Life, as I know it.

Booked tomorrow’s tickets to the Getty Villa!

Though it’ll be my first visit, I’m not as excited as I should be. Due to my failed attempts at finding another driver, my dad is tagging along. Sure, I love the fact that I’ll be spending time with my dad (we might even be eating lunch in LA!), it’s just that not one of my family members enjoys & appreciates art like I do. I always feel guilty when I drag the whole family to a museum because it’s “what I want to do.” I see that they just want me to be happy, but it’s not as enjoyable when I KNOW that they’re not enjoying themselves. It’s also disappointing to know that I can never spend too much time looking at something, marveling at the details & taking it all in. A room quickly gets boring so we jump from place to place rather quickly until we get tired & eventually leave.

I’m quite different from my family. Different tastes in art, music, movies, foods. Different habits & different routines. I know for a fact that I’m not adopted, so don’t get on my case. I guess things just become difficult in a situation such as this one. It doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it’s more of an addition to the pile of struggles I face on the daily. Ugh, I hope tomorrow goes well. I hear the Villa is beautiful. I want the full experience.

November 7

Free Rice.

I used this site to practice SAT vocab back in high school. How Asian was that?!

I just donated 1000 grains of rice brushing up on my French vocab. See, 5 years of French class was good for something! There’s also Art, Math, Chemistry (ew..), Geography, English, & other Foreign Languages like Spanish & Italian.

Definitely recommend using this to do some studying.
Or when you’re completely bored with nothing to do.
Or when you’re completely bored with plenty of things to do (*cough).

& if you’re a nerd like me, you’ll actually enjoy getting quizzed on this stuff.

“For each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.”
Donate! :)

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(via sweethomestyle)

…wut.

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Adele - Best for Last

Wait, do you see my heart on my sleeve?
It’s been there for days on end and
It’s been waiting for you to open up
Just you baby, come on now
I’m trying to tell you just how
I’d like to hear the words roll out of your mouth finally
Say that it’s always been me

That’s made you feel a way you’ve never felt before
And I’m all you need and that you never want more
Then you’d say all of the right things without a clue
But you’d save the best for last
Like I’m the one for you

You should know that you’re just a temporary fix
This is not rooted with you it don’t mean that much to me
You’re just a filler in the space that happened to be free
How dare you think you’d get away with trying to play me

Why is it everytime I think I’ve tried my hardest
It turns out it ain’t enough cause you’re still not mentioning love
What am I supposed to do to make you want me properly?
I’m taking these chances and getting away
And though I’m trying my hardest you go back to her
And I think that I know things may never change
I’m still hoping one day I might hear you say

I make you feel a way you’ve never felt before
And I’m all you need and you never want more
Then you’d say all of the right things without a clue
But you’d save the best for last
Like I’m the one for you

You should know that you’re just a temporary fix
This is not rooted with you it don’t mean that much to me
You’re just a filler in the space that happened to be free
How dare you think you’d get away with trying to play me

But, despite the truth I know
I find it hard to let go and give up on you
Seems I love the things you do
Like the meaner you treat me the more eager I am
To persist with this heartbreak and running around
And I will do until I find myself with you

I make you feel a way you’ve never felt before
And I’m all you need and that you never want more
And we’ll say all of the right things without a clue
And you’ll be the one for me and me the one for you

On repeat— along with the rest of her album. Every time I come back to it, I have to listen to it multiple times to take in all of the amazingness that is within her. She has so much control! Such a talented woman.

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Back to the basics.

Started a little photography project for the late nights I spend doing absolutely nothing. I was hoping to finish it in one night, but it turns out that I wasn’t too happy with the results so I’m making it an ongoing project until I’m satisfied (to say the least). Perhaps it’s because I’m not a fan of unnatural light..? AND I dislike editing. I’d go outside & take pictures if I were allowed to do so. Alas, I’m stuck here.

Unfortunately, school’s been eating me up with endless midterms & projects/presentations so my late nights/early mornings have been filled up with academic junk! Sigh.

Learned some interesting yet somewhat disturbing stuff in Interpersonal Comm on Wednesday. It’s been bugging me since then. Write about it later? After studying? Or perhaps when I get much too distracted that blogging won’t make a difference…

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timblog:

i felt this had to be blogged.

LAUGHED. OUT. LOUD. WHEN I SAW THIS. ITS REALLY GREAT

HAHAHAHAHA. Blog-worthy inDEED. +1000000 points!

November 6

weakness of desire.

absolutesimplicity:

“There once was in man a true happiness of which now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. But these are all inadequate, because the infinte abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object,that is to say only by God Himself” -Pascal

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Dang, how adorable is this?! My cousin & his cousin are 2 days apart, so they usually combine their parties. Not gonna lie, everyone’s usually close with everyone’s other side of the family— if that makes ANY sense at all. Hah. Sometimes, I’ll mention one of the Bautistas like Ate Amy or Ate Ging or Micah (..I don’t know why I can’t see him as “Kuya Micah” but I say “Kuya Darrel” all the time) as one of my FRIENDS, which is very true but completely weird because I’ll want to call them my cousins. We all grew up together so we’re all family.

Anyways, I think that’s how it always is with the CPYF/C&C fambam. We’re all connected, but sometimes not directly, so I’ll have to simply call them “friends,” when they seem like much more.

…Probably because the Saprid family spans out to almost 400 people, as of January 2009. & is still growing. That’s ONLY my dad’s side of the family, folks. I love them.

Ugh, please tell me I’m not alone & that you have other people in your life who should be placed in your family but.. aren’t. Hah, I’m crazy.

My point was… I love this invitation. I’m excited.
Address & phone number censored out for obvious reasons.

November 5

theduty:

(via likeneelyohara)

…this is magic.

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I love lunch. (…& dinner.)

…& musicals. :)

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