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Alyssa Fatima. 16. I like vintage clothing and postcards and I love writing and receiving letters. I adore travelling, music and festivals. I like stories that have no ending. I sometimes pretend that my life is a movie. I like tea and coffee, and I collect little knick-knacks that mean something to me. I love dusty photographs and listening to people tell me about their lives. I like long walks on the seaside and finishing other people's sentences. I love books. I love starry nights. I post my thoughts and random stuffs here.

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What’s in my Corkboard?

I’ll be honest, one of my favorite things in my room is my corkboard or I must say my inspiration board. I put a lot of things that matters to me there.

I’ve bought mine at the SM Supplies located at the SM Department Store. My plan was to put my to do list there so I can remember everything but I find it very hassle so I just stick with my planner haha!

Corkboard

I don’t know the exact size of it sorry but it’s just a normal size. It came with a free string so you can put it up in a wall and some few push pins to hang up what you want to put in it. The downside of it is that it’s too thin, so the pins stuck up underneath so, be careful touching it. But all around, it’s nice to have it in your room.

Push pins

Few pins aren’t enough so I bought a lot of them. I saw this at the SM Supplies Store when I was browsing at the stapler shelf. It came with a lot of different colors, one color only, or some cute designs. I picked them up because I love the look of it. So even and original.

Movie Tickets

Whenever I go to a cinema, I love to collect the tickets and hang it up on my board.

School Related

I had this certificate back when I was Grade 10. I was Top 7 of the BEC overall in the first quarter. I remember how happy I am when I received that hahaha!

JM gave this to me. It was a freebie when he went to MCL for entrance examination.

This was my name tag in our retreat!

My class schedule when I was Grade 10. Should I remove it... or nah.

That is computerized report card for second quarter. Yay for higher grades :)

A flyer from SHS Letran and a guide table for Enrollment.

Others

I like collecting miscellaneous stuff yikeeees

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A Day in My Life: May 3, 2016

People always ask me why I don’t share a lot of posts and pictures of us. “Wala lang.” is always my answer. So, this is my first time to write a blog post about him. I seldom post a picture of us on facebook, twitter and instagram because I want the memories between us. I want it to be raw and fresh. Though, sometimes I share some of our pictures in my twitter hehe. We all have a different perspective and that’s ours. :-)

Despite what I’ve said above, here I am typing an entry about us.

Some of you might laugh, but we had no money that day to watch cinema so we went to his cousin at Real and sold our books hahahaha. We watched Captain America: Civil War even though I’ve already watched it. It’s a little bit funny though, because JM already knew that I’ve watched it and he kept asking me questions the whole movie haha.

We’ve got plenty time to kill before the movie started so we went for a window shopping. Mainly, my window shopping. I brought him to my favorite ~girly~ stores. We have like hundreds of pictures, but this one is my faveeeee.

and anotheeeer one

Greenwich at SM Calamba ran out of Lasagna and we can’t agree with that so we went at Greenwich Checkpoint instead, inside the Metro.

(this picture was posted also in my instagram!)

and how to end this post? A snapchat pictures from that day yay!

(cannot be seen in my snap story, but can see useless stuff! snap me: alyssafatima ~ shameless plug)

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Movies and Popcorn: Volume 2

As you all know, I am a movie junkie! Since, summer is a pretty boring one for me, I am currently watching a lot of movies and tadaaaaaa Movies and Popcorn: Volume 2 for you guys!

For all comedy fans out there, I gotchu guys! The Intern is one of my latest favorite movie. 

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin. (a description based on IMDb)

And who doesn’t love Anne Hathaway?

Ratings: 9.5/10

If you’re looking for a hardcore one, try The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s a long movie but, it is good and funny.

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. (a description based on IMDb)

Starring... the one and only Leonardo DiCaprio! If you don’t want to see a lot of HARDCORE sex and drug scenes, please do exit out! 

Ratings: 7/10

The Intern: Online

The Intern: Download

The Wolf of Wall Street: Online

The Wolf of Wall Street: Download

Share some of your faves! :-)

All photos are not mine unless otherwise stated.

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Completion Rites 2016

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Back to School: School Must Haves

Holla! School is very fast approaching and I am not excited. The only ones that I get excited is when I’ll be having a school supplies shopping. As all of you know, I don’t get new things YEARLY. Sometimes, if my shoes, bag and other notebooks are okay, I still use it for the next school year. This is my school must haves for this year:

Bag

I only use backpack for school. It is easy to use and carry a lot of things. At Letran, we don’t have lockers so we always have a lot of things to bring. For the past years, I use Heartstring bags. It is cute, but not sturdy and it is small for me. The strap is easily ripping off when you put a lot of books in it. So this year, I bought Hawk backpack. My cousin recommended it to me because she uses hers for almost 2 years now and still going strong. It is very sturdy, the straps are comfortable and it doesn’t hurt your shoulders even though you have a ton of things in it. It has also a lot of space to put lots of books. I bought mine for 899 php (999php is the original price, it was 10% off) in SM department store.

