Top Five

Things I Did For The First Time (Summer 2012)

  1. ride the dreaded ‘Fly Fish’
  2. read a classic
  3. archery (Aeta’s way)
  4. walk from Station 1 to Station 2 wearing nothing but my swimsuit (Boracay)
  5. touch (and have a photo with) a sea lion

"The writing we love most, we love because it loved us first."

Joseph Riipp

(Source: thelitpub.com)

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My Library update:

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Jessica Sanchez lost the title. And my rage is all over my twitter.

BB GURL YOU’RE STILL NUMBER ONE FOR ME! NOW GO MAKE AN ALBUM. MWAAAA!

Thoughts at 12:51 AM

Sometimes my dreams scare me. They are often too bold and big. But I remind myself there’s no such thing as impossible. I must have faith.

One thing I learned from all this overthinking I do everyday is to let go of your past and your future.

If I spend all my time dreaming of what will become of me, I will just look far out the sky and achieve nothing that may greatly contribute to my future success. If I spend my time looking back at all my wrongdoings, I will do nothing but grieve of what I could have and not have done for the sake of my present life.

It’s as cliche as it can get: concentrate on the present. If I start doing small things now, one day I will realize how big of an impact it had on my life and my success. And how grateful I am that I did it on that very day.

Although we must not lose our sight on the past and the future, we have to make sure that we put our heads in the present. It’s always good to look back or ahead, you will always find inspiration and motivation there. Just be sure to never linger and get back to achieving something at this moment.

I have a lot more to say but I’m getting really, really, REALLY sleepy. These are actually sabaw thoughts that I’m sharing with you guys right now. Apparently, I think way smarter just before sleeping.

I bid you all good night for now.

I went to The Fort earlier with Pau, Ella and her yaya for some bookstore shopping. Left Ella and her yaya at Active Fun, I purchased the unlimited playtime for her so she can play to her heart’s content. Ahhh, I miss being a kid.

Paula and I went book shopping at Fully Booked (best service evurrrr!). I wish I had the money to buy the Fiction section but alas, I had only few pesos to spare so I settled for three books.

And I bought stuff for school also. I’ve been raving about this product for half a semester, I wanted it that bad. When I went inside the Fully Booked building, I immediately looked for this particular product, hoping that it wasn’t sold out yet. And yes, I have finally one of these babies for this school year! I present to you, my very own FILED folder.

Check out FILED website to discover why and what I love about their products.

Then I bought notebooks from Muji. These notebooks are bare and simple but comes in different sets, sizes and ‘line styles’(?). The covers are great for crafty people cos you can doodle or put stickers on it. Design it just the way you want it. This 3-piece notebook set is sold for only 175 pesos. Muji sells really affordable stuff.

To end my The Fort adventure, I had a tall glass of peanut butter moo’d and chilled at the Jamba Juice place with Paula and Diego.

Thoughts

I wish I had the ability to express how I truly feel. To put in words exactly what goes through my mind.

I wish somebody would invent a brain scanner so I wouldn’t need to put every thought in writing. That way when I think of something that is too beautiful for words to describe, I could just show them to the person.

Words can be messy and yet be so breathtaking at the same time.

Top Five

Things That Calm Me Down

  1. a good book
  2. a cup of peppermint tea mixed with a spoonful of honey
  3. SLEEP
  4. a pint of ice cream
  5. a good dose of my favorite TV series

"Why was it, I wondered, that I was most passionate talking about books I had loved? In the dream it was easy. Those books honored me; those books changed me. Alone, the greatest writers would sit with me and, in their own voices, tell me everything there was to know about the world."

Tom Wingo in The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

(Source: prettybooks)

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"We all want to be rescued and we’ll look in the craziest places for that rescuer, won’t we? We all want to be found."

Mary-Margaret, The Passion of Mary-Margaret