Hey guys. So those who actually read my quickies, here is that post I promise. I've been secretly madly into thrift stores. I'm not talking about the second hand stores here in KK, hell no. I'm talking about those BIG and small thrift stores in the US. I've emailed one of my bros about it and he has one big and small in his area at Seattle. He is so lucky and has no idea how much I just wanna engulf him in my aura of envy. Big ones have more variety of clothes, shoes and etc while small ones are great to look for some weird but magically epic trinkets and decorations. Yes, their donated and if you throughly look through the coats, shirts and other apparel, you'll see a loose or missing button or string but you can go to tailor or even sew it yourself. They are even some old collection from branded brands like "Urban Outfitters" that you can nab. Plus the thrift stores there gives you those moment where a girl can come up to you and say "OMG! I love your vintage blouse. Where you get it and how much was it?" And you be all like a boss and say "At a thrift store for 90 cents." How freaking awesome is that? With economy today, I have to find ways to be diverse with my outfits without ever having to think "I need to go to a store to buy ____ to complete that gorg look." Your wallet will be empty before you know it with that way of thinking and so you gotta shop smart (Girls, you feel me in this?) and although you can here in KK, I still think we should have a thrift store like in the US anyway. So I've really been talking a lot about vintage to my bros (via skype and email) and I'm hoping they get the idea of how much I want them to get me cheap but really cute and classy accessories. You can also find old but still usable furniture you can redo to a different design with just a few tweaks here and there. Fun thing about thrifting is that its fun to find something really great and rare for a good price, especially in the weekends with your friends. Generally, one of the best activities to hangout.
Okay so next is this website called Pinterest and I started going on it when this online magazine suggested that to start the new year, you can help reduce stress by maybe making a mood board. I'm sure you guys must have seen this idea of a huge cardboard in a girl's room that she stuck a bunch of picture of friends, art, fashion or whatever they want so that they can just look at it and feel inspired or recharged from life's many depressions and feel ready to take on the world again. But some of us girls neither have the time or money or energy to invest in buying a huge board and nailing it to our wall and made a hobby of cutting stuff off from mags or taking pictures to fill it up. So I believe that I'll be dealing with stress and the article suggested Pinterest or Tumblr but I just never felt like joining Tumblr and check out pinterest works in a different yet same idea. I'm an addict (not overly though) and have two boards. One is public for all to see and you can tell what kind of stuff I pin in it by the board's name which is "Style inspiration" so click there to check it out. The second one is personal and solely acts as my own unique mood board so sorry you guys can't see it. Its really fun if you made a bookmark that connects to your account so that you can even add pics from other websites to your board instead of the ones you find in the website itself. However, the website may allow you to repin from other members, follow them for their pins or like or comment but so far I only ever repin for my own boards but never bother to comment or like so it isn't something for social purposes fyi. I love it for the boards, not for social reasons. So yes, I highly recommend it to you if you just give it a good go.
School is like so advanced and busy. I've got plenty of homework I'm suppose to do instead of typing here under a fan thats not fanning enough because I'm gradually sweating right now while munching haw flakes. Haha. Sports been alright. Everyone is giving me the "I don't want to do any sports at all" vibe and I'm just like "I'm ready for marching anytime." Usually it'd be like "I wanna do this and and that and this too JUST to avoid marching." but no. I mean everybody still doesn't want to do marching but they also don't wanna do anything else, even if its to avoid it. A 2013 phase probably. I am cool with what is happening on Standard Sport's Day with all the sports except for High Jump. Not confident still for that sport but I'll just go for it. I'm dreading for running try outs that we're all forced to do and for what I consecutively fail 3 times in a row. Yeah!...That really isn't something to be happy about huh. Btw if you see any words that are coloured differently from black, their links to click on. I won't say names *cough* Hrmmp Life hurumph *cough*.
That is about it now, please please PLEASE do come still check out my blog for a "Quickie" which you can find on your right above the section that shows my followers. I will update it a lot and real fast for any upcoming events, post, Q's or anything random in my life. So here a lil quote that I made for you to end this and don't forget to comment!
