New blogs to read!

Well, they're not really new, more like newly discovered. I've been browsing through a lot of pages on the WWW lately and I found these blogs that will definitely be bookmarked:

1. A Woman Reading

From the most recent post on this blog, you probably have a sense of how I discovered it. Rihanna actually retweeted a link to the blog post regarding her latest music video, Man Down, so of course being both a blog reader and a Rihanna fan, I clicked the link and thoroughly enjoyed what the writer had to say. You might be wondering why she was featured on a book blog. Well, this specific post entitled "Is Rihanna The New Face of Girl Power?" talks about being victimized by male dominance and choosing to turn away from being categorized as a victim and instead, developing into a strong, if not much stronger, and independent woman. She related this with a novel entitled The Botticelli Secret.

Being a book lover, I thought to myself, "I think I just found my new favorite book blog!" The writer not only posts reviews of books she has read, which is mostly novels centered on women, but also shares her love of food and travel. She is currently working on a chick lit novel according to her Goodreads page.

2. Bethany Joy Galeotti

Yes, she's the Bethany Joy Galeotti who plays Haley James-Scott from One Tree Hill. I actually found her blog months ago but I only recently took notice of her posts which are mostly about her personal opinions regarding socio-political matters, sharing her personal causes, and her love for vintage anything. She also sometimes shares beauty tips (like what products she uses to take care of her skin). And of course there are recipes that are bound to pop up now and then since the Galeottis own a family restaurant.

3. Also, there are a couple of Filipino food blogs that I found, Food Trippings and Food Trip Tayo!, which will serve as a guide for me whenever I want to try something new to eat.

Hopefully you'll enjoy reading these blogs, too! :)

Nicole Andersson

Last night I decided to check out Saabmarine TeleRadyo (via Ustream) hosted by Saab Magalona and RA Rivera just because I have nothing better to do on a late Monday night. One of the guests they had was Nicole Andersson, daughter of local actress and beauty queen, Jean Saburit. She left showbiz to study in the States and now she's back in the country after graduating from college last year.

I had no idea that she has such a great personality!! She's so full of stories, which I like. After telling one of her funny encounters, Saab said something like the reason she liked hanging out with Nicole was because she always has these amazing stories/experiences that seem to happen only to her. Of course, that fascinated me. I immediately wanted to be friends with her. What I like about her the most, though, is that she stays true to herself, being the kwela girl that she is. I enjoyed watching her and Saab rap songs by Nicki Minaj and Drake. She even sung "What's My Name" including Drake's rap and because of that, I hit it off with her instantly haha. Highlight of the night was when she retweeted me on Twitter and then read my message on Skype. :)

Now I'm here friending her on Facebook and backreading her blogspot after backreading her tumblr blog. Yeah, I stalk people I like on the internet, that's how I roll. Hahaha! No, I just want to get to know them, maybe find out if we like the same music, those kinds of things. Besides, there's nothing that interests me more than a person who blogs since I love reading about people's different experiences.

You should check out her blog at nicoleandersson.tumblr.com and read about her escapades and whatnot. Follow her on Twitter, too: @nicoleandersson.

Happy Monday

I was reading through Post Secret and I came across this blog that they featured on the new post, it's called 1000 Awesome Things. Like Post Secret which started out as just a blog and now has published books, it also has a book available for purchase now called "The Book of Awesome". They posted a trailer for the book:

Being the hopeless romantic that I am, I can't help but not share this. I also think the "awesome things" blog is an awesome idea. I have a lot to back read, though, since they are on #524 (countdown to #1) already.

P.S. Happy Mondays is one of my personal awesome things. Since it's the start of a new week, mostly a busy week at that, everytime something makes me smile on a Monday, it seems to carry on for the rest of the week.

So I hope this little video that I shared with you makes your Monday and your week! :-)