VALENTINE'S DAY MOVIE PLAYLIST :)

So just like what I said before...

I will be all alone this V-day...

No special someone...

No date...

BUT! I won't be sad...

Because

Despite the fact that I won't be with anyone

I have a killer day planned for myself

Aside from my AWESOME playlist which I posted earlier (and just wait for its sequel which is equally AWESOME)

I WILL WATCH A TON OF ROMANCE and ROMANTIC COMEDY MOVIES THAT DAY!!!

(haha suck it people who have dates! :P I have better plans than you :P)

My mom and I bought lots of DVDs last weekend and being who I am which is someone who loves romance and romantic comedies (plus the occasional thriller and mind movies) I asked mom to by me a bunch of the lot... And once we came home, as I was about to go on to a movie marathon, I thought about reserving the ROM and ROM COM movies for Feb 14. Awesome right?

So here are the movies that are in line for my MOVIE MARATHON day of FEB 14 :)

1. My Amnesia Girl (Toni Gonzaga and John Lloyd Cruz)

2. Shakespeare in Love (Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes)

3. Romeo and Juliet (Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes)

4. Going the Distance (Drew Barrymore and Justin Long)

5. Love and Other Drugs (Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal)

6. A Walk to Remember (Mandy Moore and Shane West)

7. Little Manhattan

8. Dear John (Amanda Syfried and Channing Tatum)

9. 500 Days of Summer (Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

10. Easy A (Emma Stone)

11. Last Song (Miley Cyrus)

12. Letters to Juliet (Amanda Syfried)

13. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 

and yes, I know this isn't a movie but I can't help but have a

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER MARATHON on V-day

So all I can say... Valentine's Day.. BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VALENTINE'S DAY PLAYLIST part 1

So V-day is once again upon us...

time for those with significant others to bask in the sweetness of their romance

and for the ones who haven't found their SPECIAL SOMEONE yet (like myself) this is a time to reflect on the things that made you happy and felt loved...

Let us not be bitter just because we don't have a special someone...

Why not celebrate your love for yourself? your family? your friends...

But if you really can't get over the LOVE BUG... 

bask in the sweetness of  love by listening to these love tunes...

THESE ARE MY ALL TIME FAVORITE LOVE SONGS:

(in no particular order)

1. You and Me- Lifehouse

2. Only Hope- Switchfoot

3. Tuloy Pa Rin- Metafour

4. Just the Way You Are- Bruno Mars

5. Vanilla Twilight- Owl City

6. If It's Love- Train

7. Iris- Goo Goo Dolls

8. When You Say Nothing At All- Ronan Keating

9. Hiling -Silent Sanctuary

10. Kundiman- Silent Sanctuary

11. Heaven Knows- Rick Price

12. Now- MYMP

13. Crush- David Archuleta

14. Stolen- Dashboard Confessional

15. Marry You- Bruno Mars

16. Fallin' For You- Colbie Calliat

17. Little Things- Colbie Calliat

18. Smile (Charlie Chaplin Version)- Glee Cover

19. Somebody to Love- Glee Cover

20. Ikaw Lamang- Silent Sanctuary

21. Parol- Silent Sanctuary

22. Two Worlds Collide- Demi Lovato

23. Don't Forget- Demi Lovato

24. Say It Again- Marie Digby

25. Love Song- Sara Bareilles

26. I'd Lie- Taylor Swift

27. Crazier- Taylor Swift

28. Just Friends- Jonas Brothers

29. Someday We'll Know- Mandy Moore

30. Everywhere- Michelle Branch

31. Breathe- Michelle Branch

32. Radio- The Corrs

33. Summer Sunshine- The Corrs

34. Can I Have This Dance- HSM 3

35. Teenage Dream- Katy Perry/ Glee Cast

36. Love Bug- Jonas Brothers

37. Enchanted- Taylor Swift

38. Greatest Story Ever Told-

39. 14- Silent Sanctuary

40. Change Your Mind- Boyce Avenue

41. To Be With You- Mr. Big

42. Don't Know Why- Norah Jones

43.  Why Can't I- Liz Phair

44. About You Now- Sugababes

45. You Are the Music In Me- HSM 2

TO BE CONTINUED....

