Thursday, March 26, 2015

Book: Ugly Love by Collen Hoover

★★★/★★★★★

“If I were capable of loving someone . . . it would be you.”

When love is not the reason, everything gets ugly.

Finally, I got to read this book and I can say that Colleen Hoover is really amazing! :)

Tate and Miles just proved that everyone gets a second chance. And it may take forever but there is always, always, someone to prove you wrong when you think you can't love again.  

“It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love”

ARIANA GRANDE LIVE IN MANILA 2015


Ariana Grande will bring her The Honeymoon Tour here in Manila on August 23, 2015 at the Mall of Asia Arena. This will be her first time here in Manila and I'm sure all the Arianators out there are excited to see her! :)


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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

TV Series: The Blacklist (2013)

★★★★/★★★★★

James Spader as Raymond "Red" Reddington
Megan Boone as Elizabeth "Liz" Keen
Diego Klattenhoff as Donald Ressler
Ryan Eggold as Tom Keen

The first time I saw the trailer I knew I would love this series. And I did. I finished watching up to the latest episode last week and now I can't wait for the next episode. Each episode was interesting and I love how the story gets better each time. Second season is about to end  and I heard that there would be a third season! :)

The story begins when Elizabeth "Liz" Keen starts working for the FBI as a profiler. On her first day, one of FBI's most wanted fugitives, Raymond "Red" Reddington, surrenders himself to the FBI. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests in getting rid of dangerous criminals and terrorists. But Reddington demands that he talks only to Elizabeth Keen. Liz wonders why Reddington chose her so she asks but Reddington doesn't give her answers. He only tells her that her husband is not who she thinks he is. It bothers Liz more when she finds fake passports, money and a gun hidden on their house. From then the story progresses as Liz continues working with Reddington so she can find answers to her questions while Reddington starts giving them names.

 Red - Liz - Tom - Donald - Cooper - Dembe - Aram

 

The Blacklist Season 1 Trailer

The Blacklist Season 2 Trailer


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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Movie Trailer: Paper Towns

And Paper Towns trailer is here!!!!!!!!


The trailer is great and I hope the rest of the movie won't disappoint me. 
Because I really hate it when they change some parts of the book when they make it into movie but this looks just the same. I'm really excited to see the whole movie!!! :)

And I like it when Q says Margo's whole name. Margo Roth Spiegelman. :)

SUMMER FUN! :D

Summer Bucket List:
◻ Ger a new hairdo.
◻ Make a list of your summer plan.
◻ Take a summer selfie.
◻ Email a friend you haven't spoken to in a while.
◻ Plan a vacation you want to take next year
◻ Buy a book.
◻ Make a fresh, home made fruit juice.
◻ List summer movies to watch.
◻ Treat someone a float or shake.
◻ Swap a book with someone.
◻ Make a CD of your favorite summer songs.
◻ Go to a concert.
◻ Go for a bike. Take pictures.
◻ Visit museums.
◻ Write a poem.
◻ Eat ice cream.
◻ Go to a movie date.
◻ Learn something new.
◻ Girls Night Out.
◻ Have a picnic.
◻ Volunteer on something.
◻ Visit a playground.
◻ Star gaze.
◻ Have a movie marathon.
◻ Hit the beach.
◻ Make s'mores.
◻ Write a letter for someone.
◻ Turn on the music and dance.
◻ Talk to a friend.
◻ Go out for lunch with someone.
◻ Meet someone new.
◻Window shop with sisters.
◻ Make bracelets.
◻ Have a drive-in movie.
◻ Walk.
◻ Buy new flip flops.
◻ Write to yourself.
◻ Camp indoor.
◻ Go hiking.
◻ Cook something.
◻ Fall in love.
◻ Do something fun.
◻ Foodtrip.
◻ Paint.
◻ Have a roadtrip.
◻ Visit a theme park.
◻ Write a summer blog.
◻ Create a photo journal.


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Monday, March 9, 2015

EPIK HIGH LIVE IN MANILA 2015


Korean hiphop group, Epik High, will be holding their first ever Manila show this April 18, 2015 at the Skydome as part of their Concert Parade Tour.


