So I went to Macau last September, took a lot of photos and thought of Macau puns in the Filipino language releasing some of the love stuck in my heart.
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So I went to Macau last September, took a lot of photos and thought of Macau puns in the Filipino language releasing some of the love stuck in my heart.
Rewind: Summer beaching at Virgin Beach, LAIYA with family // 051815
So my school started last May 11 because of Transition term (the normal, new schedule of the school term according to the new academic calendar will start on Aug, but I need to collect as many units as I can, so I’m sacrificing summer break for school), so I never went out for beach on my actual short break (April 25-May 10). My friends from Team Sunburn and I planned to go to a beach getaway but it never happened.
Good thing my cousin, Ate Jeannie, who is working in Malaysia, went back here in the Philippines to hang out with us for a brief summer vacation. That’s why she planned our outing with my mom, bro and her sister. And it happened, so yay for my first and last beach on my Summer 2015!
It’s okay though if it was the last time for this year’s summer, because it was a splendid time! Ate Grace and bro grilled some barbeque and hotdogs and we ate them every once in awhile after swimming and chilling at the beach.
Not to mention, the resort is clean and their waters are pristine! Kudos to the management!
So by the end of our stay, we were just floating around the beach while talking about things and sharing stories to each other when a jellyfish stung me! It hurts like damn! But it was nothing serious, I just panicked because it was my first time. It was funny afterwards. There weren’t really “many” jellyfishes. I think the one which stung me just got a little bit lost from its pack because it was already low tide that afternoon.
Overall it was really fun and hooray for finally being able to enjoy some chilling at the beach with cousins!
Six months have passed since she called him and told him she liked him, and now she thinks she doesn’t feel a thing for him anymore. “It was a spur of the moment,” she tells her friends. She believes it was. She did like him, and she just wanted to stop hoping anymore that’s why she took the hard, harsh path of rejection. And now she says she’s okay.
She’s sitting down in her favorite coffee shop in the middle of the town, sipping her happy coffee while reading a book she never finished for the past two years. Suddenly, she hears her name said by a familiar voice. She looks up, and it’s him, smiling.
“Hey,” she says.
“What’s up? Can I take a seat?”
“Yeah, sure. I’m okay, just reading. You?”
“I’m good. Just wondering about things.”
“About what things?” She asks, while she lifts her cup to sip some more coffee.
“Like if I’d ever find a girl for me.”
She stops sipping and puts back the cup on the table. She hears his words as if they were piercing through her pride. Are you for real? She thought. You rejected me, and now you’re asking me if you’d ever find a girl to love, to cuddle at night, to have fun with, who is not me? She looks into his eyes for a moment, without blinking.
He notices the tension on her gaze, and so he asks, “What?”
“It’s pretty weird to say that to me, don’t you think?”
He looks away, and she is sure he remembers what happened half a year ago. “Oh, sorry... But that’s a long time ago, right? Can’t we go back to how we were? We talked about everything.”
She knows she has to contain herself, or else unwanted thoughts will find their way to slip through her lips. Sure, we can talk about a lot of things. Why don’t you ask me some new song recommendations, or let me listen to your new music like you used to? Do we really have to talk about that right off the bat?
She doesn’t say any of that. She smiles, and replies, “Of course we can. I just found it a little weird considering what happened. But for sure you’ll find someone someday. Don’t worry.” She raises her hand to initiate a high five. He responds with his hand and gives her a five.
He stands to order two more cups of coffee, and they chat through the afternoon like how they used to, with smiles on their faces...
whether or not they are true.
Rewind: Holy Week 2015 at Laurel, Batangas
It was my first time to be not at home on a holy week vacation ever. I’m so glad I was invited to sing with the other glee club members at Laurel, Batangas. And it’s not just that! It was indeed an out of town trip: 4 nights, 4 days!!