"You're alive. That means you have limitless potential. Go discover them. And who knows? You might come to love it a lot and it could then turn to be your purpose."
So school is on the roll already and I have so many notebooks for loads of subjects to buy. I need to update my stationary and well my new year so far is already gearing into that familiar working phase that I usually get really into only 3 weeks after the new years because it can take me about that amount of time to get used to every new year of school. However, most of my teachers encourage early and frequent studying and revising which I've made a resolution to work on.
I'm also working ways with my tweaked diet with school. The canteen have yet to start making much vegetable dishes and for the first 3 days of school, I kept seeing just fried and fried and FRIED food. I somehow had to cope with steamed food and binged only once by sharing a fried chicken wing with a friend. I take less carbs and more veggies nowadays and because I have less carbs in me, I tend to snack more often. For example, I go for the potato chips or garlic bread or those hi-fibre biscuits with a huge bottle of water to go with. I don't feel deprived so I guess you could say I'm quite alright with my new eating routine and I'm seeing some results. Losing centimeters....
Plus I haven't encounter it but I sense this premonition of acting like a "senior" as a Form 4 to be role models for my juniors. My friends and I, we've been emphasizing how we now sit separated from the lower form and call our exclusive upper form seats the seats for us "elders" and instantly we feel sort of...old amongst the new 13 year old teens and slightly burdened with the idea that in some way these kids will look up to us like we did with our seniors before but I do still feel much young still. Sweet sixteen wait for me!
Despite it still being a new year and all, those basic skills that we used are immediately strapped on again. You know, those skills we develop as we go idle in high school and had to deal with situations independently. Especially for us girls because when we try to tip toe our way from stepping on those awkward landmines that would unleash unwelcomed drama and form extremely uncomfortable moments, we do it as discreetly as possible. Not all of us are successful of course. We mess up and slip and have no choice but to suffer the consequances when stepping on a landmine and some of us just simply aren't good at it. I know someone who used to exaggerates when shes trying to slips past these landmines to the points its either really obvious or misunderstood badly. I believe I speak for all of us in this case no?
My story might come really late so until then I'll probably post updates and topics about things that I feel like getting it out there. Like are you guys a feminist? Cause I consider myself one. Might talk about that or give a more detail explanation to basic life skills and teach you mine hahaha! So before I end this, just wanted to point out that there is a new section to my blog. I call it a "Quickie" and you can find it at the side bar on the right of this thats above the section that displays my followers. Its like a status post only slightly more details. I may write what is mostly going on as well ask a Q so if there isn't any new post, still come check out my blog for a quickie! I will change it a lot for this year and tell me what you think of this new section as well as how is 2013 treating you so far? Good? Bad? Too fast? or just MEH. Ciao guys!
Hey guys, truth be told I wanted to post my story instead but the progress of it have yet to be going to a place I want to be so it'll take time. Please be patient. School is happening in 4 days and when I realize how I still feel the holiday lag and how close I am to the 2nd of January, I've feel I should be more nervous. I mean I bought the books and just miss one or two books, I bought a new pair of uniform and I've just graduated to actually getting those school shoes where you have to TIE the knots. Not sure why I decided to since I hate doing heavy labor; let alone TIE my own shoelaces. Wow, sweetme is turning 16 within four months from now and this is how matures she has gone so far. I'm legitimately awesome.
However, I still procrastinate despite having a mental note of trying to be more "active". My table which I usually clear before school starts still isn't clear and the piling mess of random books and notes and mags are still there. I really need to clear them away for space for my new textbooks. I don't even know whether I have enough stationaries but I concluded from memory that I have sufficient amount. Hopefully I'll pull through at the end of December.
