Something that not a lot of you may know is that I actually have my own fashion line, named
SDCoutureᵀᴹ
I started it my senior year of high school. When I do something, I go all out and I do everything with full- blown passion, so I thought, "Why not take my sewing skills and open my own fashion line?" I had received many compliments from people about my style, so I said, go for it!
So, this is my baby.This summer is my opportunity to start it up again. I have this on Storenvy.com, Etsy.com and Facebook. I just wanted to share this with you guys. Hope you like it! ^_^
Today marks the summer after my first year in the University of Florida, and I have experienced soo many new things from just that one year. I started a photo journal, taking pictures of EVERYTHING (even every meal) to document my precious college memories. But that's not enough. I also decided to write often in a journal AND create a BUCKET LIST of my own. ^_^
C'est la vie! Aren't I right? I call it a bucket list, but it is actually a bunch of things that I have been blessed to do, thanks to God. ;) Time is so precious. We should take hold of it, and make as much as we can out of it! Besides, it's an amazing feeling to reach for your full potential, accomplishing things you thought you could never do. And looking at the mirror, you're proud of who you've become and excited to see what you're becoming. Here's to better things to come!
BUCKET LIST:
1) Become a Choreographer. For ANYTHING.
-I choreographed for the AASU (Asian American Student Union) Musical.
2) Star in a musical. Sing, Dance, Act for AASU: the Musical.
3) Ride a canoe. And for FREE!
4) Win my first ever election!!! I am now a Health Panel Event Director.
5) Go to the police to file an incident report. Scary stuff!
6) Take a road trip to Tampa! My first- ever church retreat!!!
7) Ballroom-dancing at the beach ;)
8) Joined a famed hip-hop dance team at UF.
9) Gone to dance workshops. Intense! I felt like I was in So You Think You Can Dance!
Bollywood, btw, is really tiring.
10) Went to my first ever FASHION SHOW featuring Jay Nicholas Sario of Project Runway
(and talking to him after too!!!) =D
11) Went strawberry- picking along the green fields... Sigh. I haven't tasted real strawberries until now.
12) Had rehearsal on top of a parking garage at night. Like a music video!
13) Sang for AASU 18th Birthday Bash.
14) Laid down on the grass on a nice sunny day. Amidst passersby. Oh well.
15) Had rehearsal for 7 hours straight!
16) Dancing on an ENORMOUS stage at the O'Connell Center (same as the stage that famous people perform in)
17) Briniging the house down while singing I Won't Say I'm In Love, king of Anything, and Born This Way at FSA Formal! Suchhh an awesome feeling!!!
18) Went to the Museum of Art and Natural Science Museum
19) Saw my first Broadway play-- Beauty and the Beast: the Musical!!!
20) First time I had random roommates
21) First time talking for 3 hours straight with certain people
Fan Karate Form in the Holy Cross Demo: Proud to be Pinoy!
I hope you guys liked it! I'm going to use this form for my competition tomorrow. Wish me luck! Feel free to leave a comment or just view my video on youtube.com. I have another one showing the same form but it took place in front of the lake. My mother made me practice and I was so shy because there were people there. Nonetheless, I still had to do it and to my surprise, the people clapped for me! It was a cool experience. My song is Bebot from the Black Eyed Peas. Filipino, Filipino! Bebot, bebot, be,bebot, bebot, be... Hehe. That's the lyrics btw, for the people who think i'm just writing weird stuff down.
Woohoo time for more singing! I recently joined a karaoke contest at Bix.com. If you have time, please please click the link and vote for me (click the thumbs-up sign). Hope you guys like it! :)
Time For Some Singing: Everytime We Touch by Cascada
My version of Everytime We Touch by Cascada. After watching AMVs a good part of the day with that song as its background sound, it really got stuck in my head! I fell in love with the tune and felt inspired at 10 p.m. to sing it. It took me an hour to be satisfied enough to post it. Enjoy! And don't forget to tell me what you think of it ;)
Sob!!!!! No.... Alison's gone! :( Ok so I won't have to write it down again, here's my comment which i wrote down in rickey.org:
"OH MY GOSH... I cannot believe Allison got voted out!!! I thought she would be one of the top 2. Donyelle should've been the one eliminated. Her hip-hop and argentine tango yesterday... wow! How could this be?
I'm going to miss watching Ivan and Alison dance together. They have such great chemistry!
But wait... what was up with Alison and Travis? Are they dating or something? Did you guys see her solo? She kept coming over to Travis and Travis was walking to her. And Ivan just kept quiet too. I thought they were the close ones. What is going on? Haha yeah I saw Nick and Melody in the audience. I guess they're in the same school or class as Travis, showing support. ALISON SHOULD HAVE STAYED! :("
Ok that aside, I found some more SYTYCD videos to post! yay! This is from today's elimination. Btw, I can't wait for the tour! I wish I could go...
"My mother was wrong. That was only the beginning of our suffering," Grandma Henny said, with downcast eyes full of sadness. Jake felt really bad for his grandmother. She didn't deserve that.
