Aaaaaaaand I tested out a new font on my photograph and with my shorty-short story
Heh.
Samantha Adalia - a Jesus freak, Filipino, homeschooler, expatriate, dreamer, wonderjunkie, and is trying to make sense of life.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Trying out covers for 'Today' by _bookthief
A little experimentation to see if people like covers I make on Wattpad, this one sent for @_bookthief's 'Today' :) I took them photos by myself on winter Kathmandu days, and the font is called 'Prisma' by Dieter Steffmann.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
D'awwww, meat dagger
Nothing really to post about, but my dad wants to see a matinong (legit or PROPER *ahem, ahem*) blog post I wrote or just a matinong blog. YAAAAAAAAAAA~ that proves to be quite a task. So, let my blog posts be less random, less hipster-y, less worthless, have less memes, less annoyingly crazy from this day onwards. [Standing ovation]
Well, seems like I can't really help stopping that from happening.
I should really keep adiary journal, because suddenly for the past weeks the plotline of my life's been getting interesting things in it that are too many to put in here, and I have NOT kept track of them. But I have captured photos of them but plot twist, I CANNOT FIND MY CARD READER FOR MY CAMERA RAARGHARRGAHRGAHAGRHAGRHHHARAAHHGHGH sorry
So a spot of some photos from a month ago and their stories, I suppose.
I've recently downloaded new fonts because I liked seeing nice fonts, and I decided to test 'em out. Even though I do not like selfies. And I found this quote from 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers' by Sean Covey, which my dad gave me, thankfully, just as I began to be one, though I prefer to be called "young adolescent". Whoa what
ENDER'S GAAAAAAAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've finally watched it, and I must say, both the book and the movie get 5 stars from me. Actually, I think if you didn't read the book before watching the movie, some of the feels from there won't get home to you, like argh Peter Wiggin's story, Alai's "Assalamu alaikum" to Ender before he moved to an army where in the book, it almost made me cry, the Bathroom Fight, and stuff. But both of them are in a class of their own. I mean, Asa Butterfield :3
Hah, I drew my classmate Anton, randomly for a random ask in Tumblr. We're in Narnia in my drawing there lol
My premature-born bro is WALKINGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 Idiots flashback: *Virus's grandson kicks his face* "Good kick son! Wanna be a footballer?!" other students: WHOOOOOOOAAA
Well, seems like I can't really help stopping that from happening.
I should really keep a
So a spot of some photos from a month ago and their stories, I suppose.
ENDER'S GAAAAAAAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've finally watched it, and I must say, both the book and the movie get 5 stars from me. Actually, I think if you didn't read the book before watching the movie, some of the feels from there won't get home to you, like argh Peter Wiggin's story, Alai's "Assalamu alaikum" to Ender before he moved to an army where in the book, it almost made me cry, the Bathroom Fight, and stuff. But both of them are in a class of their own. I mean, Asa Butterfield :3
Hah, I drew my classmate Anton, randomly for a random ask in Tumblr. We're in Narnia in my drawing there lol
Winter is breaking; spring dawning. There's a pretty patch of flowers in a hotel somewhere in Kathmandu. I've formulated that none of the stories, photographs or drawings that we call ours have really been done by us, as they are just snapshots, caricatures, descriptions of things that already exist on their own, thus that statement is invalid XD but never mind what I just said
My dad started teaching me guitar a month ago (actually, I've only had 3 lessons from him so far -_-) and I LIEK IT. Surshala Music Academy, where are ur classes???? Dat's my mom's guitar and the D string died so I'm on a hiatus
Kathmandu seen from KFC Thapatali (idk how to spell). *advertising* Everybody, go to KFC Thapatali on any time of day and get photos of this shot from their window because it's marvellous plus their french fries are AWHSUUUM.
Well that was adequate.
M A T H I S H A R D A N D T H E A G R I C U L T U R A L F I E L D S E E M S L I K E A V I A B L E P R O F E S S I O N F O R M E , D O N T C H A THINK?
Sunday, March 9, 2014
WOOOOOOOWOOWOOOOO
Chelsea 4-0 Tottenham Hotspur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't EVEN know how they made gifs that Cast, or why I'm still awake at 1:37 AM, why Kaboul got a red card, or why Cech and dat Tottenham guy laughed when they laughed when they fell on each other.
