KEEP ROMANCE ALIVE

It's 2014 and I want to tell you something about my first three days (and the week before January). First, I finished my first Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami and how excited I am to read the rest of his work like What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Kafka on the Shore. I'm also saving up some reading space for Chuck Palahniuk but I don't think it'll happen soon because his books are expensive even though we're talking about recently received Christmas Money here. I still want to save up more and my best friend and I are planning something rad for us to earn more HEHEHE. Second, I've been enjoying these headphones  A LOT. They're from my very lovely aunt. It's got great sound and I just ADORE it. 

Anyway, my dad recently gave me his 4S and it's great to have one. Even I can't believe I own one, hahaha? In fact one of my few hobbies around smart phones is changing the home and lock screen every now and then.

This one has been my lock screen for about 2 days now. Be proud for I haven't changed it in 48 hours. I might change it again... tomorrow? Kidding. Or not. And can I just say that it's so easy to move around it, if you know what I mean. And owning one comes the indescribable feeling of taking taking beautiful photos with it. It's like wow, cool scenery and out of nowhere I'll be like HOLD ON WAIT I GOTTA TAKE A PICTURE OF IT. And so my adulation of the photos I took starts here...

This one's taken when we jogged around C5 Extension. I think I did more picture-taking than running and burning fats. But hey, I ran 4.75 kilometers that day, NO JOKE. (If you're asking what happened to the remaining .25K, please understand that I could only take so much running and walking and gasping for air.)

my ugly foot

We spent our New Year in Pasig hence, the rooftop photos. These were taken in the morning of January 1. The skies were pretty smoggy due to the fireworks that set off the night before. There were fireworks everywhere like LITERALLY 360 degree-coverage. It was so beautiful. 

If it weren't for the smog I think you could've seen the buildings surrounding the place. I think it's Ortigas at the lower-right side? 

It's plastic hehehe 

This was taken in front of our house!!! Cool 

So that's how 2014's doing for me. 

JUST ONE MOMENT YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT A SAD STORY

3 more hours and 2013 will be over. I can't believe it. This year will be another blur for all of us but let us not forget the things that happened to us, good and bad. There were good ones, too good you want to stay in that moment forever, and there were bad. Too bad, you can't even stand the feeling you get when it crosses your mind. But without the bad, you won't learn. So I'm very thankful for this year. It has been a traumatizing one, I tell you. There's the pressure created by school, people leaving, typhoons paying our country a visit etc., etc. So let this year be a lesson to us all. And let this year remind us that *:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟafter a hurricane, there comes a rainbow *:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟThis is too cliché, but it's true. You can always make up for every mistake you've done, for every bad decision you made, for every word you've said. That's the essence of new years. It's a new beginning, and it's another chance for you to refresh things. Okay this sounds too sappy.

So to make this short and straight to the point, this post for everyone I know. For everyone who did good and bad to me; this is for you. This post is for the things I've done. This is for the days I found light in the darkest of times. 

2014 is going to be one hell of a ride, for reasons too complicated I cannot find the right words. I'll be seventeen in six months, can you believe it? 

So yeah.

THANK YOU. 

December Twenty-Fifth

Merry Christmas, everybody! I don't really know what this post is about...but this is a shout out to everyone who's feeling gloomy and lonely. Stop being sad, there are still a lot of Christmas eves to come! 

So...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, YOU BASTARDS!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

THANKS FOR GIVING ME 5,000++ VIEWS, I APPRECIATE IT. 

(picture credits to the rightful owner!) 

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A lot of things happened in a span of 4 weeks and all I could say is: I'M TIRED; but it's all  worth it. There have been a lot of plot twists I'd have to deal with (read: my grade in Physics) and it's kind of traumatizing. Being a senior is not a joke; you always feel like you are running out of time and every time you hear a ticking sound, it's like there's this cosmic clock following you everywhere and all of a sudden just stand there and zone out for the next 3 minutes and think about what you're doing. But zoning out is not a very ideal thing to do when you're chasing deadlines and cutting every sleeping hour you got. So to sum up this thought I'm trying to lay down in words, I've been dodging off these ~plot twists~ just so I could do all the things I'm required to do. In short, just move on and get on with it. But of course 97% of you don't even know what I'm talking about so let's just talk about other "things":

• IT IS FINALLY OUT. I literally jumped around the house for two minutes the moment I saw this. Because a year and six months ago, I was just poring all over this book in a couch and not it's a movie AND I JUST. I can't wait for this movie and its poisonous plot. The book is very important to me and by "very", I mean very. It stayed with me, with my whole being. I read this on my fifteenth birthday, which is very special because I received the gift of understanding the implications of loving someone. So I'm expecting a tear-jerker right here. I'm really hoping the movie would live up the standards of the book. But I think I don't need to worry because I have a strong feeling this movie will be great.

"ONE SICK OVE STORY" Was that a pun HAHAHAHA

• One of the worse things that happened to me is not being able to catch up with the books I'm reading. I have a lot of unfinished novels and that makes me sad because I can't just leave my schoolwork hanging everywhere. I'm done with that phase (naks). Remember that post I made about being productive during sembreak? Well that plan didn't really work out because all I ever did was sleep and do unproductive things like... sleep. But since 2013 is almost done... well, what's a good 6 hours of non-stopreading, right? Hehe. 

