Earlier this month, we were invited by one of our professors in college to be his guest panelists for his Multimedia Portfolio class. I have heard about this, wherein you get invited to be a panelist for one of your college prof’s classes, from friends who have had the opportunity to be a guest panelist in the past. Based from their stories, the whole thing sounds pretty intimidating. Wouldn’t want my friends to judge my work, especially at this time that we’re all working professionals. Haha. Kidding, a bit. I mean, you do you, right? Different strokes for different folks.

Setting aside my overthinking, I thought that this is also, a good way to give back to the school. Hahaha! Prior to this, I had no idea they actually get previous students as panelists. Had I known about this, I might have been less nervous than how I acted when I was in the same situation years ago. I remember not sleeping most nights just so I can finish and perfect my portfolio then.

Giving the name a formal title of ‘MMA Consultant’ because the other title, while it doesn’t really have a proper name AFAIK, is too long for a post title and SEO purposes. 😛

Makeup has always been a strange thing to me. It’s also one of those things that I have a love-hate relationship with. I am also amazed whenever I come across people who are really good with it. The things you can do with all these products! Enhance your looks, completely change your look, be a different person, etc. Much respect for them, too, because I know it doesn’t take a minute to put up everything. Even just the ‘no makeup makeup’ look could take you more than 20 minutes. Personally? I don’t have the time for that. Props to people who take the time to do their makeup!

If not for the reason that I have to use it to look more age-appropriate, occasionally in my case, I wouldn’t use it at all and prefer to be barefaced all the time.

Barefaced AND much better if I were to never get any zits.. how wonderful it would to be barefaced, and just let my skin breathe! 😛 I don’t care much about eyebags, since in some countries, it’s cool to have ’em eyebags on your eyes, apparently.

But no, number one – I don’t live in that country where eyebags are a trending must-have; two – I often get breakouts just from the food I eat (maybe I am to blame because I’m anything but a healthy food consumer). So I have to use makeup.. but not always, thankfully.

Remember the age-old saying (I assume it is!) to never ever let your makeup products expire? And the number one rule: Never use expired makeup on your face.

Yeah? Well, as embarrassing as it is to admit.. My oops moment with makeup today is all about it. 😆

Why I wrote about it? To remind myself of what not to do next time, and so I would be reminded of what happens if I make the same mistake again.

Commune is a cafe+bar located along H.V. Dela Costa St., in Salcedo, Makati

Meeting people isn’t my strongest suit. So imagine my nervousness meeting some of these people for the first time last Saturday. But, let’s analyze the situation carefully: We’ve gone from being ‘link exchange buddies’, to exchanging more than a few casual tweets on Twitter, and finally unlocking each other’s Pandora’s box by allowing them access to our offline lives by adding them to Facebook. On top of that, add the years that passed by since then, and you’ll get seven years. Seven years of “online friendship”. I think, a meet-up was definitely due for us.

I think I was the last equation to making this rather spontaneous meet-up happen. As they say, there’s strength in numbers. Or not. 😛 The way I remembered it, I just saw the three of them (Kisty, April, Mikyu: All three are bloggers too, check them out!) talking over Twitter and one of them tagged me. Moved to a private platform after that when there were enough people who were available on the said date to discuss more details.