When I Rocked the World

#Febphotoaday Challenge Recap

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:16:33 -0500

#Febphotoaday Challenge Recap

Project 365: February 2012 recap

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:15:12 -0500

Project 365: February 2012 recap

BAR Exam Results Are Out!

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:10:10 -0500

BAR Exam Results Are Out!:

Congratulations to my new lawyer friends!

Happy Leap Year Day!

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:08:57 -0500

Happy Leap Year Day!:

Lets celebrate one more day!

Uncluttering

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:06:54 -0500

Uncluttering

Addicted To Instagram

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:06:05 -0500

Addicted To Instagram:

Tips on how to use my new favorite app!

Coke 100 Years Commemorative Can

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:05:17 -0500

Coke 100 Years Commemorative Can:

Spotted this cute design during a presentation

Project 365: Day 59

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:03:54 -0500

Project 365: Day 59:

i <3 Birthday girl Mitz!

Book Review: The Best of Chico and Delmar's The Morning Rush Top 10

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:03:01 -0500

Book Review: The Best of Chico and Delmar's The Morning Rush Top 10:

A review on Chico and Del’s compilation of their popular segment

Project 365: Day 58

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:01:21 -0500

Project 365: Day 58:

i <3 Pineapples!

The Oscars 2012

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:33 -0500

The Oscars 2012:

My Oscars fashion report!

Project 365: Day 57

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:03 -0500

Project 365: Day 57:

i <3 Juju!

Food Trip: Juju Cleanse

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:58:00 -0500

Food Trip: Juju Cleanse:

My experience doing the Ju

Date A Girl Who Travels

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:41:34 -0500

Date A Girl Who Travels:

Inspired by Date A Girl Who Reads

"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has..."

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:40:38 -0500

“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”

- Rosemary Urquico (via blitzkreigkate)

A Baptism for Shawn Jayden H. Lim

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:35:21 -0500

A Baptism for Shawn Jayden H. Lim

Food Trip: Happy Lemon's Cocoa with Rock Salt and Cheese

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:34:22 -0500

Food Trip: Happy Lemon's Cocoa with Rock Salt and Cheese:

A review on my favorite drink at Happy Lemon

Food Trip: Kogi Bulgogi

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:32:43 -0500

Food Trip: Kogi Bulgogi:

A review on Eastwood’s favorite Korean restaurant

Project 365: Day 56

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:31:00 -0500

Project 365: Day 56:

i <3 Baby Shawn!

Food Trip: Serenitea

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:29:33 -0500

Food Trip: Serenitea:

A peek into Manila’s first milk tea place :)