"My father was arrested soon after. We didn't know why, as my father did nothing wrong. Then we were told that he was being deported to Poland, his birthplace. We were all crying. He had no choice and we couldn't hug him or even say goodbye, for fear of the SS, or Schutzstaffel, killing us," Henny told Jake, who was thinking about his father right then. He opened his mouth, about to say something but the thunder beat him to it.
BOOM! The thunder roared in the sky, with the pitter-patter of rain following it. The two decided to go inside and resume their talk there. Once inside, Henny spotted the glinting porcelain music box perched on the mantle.
"Jake, come here!" she beckoned, her finger tracing the intricate golden pattern running along the music box's edge.
"My mother used to have one just like this. It even has the same song playing," Henny spoke gently, as if afraid that a loud voice would cause damage to it. She twisted the knob underneath and immediately a soft melody played, filling the whole room. Her mind was immersed with the melodious sound, every note bringing her back to an earlier time when she had heard the tune.
Thirteen- year-old Henny Adler was humming along to the song and dancing in their well-lit living room. "I wish I knew how to dance a waltz," Henny said to herself, "and had a boy to dance with." She giggled, knowing that what she wished for was near impossible. Suddenly she heard voices from the doorway. Taking a peek, she was surprised to see a Christian family talking to her mother.
"...and the officers told us we can move in here," the father finished. Henny's mother stood in the hallway, stunned at what was happening. They were being thrown out of their own home!
"But where are we supposed to live? Please, kind sir, spare our home," she pleaded to the father of the Christian family. He was looking at her with pity but a Gestapo officer interfered.
"You were ordered to leave this house and you must follow. All your possessions will be confiscated as well," the officer said coldly. She gathered up her 3 children, managing to pocket some valuable jewelry while doing so. As they were leaving through the door, Henny heard the final lingering note of the song she was dancing to just a few moments ago.
Not knowing where else to go, the family stopped by a jewelry shop and sold the only possessions they still had. The jeweler gave them barely a fraction of the jewelry's true worth. As they were walking, shards of broken glass could be seen spread along the sidewalk, a reminder of the terror that Kristallnacht or the "night of the broken glass" on November 9 caused. Signs saying, "No Jews allowed" were still seen hanging from shop windows. Nothing compared, though, to seeing a synagogue recklessly burned to the ground. All they could do was look away but the image remained in their minds. Henny looked worriedly at her mother and 2 brothers, thinking of how much this affected them.
They were crossing a bridge coming back from the jeweler when unexpectedly, Henny's mother stopped walking. Her face became pale as she looked down at the gushing waters of the river below them, her long hair being blown by the strong wind. "Mother, what are you doing?" the younger brother asked innocently. Henny knew what her mother was thinking and the very thought of it made her blood run cold. She clutched her mom's coat desperately, knowing full well what would happen if she let go. Her voice kept breaking and tears freely flowed from her eyes as she begged, "Please don't do this, Mother! Don't kill yourself! We need you. You know that we wouldn't be able to live without you. Don't leave us!" Henny's brothers finally understood and hugged their beloved mother. The coat blocked Henny's eyes from seeing her siblings' faces but their cries of "Mommy, we love you" told it all.
A bird cooed as it soared across the beautiful sky. Henny was staring at the chestnut-winged bird, envying its ability to fly. "I wish I was just like you, little bird, so then I could fly away from this place," she whispered to herself while continuing on her way to school.
She was just one corner away from school now but a group of boys blocked her path, appearing out of nowhere. Dread washed over her as she saw them, g rinning from ear to ear with sinister looks on their faces.
"Hey, little girlie. Where ya going?" the leader said, as he circled her like a hawk watching its prey.
"Leave me alone. I'm just going to school," she answered calmly.
"Well, well, well. To school huh? You'll get there but we're gonna have fun with you first. Fire, men!" At the sound of his order, immediately the other boys started throwing rocks and whatever projectiles they could find at her.
"Stop it!" Henny screamed. Streams of pellets and rocks still rushed toward her, making her wince at every throw. "They want me to cry," Henny thought to herself. "They want to see me cry and be miserable. I won't ever let that happen.” As soon as the throwing ceased, Henny glared at them with a deadly look. For a moment, they were all afraid. Then the leader came up to her again and said spitefully, "Don't act like a tough guy, girlie. Come on guys. Wertloser Jude! (Worthless Jew!)" They left, laughing like a bunch of hyenas. Henny stood in the same spot for a moment, thinking about the gang of Hitler Jugend (or Hitler Youth) that she just encountered. "Why would anyone want to be part of a group that only hurts people?" she wondered aloud.
Henny arrived at school, tired and bruised. The day went on smoothly enough. Once she saw a picture of Adolf Hitler and nearly laughed. It was hard to believe that this man with the funny mustache was the one responsible for the drastic changes in the lives of Jews.
