A Week in Photographs:Exam Week

These pictures pretty much described my week. Procrastination, boredom, stress, and vanity.

During my study period, I pretty much used my dad's ipad, with instagram to take pictures of myself, the food I eat, random things I discover, and blah blah blah. As you can see from above I was obsessed with Claire and I had a loooot of photos of myself. :))

Last Tuesday, we had our Cariñosa performance, our was OKAY. We got 85(fine with me :>) and I'm gonna get a grade of 92 when combined with my individual grade. #success.

This is Raven! :3 She looks pretty even when her eyes are closed. <3

 

Funny how we had costumes on at first but didn't even take full body pictures 'cause we were busy.

 Peek-a-boo!

We had loads of fun that day and I enjoyed the program though it tried a little bit too hard. Right now I am happy that exams are finished, all I have to worry about is the Acadfest which is on Tuesday. ^_^ So happy. It's only a matter of days before we go to Xia Men and I have to say I am both excited and nervous. We're going to Manila on the 27th and then we'll have time to watch the Hunger Games! :D Yaaaaay.

I will blog more these days since I have the time and the freedom. :3

Carry On

Hey! I'm back! :3 I haven't been able to post these past two weeks. I've been really busy with school(lots of projects) and life has been pretty dull. Next week we finally take everything to the stage! From the Cariñosa dance in PE to the Filipino play! I hope we do okay though I'm sorta doubting and panicking.

I'm so darn happy that there are only two weeks of school left but unfortunately i still have to study for the Academic Fest(asian history contestant) after examinations T_T. It's only a couple of weeks till we leave for Xia men and honestly I am excited to go to China. I really want to be fluent in Chinese as well as travel with my closest friends. I'm gonna go to Manila early to do some shopping because seriously I am lacking clothes and supplies. I already ordered boots but I am dangerously nervous that they won't be delivered in time.

Anyhow, I just wanted to give you a short summary of what's been happening and what's going to happen. :) This is supposed to be an Obvious Obsessions Post so let us go on! :D

(1) I am obsessed with Nate Ruess' voice. This album is totally awesome, made me love indie music so much more. (PS. I discovered it because of Glee :))
(2) Young the Giant has weird titles but the music is sooo soothing and weird I love it! I also discovered it because of Blaine's awesome version of Cough Syrup. Another band that made me like indie music. :3
(3) I love this site so much. It keeps track of the clothes the Glee cast wears on and off the show. I can't really afford the clothes but I like how they keep track of everything. :)
(4) I've been really into writing and fanfics recently. They are mostly about Klaine(I'm a shipper) and these are my favorites. If you love Klaine as much as I do, read them! They're awesome.
(5)These are main guys I'm rooting for this year on American Idol. I loved Reed's jazzy quirky and weird version of Moves Like Jagger last night as well as Creighton's amazing version of True Colors. I hope they make it all the way.

I know they are few and a bit fangirl-based but these are some of  my obsessions for now. You can now assume by the items above that I am weird. :)) Anyway, I'm rambling now so bye. I hope I can post next week. :3

Science+Love

First of all, belated happy Valentine's Day! :3 Here's a little photoshop thing I made last week. :3

Anyway, February 14 was what? It was a normal tuesday. Nothing really unusual. Just glad to spend it with my friends. I didn't really notice that it was Valentine's Day. :P

Anyway, remember the mural I was talking about? :3 Well, we only got second place when we were expecting first but it's okay. The other one had more appeal so, oh well. Nothing we can do now. Here is a quick pic I took of the mural. I love the look and the overall idea we had. I was very colorful and I'm really proud of the group effort.

Kinda dark, i know but :3. It's pretty right? The theme is our positive response to the adverse effects of technology to the environment.  hihihi Think we got it right?

On the me front, I had a bit of tonsilitis. Yeah I was kinda a whining little girl because it hurt when I swallowed so maybe I was kinda annoying? :3

Right now, the pain has gone, weirdly after I drank some milk tea. *winks* Is this a new cure? :O haha. I have a crazy busy sched right now, being a leader of almost every group. We've got a video presentation for Chinese, then a drama for Florante at Laura, and I still need to prepare for my History report. The life of a sophomore huh? :s I'm having a hard time with the script but I hope I come through. I'm sort of feeling the stress again but I'm trying to be calmer and less uptight. *yay for fulfillment of new year's resolution*

Next week we have the so called Kalasag Docufest. We get to watch 15 minute documentaries by History Club members on topics like depression, child labor, celebrities in politics, the tragedy of ofws, and a few more. Kinda excited to see the final outputs of the documentaries. I wanna see the potential of Josephians. \m/

Anyway, I might bore you to sleep with this two-photo, multi-paragraphed post so I'll leave it here. I hope I get to post something interesting again this weekend. *fingers crossed* Kbye.

