PLAYLIST: CHANGING TIMES + BONUS PARAGRAPHS AND PHOTOS

House Of Gold - Twenty One Pilots
King and Lionheart - Of Monsters and Men
20/20 - Pupil
U.F.O - Coldplay
Gimme Twice - The Royal Concept
Submarines - The Lumineers
Keep On Walking - Passenger
Start Anew - Beady Eye

Hooray for new posts! I finally got around to finishing my September Playlist and I hope you guys enjoy listening to it as much as I had fun putting it together.

I just downloaded The Lumineers' album and it is amazing! If the sun and the rain had a baby, this album would be it. Well, technically, rainbows are the sun and rain's babies so I guess The Lumineers are made of rainbows. 

It's been a great few weeks, although, I'm still having trouble forgetting things that I should. I find myself reminiscing at odd moments of the day and that isn't doing me any good. It's really difficult to keep the unwanted flashbacks buried inside my head. They're like bugs you thought you've killed, but, they aren't really dead and they just come back to crawl between your cracks.

[I think I need an infinite supply of insect repellent for the odious pests.]

On a better note, I got my own Fujifilm Instax Mini 8!!! 

To celebrate the welcoming of Bambi [yes that is the name of my instax I really like naming things okay] here are a few of the polaroid photos from my friends.

clockwise from top left: Geri and I, Lissy took that photo during our Algebra period (oops); with Christina after we had our "blogger photoshoot" ; with Geri again (same day haha); the last one with Jorelle, my babe when she pulled me in her classroom for a random photo

I hope I can capture really worthwhile photos with Bambi. After all, she's just a one-take shot, what with the film being quite pricey and all.

To put an end to this post, I'll go with the monthly realization thing I'm going for: I'm not expecting September to be any better than August. The only thing I can do is float along the river and not fight against it's currents because that's when shit starts to happen. No one will help you clean up once the putrid evidence of said shit begins to appear and that's another mess in itself. Better to just go with the flow than crap all over yourself.

WANDERING

Life's been pretty great. I don't feel like I'm suffocating that much anymore. Writing the things I appreciate everyday is helping me out quite a bit. Making time for my friends (and the weird things we do) is sort of what keeps me going.

Yesterday, we had a half-day off school and I spent it in Sam's house! We had a really hipster phtoshoot (mine was a fail) in a park near her house. I now know what it feels like to have photos taken of you in public, while you're in a skirt.

Jabs being her pretty self, having a moment with a flower. She has a blog too, which is pretty great so check it out!

Christina and Lia! Unfortunately, Lia doesn't have a blog, but, we're trying to convince her to make one.

Sam, cutie! She made this abundance of jpegs happen.

 

I'm the reason people kept looking at us weirdly. They probably thought I was drunk or something.

12.18.12

Photos by Lissi Tan-Palanca. I hope she doesn't mind that I stole them. Nyahaha.

I'm posting this because Sammy requested me to update my blog.

Today was the last day of school for the year 2012. I can't say it wasn't fun. Although it turned sorta ridiculous at times, like for example, when nuns suddenly danced with parols. My God. That was hilarious. Today was also the last day of exams. We had our test in Algebra yesterday. I'm going to fail, I just know it. I am not being pessimistic at all. Actually, I'm quite the opposite. I've been optimistic since last week. So that's cool.

I am feeling mildly dejected. It's probably because I won't be seeing another human for three weeks. Family members aren't considered human. They suck out your soul. Anyway, I really hate last days. They make me feel so melancholy and I would have trouble sleeping for a week. I get really overwhelmed about how I could miss a group of people so much. It's only been a few hours into Christmas vacation and I just want to go back to school. What can I say? Annoying people grow on me.

So over the course of the next few weeks, I will be updating about boring events and realizations that I will be having during the break. Let's all thank God that I just bought Emma by Jane Austen so I'll probably be posting about that soon.

