Sunday, July 22, 2012

mixtape: Take a Chance.

(click on picture to open playlist on a separate tab) 

"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame" 
- Salman Rushdie

                               Track list:
                                                  1. Break Me Out - The Rescues
                                         2. Love, Save The Empty - Erin McCarley
                                         3. Pumped Up Kicks - Sophie Madeleine (cover)
                                         4. Carousel - Vanessa Carlton
                                         5. Read My Mind - The Killers
                                         6. Home - Gabrielle Aplin
                                         7. Skinny Love - Cameron Mitchell (cover)
                                         8. Distance - Christina Perri feat. Jason Mraz
                                         9. You - The Pretty Reckless
                                        10. Tongue Tied - Group Love
                                        11. Anna Sun - Walk The Moon
                                        12. Questions - Bamboo


Thursday, July 12, 2012

4 months hiatus.

Sleep in the morning, work at night and eating in between - that has been my routine these past 4 months and counting, well except for random hang-outs with friends and such.


I wasn't planning to write anything today, just wanted to catch up with whats happening in the interweb, but here you go, I guess I've been dragging this task long enough now.. so let me just leave a little note here as a reminder that yes, Im still alive.





Monday, March 19, 2012

all I need is YOU.


Understand your darkness and it will vanish; 
then you will know what LIGHT is. 
Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; 
then you will wake up to REALITY. 
Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; 
then you will know the taste of HAPPINESS. 
                       
                           -Anthony De Mello 

Sunday, March 4, 2012

mixtape: Change Your Perspective.

(click on picture to open playlist on a separate tab)

"Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them." —  E.M. Forster

                                 
                                 Track list

                                                      1. Float on - Modest Mouse
                                         2. We Are Young - Fun. feat. Janelle MonĂ¡e
                                         3. Get Burned - Sleeper Agent
                                         4. My Body - Young the Giant
                                         5. Girls with Accents - Fences
                                         6. Camp Out - An Horse
                                         7. Maracas - Mates of State
                                         8. Bullet - Steel Train
                                         9. Charlie Brown - Coldplay
                                       10. Lazyeye - Silversun Pickups
                                       11. Malibu - Hole
                                       12. Some Are Lakes - Land Of Talk
                                       13. Contrails - Astronautalis ft. TRQ

Thursday, March 1, 2012

the gory bits.

Im high on caffeine right now so I can't sleep which I can't blame to anyone else rather than myself really. Well I planned this staying-awake-all-night-trip earlier this evening slash earlier last night, since standard time wise, it is morning already. Im sorry I'm not making any sense right now and I'm so lazy to start this paragraph all over again so yah.. I am not capable of any form of sleep so I'm resolving to spend my waking hours left in writing this rubbish post.

A while ago I was watching this movie, 'Like Crazy', which took me I guess two failed attempts first before getting the right copy and two days to finish the whole downloading process, given the very poor speed of our net connection. 


“I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn’t, not really. Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn’t realize it would sometimes be more than whole, that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea. Because it’s the halves that halve you in half. I didn’t know, don’t know, about the in-between bits; the gory bits of you, and the gory bits of me.”

There is something about the bold portrayal of reality that draws my attention to films like this. The ardent attempt to not stray into settling for a predictable, destiny-gamed tale is for me a very original choice or preference when it comes to film making. I understand that I don't share this perception with everyone, that the ability to appreciate movies like this comes with one's maturity because I myself can truthfully admit that the high school version of me will not give this piece of art a chance. Because in that age, my point of view when it comes to must-watch films stems into an assumption that it must have the teeny bopper handsome leading guy factor in it. And Jacob from this movie doesn't quite really fit in that description.

I think it is the beauty of simplicity, of not over glittering most of the scenes, that made this film really stand out for me. That even if you have never actually been in that exact same situation as to that of the characters, you can still put yourself in their spot and delve into the raw emotions that they were struggling through. 

P.S
The female lead character's name is Anna Maria and I swear in the name of merlin that we had the same nail color in that wedding scene they have. (I just need to insert this info somewhere to satisfy my narcissism).



Thursday, February 16, 2012

Monday, January 23, 2012

just say YES.

First of I wanna  offer my two thumbs up to all the gentlemen who dared to do the craziest and most creative ways to ask the woman they deeply love to be with them forever or for the rest of their lives at least. This is me being an emotional marshmallow and all... and I know I may not be in a 'i-can-relate' situation right now but I can't help it! I mean darn it! I am a girl and that alone is acceptable enough for an excuse.


I think I have already mentioned here, in one of my previous posts, about  my unswerving love for wedding videos (specially the well filmed ones) and now I am finding myself falling big time in love with that gutsy act that would later result to weddings: marriage proposal.



I may not be in the position to describe what it feels like to be proposed to, but I bet with every heartbeat that it must be sublime.. to have your significant other get down on one knee and make you feel like you're THE one, that choosing to be with you will never be a mistake, that you are worthy of every effort, and that you are simply enough. 








(this one's got two significant words for me: my name and diseneyland♥)

In posting this, all my wishes goes to every hopeful girl (and that includes me) who dreams of having her own MOMENT one day, that when that day comes, may it be what we always imagined it to be and more..

and that most importantly may that guy be sweet enough to have it all filmed for all the world to see.. :D