A Light Beneath Their Feet

Lord Byron once said the art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist even in pain. 

The question is how long do we need to endure the pain? There are days when you just want to run away from the reality you are in and build another world of yours. When no one knows your story or your past. In that way, we might take a shot of feeling endlessly alive and like the world is finally at peace with us. For once, there is clarity and light in our lives. 

It's just another day when I feel very down but you know I learn for the past months that no matter how uncertain or challenging our lives can be. We must always see the goodness in it. We must always choose to be happy and continue to live because we never know, our existence might be meaningful to other people. I read The Secret and what you whisper to the universe, it will come to you in the right time when you are ready. Be patient, my love. We can do this.

Miss Peregrine's Date with Mon Amour

"Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones."

- Edgar Allan Poe

What is more exciting thing to do than to start the month watching Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with mon amour? I started reading the first book five years ago and was jumping out of joy to find out Ransom Riggs was publishing the second sequel and the same year they announced Tim Burton was directing the film. Oh myyyyy! What caught my interest to read Miss Peregrine's were the vintage pictures and the peculiar children. I love children. They never lie and they speak through their hearts. Always happy! I also like stories that took place during the war time. It's when you see how people or the characters develop and get through hard times of life. Just like today. The world is facing big problems and it's sad that one of them are the children they are the ones who have to deal with these terrible things. They deserve a great childhood memories not these bombings, terror and guns. 

I'm glad that Malala Yousafzai exists (she reminds me of Anne Frank - I love her). She is helping the children get the education they truly deserve and doing her best to give inspiration to people. You may want to read my post about it.

Going back to the date with mon amour.

It was October first. 

We went shopping. I bought sweaters in Old Navy and make-up goodies in Sephora. I got Tarte products. I may write a post about it in the future. 

After hearing a mass I told him if we could have soup for lunch and since it's starting to get chilly. We had viet pho. Yummy!! Though I really wish they serve ramen :'(

After roaming around the mall, we stopped at our favourite store, Whole Foods Market, we love their sushi there. Since we don't want to dine in at Japanese buffet like what we used to do last year. We just buy the $12.99 sushi. Not bad at all. Right? 

And ended our night with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.. I have a love-hate rating with the film. The casting was good and Burton didn't fail to establish peculiar ambiance but the plot was a little off. Downside of it was it felt they were rushing the story. This wasn't the best Burton film I would say. I wish they could have focus on making the story sequence better. I don't know it's just my opinion. The first half was great but the rest was like, "Eh? What?". From the person who read the book, they kind of stepped back with plotting the story. (I don't even know if I make sense at all. Lol.) Overall I give the movie a 7/10. Good thing mon amour liked it.