October: In A Nutshell
October marks the last few weeks of the first semester… which means it’s Hell Week time! This month was both tiring and fulfilling. It was tiring because, hello, deadlines were following me in every corner; and it was fulfilling in a way because, hello, I
survived!
I can’t say a lot about October (that doesn’t include the words “dead tired”, “shit” and “shittier”) except that, ironically, it’s one of my favorite months BECAUSE BIRTHDAYS OF MY DARLINGS: Sam Concepcion (17th), Colton Dixon (18th), Zac Efron (19th) and my father (24th).
OCTOBER ARCHIVES
For Some Particular Reason, I had one of my many fits wherein I have this nagging desire to explain myself to everyone, even though I’ve been numerously saying that I don’t give a turd about anything that involves clarification. But I did. (And this just shows how painfully inconsistent I am with my choices and decision.) Perfect closing line: “For some particular reason, I really don’t know what I’m doing with my life.”
Two Cents 2.5
Yey,
Two Cents is back! This time it’s just half of the actual ranting-post because it’ll be too long if I include the second subject (which will be about one of my favorite fandoms ever – because they’re back). Anyway, this better half of my
Two Cents is about
Miley Cyrus and her never-ending, bombastic changes with her image. Bottom line: it’s her life, so let her be. Allot your time and energy to more productive things. Comb your hair, for heaven’s sake!
Faith in Troubled Times
Sometimes I can be romantic and post something that actually makes sense: “Faith requires each one of us to believe even if we do not understand and to understand even if it does not fall in our line of reasoning. Faith requires us to believe even if we cannot see it with our mere eyes and encourages us to see it with our hearts. Faith requires us to trust that God knows what He is doing.”
HALLELUIAH CATHARTIC
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” ©
BTRP-ISDAW,
Paulo Coelho
LOONY DRAGONSLAYER
I forgot to read again. Dang.
October read:
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho (Mr. Coelho has this talent to write a novel wherein every line is quotable).
Current Read:
Requiem (by Lauren Oliver)
EARGASM
FAVORITE PERSON ©
Is it okay if my favorite person is actually someone I haven’t met? Because I just cannot
not put Brian Logan Dales in here. Brian is the lead vocalist of one of my favorite bands ever, The Summer Set. Story of TSS and I: I didn’t actually know them until I came across this write up about Take 5 mall tours last June/July 2011. I got interested in seeing Take 5 because of The Ready Set, but to not feel left out, I decided to listen to the other four performing bands. AND HELLO THE SUMMER SET YOU’RE PRETTY AWESOME. Since then I’ve been following their life and progresses as a band, and got pretty much obsessed with Brian. When you look at his photos you’d see a really attractive guy who looks so cocky and proud you’d think he’s such a diva. It wouldn’t cross your mind that he also can be very hilarious. His
tweets don’t match the smirks on his photos! He has the weirdest and most fanboy-ing tweets ever! It’s like everything he posts are worthy of a retweet. And his love for every genre of music and flashy blazer and being “the sassiest motherfucker” and
How I Met Your Mother is – for some weird reason – inspiring. I wish I was friends with him. Ugh.
FAVORITE PHOTO/GIF ©
Introducing: the ever-flawless, OTP-worthy love-hate tandem of Klaus Mikaelson and Caroline Forbes. “Klaroline”, as what their shipment is called, is probably one of the best things that have ever happened to
The Vampire Diaries (except, of course, Stefan’s character roller coaster). Who would’ve thought that the diabolical, selfish and what-I-want-I-get Original Hybrid would fall madly in love with the emotion-ridden, obsessive-compulsive Caroline? They’re so different from each other that they’re already perfect. But you know what the worst thing is? Indefinitely breaking Klaroline off because of
The Originals! The spin-off is great but I NEED KLAROLINE IN MY SYSTEM RIGHT NOW DON’T TOUCH ME.
AND CONFETTI
Confetti #1: I survived first semester without dying. I almost lost faith and gave up – what with all the thesis and shit – but I guess giving up isn’t really an option here. A lot of people are expecting me to be successful, and I know it’s a pain, but I can’t help but do everything to meet this expectation.
Confetti #2: Remember
The Summer Set? A favorite band of mine? Well, they kinda
followed me back on Twitter. It’s not much really. (!!!) I discovered this miracle right before our final presentation for Communications class, and trust me, it took me everything not to go around the room flinging myself to every corner to release my overflowing fangirl feels. It’s so weird because I wasn’t really tweeting them hardcore like “Please follow back! It would make my day. I L0V3 Y0U!” No, I wasn’t. I just mention them every time I have questions, ravings or citations for their songs. So you can say that I was
extremely surprised by this. Ahh, fly to Manila! I want Legendary tour!
Confetti #3: Tree Planting with Rotary D3800. I’ve gone to one tree planting activity before but didn’t actually plant trees, but this time I did. We travelled for a good two hours, and walked and hiked for a few minutes to reach the site, and holy cow it was all worth it. I’ve got some scratches and red, itchy spots from all the plants, but just the view of the mountains unveiled by the fog plus the cold wind that I totally dig made all the stinging figuratively disappear. It was tiring but, you know, sometimes it’s good to be tired.
Next attraction (November 2013): 2nd semester, ILA Week,
Catching Fire and internship! I’ll leave you with some wisdom from
Jamie Campbell Bower (whom I also adore): “People can hate on you for doing what makes you happy, but ultimately it has to belong to you, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.” xx
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October: In A Nutshell
October marks the last few weeks of the first semester… which means it’s Hell Week time! This month was both tiring and fulfilling. It was tiring because, hello, deadlines were following me in every corner; and it was fulfilling in a way because, hello, I
survived!
