Monday, December 26, 2016

Note To Self





Note to Self

Pour energy
into your
words

Write with intensity
so great
that if you held the page
from a mountain's peak
your words
would be mistaken
for
stars

Not About You






Not About You

This poem
is not about you

even though
your spirit is in every word
your voice sound strong
in the halls of my mind
telling me things
I am not sure
I want to know

This poem is 
about me

trying to understand 
you

Friday, December 23, 2016

Something Borrowed (Places)






*So this will gonna be my last post for Something Borrowed, and I know it's a bit too late but still anyway I'm gonna try it then.) So I will just gonna implement some rules here, and this will be the places where the characters used in the novel (Darcy, Rachel, Dex etc...), and I will explain it and  add some facts (maybe 2 too 5). And here it is:

P.S. Their will be pictures or not. So I hope you will be patient about it.



1. The Hampton's House



Credits: HookedonHouse.net 

*one of the houses on the beach where Dex, Rachel, Ethan and Darcy used to enjoy their trips.
*favorite location of the two best friends, Rachel and Darcy.

Facts:
    - it is located on the Long Island's South Fork in the New York residential area.
    - one of the most expensive houses in New York.
    - Sag-Harbor, BridgeHampton, East hampton and Riverhead are part of the Hamptons.



2. Indiana

         *In the book, it is described  as a mere flyover country as a necessary terrain to cross on their trips to Aspen or Los Angeles.

Facts:
         - known for their farmland and renowned auto-race Indianapolis 500
         - It is the 38th largest area in the United States.
         

3. Leeds Castle


       * A Norman stronghold and royal residence for six medieval queens. (In the Book.)
Facts:
        - it is located in Kent, England southeast of Maidstone.
        - considered as the Loveliest Castle in the World.
        - it is a palace used by Henry VII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
        - the castle is surrounded by a 500 acres of parkland.

4. Alphabet City


            * bar on 7th Avenue, Cor. 7B. It is a neighbourhood in the East Village of Manhattan.

Facts:
         - there are bars famous in Alphabet City.
         - a former place for drug dealers and famous for its burned buildings.
         - Its name comes from A, B, C and D. The only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names.

4.  Gotham Bar and Grill


            Address: 12 E 12th St, New York, NY 100003, USA

Facts:
                - a quintessential restaurant in New York City.


5. The Stephen Talkhouse


       
           * A Bar in Amagansett.

Facts:         


 - Stephen Talkhouse or "Stephen Taukus Pharaoh was a Montaukett Native American in the late 19th century.          

 - It's a nightclub where famous or unpopular singers/bands perform their music.


6. Bridge Hampton 


  *Houses with a beautiful t-shaped pool surrounded by gorgeous landscaping and at least 20 tiki torches.

Facts:
      -it is a Hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Suffolk County, New York, USA.
      - Bridge Hampton is in the town of South Hampton, on Long, Island.

7. Atlantic Grill
            *In the book, this is a restaurant near Rachel's apartment.

8. Float
            *In the book also, this is a Midtown dance club complete with velvet ropes and self-important bouncers.

9. Britannia
            - It is an English pub full of old men smoking and reading the paper. Walls and carpet are red, bad oil paintings of foxes and deer and Victorian women cover the wall.



          




Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Something Borrowed (A Novel, Part 3) -ADDITIONALS!!!





PART ONE:

In the parade of the town of Naperville, Darcy and Rachel became friends and joined the band.

*Rachel and Darcy spent time slept over at each other's houses every Friday and Saturday during the school year and most nights of the week during the summer.

Darcy's parents hobbies:
               - Her  mom watched "The Young and the Restless"
               - Her dad likes to read "Playboy."

JOHNNIE REDMOND-  most unpopular boy in class, had a terrible stutter and have an unfortunate bowl cut.

ANNALISE GILES- their friend (Darcy and Rachel) who moved to cul-de-sac after two years.

*Annalise, Darcy and Rachel make gypsy costumes every Halloween.

*Dex and Rachel first meet up at their class at TORTS, a seating -chart class by their professor Zigman.

*Marcus overslept on the day of his statistics final exam and showed up 20 minutes late to discover that he had thrown his remote control into his backpack.


