Better Days & Getaways

I had wanted to see this movie the day i saw the trailer. But i seemed to forget about it and other pressing matters of life kicked in and i never had the chance. Now with less than a week left for summer, i finally watched this movie. And wow. I'm completely blown away. It's funny because the narrator tells us at the beginning of the movie that this isn't a love story, but for some weird reason, throughout the movie, when things were going bad between the couple, i still believed that they would end up together. I guess you can blame hollywood for this preconditioned notion majority of us tend to have when watching these romantic movies. The chemistry between Levitt and Deschanel is undeniable, both bring a very fresh, new, quirky kind of affection towards each other. At the same time, they're two very different people with different views on relationships. Tom (Levitt) believes Summer (Deschanel) is the one whereas Summer is not looking for anything serious which you ...

Love. Oh how we misuse this word. I don't think that there's one standard definition of love, because it means different things to different people. And thus, I don't think there is such a thing as love. I mean yes, we have a type of "love" towards our family and friends. I'm talking about the type of love that we find for in a potential husband/wife. I'm not too sure that it exists. The notion of love that is glamourized in the movies is something most people would like to experience when it comes to their real life relationships. I used to think that was stupid, childish and just not practical. But now im thinking, we have every right to believe whatever it is we believe in. What we think love should be, how we think our significant others should treat us. We're allowed to have high expectations. We shouldn't have to compromise. Girls should be treated like they're princesses. Guys should do anything to make them happy. Of course that doesn...

Of course I'm not talking about the thing that us girls experience each month, or else the title of this post would read, it's that time of month again. I'm talking about the holy month of Ramadan, the 29 or 30 days when muslims are supposed to fast. Whenever I asked my mom what the significance of this month was and why we did fast, she'd say, "So that we can feel the pain that poor people go through daily". Yes, that is a legit reason, but unfortunately it just wasn't enough to convince me. I'm thinking, no, of course poor people undergo this horrible feeling they call starvation, but they don't do it by choice. Us on the other hand, are surrounded by food, sometimes even by other people eating the food and we have to resist. It's 10x harder for us than it is for them. That reason just wasn't a valid one to fast for 30 days. And so, I did some research and found out the more detailed meaning behind this month. The purpose of Ramadan is to...

Reconnecting with a past friend is always hard. Especially when that friend is your ex's best friend. I didn't know this was actually gonna happen. I mean yeah, I've gotten his msgs on msn but when i saw that he msged me on xbox live, i was thinking, what is going on here. Yesterday we talked online with our wonderful xbox headsets, but wow. I haven't talked to him in what, 5 or 6 months maybe? It was sort of like a phone conversation because we could hear each others voices...there was some other guy in the conversation and he sure added in some wierd moments in the conversation. Like when he asked him if i was hot or when he asked him how i knew him. Now i'll be the first to admit, i was good friends with him when i was going out with my ex, we used to talk a lot. He was always really nice to me and it was just fun talking to him. But now things are different. I mean, it's silly because i have nothing against him, we're fine. But just the fact that he is h...

I had one of hell of a weekend last week. At no point during the two days was i sitting at home with nothing to do. Both days i went to a theme park with different groups of friends and i also went to someones birthday dinner. That happened yesterday. And we all know what happened yesterday about 3 years ago. Okay, maybe you guys don't know, but 3 years ago i also went to the same themepark with my ex-significant other and my cousin and her ex-significant other. So 3 years later, i'm at the same place but with my friends, the people that i care more about. The people that matter to me. Boys come and go but friends always remain...unless you get into a really big fight with them, then it just becomes awkward. Anyways, i'm just glad that i spent yesterday with my friends because now i remember that day not for him but for the amazing time i had with my friends. They have no idea but i'm thanking them for in a way, saving me. And today i see my bestest friend in the whole ...

No, I'm not talking about the things that hang in your house over your dinner table and in the washrooms. I'm talking about the artist called Lights. Her real name is Valerie something...but Lights definetely suits her image. I first heard her on the radio when she released her first single "Drive my soul". I thought to myself, who is this cute singer, because her voice is kind of kiddish and cute but pleasing to the ears at the same time. I loved that song hence it would always be playing on my ipod when i went out for bike rides. And i used to do that a lot last summer and the summer before that. Now, i can't seem to fit something as little as a bike ride into my scedule or maybe it's not the same anymore. Cuz I'm definetely not the person i was last summer. But this post is about Lights, not about my sad life story ;P Anywho, her latest single is "Second Go" and might i add that her video for that song is definetely artistic. She's basica...

Just now i was watching the mtv show "Teen Mom" and it was intense. I really enjoy the show because it follows the real lives and situations of these teen parents. There is no fairytale ending, it's raw and it's real life. And sometimes, real life does suck. One mom named Farrah, went through a physical altercation with her mother and thus moved out of the house with her baby daughter. She doesn't get along with her family and shows little interest to put any effort into those broken relationships. So she went and got a therapist because she is a single mom who is working to take care of her child without her family's help. Upon meeting the therapist, she begins to talk about her feelings. At one point she reveals the story behind Sophia's (her daughter) father being absent from the picture. She tells the therapist that her father passed away and how she's crushed because her daughter won't be able to see him. That was an emotionally intense episod...

These days almost never disappear, especially if you're the kind of person to think of things philosophically. Even after you make those resolutions to be happy in life, and not pay attention to things that don't matter, there will always be dark days. I had a slighlty dark evening last night. I was staring outside the window of my car as we were driving past trees and darkness to get home. I mean, obviously you're gonna think of things and music definitely helps. Sometimes i wish i would just stop myself from thinking things that could hurt me or others. But i can't. It's like the fact that if you tell yourself to stop thinking about it, in the end, you'll only think about it more. But at these times, when your mind is not cooperating with you, you should always talk to someone about it. Whether this someone is yourself, God or your best friend. Don't continue in your thinking all by yourself, voice your thoughts. As i learned from HIMYM, everyone has bagga...