Of Prohibition and Speakeasies (;

     So one of my favorite decades to learn about is the 20's. I love the flapper fashion, bright red lips, and short elegant hair! And the speakeasies, gangs, and Prohibition add some mystery and romance (;

     So one day a couple weeks ago I decided I'd try a flapper makeup/hair look, and this is what I got! 

(And I had fun editing this!)

Hehe, me back in the good old days, with my long cigarette (a.k.a skinnny makeup brush)

 And POP ART STYLE!

 I had to use a thousand bobbypins to do this!

Just flapping away again(;
For some reason blogspot won't stop flipping these last two though.

These Days

So these days until my freedom from school are quite boring.

Right now, I'm in the process of making a quiche! It's gonna have bacon, leeks, onions, thyme, and eggs and stuff... should be delish! I wish I could take a picture of it and show you guys, but my camera's got no batteries :'( So also no more vlogs for a little bit.

AND MY BDAY WAS MAY 22!!! I feel so old, being 17. I'll be 18 in a year! And legal to drink in every country except the USA. And call and order for my own PILLOW PET off the commercials! :o

I also had a dental appointment today, and shall soon have braces, which I badly need, so thank the lord. But I hate being 17 and getting braces. BUT my dentist said it was actually common. Speaking her of, she's half filipino too, but has blue eyes and blonde hair! Her facial structure is really Asian-looking though.

I still need to finish my Female Sterilization Birth Control Powerpointtttt. It's just so difficult. Oh well, I'll get to it tonight. I did start my "summer homework" early though, I've already started reading the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which I'll be acting out or something whilst in NYC! AHHH, I cannotttt wait!!! I've also started studying a mini-map of Manhattan I found.

In June, I want to:

• Clean my room SPOTLESS
• Get to know basics of my NYC maps by heart!
• Learn a little of the NYC subway systems... yikesss.
• Read Haroun and the Sea of Stories completely, to be prepared!
• Start driver's classes
• Get a job
• HAVE A LIFE

These should all be pretty easy-ish, except the last one, lol. I'm starting to like people less and less, I really need a break from them. At least the ones at my school!

Vlog #1 - The Old Man is Roaring!

So, because I wanted to vlog the whole time I'm in NYC, I figured I might as well get a head start now. The videos really bad quality because I can't find batteries for my actual camera, so I'm using my webcam. 

This is from Yesterdayy! (:

Holy Smokes!

Mhmm, that's right, I uploaded it! My french skit. It's lame but it was my first time on stage (since I was 5, lol)

ACCEPTED!!!!

YESSSS!

YUHGUISE, I was accepted to the Writers on Stage summer program in NYC! I'm so excited!!!

This totally me right now:


Lmao,  but seriously. I can't stress how amazing an experience this will be for me. Before high school, like, literally even the summer right before, I was sooo into writing. But after taking all these honors/AP classes, having a sucky boyfriend and friends, and all the drama therafter, I had so much going on I literally had no time or inspiration to write! But this creative writing (and acting- YEESH!) may just help me find my way back to it, and maybe I'll even go down a different road in life... like travel journalism, or photo journalism!

The only problem I can imagine having is the acting part - I hope to the lawd all mighty I don't make a fool of myself. Especially because I do worse in front of a small group of people, I'd way rather act in front of a full auditorium or something. I'll probably be googling tips on performing on stage ALL the time, especially with my horrible anxieties... but I'll get over it! I honestly feel like the best possible thing for me at a time when I just lost all my friends and had my heart broken by a douche was throwing myself into a time and practically life consuming production I did last April!

We had French foreign exchange students, so some of the french class students(us) teamed up with them to do a skit on French/American sterotypes! It was hilarious. I'll have to upload my skit. Even though it wasn't as good as the rest, it means alot to me, okayy?! lol. I was at a really bad point in my pathetic little high school life where even though it wasn't obviously, the whole world felt like it was crashing down around me. (Keep in mind I was a freshman! Dramaticness was my life!) Yet somehow, throwing myself into the production where I only knew 2 of the people (the ones in my group), couldn't speak the same language as half of them, and had only ever seen the rest, I still managed to feel confident and happy as ever on the performance night, there in front of my whole school! And I didn't even know the people I was working with - I can't wait to get to know these people, and hopefully become friends with them, for a month!