CHAPTER 5: THE STORY OF RACHEL'S BOYFRIENDS

*PAM-  a Jersey girl with big hair and encouraged Rachel to ask Hunter out.

*JOEY MEROLA- opposite of Hunter Bretz. He is a boisterous sports guy with a loud voice. He played intramural sports in the campus and the kind of guy who was proud of how much he could eat and that he could get by in literature class without even reading a book.


SECOND ADDITIONALS

*Both Darcy and Rachel's Dad come from Indiana but they are 2 towns apart.

TRACY PURLINGTON- a promiscuous girl from Indiana.

BETSY WINGATE- lived in the freshmen dorm. 

CARLY WEINSTEIN- folk singer from Brooklyn whom Nate had a crush with.

*Darcy and Rachel used to tell their plans in their sleepover, discussing their plans for the future, how many kids they have and name them. Back in Naperville High, they pass notes between classes, folded it in origami and talk about their classmates and teachers. They sometimes put quotes down on the left side of the page and tell who are they're matches.

*During freshmen year, Darcy and Rachel always stand between lockers after school.

BECKY ZURICH- one of the popular girls in senior class and had a boyfriend named PAUL KINSER (but she wasn't pretty and a much mean in a feared variety.)

*Once in 7th grade, Rachel refused to participate in the annual talent show because she become one of Darcy's back-up dancers.

*Every year over the July 4th holiday, there is a mass exodus in Manhattan.









Sunday, November 27, 2016

Something Borrowed (A Novel by Emily Giffin)📑 Part 2





Something Borrowed 
(Character Profiles)



*
Rachel👱👸
      - birthday in May
      - have watched the TV Series like the "Growing Pains", "Who's the Boss" and "Thirty Something."
      - is an attorney in a NY Firm, works at excruciating hours, is mean-spirited,  tedious tasks and have some sortvof hatred. 
      - got straight A's in high-school, went to college, graduated Magna cum Lauderdale,  took the LSAT,  and went straight to law school
     - is a disciplined👟🌞 kind of child who did her work on Friday afternoons, flosses every night and makes bed every morning
     - moved in a cul-de-sac in Naperville, Indiana in the summer of 1976
     - her first crush is Ethan
     - she puts her friends first in high school and is a brash and independent type of person 
     - she had awful hair days, pimples,  class pictures, having no right clothes, dateless for dances, baby fat,  getting cut from teams,  losing election for class treasurer. 
      - when she wanted to give herself a fresh start,  she would usually count to three and afterwards having a clean slate. 
     -her dream is to attend Notre Dame and finish her college studies there.
     - she loved SAL'S PIZZA. 

*Darcy Rhone👰
       - birthday in September 
       - have watched the TV Series like the "Growing Pains", "Who's the Boss" and "Thirty Something."
       -best friend of Rachel
       - had a PR Job
       - first love Doug Jackson (with blond hair, have wranglers that fit his butt
       - bolder than the other girls, prettiest girl in class
       - has a high cheekbones, have huge well spaced eyes;  have a dainty nose. 
    

*Dex Thaler
        - Darcy's fiancee
        -  they lived together at Bloomingdale's
        - had worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs
        - he grew up in Westchester and is a Catholic 
        -he played basketball in highschool and considered Georgetown for his College 
        - he had an older sister named Tessa and went to Cornell and teaches high school English in Buffalo. 
        - his parents divorced when he was young and his father remarried.
        - his mother beat breast cancer
        -Grouch in the Morning. He does at least 50 push-ups before bed every night and never leaves dirty dishes on the counter.
       - he broke down when his grandfather died 
       - had 2 serious girlfriends named Suzanne Coleman who is a research analyst  and GOLDMAN SACHS who dumped him
      - he had dark speck in his left iris like an eye freckle.
      - likes working for Roger Bollinger (the head of his group.)


*Hillary
      - closest friend of Rachel from work
      - comes to work late everyday 
      - refuses to play the game that associates play
      -always leaving a jacket on the back of her chair
      - ex-boyfriend Corey of 4 years who is nice,  smart and all-around great guy. 

*Claire
       - Darcy's co-worker and  a snobbish girl from Greenwich.
        - he got a blind date named Skip who is a surgeon. It didn't go well, because be wasn't tall enough for him.
        - she cares too much about money and appearances.