Now recess was finished and each student was buddying up, as usual. She looked for a partner to walk back to class with since her Jewish friend was absent. "There's Georgina! I can walk back to class with her," Henny thought to herself cheerily. When she reached her though, Georgina just sneered at her. "I'm not going to touch your hand. You're just a dirty Jew!"
Henny was shocked and felt betrayed by her former friend's words. Without thinking, she slapped Georgina hard in the face, causing gasps and whispers from all the people around them. A fat, mean lady came and told her in a shrill voice, "Go home! No violence shall be tolerated in this school!"
She ran, as fast as her little legs could take her. Bang! The door opened loudly and in came little Henny with tears brimming in her eyes. She rushed to her mom for a hug, smelling the sweet delicate scent of jasmine that always seemed to linger around her mother.
"Henny, what's wrong, dear?" she asked, while wiping the remaining tears from her eyes.
"I-I hate school M-mommy. I never w-want to go back t-there ever again," Henny said, pausing between sobs. Her mother held her gently, noticing the cuts and bruises her child had. "Don't worry, dear. You won't have to go through that again. It's over, all over."
I am now sitting here in front of the computer instead of sitting in a chair at school, working on my project. Remember? The one that's been making me crazy? I have promised to myself that I will devote this day to finishing up this story, no matter what. Know what I've finished so far? The introduction, the beginning, the one that is supposed to be easy to write. Geez I didn't know writing a sort-of-novel story was this hard! No wonder it takes writers months and years to write their books. I'm fully satisfied with my introduction except I wrote another different introduction when I started writing and when I read it again, it was so beautiful. It's such a shame that Iwon't be able to use it in my story! That's what I get for not thinking of the whole story first before starting to write it. Hmm maybe I should post it here? Oh and you might be wondering, "why is she not in school today?" That is because I've developed a nasty cough, the kind that makes you feel like throwing up whenever you have a series of coughs. It's not as bad as yesterday but at least there's one good thing coming out of it. I get to be absent today, which is very lucky and convenient for me since my Holocaust story is due tomorrow. I was thinking yesterday that if I was absent, that would mean I had a whole day to write my story which was fabulous! I woke up at 11 though so I lost a lot of hours to work. Nonetheless, I'm happy I still have the remaining hours to finish it. My mom and grandma were doubtful yesterday (more so my mom) that I would actually do it but ha! I'm sure proving them wrong. But writing sure is hard to do for a long period of time. Maybe I need a break. Anyway, as a reward for whoever has endured reading all my rants about this project, I've decided to publish what I wrote do far- my first chapter. Please keep in mind that I'm not a professional writer and so what I have written cost me a lot of hard work and sweat, not to mention stress. Now without further ado, I present the first chapter of my Holocaust story.
Recollections:
Based on the real life story of Henny Adler
By Sonia Ann Marie dela Cruz
Chapter 1
Squeak! Squeak! The wooden rocking chair creaked with age as it swayed back and forth, although it wasn't nearly as old as the one sitting on it. A light breeze blew ever so slightly, rustling the leaves of the trees and bushes nearby. "Ahhh, this day is like bliss," the chair's occupant sighed.
Suddenly the screeching of a car and the blare of loud music interrupted the serene peace the day held. Birds squawked and flew away at the noise. A door was slammed and soon footsteps were heard, getting louder and louder until they finally stopped before the blue porch steps.
"Hey Grandma Henny! It's me, Jake," the 10- year- old brunette boy began. "Um, you see, Mom and Dad dropped me off to stay with you today. I hope it's okay," he said, uncertain. He hasn't really spent much time at all with his grandmother. She would always bake him yummy cookies though, and for that she had a special place in his heart.
He waited for a response from his granny but didn't receive any. Jake Adler dropped his backpack and sat beside the gray-haired elder, observing her quietly.
He thought to himself, "Whoa! Grandma has more wrinkles than the last time I saw her at our family reunion! I wonder if she's sleeping or just didn't hear me. I mean, old people do have bad hearing after all. Should I check?" Indeed, he did check.
"GRANDMA HENNY! WAKE UP!" Jake screamed as loudly as he could. She jumped out of her chair like a surprised cricket. An infuriated glare was then directed toward Jake and he sank back in his chair, a bit scared. That look quickly changed to one of surprise.
"Oh my! Is that you, Jake? What are you doing here on this beautiful day? I thought you were going to go to the beach," Henny said, puzzled.
He stared down at his shoes and bit his lip, looking like a sad little puppy. "I was supposed to! I put bubble gum in my sister's hair while she was asleep, though, when we had a fight so I'm punished for a month. I'm not allowed to go to our planned family trips. Even though I'm being punished, my sister still sends death glares toward me whenever she sees me." He looked at his grandmother, listening attentively with a kind smile on her face. He gave out a sigh.
"Everything is so beautiful and carefree here in your house. Only you and Grandpa live here now. It must be so peaceful living here. In fact, I think your childhood was very peaceful too."
Henny looked at her talkative grandson and laughed. Jake was surprised.
"I could only wish I had your problems back then as opposed to what I went through. Even school was a privilege that I couldn't have," she answered matter-of-factly.
