Happy 11th anniversary to one of my favorite groups in the world~ TVXQ!!! And oh, well, JYJ. For me, TVXQ is always 5. I still wish that you'd get to perform as 5 someday. Hindi naman ako nagmamadali. In God's perfect time, I know our wishes will come true. ;) I love you, guys! I hope to see you live soon. :)
at Tamagoya Noodle House and Cookie Mug at Lilac St.
2 weeks ago I had a Christmas party celebration with my friends from college (and a friend's friend) :D. Yearly we do this event to be together for catch ups and everything over dinner and coffee.
Hihi. The place was nice and the food at Tamagoya was good. It's authentic Japanese cuisine with a very affordable price. You might as well try it. It's in Brgy. Mayamot in Antipolo near Lilac St. in Marikina City.
Woot! Woot! For the 4th time, my favorite rock band of all-time will be having a concert in Manila! And this time, it's going to be in Mall of Asia Arena!! My friend and I were so excited that we already purchase a ticket last week, Wednesday. Yipee yo! We're going to see Incubus for the 3rd time!!! And... it's just a day after Ed Sheeran's concert on the same venue. We are concert hopping! LOL
I think, the band has a new album, set for release next year. I hope so. Incubus aren't having a world tour if they don't have a new album.
Ya know what, isa ito sa mga buwan na gusto at ayaw ko at the same time. Gusto ko siya in a sense na it's Christmas time. Ang ayoko, yung obligasyon kong magbigay ng regalo sa mga inaanak. Bakit ba kasi ako tumanda at nagkaroon ng mga inaanak?! wtf. Good thing, kakaunti lang ang mga inaanak ko at wala pa naman akong plano na dagdagan. Ang gastos kaya! LOL.
Anyway, magtatapos na ang taon, yung story ni Micky at Marla ay hindi pa rin lumalabas. I'm not sure if it's going to be published this year. Baka nga next year na. Okay lang din naman, At least may dalawang nobela akong aabangan na ma-release sa 2015. Ang nakakalungkot lang isipin ay wala akong publish book ngayong 2014! Gaaaah! Pero as if naman marami ang nag-aabang ng nobela ko, `no? Haha!
Ang wish ko ngayong Disyembre, makapagsimula na ako ng bagong nobela. Ang balak kong sulatin ay iyong istorya naman ni Yuan (Jaeden's best friend. At may-ari ng Yuan's Coffee Shop kung saan nagta-trabaho si Louise bilang pastry chef.) Sana masimulan ko na siya sa weekend! Sana hindi ako tamarin. Lol. Pero mas masayang mag-marathon ng Game of Thrones. Pramis. Nakakaadik manood ng GoT. Season 2 pa lang ako. Sana matapos ko rin agad-agad.
Wala na akong ibang maisip na sabihin dito... Ayyy oo nga pala! Iyong isang kaibigan ko ay lilipad na patungong Japan bukas. I'm so #inggit. Mga 90 days siya roon. Ang bongga diba! Ako nangangarap pa lang makapunta ng Japan. I wish... someday.... SOON!
I love you so much! As a fan, I'm delighted to know about your worries from those previous years
you felt so insecure, unsure and whatnot. I'm so happy that you chose to stay! It only means how much you love and how much you value your members. And that you are not a selfish man.
I hope and I wish that you could still do the things you want to do outside Arashi. And when the time comes you want to do the things you didn't fulfill in the past years, I would still gladly support you!
*********** And last Saturday, my friends and I had a post Riida bash at KBOB KTV and Restaurant wherein we sang a lot of Arashi songs. ^_^
Oh, my God! Watch Taylor Swift's new music video! Blank Space is one of my favorite tracks in her new album TS 1989 and it's so nice that she released an equally awesome video for this song. ♥
I like the fact that Taylor is not afraid of "role playing" what the media perceived her to be. It means, she's aware of it. And It's like, raising her middle finger at them. So nice of you, Taylor! ♥
And, Oh, my God! Her love interest is so effin' hot and gorgeous! It is the Calvin Klein model named Sean O'Pry!
*Originally posted on my good reads account.* I
cannot force myself to read this book anymore. At page 75, I'm already
done with this. This is one of those English novels that I find so
boring even from the very beginning. I cannot connect with the
characters and I don't even think the characters have connection with
each other. Oh, my God. I couldn't even understand why our heroine here,
Emma, is pining for a jerk, douche, an asshole, a sorry excuse for a
man like Dexter over the years. Like seriously? And both characters are pathetic. I cannot even root for either of them. The author, David
Nicholls deceived me! I was sold at the teaser and the premise of the
book and the comments that came from some of the notable authors in the
world. And what the hell did I get from this book? I just ended up
frustrated, annoyed and everything else. I hate this book so much.
