yesterday, my friends and I were deployed to Ayalaville in Marikina City, one of the places hit hardest by the typhoon.
The experience was surreal: we rode the back of a garbage dump truck for approx. 5 hours total and did some clean up there :]

Considering that it's a trending topic up in Twitter, some of you may have heard about the typhoon Ondoy that devastated the Philippines recently. It was--and still is--difficult on everyone here, even those people who were lucky enough not to lose their lives and their homes; It's hard not to cry while your friends tell you that they've lost everything, that they haven't been able to reach their family for hours, and that their brother and dad are stuck on the roof of their house with no rescue boat in sight. It really broke my heart to watch others suffer.

But everything happens for a reason. This event, as catastrophic as it was, brought back something a lot of people here thought we had lost: our bayanihan spirit. It's hard for me to translate exactly what bayanihan is in English, but it's generosity, belief in ourselves, faith, and love for neighbor all rolled into one. I don't have anyone in my phonebook that hasn't, in some way, helped out. Even people who have lost something are all chipping in to help others like themselves. To say that seeing thousands of people donating, sorting, loading goods, volunteering for deployment to various affected areas is a humbling experience is an understatement.

People leave the relief center tired, covered in mud, dusty, and half-asleep, but always with a smile and a promise to return tomorrow. I have never been prouder to be an Atenean and a Filipino.

view my fashion profile here @wunderkinds !
and while you're at it, come and show some ♥ by joining our new fashion comm, k?

001. Where Love Went Wrong by Augustana
002. Talk You Down by The Script
003. Stay Away by The Honorary Title
004. So Contagious by Acceptance
005. Pacific by Hem
006. The Look by Color of Clouds
007. Kelsey by Metro Station
008. Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Greg Laswell
009. Dusk and Summer by Dashboard Confessional
010. