Words. The Real Words.

For the past few days, I have been an article writer for some websites. Which means I have to write about topics that do not really interest me. Some of them I have only heard for the first time in my 21 years. I am now a robot copying texts from the internet, pasting them into Microsoft word and analyzing boring details out of those boring paragraphs and writing boring articles that 90% of the time, I still can't understand. Oh well.....

So thank you so much Kate. Your blog saved me. I was reunited with literature. The authentic kind of writing. I need to be exposed to these things. Often. I now write horribly. Sorry. The texts below were compiled by my friend Kate and were originally posted in her blog Marginalia. Here they are:

She was twenty, for God's sake. She must be allowed to grow up. 

By the time they were her age, most of the heroines of literature had lived, 

loved and even died...

if she wanted to be a heroine, it was time to start behaving like one. 

- Robyn Sisman

I'M A HEROINE

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. 

And it's these things I'd believe in, 

even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. 

I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE WOMAN THAT I SHOULD BE

"I’m the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. 

Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, 

but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, 

will remain behind as an ironic remnant. 

I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. 

When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there.

I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. 

Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible." 

- written by Elizabeth Wurtzel

A THOUSAND ACHES

There you go fellows. Mishto! ^_^

My Owly Adventure

Every single day during my elementary years, I would never fail to vacate my chair that was graciously located at the back of the classroom. 

I would creep forward while my teacher was having her class because with “unknown” reasons, I cannot comprehend what she was writing on the board.

Every afternoon, I would expertly squat two feet away from our television set because I simply cannot see “clearly” what Tom and Jerry were doing.

In Grade 6, I kind of got sick of the everyday routine of always plunging myself in front of “everything” just because they were not “clear” enough.

So I told my mother dear. 

After a visit to the clinic, I received my first ever eyeglasses prescription. Then two days after, I found myself wearing some stinky pair of plain-black spectacles.

 I felt like a grandmamma at 12.

Nine years after, I had own approximately five pairs of eyeglasses. I am into the affordable kind which sometimes does not offer the needed good quality for a long term use. The inexpensive ones would either easily lose their color or snap during the most unusual circumstances. And yes, they are more often than not, boring in design.

Cheap glasses that will give you the confidence that you need are a little hard to find nowadays. People would usually invest to expensive brands because “the good ones” can’t be great. Glasses should never become a burden to people like me! I mean, common guys, we are already destined for a life time blurry life escapade (unless you choose LASIK which I think is pretty scaryyyy) that we deserve better!

In USA, I am quite aware that everything is almost 50-100 percent more expensive compared to products found in my area. However, in GlassesUSA.com, the prices they offered are honestly reasonable basing on the prices I have seen from other brands. You can never go wrong with their designs as well!

And they have this really cool thing they call Virtual Mirror where you can perceive how you will look like in their specific glasses. Try it! I had fun with it too.

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Let's Write My Name in a Different Way

Yep! Starting Thursday of last week, I am no longer your ordinary little miss sunshine.... Because I just passed the nursing licensure examination of my dear homeland and that makes me a registered nurse, baby.

Yep again. I can now freely inject tomato juice into anyone I like. (okay, and that's not even logically possible, much more ethically allowed)

For a little recap of that fateful day, let's begin in Dunkin Donuts where my beloved friend Zenaia and I were eating chocobutternuts while casually browsing some random tweets in twitterworld. Then, the phone rang, (insert The Grudge movie theme song here), Zenaia looked me in the eye and my insides went crazy, my muscles were at their weakest state that I just have to drop my extremely loved doughnut on the table--- the results are out. 

Seconds later,we were rushing to the nearest internet cafe because the results were being released online. 

156 took the exam from our school, 155 successfully passed it. One didn't make it. (maybe one of the worst things that happened to our batch) Without the list of passers in our hands, everybody's being so pessimistic thinking that the unlucky one is them. And that included me. It was the worst 30 minutes of my life. I waited like I was in my deathbed. 

The agony worsened with the fact that my last name starts with "V"  and I was sinking in my chair waiting for the alphabetical results. I was dying while wildly uttering profanities in public. I can not breath properly.

Then, I saw my name, there plastered in the 12inch monitor of the public PC. 

So it went, everything was freaking worth it!

Stay mishto (awesome)!!!!!!!!