I don't EVEN know how they made gifs that Cast, or why I'm still awake at 1:37 AM, why Kaboul got a red card, or why Cech and dat Tottenham guy laughed when they laughed when they fell on each other.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
"don't slide too fast you'll cry but if friend by side when tears it's better"
Pretty day today. But it was the last day of Club Penguin's annual fair :'(
My friend Keziah, my sister and I really hit it on the "Puffle Shuffle" where you had to guess where 3 individual puffles were and they were under hats and they rotated around SO MUCH and you had to guess where a certain one was. The three of us earned at least 4,000 tickets there, and our highscore was 2154, but it was meddling with our minds XD
And translated 'I hate carousels' into Filipino for my Filipino subject after seeing Stefan Bachmann's The Peculiar was translated into German, my project required a short story plot diagram, and I liked translating stuff into Tagalog, for example, "A Finger Slip" by Pawtal
Ang Paslit ng Daliri
John : Sherlock : Greg
booooooooooooooo |
My friend Keziah, my sister and I really hit it on the "Puffle Shuffle" where you had to guess where 3 individual puffles were and they were under hats and they rotated around SO MUCH and you had to guess where a certain one was. The three of us earned at least 4,000 tickets there, and our highscore was 2154, but it was meddling with our minds XD
And translated 'I hate carousels' into Filipino for my Filipino subject after seeing Stefan Bachmann's The Peculiar was translated into German, my project required a short story plot diagram, and I liked translating stuff into Tagalog, for example, "A Finger Slip" by Pawtal
Ang Paslit ng Daliri
isinulat ni Pawtal
trinanslado ni ErithacusThrush
Summary:
Biyernes, 19 Oktubre ng 2012
(Fri 3:24pm)
Nasa tindahan na ko, may gusto ka bang pabili para mamayang gabi?
(Fri 3:25pm)
Hindi ko alam na may mangyayari pala ngayong gabi. Pero kapag kailangan mo ngang dumating, dalhan mo ako ng petri dish. Ubus na'ng sakin.
(Fri 3:27pm)
Petri dishes? Ano? Akala ko manunood tayo ng sine….
Petri dishes? Ano? Akala ko manunood tayo ng sine….
(Fri 3:27pm)Sine, Greg, talaga? Di na tayo labing-dalawang taong mga dalagita.
(Fri 3:30pm)
Ay, di pala ako si Greg. Baka wrong number lang ata, sorry!
Ay, di pala ako si Greg. Baka wrong number lang ata, sorry!
(Fri 3:31pm)
A. Hindi na nakikita kung aling number talaga ang rinereplayan. Lasing, ata.
(Fri 3:32pm)
Eh kasi kakakuha ko lang ng bagong cellphone, at nag-sorry na naman ako, kaya wag ka na maging masungit.
(Fri 3:32pm)Sinasayang mo ang oras ko.
(Fri 3:33pm)
'Sus. Go back to you're petri dishes.
'Sus. Go back to you're petri dishes.
(Fri 3:33pm)
*Your.
*Your.
(Fri 3:33pm)
Ha?
Ha?
(Fri 3:35pm)
I-kinorekta ko lang ang grammatical error mo. Ginagawa yan ng mga taong nangangbang mawawala ang mga may-utak na tauhan sa daigdig.
(Fri 3:36pm)
Meron akong utak! I-nautocorrect un.
Meron akong utak! I-nautocorrect un.
(Fri 3:36pm)May defensibo naman dito.
(Fri 3:38pm)
Palagi ka bang ganito?
Palagi ka bang ganito?
(Fri 3:39pm)
Kapag nakikiusap lang sa idyota. Ibigsabihin--lahat.
(Fri 3:41pm)
Mahal ka ng sobrang-sobra ng mga tao sa trabaho mo, diba?
(Fri 3:41pm)Kolehiyo.
(Fri 3:42pm)
Seryoso ka?
(Fri 3:43pm)
Bakit ang hirap paniwalaan?
(Fri 3:43pm)
Dahil kasi sa ano--mo? Ewan….
Dahil kasi sa ano--mo? Ewan….
(Fri 3:44pm)
Clarong nag-aaral ka rin. Third year highschool, kung pwede, kapag hinusga sa grammar mo.
(Fri 3:46pm)
2nd year sa college, nag-aaral ako ng medicine.
2nd year sa college, nag-aaral ako ng medicine.