Just the way you are

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

Bruno Mars

Oh her eyes, her eyes

Make the stars look like they're not shining

Her hair, her hair

Falls perfectly without her trying

She's so beautiful

And I tell her every day

Yeah I know, I know

When I compliment her

She wont believe me

And its so, its so

Sad to think she don't see what I see

But every time she asks me do I look okay

I say

When I see your face

There's not a thing that I would change

Cause you're amazing

Just the way you are

And when you smile,

The whole world stops and stares for awhile

Cause girl you're amazing

Just the way you are

Her nails, her nails

I could kiss them all day if she'd let me

Her laugh, her laugh

She hates but I think its so sexy

She's so beautiful

And I tell her every day

Oh you know, you know, you know

Id never ask you to change

If perfect is what you're searching for

Then just stay the same

So don't even bother asking

If you look okay

You know I say

When I see your face

There's not a thing that I would change

Cause you're amazing

Just the way you are

And when you smile,

The whole world stops and stares for awhile

Cause girl you're amazing

Just the way you are

The way you are

The way you are

Girl you're amazing

Just the way you are

When I see your face

There's not a thing that I would change

Cause you're amazing

Just the way you are

And when you smile,

The whole world stops and stares for awhile

Cause girl you're amazing

Just the way you are

I think i would be lying if I said I didn't want a guy telling me he likes me just the way I am. But when I think about it, does that guy really exist?

Think about it, we are constantly bombarded with ideas on self-improvement and reinvention so much that we start losing who we really are. We start changing so much that nothing really is ever the same and I think then maybe that person should just keep up and continue on liking me despite my constant changing but then again I remember everyone has limits. So I go back to my original question, DOES THE GUY WHO WILL LOVE ME JUST THE WAY I AM EXIST? DESPITE THE FACT I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM?

BUT...

there is this other side to "JUST THE WAY YOU ARE" that can mean like the first thought, WHO YOU ARE or it can mean DESPITE YOUR IMPERFECTIONS... 

Now, the guy who can love you despite your imperfections is easier to find. Why? Well, maybe because unlike other factors IMPERFECTIONS tend to be more stubborn and have a lesser tendency to change every so often....

I don't know why I'm writing this, well maybe I do but I don't want to accept it... But I just hope that the guy who will love me JUST THE WAY I AM (anyway you want to define it) comes soon... 'Cause I don't think I can take more crap from people who just want to toy with my emotions... and I hope that these people will change and find their own SOMEONE...

Valentine's Day is around the corner... Let's spread love :)

Yet again I am alone on this splendid day of love... (but this is another post for later...)

bruno mars knows how to treat a girl right... learn from him boys.. learn from him

SOMEONE ASKED ME....

SOMEONE ASKED ME...

ANO MAS MAHIRAP LOVE OR MATH?

THIS IS MY ANSWER:

LOVE. You can always learn the principles, techniques and patterns of MATH but LOVE in it’s very essence is irrational and it can never be explained and mastered… we will just forever be forced to just take risks and chances without ever knowing if we actually made the right decision and all we’re left to do is just live with the choices we’ve made… unlike in MATH where once the mistake is made we could easily correct it...

does anyone disagree with me?

DREAMS. what are they?

Dreams. 

What do they tell you?

Some say your desires

Some say your insecurities and fears

But, is it possible that your dreams can also show you what's in store?

Is it possible for dreams to predict what is going to happen? 

Are dreams gateways to the past and the future?

Will they be real?

Were they real? 

You'll never know.

That's just it- You'll never know

So why would you waste your time decoding something unsure?

Why not just live your life?

What if by dwelling in the realm of dreams you lose your life's essence?