Black Shoes

I am so bad at picking good black shoes. I’ll spend much money on it, but end up using it only for 5 months. I don’t know haha! So, I just pick what can fit in my budget. I’ll try to take care of it now. I bought S&H black shoes. 

Binder and Fillers

I don’t use notebooks. I prefer binders because some teachers don’t really want us to take down notes. I don’t want to waste money in notebooks so I just buy fillers every year. I love Cattleya binders.

Ballpen

I love to write and I get upset when my penmanship is so bad haha! I use Faber Castell pens because it’s good, cheap and easy to find. I love 0.5 ballpoint because it’s not thick, but not too thin. I only buy black and red pens since we don’t use blue pens.

Math Notebook

We are not required to use normal notebooks to use for math subject. We use grid notebooks. I love Cattleya in all paper brands.

Pencil case

Haha! This is too elementary, but I don’t want my pens to be scattered all over my bag so I use a pencil case to stay organize. I don’t have the specific brand that I love. I just pick random pencil case.

Correction Pen

I can’t fucking live without these babies. I just pick cheap and metal tip because correction pens that is not a metal tip is a pain the ass.

Pencil

I prefer mechanical pencil but I always ruin it so I’ll stay with the usual Mongol 2 haha!

Permanent Marker and Whiteboard Marker

This is a must! We always use this when we have group activities. I love pilot markers because they are so black and dry so fast.

Post-it-notes

I always put post-it in my planner to stay organized and I love to send letters using it haha I am so elementary.

Intermediate Paper

CATTLEYA ALL THE WAY. By the way, I only bring 5-10 pieces of my paper because my classmates love to ask me if I have papers and a minute or so my papers will get lost so I need to buy a new one. I don’t want to happen that again because it’s a little too pricey for me. HINDI AKO MADAMOT.

Scientific Calculator

I love Casio than Sharp and Casio is way way more cheaper. This is a must because we always use this in Science and we are not required to borrow. I still don’t have one but I am going to buy.

That’s all! If you are wondering, I buy my school supplies at NBS. Thank y’all for reading. I want to know your must-haves this year :)

Have a wonderful day!

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Should I make an updated one? :-)

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BeepBot is one of the class prototypes of Grade 10-Pascal. It was picked by the section to represent for the upcoming contest. So, what is BeepBot?

BeepBot is a post-calamity robot wherein it helps to determine people’s condition after a certain calamity.

We weren’t able to win in the Robotics Congress but we are proud of our creation. To be honest, someone wants to buy our prototype and improve it. :-) as of now, we don’t know what to do with it. So, if you can, message me some of your concerns or any recommendation.

Please do visit our website if you want to know more.

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December 2015 It was a tough month for us. Sir Gary, our Music 10 teacher, asked us to perform a Christmas Ballroom for the upcoming holiday. Since, our section barely wins an award, we thought of a concept that will make the inner us stand out. Christmas Ballroom consists of singers and dancers where they will sing a Christmas song/s and dance a ballroom touch out of it. Tough, wasn't it? Luckily, we were able to slay our performance and won the 3rd place! It was the happiest and a great year ender for our section. Even though, everyone will say something about us and bring us down, the most important thing was we enjoyed every bit of it and made good memories with each other. Thank you, Pascal for a great Christmas performance! :-) Photo above shows singers of the performance. Credits to Chesca Largueza, you are the bomb digity for risking your ip5c!

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Hi! I don’t know if someone still visits my blog though… I’ve been in a major hiatus (6 months, I think?) I almost forgot to update so, sorry if I let you guys wait for my update. I received an e-mail today from a craft website asking me for partnerships, that’s why I opened my tumblr!

How are you guys? I will be binge posting an update today from last year up until now! ❤

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PAGHAKBANG 2015 | Day 3, Part 2

All photos are from Sofia Ballesteros.

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PAGHAKBANG 2015 | Day 3, Part 1

Photo credits to Sofia Ballesteros! Sorry I wasn’t able to blog the last part, guys! :( I totally forgot about this and I don’t have my laptop as of now. Ty to everyone who leave messages in my inbox! I surely will answer every bit of them! ❤

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PAGHAKBANG 2015 | Day 2

Day 1 was full of excitement and joy, but day 2 has done the trick just fine! If you cared enough, you can see that I only posted few amount of photos because we cannot capture moments time by time. I can say that eyes are more reliable than the camera. It’s good to see it in you own eyes and indulge the present time rather than stressing yourself on how you’ll capture the scene. 

