portrait of a girl

After Viel's Debut, I ended up back in our house. Vacations are the only time I can really rest, since my course requires mind blowing efforts. Like any normal teenager, I was on the internet a lot. I spent time with my cousins goofing around. I watched television. I went out with my family to watch movies (The Strangers is a respectable enough film). Basically, everything was smooth. The highlights of the rest of the days were: New Year's Eve Celebration and GATB Meet-up/First Day of School/ Thursday Madness. I will talk about all that in this post, to make up for my extended disappearance in the blogging community. NEW YEARS EVE Remember when I said that our family liked to celebrate every holiday together at my Grandma's? Well, obviously New Year's Eve was no exception. This time, we didn't have gifts in hand. However, we had our pouches ready. We were getting ready for-- I'll talk about that later. We bought food to share, and so did everyone else in t...

20. Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future Practice smiling. Got it. Needless to say, I see myself being with Fido in the future. We've managed to go this long, so we can't possibly give up this journey so easily. I guess it would be nice to marry him, but that isn't much of a priority right now so I wouldn't dwell on that fact much. It's just funny though how he tries to persuade me to marry him before I turn thirty. Am I seriously going to be that OLD AND WRINKLY? >.> He tried to bargain, and I gradually agreed to 'marry' at twenty six. Seems to be fair enough. I don't really know what else to say. I guess he's a good guy. Sure we had our differences and bitter fights, but we managed to cross the bridge. In the future, I'm sure we can cross more bridges if we just talk it out and hear each other. For me, what we have at the moment is enough. He makes me laugh, kisses me on the forehead, says he's ...

19. Nicknames you have; why do you have them Everyone has their own personal nicknames, so here are some of mine! ❥  Lingling ⇨ This nickname was born because my cousins could not pronounce my second name, Pauline. They could only pronounce 'Ling', which is supposed to be the 'Line' of Pauline. In the end, it stuck and everyone in the neighborhood calls me this. My aunties, uncles, grandmas, grandpas, and ALL THEIR coworkers call me Ling. It's shocking when my mom brings home some of her coworkers, and they all start calling me Lingling. My neighbors, my childhood friends call me this. I am not comfortable is someone new calls me by this name. I would be like 'What the heck is wrong with you?' ❥  Pauline/Pauling ⇨ For my classmates in elementary, I was always called Pauline. They called me Pauline because everyone kept mispronouncing 'Frances' with Francis. It's irritating, and I kept on complaining until everyone decided on...

10. Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad Despite the fact that I am a mood-swings type of person, I still have songs that I play in specific moods. Since this challenge specifies HAPPY, SAD, BORED, HYPED, and MAD, I shall post the first songs that pop into my mind. If you don't know the song, just click on the MOOD beside the song and artist. happy : mine - taylor swift I don’t know why but I can’t help but get carried away by the song's happy tune. It makes me feel all giddy inside. The words just play with my imagination. The whole scenario if sitting by the water, and love love love. Not to mention the fact that the music video gives off a very vibrant aura. Who wouldn't listen to this when they're happy? sad :   lego house - ed sheeran I just discovered this song lately. I happened to listen to it when I was actually feeling a little sad about something I can no longer remember. It’s very nice, and that's an unders...

December must be one of my favorite months of the year. It's cold, which means more hot choco in the morning. Mm. I like hot choco, and warm hugs. The title doesn't really say much about this post, but I really like the song. I like it's gloomy, love-lost atmosphere. Anyways, I decided to make a post that isn't a challenge post. Everyone's posting a bit of themselves and their every day life so I guess it's time that I update you all as well. It's December 8, but I'll start my story in the beginning, December 1. December 1 was the last day of Xavier Days. I didn't attend because I was being the lazy bum that I am. I was supposed to be at our organization's exhibit and meet with the high school buddies. I felt partly guilty, but I don't think people would hate me just because of that. Anyways, I had to attend a birthday in the evening. In the day though, I just downloaded fun movies including Bokura Ga Ita. Hm. To s...

the GRAND OPENING of THURSDAY MADNESS Last Thursday, we had the first of our many Thursday Madness. First stop was Greenwich, Limketkai Center. The chosen specialty dish was Ultimate Hawaiian Overload! Fido wanted the 12'' one, so I kinda went along with it even if I kinda wanted the one with chicken. Hm. There is something wrong with me and chickens lately. We had that and a pitcher of cold ice tea. I'm sure the cashier was shocked that it would only be the two of us dining. Here is the boy after ordering the pizza. As you can see, he's a little bit too excited for it. AHA! The 12'' pizza arrives, and I gotta admit that I thought it would be bigger. With the pizza comes the iced tea ! This is how a slice of overload looks like. It looks yummier in person, but the camera doesn't want to capture its cheesy essence. It looks very dry here. Fido just finished putting our first slice. Being the innate gentleman that he is, he pu...

For those who don't know this, being in a long term relationship entails at some point you run out of new things to do together. Watching movies together, taking walks together, going home together, playing computer games together. . It starts to get normal after, I dont know. . Four years maybe? All that lovey dovey stuff is not going to be enough to keep young hearts entertained. Anyways, it's hard to look for a hobby as a couple. We, at some desperate point, even tried making a notebook, like a GATB notebook. Not once, but twice! We even tried to make letters for each other, which I admit is pretty gay. We also tried having MMK dates, via texting. Lame, lame, lame. Every fun hobby seems to be only good for one. So one afternoon and a pizza, we cooked up a delicious idea! Haha. Cooked up. We decided to have food marathons (ADVENTURES OF FOOD BOY & GIRL), as we ate a slice of pizza from a Greenwich take-out stand. Actually, we just wanted to buy one whole pizza ...

Last Wednesday, I only had PE Class the whole day. 9:00-12:00 in the morning. Sure, it isn't early but. . I was still late. I was so late (around ten already!), so our teacher didn't allow me to join in anymore. It's a good thing that they were only practicing, and that there was no practical exam. BLARGH. Sports are definitely not my thing.（￣ー￣）Anyways, I GM-ed, asking people if they were free. As per usual, Fido replied first, then Angel after a few more hours. . and then no one else. Wasn't shocking for Penda not to reply, seeing that a Nursing student's schedule is incredibly mind blowing. In Lorry's case, I got used to her not replying at all. In the end, I had a lunch date with Fido at KFC, since it was the closest place to Domain. ♪ヽ( ⌒o⌒)人(⌒-⌒ ) ♪ La la la ~ We had chicken, and made it swim in deliciously thick gravy. Ahh . Yum yum gravy (︶▽︶) ~ We stayed there for about an hour, while we waited for Angel to join us. Jhio came to join us for a whil...