Simple joys in life: new books by favorite authors.
Life collection #2 updated. Thanks for the postcard book!
Just got my 6th baby! So beautiful, I can’t get over it. Can’t even get myself to open it up, but I will in a few minutes.
Hi everyone! Whenever there are contests online and people are asking for support, I do my best to participate because I know how it’s like! Everyone wants to win, so why not earn someone’s gratitude through a simple click, right? :)
So here’s your good deed for today!
Please like https://www.facebook.com/Lomography and this photo. Thank you so much!!!
Lomography has been a big part of my life and it has become one of my deepest passions so getting the prize for this would be truly wonderful.
THANK YOU! :)
I had a self-imposed book ban for 2011, promising myself not to buy books if they won’t be on sale (20% off at the very least) and while I didn’t break that promise, I still feel a little bit bad that I hauled books again only a few days along 2011. But a) it’s not my fault that I stumbled upon a sale, and b) these are on my to buy list. I also told myself that I shouldn’t buy books that are not on that list. Just saying.
Also, it might be the first time after a really, really long time that I didn’t have a YA book along with what I bought. I hope these will prove to be awesome reads.
Please grab a copy of Candy’s October 2010 issue. Inside is the Council of Cool 10 mini-mag featuring Jessica Mendoza and more. This is the fruit of our labor — all the pre-planning, the article-writing, the clothes-hunting, and the cutie-crushing!
Jesselle Villegas, Editor-In-Chief
Leslie Lipa, Managing Editor
Alekx Toyhacao and Jazmin Reyes, Fashion Section and Styling
Mars Salazar and Vicky Marquez, Guys Section
Cre Marin, Features Section
Keisha Go, Section EditorI’m going bananas now!
I bought my copy today. The ironic thing about it is that I went to the trinoma branches of Powerbooks, National bookstore, and Fully Booked express, but I didn’t find any copies. Then I went to Landmark, and there was a little stall selling back issues there which I didn’t think of when I was thinking of buying a copy. I still went to the stall (more out of curiosity about back issues), and SURPRISE SURPRISE… that’s where I found the copies!
I NEED A COPY NOW!
So I devoured the 3 books in just a few days (I immediately bought the third one called The Treasure Map of Boys after reading the second one, The Boy Book) and I can’t wait to get my hands on the fourth one. I haven’t seen a copy of it anywhere but I’m truly hoping a copy is lying somewhere around Manila already. It has yet to be released on December! The books are light and lovely and funny and they make me think about my own relationships and my own life in general and how I mess things up from time to time and what I can do to make things better and how I should get a move on and start acting and stop being passive.
Never-ending ands because Ruby Oliver just gave me my caffeine fix that is very much uncalled-for as it is already 1 AM.
It’s really good!
Hangover!
Wizarding World of Harry Potter haul!
I’m selling Professor McGonagall’s wand. It’s exactly like the one in the picture. Just ask me for details.
I remember the first time I remember eating Whatchamacallit. We took a night drive to the nearest laser disc rental store and I was browsing through the Disney movies with you by my side. I wanted Little Mermaid. I couldn’t wait to go home and watch it with you. I saw a bar of Whatchamacallit and gave it to you. You headed for the cashier to get both – the movie and the chocolate bar. You always knew what I wanted, even without the words.
We rode in your car I called the jet plane. It was a long, dark blue car and it was the car that housed me during nights when sleep was difficult. We sped by the city lights; you never liked going easy on the road humps. I fell asleep. We didn’t even get to watch Little Mermaid on the same night but I really loved you for taking me there, with you.
I remember those specific moments in my life, moments so random and so ordinary that it makes me wonder why I remember them. In a way, those moments are what built us. Those times we spent together were the bricks that built the home that you and I share. It started with one, and we just kept stacking them side by side, or on top of another. And now we have this unbreakable fort. It makes me feel safe. It makes me feel like I’m with you again.
Today is a special day for people like me and you, those people who shared special moments like we did. Some are lucky… they get new bricks and they still have something to build. As for us, time has come for us to just stay in and keep ourselves warm for the rest of what feels so much like winter.
I get scared sometimes because I miss you too much but then i remember that time when I was too scared to go on the escalator. We were on our way down and you stepped ahead, with your arm outstretched, reaching out for me. I was still too scared, but you had to move ahead. It wasn’t your choice to leave me behind but that’s what happened… I got left behind. I was crying but I knew it won’t be long until you come back. Once you stepped off the escalator, you immediately took the one going up to go back for me. You got there and this time, you didn’t let go of my hand. You really always went back for me.
I’m out in the big world you’ve always told me about. I’m seeking knowledge and wonder in every corner I get to visit. I carry with me the courage you’ve always shown. I’m facing a whole new world, in a completely different light. I carry my memories of you.
It’s father’s day today. The special day of people like you. Your special day. I really miss picking out the card that best describes how I feel… but there has never been a perfect card for you so I always fill out the blank portion with my own words. I was walking here, this uncharted and unfamiliar territory when I saw something familiar. It’s where I always spend a portion of my time at some points in the year. 
Some things we have don’t really have to end. We will always have what we shared. We may not always remember it, but it happened. We will always know that. In this case, we don’t have to remember to know. So I won’t stop picking out cards. It doesn’t have to end.
Because her father listened to her, she knew she had something to say. Because he believed in her, she believed in herself. Because he said she could do anything, she did.
Dad, so much of the good stuff in my life started with you. Thank you.
I will never be too old to be your little girl. Happy Father’s Day. I miss you just as much as I did when I first learned that I won’t be seeing you for a long, long time. I love you.