Suddenly becoming curious, Jake asked her gently," Grandma, what was it like when you were a kid?"
"Very hard, Jake. It was very hard," she breathed. She began telling him her story, starting from what it was like to be an 8- year- old when Hitler came into power. The sun was high in the sky. A passing bird cooed, crossing the tranquil clear sky, reminding her of unforgettable memories during her childhood.
Currently I am writing a story on the Holocaust for a contest but geez I didn't know it woud be this hard! Argh it's driving me crazy because I don't know how to structure it. I was thinking of doing a flashback but would you put it in present or past tense? Which one would be easier for jumping across events? Also, I have to think of the beginnning and ending.
My original idea was to start in the present time, with my character, Henny, being a grandma. Then something reminds her of her experiences during the Holocaust and so that takes up most of my story. I was thinking of entwining her story with Sam Adler, who eventually became her husband and also had an amazing story to tell. I now realize that since I can't even think of how to do the flashback, entwining his story with hers would be infinitely harder. So anyway, then the end would be having her in the present time again. I wanted to make the reader learn a lesson through all this too.
Ack so basically I have to write an awesome butt-kicking story which holds the readers attention and make them learn something in only 3 days. Not to mention that I have a humongous amount of homework and other projects which I have to complete besides that! That would include a Sputnik report with 500-600 words by Monday and also rehearsing for a song number where I have to sing in Filipino(actually Tagalog) in front of a ton of people. Except I don't even know what song to sing yet! This is all so stressful... How in the world am I supposed to pull this off???
Hello hello! ito yung entry na ipapasok ko sa contest sa school. Please po pakisabi kung ano tingin nyo(no flames!) at yung interpretation nyo sa poem. Ang galing kasi bawat isang tao na pinabasa ko nito, iba yung interpretation nila sa nangyari sa poem. Kung sino yung speaker, ano yung naaalala niya,etc. Anway, here it is:
The Lone Lamplight
A lone lamplight shone,
In the quiet stillness of the air.
I come towards it,
And in awe I stare.
Coldness is all around,
Denying the world its treasures.
But there in that lamplight,
i see a bundle of pleasures.
In a flicker I see warmth,
A face smiling with glee.
In the glowing red I see love,
Love I wished enveloped me.
So I continue to stare,
Doe-eyed with wonder
At the glowing light
That makes me ponder.
And as the last snowflake falls,
I turn on my heel,
The flame has touched my soul,
Newfound hope it does reveal.
Now, the lone lamplight still shines
in the calm breezy air
And smiling, I look back
Knowing, it will always be there.
So yun. May makakakuha kaya ng meaning na inisip ko? Pero kahit na iba yung sinabi na interpretation ng reader, tama pa rin kasi ang poetry ay talagang sinadyang magkaroon ng iba't ibang meanings. Gets? Well, g2g. ttyl!!!
OOOHHH I'm so mad right now. And yes it might seem weird that I am mad about something I watched but I am. Who might the cause be? It's this STUPID fugly girl in the Slayers series named Amelia. Grrrrr.... I hate her so much now. I hope she gets scorched by a fireball(or maybe even Dragon Slave haha) and land in the water only to be eaten by sharks then her mouth gets stepped on again and again and AGAIN. Waahahhahahaa. As you can see, I have a tremendous hate for her as of now. Slayers is the newest series that I'm watching(even though I know it's old). Actually me and my brother watched it by accident. You see, I rented from Blockbuster.com what I THOUGHT was Rayearth(I thought it was named Slayers) and turns out it is actually about a funny outrageous girl named Lina Inverse. Oh I loved the 1st volume! :D She met Gourry(her companion), then learned that this guy named Zelgadis whom she thought was bad was actually the nicest person(I love Zel! :D), and had to battle an evil blind priest. Ohhhh those were the good old days. That is, until SHE came along. She and her equally dumb dim-witted father. Actually I have watched so far only 2 episodes with her in it but I was increasingly annoyed by her in both: Episode 12, where she was introduced and Ep. 13 where she became infinitely DUMB! In Episode 12, because of her naive ramblings about justice she wanted Lina to blow up a mountain just so the villagers wouldn't have to walk across it. And it was a small mountain too. Then when Lina did it, guess what?! The mountain top was actually the only thing that prevented ghosts trapped inside the mountain to go out. Now... who do you think the fault belongs to there? THEN in Episode 13 Lina and her companion Gourry escort her and her father(who's king by the way) to their hometown. And upon arriving there, they saw wanted posters of Lina, Gourry and Zelgadis. Then these STUPID disillusioned nincompoops(of course Amelia and her father) start to plan to capture her because they're so psyched up about being the "hero". Amelia runs with the guards to capture them and her father, WHO'S THE KING FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, just watched and didn't do anything even though he owed his life to Lina and Gourry. Grr I hate those damn leeches who have no gratitude! She's like a darn old pest that never goes away, like fungus on your foot(lol nice comparison huh?). And she is such a wannabe hero that it is so IRRITATING. She wants to do the most destructive spell of black magic just because it looks cool. She has no mental capacity whatsoever of the consequences that it might bring. She's just another pathetic annoying third-rate trying hard wizard! Ooh and for heaven's sake now she's gonna join Lina and Gourry on their journey. Sigh... oh what fun that will be(sarcasm)! And it's disappointing because the series started out SO GOOD!!! They finished the plot in around 10 episodes and then the following episodes seemed like fillers. It was just like they were roaming around for no purpose and every episode would make them go to another place. It's such a shame too that Zelgadis went his separate way after defeating the evil priest because I really grew to quite like him. Oh the pains an inconstant anime series brings. I loved the plot in the start why oh why did they have to finish it off so soon??? :(( Sigh... but what can you do? I can only hope that the following episodes will pick up and be wonderful again. I really hope they put Zel back in the story and kick out that ignorant amateur Amelia! Grrrr she is just so darn nrritating!!!!! Ok ok I'll stop my excessive ranting here. After watching the last episode in the 2nd volume(episode 13) I went to my room and plotted to insult her in various internet sites, hoping that there are existing sites that will enable me to do that. Then I thought of a better idea which is to express my dislike for her here in my blog. But maybe I'll keep looking for a site where I can talk about her. Haha I'm getting too into this aren't I? Well if you have an opinion which you wanna express badly, then go express it for goodness sake! So off I go... till next time!