Roll with the Punches

I received very disappointing news today, something that made me depressed and lose my appetite. I found out that I dropped two ranks in the class honors list, from top one in class to top three and from top 4 in the batch to top six. I was extremely disappointed and embarrassed, i could not stop a few tears from falling. I worked hard that quarter but I guess not as hard as I used to. I was a bit distracted due to delayed examinations because of Chinese dance. I know it's what i deserve this quarter but it really hurt me to think that I dropped so low. I couldn't help but cry my disappointment out.

Despite this, I have to rise from the ashes and smile. There are worst things to be depressed about and I guess I'm just a bit too grade-conscious and competitive. Despite my gloomy, irritated, disappointed mood for the day, I have to bring myself to smile:

(pardon the crappy photo)

The science exhibit gave me a reason to smile, the games let me let go of my depression but it's slowly coming back as I think of what I did wrong.

Dear Zoë,
         Top Four will come back to you, I promise. Don't be discouraged by one downfall. Rise from your depression, anger, and sadness and work even harder than usual. You are capable of getting what you want, you've done it before. Be happy and always look at the positive things in life. You have a lot of reasons to smile.
Love,
Future Zoe


This state of depression will end, followed by a new ray of sunshine as the quote above suggests. I will do my absolute best to get what I want, I know I can do it. I've done it before.

Anyway, here's a random collection of pictures.

 Some panna cotta Mommy made to go with the strawberries. I was pretty bored so I plated the strawberries up(inner chef coming through). The panna cotta was a bit too sweet but in contrast to the a bit sour strawberries, it was delicious.

Tried something new today. Instead of my usual wintermelon milk tea with pearls, I ordered Tiramisu Milk Tea with pudding. It was yummy; I enjoyed the pudding very much.

This is what I've been gearing up for. On Monday, I shall make a mural(together with Anika and Raven-sensei) about a theme( effects of  technology) with a slogan to match. Not sure on the slogan yet, still picking out one that will be great to paint.

I personally love to paint, having taken lessons during the summer but that was a long time ago. I hope I still remember the basics. I'm a bit anxious but mostly excited to get my hands dirty.

I am currently reading Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher(lent to me by Ate Sasa :3) and Unfinished Business by Nora Roberts on the kindle. Loving them both so far. I'm using a bookmark I drew and printed last November. Yeah, one of my successful doodles, unfortunately I haven't drawn since last year except a project for Chinese. I kinda got discouraged by my lack of talent.

This week was pretty crappy(sorry), it was filled with sadness and disappointment. I hope next week will be better, with Valentine's and all(I will be forever alone but with Glee to comfort me ;>). I want to feel better, no longer depressed and embarrassed by my failures as an honor student. Next week will turn out to bearable, I'll make that sure.

Wanna Be Starting Something

They say third time's the charm, right? Well, I believe in making the most about this year so I will attempt once again to start a blog. I've been wanting to start one again since last year but I've been lazy and busy so it was delayed up to this point. I'm so happy to finally get the template together and I'm pretty proud of it. :3

The Title is a reference to the previous MJ episode of Glee(you'll be hearing a lot more about it since i'm hopelessy addicted to the show and the cast members) wherein Darren Criss(the love of my life haha) sang the amazing Michael Jackson classic. I felt it was appropriate for my first post so here it is.

To all my invisible followers everywhere, I hope you like this blog and I hope you get to like me. This blog is one of my resolutions and I am overjoyed that I get to check it off my list. I've also sworn to be as organized and creative as possible this year so *fingers crossed*. I will fill this blog with nothing but 100 percent me, none of that fake crap that I am oh so familiar with. I may rant here or there but mostly this blog will contain things i'm loving and hating, projects i'm working on, the progress on my fashion, creations and drawings of mine, and simply about my life. I hope I won't sound like a selfish, self-centered teenager because that is not who I am. I'm actually pretty nice, I just can get vicious when I feel used and lied to. 

This year is about growing, maturing to the older and better me. I hate where I was last year, the insecure, overly stressed, "not fun" girl. I cared too much about school that I forgot that I had a life. Of course, being an honor student, I should put my studies first, but this year, I would learn to balance the two. This blog is a step towards a more mature "Zoë", with no more of that childish feelings and actions. I know it won't be that easy, I might lose my way here or there but everyone's got to grow up. Writing is what makes me who I am and it is the best way to show who I am exactly in words. I swore that this year I would write as often as possible, like I used to do in my elementary years.

What may seem annoying about me to you, makes a big part of what makes me *me*. Not everyone can be perfect and I am far from that. This is just me trying to find the path to a better, more mature person. This is a special project to me, one that will become a special part of my life. And I hope you, an invisible reader, can respect that. 

This is a start of something that will benefit me entirely. I know I don't have to explain why I started blogging but it seems that it is the best way to greet and baptize me into this world.

Thank you for reading this, future and invisible readers, I will blog as often as I can.

xxxMoe