Beauty before comfort

It has been our family's way of life.Well not really the whole family but we like to dress,let's say,extravagant.We dont care too much of what other people might think,we just dress a tad bit different (in a good way) than the usual.Yeah,but in reality we dress strange.

My sister told me this,when some person wears a simple tee and jeans they look .. simple but when we wear it,it rocks.Of course I know every person can rock in clothes fit for them.Okay,that was really irrelevant.As I was saying,we dont follow whats trending,we actually avoid the trend.When I was in 6th grade my fashion,then,was punk rock but I was always mistaken for being emo,which became a trending fashion by that time.Then I tried to dress like a girl but it definitely didnt match my attitude.So I tried wearing out-of-the-blue clothes pairing short pants to high-cut sneakers.I guess it's unlikely for other people but I liked it so I wear it but the problem was lack of self-esteem.I had heavy self-criticism,a simple negative comment made me want to stick my head in the sand.So I tend to dress as normal and simple/boring as everybody else.If I weren't able to get a grip of myself all these years I wouldn't be blogging and I wouldn't go out and I'd just hide under the blankie feeling sorry for myself.

Tokyo Fashion was a great help for me to understand my inner fashion interest.It has awoken my sleeping creativity and it helped me have strength to dress quirky again.

 Like these people from Harajuku.

 

If someone actually wear that here yeah people might get confused and worse they might laugh but who cares?These people dont give a damn about what others think as long as they like what they're wearing and because of their confidence to dress up like that,Harajuku became a fashion capital of the world.

Its really funny when people thinks they're funny when making fun of someone.

 I really hope narrow-minded people could open up their minds so we geniuses can come across theirs.

I dont dress for someone,I dress for myself.

Ecstacy

So last Thursday we had our DAT (Division Achievement Test) and we finished it all in just two hours because the reviewers our teacher gave us turned out exactly the same with the test.So might have chatted up and loitered around and waited five hours before the day ends but fortunately the school guard were friends of one of my classmates and they let us get out.They are so fired if the principal or any other school officer found this blog.Everyone doesnt want to go home yet and wants to hang out somewhere and incidentally my friend is throwing a party.We went to their house in three tricycles and when we got there it was really a part-ey! I mean not the usual party where people would play music and guests are seated in their own chairs singing along then forms a line to the buffet table when its time to eat.Honestly, most of the parties Ive been to were like that,even our schools christmas party,the only thing missing were party hats.But my friends party was different,the first real party Ive been to,the lights were flashing,there're disco lights,the music was pounding and there were my friends.At first,everyone was a little too shy to dance to the music and it was me and my gay boyfriend,Jiemwel, who started the dancing what?can you blame me?Its my dream party! then it became a dance party.Then after all that dancing and partyin' my friend's dad came home from wok and the first thing I thought was we were all dead but the first thing he said was "Kumain na ba kayo?" and then he cooked Adobo for us.Awww.Then we got home just in time without our parents knowing what just happened.Then I'd grin to myself before falling asleep.And yes, Im still ginning as I write this.

So yeah,this post is kinda like a confession but I'll die if I didnt share this experience.

And you wont tell my parents,right? 

.... or would you?

Its February and its all about .. Prom?

Hah! Guess what? I opened my journal again(after a few months)and found my mad money.Ive totally forgotten about it.I hod it in my notebook long time ago and,ta-daa,found it.Its kind of weird,right?Surprised to find money in my notebook that me, myself had planted in this journal.All and all,its just fun to find money you had forgotten.So by the way,its the season of love the perfect season for prom but unfortunately, we dont have prom which is so not cool.Well,I have known it since I transferred in my school,the the school doesnt do proms,and I have eased my sadness/disappointment by thinking my old school will be having a prom.My friends would attend prom and thats enough to feed me.But unfortunately, their school wouldnt do prom this year, and I had eased my sadness/disappointment by thinking its okay,what I like about prom is the party,the dance.Then I'll just become a popular club-goer and be a party animal.. Nah,im just kidding.Well,I was done thinking about this and I was really ready to just let prom go and my sister's bragging stories were a great help.(without her knowing it)Oh and she wasnt really bragging,it just felt like a brag coz I knew from the start that I wouldnt get to attend prom and she did.