(Fri 3:47pm)
Ang husay.
(Fri 3:50pm)
Ano naman pinag-aaralan mo?
(Fri 3:53pm)
Ah--hindi na ako pumupunta sa kolehiyo. Di na, ngayon. Gumagawa ako ng sarili kong trabaho sa mga bagay na nagugustohan ko.
(Fri 3:54pm)
Teka, diba sinabi mo na sakin college ka pa?
Teka, diba sinabi mo na sakin college ka pa?
(Fri 3:55pm)
Oo, pero, dapat nasa college pa ako. Merong… nangyari.
(Fri 3:55pm)
A… in-expel ka?
A… in-expel ka?
(Fri 3:57pm)
Pwedeng ganoon.
(Fri 3:58pm)
Anong nangyari?
Anong nangyari?
(Fri 4:00pm)Mahabang kwento at may ginagawa ako.
(Fri 4:04pm)
Ah, ok. Ewan ko lang kung bakit iniisip ko na sasabihin mo ung istorya mo. Di ko pa nga alam pangalan mo.
(Fri 4:06pm)
Sherlock.
Sherlock.
(Fri 4:06pm)
Ha? Ano yan?
Ha? Ano yan?
(Fri 4:06pm)
Pangalan ko. Sherlock ang pangalan ko.
(Fri 4:07pm)
Sherlock, yan ang pangalan mo?
Sherlock, yan ang pangalan mo?
(Fri 4:07pm)
Salamat sa paulit-ulit na pag sabi ng kaka-bigay ko sayong impormasyon.
(Fri 4:09pm)
Kasi…. nakakaiba lang sya.
(Fri 4:11pm)
At siguradong ang pangalan mo ay karaniwan at may walang importansya kompara sakin.
(Fri 4:13pm)
...John.
...John.
(Fri 4:13pm)
Saradong kaso.
(Fri 4:14pm)
Oh, shut up.
(Fri 4:14pm)
Di ko pwedeng sabihin na hindi 'to masayang gawin.
(Fri 4:15pm)
Ano? Pangiinis mo sakin?
(Fri 4:15pm)
Oo.
(Fri 4:15pm)
Kaakit-akit.
(Fri 4:17pm)
Unang beses pa lang yan na may taong binalagtasan ako ng ganyang salita.
(Fri 4:16pm)
Hindi naman ako na-sorpresa, sa katunayan. Mahusay naman ako?
(Fri 4:16pm)
I wouldn’t go as far to say ‘well’. You’re managing.
I wouldn’t go as far to say ‘well’. You’re managing.
(Fri 4:17pm)
Sige, basta, salamat sa pagsasama mo sakin habang nag-lalakad ako pauwi.
(Fri 4:18pm)
Kinaya kong tiisin.
(Fri 4:23pm)
Pero, kailangan ko sabihing, ine-expekto kong makita kang umaakyat sa bintana ko mamyang gabi, na merong kutsilyo sa gitna ng ngipin mo. "Wag makiusap sa di mo kilala", at lahat nun.
(Fri 4:25pm)
Pero pupunta ka sa ibang bahay para sa party mamyang gabi, katulad ng ginagawa ng simpleng mga tao kapag gabi ng Biyernes.
(Fri 4:26pm)
Ay, oo nga pala.
(Fri 4:26pm)
Hihintayin ka ng kutsilyo ko.
KAY GEEZERS
Ang poot ko sa karousel
Isang araw, mayroong parke at sa parke mayroong karousel. May binatang nakasuot ng grey na hoody at hipster na salamin na tininta ng itim, at nagpasiya syang mamasyal sa parke. Nakuha ang tinging nya ng karousel. Wala naman syang ginagawa, kaya pumunta siya sa toll-booth para bumili ng tiket sa sunod na ikot ng karousel.
Ang babae sa toll-booth, tagapamasid ng mga nakakaibang mga pangyayari sa parke, ay hindi masyadong binigyan ng ibang pansin ang malumbay na binata. Nginitian nya siya pagtapos nya itong bigyan ng sukli, para sana masayahan naman siya. Bumulong ang binatilyo ng salamat, at sumandal sa bar sa may karousel. Pinanood nya ang ilang mga bata na nagkukunwaring sumasakay sila sa kabayo pasulong sa malayong-malayong lugar.
