when the beat just goes on.

Since I'm not keeping a portfolio or anything of some sort, here are some teaser shots of the shoot I styled last night.

I didn't get to get a snapshot of everyone's outfit but I managed to 'steal' what chill had on.  All it takes really are a perfect pair of boots and lots of attitude to rock them!

I am super inspired to style lately. I hope something comes and I get to have the freehand. (: The secret! The secret!  

I will change the WORLD.

Things happened. Ugly things. Terrible things. Things that destroyed some parts of me that I thought would be irreparable. I was trapped in fear that I myself raised, fed and kept. I've housed a lot of bads that there wasn't enough space to keep a good stay long. When's the traffic light going to go red? I watched The Secret and it did. It makes you wanna throw all the baggages out the window (they aren't LV's anyway). Live lighter. Happier. I've never felt so powerful. So connected and so... here. There were flashbacks about how I created the life I'm living now and how I thought about it and how I wanted it to happen.

Thoughts become things.
When I was a kid I would often visualize dancing at a club with a what-the-hell-are-you-wearing outfit and meeting all the people that matter. I wanted to see myself on TV and be featured in a magazine. I've always wanted to live alone and have a view of a city skyline. Drive my own car and everyday that I used the PC I crave for Mac even more. Hey, they're all here.

I still feel weird about when someone from the movie asked to look at the hand and that it's actually see-through because it's energy and that we're all connected. It seemed a little bit k-hole-ish to me. Ngek.

This isn't just a high that goes away after a couple of hours. I think it isn't, so it really isn't.
 

This is going to be hard coming from a major prophet of doom like me. I mean from a former major prophet of doom. And it's not going to be hard. See, I'm working on it. :P Positive thinking never sounded appealing till today.

Being passionate about complaining how your day's turning ugly means your sending bad vibes out into the universe that will find the same negative energy to bring back to you so you can have more things to complain about.
In other words, mga bakla makinig: pag kinarir mo ang BV, pipitik ka. haha!

For me to get the bads out I need to focus on the things that make me feel good. Feeling good attracts good things. Feeling bad attracts bad things and when you respond badly more bads come. Seriously, it's not as easy as it sounds. Like instead of making fun of people with bad styling I'd rather kalkal the true beauty within. Apparently, it's not as fun too. 

"Hintayin mo lang... I will change the world"
I don't know how many times I said this to people. I don't know how. I don't know when. I don't know with what. I don't know through what. I just know I would. I feel it. Strongly.
I used to picture myself being interviewed by Oprah. I used to imagine being watched by billions of people as I receive my first Oscar or Grammy wearing something really, really expensive. I still sing in front of a full length mirror with a remote control or a brush in one hand. And I still want to be on TV. I want to save animals. I want to save my country.  I want to be on a magazine cover.

And while I wait for these things to happen, I'm working for another DREAM--
to wear the white coat and help save lives.

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I'm gonna start being grateful about everything and pen down things I feel good about. The world (or fans) awaits.

Unrelenting.

I'm sitting on the sideline, watching and waiting for an opportunity, a chance to be in the forefront, the spotlight on me starring me, in the story of my life. Right now the leading character doesn't seem to be leading much of anything. It's a lonely feeling seeing my life pass before me, sitting juxtaposed to and accompanied with my selfless shadow. There are a lot of things happening, people moving fast, friends moving on. No doubt the scenes are changing, but have I?

A friend recently told me that I've changed, so much so that he wonders if he ever knew me. I started rationalizing that in the course of a few years, it's natural for people to change. Or maybe it was him that changed. But now I wonder if he's right, that I’ve been a double agent all these years trying to be something or someone I'm not.

The one thing that's for sure is that I haven't felt more alone than before. There's a world out there that has moved on and the one thing I can't seem to do well is just that. I'm holding on to something that I'm not convinced is there. I question whether it’s worth trying so hard to believe that things haven’t changed, that we’d have something worth holding on to.

The question now is where to go from here.

GLITTER IN THE AIR.

 Celebrated my 21st birthday at Attica, Makati.

Thanks to everyone who was there. It wouldn't have been as great if you weren't.
it was a frigging blast. and a slight blur--I live for the nights I can't remember with the people I'll never forget.

I like to talk about my friends. only because they exude such interesting positivity. meticulously hand-picked like clothes from the latest catalog. which is why not everybody is invited to my party. i don't just wear clothes just because they fit me. they must look good on me. they must make me look good. this is how much friendship matters. choose your friends and your clothes wisely. my mother would always remind me to do so.

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As for what I wore?  I sported a two-piece suit by a good friend, Pauline Abustan. A bowtie from Top Man, white long sleeves and shoes both from Zara.

 

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21 year old me.

so I'm 21 already.

Wow! head rush. I still cant believe it (at least, like what I told mom, my eternally 16-year old self still cant believe it) that I'm twenty PLUS. I'm no longer eighTeen, not even nineTeen. heck I'm twenty PLUS one. how eerie is that?

Looking at it, I'm kinda excited and thrilled (what's the diff?) at being 21. new challenges, more responsibilities, new relationships (platonic, thank you very much).

in the Major Arcana, the 21st card is the World, represented by a person in a Circle, surrounded by the four Elements of Life. it symbolically represents the completion of a Cycle, and the progress to the Next. just like what I'm going through. or had gone through, depending on what perspective you look at. I've completed the Cycle of Youth (physical age, please), and now moving on to Maturity.

amazing, isnt it, how the Tarot reflects what and who we are (in this case, me)?

hmmm.. im technically an adult, whatever that means, now. hmmm..