November: In A Nutshell
So if October was an “easy-breezy month”, November was so demanding that sometimes I feel like I don’t want to go to school anymore. Yes, the demands
always come from school. But maybe it’s my fault – I have this manner of stressing myself over non-stressing things, and doing non-existent homework. Am I not annoying? And masochistic?
Anyway, I don’t have lots of extravagant realizations this month (except that I can’t push away the guilt of forgetting to pay my fare). We had our first Institute of Liberal Arts week and it was amazing and tiring and I might need to allot a separate post to tell you everything that had happened. My best friend and I saw the last installment of
The Twilight Saga and just the same, I would make my notoriously lame and crappy movie review some other time. And I have a good news regarding my reading (
reading – I’m such a dork), which will be elaborated in the Loony Dragonslayer section of this nutshell. And so it’s another nutshell – let’s just get over with this, shall we?
NOVEMBER ARCHIVES
Maturity
Monday, November 05, 2012
I had this inkling of writing about my brain – yes, my fat, fiction-lover brain. And with this brain, I realized how mature it had already become over the last nineteen years. Back in high school, I used to believe that popularity is more important than flying colors; that part I was awfully wrong. Good thing that Shallow Bitch I used to wear and be had gradually sunk in the abyss, and the Mature Human Being took over. “I’m still open to more mistakes and a lot of changes, and I know someday the shallow bitch will come again, but I now know how to resurface. I know how to return and resume. And when that moment comes, I will come back.” How dramatic and
Gossip Girl-ish.
Eating Skeptic Monster
Saturday, November 10, 2012
You know how each one of us have our own off-days? Days when everything seems to suck and our hair looks bad and we feel bloated? Well, off-days also happen to writing/blogging –
off-blogging, and this is one of them. I honestly have no idea how and why in the world I wrote this particular vomit-worthy post. Consider this non-existent, if you may.
Fear Landscape
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Divergent (Veronica Roth) took over my life, so badly that I wake up each morning thinking what faction I’d choose and what basin I’d trickle my blood over and what dominant color of clothes would look good with my skin. I don’t want to be factionless, as you can see. What the hell. So to get on my full-on hallucinations, I imagined myself in Dauntless Initiation Stage III: Fear Landscape. Listed in this post are the pathetic tangible things/elements/people/animal that pathetically scare the shit out of me (I’m scared of “Thriller” – what in the world?!). I know I should’ve written this last October, but tada, everyday is Halloween. So I guess, Happy Halloween? Meh.
Two Cents
Sunday, November 18, 2012
In the last weeks, the nation was rocked by a few issues that tested the people’s judgments and sense of humanity. And since I always have a say in things even though nobody cares to hear them, I took the liberty of writing down my opinions. I chose two issues that my brain can reach: the “Amalayer” and “Sotto-copy”. I hope you’d take time to read this; it’s one of my best posts. I take pride in “Two Cents” as much as I don’t with “Eating Skeptic Monster”. Thank you.
Movie Review: Breaking Dawn
In the near future
Forewarning: it’ll be composed entirely of rants and raves and how beautiful the casts are.
HALLELUIAH CATHARTIC
(formerly known as Striking Quote)
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” ©
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
LOONY DRAGONSLAYER
(formerly known as Books Update)
So here’s the good news: I checked my Goodreads two days ago, and guess what I discovered? I have 99 reads.
99 freakin’ reads! What the hell. I was so surprised it took a moment to sink in. I thought I needed four more reads to reach a hundred, but apparently I just update and update without actually checking the number. I’m so happy. Finally, something I can say I accomplished successfully!
November reads:
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (smart and good looking aliens);
The Stonehenge Gate by Jack Williamson (meh);
Divergent and
Insurgent by Veronica Roth (crazy amazing);
On the Farm by John Updike (slow and funny and touché);
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (both funny and heartbreaking and I cried okay);
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (just the same: super funny, but I like PT and TFIOS better);
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Holden is weird and seems always mad);
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I love everything about this – thank God for classics);
Malcolm by James Purdy (weird; and the ending was sad but still weird).