I, together with my glee club alumni friends Bryan, Patty, Jeck and Renzo were invited by our glee club conductor Miss Leila. The parish where we spent our holy week is headed by her brother priest.
It was so fun and nostalgic! I think I spent most of my time in high school practicing and singing with the glee club, but when I entered college it never became a daily thing because I didn’t join any org. I only get to sing with a choir whenever I have the free time to visit my high school music room. That’s why spending 5 days, doing nothing but singing with other people in the choir was just too blissful for me!
It was a fun, fun experience and being able to be at a place I’ve never been to was really nice as well. Looking forward for next year’s!
It’s been a while since I updated this blog. I’ve been having a hard time battling my laziness and at the same time I couldn’t bring myself to write anything satisfactory for this space I have in the interweb. But well, then again, maybe I should start trying to do better now.
I have been to pretty much many places for the past year and I still haven’t talked about it here, nor post photos from my trips!
Here’s one from the most recent place my family and I went to: Vietnam! It’s so cool that the city is circled by a long river. I can’t remember seeing a river in the middle of the city. It’s really cool.
On other news, I’ve also updated the appearance of this blog. It’s pretty much the same except for the color and header title.
Hopefully this will be the start of me posting and writing stuff again for Inkjolly like how I used to years back!
Cheers!
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Can't get enough of Siquijor's beautiful beach. Definitely one of the prettiest beaches I've been to ♥
We have a new cover up on my Facebook! It's the song Broken by Secondhand Serenade. Watch it here!
We we're just trying to formulate new chord progressions for a new song and then we remembered this song. We always sang this in high school! Every day lunch time jams, we miss. High school, we miss.
Haha. I hope you'll like it! Feel free to share if you did like it :)
Lovelots, Saccharine Summer (Joanne + Yeye)
I was in Greenbelt yesterday with my best girl friend Pia, and while we were strolling around, I saw this beautiful sketch notebook. I wasn't able to stop myself from impulse buying it. Goddamnit.
So to make it worth it, I'll do my best to fill it with creative thingimajics. Maybe I'll be able to make my drawing and writing skills exist.
And and the G-clef ornament is so nice. I couldn't resist it. The paper they used is nice as well!
So I therefore conclude it's a very fortunate impulse purchase.
"I..." "It's because..." She kept repeating those words, on the phone, but she couldn't say it. It's like there was an apple on her throat that stops her from continuing what she wants to say. "God, I never knew it would be this hard," she thought, while still stuttering her way to nowhere near the words she wants him to hear. "What is it?" He asked, for at least the 5th time. "Goddamnit, self. You can't back out anymore. Say it," she thought. So she said it. "I like you. But I don't wanna hope." There it was. Her words, that she had kept for so long. She had released it for him to hear. And there it was, the silence she knew would come. It was the most painful silence she had ever known. She knew how exactly this bad decision would end up. "Fuck," she thought, while stopping herself to sound like she was crying. "Why did I have to do this to myself?" After their deep breaths, from her phone's speakers, she heard, "I don't know what to say... I'm... sorry."
Joanne Year's Eve • 100414
Joanne Year's Eve was my debut party gig last Oct 4, the night before I officially turned 18. It was my plan since a year ago that if ever I'd have my own debut celebration, it won't be a usual, traditional one where we get to see cotillion dances, 18 roses, 18 candles, etc. I thought, since it would be my birthday, it's best if I seize the chance to actually make a dream of mine come true. That is to have my own gig or show with my friends.
Few months before October, my mom was already telling me to finalize my plan because we need to start preparing while October was still far. I still wasn't sure if I can pull my plan off. Fine, I wanted to have a gig, but I can't just have a gig. There's a lot of things that go with that. I have to make my friends commit that they will perform with me, we have to find time to practice everything, etc. I was kinda scared because I know if I'm going to pursue it, I can't just have a half-ass show. I have to make sure it will go well. So I thought a lot, and I still couldn't decide if I was really gonna do it. Travelling sounded easier. No pressure, no one will be disappointed, nothing would fail on that.
