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1. FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS AT VANDUSEN BOTANICAL GARDEN | 2. DINNER AT HOUSEXGUEST | 3. NEW READING MATERIAL | 4. AVICII AT VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE | 5. NEW YEAR'S EVE DRESS (WORN HERE) | 6. MAKEUP NECESSITIES | 7. BOYFRIEND'S CHRISTMAS CARD TO ME
This year has taken me on a journey that I never really expected to go on. It has challenged, strengthened, matured and blessed me immensely. I experienced the true meaning of happiness and enlightenment, and I allowed myself to fall in love.
Change begins with oneself and grows from there. Forget New Years resolutions. Never wait till tomorrow to make yourself a better person or let the calendar dictate that for you. With that said, I wish you all a wonderful New Year and hope that 2012 brings you peace, joy, good health, prosperity and Christian Louboutin.
XOXO,
Change begins with oneself and grows from there. Forget New Years resolutions. Never wait till tomorrow to make yourself a better person or let the calendar dictate that for you. With that said, I wish you all a wonderful New Year and hope that 2012 brings you peace, joy, good health, prosperity and Christian Louboutin.
XOXO,
Winter Solstice
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Taken last Saturday, this is my last outfit post and second last post of 2011. It's ridiculous how fast this year has gone by. I've been doing a lot of thinking, reflecting, planning and goal making. I'm both grateful and humbled with how much my life has changed in just a matter of months. Sometimes you have to go back in order to go forward. I've met some of the most amazing people along the way, too.
This year is the first year I'll be spending Christmas without my parents. While I'm sad I won't be with my own family, I'm looking forward to spending it with my boyfriend and his family instead (whom I never met before). As for Boxing Day, I've never been one for Boxing Day sales. My friend Betty and I are going to Avicii that night, and Tiesto for New Year's Eve, for that matter. Can't wait!
PHOTOS BY MATINA OF ANGELA MATINA
XOXO,
This year is the first year I'll be spending Christmas without my parents. While I'm sad I won't be with my own family, I'm looking forward to spending it with my boyfriend and his family instead (whom I never met before). As for Boxing Day, I've never been one for Boxing Day sales. My friend Betty and I are going to Avicii that night, and Tiesto for New Year's Eve, for that matter. Can't wait!
PHOTOS BY MATINA OF ANGELA MATINA
XOXO,
Live Laugh Love
"He has achieved success
who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of
pure women,
the respect of intelligent men and
the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty
or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others and
given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction." — Bessie Anderson Stanley
Written by Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1904, "Success" is a poem you may confuse with another poem that was widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was Emerson's version which I first came across many years ago, but today, I'd like to share with you the version by Bessie. Although it's important to give credit where it's due, even more important is the similar message behind both versions. At this point of my life, this is the definition of success I want to work towards to.
It only seems fitting that after my time in Nepal, I'd have the words "Live Laugh Love" tattooed in Nepali. Nepal and its people will always have a special place in my heart. Special thanks to Matina and her dad for the translation. I also had my tattoo artist touch up my forearm and ankle tattoo.
Ask yourself what's your definition of success. Are you presently living well, laughing often and loving much?
XOXO,
It only seems fitting that after my time in Nepal, I'd have the words "Live Laugh Love" tattooed in Nepali. Nepal and its people will always have a special place in my heart. Special thanks to Matina and her dad for the translation. I also had my tattoo artist touch up my forearm and ankle tattoo.
Ask yourself what's your definition of success. Are you presently living well, laughing often and loving much?
XOXO,
Book Lovers Never Go to Bed Alone
SOURCE: TUMBLR
"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You'll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She's the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That's the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she's kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce's Ulysses she's just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It's easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she's going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2am clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she's sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn't burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you're better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes." — Rosemarie Urquico (in response to Charles Warnke's You Should Date An Illiterate Girl)
XOXO,
Find a girl who reads. You'll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She's the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That's the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she's kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce's Ulysses she's just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It's easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she's going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2am clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she's sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn't burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you're better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes." — Rosemarie Urquico (in response to Charles Warnke's You Should Date An Illiterate Girl)
XOXO,
A Smile Goes a Long Way
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I've had a few revelations and conclusions about myself. Acknowledging my own faults has been a hard pill to swallow, yet at the same time, humbling and empowering. After you've faced the worst, your days can only get better. This is all I can say to those who I know are having a difficult time at this point of their lives, although they may choose to hide it.
In the words of Kelly Cutrone, "Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most." My soul is currently on fire. I don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn.
PHOTOS BY TESSA OF A MILE IN HER HEELS
XOXO,
In the words of Kelly Cutrone, "Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most." My soul is currently on fire. I don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn.
PHOTOS BY TESSA OF A MILE IN HER HEELS
XOXO,
This Week Through Instagram
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