I also hope Tablo will bring Haru with him. keke :))

For more details visit Pulp Live World.

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ECHOSMITH LIVE IN MANILA 2015


They're back! 
It won't be their first time here in Manila because Echosmith was here twice last year and now they'll be coming back for another solo show.
They will be performing live at Samsung Hall SM Aura on August 13, 2015. So if you want to see them again be sure to buy your tickets now.


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March 2015 Music Videos

Ancient History - Set It Off (Mar 2, 2015)

 Someone New - Hozier ( Mar 2, 2015)

No Way No - Magic (Mar 2, 2015)

Flo Rida - Once In A Lifetime (Mar 3, 2015)

Risk It All Live - The Vamps (Mar 4, 2015)

 Growing Pains - Donghae & Eunhyuk (Mar 5, 2015)

I Really Like You - Carly Rae Jepsen (Mar 6, 2015)

Man on A Wire - The Script ( Mar 8, 2015)

Kids In The Dark - All Time Low (Mar10, 2015)

Dear Future Husband - Meghan Trainor (Mar 16, 2015)

Getaway - Mallory Knox (Mar 17, 2015)

Work Song - Hozier (Mar 23, 2015)

Want To Want Me - Jason Derulo ( Mar 23, 2015)

Bloodstream - Ed Sheeran (Mar 24, 2015)

 Give Me All of You - Austin Mahone ft. Becky G. (Mar 27, 2015)

 Roads - Lawson (Mar 31, 2015)

KDrama: Kill Me Heal Me 2015

★★★★★/★★★★★

Main Characters:
Ji Sung as Cha Do hyun/Shin Segi/Perry Park/Ahn Yo seob/Ahn Yo na/Nana/Mr. X
Hwang Jung eum as Oh Ri jin
Park Seo jun as Oh Ri on

This is not my first drama with Ji sung and Hwang Jung eum as the leads. I've seen Secret Love before and I loved their chemistry on that drama. That's why I was happy when I read that they're making a new drama again.

Kill Me Heal Me is about Cha Do hyun who has 7 personalities. He has DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) in which he has 6 other personalities within him. The story is interesting because he struggles to fight his other personalities while trying to live as normal as he can. I'm only on the 9th episode and so far I've seen his 4 other personalities. There's Shin Se gi who has anger issues and the most dangerous of all, there's Perry Park who is  a bomb expert, Ahn Yo sub who is suicidal and his twin sister Ahn Yo na who loves idols. I have yet to meet his 2 other personalities.

I'm loving the story so far and I'm excited to know what will happen next. I want to know what caused Do hyun to have that disorder and I want to know how Oh Ri jin, a first-year psychiatry resident at Kanghan Hospital, will help Do hyun overcome the desire of his other personalities to take over his body. I'm also excited to know what will happen to their love story now that we know that Shin Se gi thinks that Ri jin is his first love. There's also a mystery surrounding the real identity of Ri jin's twin brother, Oh Ri on. But now we also know that he's really not Ri jin's brother because one of them, I'm not so sure who, was just adopted by their parents when he/she was young.

It's a really good drama with great plot. I'm looking forward to the next episodes and I'm excited to finish it! :)

Here are some screencaps from the drama:

 Ri jin: Do I look like your dead first love?
Se gi: No.
Ri jin: I don't look like her?
Se gi: She is not dead.
Ri jin: ...
Se gi: She is alive, thankfully.

Ri jjin: Wow, it's pretty!
Se gi: Do you like this present?
Ri jin: Is there a person that doesn't like fireworks?
Se gi: Don't you wish it could go on forever?
Ri jin: That's right.
Se gi: It's the same for me. I wish that I could be with you forever.

I like this scene when Shin Se gi asks Ri jin to put Do hyun to sleep but she tells him she can't do it and then Se gi tells her that he will make her do it and he kisses her. :"> It's their first kiss. :)


 

Do hyun: Do you want to go out for a drink? You told me yesterday that you would become my drinking friend.
Ri jin; But you don't really like drinking or friends.
Do hyun: Oh. Let's just say that we are starting the consultions we decided to do everyday.



