Day 1

in anticipation of my birthday...

Happy September, y'all!

I love love love September. I love it for the obvious reason that it is my birth month. And also that it's the first -ber month. We, Filipinos, all know that once the first -ber month drops in, it means Christmas is coming. I can't wait!

I want this on my birthday~

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Can't wait can't wait can't wait... Super duper duper super wish that all my wishes come true. At least, for the time being, my top 5 wishes. And because I'm super duper duper babaw, I could settle for Wish#1 for my birthday. Sad, but true~

grass?

What makes me happy?


Falling in love with random things, like a sunny morning after a good nights sleep,
like falling in love with the stranger you get introduced to at a party and then the next time you see each other you pretend not to know,
like falling in love with the character of the book you’re reading and the feeling of completion when you turn the last page,
like falling in love with smells,
like falling in love with smiles and eyes in the sunlight,

like falling in love with songs that remind you of people you once loved,
like falling in love with the feeling of a new season coming on,
like falling in love with a new favourite dress,

like falling in love with a new band played on repeat,
like falling in love with a person you figure out has so much in common with you,
like falling in love with a new habit or decision that you stick to,
like falling in love with new things despite the bad change,

like falling in love all over again.

Every.

Single.

Day.

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Counting down...

Time flies. Real. Fast.

Parang kailan lang, start pa lang ng August and before I knew it, September is only seven days away. I know I've been waiting for September ever since the year 2009 hit Day 1, but when it's practically already here, I'm starting to dread it. Well, maybe because 13 days from now, I'll be 1,095 days away from The Big 3-0. But I'll deal with that later, when it's more imminent.

In the meantime, let us associate el proximo mes with things that make me excited.

Gossip Girl's return to the small screen. I can't wait for this very scandalous show that always leaves me shaking my head in disbelief. I can't wait to see this season's outfits. Blair's outfits. I hope this season would be pure love and no hate because during the first season, GG = LOVE. The 2nd season was not so bad but we don't settle for mediocrity, people. And I expect nothing but the best from GG this season since Chuck's 3rd won't be out til March 2010.

Did a little tinkering with my Polyvore after 48 years...

I missed doing Polyvore sets but with the slew of stuff in the Internet, it's easily to forget about some sites. And I've been spending so much time checking me email, Facebook and Tumblr that it leaves me no time for Polyvore.

Also, I've been tripping on dance tunes these days. My LSS as of the moment is the Paradiso Girls' Patron Tequila.

They could easily come across as PCD's rip-off but I think they're different from the PCD. They're similar but different. Gets? Ah basta. One of the members of the Paradiso Girls is Filipina but what got me excited about this group is... Chelsea! Chelsea of The Search for the Next Pussycat Doll. Even though she was pitted against Filipinas, she was still my bet. But then again, she turned out to be the show's real winner since Asia, the show's winner, is nowhere to be seen whereas here she is fulfilling her dreams of being a popstar. Anyway... ayun lang naman.

GTG. Gabi Umaga na.

Book 09-07: A Natural History of the Senses

A book about the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. It may sound like it's a boring book but it is not. On the contrary, it was a very interesting read. Well, I do like science and watching Discovery Channel to begin with, so the topic of this book really falls within my area of interest.

It would be a tedious task to go over the book and list every bits and facts I've read about so I won't go there. Aside from the facts about our five sense, another bit I loved about this book is that etymology of certain words come up once in a while. As with the origin of the word pupil, the expanding and contracting opening in the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina. It came from the Latin pupilla, "a little doll." When the Romans looked into one another's eyes, they saw a doll-like reflection of themselves (A Natural History of the Senses, p232).

V. v. interesting, diba?

Next: Deciding between Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture and Jorge Ramos' El Regalo del Tiempo: Cartas a mis Hijos

Pick Flick: Up

Cute, cute movie. Watched the movie with AB last Thursday. Mommy's treat although she didn't watch it with us kasi hindi pa siya libre. She watched G.I. Joe instead. I originally wanted to watch this in 3D but we have to be practical nowadays so let's stick to the basics, okay?










♥ I love love love the relationship between Carl and Ellie. Regardless of their problems, they have managed to maintain a very loving relationship until their old age. And it's just so heartwarming how Carl loves Ellie so much. I cried when Ellie died. There's just something beautiful about the love shared between old couples...


♥ I also cried when Ellie found out that she can't bear a child.

♥ Russell is the cutest (cartoon) boy ever. But if he were a real kid, I don't think he'd be that cute because obviously, he would be obese. And what's actually scary about it is that whenever my older sister and her fiance eventually have kids, they might look like Russell. Afraid.

♥ I love balloons.

♥ AB said mommy should watch this movie. Para ma-realize niya na 'pag nagtapon siya ng gamit, gagaan ang buhay niya. That's in referral to my mother's habit of hoarding things.

Pick Flick: The Time Traveler's Wife

Watched it. Loved it.