Oh, and did I mention this is all free? Yeah, I feel so lucky right now!

Gaga-ing it Up!

So I'm homesick from school right now, and bored.... like my new hair??

I feel like I look more asian with blonde hair!

Close ups!

LOL jk, it's my wig from last Halloween when I was Lady Gaga! (:

 And this me without the blonde Gaga wig, in case you forgot (;

What's your preference? Comment belowwww!

I hate Block Days!

This block day especially sucks, because I have periods 1, 3, 5, and 7. Math is 7th, and is KILLS me. Ughh. 2 hours of Geometry? No thank you. I feel like killing myself every time I walk through that door :p

And of course, for some reason, the enchilada girl I hate followed me into my 5th period class and decided to sit by me and try to talk to me. But I have such a bad history with that girl, and she's recently been rude af to me, so I was like HELLLLSNOOO! God. People irritate me sometimes.

Well, nothing else much interesting happened today. So dassall.

Montauk, NY 2010!

I lovedddd my visit to Montauk back in '10! It's a beachy-town at the very tip of NY, a place everyone calls "The End'. My aunt rented a beachhouse there, it was soooo nice! I hope to go back someday!

 Last day there, but I thought it'd be a good first pic!

 Beach - GORGEOUS!!! I love it!

 

                                                         The hidden beachhouse. (:

                     We went for a health-full hike, and the view was GORGEOUS. I swear, if I lived by the beach, I'd be the healthiest person ever alive! I also did some yoga right by the ocean - amazing!

                                                       What did I tell you bout this view?!

                                         Me, my Lola, and my aunt's friend! She was soo nice!

 

All the filipina ladies! (;

                                        Walking to the ocean, swimming in it for the first time!  

                                            Gorgeous sunset from a resturaunt called Harvest.

 

                                                   More beach, of course!

First Video Trauma!

                               This is what happened the first go at my first vid... lmao.
                                       My curling iron holder attacked my dresser!

What I Want Out Of Life!

Today was interesting. But not so.

In photo, we went around town taking pictures, and I actually grew a teeny tiny bit of appreciation for this place, just because it's photogenic. And old. I love old, vintage things!

I would post the pics I took but they were all film! But I think I got some really good ones, and I'm excited. I may actually be starting to re-like photography. I was sick of it for a while, but mostly because alot of stuff was going on and my motivation toward school dropped to below zero. For a while there I thought I was getting better, but then it got worse again, and now it's kinda so-so. I'm not happy, but I just want to make it past everything so I can actually live. This probably sounds selfish, but I want to live how I want to live, no restrictions, no one holding me back.

When I turn 18, I want a tattoo. Just one at first, but MAYBE another later on, or if my kids are born in exotic places, maybe an Angelina Jolie shoulder tattoo thing! I think that's so amazing. But I don't just want to get one to get one, I want a meaningful one, unlike certain people (ex. a kitty saying LET'S PARTY - uhm, no. Child, what are you thinking?!). And I DON'T want a bazillion, no way. I don't want to look trashy. I think I already know what I want though, and it has a special meaning to me, so I don't care what anyone (ma famille) thinks!

I know I want kids. ONE DAY.  Not anytime soon. Maybe not even in the next ten years. But lately, I have not been liking little children, AT ALL. I used to love them and always play with them or whatever, no problem, but lately I just have not been wanting to deal with them. They're so naughty! I've taken care of enough little children throughout my near-17 years that I've totally tuned out the idea of marrying young and having kids young - uh uh!!! I feel like I'm constantly taking care of kids, cleaning up messes, and I will never be just a normal housewife. Future husband, you are hella wrong if you think I'm going to wait on you like a slave. I want someone independent who knows how to take care of themselves, and COULD live without me, but of course doesn't want to. (:

I want to go to college in NYC. I know it's expensive, but I'm determined. I need a job, so badly! Especially because of my (hopeful) plans that I want to work, so badly. I just want to feel like I'm part of something big, something real, and I feel like I'm a fictional character in a horribly boring book where I am right now. Or maybe the opposite - I feel like the world around me is only fiction. In New York, I honestly feel incredibly happy, even just walking down the smelly, crowded steps to the rat-filled subways (I know this makes you want to join me!). I feel like I can do anything - it's good for me to be there. I need to be there. I can't imagine my life any other way, somehow.

