Dad in Seoul

I thank the Lord for giving me a father who supported my dream even if that meant that he had to let me go. For a very selfless father who is willing to give everything that I need even if I am already an adult. For a very strict father who raised me with such morals and principles. For a very smart dad who taught me everything that I am now. For a very loving daddy who crossed the ocean just to visit me.

All those times that my dad and I were walking down the streets of Seoul, I was silently and sincerely thanking the heavens for my family. Four days with my dad is a very short time but it's enough to refresh my soul on the feeling when someone is taking care of me. I have been looking out for myself for quite some time so I tend to forget what it’s like to have someone who got my back.

However, the trip has allowed me to realize how good it is for me to live away from my family. Don’t get me wrong; our vacation was one of the best weekends of my life but I realized that it’s not good for me to come back to that kind of comfort and dependence again. From time to time, I will always need their help and support but I will never be the spoiled daddy’s girl anymore.

Every single day, I thank the Lord for all these learnings.

Poison and Wine

Song of the Day

"A simple plot... But I know one day, good things are coming our way.." 

-Up With The Birds, Coldplay 

The Hipster in Me

Well, no offense to the hipsters (as if they'd admit they are) but their fashion and preference have become an inside joke to me and my friends. When we hate something so mainstream, or love a movie that's totally unknown (something like an indie French movie), we'd always cry hipster. We do something a little out of the norm and we're in the Like-I-Care Club. 

I listen to less popular songs. Does that make me a hipster? Hey, I search the vast youtube world for new songs, not because I'm a trying hard hippy, but I wanted to explore. Honestly. Swear. Pinky promise.

Some of my favorites since 2008. (I'd be sad if they'd go mainstream. LOL.) I'm not really sure if these are hipster songs. Haha 

One of the sweetest songs I've heard. I want this played in my wedding, or some time else romantic.

"You got it so bad when the only boy you know is your dad"

Eto, mainstream na. 8million views na sa youtube! (Sorry hipsters)

Actually, I don't understand people who hate on it. I get annoyed with people who say "I used to love that song waaay before it became famous. I hate that it's now popular." WHAT. These people think they've got better taste in music because they appreciate less famous bands and songs. Ha! If you don't want your band to become popular, make them suck. 

Let's just appreciate music, whichever stream they belong, and share the awesome sauce :) 

Going Lite

OH HELLO, JULY! :) Time flies so fast. We'll never notice it's gonna be the -Ber season already. 
But before that, we have to work our asses off on school!  No more stress-related stuff on a Saturday night.

Boston

"I think I'll go to Boston
I think that I'm just tired
I think I need a new town to leave this all behind
I think I need a sunrise
I'm so sick and tired of the sunset
Hear it's nice in the summer
Some snow would be nice

In Boston... No one knows my name."

-Boston, Augustana

Set the fire to the third bar

Regrets. My life is pretty much filled with it right now. To be honest, all these frustrations, pains and failures that I got from my past experiences are still in me. I have not healed from them yet.

Because it takes time.  

It takes time to get up from a painful fall. It takes time to drive forward if a wheel is still flat from the bumpy road. It takes time to fix my life. Don’t go expecting me to be over and done with all of these in just an overnight of celebration, resolution and fireworks. God knows how I wish it would be just like that, but no it won't. 

My Top 5 Most-Played Songs this 2009

Just write a comment if you disagree: 2006 was the year of the OPM and pinoy rock bands. Then came 2007, it was Secondhand Serenade and Paramore in my ears. (Or maybe it's just me. My classmates back then loved them foreign bands.) 2008 came, and it was the fall of the rockbands, and the rise of the foreign rnb songs once again. It was the year of Ne-Yo and Chris Brown. But this 2009, I am brave to say, is a Taylor Swift year. It's like everybody loves Taylor Swift. Kanye West made sure of that.

So here is a list of the songs that I kept on hearing, then eventually loved this 2009.

5.  You Belong with Me by Taylor Swift 

    When the world seemed to be under Taylor Swift's spell, to give her all-out support against Kanye West's douche attack they played this song -- over and over again. And who am I not to show my support for my Taylor love? ;)

4. Good Girls Go Bad, by Cobra Starship ft. Leighton Meester

    It's great. It's catchy. It's a hit. Plus it featured Leighton Meester, so that made it greater for my ears. Had I known that Leighton will turn as a clown in an attempt to make her pop career boost up...

3. Waking up in Vegas, by Katy Perry

    "shut up and put your money where your mouth is.." Prolly, that's what you'd get after listening to Waking up in Vegas. ;) I'd say this 2009, Katy Perry is one of the hitmakers!

2. Paparazzi, by Lady Gaga

    Here goes a hit from another hitmaker. A weirdly dressed hitmaker, that is. At first, I thought "what the hell was that song?" but after listening another time or two, I came to appreciate its catch and LagyGaga-ness. "I'll follow you until you love me." xoxo.

1. Party in the USA, by Miley Cyrus

   Forget all Miley's issues and controversies, and just look at her as a performer. I'll bet she'll look way prettier and better in your eyes. And who wouldn't bounce and move their hips like yeah when they hear this song? Party in the USA owns my 2009.

Here's to a year full of foreign pop hits. We never know, maybe 2010 is the year of the mainstream rock again, or maybe it's another Lady Gaga year for all of us. But as for me, I'll just cross my fingers that Cueshe never comes back.

THE ERA. THE ICON.

I am a big fan of the oldies. The rnb in the 90's, love songs in the 80's, the Jacko-kind-of-pop, and the Beatles. Of course, the Beatles.

"what would you do if a sang out of tune would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key"
- with a little help from my friends