7 days til Christmas
3 days til The End of the World

INTERBLOG RELATIONSHIP WITH SAM SANDOVAL

My friend, Sam Sandoval, wrote about me in her blog. And I'm now writing about her. She's really good in singing and plays instruments really well. Her blog is mostly about her life and she posts playlists with good music. I swear they're not comprised of icky Justin Bieber songs. And she's done a better brain structure than I did. Check out her blog, Sam's Great Perhaps.

(She said she finds me beyond my years as a thirteen year old girl. Well, aren't I fascinating? I'm being sarcastic.)

9.3.12

So, today, my friends and I were drawing brain structures and what make up most of our thoughts. I decided to post a remade one of mine. Forgive my crappy excuse for a brain. I am in no mood to draw a pretty one.

Here it is:

Well, what do you think? Isn't it a fine brain I've got? Note the absence of love life. I'm not thinking about that. I mean, I try not to. Anyway, enjoy making fun of my brain.

Exams are coming up. Next week. I'm still here making no effort whatsoever to actually pass a subject. I can practically smell the failure. I'll just have to be lucky enough to make the correct guesses.

I've made up a list of books I'm salivating after. Now, if I had the money, I'd have bought them months ago. Unfortunately, I haven't got cash with me at the moment. Wait, I actually do, it's just that I spend it all on McDonald's. I am such an infant.

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Can anyone out there please buy these books for me and send them my way? Please? I'm in desperate need of new books.

So yeah. Goodbye for now, my online journal that people can view (now that I think about it, that's just creepy.)

HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS (THE ALEXA MUHLACH WAY)

I am clueless on how to socialize. My friend (yeah, you, oh wait you aren't reading this nevermind) teases me whenever she gets the chance. Which is always. She says I only know about 7% of the school. Maybe less. I think she's right. The main reason is, of course, I am completely mad. I know people would think I'm weird. Which I am. But it does no good if you were to advertise your whole awkwardness for all the world to mock. I still try to widen my social circle, mostly because my parents tell me to. So, just for fun, I wrote a guide on how I make friends.

STEP 1: Greet them politely, but, awkwardly.

This works better if you knew them before or at least talked to them once. Or if they know you by name. My preferred greeting is "Hey" in a drawn out tone. And if you know their names, use them. Also, include a little wave. The one I use for first time greetings is the finger-ripple-wave.

STEP 2: During classes, talk to the seatmate that you don't know about random things.

Random things include: food, elephants, music, movies, turtles and cheese. If you have random facts, do tell. But, don't introduce yourself. Unless they ask you, of course.

STEP 3: Two words: BASIC ORIGAMI.

This is always what I do. It's never failed me before. I'm not an origami expert, but, I know the basic stuff. Like airplanes and boats. I can also make a spaceship. I am currently learning the frog and the crane. This works best if the person who you are trying to socialize with doesn't know how to make these things and so requires you to teach them.

STEP 4: High School Musical songs.

Our ritual! We always sing HSM songs during lunch break. Sing with your friends and the singing will attract more people. The bonding time with your classmates is really important and music is always a willing outlet to provide you with the time and the fun. HSM is really effective, especially Gabriella's emo songs and Bet On It. This step isn't exclusive to only HSM songs. You can sing anything but it's better if the songs are really catchy and you can clap or snap to it.

STEP 5: FOOD.

Like they say, the way to a heart is through food. The most important ties are made during meal times and so it is with friends. Food is close to the most perfect thing that people can have an emotional bond with. Just have a trade and barter session and it is assured that you'll make friends.

And that dear readers (if anybody is actually interested in this blog) is how I, your nerdy gawky writer, expand my already tiny circle of friends and would-be friends. It works for the people in my school. They actually warm up to me the first three days. Oh, and this guide can't guarantee you to be friends with snob popular people. That kind requires you to make effort to appear effortless. I know, I know. They don't make it easy. Anyway, I hope this actually helps.