Highlight: Flame Alchemist, Fighting Lieutenant, Mystery of the Thirteenth Warehouse... and the other animes on my Saturday line-up
Hahahaha. I loved this week's FMA episode. It wasn't dark at all and it's refreshing to see the lighter side and humor of the show. I'm so mad at myself for missing last week's episode but at least I didn't miss this week. Maybe I'll buy the whole boxed set of FMA when I'm filthy rich(if that ever happens)... So basically the whole episode is a glimpse into what's happening with Colonel Mustang and his team. It was so funny. When the show started, I was really surprised. Instead of the title saying Fullmetal Alchemist, it said Flame Alchemist. (military group picture courtesy of http://www.animeanytime.com.au/catalog/images/FMA-shitajiki-brown.jpg)
Of course, that was the first attention step. But what came next deepened my surprise even further. Instead of the usual speech of Al given at the beginning if the show, Riza Hawkeye was the one speaking and had a totally different speech. There was even a picture of their group taking the place of Al and Ed's picture. It was so totally cool and caught me offguard! The rest of the episode was really funny mostly because of Mustang's hilarious subordinates(with the exception of Riza, though). It started with them spying on the Colonel and logging his every move. Turns out Mustang is such a procrastinator (very much like me! hehe). Well anyway those boys found out that this one village girl whom one of the guys had a crush on liked Mustang! Did that sound complicated? So Havoc (I researched his name just now) who is the one who got dissed by the girl became sad and depressed. Mustang ordered the other 3 men Fury, Breda, and Farman to find a “cute cheerful girl, with a good personality” to date Havoc. Now, it just so happens that they bumped into Armstrong, this big man totally obsessed with his muscles, and suggests that Havoc date his sister who, according to him is "a very beautiful girl but just shy". It was hilarious watching Havoc obsess over what the girl probably looked like, her having a fat father and an extremely tall mother after all. To his enormous surprise, the girl turned out to be really pretty. As soon as they met though, bad luck struck him once again and the girl told him that she only liked well built and handsome men like her brother. Ouch! Now, about the mystery of the 13th warehouse, the 3 goofy guys keep saying to Mustang that they really saw the ghost of that warehouse when they were walking home the other day. Mustang, on the other hand, refused to believe them and so they tricked him into coming with them to that place. Along the way, Riza stops by at Hughes' place and for the first time since his death, Mustang visits Glacier and Elysia. He was about to come in when he saw Winry upstairs give him an angry look. He comments to Riza that "ghosts are easy to deal with. Real people... now that's scary. Give me a ghost anyday", revealing that Mustang himself has some troubled feelings inside of him. So they arrived at the warehouse place and it turns out that warehouse 13 is actually warehouse B. Get it? But Mustang did see a bone hidden in the soil that could belong to a dead soldier. In the end, Mustang hears of Archer’s plans of going to this place to stop a potential civil war, and using his weight in the military, he was able to acquire a commander position leading forces east to suppress the rebellion. I didn't like the ending too much because it left me kind of hanging but oh well. Hehe well this sure is a long review. Thanks to anyone who read what I wrote so far! Next week's episode is about Ed and Al again, titled "With the River's Flow"(woot i remembered it). It had a nice trailer and I can't wait to see it.