 

At first,when she tells me about prom I would just be nodding and laughing while swallowing the lump in my throat.There was pure jealousy,but as the days gone by I was somehow accepting it.From getting almost teary-eyed to slowly letting it go.Then something had hit me,after watching this trailer in youtube,what movie?Well none other than prom.

 

Actually,it was the comments of people sharing their own memorable time during their prom.Its nice that these people still cherish their prom memories,after all the years.Now there's a part of me that wants to go to prom and all the blame goes here.Prom really is a bad-ass time of our lives.

Christmas Time

hey , long time no talk.I've been very busy these past weeks reconstructing(literally) our room.I will post photos of it anytime soon.So.. its Christmas Eve tonight.I will be helping in the kitchen for Noche Buena in just a few hours.Now let me just talk about our Christmas or how we celebrate it and what I always look forward to when Christmas.First off the 24th,for me,is the celebration or should I say the party,and the 25th is just the party-hangover,where we get a lot of money.Well,of course,everybody starts the countdown on the 100th day before christmas.I get really excited and I feel the spirit when the news or any talk shows or any shows start counting down.That's what I always look forward to and it gets me to the christmas spirit.And we attend the famous Misa de Gallo,everybody knows this except you innocent soul,so this is where in its first day you will trick yourself promising you'll never miss a mass,then after a few more days you grow tired and tired and tired of attending this absurd-ly early mass.The next thing is the building and decorating of the tree.This year this is how our tree looks like.

We celebrate christmas in my grandpa's house, the main house for any celebration.Everyone in our whole family tree all come together there to celebrate.So I guess that explains this mass of gifts that's ridiculously eating the space of the living area.It kinda looks like the gifts are swallowing the tree.Every christmas we have this monito-monita where we exchange gifts with whomever's name we picked and it usually lasts for hours because of our enormous number and sometimes has to start over.Now before the party, we all come and attend to mass,where after the mass people are rejoicing and everybody sings along with the choir,I will never forget that one moment where churchgo-ers go wild,party-animal-wild.Then,we go home and eat Noche Buena along with the famous ham and queso de bola.Then, usually the adults just chat around or sing videoke while we,young adults not children!,wait intently for the clock to hit 12 'o clock.But since the Wii came Wii Just Dance and Just Dance 2 all the way til midnight(ew sorry,that was so corny)And THE BEST AND MOST AWAITED PART:The opening of presents !!! YAAAAY !! thenafterthatwestayawaketildawn. Then,we wake up late on Christmas day and miss our ninongs and ninangs who come over.

                  Here's photo of us last christmas 

 Nope.Thats not the whole family there's more inside.

The table had to be extended outside for us to fit.

photos from ralph ubales :D

Bringing home some hard-earned golds

Its the 5th day of the 26th SEA GAMES in Indonesia and team Philippines is in 6th place so far with 14 golds,21 silvers and 27 bronze a total of 62 medals.

I'm really disappointed because the Philippine government is not in full support of our athletes.I remember my mom said that on a past SEA games a Filipino athlete was crying in an interview saying that they're no match for the other contenders and blaming the government for not supporting them and,now this would've made me cry too,for not even funding their plane tickets.Well,I wouldnt be surprised if that happens again.The government should not just support them financially,they should support them spiritually and morally and any way they think the can and stop blaming the past administration for screwing up and just MOVE ON! And to make that happen they should spread the SEA games fever!Like,show off live coverage of the games on Quiapo's LED display screen or at malls or any place with a huge display screen,like what they do in Japan when their national team is competing.

