you are nothing less than golden
Monday, November 26, 2012
"To compare you to the night sky would be an insult to the way your smile catches fire in the mornings; you are nothing less than golden."
Labels: daisy lola, felicia simion, golden, photo, photography, quote
Constant Conversations
A lot of things have happened in the last two weeks that I was away from my blog. My life has been quite stressful (but still happy on the side :D). I've been mostly busy with my academics. But really, when I think about the last two weeks, I don't even know what I really did. It's all such a blur. I blame lack of sleep and water consumption (no jokes here).
Monday, August 20, 2012
Borrowed Jak's Kikomachine Komix collection. This is one of the things that have been helping me relax and get rid of stress. :) Rakenrol!
Another thing keeping me from going insane over all the academic stress I am going through is, of course, music. :) i've been listening to a lot of Passion Pit lately. My love for their sound was just resurrected because of their song Constant Conversations. Here is the St. Lucia remix that I love too:
But anyway, just last week, something sad and unfortunate happened. The mom of one of my best friends passed away last Wednesday. I don't have a lot to say about it right now, but Myka did mention it in her two previous posts here and here.
Well, just thought to update a bit here. I hope I'll get to post more in the duration of our long weekend. :)
Labels: best friends, constant conversations, friends, kikomachine komix, life, manix abrera, music, passion pit, photo, remix, st lucia, update
Keep calm and forget the world...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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| by Zi Nguyen |
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Just a short update. I'm sorry for my two previous posts. Well, not really, but they were rather moody. If you should know, I tend to get like that at times. That's just how I process, I guess. But I feel a lot better this week, for real! :) A lot has been happening, but I'll make a whole post about my first few weeks in college this weekend. :)
Labels: keep calm and forget the world, life, photo, quote, update, zi nguyen
our truth is hidden in our silence
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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| photo by Nico Mak |
"The wind sings of our nostalgia
and the starry sky ignores our dreams.
Each snow flake is a tear that fails to trickle
Silence is full of the unspoken,
of deeds that go undone,
of confessions to the secret love,
and of wonders not expressed.
Our truth is hidden in our silence,
Yours and mine."
- Margot Bickel
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When I came upon this poem, it made me feel something. I can't explain it, in fact I don't exactly remember what I felt when I first read it. All I know is it made me happy. It made me feel at peace.
Labels: margot bickel, photo, poem
A 'lazy' party
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Just me and my best friends goofing around for the camera.
This was taken last December, and since I saw them sitting around in my files, I thought I'd post them. :)
doodle dares
Friday, January 13, 2012
This is one of the little steps I am taking to get back into drawing. :)
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| A doodle I did when I was bored in class :P |
I used to doodle a lot when I was in grade school. Emphasize A LOT. Me and my friends even gave in a lot of effort into them, writing and drawing all sorts of things on our notebooks, pieces of paper and illustration boards. Then somehow, it just eventually stopped. Not completely, but all that fanciful effort we gave diminished.
So I was downright glad when I started doodling again and came up with that thing above. ^^ :))
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| My good friend's "Doodle Dare" |
The doodle above is by a friend of mine whom I "doodle dared" into making this. I dared him to doodle something filled with a lot of interesting details on my sticky note. The thing was, my little sticky pad is only about 1 1/2 X 2 inches in size! But of course, lo and behold, he came through with that doodle up there.
So, the creative push I've now thought of is this Doodle Dare. I'm going to get as many as my friends to get into it and see what kinds of dares we can come up with. I for one am considering one which involves leaving something a bit permanent somewhere in our school.
What kind of dares would you come up with? ;)
Labels: art, doodle, Doodle Dares, inspiration, photo
creative outbursts
Thursday, January 12, 2012
For what seems to be quite a long while now, my level of creativity has gone considerably low. I'm pretty sure I've been complaining for too long already about how I'm constantly uninspired and unmotivated to continue my artistic pursuit.