So can't wait for April 2013. Why? My wonderful cousie's reception is happening and my brother from Edinburgh is coming back for it. He's even bringing my PMR gift that he has installed with plenty of books to read which includes some Lord of the Rings and the book that the movie "Hobbit" is based off. So I can't wait since its like saving lots of trees and I get to read plenty without having to visit the bookstore for awhile. Speaking of books:
Here is literally the most expensive book I have ever bought with my own money. I didn't even need to search the photo and simply use my cam to take a pic of the book itself. If you don't know who is Lauren Conrad and you consider yourself someone who has average interest in fashion or make-up, then you need to know her now. She is one of my icons and I look up to this successful women. The book not only contains beauty care and make-up with hairdos that totally expanded my world of beauty, it also shows a bit of the writer herself and how she discovers beauty as well as handling it in a way that works for her. There are even pictures of when she was just an ordinary girl who just have contact with make-up, which weren't at first successful obviously for beginners. I finished the books but I'm still paging it constantly because I'm trying it to get it imprinted in my head and to admire the wonders that it teach of repeatedly.
I've been taught all over again on vitamins and as well as how to keep fit starting with light exercise and to find balance with work and keeping fit. I even gain the habit of checking ingredients and although its weird to get a few stares from people at pharmacies or at Sasa's when you're muttering out the labels, I am slowly knowing what is worth to buy and what isn't something you want to put on your face or skin. Even my diet is slowing changing because I'm trying to change my portions and turn my intake with something that I need and is really good for me. Hopefully I can manage this slightly new diet with the school recess.
Though the book reside next to my laptop which is on the arm of the sofa, I think it may have place next to my Libba Bray books. So that concludes my update so far, please leave a comment of any of your worries on school starting soon or/and even about beauty, like do you have a beauty regime or something you do that is specifically beauty beneficial? Would love to know! Bye for now my sexy readers!
Hey amigos. Oh and congratulations for surviving the end of the world. We still got our wonderfully crazy, somewhat depressing but mostly happy life intact! *High pitch cheering* Hoorah! Hoorah! Okay that aside, its time for walking down memory lane!
So I'm going to take it back since I was form 1 because I've feel the three years I've spent would not be compared to the whole new different level of next year and that it sums up and connects together better. So I took out some pics from my phone that dates back between 2010 to this year. Though my phone sucks in terms of camera abilities so apologies.
I have to say I've been quite active in loads of things. I will forever be proud at joining my drama club in my first year in high school and although the year after that it got disbanded, it reopens for a performance next year and I manage to bag a humble position to be a part of it. I also joined a lot of fund raisers. I sold foods during a basketball fund raiser events and even got to make my dream of doing a stall with the idea of it as a bar. Though I couldn't be a bartender, was not made to be hehe but was fortunate enough to have friend who was. Check out that nice alluring non-alcoholic drink she made! We even had short straws and interesting ingredients to concoct delicious potions that we hope did not gave anyone a stomach ache.
We did had fun though. We go around, buy some snacks and even some snazy hair spraying. Here's mine with yellow and blue or was it purple? Meh. I was very active in lots of things so despite how much of a procrastinator I am, I can say I lead a fulfilling teenage life so far. I've screwed up a lot. I have piles of mistakes just staring into my soul right now but I've learn as much as I tried from them. Though that lead to so many awkward moments and irony just loves to surprise me constantly. I'm not even going to ignore the emotional sponge I've received as well. Friends fight and argue. We make up and all is well. We laugh away from everything within a minute and already we feel we have everything again for a little while. We have fun and relish in the fact that we didn't care for a moment whether we were crazy or being judged. With your close friends, how could you not anyway?
No matter how different we all were, we could get along. Talk and joke about things no one else could understand. Here's a pic of a hangout I went before with boys and girls just hanging out together. We stood together side by side as much as we could. However not everyone stayed friends in each other's eyes or heart. "We're all very lovely till we get to know each other cuz we stop becoming friends and we start becoming lovers" said a line from a song I really like. Its true too. When you're a teen, you can't help to like someone else. You simply can't.
Oh and we cried too. We break down behind the scenes and face the monsters that were never under our beds but had always hide within us instead. We strive to succeed our dreams, at the same time fought off our demons. We had regrets that forever haunts us. That includes not being able to like that person, because we're cowards or that we didn't had the right to or because we were far too late. Everyone of us had stood at a point where we were confused, trouble or sad. We try to stand strong though. Another pic of a hangout here. We took a hold of what ever crap that life throw at us and threw it back into its face. Sometimes with our own strength, sometimes from others.
