September: In A Nutshell
September was
awful. It was weird, annoying and tiring. I can summarize this month as (if we take the last couple of days as its basis)
I Feel Like Crap. I feel like crap for reasons of 1) this month had been extremely exhausting and now I feel sick; 2) I just made enemies with a prominent being in our Society so 3) now I feel like everyone hates me; 4) I missed Candy Fair 2012 because of cheer dance rehearsals; 5) I missed
Colton Dixon because of my stupidity; 6) I’m starting to doubt myself again; 7) I feel alone and utterly dim-witted; 8) my mom and I had a major nagging episode; 9) my feelings for FCC are maddeningly confusing; and 10) everything’s weird (even my writing is weird).
SEPTEMBER ARCHIVES
Disturbing Dark Shadows
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Wiz Khalifa once said, “Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” But I love umbrellas – they serve a number of purposes, so I guess worrying is not
always stupid. Worrying braces us for worse things, making us all geared up to face these monsters lingering in dark, shadowy corners, slaying them to end the pain once and for all. I worry about a lot of things – from my friends, my reading (for heaven’s sake), FCC and to my hormones (of all things).
Fanfaronade of Idiosyncrasy
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Other than being a source of beautiful words, this blog post conveyed two character traits that I have, one which nobody knew and another that I just learned a few weeks back. If you might ask why I keep writing about myself instead of about sensible topics that could promote world peace and higher literacy rate, I say that my life is like a simple Mathematical equation – an equation so easy that even cats can evaluate. My Life = school + school clubs + home + some friends + books +
The Vampire Diaries + hopeless fangirling + blog + more books. So can you blame me?
Irony
Thursday, September 13, 2012
I never told much about my high school experience, what I really had gone through and what I thought of it, except for some a hundred word count posts I made some two years ago. My take about high school is
ironic, though. They say that those four years are the most fun a person could have, but as far as I know, it didn’t work that way for me. It had been hard to write about it because the friends I made from high school might read it and think that I’m an insensitive hypocrite, but I did anyway. I don’t miss being back in that classroom where terror teachers come and go, where everything is tensed up and a competition, where several embarrassing moments takes place. I wouldn’t want to go back time and relive those years, but I miss my friends. I miss my best friend. It’s basically bittersweet.
Rant 101
Friday, September 21, 2012
This day = worst ever.
STRIKING QUOTE
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man’s flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.” © Hasidic saying, [as seen from]
Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare
BOOKS UPDATE
I had the most number of read books this month. I guess because I realized my slow reading would lead me to a futile 100 reads goal. So as much as possible, I read in my free time – and in my not-so free time. I sound like a book maniac, geez.
September reads:
Clockwork Angel (feels) and
Clockwork Prince (more feels), both by Cassandra Clare;
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S by J.P. Donleavy (annoying and weird Samuel);
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Dystopia at its finest! Babies and bottles!);
Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell (funny fifteen year olds are funny).
Current read:
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (Jace Wayland and my heart); and
A Nest of Ninnies by John Ashbery and James Schuyler.
FAVORITE PERSON/S
I have no idea who my favorite person is for this month. I don’t have lots of friends, and the few ones had already been featured in this section in the past months. I would’ve written about my best friend but I can’t since we didn’t really meet this month, and writing about him would be better if I have some new memories with him. I would’ve written about Colton but that would be weird. I would’ve written about FCC but that would be
weirder – and I’d just hurt myself in the process. I can write about my brother but he’s family, so it may sound biased. I don’t know. Maybe I should just leave this section
person-less. Lame.
FAVORITE PHOTO/GIF ©
Demi Lovato is just so adorable in here. She’s swooning! It’s so obvious when she meets a cute contestant auditioning for
The X Factor USA: her eyes lit up and her smile is funny. She becomes goofy and embarrassed and flushed all around. Jesus heavens, I love her! She’s inspiring and talented. I love her wardrobe and her hair is always awesome. I didn’t like Demi in her
Camp Rock days, but my heart grew fond of her when I started watching
Sonny with a Chance. Now I’m a fangirl. I wish she’d do a duet with
Cameron Mitchell or Colton – that’d be epi-i-ic!
SONGS OF THE MONTH
CHAMPAGNE TO POP
I’ve seen
I Do Bidoo Bidoo with Mary Ann and Khaye! We had so much fun since it felt like we owned the cinema.
Sam Concepcion was fantastic. The Eugene-Ogie love scene was both revolting and hilarious. And the songs were sung perfectly. I’m running out of adjectives to describe this movie!
