Did A Beach Wedding Guestbook Commission Some Time Ago!! ✨ Don't Worry They're Not Real Shells  

I FINALLY MADE IT TO A ONE OK ROCK CONCERT 😭✨

 Who knew I’d go and finally witness their music years after I found them on youtube playing most of their live concerts rather than their studio recordings.

2017 was made up of panic attacks, breakdowns, severe acne, real decisions, tears, a broken heart, self-care attempts (that really helped huhu) and failures. It sucks to start the year with crushed hopes and dreams that ended me but I also wanted to feel hope again, because I know that I have the will to also do the things I love. So I started again 🌞

Because I knew I was going to be stuck for a while, I promised to myself to do the things I love just as much as I'll work hard in the current decision I've taken. And along that path, I found out that I could possibly go to an Ambitions Asia Tour. I was also shookt myself lol

I extremely saved money since they announced their event, raged my dreamz of listening them live to my journal, dog, family, and friends (and believed that she can't just like others who wanted to see concerts hmp), constantly and desperately checking promo flights from every airline, asked help to extended relatives in the city if they wanted to have me infiltrate their home for a while, etc. Everything was never under my hands and this show was a game stopper for the past months of 2017. Four remaining months of saving, singing their songs (new and old alike), praying, and more praying that everything would fall into place, 2017 ended just like that. To me, the year felt quick and I was happy for its pace.

bonus: sight seeing at Taal Lake, Tagaytay in 21°c weather, yellow suitcase for Ambitions MNL 💛

(As if I'm in Osaka in their early days huhu), the atmosphere first felt like I was one of the audience of the Yokohama concert way back 2014 (oh youtube)

Mighty Long Fall

My friend who came with me said I should've scream like others in a concert and not just sing with the whole arena. Nah man, I prefer to sit down and listen to them doing what they love, sing with the people, jump or raise our freakin hands up rather than adding noise whenever. (I did scream and gave them a big applause when they talked and all did solos huhu esp taka during clock strikes and toru and his guitar solos 💓)

MY FIRST BAND SHIRT 😭

Not only I was looking forward to see the four playing, I was also very very happy of witnessing the whole crew of ONE OK ROCK, the lighting technicians (kudos 🙌), videocam crew for an amazing job (I felt like I was watching their youtube videos but live & irl 😂), security, organizers, and esp their official photographer @julenphoto , the same guy who shoots for their instagram photos huhu 💓

ONE OK ROCK welcomed my new year with hope and that I still could do something with these little hands of mine, slowly but surely. So as long as you keep your own pace and that you don't mind everyone else's journey, you have your own and in your own speed, you can have what it takes to be who you are and finish what you've started with courage, good attitude, and ofc love. 💖

Anything they say will never break our hearts of gold.

Hopes and dreams forevermore,

-花。

Peaceful place we stayed over that was a hundred kilometers away from the city. 📚✨

I’m kinda missing the part where around this time of year, when the air gets colder and the sun doesn’t shine DIRECTLY to your face, you go head on with passion projects and multiply your productivity by a thousand. But this year, reality just hits right into you like having no escape at all. All those “priorities” seem to lurk behind you and you feel all guilty when you’re not doing anything with them. It’s a weird feeling, and when you try to escape or just slip away from them, they all come back and the cycle goes on and on. 😥

But I try to comfort myself with little things like listening to new music (at 2am lol) or add new pages to my notebooks and still deal with all the different things that’s happening around.

I don’t want to be half-assed with my actions and I want them to be from my guts and insidesss and still be awesome to things I either hate or like. 😂🙆

This too shall pass.

Hopes & dreams,

花。

Pianoforte

A school-based art project: Acrylic on Ceramic Plate

The best thing about this project was that the material was so easy to get. One small plate like this was around less than a dollar (25 pesos for a heavy white plate ftw) from a local general merch shop. It was more quality than I expected it to be. I also bought a plate stand for this cutie.

For now, it’s sitting at the top of the piano because yas why not. I’m thinking of making more of these since it’s a lot cheaper than canvas boards hehe. 