We are required to wake up early. It’s a lot hassle to take a bath in Caleruega because you cannot control the warmness of the shower. We took a bath (pascal) around 2 AM to make sure that we will not join the crowd before the sun rises. It’s our routine, sleeping at exactly 12 AM, get ready around 2 AM and sleep until 6 AM. It’s ridiculous, I know, but it was fun hahaha!

When it was not still time, we tour around and took pictures. The view is beautiful and really worth seeing. 

We headed to the church and pray. After that we had our morning exercise while breathing the fresh air nature gave us. It was fun though, because I never had a morning exercise with our batch so it was consisted of laughs and..... fart HAHAHA.

We had our breakfast, session and sleep!!!!!! <3 I think it was the most productive day of our retreat. We had a lot of fun activities that we did and my favorite is the one that you will be portraying a scene. It’s a whole class activity and I admit it was full of happiness and camaraderie!

We had our solidarity night. At first, I was thinking that I will not cry because I hated crying in front of everyone. But when someone spoke up, I literally cried like a baby. I wasn’t expecting everyone to say sorry to me and give me the biggest thank you for helping them out. I was a bit flattered because I didn’t think my whole life that I am a big impact in someone’s life. Everyone gradually had their best speech and I was really touched and satisfied with our night. It was the best! We went out Catalina with filled hearts and unrecognizable smile!

We also read that night our letters from our parents. It was touching and grateful that they still manage to make me retreat letter, despite the busy schedule they have.

I learned that we cannot disregard rejection in our life. We, sometimes reject people for some certain reason. People also reject us for their own reason. It’s heartbreaking, but we also learn from that. The most important thing is we should affirm people who are being rejected. We should change our own perspective.

Photo credits to Sofia B!

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Hello po crush ko po kayo 💕🙈 nakakatuwa po kayo tignan ni Margaux tuwing magkasama po kayo hihihi idol ko po kayo pareho 😝

thank you whoever you are hahaha

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Hello po ate Ang ganda po ng blog niyo kasing ganda po nung hamster niyo 🐹

sus margo hello!

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PAGHAKBANG 2015 | Day 1

I honestly don’t want to share my experience about this retreat because I want it to keep raw and memorable to myself and to everyone who experienced it. But since I am in total cloud nine about this trip, I want to share it with you guys <3

First of all, I haven’t had the chance to update my blog because of so much work. If I had a spare time, I’d rather be sleeping or just do anything boring. But, thanks to everyone who gave time to visit my blog and leave notes in my inbox. Much appreciated!

September 26 was the most awaited day for us (hi pascal!) Probably, retreat is one of the exciting parts of being a high school. I always ask my cousins about their retreat and I always get interesting answers haha that’s why it’s a bullet that keep poking myself throughout the years. 

It wasn’t easy for us, of course, to manage time to be excited (haha), to make retreat letters and do our student tasks. They said, you’re going to surpass first the hole in the needle before you get what you want. And maybe that’s the circumstance for us.

We were riding the Letran bus and it was my second time! It wasn’t special, but you get the point already hahaha. We decided to read the letters in the bus after praying the rosary. I was feeling hesitant to read it there because I might cry hahahaaha but thank goodness I did not!

It was my first time to be in Caleruega and it. is. breathtaking. After a long time living in a polluted place, I finally felt the warm breeze on my skin, knowing that it’s fresh and safe to breathe in. Seeing the rustling trees swaying under the scorching sun, the flowers blooming accordingly and the pleasant noise coming from the nature are the best things I ever documented in my life. It was better to see it in your eyes and feeling it in your heart. If I have given a chance, I could lend everyone my eyes just to see the wonders Caleruega gave us.

We went for a little walk as we indulge the beauty of nature. They gave us time to rest and after that we go straight ahead for our first session. It was great and we had a great time listening to the speakers. 

The one thing I am always reminded of is that, listening is important. As we try to listen to everyone’s perspective, we learn something new. It’s part of a good communication and a healthy relationship. Listening is a significant key to understanding. We will not be able to understand each other if we keep talking and not giving someone a chance to talk for their own point of view.

All photos are not mine unless stated otherwise. Thank you Sofia Ballesteros for the pictures, you are awesome! :)

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Hi pating!!! -HulaanMoKungSinoAko hihihi

margo? air?

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H1 Po3, pw3d3 p0 p4 F4ns1n6???? th4nk y0u pho3

hello sige po hahahaha classmates!!!!!