Nagpapatunog sya ng kantang galing sa pambatang tula, at napaiyak siya, inaalala ang mga araw sa ugoy ng duyan niya, at ang piling ng kanyang ina habang kinakantahan ito, pati ang mga maya sa puno ay ang armonya. Umalinlangan syang pumasok sa karousel noong kumalpana ang timbre. Tumigil ang mekanismo, at isang sirbiyente ay binuksan ang labasan. Bumaba ang mga bata, naka ngiti, mga magulang sinasamahan papunta sa mga ibang rehiyon ng parke.
May mga ibang bata na iniharap ang kanilang mga tiket, at sila'y pinapasok. "Ser?" sabi ng isang attendant. Namula sya, dahil sobra syang matanda para sa mga karousel, at etong attendant alam yun, pero nagtanong parin sya kung papasok ang binata. "A, okay," sinagot nya, ngumiti ng onti, at tinangal ang shades nya. Sa wakas, mayroong talinong pumunta sa kanya, at binulsa nya ang shades. Etong attendant, parang may naaalala siya sa mukha nya, pero ayaw nyang alahanin ang memorya, dahil masakit.
Plus my classmate celebrated his 15th birthday yesterday, and a good friend his 30-something (HAHAHAHAHA lol) today. WHOA, BROS, YOUR OLD
I did this for Isaiah leh classmate and 103901 people liked it XD |
Ye, at all measures a pretty day.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
(Not) Been a long time coming since I've seen your face
Sorry, I wrote a new poem on Dad's BlackBerry while we were waiting for the light to come back bye
you may cry now
hello seattle
coffee beans on the window sill
wilting sunflower
i didn't know
you would leave me in a battle
thought you'd save me they kill
but new blue skies every hour
ginger cat meows
only him and i in apartment
tv is on laptop charging
clothes on floor and bed
how you left it how
sit on the chair i can't
you aren't sitting with me darlin'
cat is hungry wasn't fed
open fridge there is a note
buy one milk and three breads
your handwriting
when do you come
cat is ok he ate in boat
in bathtub toilet paper shreds
i write in book keep in margin with love like rome
why is there soap you put in the fridge?
humming bird mind
air conditioner legit
empty mailbox work to do
photos of bridge
ice cream so fine
nice to be happy a bit
maybe it will last, coo!
bet your house messi score that
he did not he missed goal
change channel mancini's scarf on coatrack
blues miss him too do they
will you read this on your bat
cricket is good you are better, soul
is there internet or is there lack
hope you will find way home yay
weeeeeeee~ let's cry now~ I wish I was famous on Wattpad
Saturday, March 1, 2014
'Been a long time coming since I've seen your face
I'm a bit sad, you think? Blacked out whole February except for Sochi. And I'm really sorry for the abandonment of the past Challenge. I'll try to rebuild it, try. But for the meantime, my dad's been pining to see my blog or something, and through his eyes I think he wouldn't be largely impressed with the past content of the blog. (BUUUUUUT, THIS IS WHO I AM, DADA :'c). So I'll post this short beginning for a story I wrote that's been swimming in my head for maybe four days:
Kathmandu. The dust and the fumes envelop its valley, yellowing the newspapers that flap through the wind and the people who walk in its streets all day long. The tea on the box it was set upon has already gone cold. Cars honk their horns, screech their brakes, and make the dust fly all the more. Chickens in the tiny bazaar across the road wander around and the children play along with them. Above, the skies are a dichotomy, grey and blue clashing together. Black kites, house crows, mynas and sparrows make it their playground, coexisting together. A young man to the far right across the road cautiously evades the cars as he crosses, dark, curly hair bobbing with the hands that signal the cars he is crossing. He shuffles by, stepping onto the sidewalk. Looking around, he skips towards the shops along the roads that sell khaja, candy, sim cards and whatnot. His shoulder bag's flap sways away from its body, and he fumbles to close it. He glances at the cup of cold tea atop a box. "You're here," he says. "Late again," I utter, taking the cup and trying to remember what cold chiya tastes like.
Was it pwetty?? I somehow want to send it to The Kathmandu Post. By the way, I submitted another short story I wrote, last night to their Fiction Park, and it's the first time for me to do so, so I'm
"What ees the story?"--I'm not the one who spouts book reviews, and when people swarm around me asking what the book I'm blocking my face with is about, I tell them to read the back.