We had a successful Sports Festival (25 – 27 September). The Institute of Liberal Arts placed second in the Cheer Dance Competition. It wasn’t the award we wanted, but considering the short rehearsals days we had, being second best is already a big thing. We are such born performers!
Aubrey Lavern (also an ILA member) and I attended the GMA News TV Learniversity last 28 September 2012, Saturday, at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. The Broadcasting seminar we attended had Ms.
Kara David, a GMA News and Current Affairs anchor, as its speaker. We had so much fun and learned a lot from her talk about her experiences in the media industry. “All the glamour that comes with the Broadcasting industry involves a lot of hard work.”
October Activity List:
Rotaract Club Library Corner (the original schedule was moved to 10 October)
Sam’s 20th birthday (17 October)
Colton’s 21st birthday (19 October)
School break! Halloween!
I hope I won’t feel like crap this October. I need more humorous books and friends.
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September: In A Nutshell
September was
awful. It was weird, annoying and tiring. I can summarize this month as (if we take the last couple of days as its basis)
I Feel Like Crap. I feel like crap for reasons of 1) this month had been extremely exhausting and now I feel sick; 2) I just made enemies with a prominent being in our Society so 3) now I feel like everyone hates me; 4) I missed Candy Fair 2012 because of cheer dance rehearsals; 5) I missed
Colton Dixon because of my stupidity; 6) I’m starting to doubt myself again; 7) I feel alone and utterly dim-witted; 8) my mom and I had a major nagging episode; 9) my feelings for FCC are maddeningly confusing; and 10) everything’s weird (even my writing is weird).
SEPTEMBER ARCHIVES
Disturbing Dark Shadows
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Wiz Khalifa once said, “Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.” But I love umbrellas – they serve a number of purposes, so I guess worrying is not
always stupid. Worrying braces us for worse things, making us all geared up to face these monsters lingering in dark, shadowy corners, slaying them to end the pain once and for all. I worry about a lot of things – from my friends, my reading (for heaven’s sake), FCC and to my hormones (of all things).
Fanfaronade of Idiosyncrasy
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Other than being a source of beautiful words, this blog post conveyed two character traits that I have, one which nobody knew and another that I just learned a few weeks back. If you might ask why I keep writing about myself instead of about sensible topics that could promote world peace and higher literacy rate, I say that my life is like a simple Mathematical equation – an equation so easy that even cats can evaluate. My Life = school + school clubs + home + some friends + books +
The Vampire Diaries + hopeless fangirling + blog + more books. So can you blame me?
Irony
Thursday, September 13, 2012
I never told much about my high school experience, what I really had gone through and what I thought of it, except for some a hundred word count posts I made some two years ago. My take about high school is
ironic, though. They say that those four years are the most fun a person could have, but as far as I know, it didn’t work that way for me. It had been hard to write about it because the friends I made from high school might read it and think that I’m an insensitive hypocrite, but I did anyway. I don’t miss being back in that classroom where terror teachers come and go, where everything is tensed up and a competition, where several embarrassing moments takes place. I wouldn’t want to go back time and relive those years, but I miss my friends. I miss my best friend. It’s basically bittersweet.
Rant 101
Friday, September 21, 2012
This day = worst ever.
STRIKING QUOTE
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man’s flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.” © Hasidic saying, [as seen from]
Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare
BOOKS UPDATE
I had the most number of read books this month. I guess because I realized my slow reading would lead me to a futile 100 reads goal. So as much as possible, I read in my free time – and in my not-so free time. I sound like a book maniac, geez.
September reads:
Clockwork Angel (feels) and
Clockwork Prince (more feels), both by Cassandra Clare;
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S by J.P. Donleavy (annoying and weird Samuel);
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Dystopia at its finest! Babies and bottles!);
Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell (funny fifteen year olds are funny).
Current read:
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (Jace Wayland and my heart); and
A Nest of Ninnies by John Ashbery and James Schuyler.
FAVORITE PERSON/S
I have no idea who my favorite person is for this month. I don’t have lots of friends, and the few ones had already been featured in this section in the past months. I would’ve written about my best friend but I can’t since we didn’t really meet this month, and writing about him would be better if I have some new memories with him. I would’ve written about Colton but that would be weird. I would’ve written about FCC but that would be
weirder – and I’d just hurt myself in the process. I can write about my brother but he’s family, so it may sound biased. I don’t know. Maybe I should just leave this section
person-less. Lame.
