#16 - Cheers to friendship

Dayre is awesome! I can just update my day now and then and it becomes a long ass post by the end of the day so Blogger is looking a little too tedious to update right now HEE.

Blogger YOU NEED STICKERS. I tell you man, stickers are like the reasons why I find every reason to FB chat or to update whatever nonsense I am doing on Dayre even if nobody reads it. I don't care. The stickers are too cute to say no to!!

So this week was an awesome one as usual and November is starting to become my favourite month but on a side note, NOVEMBER IS ENDING. [inserts sticker of shock face]

It's just 13 more days till December is here and I am finding it hard to let go of November because it has been nothing but really awesome. Every week I'm just in awe by how lovely all the people around me are and it's like as if I finally opened my eyes and see the wonders of all my friends (not that I have seen them before but it's overwhelming this time round).

I have to say CARDS, were the biggest blow to my little heart. I love writing cards for friends, I love designing them and making them pretty because to me it's my way of showing them how much they mean to me. I have always gave cards out with all my heart felt words written and so this time round it's really special to be the one at the receiving end.

Receiving cards by the MMQM family, Bendito and Eunice was just, I don't know what to say. Even if the tears didn't fall from my eyes but I know my heart did tear. And funny enough the cards are in different shades of red/pink haha. It's like receiving their hearts (:

And reading it all, apart from the love I felt, I have also come to realise how much I have lost in those friendship due to the different path in lives. Seeing my girls Germaine, Aletheia and Eunice today was just enough to make me feel overwhelmed and upset that I haven't had a chance to make time for a conversation or just a simple meal. Something that was so frequent last time has become a thing that happens once in a blue moon and this blue moon hasn't appeared in a long time.

A picture with my girls today, showcasing our #OOTD haha. 

It's nice to see how our styles have evolved over the years but I am not going to dig up old photos cause let's just say we have grown up well. Didn't have one with Eunice but we will soon! ♥

Although I had plans for a studious November, I think all the times I spent with every one of my friends were worth it all (not that it is an excuse for not studying) but I have always believe that there are certain things that can never be caught up with and that is time lost with a friend, with someone you love. I have learnt a valuable lesson in the past of how being busy with other things cost me a chance to spent time with someone that I loved and how this time I can never catch up with because just like time, this person is gone forever.

So I WILL embrace every moment spent with people I love because when you love someone you will make time for them no matter how busy you are. So Bendito and girls, wait for me! And prepare yourself for a looooong chat when I get hold of you (:

My 94 liner good friend, Corliss! Another person that I am trying to meet up with! ♥

The lovely Bendito who celebrated my birthday although it was over a week ago!

Touched that they still surprised me nonetheless and it was so overwhelming to have them surround me and pray for me. It's like this aura of love just surrounding me. Simply Amazing.

Now I feel so ultra loved that I think I will have a really sweet sleep tonight! It's yet another week again and hopefully it will be just amazing as the rest of November!

P.S. Have been driving around and I have to say....driving is kinda boring meh. Oh well, beats taking public transports during peak hours.

Cheers to a wonderful week ahead guys! ^^

#15 - Sidenote

Just sitting at my desk after a long day today, reading the conversation between a group of friends reminds me so much of the things that I am blessed with. Being able to laugh and have serious conversations with friends is a really rare thing these days.

And being so loved by my friends today remind me of how I should pass on this love to other friends because once in a while we all need a little encouragement. Just because you are close with someone doesn't mean you don't need to drop a little encouragement now and then.

It's because you are close that is why you do things for each other every now and then and passing on love to others and seeing them appreciate it just makes me so happy. I guess this is what they mean by giving is better than receiving. 

So after receiving so much for the past few days, I'll start to give out a little more and more to those around me. We should all try that, give a little love, no harm in doing so (:

♥

#172 - Thy books that wraps my mind

I spent the afternoon of today, sitting in Starbucks, being in my happy place. Although I didn't get very far with these two books (only reached page 61 of Eat, Pray, Love) but I truly felt recuperated from the fast crazy days that just went by. To be surrounded by living, breathing people with a whole lot of energy, laughter and stories was just amazing. But I guess, everyone runs out of "social power" sometimes or at least I do.

And I must say, I think these two buys are like the best in my whole shopping haul this holiday (: 

My parents used to get me books all the time because I always get so fascinated with the different stories and it is the only time I was ever silent I guess haha. Once a story starts, I would always be so enthralled by the journey of the characters that I would beg my parents to finish reading it till we reached the end of the story where they always lived happily ever after. By getting caught up in the stories, I guess, is my happy world. To step into the shoes of the characters, live through their life and be happy for them in the end. (But as I grow up, I realise, happily ever after just doesn't exist. In a way I feel cheated that they don't tell you what happens after happily ever after. I guess the authors couldn't bring themselves to write the reality down too.)

However, 

At that moment, you are not you. 

At that moment - you are wrecked on an island with nothing at all.

At that moment - you are in Italy, eating a plate of delicious pasta.

At that moment - you are running through a dark alley, trying to pursue a criminal.

At that moment - you are in the arms of someone that love you so much, you just don't want him to let go.

At that moment, you just don't have to care about everything else in this world.

That's the beauty of a book.

And to feel the weight of the book in your hands, 

the musky smell of its paper. 

To flip the corners crisped or clean. 

To hear the sound of the paper flipping. 

Everything is just so magical.

I stopped buying books when my bookshelves (two tall and big ones that reached the ceilings) got really full and also when my pocket started to get really empty from these expensive these books. That's when the library became my happy place. But after a while I just got tired of having to read through books that don't belong to me. And when these two titles (and a whole lot of other titles came out, which I can't afford all) came out I decided that it was time to own them. In a sense I felt that I would be able to go back to these books again and again when I feel lost hence I happily splurge on them.

I wouldn't say much about The Fault In Our Stars, actually I wouldn't say anything at all as I haven't started it. In actual fact, I don't really know how the book goes but I kept seeing quotes by John Green on Tumblr and decided that he was fabulous enough for me to own one of his books and thus The Fault In Our Stars is sitting on my table right now.

I have never watched the movie Eat, Pray, Love because at that point in my life I didn't thought the movie was exciting and appealing enough for me to go sit through it. And I guessed it didn't made much sense to the 16 year old me. 

Why I picked this book I really don't know. I guess as I reached this stage of my life where I am so comfortable being alone that sometimes it's scary how I don't crave for the company of another half, this book just calls out to me.

And the next paragraph just pretty much sums out the reason why I even blogged about today. It was too surreal to not note down.

As I begin this book, I found myself shutting it so many times at different points of the story because it felt as if I was reading my own thoughts and life out. It's like her thoughts, cravings, questions and love for travel reflects what's in my heart. And with every word I read, I was hoping to find the answer to my predicament. That the steps she walked will form the answer to my future path. However, since I am only at page 61 of  441, I don't think I can find any certain answers yet. 

But I'll keep trying, 

till the end.

I wanted to stop the post with the previous paragraph but I felt that I should stop hang off in the middle of nowhere thus I am typing this to officially declare the end of it all.