There is the mind, there is the heart. (and more)

It's Easy To Blame The Weather After two days of heat, sweat, and extra-large water bottles at the sports complex, I finally laid my hands on Magnolia's Avocado Macchiato ice cream huhuhu 😭 Even though the sun was crazy the whole day, right when it was about to set, we all saw this little flare of color in the sky 🌈

Looking forward to Shinkai’s newest film!! 

Some stills from “Your Name” Director Makoto Shinkai’s new film “Weathering With You” (天気の子 Tenki no Ko, “Child of Weather”) in Japanese cinemas 19th July 2019.

I’m telling you it’s good music

Reese 1st Album Launch Green Sun, 12.06.15

Hands down, Reese’s album launch has been the best album launch I’ve been to (ever!). So much was going on, I wasn’t sure if it’s an album launch or a carnival fair/ birthday party. There were various art & snack booths going on around from 4-6pm, with music by CRWN and Gentle Universe. Their was a booth for temporary tattoo, a live brush lettering and calligraphy, live portrait illustration, their was free ~intergalactic~ ice cream and cookies and cupcakes, and their was an instax photobooth. Oh, and also, Jensen & the Flips and Tom’s Story performed. Psh, no big deal (j e n s e n a n d t h e f l i p s ! ! !).

But more than those shenanigans, I think the reason why this has been the best I’ve been to was the atmosphere of anticipation that filled the venue. Excited fans and friends have waited for the album for so long, and there was a shared feeling of excitement that finally, we will hear all of Reese’s songs live and have an actual physical album. It was a huge deal for me because I’ve been a fan of Reese since her Trophy Boy and Dressed Up Days. From leaving random comments on her blog posts to actually meeting her through a blog convention, my likeness for this “convenient sushi” never faltered. 

Congratulations, Reese! You deserve this success as much as the universe deserves to hear your music. 

original post: https://www.instagram.com/p/eRe29POGEC/?taken-by=justinnehannah

This was way back around September 2013. Glad I took a photo before it was drawn over by my little bro minutes later. Btw that’s actually a green pen lololol

Finally Had The Guts To Start A Proper Bullet Journal 📖🎉👀 | Some Thoughts

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Around the last days of August, I finally had the resolve of bullet journaling my way out of a busy month of school work, exams, college admission tests, a youth service that I'd never think of participating, and esp (of course, once again) an inktober attempt juggling all these things in a span of thirty one days. Spoiler: I got by and actually (barely) survived ✨🎉

I'd say it is a proper bullet journal now because of such elements based from Ryder Cowell's system of the whole bujo. I never really dug deep into the bujo community until I realized that bullet journaling was waaay more flexible than I thought. So I researched the whole concept and it turns out I was actually "bullet journaling" even way back since I used to do (food and skincare) logs, (anime & manga) trackers and (idea/music) lists before then, only the difference is that it was all over the place, kept in an unorganized manner unlike a proper bujo separating them by months for convenience of the viewer's eye onto the paper he/she's seeing.

I realized I was about to go down if I didn't kept track of the things that was happening last month. I decided to put my inktober works inside my bujo along with my test permits and weekly tasks in school. You could say that this notebook helps me stabilize equal amounts of time with school related tasks and my creative projects I've been working on since idk... day 1? *sighs. (To be honest, my heart is aching to be in two places at once -_-) It's been a long time for me doing multiple things, and I miss concentrating, focusing on one thing with all your heart. That's why I decided getting things real with legit planning my days from now on. I still think its scary doing this since I'm more of a "surprise attack" person than an organized one at that.

I think I did a pretty good job on my first month. We're now in the early days of November and I think I'm making sure I'll get things by. Bullet journaling is kind of therapeutic tbh, been tracking my sleep lately bc of my weird patterns but I'm sure I'll be fine soon haha 😃

Hopes and dreams,

-花 🌸

Ps: stickers and things aren't really necessary, they just make me happy by seeing colors every now and then hehe

Pps: not posting it that much online = also don't wanna stress over how it looks and not that visually pleasing since it isn’t about that at all heheh