I can’t say a lot about October (that doesn’t include the words “dead tired”, “shit” and “shittier”) except that, ironically, it’s one of my favorite months BECAUSE BIRTHDAYS OF MY DARLINGS: Sam Concepcion (17th), Colton Dixon (18th), Zac Efron (19th) and my father (24th).
OCTOBER ARCHIVES
For Some Particular Reason, I had one of my many fits wherein I have this nagging desire to explain myself to everyone, even though I’ve been numerously saying that I don’t give a turd about anything that involves clarification. But I did. (And this just shows how painfully inconsistent I am with my choices and decision.) Perfect closing line: “For some particular reason, I really don’t know what I’m doing with my life.”
Two Cents 2.5
Yey,
Two Cents is back! This time it’s just half of the actual ranting-post because it’ll be too long if I include the second subject (which will be about one of my favorite fandoms ever – because they’re back). Anyway, this better half of my
Two Cents is about
Miley Cyrus and her never-ending, bombastic changes with her image. Bottom line: it’s her life, so let her be. Allot your time and energy to more productive things. Comb your hair, for heaven’s sake!
Faith in Troubled Times
Sometimes I can be romantic and post something that actually makes sense: “Faith requires each one of us to believe even if we do not understand and to understand even if it does not fall in our line of reasoning. Faith requires us to believe even if we cannot see it with our mere eyes and encourages us to see it with our hearts. Faith requires us to trust that God knows what He is doing.”
HALLELUIAH CATHARTIC
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” ©
BTRP-ISDAW,
Paulo Coelho
LOONY DRAGONSLAYER
I forgot to read again. Dang.
October read:
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho (Mr. Coelho has this talent to write a novel wherein every line is quotable).
Current Read:
Requiem (by Lauren Oliver)
EARGASM
FAVORITE PERSON ©
Is it okay if my favorite person is actually someone I haven’t met? Because I just cannot
not put Brian Logan Dales in here. Brian is the lead vocalist of one of my favorite bands ever, The Summer Set. Story of TSS and I: I didn’t actually know them until I came across this write up about Take 5 mall tours last June/July 2011. I got interested in seeing Take 5 because of The Ready Set, but to not feel left out, I decided to listen to the other four performing bands. AND HELLO THE SUMMER SET YOU’RE PRETTY AWESOME. Since then I’ve been following their life and progresses as a band, and got pretty much obsessed with Brian. When you look at his photos you’d see a really attractive guy who looks so cocky and proud you’d think he’s such a diva. It wouldn’t cross your mind that he also can be very hilarious. His
tweets don’t match the smirks on his photos! He has the weirdest and most fanboy-ing tweets ever! It’s like everything he posts are worthy of a retweet. And his love for every genre of music and flashy blazer and being “the sassiest motherfucker” and
How I Met Your Mother is – for some weird reason – inspiring. I wish I was friends with him. Ugh.
FAVORITE PHOTO/GIF ©
Introducing: the ever-flawless, OTP-worthy love-hate tandem of Klaus Mikaelson and Caroline Forbes. “Klaroline”, as what their shipment is called, is probably one of the best things that have ever happened to
The Vampire Diaries (except, of course, Stefan’s character roller coaster). Who would’ve thought that the diabolical, selfish and what-I-want-I-get Original Hybrid would fall madly in love with the emotion-ridden, obsessive-compulsive Caroline? They’re so different from each other that they’re already perfect. But you know what the worst thing is? Indefinitely breaking Klaroline off because of
The Originals! The spin-off is great but I NEED KLAROLINE IN MY SYSTEM RIGHT NOW DON’T TOUCH ME.
AND CONFETTI
Confetti #1: I survived first semester without dying. I almost lost faith and gave up – what with all the thesis and shit – but I guess giving up isn’t really an option here. A lot of people are expecting me to be successful, and I know it’s a pain, but I can’t help but do everything to meet this expectation.
Confetti #2: Remember
The Summer Set? A favorite band of mine? Well, they kinda
followed me back on Twitter. It’s not much really. (!!!) I discovered this miracle right before our final presentation for Communications class, and trust me, it took me everything not to go around the room flinging myself to every corner to release my overflowing fangirl feels. It’s so weird because I wasn’t really tweeting them hardcore like “Please follow back! It would make my day. I L0V3 Y0U!” No, I wasn’t. I just mention them every time I have questions, ravings or citations for their songs. So you can say that I was
extremely surprised by this. Ahh, fly to Manila! I want Legendary tour!
Confetti #3: Tree Planting with Rotary D3800. I’ve gone to one tree planting activity before but didn’t actually plant trees, but this time I did. We travelled for a good two hours, and walked and hiked for a few minutes to reach the site, and holy cow it was all worth it. I’ve got some scratches and red, itchy spots from all the plants, but just the view of the mountains unveiled by the fog plus the cold wind that I totally dig made all the stinging figuratively disappear. It was tiring but, you know, sometimes it’s good to be tired.
Next attraction (November 2013): 2nd semester, ILA Week,
Catching Fire and internship! I’ll leave you with some wisdom from
Jamie Campbell Bower (whom I also adore): “People can hate on you for doing what makes you happy, but ultimately it has to belong to you, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.” xx
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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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