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Hurray to my first Zomato meetup with other foodie lovers last February 23 at Buenismo by Cafe Ysabel, near Tomas Morato.

Before I share my experience on my first foodie meetup, lemme share with you first how Zomato has been part of my food journey :)
I first started my food hopping in 2014, as the now famous Marikina foodie spot, Lilac St., was just starting out. Until on mid-2014, I noticed that I have already tried most of the foodie spot on the place as we were searching for new spots instead. That time, I already had a 3 year personal blog on Tumblr. It was around July/August when I first started the foodtrip reviews on my blog. Until 2015, when I first discovered Zomato.
Thankfully, Zomato helped me alot especially when discovering new places to eat. I love to eat a lot but I make sure that everything I eat are on the budget. As I always say, I make sure to check the menu and reviews first before going to a new food spot. On that part, Zomato is a BIG help.
I've been sharing my reviews on Zomato since 2015 and actually, I was already invited for a foodie meetup last year. That time, I don't regularly check my emails as I wasn't expecting any important emails yet. Imagine my excitiment when I read that there was a "Zomato foodie meetup" near my place!!! But unfortunetly, I read that email on the day itself. I was too late :(
Since then, I always check my emails on a regular basis. Until a few weeks ago, Ms. Trisha from the Zomato team emailed me for a Zomato Foodie Meetup. Yay! But since it was on MOA, too far from my place, I wasn't able to come. Until few days ago, she emailed me again for a foodie meetup, quite accessible to my place.

Zomato foodie meetup was held at Buenisimo by Cafe Ysabel at Sct. Tuazon near Tomas Morato.

The dinner was supposed to start at 6PM so I came early at around 5:30PM. And I was the first one! Haha

Anyway, the people started to come already until around 7pm already. So here it is. I was quite nervous but so excited to come at my first foodie meetup with other Zomato foodies. Old foodies as well as newbies like me, came to the dinner meetup. Everyone was introduced as we shared some stories and things about ourselves. It's quite refreshing to hear different food experiences from other foodies as well. It was also fun to see people sharing the same passion as mine. Everyone was taking a photo whenever there's a new food served. Our taste buds are different from each other so hearing other comments from foodies like me helps me a lot with my unbiased food reviews.
At the end of the night, we were given freebies from Zomato (a Zomato tumbler) and Buenisimo by Cafe Ysabel (fragrance).
Being with other foodie lovers and critiques inspired me to improve my food reviews and be more active with the foodie community. Such a nice experience to share my passion with other people as well as meeting new people which is quite exciting.

Hope this'll be a great start of my new and improved food journey and reviews :)
**Btw, I'll be making a separate food review of this restaurant next on my blog post.

I have the passion in writing but lacks the talent to do so. When I was younger, I used to write everything on my daily diary which I started when I was 9 years old. Growing up, I dreamed of being a writer but wasn’t able to focus on that passion that I have. Until one day during my pre teenage years, I suddenly discovered the influence of internet and blogging.

Since high school, I've been blogging already starting with the Friendster blogs. Then switched to Livejournal then settled with Xanga for 4-5 years, mostly on my college days. Switched to my first Tumblr blog for repost on 2010-2011 but didn't really post or write anything. Made a new Tumblr blog again on 2011 and been using that until present. Since 2011, I used my 2nd Tumblr as my main blog site. From posting a photo, video, music or even long blog posts, I find it easier to do so on Tumblr especially as there is an app for that. I was comfortable with the codes/html though there weren't really wide range themes for tumblr. Though I really like my tumblr blog a LOT, I felt that the theme I have wasn't that blog worthy. Haha I did searched for a lot of tumblr blog worthy themes but I find it difficult to find one for my taste. After 4 years, finally searched for a new blog host just late last year.

I've really wanted to move at Blogger.com since college days (yea, that long haha) so I created a blogger account years ago. Never had a chance to explore blogger as I found it too complicated for me to use. Last year, I was able to try using blogger with the theme codes and surprisingly, I find it very easy to use now. With the help of tutorials on the internet and You tube, I was able to familiar myself with the layout and how to's of blogger site. I learn to import my tumblr blog posts to my new blogger site as I still wanted to keep my old blog posts (especially my food trips) on my new site. But sorting out old nonsense posts and editing mostly of my posts really takes time (migrating to blogger from tumblr made most of the posts really messy). Though I was able to finalize my themes, codes and layouts, it took me months to finally finish editing my old blog posts. I was only able to work on my new blog during free times (After shift/work, if I'm not too tired or during day off IF I'm at home).

My old blog posts (2011-2013) mainly focuses about my life, personal things, and random nonsense inside my head. My 2014-2015 posts focuses on sharing my food trip experiences and some makeup (mostly lipsticks) reviews. On this new blog site, I plan to continue sharing with you my food trip experiences and still with some beauty reviews. My new blog site isn't that pinkish and girly as my old tumblr blog but I think it's more user friendly than my old one.

So hello new reader. (do I even have old ones here? Haha). Starting February 1, 2016, I will be using this (http://pinkislovebynix.blogspot.com) as my main site. My tumblr blog will still be up but won't post there anymore. Though I'm still working on improving my posts and photos, I hope you'll enjoy reading my new blog. And feel free to comment or suggest if you want :))

So officially, Welcome to my new blog site. :)

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