So what about the other anime in my daily saturday line-up? Sigh there isn't any Inuyasha anymore. They ran out of episodes I guess and need to buy the next season. Darn! And just when things were getting interesting too. Again, I blame myself for not watching last week's episode because as it turns out, that was the LAST one. Samurai Champloo was good too this week. I really like this show and I researched on it yesterday. I found a lot of comments comparing it with Cowboy Bebop saying that it was just an imitation or something. I disagree because I don't think Cowboy Bebop is even that good. I saw one episode and I didn't feel like watching again. Samurai Champloo has this cool hip-hop funk to it and it is so amazing that it works well with a show on samurais or actually, Edo Japan. My favorite episode so far, despite the sadness it caused me, is the one where Fuu(the leading girl) is hostaged by a handsome thief whom she learns has a diseased mother and therefore steals to get money for medicine. In the end the two get close and when she helped him escape he looked back and said, "I'll pay you back for this if ever we meet again." They were falling in love with each other. Then the guy was seen by the police who were chasing him while he was running on the roof. Fuu jumped down and followed him. But just as she reached the roof's edge, she saw with her very own eyes the guy being killed. The last thing the guy saw was her. OMG after that episode I cried. I was so affected. Ok so anyway(argh got side-tracked again!), Neon genesis evangelion was a dissapointment because it was the same episode I saw last Thursday. Then I watched Boondocks for the very first time because I was intrigued by it. It had strong language and other stuff but it wasn't as bad as I expected. It actually seemed pretty normal. Other shows on Adult Swim like FLCL and Robot Chicken and stuff are really weird. Then there was S-cry-ed. It was very action-packed and a LOT of things happened. I'm so glad they defeated Mujo! Ack I think this is long enough. It's 3:40 a.m right now! I hope someone took time to read my WHOLE entry because it sure took me a long time to write. Till next time... Ciao! Ja ne! Paalam (Tagalog, my native language btw... look it up)! cya!!!
Hahaha isn't it cute??? This is something my tito, or uncle drew on his computer drawing pad. He did a pretty good job don't ya think? Yes this represents me because as you can tell, I am the pink bunny. And if you're wondering what the cute little ice bag, thermometer and band-aid are for, go to this link:
I was touched when I read it and when I saw the bunny he drew. I put a comment on that entry, by the way. Wahahaha I think it looks so cute! I just hope this little bunny will get better soon though...
Yes yes yes it's another sad episode today. But after so many episodes like that, I'm starting to get used to it. ;) Ok in this episode it reveals some insight about Lust's more human side and past memories. During the start of the episode, we see Lust wondering where she came from. Later she sees a man named Lujon again, healing one boy with the fake philosopher's stone she gave him. It turns out Lust, of all people(or things actually), helped him cure his village and taught him alchemy. She also catches glimpses of her past whenever she's with him. For ONCE, I actually hoped that Lust has some goodness inside of her (like Greed) but *sigh* turns out she's still evil. There was one scene where Lujon makes a dead bird fly again with alchemy but, unbeknowst to them, the bird falls and becomes dead right after it perched itself. That explains why the people of the village are cured for only a limited amount of time. In the end, it is revealed that it had been Lust and Envy's plan all along to spread the disease and make him seek out the Philosopher's stone. I was surprised by what transpired next. Lust killed Lujon!!! Even worse, she stabbed him while he was hugging her. All hopes of Lust having compassion and goodness was gone. And right after he was killed, all the people in the village screamed in pain. After Lujon died, the fake philosopher's stone broke. Lydia, Lujon's fiancee, (who was rescued from thugs by Ed) ran to Lujon and when Winry, Ed and Al reached her through the mist, they found her dead looking like a tree. That is what fossil disease does, by the way. it makes you look grotesque and hard, resembling a tree. Lust's last words to Lujon was, " You were nothing more than a mistake." As she and Gluttony was riding away, Lust still didn't let him eat the people, though. I was left to ponder if she really did have feelings for Lujon and has a human side to her. Could she have had regret or sadness for what she had done???
(a/n: warning! the following contains spoilers) Ooh I am so pissed. i was reading the spoilers (which i so love to do haha) and i stumbled upon one saying that Ed and Al regain their bodies and become young but AL HAS NO MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED! And what's worse, they get separated and go into two different worlds, one where there's alchemy and the other where there's none. oh gosh that sucks... Hmm at first I just ignored it and said to myself "that can't be true" but after seeing that more than 2 people posted the same thing I started to consider it and let it sink in. But what good would having their bodies back be if they're not together?! Grr... and what about Winry? I kinda hoped she and Ed would end up together in the end but hey, that sounds almost impossible if he's in an ENTIRELY different world! :( I hope it's not true, though it likely is. Grr that's what I get for rummaging through spoilers but no, i take that back, I'd rather know about it than get mad at the end when I find out. I was getting frustrated too while I was reading the spoilers because I knew most of them and I couldn't find anything I didn't already know. I think Colonel Hughes' death was the MOST SHOCKING of all the spoilers definitely. I was in shock even after the episode was over. it totally caught me by surprise! I wonder if Ed knows about what happened yet...
P.S. Today's Inuyasha episode was AWESOME!!! i really liked it... it's called Episode 126: Transform Heartache Into Courage. I was really impressed by Kagome here. Next week's episode is said to be good too...hehehe **(twinkling eyes). Can't wait!
