random rambles

finally, a quiet moment alone again with my thoughts which are definitely so NOT quiet. my mind is currently on the reading old emails streak and i can't believe i am reading emails from ELEVEN, NO, TWELVE YEARS AGO.

funny how something that is a serious matter to you becomes, well, funny several years hence. couldn't help but laugh out loud at the histrionics in my emails to my friends. now i think i'm sorry i've subjected them to such kaartehan. i think this is some kind of a problem/challenge for people who speak more in writing. i cannot filter anymore what i want to say there, it's like my fingers get a mind of their own and simply fly over the keyboard or possess my pen to create yet another novel-like email/letter. nevertheless, those ancient missives make up for more good writing material and a lot of laughs. lots and lots of laughs. i can't believe i was that stupid then. i'd like to think i've gotten mature over the years but then i'll never grow out of having those stupid moments sometimes.

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just finished red queen by victoria aveyard. i've read a lot of YA novels thanks to my cousin B. and because of that, i cannot help but think that there are a lot of similarities here in red queen with, say, the hunger games and divergent. while red queen is more of a fantastical story set in a dystopian society, i could easily see mare barrow alongside katniss everdeen and tris prior. mare may be poor, but she has a personality that could scathe anyone not strong enough to withstand such. and like katniss and tris, she also has to battle her way in a society that is composed of the bullies (the silverbloods) and the oppressed (the redbloods). a war is at hand and it shows no sign of ending. guess who gets the short end of the stick in this war? kilorn, mare's best friend who was supposed to be able to avoid conscription by having work but is left without one when his master dies. sound familiar? and oh, an underground revolution is brewing amongst the reds. now guess who inadvertently becomes the face of the revolution? should i start on the romantic interests of mare? uh, maybe not now.

but even if my mind screamed hunger games!!! and divergent!!! in almost every chapter of red queen, i would still say that it is a fun read. trust and betrayal are the underlying themes of this story and ms. aveyard was able to manipulate her characters beautifully especially with that of cal and maven. as i got to the final moments in the story the book became harder to put down. my mind moved from hunger games!!! and divergent!!! to kill them already!!! (of course, this is to cal and mare.) however, because it's again a series just like most YA books these days, i would have to wait until my cousin gets her hands on the other books.

i just have one question. do the characters really have to smirk so much? the word sneer comes in as a close second, but it's not as many as smirk. i actually thought of counting how many times it appears in each chapter (it appeared all throughout the book) and in what tense was it written but then again, never mind.

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fangirling over:
jess glynne! still listening and dancing to her songs but more so with hold my hand (which i have currently on "loop" in youtube).
supergirl! i can't believe the season ended before arrow did. i really hope there will be a season 2. while i haven't read anything official about a season 2 for the show, the guys at cbs did say "season finale" and not "series finale" which i think my world will crumble if the latter happened. and the season ending ended with a cliffhanger, so...
arrow! i would say that this fourth season was better than the third one, though not as exciting as the second season (i think this is the best so far). just so heartbroken over laurel... why, oh, why??? i wonder what her haters think of her death now, they were so rabid about getting her kicked out of the show in season 2. i hope the writers make her go into the lazarus pit too, and then she'll get that blood lust and kill damien darhk for oliver. hahaha. there are five more episodes to go and then season 4 ends. please, no more going on hiatus!!!

early morning randoms

so it's 2am on a sunday. a week of semi-depression and sudden rallying has just passed. it's cold. woohoo.
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sa tinagal-tagal kong isipin kung anong kakainin ko para sa hapunan, hindi na ako nakapaghapunan. anong oras na nga uli? ika-2 ng umaga. kumukulo na ang tiyan ko. itutulog ko na nga lang ito. yahooooo.
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loved the latest episode of arrow. lovely fuzzy olicity moments, and that particular delicity moment (when diggle stood beside felicity after sara waved off her offer in having the blood sample analysed at the lab. and how could i forget that "because you're irreplaceable, felicity line? yezszzzzzzzzz
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five years ago, a friend shared a link to a youtube video. i loved it. fast forward to today (or rather, yesterday), this particular video came to mind but i forgot the title of the song, only that it was from legend of zelda. and because i won't be able to sleep until i found it, i did a little digging around in my youtube channel. and voila! wind waker unplugged by freddegredde.



                          

and now i'll hie myself off to bed. good night/morning y'all.

random anticipations

it has been quite some time since i was shot from the heights of anticipation. that's why when it happened again just recently, i felt like i was back in limbo. it's as if i was thrust once more into that space where i'm floating in nothingness. for someone who has been waiting for this particular event to fly (pun intended), this is the second to the last straw. because i'm giving this one more chance before totally giving up on it (why does this strangely sound like a combination of two sappy pinoy romantic movies with songs for titles?!).

yes, i'm annoyed, angry, frustrated and discouraged right now but this doesn't mean that i'm letting this get me down. one more time. here's to waiting again in the wings. last one. 

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soooooo. arrow ep 14 is set to air on wednesday in the states. three days after i'll be able to watch it right here in good old philippines. i am so looking forward to it. won't be checking out tumblr until after it has aired, that's for sure. but because i'm quite partial to spoilers it is most likely that that promise will be broken. and i won't even feel bad about it. ha. 

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so!!! the puppy a friend promised me has died. so much for that. when, oh when???

let the storm rage on!