That's too harsh but that's all I can say.
The Battle of The Five Armies is going to be so awesome. I could feel it! It's much much better than in the book! OMG. I cannot wait for December to come! #TheHobbit#eggzoited
So as I've said on my previous post, Curtis and Katrina is good as approved, now it's really approved! Well, it was actually approved last month, October 24th. They had asked for other requirements and I've already sent that already.
Moving on, like I've said before, I peg my characters from celebrities that I like. But this time, it's kinda different. My visual peg for my heroine Katrina Vergara is Kylie Padilla. She isn't my favorite, but I definitely find her pretty. I love her chinita eyes and she's so white. :) Habang sinusulat ko `yung story nila ni Curtis, `yung mukha ni Kylie ang nai-imagine kong mukha ni Katrina. As in iyong ganoon na ganoon talaga. Kinikilig naman ako. >.<
credit: all grabbed from google.
As for my hero Curtis, my visual peg for him originally was Jared Leto, kaso parang imposible na ganoon ang mukha ni Curtis dahil Filipino si Curtis. So sa isip ko `yung aura lang ni Jared ang nakuha ni Curtis. LOL. Parehas naman silang long hair at rock star, so keri na `yon. Para sa akin naman ay hot at guwapo si Curtis. Siyempre, ako ang author, eh! XD
By the way, I hope you could grab a copy when it's out in the market, but I dunno when. Baka next year pa. ^^;
Natsuki Sahara (Takeru Sato) is a rookie detective. He is assigned to work as the #1 detective for the Ginza Police Station, but his father Akimura Shimao (Atsuro Watabe) also works there as a detective. Natsuki Sahara does not like his father at all. After his parents divorced when he was 13-years-old, he was raised by his grandparents. Meanwhile, Akimura is a bit eccentric and a playboy with the ladies. This is in direct contrast with his son who is poor when it comes to dating. Akimura feels bad for his son for divorcing when he did. He tries to help him at work, but has difficulties approaching him in the right way.
I couldn’t remember what led me to watching Bitter Blood. This is my first time to watch a Satoh Takeru drama wherein he is the main character. Anyway, I could definitely say that Satoh Takeru’s acting has improved a lot from his Kamen Rider Den-O days which I think his acting was kinda awkward— haven’t seen the entire season. I’ve only seen a few episodes.
I love Takeru’s facial expressions, even if sometimes it’s over the top. Well, I’ve watched quite a lot of Japanese dramas and I’ve noticed that, having a little exaggerated or animated expressions are known to their acting. But I think it really suited his character well. I didn’t know he could be that effective in comedy. Because for me, he’ll always be Himura Kenshin— who is most of the time, serious and deadly. His acting in this drama was fairly different from RuroKen. Takeru was so into the character of Sahara Natsuki. A very funny and charming detective.
The main characters Sahara and his father Shimao Akimura have great chemistry. And they had a lot of funny scenes together that I couldn’t help laughing my ass off in the middle of the night.
Oh, well, there were some annoying side characters like the guy “Skunk” but he’s tolerable. LOL. I fairly think, their Team wouldn’t be as good without him.
Story-wise, it was really nice. They incorporated action, crime, mystery, comedy with a bit of drama rolled into one in this drama. And they would throw some family values after every episode. This is one of the good things about Japanese dramas. And aside from that, they do not focus on the love angles. And they do not have to have lead characters having kissing scenes. Heck, they could manage a good drama without kissing scenes or love scenes. I wish localteleseryes here in my country could think of dramas like the Japanese’s.
First season seems to be short, tho. We need to see more of them. There were still some questions in my mind and I want answers. I’m hoping they would do a second season or an SP. Perhaps? I really wish.
My friends and I called our 11th year anniversary celebration, "Japanese Night". It's not, exactly, "Japanese", Japanese. We just came up with that idea because we planned on eating Japanese food which by the way, was not entirely Japanese food. LOL. And we watched some Japanese movie and some Japanese variety shows, particularly Arashi's variety shows.
We got,
sushi
which my friend bought at shopwise.
Korean Style Fried Chicken
For the love of Kim Jaejoong, we KPOP-ed our chicken with the help of McCormmick's Korean Fried Chicken Mix.
The product has 4 variants :Soy garlic, Kimchi, Bulgogi and Spicy.
We chose the Soy garlic flavor since my friends are not a fan of spicy dishes.
Pepper rice
My friends liked the one I made for them the last time they were in our house. Friend 1 asked me to make pepper rice again for our Japanese night, so yeah we had it in our menu list. I learned this recipe from a vlogger I always watch on YouTube.
sharksfin
We all know it's Chinese. LOL
And these were all the food we ate last Saturday night.
And this is US. We looked like we're having a baseball game with our uniformed baseball tees. pic courtesy of Donna's IG.