UPDATE!!
 I just finished this drama today. :)

The story is very intriguing and I love how the actors played their characters really well. Ji sung played his part so well that I fell in love with him all over again.

Now I know why Cha Do hyun came to have other personalities. It's because when he was a child, he witnessed his father abusing a little girl his age and in order to protect that girl, he created other personalities. It started when he can't take watching his dad abuse the little girl anymore so he created Shin Se gi, the one who set their house on fire in order to save the child. Do hyun didn't have the courage to stop his father so he created someone who can do it.

Later on, as Do hyun's memories start to come back, he realizes that the child he always sees on the basement with him was Oh Ri jin. It's the reason why Shin Se gi recognized her the first time they met. Ri jin slowly starts to remember her lost memories too.

Finally, Ri jin realizes that her memories are connected with Do hyun's memories. Together they decided to recover their lost memories, saying that they will help each other to remember everything.

When Do hyun finally remembers everything, he tells Ri jin not to remember hers anymore. It's because he's afraid that Ri jin will be hurt again if she remembers that his dad used to abuse her when she was a child and that Cha Do hyun's name was once hers. But Ri jin eventually learns the truth. The trauma that Do hyun's father caused her surfaces that she faints just remembering it.

Everything else is revealed and in the end Do hyun tells Ri jin that in order for his other personalities to disappear, they must forgive the perpetrator. Do hyun's father also regains consciousness after being in a coma because of the fire that happened 21 years ago. Do hyun meets him but not because he missed him but because he wants to confirm if his father had something to do with the accident that claimed the life of Ri jin's mother. He's so mad that his other personalities try to take advantage of his weak point.

Do hyun becomes stronger after that. He tells himself to be strong so that he can protect Ri jin. Now he's trying to make his other personalities disappear. That episode was so sad that I cried so hard. And to tell you honestly, I've never cried so much because of a drama before. I cried when Perry Park said his farewell. Perry Park was created because Do hyun wants to remember the good side of his father. His father once wanted to have a boat and wanted to name it Perry Park, thus the name. Ahn Yo sub says his goodbye by leaving Ri jin a poem. His twin, Ahn Yo na, is a funny character. Yo na has a crush on Ri jin's brother, Oh Ri on, and it's funny how she calls him "Oppa". Scenes with Yo na always made me laugh. In the end, she has to say goodbye too. Nana, on the other hand, only reveals herself at the later part of the story. She's the child version of Ri jin. Do hyun created her because he always wants to remember the child he used to play with in the basement. There's another mysterious personality that comes out only at the later part. He's Mr. X, Nana's father. Ri jin never met her father because he died just before she was born. Mr. X talks to Do hyun and tells him that in order to know what he wants to know, he must have the courage to ask about it.

The story continues with Ri jin meeting Do hyun's father herself. Do hyun's father asks for forgiveness but the damage has been done. Then Shin se gi suddenly appears and he wants to kill his father but Ri jin stops him. Now that the other personalities are gone, there's only Shin Se gi left.

That part of the drama also made me cry. Shin Se gi was created because Do hyun didn't have the courage to protect that little gril. He was created so that Do hyun has a personality that is strong and aggressive. And he's the most damaged personality. I actually felt the pain inside him because even though it wasn't me, just thinking about how hard it was for him to set his house on fire just to save the little girl, it breaks my heart.

In the end, Se gi decided to leave. Though he doesn't want to, he knows that Do hyun is strong enough now to protect Ri jin and that he doesn't need to conceal the memories from Do hyun anymore because Do hyun already accepted it.

I cried when Ri jin gave Se gi his present. Ri jin also gave the other personalities a present and because she didn't know what to give Se gi, she just gave him a kiss. And then he's gone.


I really love this drama! It teaches us how to face our darkest past and to move on even though it hurts. It's a story about healing and mending the pain in our heart. It's a very good one that I hope it heals you too! :)

Here are my favorite screencaps!


