Because that's what the athletes need.For them just knowing that the people are cheering for them gives a huge boost of self-confidence.All of us should e cheering,its like our way of telling them that we got their backs coz if we dont,those athletes will go to the competitions very much feeling alone,and that could ruin their performance.But I am so proud of Philippines' team,our team,because they're struggling to earn more golds as much as they can.And 14 golds,no 62 medals! thats really pretty impressive.Ive been watching all,or should I say most of the games coz only two Philippine TV channels are doing live coverage.Also, the news are emphasizing on the gold-earners not even showing-off the sayang-moments of the silver and bronze medalist or even those who didnt win.And if the TV stations can give way to Pacquiao's fight,they should,too,with the SEA games or they can just squeeze in short briefing of every after-games.And If Manny Pacquiao's fights can stop the time of Filipinos,there's not much difference with the SEA games.Well,thats all yet of what Ive seen.

Literally brightens up my nights :P

Its good to be stargazing and relaxing with your friends especially after a stressing hour and a half of wild-ramming-of-keyboard game of DoTa.It was a breezy night and a song was playing perfect for us laying lifeless-like on the hood of a car like defeated soldiers.We're feeling bad cuz we expected to win after reviewing our heroes and the strategies and the build and all that.Not that Dota is really a big deal but it makes my knees wobbly after a game.

They're discussing the matter and by matter I meant what's gone wrong with our plan.Yeah we're making it overrated.Then I was like,anu ba ang OA naten.And we just looked up and stared at the clouds as it slowly unveiled the moon w/c shone brightly on us.And that's when the idea of stargazing came.Then,all of a sudden we were talking about how imperfectly beautiful the moon is with all its crates.So I got a camera and tried to capture the moon with its crates but I just cant.

Even with a 10x zoom camera.

So I just took photos of the night sky that was supposedly blanketed with stars.

We did stargazed ...

at this lone star,

at this lamp post,

and at these lights from a building construction
that looked like stars.
Until we grew tired so ..

 I just played around with the camera
taking photos of stuff almost half a mile away from us

while they're busy texting.

  Oh , 11/11/11 just passed :P

My Heart Beats for Angel Beats! part 2

My heart beats for GirlDeMo! The main reason why I love Angel Beats! is because of SSS' sub-division, the GirlDeMo short for Girls Dead Monster.It is unexpected that an anime like Angel Beats! has a rock band,even better an all-girls rock band!, that plays an important part to SSS' missions.Oh yeah they play! they play original songs made only for Angel Beats! series.The band serves as the diversion of SSS.They are first seen on the first episode's "Operation Tornado"(yeah,SSS missions have weird names,but its fun) I had no idea what could that be.I thought they would hostage students and force them to give up their meal tickets,coz Yuri said they'd ran out of those.

But to my surprise, a band started to play rock music, I was caught off-guard, I really didnt expected that.I found myself with a manic-like smile and in awe.Well, the band did took hostage of the students, by their music.The students were kinda brainwashed.

The other members guards the outside of the cafeteria, they do look like bouncers with high-calibre guns, but their purpose is to stop Angel from stopping the concert.How they get their tickets?When the show is nearing its end, they'd turn these gigantic electric fans on(dunno what fans that big are doing in a cafeteria)and the student's meal tickets flies right outside the cafeteria where the other members are.

There.I told you the surprise of "Operation Tornado".Anyways,Girls Dead Monster's lead guitarist,Hisako, is the best!She's the perfectionist of the band and she's just awesome!

Okay, all of that are biases, because I love playing guitar,too and female guitarists are,like,all cool to me.But Iwasawa,the vocalist,really has the focus in the story.She's had  a tough life...

Well Hisako created the band Im not letting it go but Iwasawa writes all the songs.But of course, its all just in-story, because its real people who created the band so are the songs but .. Whatever.All of them have the same awesomeness.All their songs are so kick-ass,as in, that they're actually doing concerts around Japan(I mean the music & voices behind GDM) and even released albums.Angel Beats! fans are going crazy for a season 2.Its not just the story, its the music as well that captures the heart of the people.