In Between Two Months

After what seemed like an eternity, I'm glad to be able to say that we're back. Sort of. I think. Well, the last post being dated more than a month ago, at least.

So, real life got in the way of things again. Since we live in the Philippines, our academic calendar starts at June and ends in March- meaning the last two months are extremely packed with stress, killer quizzes, deadlines, exams, and are just about as vital as all the first three quarters combined. With all the hustle and bustle, blogging had been the last thing on our minds-- but expect more posts to come as it's officially 

summer.

(finally)

it tastes just as sweet as cupcakes.

My last post had been about the High Street photoshoot, and I did mention a roll of undeveloped film I had. In it was a combination of all sorts of happenings since maybe January, and I got it developed last week.

Actually, just an update on my life, because it's totally interesting. After school ended, I hadn't had a single idle day, that is, until getting back from a family trip to Hong Kong, and it's because I got sick. And it wasn't even serious-sick. it was a really slight fever that diminished over the course of a few hours- except I still felt terribly unwell. I ended up having to cancel my piano lessons (which I felt sad about) and not going to kumon (which I was relieved about). Since feeling better around two days ago, I've been bumming around the house, watching bates motel (i watched four episodes today), and stalking vera farmiga's list of films. 

(like, I'm currently watching The Departed and typing this with the sad realization that i can't tell mark wahlberg and matt damon apart) 

Now without further ado, I present to you the photos. (including the Hong Kong photos hooray!)

I. The What's-Been-Going-On-In-Cara's-Life Portion

II. The High Street Portion

Continuation of part I: Keik's Birthday Surprise Ver.

my friends have the most elegant fashion sense.

III. Hong Kong

shoe selfie 1

we rested on a bench and it felt really good to lie down. this was my view. 

me: hey mom wait i have to take a photo
mom: okay (proceeds to stand in a corner and wait)

shoe selfie 2

Also, please check out my soundcloud. I recently had a collab with a friend, and we covered Paper Forest by Emmy the Great. My singing is quite pitchy tho, so I might fix that sometime when I'm not feeling lazy.
If you enjoyed it/want to hear more, you can follow me as we're planning on making another one very soon.

xx Cara

Corregidor Weekend

But before that, I just want to say Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to everyone! Even though it's quite late already. Anyway, after my last post, we all sort of disappeared into our own hole but now we're back! (literally in my and lanie's case. We both came back from Harbin some three days ago)

So before leaving for Harbin, my two sisters, mom and I all went on a Corregidor tour! (he he heh tenks dealgrocer) and it was amazing. We stayed two days, Saturday and Sunday. First thing we did when we got there was ride the tranvia to take the tour, then after the tour was over we went back to rest into the hotel, then back to see the sunset and explore the Malinta Tunnel where during WW2 it became some sort of hospital. Oh and we visited the Corregidor hospital itself too, except something like.. ruins of what it used to be (no pictures on those tho, since dark = sad photos). The next morning, actually early in time for the sunrise, we got up and going yeaaaah! I think we just went inside one of the Japanese caves, then went back. It felt pretty short, but since our guide was very informative (apparently his dad used to work there and he frequented the place during his youth and grew up with it) we got to learn more about the place and enjoy more than we would have. (And i'm sorry if this part is quite incoherent, I can't seem to write properly despite how much I love history)

Now, off with the long paragraphs and on with the photos! As usual, I used Penelo-p.

Oh oh oh wait! I want to do this thing about putting a song for every post (i'll expand to playlist sometime, when I get off my lazy bum and use my 8tracks account) and so here, Welcome Home, Son by Radical Face seems fitting. (it is also a very very very amazing song that you have to listen to, dear reader. just do it)

(if you want to know what Corregidor is before scanning the photos, then you might want to visit your dear friend, google beforehand)

heh heh heh

our tour guide, Eduard

Corregidor inn

my sisters and I had been arguing on the meaning of these flags. One said it was the nationality of most tourists, while I said something along the lines of allies. Apparently they were the axis and allied powers, so I ended up being more correct than her, haha!

I didn't try to focus on the trees, rather I zoomed out. 

I had to take two photos, because i didn't notice that the goat had looked behind on the first.

the mouth of the Malinta Tunnel is visible in this photo, if you look closely

i have no idea how the sky became purple.

COOLCOOLCOOL

had nothing much to put as captions tho. I hope these pictures were.. entertaining? Or appealing enough, I'm not so sure. Regardless, Corregidor is a wonderful place jam-packed with so much history. Definitely a must-visit.

Before the Corregidor Weekend

From here onwards would be what I'd been up to after the photoshoot last november and before the Corregidor weekend, namely shooting some infomercial video for class, and Lanie's birthday celebration (but it was the pre-birthday, when the rest of us prepared a bunch of little somethings for her without her knowing)

Home by Gabrielle Aplin

I forgot what these were called, but in Harbin we saw fake flowers like these as well.

Our close friend's name is Sydney, and we usually infiltrate her house. They have these plants, and they're kinda cute.

This reminded me of our investigative project because we're using shells! haha sadness.

aaaah this is cat's younger sister. I'm totally not a creeper.

during the infomercial video shooting (which was in cat's house), someone took this photo, and it's adorable. 

because selfie-ing on glass is pretty cool.

.................lol

Anyway, these are what I had been up to. I disappeared into a black hole, but I've returned! (probably to disappear again, but life gets in the way)

Cara