Wow. We've been together for 11 years. It's been so long. I Hope we'll stay forever, even if some us got married. Haha! I've got amazing friends and I'm very thankful for it. :)
I'm effin' excited for March next year!!! My friend and I will going to watch Ed Sheeran X Tour in Manila! Yessssss! OMG!
Hindi ko in-expect na gano'n kabilis mauubos ang ticket ni Ed in just almost 3 hours. WTF. Never knew na gano'n kalakas ang fanbase niya rito sa Pinas. Petiks pa kami ng friend ko na saka na kami bibili ng ticket pag nagkapera na ako. LOL. Buti nakita ko ang tweet ng bff ko sa twitter na nag-crashed daw ang website ng SM Ticketnet at mabilis naubos ang VIP seats at around 1PM. And the good thing was, may nagbayad sa `kin ng kautangan no'ng isang araw. I told my friend right away na mag-undertime na siya sa office at susugod na kami sa SM Cubao just to purchase tickets. Siyempre mahirap nang maubusan ng ticket `no. I wouldn't want to miss the chance of watching and seeing Ed live. So `ayun nga, nagkita agad kami sa Cubao. We thought of getting patron or upper box seat, but unfortunately, the seats were already sold out. But thank God, we secured tickets kahit yung seat na nabili namin ay hindi `yung gusto namin talaga.
I'm happy anyways :). Can't effin' wait to see Ed Sheeran in flesh. ♥
My first reaction when I saw this MV was, "Wow ang payat nani Ed!". My golly gawgaw! Ang payat na nga niya! And he looks more attractive now that he shed some weight. :D Please share your secret dearest Ed! Baka sakaling pumayat na rin ako. :p
Moving on, my opinion about the MV is that it's really romantic. And hats off to Ed for trying to learn how to dance. And it's really nice to see him dancing. I'm sooookilig! You already know how much I like the song (I talked about it in one of my previous entries) and I think it's okay that they made this video like this. I mean, it's really romantic enough for me. No need to act out the lyrics of the song. It would be awesome if they did that though. But I'm not asking for anything like that since I really think they still did an amazing MV for this song. ♥
P/S I'm so inggitnakayateng partner ni Ed. Oh, and I cannot wait to see my ginger baby! My friend and I secured tickets for his X tour in Manila on 12th March next year! :)
I make it a point that I attend every gathering or book signing event, my favorite Filipino author has, because she and my fellow Vanadikz always brings me excitement and joy whenever I'm with them. Hihi.
The beautiful and lovely paper flower backdrop we set up at the PPC store in SM North Edsa for Miss Vanessa's book signing event last Saturday. I feel so pretty. Chos. The small paper flower you see at the bottom of the wall was made by me with the help of my cousin and Auntie. And of course, the bigger ones were made by my favorite Tagalog romance author Miss Vanessa.
And here's the picture of our beloved author Vanessa together with us, readers and fans. (Miss Vanessa is the fairest one in the group.)
Woot woot! Finally, one of my favorite TV series is back!
And season 5 premiere was ah-maze balls!!! I think I'm going to like this better than the last season. I'm hoping so much for this one. More gore and more blood would be an amazing season. Morbid, eh? Well, the first episode of season five was bad-ass. And I like that Carol turned into an ass-kicking woman. I couldn't even remember the woman she was before. Kudos, Carol! I won't talk much about the episode I've seen last night because I don't want to spoil you, people, people who come across this blog and haven't watched the first episode of The Walking Dead Season 5. All I can say is, it redeemed the boring season they last had.
Hindi ko alam kung ano'ng pinagagagawa ko sa buhay ko at ngayon ko lang pinaginteresan muling panoorin ang music videos ng TVXQ! Lol. Anyway, since last week, I've been watching TVXQ's MV and live performances of their singles "Something" and Spellbound. And I must say that I'm most addicted and mesmerized with the song, Spellbound. Oh, I just love it! Lahatna halos ng live performance nilasa kantang iyon, in Music Core, Music Bank, name any music shows in Korea nanasaYoutube ay pinanood ko na. TVXQ is really amazing on stage. I so so love the dance choreography!!! Everytime I'm listening to this song, I had the urge to dance along with it. Para na akong baliw kasikahit nag-aabang ako ng PUV, I couldn't help myself to flinch my hands or tap my foot. Lol.
And the duo are oh-so charming! Grabe, ngayon lang ako nabaliw nang husto sa dalawang ito. Bakit bakasi ang galing, ang guwapo at hot nina Yunho at Charming, este, Changmin?
And oh yeah, ang sarap naman maging female backup dancers ng TVXQ. May librenghaplos at hawakdoonsadalawa. Lol. But that aside, they were all pretty and hot.
Having said that, here are the videos I'm busying myself with lately,