*Mike O'Sullivan
          - have three generations of alumni in his family.
          - the president in his class
          - got into Notre Dame first

*Marcus
         - Dex's friend and one of his groomsmen
         - moved from San Francisco and New York
         - they'd becomed friends from Georgetown
         - never went to class and got high all the time.

*Jose
        - the apartment guard

*Annalise
        - she met her now-husband Greg and lost virginity to him
        - still has the same hairstyle-shoulder length w/ curled-under bangs
        - her face always round as persimmon

*Ethan
       - has an unruly hair, cheeks are pink and is hyper  and happy.
       - he likes to rotate his No. 2 pencil,  between full lips and always make bite marks in the eraser
       - he came from England and live there for the past two years
        - still compassionate as who really is
        - did well on the SAT's, graduated salutatorian and voted most likely than AMY CHOI,  the class valedictorian
        - went to Stanford, took a job at an investment bank even though he majored in art history and had no interest in finance
        - took writing, art,  photography classes, and had a bar tending job and summers in Alaska's fisheries.
        - writes for a magazine and is working for a book about London architecture.
        - had a basement flat in Kensington, have a furniture which is sleek and modern,  walls covered w/ abstract paintings and posters of jazz musicians.
        -friends with Martin who is very proper, went to Oxford, well dressed and attractive
        - sits with his legs at crossed knee
        - friends with Phoebe from East London an Amazon tall with untamed tomato red hair.

*******×***********×*************×*******

OTHER CHARACTERS:

     *Hollis
           - used to work at Rachel's law firm but she quitted when she got engaged with Dewey Malone.

     *Dewey
           - unattractive and humorless,  but has a huge trust fund.

      *Brandi
            - Ethan's girlfriend with blue eyes.
            - a few months in romance,  she got pregnant
            - Ethan married her at City Hall in downtown Seattle. A homemade marriage feat B and W of two hiking.
            - she gave birth to a boy,  an Eskimo boy with coal black eyes almost immediately.
             - they annulled,  Brandi moved to Alaska

       *Nina
               - a chubby word processor from Staten Island with fake nails adorned with glitter art.
 
       *Kenny
               - the internal messenger from the mailroom

        *Erieda
               - from accounting

        *Jessica Pell
               - a fringe friend of Darcy and Rachel from high school

        *Brit Miller
              - who shamelessly worshiped and copied Darcy in high school.


        *Kim Frisby
                - a totally smart cheerleader, his husband named Jeff who graduated in their class and played baseball  with Brandon and Blaine and had kids who had twins named Stanley and Brick.

         *Julian (37)
               - a writer,  never been married.

         *June (80)
                - 4 ft tall,  massive wrinkled because of heavy smoking. Once lost a fakenail in Tommy Baxter's lasagna.

×********×**********×***********×********

                  Rachel and Darcy's Lovers 💜

Rachel's😘
      1. Brandon Beamer- he asked Rachel in senior year.
            - a Catholic. Didn't drink or do drugs. Felt guilty when discussing sex.
            - but they'd made-out in Brandon's station wagon back at his home.

    2. Hunter Bretz- from Mississippi.
            - she dated him at Duke University in her first semester.
            - both of them like to study (or pretend to), hang out and watch TV shows such as the 90210, Bev Hills and the Melrose Place.
            - he was scrawny and nerdy, he is also intelligent, had brown eyes too.

    3. Joey Merola
              - unexpected boyfriend when she kissed him and made out.
              - they'd first time sex too. LO/OVRAL BIRTH CONTROL PILL- cannot cause weight.
              - they broke out when he joined a fraternity and become obsessed with Duke Basketball.
              - his father played also the HOOSIERS. (they were defeated by the Wake Forest and argued.
              - he said she snorred a lot and hogged the bed, mix the toothbrushes together. He called her a BORING INTELLECTUAL and him a SHAMELESS BANDWAGONER.

        4. Nate Menke
                - she met him in their first year of law school at a party
                - he had the coolest eyes and made him look Asian for his light coloring
                - soft spoken, strong-willed, politically active in a defiant, angry way.
                - he is real & intended in bed too.
                 - they spent the summer in the city, studying the Bar Exam.
                 - he began working as an assist district attorney in Queens.
                 - they broke because she met Carly.
               

