📸 Screenshot of my favorite Happier episode that happens to have orange cover. 🧡
Hi, Hive peeps! 👋
Rajah Patria here again! For my fourth post, I will participate in the Asean Hive Community Weekly Challenge. This was written yesterday, late post. #SoulfulSundays 🥰
While kids are fired up to look for the easter bunny and eggs, I went on my day with my very own treasure hunting while on my way to grocery shopping with my fiancé.
That's why I got excited when I found out about this weekly challenge with an orange theme. Orange is my least favorite color, but it is my favorite fun color. When I think of summer, fun, and Halloween, the color orange dominates the image I see.
It's true when they say, "The more you look, the more you notice." But I only took things that truly captured our weekly routine. From the moment we wake up until we go to sleep, with side quests of going to our favorite art gallery and eating our go-to snack.
📸 The carrot cake and chocolate for breakfast. 🥕
We woke up late (around 9 am) to take advantage of the slow days during weekends. We always go at 10 am before a lot of people go to the mall. We ate a slice of carrot cake we baked, did a 30-minute exercise, and prepared.
📸 The new art piece in Galerie Raphael. 🖼
We are lucky that we live near the supermarket. So close, that we have exclusive access that connects our condo to the mall. We just walked through it and went down an escalator. Here I saw a new art piece in Galerie Raphael.
📷 Photos of Jamaican hot patties and Dairy Queen soft serve and blizzard. 🍦
Walked toward the elevator to go from 3rd to B1 (Basement 1). Treated ourselves with Dairy Queen and Jamaican, our favorite hot pattie. We usually eat so we will not be tempted by everything and splurge.
📷 Oranges in the fresh produce section of Robinsons Supermarket. 🛒
This is the first thing by the entrance. I am not a fan of oranges and their variety, but I love looking at this display. It feels inviting to go to the fresh produce area.
📷 Orange dried flowers near the exit of the supermarket. 🏵
Although I prefer plants over bouquets of flowers, it does not stop me from admiring these colorful displays of flowers (fresh or preserved).
📷 The plastic bottle recycling machine that gives coupons for certain mL of bottles fed. ♻️
One of the things I love about Robinsons Mall is its environmental advocacies and green programs. We have recycled a lot of bottles and got lots of vouchers from this. 2 facial treatments, movie tickets, and food discounts. Not only Mother Earth gained from this, but also us!
📷 The Public Eatery signage in 4th Floor of the Robinsons Magnolia. 🍴
Usually, we claim the free 5 tokens in Tom's World and play a little. Yes, we are utilizing free stuff! With everything getting more and more expensive, we are grateful for the little bonuses we get from time to time. We headed back to the private access to the condo and passed the Public Eatery's big signage that is orange!
📷 The art work in the short hallway of the exclusive access of the condo to the mall. 🟧
I know they exist here, but I thought they were red! I was taken aback when I saw there were oranges as well!
📷 The photos of our lunch (ginataang kalabasa + ulam burger + rice), dinner (Japanese curry + tonkatsu + cabbage + rice), and taki for midnight snack.* 🥘
We ate lunch and meal prep for the week, cleaned our kitchen, and ate our newly cooked dinner. As we retired for the evening, we watched a movie on Netflix and snacked on Takis. We got this because we saw this in an American TV series, 'Superstore', and it's 50% off. Apparently, it's a popular snack in Mexico so we got curious.
📷 My Duolingo daily streak at 350 days milestone. 🇪🇸🇨🇳
Last thing to do is to prepare for bed and continue my Spanish and Chinese lessons in Duolingo. I am about to reach one year (365 days).
It is easy to take things for granted, especially if they become part of our ordinary life, like going grocery shopping. Our tendency is to pick up everything needed and race back to our condo.
But, we are not going to live here forever since we are just renting it and we are going to move next month. So, I want to cherish and document the everyday life that we had for the last two years.
Thank you for reading the fourth article of my 30-Day Writing Challenge! (4/30) 💖
Feel free to share your daily experience with our skies in the comments!
Since I have so many topics I want to write about, I decided to do a 30-day writing challenge to push myself out of my comfort zone. There will be 7 big categories, one for each day of the week. The first entry was my introduction post, followed by 28 entries. On the 30th, I will share my experience, thoughts, and process of doing this challenge. 💬
So stay tuned for what I have in store for you. 💕
See you around, Hive! 💌
With love,
jahcabelin
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📝Note: All pictures are mine and edited in Canva for enhancement and aesthetics. 🎀