To the Beautiful You

Memories from: L.A.

I just finished the last episode of "To the Beautiful You." It was perfect and I could not count how many times tears fell out of my right eye because I was laying down on my right side. But this K-Drama was soooo amazing in so many ways! Let's forget the part where it takes 14-15 episodes for the two main characters to finally confess and get together. This was the cutest k-drama I've seen in a while. I love it cuz it included everything I would want to watch - cute romantic scenes, camping trips, out-of-town trips (I LOVE IT WHEN THEY ALL GO OUT TO A RANDOM PLACE AND HAVE FUN), cute jealousy, serious jealousy that gets the confession going, and very very very very lovable actors that make their characters so easy to love.

I must say, this drama changed my views on Minho. I thought he was a cutesy kinda guy and didn't really find him attractive, but dayumm he was manly in this one and his body. Okay. Let's just have a moment of silence to appreciate his body.

And more moments of silence to appreciate the many scenes of very very attractive Korean actors working out and doing push-ups shirtless in this show. That's a huge plus. Back to the topic. I loved how Tae Joon's character developed from a pained and antisocial person to a loving and open one. The way he opened up to Jae Hee was just beautiful. THIS DRAMA WAS SO CUTE, I CAN'T EVEN. I'm probably gonna re-watch the last 3 episodes during the weekend or something. My heart has not beaten this fast since...okay I don't even remember. But my heart was beating really fast. This just made me really happy - the OST makes me happy too. It was definitely what I needed this week :) I feel like my heart can't be put to rest for a while haha.

This will always have a special place in my heart. It will be that Korean Drama that I saw in my 2nd week of school here at CSUN. It will be that Korean Drama that made me feel so much happier than I ever did in my 1st week of school.

 I have so many emotions now, I don't even know how to express them. IT WAS SUCH A FEEL-GOOD DRAMA. SO MUCH LOVE FOR IT. I'M SO SAD THAT I FINISHED IT BUT I'M SO HAPPY AT THE SAME TIME. CAN'T CONTAIN ALL THESE EMOTIONS!!

"Miracle is just another word for hard work." 

A little K-Drama Rant

Thoughts from: L.A.

In need of something light-humored & romantic to watch, I decided to embark on a new K-Drama, hoping to find one that'll make me feel giddy and squeally in the inside. Well, the universe granted me my wish because it made me give "To the Beautiful You" a try instead of watching "Secret Garden." Needless to say, I've been hooked since yesterday and can't really do anything other than watch that darned good show. It is 1:28am. I have just used all my will power to force me to sleep, but instead, I am blogging about it just because I have so many feelings.

Really though, HOW COULD YOU SPEND 13 EPISODES - PROBABLY 14 HOURS IN TOTAL - WITHOUT ANYONE CONFESSING?! Seriously. Loving this show and how it's all really cute and not-so-overly-dramatic, but come on, you've got to give me something! Anyway, I'm probably gonna finish the whole show tomorrow since I'm on Episode 13 right now and it only goes on until Episode 16. It's gonna be really really sad because WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT IT?!?! TT______TT

So that's just my little rant. Haha, good night! :)

Don't forget, if the future should take you away, that you'll always be part of me

Memories from: North Carolina

A week and a half has gone by since I came to LA, and even if I got to share some good days with new friends and old friends, I still wake up in the morning with a heavy heart. It's just so hard to not think of the first day I came back to North Carolina for sophomore year. The feeling that I was back in the arms of friends I've made in freshman year and have grown so close with; the feeling of familiarity; the feeling that I wasn't alone; the feeling that I was in a place where I was loved. As much as I long for that feeling, I know I wouldn't have that right now, or at least for a while. But I hope I find it again. Until then, skype dates and text messages with those friends, my loves, will help keep me going. Because they help me go through the days I feel alone. In some way, they help fuel my day.
Sunday morning, where rain didn't fall from the skies of LA, I was able to have a great google hangout with my besties from Elon. That was the quickest 4 hours of my life - and I guess that's why the semester went by so fast in Elon - because I was with them, and because even during times when there was nothing to do, at least I could do nothing with them, and that alone made time go by so swiftly.

I long for the day we're all reunited again. I have no idea when that would be, but I hope it happens. When it does, without a doubt, we'll be as crazy and stalkerish as we used to be together. :)

"Don't forget, if the future should take you away, that you'll always be part of me." - Toy Story 3

First Friendaversary

Memories from: North Carolina

Approximately one year ago, I met my good friend Michelle's brothers in a wondrous vacation Elon University calls "fake break." It's a bit mind boggling that in exactly one year, we wouldn't even be together to celebrate this occasion and that I'd be in the opposite side of the country from them. How do you measure a year? Better yet, how do you measure friendship? They say friendship takes time - and I agree. But every once in a while, you'll be granted friends that you click with right on the spot; friends that just become close to you instantly. And it doesn't matter how long of a time you've spent together. At the end of the day, when it's time to part, you just know how much that friendship means to you and how you wish that you could spend countless days with them. I'm blessed enough to say that I found that kind of friendship in them. 

I don't think there will ever be a day when I'd think I've had enough time with them. That's a given. The time I have with them will never be enough. As sad as that sounds, I'm still thankful that I was given the chance to spend exceptionally wonderful days with them. There was not a single dull day. Everything was an adventure - maybe not physically all the time, but an adventure in a sense that there was always something new to learn about each other; that there was always something to share, cry, and laugh about.  

Even if my heart still aches from missing all my friends in North Carolina, I still seek shelter from the words of this quote:

Missing someone gets easier everyday because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will.

 

Lost in the city of angels

It's been a while since senior year of high school - a lot has changed - about me, about life, and about what I thought or hoped everything would be. But I guess it's time to start blogging again; I feel like I really need to let everything out for a while.
After 1.5 years of college in North Carolina, I am now in Los Angeles starting a new life in a new university. Things have been rough this first week, especially with my feelings about saying goodbye to my friends in NC and starting from ground zero again in a new place where I don't know anyone. So to help me cope, I've decided I want this blog to be a bit different. It's gonna be sort of my travel blog, but different. I'm going to write little blogs about an experience or a memory I had in a certain place - whether it be the Philippines, Taiwan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, or Los Angeles. You'll probably hear a lot about North Carolina because I am pretty homesick for it. But I hope this goes well :)