We grow and change. I definitely have evolved with how I dress from 2010. I learn so many facts and disturbing ones too haha. I've tried different things. I've grown fond of people and I do try to take a moment to look at them in the eye and say "Thank you for being a part of my life." and to those who I know reading this as well because without you wonderful people, I would not be who I am today. I'm glad and thankful for whatever moment we went through together, in good or bad. You guys are awesome and inspiring to me as well as precious. Hope to see you next year!
So with everything that happened so far, I can't wait for what 2013 got for me. Hopefully it'll be my year you know? Ciao amigos. Leave a comment and you'll get this invisible retro car. Haha.
You know you want it. Uh-huh I know you want own this car and feel up its leather seat. Oh yeah. Go comment then!
Today is the day I get my PMR results. I woke up shivering. I ate breakfast hyperventilating. I barf out air during the car ride to school. I became more socially awkward than usual when heading into the office and meeting my teacher who held papers that could either kill more than a quarter of my universe or that could save whatever is left of my sanity for these past few day. This was the conversation between my teacher and me.
Teacher: "So if you get at least a B for science and maths, you'll automatically go for Science stream (my preferable stream). If you don't, no problem you'll just go to commerce stream."
Me: "O-Oh kay. *peering over his table as he searches for my name*"
Teachers:"*smile as he pick out a rectangular piece of seemingly harmless paper* But I don't think you'll have any troubles going to Science though."
And I just felt myself exploding in happiness! I can't say I'm satisfied but I am happy. I had lower expectations than the result that I actually got. Whoopee~! *doing the celebration dance* I'm so glad that its over with. Just freaking glad! My other fellow friends seems to be very happy too based on my Facebook and I can feel their joy exuding off from my computer screen and it heightens my own happiness more from this. All seems wells and jolly. Thank you God!
The other day when I was scrolling like any of you procrastinating teenagers in Facebook, I found out that this teacher, whom took the job of my substitute English last time that I'll admit I really dislike for his teaching methods, have passed away. I was shock for awhile and tried to dig for further information. As far as I know he went through a coma and woke up two months ago, not long after died he passed away. I have no idea how he got coma nor what exactly happened to him but it is sad.
Mr. Nelson was his name and he was the kind of that strict yet randomly laid-back teacher that I never had before. He would come in each day with an assignment in mind with our class and once he sees your potential, his expectancies for you is set. He was fairly old for a teacher and because of that, I didn't quite like his understanding (or at other times lack of) towards us as students and as teens. I can't give an example for I admit its a bit of a blur but I do distinctively remember his annoying habit of slamming a table while we concentrate our work that he has given us as he tells us a story. It constantly shock us out of focus and never fail to annoy too when he does it more than a few time. I only vaguely remember a couple of stories of when he was a teacher in this other school and if I'm not mistaken, how we were a good class which I once thought was wrong because although we did his work and no one really went against him due to how stern he can be at times, he had a few haters and I was among them. And he didn't know that.
I only like one trait about him and that was his unbreakable level of expectancies towards us. He knew some students neglect the work he gives for obvious teenage reasons but he also recognize the potential we had in English. That was the one thing that made me think "I couldn't hate him completely." Like when we had a oral exam and we did it in a group of two. My friend and I became co-script writers to a script about "Two girls love of William Shakespeare's work." We both were into Romeo and Juliet so we thought that could be our subject. When were done with out minute and half (?) oral and as we sat, I could see the big smile on Mr. Nelson's face. The one where it even reaches to his eyes and he claps firmly and proud at us for our performance. His expression just obviously exudes this sense that he knew we do a excellent job and that he knew we would never fall short of what he knew we could potentially do. I felt very proud for myself at that moment. I think my partner and I both did.
Recently also there was that Connecticut Shooting that happen recently. That was a tragedy and my prayers are to all the victims, especially the children. May God bless them and Mr. Nelson.