              5. Alec Kaplan
                   - she met him at Spy Bar, down in Soho.
                    - kind of guy who retired in College, cool-boy uniform of filthy intentionally broken-in baseball caps, fraternity party T-shirts, and woven leather belts, swapping cool-boy uniform of gripping, cotton spandex T-shirts, tight black pants,  slight sheen and and loads of hair gel.
         - smart, fun and nice enough.
         - great body but sex was average.              - her friend Claire spotted Alex kissing a petite, somewhat trashy blonde at Merchants.



Darcy's♥
         1. Blaine Conner
                 - she kissed him in his locker
                 - he had come from Columbus
, Ohio in their junior year.
                 - wasn't bright but is A Star Receiver of the football team,  starting point guard in the basketball team,  starting pitcher in the spring.
                 - "BUT" he had a girlfriend named CASSANDRA  back in Columbus whom he is 110% committed
                - they've watched "LES MISERABLES" together and after that they'd made out
                - Cassandra found out and then they've split together.
                - he is now living in Ohio with his wife and three kids.

         2. Carlos
                 - she's lost virginity to this man from Spain. An exchange student.





Monday, October 24, 2016

Something Borrowed (A Novel) by Emily Giffin📑




©Wikipedia.com

In these book, was Emily Giffin's bestselling novel back at 2005 (and the sequel Something Blue)  that centers through the story of two girls about the strength of friendship and romance when suddenly everything falls suddenly into place. 

So okay,  my POV?  This book was a gift from my 18th birthday and since I'd started reading this, I'm a bit curious  about how will the story will going to continue because it tells how a long-time friendship will be destroyed because of "SOMETHING" that happens unexpectedly. So to shorten my review of the book,  let me say that this was a greatly written book that teaches readers that it's not too late to fall in love with someone you are destined to be with. 

My Rate: 5/5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

P.S. My next feature of the book will focus on the characters, settings and the great past and future relationships of the two main characters: Rachel and Darcy.)

Sunday, October 23, 2016

WTFacts! (A Clash of Kings Infos 📝) (Part 2)

So, it'[s been a while since I'm updated my blog about the Game of Thrones Facts because of schoolworks but hopefully I found my time to do this and since time has past, and I'm done reading Book 2, I gathered a lot of facts about the sequel. So I hope, I'm not too late and I wish you can still acknowledge me through my work. So... here goes nothing.


GAME OF THRONES FACTS 
(CLASH OF KINGS BOOK 2)


A
  * A Tale of Targaryen's🐲
    - Prince Aemon the Dragonknight cried the day Princess Naerys wed his brother Aegon Targaryen.

B
 ***

C
***

D
 * Dany's Ships🐲
      - they were named VHAGAR, MERAXES AND BALERION.
      - she ordered this to Arstan in which the names will be painted on the ships hulls in golden letters for 3 feet.

E
***

F
***

G
***

H
***

I
***

J
  *Joffrey's Ships on the Battle of Blackwater Rush ⛵( * This indicate the ships captured by Stannis Baratheon)

- Stag of the Sea (from Lord Steffon)                  -Princess Rhaenys
- Brightfish                                                           -Dog's Nose                
-Lady Harra                                                           - Sceptre *
-Laughing Lord                                                     - Faithful *
-Sea Demon                                                           - Red Raven
- Horned Honor                                                     - Queen Alysanne
-Ragged Jenna                                                       - Cat
-Trident Three                                                       - Courageous *
-Swift Sword                                                         - Loyal Man  *
- Dragonsbane                                                       - Black Betha *
- Wraith                                                                 - Bold Laughter
- Lady Marya (from Allard)                                - Harridan
-Fury (Robert Baratheon's 300 ship oars) *      - Seahorse
-Pride of Driftmark (from Lord Velaryon)         - Swordfish
- Red Claw (from Lord Celtigar)
- Pretty, Prayer and Devotion (from Lord Sunglass) *

Joffrey's toy ships

- Godsgrace *
- Prince Aemon
- Lady of silk and Lady's Shame (sister ships)
- Wildwind
-Kingslander *
-White Hart
-Lance
-Seaflower
-Lionstar (gone missing)
-Lady Lyanna
-Hammer