Then your dreams seem so stupid then, don't they?

So live your life.

Live it well.

Go with the flow.

Experience it.

Don't try to look to far out nor too far back.

It never does any good to dwell on things you can't change nor control.

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Random ramblings from someone who really believes in the power of dreams. Also because most of the time, I have very vivid dreams that more or less come true. Scary noh? If I had time I'd share one perfect instance. One should note that every time I retell that story I still get the creeps 'cause it was just so  ACCURATE.

HEY HEY. this ain't no poem.... they're just random thoughts center aligned... @_@

BEAUTY. (I can finally post this now that it's done)

In our speech communication class, we were tasked to make an abstract word a little bit more concrete by making a short presentation. My partner and I opted for the simplistic PSA approach. I would say everything went well except for the fact that once again TECHNOLOGY has let me down... You see alongside the PSA speech thing, I also prepared a Musical Picture Slideshow to drive our point further into the minds of our audience, but sad to say, the room we used didn't have a projector so instead of a Musical Picture Slideshow, we ended up having background music with a PSA type thing.... WEll, surprisingly it still went well... HAHA. though I would have loved for the chance to have the video play I'll just take what I can get :) Anyway, it was still good... :)

So here is the piece entitled What is Beauty that we used for the presentation:
BTW. "JARED" is the name of my partner for the presentation... :)

WHAT IS BEAUTY?

Leana Isabel Vibal

LEANA: Beauty- What is beauty?

JARED: Every day we are bombarded by the media with images that instill upon us a stereotype of what it takes to be considered beautiful

LEANA: But does it mean that if something doesn’t fit into what is perceived by most to be beautiful then that something is no longer appealing?

JARED & LEANA: NO! It doesn’t work that way.

JARED: Beauty isn’t about a muscular body and a rugged face

LEANA: Nor is it about a skinny body and a sweet smile.

JARED: Beauty isn’t about having color, design and style

LEANA: Neither is it about perfection

JARED & LEANA: DEFINITELY NOT!

JARED: Beauty is an attribute possessed by anything that exists in this world that provides a perceptual sense of pleasure or satisfaction.

LEANA: Meaning everything and everyone possesses some kind of beauty. Meaning EVERYONE in this room is a manifestation of the beauty of the world.

JARED: but whether or not that beauty is appreciated is relative.

LEANA: Because what is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else.

JARED: Remember BEAUTY ISN’T ABSOLUTE.

LEANA: Just like what David Herbert Lawrence says "Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

JARED: So every once in a while, tell yourself I am beautiful.

LEANA: because you are, YOU PERSONIFY BEAUTY IN YOUR OWN SPECIAL WAY.

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My professor called it short and simple which was exactly what I was going for when I wrote the piece. Because, just like beauty, things need not be overly embellished for it to be considered GOOD or APPEALING sometimes  SIMPLICITY is the BEST POLICY :P

MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

OK. Here's a secret, this is the first time I'm ever making a list like this. Normally, I don't make any NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. I usually find them pointless as I tend to go with the flow and live life as it happens with no plans at all. But, lately I've been looking back and I've noticed that I haven't learned anything new outside the stuff I learn at school. I haven't had new hobbies that I actually pushed through with, hell I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING or LEARNED ANYTHING that is NON-ACADEMIC. I wanna change that. I wanna learn new things that I can use to have fun and not just theoretical stuff. So therefore, I wanted to change something this year. And, I was hoping that maybe by starting the year with a change, I can start a whole year of new things. A year of change.

So here are my new year's resolutions:

1. PRACTICE and PURSUE PHOTOGRAPHY
2. LEARN MORE ABOUT ASTRONOMY
3. LOOK AT THE HEAVENLY BODIES USING THE TELESCOPE AT LEAST 3 times a month
4. READ ONE BOOK/NOVEL EVERY MONTH


those are all I could think about for now... I'll list down more as I think about them