Inuyasha's Interesting Again! :D... and other thoughts on this week's FMA episode
FINALLY finally Inuyasha has become interesting again!!! The episode I just watched is #125: The Darkness in Kagome's Heart. Inuyasha is depressed about Kikyo's death and looks for her when a priest drops a hint that she could be alive(they don't know that this priest is actually already dead and just being controlled...tsk even I was fooled). This, of course, leaves Kagome feeling deserted and full of resentment. Hmm I think I read a good fanfiction once that was about Inuyasha leaving Kagome to look for Kikyo. Waa the thing about fanfiction is, you really need to document what you read and where or at least make notes because it's so hard to find it the next day. that is, unless you read all your fanfiction in one place hehe. Anyway, while Kagome, Sango and Miroku are walking down the road this group of annoying pompous soldiers came upon them and wanted to arrest them because they seemed suspicious. Sango said to Miroku that they could easily defeat them but Miroku discouraged it and even added, "come come my dear Sango, you shouldn't start talking(a/n: or was it acting?) like Inuyasha." Haha i thought that was funny. But if you think about it, it would really be logical for them to defeat those inferior stupid soldiers right then and there but oh well, then there would no plot for the episode, would there? So when they arrived at the place there were many people who were also taken in. Kagome was called forth by their "leader" who was behind the see-through door and it's quite obvious from the beginning that their female leader was, in fact, a demon. I was a bit surprised though to know that the baby the female was holding was actually the one who was talking and controlling her. Turns out that baby is Naraku's incarnation@@. Ok so let's go back to what happened with Sango and Miroku. Sango took out her hidden knife and totally kicked their butts! She was so cool... Then she freed Miroku and he helped. Meanwhile, the baby said that he wanted Kagome's eyes since she could see the jewel shards. The baby clung to her and it turns out that he was looking for darkness inside her heart so it could control her. The incident with Inuyasha looking for Kikyo was the one which got her in trouble. You couldn't really blame Kagome though. I felt so sorry for her!So that was the whole episode. I'm really glad that things are starting to pick up again. Can't wait till next week :D
Ok now for Fullmetal alchemist, it was another dark episode. There were a few parts which sort of disgusted me. For instance, the sight of the bleeding soldiers, seeing blood on the homunclus( which eats everything), implying that it had eaten Greed's loyal allies and seeing Greed himself dying was really... well, gross. With Greed dead and those allies who were so unbelievably loyal to him eaten, it kinda makes me think that good doesn't always overcome evil in this series. grrr it's exasperating that evil should live and the good should die. But there were aspects of this episode which were good too. It showed that sometimes there are villains who deserve a second look.
So that's a daily dose of anime! Neon Genesis Evangelion and S-cry-ed (the latter i put with more emphasis) deserve a look too. They're both good animes:). Ahh ok I'll stop babbling about anime now. Depending on how interesting next week's episodes might be, expect another anime episode review! See ya...
For those of you who asked for it, here's my "critically-acclaimed"(haha actually teacher acclaimed it but she's really hard to please!) sonnet of Olivia in Act 1, scene 5. In case you don't already know which play Olivia came from, it comes from Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Hope you like it!
I just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Dante of the Deep Forest. i KNEW that little boy was evil. I spoke with this short bossy girl in my Renaissance revels dance practice(i wrote about it in an earlier entry) and she refused to accept the fact that that boy was evil. Hah! Now I get to gloat bwahaha. She shouldn't contradict someone who read the show spoilers :).
You know, this series never fails to amaze me with its jam-packed episodes. It is so full of emotion and depth... Ok so for those of you who don't know what Fullmetal Alchemist is, it is about 2 young boys who lost their mother at a young age. They try to bring her back with a forbidden alchemy and in turn, one brother (Alphonse or Al) lost his body and the other( Edward or Ed) lost his arm and leg in return for his brother Al. Still with me here? Let me explain it more clearly. The no. 1 principle of alchemy is Equivalent Exchange which states that to obtain, something of equal value must be lost. When Ed and Al tried to bring back their mother, they failed to satisfy that principle(because nothing can equal a soul) and instead of getting back their mother, Al lost his body. Ed would never have gotten to see his brother again but thanks to his quick thinking, he was able to transmute Al's soul to a nearby piece of armor but had to give up his arm and leg in the process(he wore automail). The rest of the series is spent looking for a way to get their bodies back. A lot of events are experienced and lessons learned as they go through their journey.