K
  *Karstark Sigil🌞
- The white sun on the black sun

  *King Robert's Hammer (or Rob's Hammer) 
     - a great war gallery of four hundred oars

 *Kingsguard of Brandon Stark
       - Ethan Glover was Brandon Stark's squire
       - Jeffroy Mallister
       -Kyle Royce
       -Elbert Arryn

L
***

M
* Myrcella Baratheon's escort to Dorne
 -Lionstar
 -Bold Wind
 -Lady Lyanna
 -Seaswift

N
***

O
***

P
***

Q
*Qarth's story
- was one of the World's Great Ports. It's harbor combines a riot of color and clangor and strange smells.
-Winesinks,  warehouses and gaming dens lined the streets while cutpurses,  cutthroats, spellsellers and moneychangers mingled every crowd.
-THE WATERFRONT was one great marketplace where the buying and selling went on all day and night.
- Wizened old women bent like hunchback sold flavored waters and goat's milk from glazed ceramic jugs strapped to their shoulders.

*Qarth's famous Thirteen Ships and it's functions. 
  1. Vermilion Kiss
  2. Bride in Azure- sails at the evening tide.
  3. Sunblaze- a silver galley that bid on slaves.
  4. Ardent Friend
  5. Trumpetter
  6. Silken Spirit- a Myrish Galley
  7. Lord Faro's Belly
  8. Quicksilver and Greyhound -sister ships
  9. Pinchbottom Petto
  10. sloe-Eyed Maid
  11. Bravo- bound for Jade Sea
  12. Magister Manolo

R
***

S
*Sansa's Prayer
          "Gentle mother, font of mercy,
       save our sons from war, we pray,
      stay the swords and stay the arrows,
       let them know a better day.
           Gentle mother,  strength of women,
        help our daughters through this fray,
       soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
          teach us all a kinder way."

* SIGILS OF THE OTHER HOUSES🚩
 - Piper (Dancing Maiden)
 - Sorry (Plowman)
 -Paeges (Twining red-and-white snakes) 🐍

*Swanns
    -were Marcher Lords, proud, powerful and cautious.

T
*The Sept
    - had seven aspects, and the Sept is a single bundling with seven walls

*The Seven God's of the Sept
    1. The Father- Bearded
    2. The Mother- always smiling, loving  and protective
    3. The Warrior- had his sword sketched beneath his face
    4. The Smith- with his hammer
    5. The Maid- was beautiful
    6. The Crone-wizened and wise
    7. The Stranger- neither male or female or both,  the outcast, the wanderer from far places, less or more than human, unknown or unknowable.

   *The Story of Bael-The-Bard,  the Daughterless
      -He sang the song of the Winter Rose
      - King-Beyond-The-Wall a long time back
      - All free folk know his songs
      - a brave black crow and a raider
      - Sygerrik of Skagos (a deceiver)

   *The Theory of the Three-Headed Dragon
      - the three heads were Aegon and his sisters Visenya and Rhaenys
      - Dany's brother Rhaegar played a hard with silver strings
      -IN THEORY,  there was a woman in a bed with a babe at her breast. And that was the prince that was promised and told him to name him Aegon.
     
   *The Song of Bloody Meadow of Lord Deremond
           "And there he stood with a sword in hand,
          the last of Darry's ten...
         And red the grass beneath his feet,
           and red his banners bright,
         and red the glow of setting sun
          that bathed him in its light
      "Come on,  come on,"the great lord called,
        "My sword is hungry still."
           And with a cry of savage rage,
            They swarmed across the rill.

U
***

V
 *Varys Story
        -He was an orphaned boy apprenticed to a travelling folly. His master owned a fat little cog and both of them performed in the Free Cities, Old Town and King's Landing.
        -One day at Myr, a certain man watched our performance and he made an offer to Varys. And by then,  after the show he offered him to drink a potion that will make him feel powerless to move or speak and Varys doesn't realize that he sliced his parts and throw it into a blazer. And afterwards, a voice called him to the flames saying about death but Varys refused saying that he wanted to live.


P.S. (This is the last update from this book.  Hope that you enjoy!)