Then one day, it all just caught up with me. I was fed up with being in a state of creative stagnation. I wanted to start over and get my creative juices flowing once more. But then, I didn't know where to start and what to do. I pondered long and hard, but I just distracted myself from what I needed to do. I'm a mess of thoughts after all, so I ended up not getting anywhere. At times like this, I always end up on Google for help.
Then I had a chance encounter with this wonderful little list of rules from creativesomething.net. It helped me a lot, and even inspired me to add a few 'rules' of my own (as shown above).
Right now, I haven't really gone back to that creative drive yet, but I'm slowly making my way there. Bit by little bit.
Labels: art, creativeomsething.net, list, photo, rules of a creator's life
art never comes from happiness
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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| Photo from deviantART |
The best art comes from an emotion deeper than what happiness can bring.
Labels: art, Chuck Palahniuk quote, personal quote, photo, Photo from deviantART, quote
SANS HÉSITATION
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| from flickr |
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
- Oscar Wilde
The beauty of art and of literature really has a way of
capturing me.When I see a beautiful image, a work of art that moves me, it’s
almost as if my heart would break. It seems dramatic, yes, but it is true for
every piece of art that touches my heart. I can’t explain it to the utmost
point of how it makes me feel, the desire to know every inch of that piece of
art, to see the story within it. It almost feels like love, seeing something so
moving.
There have only been a few stories that have really
gotten through to my core. Something deeper than just fancy words and
descriptions. Though I do admit that these pull me into a story, nothing pulls
me in better than really knowing the character, feeling the story. I love
stories that make me think, that make me wonder “Why?” These are the stories
that leave me speechless and silently begging for more. Even if I’ve gone
through these stories numerous times, I want nothing more than to do it all
over again, to try and feel more than just the pages within my fingertips.
One would
think it almost obsessive. One can only be obsessed with something they can’t
get enough of. And it is true; I can never seem to get enough of the beauty of
art, of literature, and even of human nature, because truly, these all pique my
interest. I thirst for knowledge on it all, the curious nature of which they
come about to entrance us. What is it about these things that make my mind tick
and my heart race; that make me curiouser and curiouser?
Labels: art, books, life, literature, old post from my tumblr, personal, photo, quote
doused with inspiration
Sunday, January 8, 2012
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| Photos from Flickr Dreaming of New York again... |
Labels: city, flickr, inspiration, New York, photo
Midnight Thoughts
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| Photo by Nathan Presley |
It's 4 o'clock in the morning and here I am again, wide awake and dreaming. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know I have to sleep or I at least have to get the urgent and important things done and out of the way. But in the end, I only succeed at doing leisurely things.
For now, there is a nagging feeling in my gut that tells me I'm fucked, but right about now I don't care. it's only at this time of the day that I can truly have peace and quiet.
I'm admittedly a nocturnal person; I just can't help it. The dark night brings some kind of energy and spirit that isn't loud. It's something mysterious and lonely, and it keeps me awake. I dream of city lights and an urban escape. Somehow, there's a sense of freedom the evening time evokes in me.
Maybe it's because it's in the dark that some people truly come alive, away from the bright light where everyone judges them. The darkness masks everybody so that someone can become a nobody or just a different entity altogether. It's an escape, a getaway; a quick vacation from reality. And as the daylight breaks, we come back up to the real world.
. . . hmm, I'm a rambling mess again. I bet there'll be more of these though.
For now, there is a nagging feeling in my gut that tells me I'm fucked, but right about now I don't care. it's only at this time of the day that I can truly have peace and quiet.
I'm admittedly a nocturnal person; I just can't help it. The dark night brings some kind of energy and spirit that isn't loud. It's something mysterious and lonely, and it keeps me awake. I dream of city lights and an urban escape. Somehow, there's a sense of freedom the evening time evokes in me.
Maybe it's because it's in the dark that some people truly come alive, away from the bright light where everyone judges them. The darkness masks everybody so that someone can become a nobody or just a different entity altogether. It's an escape, a getaway; a quick vacation from reality. And as the daylight breaks, we come back up to the real world.
. . . hmm, I'm a rambling mess again. I bet there'll be more of these though.
Labels: midnight thoughts, night, photo, ramblings
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