Of ice creams, cakes & coffee

r e c e n t l y ;

i. spent my valentines day by watching That Thing Called Tadhana with Gia! The movie is the best I swear it made me laugh so hard with all the punch lines Angelica Panganiban and JM De Guzman are throwing at each other! (non-verbatim eg. JM: “Ang bottomline, hindi ka na nya mahal.” Angelica: “T*ng*na close ba tayo? Ang sakit mo naman magsalita!” and when the credits started to roll my tears started to roll on my cheeks too because I didn’t want the movie to end it was just starting! 

ii. when I didn’t pass upcat, I felt the world lay everything on my shoulder. I’m still sad whenever I think of it because UP is my dream school, although there’s recon, maybe God is telling me that UP is not just for me. And just when I thought I’m just going to sell sampaguita flowers in front of Quiapo, I found out I passed ustet! I was in Batangas for RSPC the day of the results, I texted my dad I didn’t win and he replied me with “pumasa ka ust” and in that moment I was the happiest journalist who just lost a contest!

iii. defense week this week! Ugggh it’s what every graduating student tries to run away from–thesis. I am so agitated because I don’t know how defense works and I am just so nervous!! I was actually glad for the Chinese New Year on Thursday because it means no classes and rest day for me but ta-da! they decided to move the honors’ thesis defense on that day. But still, it means more time to study and practice defending my research! I am crossing my fingers and hoping for no re-defense though. 

iv. i’ve been reading Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood for 24 days already. Gahd, I am taking so long to finish this book because I’ve been hella busy and preoccupied with school! I think I can finish it this Saturday because I’ll be done with defense by then (hopefully) and I seriously just have to finish this. Murakami’s writing is astounding and it’s actually okay that I’m reading it too slowly because I get to absorb his words more. (a/n: earphones included because of The Beatles’ song with the same title as the book!)

01/30/15 - Ma-ma-manila

When I received the school letter stating our educational tour will be in Manila, I immediately thought oh god no. It’s our last year in high school and we’ll be touring around Manila? We all expected it to be boring but things always happen the other way around.

02/01/15 The Vamps Live In MOA Arena
☑Attend a concert of a band you like
❝And if tomorrow never comes, we had last night!

“My favorite part of concerts is when the band plays a song everyone knows so everyone’s singing along all out of tune but then the singer stops singing and they point the mic at the crowd and you just hear everyone in the crowd singing the words to the music and you see the smiles on the band members’ faces because they know people care about their music and everyone’s just so happy who cares about anything else” – (studip)

It has been a week but I am still nostalgic! Whenever I see, hear, and think of anything related to The Vamps and their concert everything replays in my brain like I am being teleported to a few minutes before 9PM, 1st of February, and once again reliving how I felt so alive in an hour and a half filled with four gorgeous boys performing their hearts out and making everyone shout and sing and dance! I just found myself jumping up and down on my seat (of which the staff scolded the Patron 122 people and made us jump on the floor instead) and singing along and swaying my limp body–The Vamps has this kind of effect.

The Concert Experience →

Such an eye candy, Aura. (12/28/14)