I had ten reads this month. Hold on tight, my brain.
Current read:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (this has high ratings in Goodreads, so hello another crazy amazing novel!).
FAVORITE PHOTO/GIF ©
(In this photo, from left to right: Khaye Villar, Miyann Bruan, Tintin Ordas) This was taken in the photo booth section of the recent ILA Week. It was a fun celebration even though there were lots of flaws and annoying incidents. True to the ILA Week’s theme, we have indeed
elevated.
EARGASM
(formerly known as Songs of the Month)
- They Don’t Know About Us – One Direction (I especially like the first notes with the piano.)
- Don’t Let Me Go – The Summer Set
- Back To You – Cody Simpson (Let’s make this so good for goodness’ sake / the last thing that we need’s to take a break / let me know what I have to do to get back to you)
- Forever and Always – Parachute
- Without You – AJ Rafael (I knew this song for a long time now but decided to include it in this list because I sang it with Khaye. Sang – what the hell, right?)
AND CONFETTI
(formerly known as Champagne to Pop)
Since ILA Week and
Breaking Dawn and my scholarship are off the list, let’s see… can we celebrate the release of the
City of Bones teaser trailer? Yes, we can (OMG, this sounds like Pres. Obama). Truth be told, I used to have some doubts about Jamie’s casting as Jace Wayland (‘cause of the looks and physique), but after I saw this, oh my heavens! He’s perfect. He’s really an actor, okay? I can’t wait for this movie to come out! Is it August 2013 yet?
December Activity List:
- Holidays, of course
- Rotaract Raffle Draw (7 December)
- Mother’s birthday (10 December)
- ILA Christmas party (14 December)
- Finish line to 100 reads
- School tour (tentative)
Last words from Pittacus Lore: When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
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November: In A Nutshell
So if October was an “easy-breezy month”, November was so demanding that sometimes I feel like I don’t want to go to school anymore. Yes, the demands
always come from school. But maybe it’s my fault – I have this manner of stressing myself over non-stressing things, and doing non-existent homework. Am I not annoying? And masochistic?
Anyway, I don’t have lots of extravagant realizations this month (except that I can’t push away the guilt of forgetting to pay my fare). We had our first Institute of Liberal Arts week and it was amazing and tiring and I might need to allot a separate post to tell you everything that had happened. My best friend and I saw the last installment of
The Twilight Saga and just the same, I would make my notoriously lame and crappy movie review some other time. And I have a good news regarding my reading (
reading – I’m such a dork), which will be elaborated in the Loony Dragonslayer section of this nutshell. And so it’s another nutshell – let’s just get over with this, shall we?
NOVEMBER ARCHIVES
Maturity
Monday, November 05, 2012
I had this inkling of writing about my brain – yes, my fat, fiction-lover brain. And with this brain, I realized how mature it had already become over the last nineteen years. Back in high school, I used to believe that popularity is more important than flying colors; that part I was awfully wrong. Good thing that Shallow Bitch I used to wear and be had gradually sunk in the abyss, and the Mature Human Being took over. “I’m still open to more mistakes and a lot of changes, and I know someday the shallow bitch will come again, but I now know how to resurface. I know how to return and resume. And when that moment comes, I will come back.” How dramatic and
Gossip Girl-ish.
Eating Skeptic Monster
Saturday, November 10, 2012
You know how each one of us have our own off-days? Days when everything seems to suck and our hair looks bad and we feel bloated? Well, off-days also happen to writing/blogging –
off-blogging, and this is one of them. I honestly have no idea how and why in the world I wrote this particular vomit-worthy post. Consider this non-existent, if you may.