Finally got a hold of this baby! But like what I said, I stopped reading for a while because I have a thesis to finish, a subject to ~avenge~ and performance tasks to gurgle over. I'm no in the middle of the novel (thanks for Christmas vacations) and this novel actually influenced me to order Gingerbread Latte at Starbucks because 1) Gingerbread Lattes are great 2) It's a featured Starbucks beverage for Christmas which can help you earn stickers, by the way on the left side (probably the hardest set of stickers to earn because you never know if the featured beverage is good or bad or whatevs) and; 3) Please refer to numbers 1 and 2. 

And that's how you relate books to lattes and stickers. Kidding.

Also, my never-ending desire to own a physical copy of Palahniuk's work might come to an end because IT'S CHRISTMAS. Christmas means free money and I think I could snatch a few bucks from my allowance to buy a copy or two? Because if I did, then I would probably give myself a pat in the back for purchasing something so precious. Also Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides! I've read it, yes, but owning a physical copy keeps on plugging at my heart because that book is so sad that I want to keep it forever somewhere in a corner; in case I forget to feel something. A sad book is a good start for remembering...

I know what you're thinking. That scary clown who walks around a small town somewhere in England. This is the first time I'm going to read Stephen King's work. This 1987 novel shows the real meaning of memory and childhood trauma. I love horror. But people say the ending will you cry like a baby. I love how mysterious this novel is. And yup, I am planning to finish this a-thousand-and-ninety wonder. 

• I SAW UP DHARMA DOWN LIVE!!!! In my school!!!! This time it's pretty special because I was with my friends and you know, good friends + good music = perfect match. And I can't help but feel giddy because they sang all my favorite songs!!! God bless this band, really. The crowd was great, they kept on singing the lyrics. I missed concerts and small shows like this. Makes me feel less sad. Even though UDD's songs scream sadness and unrequited love. I still can't stop thinking about their set. I want to see them again.
• You should see the movie Stuck In Love. I've known this movie for almost a year now, but it took me quite a while to see it. It's a very touching movie about uhh, love, and how scary it is. I loved Nat Wolff. He is now in my To Do List. HEH. But seriously, his acting is great and speaking of Nat Wolff, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HIM PLAY ISAAC IN THE TFIOS MOVIE!!! But okay, back to the movie. Uhh, this movie made me cry JUST BECAUSE. I don't know, the emotions were so strong and I thought this movie was one of those without predictable stories (it kind of is) but I really loved it. Please see it now. 
• I made nine mixtapes for my good friends. It's been two years since the mixtape drama with this guy and I guess this time I'm kind of happy with what I did??? I guess this is how I see vengeance and anger: NO MIXTAPE FOR HIM. 

So that's it for now, I guess? Sorry for being so lame. This has been a very great year. Traumatic, yeah, but very memorable. And I just realized that I wan't talking about current events that are happening around us. These are things that are happening to me. 

Finally have something worth telling a story about, LOL. 

CAUGHT BENEATH THE LANDSLIDE

I guess I kind of drowned in the ocean of TV shows and movies. I really thought this sembreak would turn out great and productive but all I did was sleep and eat mac & cheese. Pretty disappointing, I know. I spent five days out of the house--slept over my aunt's house and slept over Lara's. It was fun despite the absence of Magnificent and Awesome things (we were incapable of doing such things because we don't have much money in our pockets but we managed). 

Anyway before I share dull and boring details, I would like to present to you, ladies and gentlemen, My Mad Fat Diary. Judging from the title, the show is in epistolary form, with Rae Earl (the main character) as the narrator. One word for this show: genius. Rae is this genuinely funny and witty girl who's mad for music (DEFINITELY A BIG YES) and I  can say that she's a teen goddess because 1) her view on boys is A+ and; 2) the way she looks at life is bombing through me and it screams "YES" and; 3) please refer to 1 and 2. Maybe this show is made for us confused and lost teenagers out there who like to explore the channels of teenagerism or whatever. This series is the bomb, really. All your insecurities are played like a montage and at the same time, like a an angel on your side, it tells you how to deal with things and get over it. It's very inspirational and I fell in love with how honest to the core the show is. It's not everyday you stumble upon something great on youtube. 

And I know I'm not this humanitarian who likes giving life lessons to drug addicts or whatever--given the fact that I'm not the one for giving advice because I SUCK--but after watching this show, I felt a bit more confident about myself and yup I should shut up LOL. And... you're beautiful, you really are and one day you're gonna find someone who's going to  accept you for who you are and love you unconditionally (note to self); watching this show can help you get over yourself, maybe. Maybe not. But really, THIS IS A GENIUS SHOW HUHUHU. Human beings my age should watch this, that's all. 

 ~The Gang~ 

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS HAHAHA. Apparently hugging is a no no unless you want to get friendzoned. HAHAHAHA

[DRAMATIC MUSIC] I would like you to meet this magnificent slice of bread named Finn. There are two main guys on the show, by the way. But Finn came out of nowhere and Rae is smitten all of a sudden but who can blame her?! I mean, look at him. It's like he's created by the special gods hidden on an enchanted cave or something. 

so cute (╯°□°）╯┻━┻

And can I just say that it has the best soundtrack ever? The show is set on the 90s and you know what I mean. Oasis and Radiohead, yup.

Songs from this album are used in the show, if I'm not mistaken? This is a very special album to me because it brings my body to nirvana* and hearing a song or two in this show pretty much hit me right there. This is what you call serendipity. I wasn't really looking for this particular series in the first place; I found it myself somewhere in the valley of the coolest corner of the internet and now it's carefully placed in my heart. I thank jesus everyday for this huh. 

That's all you need to know. Watch the first episode here!

*nirvana means peace okay; I wasn't talking about the band.