And that's what you call unconditional love.

After running some errands and AB meeting her long-lost friend in Trinoma, we went to see The Time Traveler's Wife in Sta. Lucia, the coolest mall on earth. Tickets are priced at P100 each (vs. other malls' P170) so you couldn't really complain or anything. We decided to watch the movie from the start so we waited and hour to go into the cinema but found out the movie has started already even before the schedule screening time. Baka late lang relo ko.

Why unconditional love, you ask? Let's just say that through the movie, I've been comparing it to the book and have found the movie somewhat lacking. I understand that they can't put everything that's in the book into the movie but how could they erase some things entirely. Like Ingrid, Henry's ex-girlfriend. And the bit that Gomez sort of have an HD towards Clare. I would have liked to see those bits in the movie.

I also think that the movie was too fast-paced. I was wondering if anyone who hasn't read the book could actually get it. In the book, there were like a bazillion chapters before Henry (Eric Bana) and Clare (Rachel McAdams) met for the first under normal circumstances, meaning Henry wasn't time -traveling.


What I loved in the book was how the mood shifted from during the earlier years of their relationship towards the latter part. In the book, I felt that Henry and Clare were very happy during the earlier stages of their relationship and marriage but then towards the end, it all became dismal when they were trying to have a baby and Clare kept having these miscarriages. She had around 5-6 miscarriages in the book that's why Henry decided to get the vasectomy, so as not to put Clare's life in danger. That wasn't shown nor mentioned in the movie. I don't think they captured the dismal parts right on.

I specifically read the book just so by the time the movie comes out, I've already read it and could compare it to book. But I'm thinking that that could be a bad idea. Like with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I watched the movie without reading the book yet and I enjoyed it very much. Well, I enjoyed TTTW, too. That's why I said it's unconditional love. I love it despite the and inspite of...

OMG, did you see Rachel McAdams' spinal column? She's doesn't look emaciated naman but you could see her spinal column poking out of her back. How do you do that? I'm totally envious. I have fats poking through my back.

After the movie, AB said that she appreciated the book cover only after watching the movie. I told her I appreciated the book cover when I first saw the trailer. Before I started reading the book, I see it around the house as AB had been reading it. Honestly, it didn't appeal to me. I happen to gravitate towards books that have cute covers and with TTTW, it's just not "cute." AB recommended that I read the book, so I read it. All the time I was reading it, I still thought it was an ugly cover and- you could say I'm medyo kuning-kuning for this- but I didn't realize what was on the cover. Only then did I realize that those were actually a little girl's feet with a man's clothes and shoes beside her. And it was only then that I appreciated the book cover, only then that I felt that she was waiting for something. Beautiful book cover.

I'm not totally sure about this but I think they changed the ending. It was still a nice ending though. During the last scene when Clare was running over to the clearing to see Henry, it was very much like the scene back when she was a little girl of 6 rushing over to the same spot to meet her friend. It was beautiful but at the same time sad. Clare has been spending her whole life waiting for Henry. Imagine that. Torture.

After all these years that Henry has been dead, Clare still hopes that he would time travel to the now from the time he was still alive. And when that moment happened, you could almost feel Clare's yearning. Beautiful.

I read somewhere in the world wide web that the author, Audrey Niffeneger, believes that "her novel does not depict destiny but rather randomness and meaninglessness." Wow, ah. And deep. Hindi ko ma-dig.

Book 09-06: The Cure for Crushes

"I'm like the human equivalent of E.coli. I repel people."
- Haley Harmony

Cheap entertainment. Got the book for only P75 at Booksale. It was a very fun read. You see, I'm already in my mid-20s (yeah, right, more like late 20s na) and I still get these schoolgirl type of crushes once in a while. So, I thought maybe this book would be fun and it was.

Haley Harmony is a 17-year-old high school senior who decided that her last year in high school would be her TGYML ("the greatest year of my life") but eventually thinks that she could actually be having TWYML ("the worst year of my life"). Well yeah, she could be annoying when she tends to crush on her best friends' boyfriends [#4 on list of things to accomplish while suspended from school: Stop crushing on inappropriate people (accomplish this by not leaving the house)] even when she has her own and man, has she got a terrible case of hypochondria. But the aforementioned were also some of the things that makes her funny. The book's in journal format so you read her thoughts exactly. She starts her entries with a chart stating her Mood, Hair, Health, Horoscope and JT Sightings per day. JT is her best friend's boyfriend with whom she just happens to have a big crush on ever since. I find it funny that for JT Sightings, she sometimes puts irrelevant, but the category never leaves the chart so it is not really irrelevant, right?

"I felt as attractive as a piece of chewed gum on someone's shoe." She just took the words right out of my mouth. Haha. That's why I enjoyed the book very much. There were bits and pieces in here I was able to relate to. I'm just happy that I'm not as unlucky as she is. Anyway, I reckon I'm too old for crushes. Haha. I need to, like, grow up. Whatevs.