Fear Landscape
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Divergent (Veronica Roth) took over my life, so badly that I wake up each morning thinking what faction I’d choose and what basin I’d trickle my blood over and what dominant color of clothes would look good with my skin. I don’t want to be factionless, as you can see. What the hell. So to get on my full-on hallucinations, I imagined myself in Dauntless Initiation Stage III: Fear Landscape. Listed in this post are the pathetic tangible things/elements/people/animal that pathetically scare the shit out of me (I’m scared of “Thriller” – what in the world?!). I know I should’ve written this last October, but tada, everyday is Halloween. So I guess, Happy Halloween? Meh.
Two Cents
Sunday, November 18, 2012
In the last weeks, the nation was rocked by a few issues that tested the people’s judgments and sense of humanity. And since I always have a say in things even though nobody cares to hear them, I took the liberty of writing down my opinions. I chose two issues that my brain can reach: the “Amalayer” and “Sotto-copy”. I hope you’d take time to read this; it’s one of my best posts. I take pride in “Two Cents” as much as I don’t with “Eating Skeptic Monster”. Thank you.
Movie Review: Breaking Dawn
In the near future
Forewarning: it’ll be composed entirely of rants and raves and how beautiful the casts are.
HALLELUIAH CATHARTIC
(formerly known as Striking Quote)
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” ©
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
LOONY DRAGONSLAYER
(formerly known as Books Update)
So here’s the good news: I checked my Goodreads two days ago, and guess what I discovered? I have 99 reads.
99 freakin’ reads! What the hell. I was so surprised it took a moment to sink in. I thought I needed four more reads to reach a hundred, but apparently I just update and update without actually checking the number. I’m so happy. Finally, something I can say I accomplished successfully!
November reads:
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (smart and good looking aliens);
The Stonehenge Gate by Jack Williamson (meh);
Divergent and
Insurgent by Veronica Roth (crazy amazing);
On the Farm by John Updike (slow and funny and touché);
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (both funny and heartbreaking and I cried okay);
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (just the same: super funny, but I like PT and TFIOS better);
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Holden is weird and seems always mad);
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I love everything about this – thank God for classics);
Malcolm by James Purdy (weird; and the ending was sad but still weird).
I had ten reads this month. Hold on tight, my brain.
Current read:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (this has high ratings in Goodreads, so hello another crazy amazing novel!).
FAVORITE PHOTO/GIF ©
(In this photo, from left to right: Khaye Villar, Miyann Bruan, Tintin Ordas) This was taken in the photo booth section of the recent ILA Week. It was a fun celebration even though there were lots of flaws and annoying incidents. True to the ILA Week’s theme, we have indeed
elevated.
EARGASM
(formerly known as Songs of the Month)
- They Don’t Know About Us – One Direction (I especially like the first notes with the piano.)
- Don’t Let Me Go – The Summer Set
- Back To You – Cody Simpson (Let’s make this so good for goodness’ sake / the last thing that we need’s to take a break / let me know what I have to do to get back to you)
- Forever and Always – Parachute
- Without You – AJ Rafael (I knew this song for a long time now but decided to include it in this list because I sang it with Khaye. Sang – what the hell, right?)
AND CONFETTI
(formerly known as Champagne to Pop)
Since ILA Week and
Breaking Dawn and my scholarship are off the list, let’s see… can we celebrate the release of the
City of Bones teaser trailer? Yes, we can (OMG, this sounds like Pres. Obama). Truth be told, I used to have some doubts about Jamie’s casting as Jace Wayland (‘cause of the looks and physique), but after I saw this, oh my heavens! He’s perfect. He’s really an actor, okay? I can’t wait for this movie to come out! Is it August 2013 yet?
December Activity List:
- Holidays, of course
- Rotaract Raffle Draw (7 December)
- Mother’s birthday (10 December)
- ILA Christmas party (14 December)
- Finish line to 100 reads
- School tour (tentative)
Last words from Pittacus Lore: When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
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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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