South Lake Tahoe

I cannot believe we're already passed half of this year. Where did the time go?

Besides being able to travel again, spend summer here for the second time and after finishing my internship. It feels great though I haven't been successful with my career but I'm happy and I know this is just the start of another unforgettable journey ahead. After all we deserve a break after our hard work. People these days are busy focusing with work and forgetting that there is another side of life where we can have fun and discover more of the world and ourselves and experience what it really means to live. Let us not forget about that, okay? Though even I is still working on that. 

As the birthday celebration of mon amour and his mom continues and before July ends. We drove to the lake and had a lunch picnic. It was a spontaneous picnic though. We brought Chinese take-out, chocolate cake, crackers and ice cream (let's talk about being healthy?!).

This would be the first birthday celebration we are both together after eight years (no work or whatsoever) Last year, we celebrated it but not on the exact day. So I'm extremely grateful and stoked! I hope we will celebrate more birthdays together in the future. 

I really love weekends.

It's the time to be around with the people you love, try new things and eat good food. Go fishing, go to theatres and what I love the most is grocery shopping all year-round. Haha. There are lots of things to do during summer and can it please slow down because I haven't done most of it. 

As this month ends, I hope that it will all be great month ahead and the remaining months. I hope this time things are better and we will be happier earthlings. 

Together Again

Penpal update:

Few days before I left, my friend's letter from Spain finally arrived after four months. We thought it got lost but I was relieved when I saw this on our doorstep. Thank you so much, dearest Chelo! I shall write back to you very soon.

After six months of not seeing mon amour, we are finally together for the the rest of this year. Until now we can't still believe where we are right now. How we grew up together not physically though but I was on his side since junior high school. Since distance was our number one enemy it made us stronger. It helped us build the important foundation of every relationships - trust.

We have been through a lot of problems, fights and the list goes on. I never regret any of it. In fact, it made me love him even more and God being in the center of our relationship I know we can overcome any problems. 

Months felt like years when we are apart and days felt like minutes every time I am with you.  

So there I hopped on my sixteen hour flight. I can't wait to see him -  spend summer and holidays with him and the family. While I was in the plane I can't help but stare at the window and watch over the sun sets and moon rises. I can't help but think of him and us, wondering what would be our destiny. "I can't wait to see him", is what I always say to myself. As usual, my flight was exhausting and I had to go through a lot of things before I saw him but thankfully it was a safe journey. Thank you God.

And there while waiting for my baggage, a guy walked towards me and it was mon amour carrying a bouquet of roses. I almost cried of happiness and excitement upon seeing him. He is very handsome and his smile is my favourite thing ever. I was melting inside. I finally held hands with him and we drove home.

Mon amour did this welcome home surprise for me. How sweet! He decorated the room with our pictures and balloons with messages on it. Awwww.... I was like, "Is this really happening?" 

Two days after my arrival, it was his birthday so we decided to make our favourite cake and past time -  making refrigerated cakes! We spent the whole weekend re-organizing the room and buying stuffs for me. It was indeed the best days ever yet! I miss doing things with him. I miss grocery shopping with him. I miss everyone here! It's so great to be back home. Home is not a place but a feeling.

Green apple we found in the neighborhood

Cheers to more adventures and happy days together! 

Film Faves : July 2016

1. A Girl Like Her

"Hurt people, hurt people"

This is my third time watching a film about bullying or a story that involves hurting or rather attacking another person's feeling especially with the teenagers. I was bored and searching for a film to watch on Netflix and I was intrigued by the title and ended up watching it. I can't help but cried on the last twenty minutes of the film.

In this film you can actually see, people who bullies are the ones who should seek help and you can see how important the support and love of family really is. 

Trailer : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTU-P8b_UKo


2. Adult World

 "Love... love until you hate. Then learn to hate your love. Then forgive your hate for loving it."

I had a little hard time understanding the purpose of filming this. I know Amy (Emma Roberts) is an aspiring poet. She believes it's her destiny to be a poet. She studies hard, gets A's in her class and writes all the time.

Okay. I don't want to spoil the film.

I think I'll just end it here and maybe watch it again some other time. I watched this because I like all the cast. I'd watch any Emma Roberts film. I love her. And explain to me further about this film and what you think about it.


Trailer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbBSR1o6li4


3. Safelight

"To write off “Safelight” as just another generic romantic teen drama about wounded souls who find healing in each other’s arms wouldn’t do justice to its baffling ineptitude."

- Brian Tallerico, http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/safelight-2015

Again, Evan Peters. I first discovered Juno Temple from Wild Child.. AGAIN. Another film of Emma Roberts. 

What I like about the film is how it made me feel. I kind of see myself Evan Peters in the story. He is a quite and shy type kind of person and likes what he does even if no one understands him. He likes to take pictures and the fact how photographs reminds him of moments and feelings. 

Good film nothing too special though but I like it.

Trailer : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWz3Op-bF-w

4. Spotlight

"Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this."

This is the film I watched during my flight and I have been wanting to watch this. Thank God they have it. As a graduate of Communication in Arts, I felt their passion and love for their job especially it is a story that needs to be heard by everyone. It's a ground breaking story I should say. It happens in my country and all over the world. I have nothing against priests and the church. My faith didn't change or anything. I just felt really sad that this thing happens and justice isn't given. I just hope the church will do something about this issue. 

Being a journalist or reporter it's not just a job. It's a job that you should be really passionate about. The environment in this field is not relaxing at all. There is always pressure and you should be really careful with your reporting because the world will see it. No wonder why the group went through a lot of laws and hardships but in the end they successfully did it. 

Right after I watched the film I went to Google and search for the original news..

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/special-reports/2002/01/06/church-allowed-abuse-priest-for-years/cSHfGkTIrAT25qKGvBuDNM/story.html

I love films like this. Recently I have been watching a lot of Mark Ruffalo films. Another favourite of mine is The Normal Heart and Infinitely Polar Bear. Both moving films.

Trailer : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwdCIpbTN5g

The Normal Heart trailer : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZxR9XHS0H8

Infinitely Polar Bear trailer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1pCQS1H2Z0



5. The Painted Veil 

“Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.”

- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil 

I watched this today and I thought I could not get through this film. The first twenty-five minutes was very difficult for me. I don't know why. Maybe because I have thoughts in my head that kind of resonated with the story especially in my situation (correction : it does not involve any affairs or what. I'm just going through 'something'). I see a very passionate and hard working man, I mean Walter (Edward Norton). He is in love with Kitty (Naomi Watts) as you will see in the first thirty minutes of the movie. I haven't read the book. In the film you wouldn't see how Walter courted Kitty. It was fast.

I kind of dislike Kitty here because she is a spoiled and insensitive wife. I think she married for wrong reasons, obviously. When you see your man working very hard you should support him for as long as you can. Though I understood why she did it because he had no time for her and felt unloved. It pushed her to go beyond the line and in the end she tried her best to make it up to Walter. What she did was nice.

Anyway, this is probably my second favourite film I have watched this month. The plot, cast, and setting is spectacular! I give this a ten!


Trailer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q8s4eKcqeQ

I'm not a movie critic and my writing is poor. The purpose of this is to share a list of movie I liked for the month and hopefully my grammar and writing will improve.