!!!! AB WEEK !!!!

If it weren't for the late announcements regarding the event, our section could have prepared earlier and have a better-looking theme! Anyway, I was appointed to be photographer along with my block mates slash good friends Care and Star. It was super fun to be ~the girl behind the camera~ because I saw everyone's true colors under the sun!!! Everyone was sweating profusely and some were growing quite anxious, wanting for the parade to start already. But everyone was such in a good mood that morning!!! I guess the anxiety caused by the heat was temporary, because everyone was basically laughing and chanting things the whole time!!! I loved this day so much because I got to Bond With My Block Mates and also I got to take really great photos~~~~~

I can't get over how the colors looked so great under the sun WAH. They look so vibrant, like it was taken from a studio--but a better one, with the sun as the light. I don't know what I did with my camera that day but it was very magical, I loved the results (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟ

MY TWO LOVELY FRIENDS, JAY AND KATH (づ￣ ³￣)づ Too bad we don't have a picture together, aw.

HELLO THIS IS MY VERY GOOD CHELSEY!!! She, along with Julia, are basically my go-to friends when it comes to pop culture, films, books, TV series and music. 

This is Julia as Anne Frank *:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟCheck her blog out here! 

The only decent photo I have of the whole section while in costume!!! ~this is us~ 

It was a success, all in all, considering the fact that we crammed for the preparations--again, because we weren't informed on time HEH. But we had lots of fun, nonetheless!!! We weren't even rooting for the cash price for the best section; we pushed it for the sake of joining the parade and I'm just ヾ(✿❛◡❛)ノ so proud ヾ(✿❛◡❛)ノ

color and cinematography

I went on a Wes Anderson binge last December because two weeks before the aforementioned affair with his films, I decided to have Margot Tenenbaum's haircut. So I googled potential hairdos and I somehow came across with the Wes Anderson color palettes. I love how hued and precise the palettes are, which speaks to how the movie was either shot abundant with color or is moderate on the chroma; but I loved every film regardless of the color scheme!!! 

I've decided that Wes Anderson is my favorite filmmaker, alongside Sofia Coppola and Bernardo Bertolucci.

Also, I decided to leave my long hair; maybe next time.

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

I really love Margot's characters that I am willing to chop my hair off just to don her straight bob. But I have wavy hair so maybe not... sad face. 

(Speaking of Margot, Gwyneth Paltrow is going to be on a movie called Mortdecai and I can't help but think of Richie Tenenbaum and his bird, Mordecai. Funny how I think the producers made it on purpose AND how gullible the idea is to think about because it's just a coincidence.) (Or not.) (Still hoping for the best, though.) 

 The color palettes also catch the shade of their skin tones, it's amazing. 

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

I love how Jason Schwartzmann's roles on almost every Wes Anderson film depict a mischievous boy longing for something. 

I love movies that start with a dysfunctional relationship between parties but is cultivated to make it an *:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟadaptive alliance between the characters *:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟ

This is my favorite Wes Anderson film! I think my adulation for the color blue did the job. The movie also made it clear that the Indian culture will prosper; the Indian funeral was very interesting!!!

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

THE ANIMATION OF THIS MOVIE IS WORTH OGLING OVER FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. It's very compelling how they made it work, because stop-motion features take a lot of time. They look very cartoony and it's amazing how the other props--the houses, the factories, food, etc.--look very real with a hint of a children's book style (well, duh, it's based on a children's book). 

Also I can't stop thinking about George Clooney. 

Look at this law firm. It's so real and cartoony at the same time. 

I want these as a toy so I could keep them!!! So cute ;___;

My favorite parts were the moving-in to the treehouse and the grocery store scene. Yes, it's because of the intricately designed settings and colors WAH.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 

This is also my favorite, alongside The Darjeeling Limited!!! And yes, I already talked about this movie on this post--in which I embarrassed myself on the worldwide web by having poor construction of words and trying too hard to sound like an expert. I was practicing my journalistic credibility, but I failed. NOTHING BUT A SECOND-RATE TRYING HARD seventeen-year-old girl with frizzy hair. 

why not try it all?

I honestly feel bad for not having decent posts from 2014 to look back on, so I'll try to make this one worth reading (although my subconscious tells me only two or three people actually read my blog and that includes me). 

