Occupation: Neat Freak

It's post-summer clean-up before the last 2 days of summer officially ends, and the perfect opportunity to let out the excessively obsessive-compulsive that is me. Call it O.C. or whatever, and yeah, I'm that. Who ever arranges their books by sizes and thickness, keeps an inventory of the items they own and has a mini educational supply? Well, that would be me.

Seriously speaking, it's not about keeping tabs of how spic-and-span everything is. It's more like putting things in place so you won't spend an hour or so looking for something you misplaced in the pile of clutter you call your room. It will save you hours of mess, I promise.

Clockwise: rings, bangles, beaded bracelets, chokers, necklaces with stones, metal necklaces and beaded necklaces. How's that for clutter-free? :))

 I keep my accessories super kempt. I do not like my bracelets and rings overlapping my necklaces because when I'm in a hurry, I tend to not care whether the whole rack falls off when I get a piece of accessory that's underneath. It's also easy to mix and match accessories if they're kept this way.

Bags are arranged with my go-to bag at the front and the less used ones at the back. Purses  are kept in one big bag.

Are you the kind to switch bags every now and then? Had you accidentally left your valuables (e.g. keys, I.D, money, cellphone) in your other bag when you did a last minute switcheroo? If so, then that makes two of us (high five)! After I learned to arrange my bags the way I do now, I do not leave valuables as often as before anymore.

Paper bags are kept at the leftmost portion of my cabinet. The rest are  educational supplies, and at the back are my learning materials.

Cartolinas, emergency gift wrappers, foils, bristol boards, felt papers and bamboo  slats are kept in a round basket.

Being your average student who regularly uses every student's necessities, I keep an inventory of all my educational supplies. Do you hate it when you get a group assignment to bring a specific cartolina color and remember it the night before, then you rush to the store and buy it, but realize a few days after that you had that cartolina in your forgotten heap of clutter? Inventorying, that's your solution.

DM for Downtown Miss? Nah, it's for Malata and Di-malata garbage.

A 5-year-old birthday card given by a dear friend.

Uncovered beneath the mess: a National Achievement Test stub of the exam I took in Grade School

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Besides the card and the stub, I found ballpens, craft materials, stickers, jewelry, etc. and money. Who knew room cleaning duty could earn you cash? I had made a list of the stuff I was going to buy when school starts (see the blue sticky note), and had a couple crossed out after the cleaning. See? You could also lessen future expenses by cleaning your own room.

*Sniff, sniff* Remembering childhood memories.

Proud K-ZONE and Otakuzine subscriber a loooong time ago

Yeeeeah, so I was an otaku and still am. The oldest K-ZONE mag I owned dated 2004, about 9 years old. I still have the anime stickers I collected in kindergarten too, thougth they do not stick anymore, and the anime scribbles and sketches I did in grade school was still intact without signs of yellowing (and NO WAY am I posting those sketches, PERIOD).


Cleaning was great, it was fun. That is me, then there is you. Yeah, you who's reading my blog post. :)

Heeey there, how's your summer? Mine's been awesome-packed and definitely fulfilling.

I'm certainly looking forward to university life. 'Til the next post!


Your city gal,