It's reunion time!

Still smiling (and taking photos) even after an unlucky day (heavy rain + blackout, anyone?).

Nicole, who shamelessly dance dared people at the mall. Haha!

We just had to try the photobooth.

Each of us got wings, too. :)

And of course, what is a sleepover without an embarrassing sleeping photo?

Just touched home

Literally. We arrived at my hometown at around 2:15 and left at 4:40. Brother had to go to the dentist, and so he did, while I killed time at the mall with my girl, Nicole, who by the way was really rockin those magenta lips. ;-)

Afterwards, we paid a short visit to my lovely mother. We didn't stay long because we thought it was going to rain (it didn't). Then we spent an hour waiting for our order at Miko's Brew. So the city's favorite coffee shop still has bad service, eh. 

And then we went home (to our other home).

Another day, another coffee to pay

If you are ever going to Kangaroo, pretty please do not try their hot White Chocolate Mocha. It's addictive.

In the middle is Vade's hot Mocha drink. She finds it equally perfect.

One Can't Have Too Much Coffee

My friend and I spent the afternoon at this coffee shop which has a cabinet-full of gospel books, an entire chandelier of eyeglasses and a chill rest room. A group of white med students with a boatload of hardbound references, laptops and Kindles abused their stay, too. They were already there when we arrived, and they were still there when we left. They read so much, it was scary.

Anyhoo, both my internet and telephone lines are being such bitches, and the next week is already finals week, so I hope the coffee shops don't mind my overstaying.

Cheers!

World is falling apart

I'm having one of those nights again - when I stay up late studying for a test and then I start to break down. I don't think I will ever recover from this hell of a nightmare of a loss. I lost the biggest part of me, and I don't think I will ever be complete again.

The Beautiful and Damned

I have not read Fitzgerald yet; even so, I already love him. I know, I just know, that he is my spirit animal.

Now if only I could find a neat edition of Gatsby, then I'd be good for life.

La Bête Humaine

Elena looked lovingly at Victor as he lay fast asleep. She was trembling and there were tears in her eyes. She turned back to the paper in her hands. It was done.

"Someday my dearest, some things will be easier to understand. Time takes care of the truths we hold in our hearts, the most sacred things that sometimes have to be hidden, even from ourselves. We both accepted the uncertainty that threatened all our tomorrows, and we tried not to let it matter. And yet, it does matter, for what use is a world that can only be real for a moment. Somehow, we all seek an amount of certainty in our lives, or else we lose whatever little grasp we have of the future.

"I'll always love you -- that's the only thing that will remain with me even after everything else has gone. What we had is the most real thing that ever happened into my life, however much it had been cloaked by deceit and lies. I don't think that there could be anything else I would rather live or die for.

"But we can't continue to live within this world we've created for ourselves when another world exists outside, a world that will never give us a chance. I would have wanted to risk everything for you, but I can't. Some realities are just far greater than you and I can continue to fight.

"You and me, Victor, it was such a good dream..."

--- An excerpt from Marissa Miguel's La Bête Humaine

Thoughts: 
+ It's ironic how a letter so sad and so heartbreaking could be so beautiful.
+ Somehow this letter reminds me of Chuck and Blair - about a  love so real, so powerful, so moving, so tragic.

What are your favorite phrases/lines from the excerpt? :)