I only had seventeen posts from 2014 and it's such a small number compared to the actual adventures I had, the books I read, the movies I've seen, the new music I discovered, and the friends I made. Anyway, just like any other new year's resolution list, I keep telling myself to do these more:

• Read: I always find myself longing for all the books I want to read and re-read. I've recently just updated my goodreads account after ignoring it for months. I don't know  if I decidedly ignored it or if I had most of my time dedicated to studying and sleeping. I plan to read a hundred books (or more) before this year ends; I want to cultivate and improve my grammar!!! I downloaded sixty (more or less) e-books on my iPad to get ready for my goal this 2015. But it gets tough because the glare of the screen is killing my eyes and I get astigmatism attacks every now and then!!! So yes, another plan of mine is to save more money for books (and a new bookshelf). 

• Write: I have friends who are such great writers and I can't help but feel like a stranger whenever I read their writings, formal or not. I'm such a sucker for people who could write very well; it inspires me to do better and to write more. I've been meaning to write a lot about the things around me, but I can't find the drive--and I hate myself for thinking that I have to find the drive ("That is such bullshit!") to be able to write. I learned that if you really have the roaring hunger to write, you will write amidst everything, be it bad or very bad. Reading reviews on goodreads has been a hobby of mine for so long and reading other people's book reviews give me such hope and the motivation to write more like them. I'm a journalism student and I still find myself crawling in the dark whenever I try to write something satirical and poetic; it's kind of embarrassing. So here's to a year of trying (and succeeding, I hope). 

• Take more pictures: I've always been a big fan of photographs and as a thirteen-year-old girl, I dreamed of having my own camera. I had two digital cameras before I landed myself in a DSLR (thanks to my mother). This year, I'll try to bring my camera everyday and take photos of everything and everyone. Then maybe formulate a story from every picture I took. That's a very interesting thing to do, since I like forming stories in my head; from the people I see on the bus on my way to school, the buildings, the roads, everything. Also, my goal for this year is to print my own photographs! (Another reason for me to save more). 

• Do more art: Summer 2014 has been the longest and most productive summer for me, despite the lack of adventures offered by the outside world. I fell in love with watercolor and went back to sketching. School stopped me from creating more, but I have been mapping out some plans to improve my time management!!! My best friend and I have had plans of selling stickers for so long now, you don't even know. I decided that painting the designs myself would be much cooler because watercolored pictures look really pretty. But I somehow failed because I have been uninspired lately, and I hate copying other people's style, lol. SO, YES FOR ART BECAUSE ART MAKES ME HAPPY.

I have more plans for this 2015 but no one really cares OMG LET'S BE HONEST. But for this year, I plan to practice empathy more often, listen to what everyone has to say, and do everything I can to be happy (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ 

I've been obsessing over this song for a week now! I chose the underwater tea party scene from the movie Somewhere (2010) because I loved how I was watching the movie and thought about sitting down, doing nothing and being happy. Also because I think the song speaks so much about *:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟlife *:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟ
Happy New Year!!!

SUB-PAR

Have you ever come across a band that you wanted to waste your time (and maybe the tears) on? I've had enough trouble with some of the bands I got myself into; they drained me. I still love them with all my heart but there's just an insurmountable amount of things that I can't ignore! Not that I got tired of them, it just feels liberating to not feel like I'm missing out on such a hype whenever they do something new, like release new songs, world tour updates etc., etc., etc. ((I STILL LOVE FALL OUT BOY THOUGH MY HEART IS STILL WITH THEM I AM STILL #FAITHFUL)) 

I guess what I'm trying to say is my personality went out, had a little walk, and went inside a new genre, to do a little exploring... lol. Not that I have been stuck in one genre in forever, but I thought about having new and diverse perspectives! It's fun, actually, to get myself into ~such great heights~ !!! 

I've read a lot about The Strokes since I was in high school but I never really paid them the attention they deserved (which makes me feel sorry for myself). I was such a melodramatic bitch back then, I don't know how I had the guts to ignore them because clearly, they could've contributed to those nights I couldn't endure because I can't find the right song. Also, from what I've read from their interviews, I could've been more insightful and articulate as them, DAMN. 

