Peaceful Place We Stayed Over That Was A Hundred Kilometers Away From The City. 📚✨

GALILEO GALILEI AND ME

Galileo Galilei is your type of rock band with a dog and children’s laughter all together at a small garage in a not so cold and cloudy day but with clear extracts of every instrument from the bass, synth, to the drums, guitar, and vocals that could bring out a little hint of warmth --- a bit of summer. Each song tells a timeless story of bittersweet nostalgia and love. It gives a sense of relief that at the end of the day, things are going to be okay. 

Spring tour has ended.

early 2013: " 本当どうかしてるみたい ”

It was around early February that I *finally* convinced myself to watch the series AnoHana. The reason was that the anime title always ends up in front of my small laptop screen haha it was a bit shocking and weird. Before I knew it, I was naturally caught not only the story of the anime but also GG’s song that was resonating to me like an echo finding its way back. Gosh I hope I make sense ;_;

It was actually very hard to find a full version of Aoi Shiori . There were covers and squeaky full versions of the song but I just couldn’t find it on youtube. So I tried my hardest to find it in the deep corners of the internet and yesss I found it in super hd haha (●´ω｀●)

I searched crazy on the internet about GG and it seemed that this band wasn’t really that famous like other Japanese bands that pops up quickly when I search it on google. I remember when I finally found their music on youtube. I was so happy when I found their own official channel but turns out their channel wasn’t available in my country ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ  but but there was one English channel who had most of their songs and at the very least there was someone who love their music as much as I do. Back then, one song used to be only 800 to 1000 views and the most viewed had only 4000. But still, they had awesome sounds and few people outside Japan loved them.

So I downloaded every song I liked in my old pink phone which is still in use for listening music --- Freedom, Arigatou Gomen Ne, Wakkanai, and the likes (▰˘◡˘▰). Too bad we could only get it on youtube and feel guilty to not buy their albums huhu. 

After that, the movie trailer came out. AnoHana had another place of bittersweet nostalgia in my heart once again lol. 

mid 2013: “ 時に追いやられ”

The movie was released on summer, August 31 in Japan. Of course, people outside Japan had to wait for the online/english subtitle releases for another year. But their ending theme song came out earlier than expected.

Circle Game was part of their new album ALARMS back then. When I first heard the song, with the english translation aside, it felt all indescribable that it *kinda* resulted to this blog (◡‿◡✿) we’ll get to that hihi. 

There was this part of the song that caught me and it felt magical. Without realizing, I was writing, drawing, painting this phrase over and over again on my notebooks, journals, sketch pads, even at school... it was strange and interesting to me. I kept listening and listening until I drowned myself in uncertainty(??) aah I don’t know what I’m saying ;_;

2014: “ 曖昧なことも単純なことも”

That year, everyone was all in their own to fulfill what they had to do. Friends, family, people I look up to, everyone was fulfilling their dreams. “I could do that too”, seeing them in high spirits. To me, everything was yearning for action.

In October 2014, I finally had the guts to get things real with myself. To properly put my fragments of thoughts and little experiences of life in a tiny space on the internet, to have a small part of me in the vast interconnected system.  And I decided a URL right away, the one that I’ve been fascinated: Chased away by time. 

GG’s See More Glass (2014) album was uploaded and found my way back at the channel with most of GG’s songs for free. They still have that dream-rock vibe in them. More people were admiring GG, views went up to over a hundred thousand. It was insane haha.

Months later, they FINALLY got their official channel. “Finally, more music!!”, I thought that maybe they made the channel for more of their music to be witnessed by people outside Japan.

2016: “Sea and the Darkness”

Surprised. Shocked. What happened? Why?

I’m not going to see them live. Those thoughts of seeing these guys in a full sold-out live house will never come. Galileo Galilei has really made a great big bang in me. Three years? Not bad, I’m quite thankful (◡‿◡✿) hehe but I’m still going to print a GG shirt no matter what.

本当 に ありがとう ざいました。   - 花。

Some photos from our previous trip to northern mindanao🌲and went pass through plantations of pineapples for those tidbits I keep getting 😋🏡🍍

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

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。

Australia's burning, unsustainable tourism slowly thrives in my island, bleaching corals almost everywhere. Being just a mere spectator in all of this totally sucks. A decade for change and action please. 💚 Let's do what we can, we have no time for wars.