Hi guys. Here part 2 and today is one of those cloudy days that fills time with drizzles every now and then while watching "Medium" on Fox Channel. Ever watch it? Well you should if you can cause all these episodes can creep the crap out of you. Don't worry though, this post isn't gonna start talking about murdered spirits talking to a blond medium or suddenly bringing you back to the 1990's to see a spine-chilling scene that is connected to a present killing case. It has no connection to the title of this post.
So originally I thought I bought a week's worth of clothes in Manila but when I took picture and counted, really I only bought 6 pieces. To warn you ahead though, some of the clothes I take picture wearing without my face, so it may look weird but the center of attention is really the clothes so don't mind the glimpses of graduation photos or TV or the fact I'm headless. I welcome you however to laugh because I did the same while breathing out from laughter "You can't see my head." repeatedly. Just remember the clothes in between your laughs kay?
Unfortunately, I couldn't find my blazer in F21. They had to move for the new stock and fall/winter season collection. The only nearly ideal blazer I found was this slightly fitted one with no buttons and it only came in hot pink color but it still wasn't that item that made you go "That's the one" y'know? I did however fulfill my second priority which is a sweater! I saw this lace short-sleeved green sweater and fell in love. It is warm but its short sleeved and I can pair it with my sheer black sleeveless gold-tip collar blouse underneath it or use my gold collared necklace.It's super comfy and snuggly to wear, especially those cool lazy days like today.
This was from some small stalls around Robinson's Mall. These stalls you see, even though their set up in a habitat of more popular, branded and expansive shops, they still get a lot of business. Frankly because their product aren't bad quality and they do try to sell stuff that are in trend. So I got this Aztec crop top. Its big enough to cover my tummy when my hand are down and only reveal any skin if I were to put my hands at 90 degree or jump or you get the idea. I sort of think it wasn't completely Aztec patterned because if you look closer you'll see a line of these snowflake shapes on my top which made me think at first that this was a crop top with a winter pattern but my bro insists its Aztec so yeah. My mom says its winter pattern. So I'm keeping to myself that I think a crop top with a winter pattern on it is most ideal for someone living in KK who still want to wear a Christmas look. What do you guys think? Aztec or winter?
This is another Aztec crop top. I sincerely think this is 100% Aztec though and its also bought from the same stall where I got the first one. Both were satisfyingly cheap that I think I should have bought more now. I love to find trends on markets that are good quality and cheaper as nearly as much as I love to own a real branded item. You notice that this is a more simpler design than the first and it looks more for summer right?
Next is the pride of my whole collection of shirts. A Rolling Stone Tee from F21. Its a trend from before and I still love it even though its not a trend anymore. Who wouldn't want to have this shirt anyway? Every time I wear it, I've feel edgier or potentially someone who love their song. I like their song "Satisfaction" though so that counts right. My favorite thing to do with this shirt is with dark jeans and a belt. I would never really put or find the need to even put a necklace on this shirt since I've feel the tee itself is a statement already. It wasn't easy to take the picture since despite it being a size S, I can't seem to get the whole image most of the time and this was the only good shot that came out of it.
Here are some bleached white jeans by the brand Free People. I never knew that I would own something from one of the retails of Urban Outfitters so this was a proud find of mine. I got it from this shop in Green Hill Mall called "JJ Lifestyles" and they sell a bunch of original branded item aside from Free People like Varsity Jackets from Vans or Cardigans from Banana Republic. So I was very happy to find this shop. I love the jeans because its like your real skinny jeans really. It sticks to your skin and reveals your slim legs. I do love the color which I've feel you can't really see but its like teeth white with a soft hue of bright blue mix in.
Last of the six is this collared cream lace dress from F21. I jumped like crazy when I tried this outfit in F21 changing rooms. I really love how I look in this dress and I don't have any dresses with sleeves as long as this dress does. I'm not joking. I felt oddly magical and..pretty. Yeah I felt very pretty in this dress and how I can take it back to look retro. It's a dress I would wear casually too. I really don't think this dress is restricted to be for formal events only. Looking forward to wearing this dress and marking it with memories that came along with it.
So that it. Please do deliver me your comments and opinions. Maybe suggestions of what else you think I can do with them. Any ideas and inspirations? Give me what your inner fashion goddess got!
