Nothing Will Remind You That Eating Is Good And Okay Like Fantasy Books Will. “and That Night In The

君の名は (Kimi no Na Wa)

Bounded by a timeless feeling, I found myself lying on my pillows in awe after watching the newest Shinkai masterpiece on a cold and rainy night. It has really been a while since I’ve felt like this after something that is so worthy to watch.

My hands are always up for Makoto Shinkai’s art and story. He has his way of portraying the little details of life that suddenly reflects a bigger impact of a scene later on. (I’m talking about the rate of which the cherry blossoms fall, the morning downpours of a busy city, kumihimo, and tankas)

Also, RADWIMPS’s lyrics was so beautiful. His music resonates and completes the whole story and I find that very fulfilling. Kimi No Na Wa *kinda* reminded me a little of myself.

I’ll wait for the HD of the HD of the movie and watch it again for the greater good. I know that it will be a thousand times better and an emotional wreck haha.

Hopes & dreams,

- 花

This spread I find cute is not yet done but it's made out of the things everyone gave me during my birthday 😀✨

biology of summer fruits

Icones of Japanese Algae / Nihon Sorui Zufu ::: Kintarô Okamura (Tokyo 1964)

Seifuku Shirt

How I made my last-minute seifuku shirt

I came up with a school girl costume bc i thought it would be a lot of fun to paint paint paint X)

I first started sketching what the shirt looked like and what colors should I use. I decided to go with purple because I want to pair it with my lavender skirt (◑‿◐)

I used a plain white shirt (my mom had an extra :3 ), some masking tape and Liquitex Acrylic Color or acrylic paint. Simple as that! :3

Thank you Erica for the blue paint! T T The other reason why I picked purple because I only had purple paint. im sorry

Imperfect white spaces suck so

Yay!

It turned out to be okay (i think). It had a little paint on the sleeves because of my clumsiness hehe ooops. The paint I used was permanent and water resistant so curse my clumsiness > < I tried bleaching it but it didn't work so I just accepted my fate.

It was a lot of fun. 'Til next time! (◑‿◐)

- 花

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.

Did a beach wedding guestbook commission some time ago!! ✨ Don't worry they're not real shells  

Also painted smol sea creatures in the pages hehe

The Heat So Far

It’s summer here again! \m/ I’ve been of course hiding from all the heat (again) around the house and staying inside mama’s room where cold walls and cold tiles can certainly repel the heat. Oooh but don’t get me wrong, I still go outside sometimes hehe. Last last last week, it was the holy week so my family and I went for a Visita Iglesia slash roadtrip together with papa’s closest friends.

Photo of me and Ate Vina playing around hehe

We woke up around quarter to 4 in the morning and reached the farthest church at Ubay which is a town located literally across the island.

We ate lunch there and rested our tired selves for a while and took the road once again to another town Loboc, which was our destination for mountain climbing the next day. Mountain climbing = Krus Dako.

Krus Dako / “Big Cross” serves as the last station when climbing the mountain of Loboc.

After the climb, since the house we stayed was very near to the river, I decided to take a nice swim haha

Last Last Week: Swimmin’ pooolsss 

sis swimmin’

bro chillin’ haha

Last Week: Beachin’ | Back to the River!!

Went to the beach with cousins :)

River cruises were passing by as we were swimming and playing. Tourists were taking pictures of us haha.  (I’ve lost my photos when we were at the river huhu better find it as soon as possible)

But I think I'm getting a bit productive inside too (??). Since last week I’ve been practicing a new piece for piano because I’m trying to put music as my “thing” in the summer. Summer Break = play the piano, justinne  o(╥﹏╥)o (also started jogging again haha)

            So as of late, I am now packing my stuff for a new trip wohooo  (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ more fun awaits, i think. hehe

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。

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