Girls Night Out

Went to Cypress Towers but there was no parking for us, so we decided to go to High Street instead.

Straight to Jamba Juice :) (where I found lots of cute guys hahahahahaha)

4 Chocolate Moo’d which was soooooo good, my current fave and 1 Strawberry Whiz. Lol

With my cousins and niece that night.

Photoboothing

A fail shot I took, because of the car ugh haha

And another bokeh to end my blog post. Lol

05/08/12

It was my first time to actually wear a dress with no occasion, lol. I've been wanting to wear one ever since summer started because I find it really fresh looking, ugh. It's something to wear over this intense heat.

| vest: benetton | dress: bershka | flats: footzyrolls | anchor necklace: F21 |

| watch: swatch | bracelets: the bead shop | 

Another Summer Day

It's weird how my friends and I go out when school's about to start. No plans last April at all and May seems to be a hectic schedule for us. I can't believe we'll be a senior in less than a month. Don't know what to feel.

Anyway, today I went out with Elaine, Bea and Mara. Met at Market Market, ate their lunch while I enjoy my drink from Fruitas cause I ate lunch before leaving. Lol

so proud of myself, bokeh hehe so pretty

Then we decided to go to Fully Booked and while heading out it rained but it didn't stop us. Chilled there while Bea's trying to figure our how the menu dial works. Hahaha! Then we went to Jamba Juice!

strawberry whiz. it's okay, but I didn't like it that much, lol.

Walked to Terra 28th to kill time.

I have a thing for taking candid shots hehe

most decent picture, excluding Mara. She took the picture, lol.

Going back to Market Market!

Gash, I want to have a DSLR so bad. I love everything about it. Took most of the pictures I posted, lol.

(c) Bea

-- Danielle xx

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

I’ve read this almost a year ago, before my junior year began. Thanks to Elaine for lending the book to me. Best book I’ve read so far in my entire life. And before I start my actual review, I am sure as hell excited for the movie this year!

I’ve read the book twice (cause the book ain’t mine haha) but everything I read was stuck in my head. If I will be asked what book I want to carry along to a 365-day vacation, I would tell them The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It’s the kind of book you’ll never get tired of reading. Well, at least for me.

I have this habit of looking up quotes, usually one-liners, on the internet and I will eventually end up to a song or book. I looked up ”Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.” , and it led me to the book. I searched for other quotes until I was convinced it is a good read. Since it was getting popular when I found out about the book I always ran out of stock, lame right? Until my friend got it and I just borrowed. I was so in to it I’ve read it for 2 days, I didn’t really read the book straight haha. I read it again after a day of finishing it. :)

Charlie was the narrator of the book. The whole book was Charlie’s perspective of everything. His life, school and the like. In the beginning of the book he explains how he’s such an awkward freshman. And then he became friends with Patrick and Sam, brother and sister, and both a senior and were about to leave at the end of the year. We learn about Charlie’s life on the process of reading the book. How he met his teacher, Bill and how he gained friends.

During the course of the book, Charlie experiments on drugs and relationships. And we encounter Charlie’s sister’s boyfriend being all abusive, Patrick’s identity crisis and how his feelings for Sam grew into something more.

There was this part when this conversation, not so sure if it was Patrick or another guy at the party they attended.

“He’s a wallflower.”
“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

Yes, I completely memorize those lines. I even have a few more. It’s a very quotable book, guys! (Very quotable that I wrote my favorite lines on paper. Hahaha) Anyway, upon reading those line, it hit me why it was titled “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

I never met a Charlie in my life, ever. I’m still hoping I would meet someone like him. He’s the kind of guy who values people around him. He’s such an ideal lover and an ideal friend to have. You can feel his presence in every page of the book, I swear.

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” - I remember quoting this and actually putting this in my description box on my blog last summer. Because I was totally feeling the same thing Charlie felt.

It’s kind of similar to The Catcher in the Rye, the book I’ve read after this one. Our class moderator lent it to me but I wasn’t able to finish it, sad. I may buy myself a copy of these 2 good reads as soon as possible. I miss Charlie’s presence and I want to read the book again before the movie starts showing.

Looking for Alaska by John Green

I wanted to have this version of the book, lol. The cover was everything! :)

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” - Miles “Pudge” Halter

That exact line was the line I looked up last summer. It was all over my dashboard, yeah my reblog blog haha. I find it interesting and deep so I wanted to know where it was from and what he/she meant. It brought me to Looking for Alaska.

I had no idea about the book and when I saw the actual book, it has this “before and after” at the back. I was like “before what? after what? why will nothing be the same after?” I got curious so I bought the book anyway. I didn’t read much about the book. I just checked some quotes from the book. Ended up reading this book for 3 times until now. Haha.

This time, it was Miles’s perspective. He had no social life in Florida and he decides to go to Culver Creek, a boarding school where his dad went. But having no social life and it was his dad’s school aren’t the reason why he wanted to transfer. He wanted to read lots of books and he was searching for the Great Perhaps. He was also fond of memorizing people’s last words.

He met Chip or the Colonel, his dorm mate. And he eventually introduced him to Alaska, who he finds really attractive. Then met Takumi. He had friends not like in Florida. His parents tried to warn him about everything. As much as he doesn’t want to get involved into such things, he did anyway because the weekday warriors thought the Colonel ratted Paul and Marya.

Pudge was the kind of guy who I find really interesting. Oh, wait. I find all of them interesting cause they do not-so-good things like smoke and drink but they still had good grades. Enough said. Hahaha. Well, everyone of them are different, like really different from each other but still got along well. That’s real friendship over there. They had their backs for each other.

I can’t possibly tell the whole story, I would be such a spoiler. So anyway, Alaska was kind of mysterious for me. She said things like she intended not to be understood. It was crazy reading the book for the first time but it kept me really excited for what would happen next.

“Sometimes I don’t get you”
“That’s the point, you never get me.” 

Like Pudge, I never got Alaska until the Barn Night. I was shocked but I understood why she hated home, she never even called it home. She brought Pudge to the Great Perhaps then POOF! She was gone.

I understood now why it was never the same and I guess I’ll leave it to you guys to find out. It’s just that, I kind of related to Alaska. She was suffering and she wanted to to get out of that labyrinth of suffering, straight and fast.

It’s a book that dealt with life and death. Not exactly like it but it was telling how different it was to be with someone for a while and then poof! she’s gone. It tells how people act and change after a loss. How they deal with their lives after one’s death. It’s showed what will happen to us when someone we love just disappears. Nothing will ever be the same.