All thanks to my very good friend Fiel, I finally (FINALLY) gave them a chance. Being an avid reader of Fiel's blog, I've had external knowledge about this band since... maybe when she started talking about them most of the time on twitter, lol. (Thanks again, Fiel.) I started listening to them on a ~religious level~, as I'd like to describe it, weeks ago and I'd like to congratulate myself for doing so. Fiel made me watch this documentary about their European tour, In Transit, and I'm so grateful because it made me like them more, huhu. My favorite album would be Room on Fire, because most of my favorite songs are from that album!!! Those songs speak to me so much it's weird, since I've only started listening to them weeks ago. 

Anyway, here are some shitty screenshots (I watched it on my iPad because my laptop had no charger; I couldn't wait the next morning to borrow the charger from my cousin). (I can download a clearer version, anyway, and watch it every time I feel like it HEH.)

   

This part seemed important to me because it's like a greeting from a new dimension of interest (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟ

Julian, ~interviewed~ by Ryan Gentles. Ryan was asking him how he feels about the tour in  Europe 

I LAUGHED WAY TOO HARD AT THIS PART, I DON'T KNOW WHY? 

Also this part seemed very important. A smile slowly formed on my face because I thought about how those small-town bands start very small in their garage: limited number of photocopied fliers about their upcoming gig, cheap beer, the horror that the neighbors might call the cops and the phone calls they have to make to get themselves a functional van to get them to a small bar outside town just so they could play in front of a few people - and that's something.

I can't stress enough how this scene made me think a lot about being in a band oh, my god. Look at them pushing!!! Doesn't that make you ambitious about the things you dream of at night •╭╮•

In which I freaked out because I didn't know The Moldy Peaches were touring with them! Kimya Dawson took me by surprise when I saw her face at the ferry scene whie they were on their way to Ireland! So niceeEEEE

IT WAS VERY HARD YET AMUSING TO WATCH THIS. I wish I could say the woman was joking BUT SHE WASN'T because the boys were just laughing and spewing vitriol over how shitty this is. I was very uncomfortable because I almost thought she did it on purpose to make the boys feel like they don't belong there, that they deserve the shade and the occasional sly-digging. This doesn't make any sense now because... YES. 

I love how this holiday break gave me the chance to orient myself to new things!! This post (I think) signals the start of my commitment to the new world. Thank you, Ze Strokes. 

Also yay, a new band to get anxious about (.❂‿❂.)

please don't make this harder

       

Hello. It just dawned on me that life has been very uneventful lately, hence the absence of updates for two months. All thanks to college and my lack of cooperation with the world, I decidedly ignored my hunger for the things I want to orient myself into. You know what I mean - books, television series, movies, the arts, music and of course the people. It kinda makes me sad because I missed out on so many, many, many things and I wasted an awful lot of time. To think that I wasted my time studying would cause a little stir within me because hey, I got pretty decent grades. But I just can't let go of the fact that it took me about 16 weeks to finish a book because my studies got in the way. In those sixteen weeks I was itching to do something worthwhile, other than poring my head over my readings. In those sixteen weeks I felt very anxious because I felt like I wasn't learning anything. In those sixteen weeks I thought about transferring to a different college to take up an art course. In those sixteen weeks I endured the pressure I put upon myself for being a stubborn, ungrateful seventeen-year-old girl because I lacked sleep. On a lighter note, I reminded myself that at least i'm not as ignorant as some of my classmates are. LOL. 

It makes me uncomfortable to think about those sixteen weeks because it reminds me of how vapid I am. I really need to work on my patience and stubbornness. 

With our holiday break, which started a little too early (from November 21st), I got all the time I need to catch up on those things. I was so excited because I got to snatch back the sleep that was stolen from me. Also, I got the chance to ~get in touch~ with my feelings. Not much has changed; it's still the same. It's depressing to think about because I want it go away. Funny how today marks the anniversary of my stupidity over a guy and a mixtape. Trust me, the story of ~us~ got worse.  

The reason why I used Xavier Dolan's character from the movie Les amours imaginaires (more on this soon!) is because I felt his character so much!!! I promise to give you a background on this VERY SOON. God, I missed sharing the movies I absolutely love and writing bad reviews about it. 

Wow i sound so delusional and selfish and narcissistic.