My favorite character is this pretty girl named Winry :) . She is Ed and Al's childhood friend and being somewhat a romance fan, I hope she and Ed will end up together in the end. But this series has a downside too. Sometimes it can get too dark and depressing. For those of you who watched, wasn't Colonel Hughes' death extremely sad? And also the show exhibits issues that we face today like corruptness and actually that law of equivalent exchange is something to ponder about. The part about that homunculus having Ed's body parts, Izumi having lost his inner organs and about the other side of the gate which Ed thought as the "truth" but seemed more like hell to Izumi was a bit too much for me. yep it definitely has a dark side. There's even more bad events to come( hehe read it in the spoilers). Oh well, I guess that's part of the show's impact and appeal because it makes it emotional. I think it's more of an anime for older people. Compared to inuyasha, inuyasha seems so drab(at least for now). I was so addicted to inuyasha before especially after the 2nd movie came out. Right now the episodes seem so uneventful. I'm now watching season 4 and it's so full of action scenes (not that i have anything against it). I still love it though (it's a great series!!!) and the fanfiction rocks! so that's it about FMA. Can't wait to see next week's episode. See ya!
Every once in a while, we all get bad days... bad days that just make us want to go home and hide... days when it feels like there's nothing to hang on to, when we feel our deep, buried feelings surface and hit us like a cannon. You want to comfort yourself and think positive, but deep inside, you know they're just lies. It's like you're trapped and you wish you could just get the heck out of there. Sometimes this is how I feel. And today, this is especially how I feel. I feel stupid for writing this when other people are going through a much harder time than me. But what can I do? This is how I feel. I wish I could say that it'll get better... that everything will be alright. But I can't. No matter how much you wish for someone or something to save you from all this, sometimes it just won't come. That's how life is. There really are some things you just have to grin and bear. All you can do is wait. Time will pass. Minutes will turn to hours.... to days... to years... and to decades... until sadness leaves. Others can go and search for their desires which give them joy. But I will stay. I'll stay and wait for time to pass. I have no other choice...
Okay can you guys NOT spam my blog? It is annoying to see that there's a new comment and when you open it up, all it says is business stuff(blah blah)... I'd rather have no comments than have ones that has NOTHING to do with what you wrote. Don't use my blog as an advertisement for your business. Please don't do it again. Thank you.
Have you ever felt like you've made a wrong decision and now you can't get out? Well today I have. There's this thing called Renaissance Revels in my school(for community service credit). My Lit. teacher started it this week and it is where you learn renaissance dance or music or something for a play. In this case, it is Twelfth Night. We studied these dance videos from the web and the dances aren't that hard. No it wasn't. BUT my problem is, there is this move where your partner hoists you in the air and you jump around in a circle. When you watch it, it seems so easy but it is so hard. One time my arm felt like it was being yanked very hard. In addition to that pain, I shudder at the thought that my partner would be holding me all throughout this thing. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I hate him or anything but I get uncomfortable when his hand is on my waist or when he supports me with his foot. At one point he said the man was actually supposed to kick me with his foot in the behind to hoist me. @@ NO WAY!!!I do not want him anywhere NEAR that body part. Thankfully though, my partner was lenient and when i told him i didn't want him to touch me in the behind, he agreed. Has this happened to anyone? But my partner is actually the person whom everybody finds annoying and disgusting. He's okay though but I feel very uncomfortable if he has to touch me. Now, it probably seems logical to just quit that thing since i don't like it. The thing is, I can't.:( The reason is because we already chose partners and also because, well, our teacher is kinda scary. She's not the easy-to-approach kind of teacher. So now how am I supposed to get out of this mess??? I never should have went because I just needed like 2 or 3 more hours of community service and I could easily pay that off in a week as a Teacher RA. Oh why oh why did I go??? Grrrr... That's life for you. There are some things where you just have to grin and bare it. Oh who knows? Maybe this will turn out to be a fun, nice and educational thing. Hmm I sorta doubt that would happen anytime soon. Sigh... Well that's a daily update on my life. TTYL!
Have you ever looked to the sky and wondered what will happen? Time, like the swirling hues of the sky, keeps changing no matter what. It feels like you're a dandelion being flown in all directions... drifting. Where will I end up? I could stay in this place or fly halfway through the globe, or perhaps become sick with the looming danger that's inside me. Or who knows... maybe the things that I have could be taken away from me. Isn't ignoring these worries better? Will thinking about this help me? Sometimes it would be better to just... drift. In truth, I'm lucky. Other people have no choice but to drift, to forget because of the pain they feel. But whatever tomorrow may hold, there's also a possibility that it'll also be good. Some good things happen that you don't control. Hope... and faith... They give you strength, along with the people you can rely on. Unlike the dandelion, we have some control of our destination. That's why even though there's some things we can't control, we have to do our best to make it better. Isn't the human mind wonderful? To have the ability to survive and adapt to whatever situation we're in? Besides, God promised not to give us challenges we can't overcome. So that's why I'll smile. I'll look to the sky and smile...
Anya has a fear of bunnies, first referenced in Fear, Itself when she wore a bunny costume to a Halloween party, with the simple explanation: “bunnies frighten me". This fear is shown in Shadow, The Gift, Once More, With Feeling, Tabula Rasa, Selfless and in Chosen. Anya’s final words on the show are about bunnies. She thinks of them whilst preparing for the huge battle - “Bunnies. Floppy, hoppy, bunnies.” Anya’s bunny suit in Fear, Itself became so popular that modelmakers Clayburn Moore created a figure of the character.
