Spring

Hi everyone,

Here are just a couple of photos I've taken over the past few weeks. The weather has been getting warmer and yesterday was the first day of spring.The photos aren't the best quality but hope you still enjoyed looking through the picture of beautiful nature.

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Vexations

alone again.. naturally

Hello everyone,

I wanted to do a ramble since I have a lot of thoughts in my head and can't contain them. 

I was kind of angry and stressed a while ago but I was reading an old note I wrote on my phone a year ago. I had been really down at that time and I had saw a tumblr post by Dove Cameron and it really inspired me. The idea of returning to simplicity. I really would like to travel to India since she mentioned her travels there and how life is simplistic. Sure they have cars and all the modern technology but the mindset of the people is just simplistic. My old note told me to release my anger and stress and just take a breath. I had forgotten that I had wrote that note so it was really like having a conversation with my old self.

I was in a funk as well but I just put my phone down and stepped outside. There's a really beautiful view in my backyard of hills filled with wild flowers. I've taken many photos of those hills.

I really would like a couple of dream catchers in my room. I made a dream catcher in elementary school but it's a bit crooked and the colors (obnoxiously bright green and yellow) don't really fit with the colors in my room. I think dream catchers are so beautiful and as a dreamer, I love the idea of catching a beautiful dream.

There are a couple of songs right now that I've been listening to which are from the playlist Jenny Han created for her book. My two favorites are Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan and For the Longest Time by Billy Joel. I really relate to Alone Again Naturally and I think everyone can relate to it since I'm sure everyone feels completely alone at some times. For the Longest Time is just such an upbeat and fun song and puts a big smile on my face. Both these songs make me want to break into a dance. I recommend giving that playlist a listen since there are so many great songs on there. There's a wonderful fan adaption of To All  the Boys I've Loved Before by Yulin Kuang on YouTube. It's just a short film of Lara explaining her letters. The actress who plays her is Chanel Marriott and she actually liked two of my photos on Instagram. Got so excited I even screenshot the moment haha.

I'll start putting links of important pages on my "meet mel" page that I'll update. The songs, short film, and tumblr page will be posted there. 

This post was all over the place but I wanted to just release my thoughts. Hope you all have a wonderful day.

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before | Jenny Han

Hi everyone!

Over the weekend I read To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han. I absolutely love this book and I adore Lara Jean's character. I wish I had the book in a hard copy because I love the cover of this book but I downloaded it onto my phone.

The story follows a girl named Lara Jean who is a junior in high school. Whenever she falls in love with a boy, she writes them a letter and that's her way of letting go of the crush. One day at school she bumps into one of the guys she wrote a letter to and he asks her about the letter she wrote to him. Lara is confused because she never wrote him a letter - only the letter she wrote for herself. She goes back home and finds all of her letters missing. This book was so cute and funny. I also loved the writing style. I didn't think I would enjoy this book as much as I actually did. Definitely think this book is worth a read.

That's all for the non-spoiler section of this review. Go read the book and come back to discuss the rest of the book. Thanks for reading! ♡

2015

As crazy as this sounds, which maybe is not crazy to you at all, but to me I'm shaking as I'm writing this because I forgot how to format and write everything out.

Compared to Mel, it's been even longer since I've blogged. Considering the stress and the negative thoughts to myself, I couldn't bring myself to do much. I've decided to delete all of my past posts except one, I decided to become more of a positive person (trying;.) and I decided I wouldn't whine in every post. It's refreshing writing out posts again, blogging has always been something I enjoyed.

I can't say that I'm not sorry for not posting, in fact, often I actually checked on this blog and reminisced when we were really into this blogging thing. But as time passes, there are more problems that occur in our ways that prevent us from going on. I'm glad that I'm back on here with a friend I really treasure a lot!

So far for me, 2015 has been such a harsh journey. I think I'm actually in a hard period of my life right now, but I'll be sure to try to pick myself up from the ground I pushed myself to.

I am excited to share with you my future chapters in life with Mel. I can't guarantee fast and recently updated posts everyday since I am a very bad updater.. I'll try once again!

Welcoming 2015 and Mel back to this wonderful escape!

Hello guys, it's a new chapter in our lives!

We're Back | Updates

Hi everyone,

It has been a really long time since I have updated. I wanted to wish everyone a (very late) Happy New Year. I apologize for the lack of blog posts over the last few months. I've been working on school and haven't had the motivation to blog. I also messed up my blogger account, as I was trying to transfer the blog to a different account but kyoung helped me come back to this account again.

Currently there's a hive of bees in my chimney and they are everywhere. I have found two dying bees in my house. >_<

I've read a couple of books over the weekend so I have some book reviews planned. So be sure to look out for those.

Hope you are all having a great day and I'll be posting a new blog post very soon!