And here is how I described it to someone who looked like my cousin Shayne this morning:
"There's this teenager who goes to a carousel, in a park, and he sits on a horse and observes stuff and then he sees the girl he loves on the carousel and they ride horses together then the carousel stopped the girl stood up and she talks about a story and the boy reaches out to her hands but she disappears into the air I called them Aragorn and Arwen you know" SO MY DESCRIPTION IS LAME
"What ees it called?"--I hate carousels (Grey Eyes). Because there was this anon on Tumblr and he asked me "I hate carousels" cause my URL was ILikeCarousels hey Anton
"How did you send eet to the newspaper?"--I've never written a letter to companies and stuff like that even though it's been in every one of my schoolbooks each grade/class/year a lot of times I'm awkward so I sent my story to Dad and Mom first this week and I said "I wanna send this to Kathmandu Post every Sunday they post short fiction stories on posts". Mom read it and she was
so eventually, Dad wrote us a letter last night, and he's a guru at writing letters HALP ME DAD I WANNA BE LIEK U and yeah, I'm waiting for their reply
"Samsamsamsamsam I wanna read eet before eet comes out"--I hate carousels (Grey Eyes)
OKAY NOW MY LAPTOP IS GONNA DIE. And so many gifs, you say? I haven't been here for months RAARGHAHRGAHAHHARGRGRAHAHRGAHHAGHGHGHH
Arrivederci.
(MR PEABODY AND SHERMAN TOMORROW WOO feel agaaaaaaaaain I can feel agaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiin.)
Kathmandu. The dust and the fumes envelop its valley, yellowing the newspapers that flap through the wind and the people who walk in its streets all day long. The tea on the box it was set upon has already gone cold. Cars honk their horns, screech their brakes, and make the dust fly all the more. Chickens in the tiny bazaar across the road wander around and the children play along with them. Above, the skies are a dichotomy, grey and blue clashing together. Black kites, house crows, mynas and sparrows make it their playground, coexisting together. A young man to the far right across the road cautiously evades the cars as he crosses, dark, curly hair bobbing with the hands that signal the cars he is crossing. He shuffles by, stepping onto the sidewalk. Looking around, he skips towards the shops along the roads that sell khaja, candy, sim cards and whatnot. His shoulder bag's flap sways away from its body, and he fumbles to close it. He glances at the cup of cold tea atop a box. "You're here," he says. "Late again," I utter, taking the cup and trying to remember what cold chiya tastes like.
Was it pwetty?? I somehow want to send it to The Kathmandu Post. By the way, I submitted another short story I wrote, last night to their Fiction Park, and it's the first time for me to do so, so I'm
"What ees the story?"--I'm not the one who spouts book reviews, and when people swarm around me asking what the book I'm blocking my face with is about, I tell them to read the back.
PAHAHAHA, yes, but not block it like that, I messed up my room for finding the right jacket that could fit my book in front of my head.after seeing this |
"There's this teenager who goes to a carousel, in a park, and he sits on a horse and observes stuff and then he sees the girl he loves on the carousel and they ride horses together then the carousel stopped the girl stood up and she talks about a story and the boy reaches out to her hands but she disappears into the air I called them Aragorn and Arwen you know" SO MY DESCRIPTION IS LAME
"What ees it called?"--I hate carousels (Grey Eyes). Because there was this anon on Tumblr and he asked me "I hate carousels" cause my URL was ILikeCarousels hey Anton
"How did you send eet to the newspaper?"--I've never written a letter to companies and stuff like that even though it's been in every one of my schoolbooks each grade/class/year a lot of times I'm awkward so I sent my story to Dad and Mom first this week and I said "I wanna send this to Kathmandu Post every Sunday they post short fiction stories on posts". Mom read it and she was
so eventually, Dad wrote us a letter last night, and he's a guru at writing letters HALP ME DAD I WANNA BE LIEK U and yeah, I'm waiting for their reply
"Samsamsamsamsam I wanna read eet before eet comes out"--I hate carousels (Grey Eyes)
OKAY NOW MY LAPTOP IS GONNA DIE. And so many gifs, you say? I haven't been here for months RAARGHAHRGAHAHHARGRGRAHAHRGAHHAGHGHGHH
Arrivederci.
(MR PEABODY AND SHERMAN TOMORROW WOO feel agaaaaaaaaain I can feel agaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiin.)
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