Do hyun: I promise you, Shin Se gi. If you don't stop me from doing these things after I mustered courage for the first time.. if youdon't steal just the time I have with this person... I promise you tens, hundreds and thousands of times. I promise that I'll give my entire body and all of my time and memories to you in next life. I promise that I'll become your false image in my next life. So please, just don't appear in front of this person. Please just don't steal this love from me. 

This is the part when Do hyun realizes the he likes Ri jin! :">

 Ri jin always stays by Do hyun's side.

This is the first time Shin Se gi actually smiles. :))



 I love how Se gi becomes soft when it comes to Ri jin. :)

 This scene is funny! It's when Se gi made this roulette that is so unfair in every way you look at it because his name occupies almost the entire space with Do hyun's name occupying just a small area. He tells Ri jin to spin it and and let it decide who Ri jin will choose. Too bad it stops with Do hyun's name. HAHAHA. Talk about luck, Se gi! :P

 Se gi desperately asks Ri jin not to make him disappear. :((
 When Do hyun can't stop but fall in love with Ri jin and is willing to pay for breaching their contract. Hihi :")

This is when Do hyun already becomes close to Ri jin's family. :)

And this episode made me cry a river!!!  HUHU :"(
 Do hyun: One day in the near future, when time has passed a lot and Oh Ri jin is forgetting me, when she doesn't feel anything even if she's though of me and if Oh Ri jin happens to be pained from the past, tell her this. "It's not because you did something wrong or because you didn't have the right to be loved that you were abused. You definitely have the right to be loved. That you shine so brightly and are so lovely  that it's only right for you to be loved. So live while being loved from now on."

It's when Do hyun decided to leave Ri jin because he realizes how much pain he's already caused to Ri jin. This breaks my heart. :(((

 
Do hyun: Before I send Oh Ri jin away, please give me just one day to spend with her. Now that I think about it, I only received things, I didn't give her anything. Because of my she was always anxious. I never saw her smile brightly. One day, only day I want to spend it solely on Ri jin. I want to make her smile brightly. Because Oh Ri jin, into my castle that has always been desolated and cold, she was the first person to enter it. She was the first person to held out her hand. She was the person who noticed that are eyes were different with one glance. She was the person who asked for my name. She was the person who waited anxiously for me to come back. She was the person who gave me the warmest snowman in the world. She was the person who said to me words that were more consoling than 1000 words . She was the person who could make me happy just from looking at her. And... she was the person who I can't make it up even if I atone for the rest of my life.

 My heart also breaks for Oh Ri on. Ri jin has always seen him only as a brother but actually he likes her. He also knew from the start that they are not really twins but he can't just tell Ri jin his feelings because she only sees him as a good brother.
 In the end he's forced to stay only as Ri jin's good brother. 

I love this episode. :) Ri jin finally realizes that Shin Se gi was the one who saved her.



This is when Ri jin told Se gi not to get angry, not to use violence and not to ruin Do hyun's reputation. HAHAHA xD

 This episode is when Do hyun and Ri jin decided to do what they should've done when they were little (to have fun). It's also when the healing part comes. They see their old selves and realize that they have to let go of their childhood self and memories in order to move on and heal. They have to let go of their past.


The last episode is a good one. It made me want to watch the whole drama again.

Ri jin: Hey, Mr Shin. Don't you want anything? I picked out all of the presents for the other personalities but strangely, I don't know what to pick out for you. Tell me don't you want anything?
Se gi: You won't be able to give it to me.
Ri jin: What is that?
Se gi: You.

 Ri jin: But what were you thinking just now?
Se gi: the thought that time could just stop. 
Ri jin: ...
Se gi: What method there is to be with you forever. Well, that kind of thing.

 
This is also the scene where Se gi says his farewell. He's finally convinced that Do hyun is strong enough to face his past already.

And of course every drama ends in a happy ending.
Do hyun gives Ri jin a couple ring. :")

 


There's dark basement in everyone's hearts. If ignored and is only observed, the darkness become thinker. You should muster your courage and go downstairs, then turn on the light. If you're scared when alone, someone can hold your hand. 

 

If I'm with you, I'm not scared.



The End.

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