FAVORITE PHOTO/GIF ©
Demi Lovato is just so adorable in here. She’s swooning! It’s so obvious when she meets a cute contestant auditioning for
The X Factor USA: her eyes lit up and her smile is funny. She becomes goofy and embarrassed and flushed all around. Jesus heavens, I love her! She’s inspiring and talented. I love her wardrobe and her hair is always awesome. I didn’t like Demi in her
Camp Rock days, but my heart grew fond of her when I started watching
Sonny with a Chance. Now I’m a fangirl. I wish she’d do a duet with
Cameron Mitchell or Colton – that’d be epi-i-ic!
SONGS OF THE MONTH
CHAMPAGNE TO POP
I’ve seen
I Do Bidoo Bidoo with Mary Ann and Khaye! We had so much fun since it felt like we owned the cinema.
Sam Concepcion was fantastic. The Eugene-Ogie love scene was both revolting and hilarious. And the songs were sung perfectly. I’m running out of adjectives to describe this movie!
We had a successful Sports Festival (25 – 27 September). The Institute of Liberal Arts placed second in the Cheer Dance Competition. It wasn’t the award we wanted, but considering the short rehearsals days we had, being second best is already a big thing. We are such born performers!
Aubrey Lavern (also an ILA member) and I attended the GMA News TV Learniversity last 28 September 2012, Saturday, at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. The Broadcasting seminar we attended had Ms.
Kara David, a GMA News and Current Affairs anchor, as its speaker. We had so much fun and learned a lot from her talk about her experiences in the media industry. “All the glamour that comes with the Broadcasting industry involves a lot of hard work.”
October Activity List:
Rotaract Club Library Corner (the original schedule was moved to 10 October)
Sam’s 20th birthday (17 October)
Colton’s 21st birthday (19 October)
School break! Halloween!
I hope I won’t feel like crap this October. I need more humorous books and friends.
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Already several months had passed, and I am missing
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry more and more each fleeting day. There are just some things in life that we can never forget – especially that something that had given us knowledge, skills, strong relationships and a second home. I am glad that everything in the magical world is now at peace, since Voldemort (yes, I can now say his name; no need to be afraid) had died. I had secretly admired Tom Marvolo Riddle (Voldemort’s birth name) though, because of his intelligence, passion and love for magic. Wasn’t he very clever to think of and conjure his seven
Horcruxes to preserve his life, or form a clan of
Death Eaters who were very loyal to him and would give up their lives just for him to succeed? Not everybody can acquire that much loyalty from people these days. I do not, however, admire him for the way he had carried out all of his plans. He had a good agenda, his means just weren’t morally right. But he still is one of the darkest wizards of all time… and let’s leave it that way.
Oh, for all those who are baffled of what I’m saying here and who the heck I am, my name is
Christine Faye Ordas, and I am an alumnus of Hogwarts. I came from the bronze-and-blue-clad house of the smart ass witch Rowena Ravenclaw and her dictum
“Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.” And yes, I know the wonderful Luna Lovegood (she’s such a darling) and Harry Potter’s first crush Cho Chang. I had just left Hogwarts last May. Right now I am trying to pursue a career in magical researches, literature and writing. It’s my dream to inscribe intellectual books, publish and sell them in
Flourish and Blotts for the future Hogwarts students’ use. I am also planning to credibly write for the
Daily Prophet, the magical world’s primary news bulletin. And of course, I will be very much honored to contribute to Mr. Xenophilius Lovegood’s
Quibbler (hence, my interest in magical researches). I have always found the Lovegoods a fascinating family, and I bet working with and for them will be very exciting. Or maybe, in Merlin’s beard’s time, I can write legends and bedtime stories like the famous – and wickedly brilliant – Beedle the Bard.
And that’s how my life goes these days. I am utterly missing my old school, my friends, the Great Hall, the bronze eagle knocker just outside the Ravenclaw common room, Professor Flitwick (the head of our house), Hogsmeade, the Quidditch matches (although I didn’t actually play for the house), the moving portraits, the castle ghosts, the pumpkins on Halloween, the giant pine trees on Christmas, Rubeus Hagrid’s (Hogwarts’ gamekeeper) tea and treacle fudge – even the crabby Argus Filch (Hogwarts’ caretaker) I miss. Maybe I can visit the school grounds sometimes and see how the magical world’s been doing since Voldemort died (I’ve been spending my months in the muggle world, you see). I’ve heard everybody’s been moving on and starting all over again; the ministry is back on work under Kingsley Shacklebolt; and Harry Potter’s scar haven’t been disturbing him since.
All is well, indeed.
And because of that, we should celebrate and drink firewhisky! Oh, I still don’t drink firewhisky; I can take butterbeer or tea or pumpkin juice – just not firewhisky, please.
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