I talked to my music duo Yeye and we thought about the idea. She said she was willing to commit. That we can do it. So that was a push for me. From that, we were able to make our friend David commit to us also (to play guitar/beat) and then through him we got our old friend CD to play beat for us. With that, I started. We started. Mom and I went to search for venues, etc. My band mates and I started practicing, and I was also able to request some of my best friends from HS Glee Club to perform with us. It was really hard to find time to be able to practice together, but everything was already set. The date, time, venue, food, drinks, everything. There was no turning back. So we all did our best to complete the 18 songs. We practiced when we could. Everything was really a pressure on me, but at the same time, I had so much fun. Plus, everyone who was gonna come are our friends too. I needed not to dwell on the pressure and just do my best to make everything work.
And indeed, I can proudly say everything worked!!! That is all thanks to my mom, who supported this plan of mine for my debut, and definitely to all my friends who helped me in this!! I cannot believe how so much people gladly involved themselves in this. My band mates (we have a band name btw, "Monday Breakers••••"), my glee friends who practiced and performed with us, my cousins who helped me with the preparation and orderliness at the gig itself, my friends who thought with me about the decorations and other miscellaneous plans, and all the people who came to the gig!!
About 70 of my friends came, and I'm still overwhelmed about that fact that they did come! Some are my college friends and they really came from Manila, 2 hours from Batangas. I'm really really thankful. It was definitely one of the best days of my life. I turned 18 when 12AM came, check. I got to sing with my band and friends, check. I got to see a lot of my friends who I haven't seen for such a long time, check. I received gifts, check. Bonding with friends, check. It was such a happy time!
I can't remember much details of what happened, but what I can remember clearly is how happy I was. And I still am. I think no matter how many years will pass and I will still be happy about it. I am so happy I decided to pursue this which was just a "plan" before. It was worth it!
Happy birthday to me, indeed!
(more photos soon!)
It's only been four days since Joanne Year's Eve happened and I still can't get over it. It was hands down, one of "the best day(s) of my life," just how it was said on our last song. I want to rewind time and watch everything in 3rd person. It happened so fast I can't remember much details, but I can only remember how happy I was. And I am still. Another 361 days will pass and I'm sure I will still be happy about that day. I'm really thankful I get to celebrate my 18th the way I wanted to, from the venue to my dress and cake, everything depended on my decision, thanks to my Mami for letting me do that. I love you Mami. And for sure Dadi is happy for me as well. ❤️ I can't express enough how grateful I am to have met all the people who was there. You are the best crowd I have ever performed for. I gave my heart in every word I sang, so know that you all have a piece of it. We'll definitely have a second round next year. Xoxo, The Eighteen Year Old Joanne (Photo by @onemacasaet) (at The Blue Sapphire)
"This last song is about unrequited love" "Lagyan na ng kalamansi 'yang sugat na yan" Finally watched a Reese and Vica set last night! ❤️ Their last song killed me :( Right in the feeels :(( (at Route 196 Bar)
Nothing
If I’d finally be able to write a song, I’d write about you. But I don’t know anything about you. I feel something for you, but that is naive of me. How can I feel something for someone who I don’t really know? I know your name, where you’re from, how you look like, and how your voice sounds like. But I don’t really know you.
The thing is, I want to know you more. So do I write a song to know you or do I have to know you first before I write a song about you?
Wait a second, do I really have to know you, for me to be able to say that it’s okay to feel something for you? Why do I feel this way if it was needed? I like you, that’s why I want to know you. But I also wanna take pride and be able to say that I know you, that’s why I like you.
I want to write a song about you. I want to know you, and be able to understand how I feel for you.
Because this is not nothing, that’s what I know.
Sibs polaroids :D This browie gonna be 22 in 3 days! Weewoop! (at The Bellevue Resort Bohol)
Happy birthday, Juliah! :)
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