There has been a whale shark interaction recently established for tourism here in my place and it was suspected for feeding. Whale sharks follow a migratory path for food in the waters and if the feeding and baiting goes on, then their paths are definitely disrupted. The province has been on the issue for quite some time now, and orders were given to the municipality to take necessary action. But from what I have heard, people operating the site didn't claim to feed the fish but instead baiting them. I personally don't know how that differentiates with feeding. I find it strange how people desperately find ways to protect the obviously wrong things.

I had zero knowledge of the whale sharks before I encountered them in Oslob, Cebu. Back then, they were feeding them with uyap (baby shrimp). I knew nothing about the massive ecological disturbance of the people and the business did to our waters. But I'm here trying my best to use what I had learned back then and do as much as I can. So far, volunteering has been my greatest achievement and I look forward to my contributions though small, at the very least it's enough to contaminate the minds of other people haha 😂😉

Getting offline-life together for the first quarter of the year hoping *really crossing my fingers* to have more than two months of cleaning my current messy state all-wise, really. Hello again, it has been a while my smol cave 🏠

(But I had the slightest time to pull off this little painting of a cactus from the porch while waiting at the laundry shop ☕)

Oslob, Cebu, And Whale Sharks ♡

Hello from PH!! I just came back from a trip that was so beautiful, I wanna do it all over again (soon, hopefully haha).

We took the road from Cebu City around six in the morning and arrived after 3 hours of road trip. One of the first things I noticed was all the bleeding fire trees while we were traveling. Since it’s summer, fire trees are currently in flowering season as if it were giving autumn vibes minus the summer heat haha.

(EDIT: I told my mother about the pretty fire trees and she said that years ago, my grandfather and his workmates were the ones who were planting these trees all over Santander and Oslob and now they are all grown so big and tall and created happiness huhu lolo ;_;)

Imagine them red flaming trees with the blues of the sea and the crisp cloudless sky. (because i wasn’t able to take a photo of them huhu)

It was my first time in Oslob. The sea was so nice and blue. <3

We stayed in a cozy resort and the people around here were so friendly.

I had to quickly buy a new pair of slippers because they were torn apart along the way. I must say that these classic Spartans are much more trusted than my previous Bench flip flops. Recommending Spartans slippers for any kind of adventure lololol.

Omiyageee. All eyes on the nice prints. *_*

Their souvenirs were so cute! I bought tank tops for papa and lil bro. Since it was also papa’s birthday, I had to bring back a souvenir or something haha.

Highlight: Swimmin with whale sharks!

When I was in first grade, my teacher asked for examples of fish. I answered “whale shark!”. “Whale shark? What whale shark? Just shark!”, said the teacher. I can’t believe my teacher doesn’t even know this fish. But that was years ago.

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I’ve heard and read opinions and articles about Oslob’s whale shark interactions. Some say that it’s too crowded that the whole activity is too much for the whale sharks. It’s true that there were lots of people (I feel like I’m adding more dirt to dirt ;_;) but the staff was very friendly to the tourists.

Whale sharks can also be found in Southern Leyte, Donsol, Batangas, and even Bohol. Some say that these locations have lesser people. Since they’re migratory, whale sharks are mostly found in their path of good plankton for food.

Other than that, I tried my very best to be cautious and not be nervous at the same time. These gentle giants were so majestic and they deserve more awareness and protection. I’ve learned a lot about these creatures.

Everyone was so friendly (I keep saying this aahh), it makes your day 10x better. :)

Clear your tired eyes with salt water every now and then! (hi Reese)

Hopes and dreams,

- 花  ♡

Scenery Practice 🌱

Found a beautiful photo set of From Up On Poppy Hill on Twitter and decided to paint them. I’ve got to say that I am actually learning perspectives and painting details in these works such the sunlight, shadows, and especially in painting them distinctly (when it comes to the distance of the trees and other objects). Scenery from films like Ghibli and Shinkai help a lot and I’m really trying to incorporate these ooh moments I’ve had right now, hopefully & eventually using it for another project which will be painting my favorite corners/places in my city. (yay soon)🌞🎨✏

I have been wanting to eat some pasta for some time and tadaahh I had the chance 😗 You can never go wrong with pasta.

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