Skins Novel

I'm probably gonna say that I am the biiiiggest fan of this TV show in our country. I've seen all four series, kept myself updated almost daily with news, bought magazine covers and have completed the soundtrack and episode tracks. I am the ultimate Skins fan. Hehe.

So I've recently got myself a copy of the novel. The fifth series won't be released for another 2 months so I needed the right fix. I'm such a junkie when it comes to this stuff.

It's what I would call "pocket book profanity", this 300 page novel. It's filled with the usual naughtiness that is Skins. No, actually it's over-the-top profanity. But I have been expecting it. This sort of behavior coming from the characters are very relevant to the characters portrayed in the series. Obviously there are "trimmings", meaning that the bad behavior is toned down for television because it will just turn out bland and simply "too dirty" for viewers.

This show is cheeky and immature, no doubt about that. But I can list down about a million things why it must get the right recognition. This won a BAFTA in the U.K. for F's sake. They give freedom for young writers and real people to all collaborate.

Ok so fuck it. I won't elaborate anymore on how brilliant this show is. I just know this isn't anything like I've seen on any local or foreign TV network and it'll make its mark, if not already, today or soon enough.

It's All Here For You

Didn't think that a book full of mindless explicit acts caused by teenage hormones would give me something wonderful to think about today. Yes, I got my very own copy of the Skins novel by Ali Cronin!

For the past few years I've believed that in regards to people's actions, there is one straight path and that their behavior towards others go along in that route. Given at this age I've never really encountered or rather, observed actions that involves the slippery slopes or the jagged edges that becomes questionable to one's character. Well, of course I have, but not in the most extreme of scenarios that are completely life-changing. It is a blessing and a curse at the same time. This comes to my detriment since I still end up baffled with most of the basic human behaviors that I encounter in my everyday life as a "normal" person.

I am shocked and I don't have answers for it.

But the book I was reading shed some light on to these ideas. There are sections I've read about ones extreme vulnerability to others, that one is obvious. One can become overdependent. It's the actions they perform to "conceal" that vulnerability is the thing that surprises me the most. Accdg to a fictional character I personally adore, "People do the dumbest things when they pretend they're not trapped."... and now I can see the whole side of this quotation. It is very much true since it is a human instinct to react. But given our highly complicated psychology, we may shoot out an array of insanity... or a discourse of what we expect ourselves to perform, thus, surprising ourselves. I've experienced this for years and have only come to LEARN to digest recently.

I wish I could've learned it waaaay sooner.

Fire

I cannot sit still. I just really start craving for adventure, for something really new and exciting. Daily routines are necessary in life, but for me it doesnt have to be everything. Such repetitiveness can easily depress me. I feel like it could be quite the torture to see things the same thing every single day, with no course of change or progress. Instinctively, when such moments occur I turn to seek something new in just about everything. It's like when Kurt Hummel does his warmups for a football match like a chocolate souffle, you dont heat it up and it wont rise.

I am going to start praying and initiate actions that completes this blog entry. I want something new. Something new, damn it.

SHAKE n' BAKE!

Lately, I've become fond of cooking meals for myself. I've never tried cooking for a week straight, nor have I been to the grocery store so often for a week in my entire existence. For instance, today I dropped by to two grocery stores. One, because I felt like baking. I felt like baking ENGLISH SCONES! Second, because I forgot to get myself a roller for the dough that I was about to make.

Yes, I felt like freakin' baking!

I was excited. Too excited, in fact, that I forgot to get that one most important ingredient.... BAKING POWDER! I got the flour, I got the baking soda... but hell I could not dump the dough in the oven without the powder. I need that powder. I swear I could be a lovesick crackhead if I dont get that powder by tomorrow. I'm dying to bake!!!

Arid Comedy Weekend

...or shall I say, Arid Dramedy?

That should sum just about right and its been a really fun weekend. An overnight stay at the lovely ForestCove had definitely set me into some good grounds, both in my own piece-of-mind and with the company of good friends. Finished off the weekend with a good friend's Birthday dinner and a terribly arid comedy of a movie that is "KILLERS". Ashton Kutcher's perfectly sculpted self just isn't enough!!!!

This trip with my high school buddies has reminded me well about how I used to be when I was, and who I am really today. There's really no 'putting-a-stop' to all that is happening in our lives.... I simply realized we are GROWING UP, and we all still have one another. =)

My First Marathon

Its impossible to stretch out for miles with your breathing bein' rattled and your legs giving in. Its impossible to say that you are not moved amidst all the heavy anticipation and training for a long run. That Adidas quote nailed it right on, Impossible is indeed nothing. I can run for miles and miles and I am just so determined regardless of the pain from the long stretch. So there, I did it anyway... and its the best high I've ever felt in months, or probably years. =)

Yesterday, I ranked number 726 out of 3,501 runners during the 5K charity run. And I will do even better. Much better. =)

Rank 726 00:35:05
Nature Valley Run Leg 2
5K Run
May 30, 2010

The Active Lifestyle??? Blech.

Ok so I've been trying to work on my running the past 3 weeks. I'm on the 3rd week level of the Couch-to-5K program. And just last Sunday I've managed to join a bunch of frisbee champs at the big park near us; 3 hours of full on hardcore frisbee tossing. It really comes down to running with Ultimate Frisbee and it is insane. But I swear that trying out the sport (for y'all beginners out there like me), I can guarantee it won't disappoint. You meet new friends, you build up stamina and hopefully lose some of that McDonalds fat you've been stacking up the past week.

I can't really begin phrasing that "the active lifestyle" as some result to quitting a previous vice. Heck I dont even like the "ACTIVE LIFESTYLE" term. It's something I could rap against while thoroughly enjoying a cigarette. 3 weeks into the whole running thing does not actually earn you those two words. I do know that the early morning jogs help me attain stamina by every hundred yards and that inner peace (inside this little tweet mind) that I've been longing for. Good mental health starts with physical health, right?

Oh and yeah, still no film photos so far. I freakin' miss shooting film!!!!