasionally. If he didn’t love me, I’d say this would make me undateable to him hrhrhrhr.
3. I am very visible online. But then, if you’re not okay with me blogging about you, I wouldn’t want to date you.
4. I don’t go to church, I avoid family gatherings, I sometimes hold kittens in higher regard than some/most humans. And I know this is such an overused adjective, but I am kinda very moody. Sometimes, it feels like perpetual PMS.
5. I have crazy friends.
November 21, 2009 at 5:35 pm | Filed under camwhorage, the helga manual
Being the vain creature that I am, I have always liked taking photos of myself but only until recently (when I started my Project 365) did I learn to stop making stupid faces at the camera (always scrunching my face in an attempt to wink, doing the Zoolander pout which was really big when I was in college, the kawaii sign, covering my mouth with my hand to pretend I was shocked etc etc). Reviewing my photos, I noticed that I always shot from the top, making my forehead look like an inflated balloon. I also had this very annoying cutesy smile that made me look like a bunny. I truly do not know what I was thinking.
I have this habit of online spring cleaning: every few months or so, I go through the archives of active online accounts and privatize possibly incriminating and/or embarrassing entries or photos. I did it to my old Livejournal (just in case there are people wondering where the juicy selloutgirl entries are), my Multiply, and even my Flickr. Good move, really, because good lord, I used to be really really ugly (by my own standards and compared to how I look now, mind you). Someone tweeted me a while ago saying that he scanned my Project 365 and noticed that I’ve changed since Day One, that I’ve bloomed. That prompted me to dig through my Photobucket and Multiply and sweet Jesus, I looked really lulzy. I’m glad I grew up (heh). I picked out some photos to show you guys, take a look!
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Hi, my name's Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 24. My first socio-political scandal will happen at the age of 35 and will include men, sushi, an African country, and lots of money. My lover is the greatest. 