I want to travel everywhere! I want to settle down in England or Ireland or somewhere in Europe, and when I one day have kids I want to raise them there and let them learn to speak in the cutest little accents! I want to zipline through the Amazon, stand on top of the Tour Eiffel, walk across the great wall of China! I want to learn new languages and cultures, and be a "citizen of the world" (lmao I am corrrnnnyyy!). I just can't see how anyone would want to stay one place their whole lives, ick. I want to meet new & interesting people. Everyone here is really the same in a way.

Hmmmm well this is long and I'm not even sure I typed out of thoughts in a sensible way. SO I'm done for now!

NYC, how I miss you so... (Part Un)

Here's a few pics from my last trip to NYC, I can't wait to be back home (it IS my home!) this summer! (from Summahsummah 2010, My hair is WAY different now!


                                   
        I love this little lady so much, my adorable Lolykins <3 This is our first day back in Brooklyn. 

View from the back of a Ferry heading toward Ellis Island... c'est tres jolie, non?

View of Manhattan from the Statue of Liberty Island. I so want to be a part of it - NEW YORK, NEW YORK! I'm so corny.

Ughh, I'm a mess. But look at that gorgeous green lady behind me!

My grandma's fb profile picture - LMAO! I look ugly af though.

And closer!  I love doing all the touristy things, if it's not too crowded - I'm gonna try to spend this summer getting used to living there. Because I will soon!

Awwe lookadat. I need to stop using such generic faces and poses though, forreals.

Ferry! Buildings! Peeps!

Grill 21, a filipino resturaunt on East 21st St. Just look at that Halo-Halo -- SOOO DELISHH!!

Pancit, Adobo, and Tosino! As Rachel Ray would say - YUMO! 

Again Halo-Halo with my Grammykins!

And - THIEVERY! She had mango ice cream on hers, I had ube, and my aunt had coconut I think.

For some reason, I just really love this Subway Station - R.I.P. Virgin store! :'(

Chinatown, my place!

A sad, sad day. The last morning of our week-long trip.

Welp, to be continued for now!  I'm tired so tired! Night Everyone!         

I'm baaaacckkk!

I told you my life was boring! It's so boring I haven't even felt like talking about it.

Some actually interesting things going on in my life right now;

• SCHOOL ENDS IN 30 DAYS - hellstodahyeauuhhh!
• I just applied for a 3-week summer writing/performing program in NYC... I worked so hard in a crunched amount of time on my app, I really hope I get accepted! I'll keep you guys (a.k.a no one, cuz no one knows of my blog - or life, for that matter) posted! Wish me luck!
• AP US History Exam in about 9 days... and I've barely studied. Shitaki mushrooms :/
• Still a loner/loser!
• I made a youtube video... but it's very pathetic and OMG long. I am a dumbass. I'm actually going to try to post lots of beauty/travel/stuff I enjoy videos cuz it seems fun, but I need to improve upon my everything involving this stuff. GOSH.
• Opened my first bank account! This is lame but it's something new.
• I've been driving alot(ish) more and getting better!
• I got me temporary license RENEWED (thanks, parentals, for advancing me in life so quickly).
• My grades are better-ish?

Hmmm.... That's all I can think of to say right now. I'll probably blog more & put photos/vids on here. I want to try and make this like a compilation of my life! For now, here's mah face for you.

I was attemping "Canal Lashes", but I'm not sure if they were spidery and clumpy enough.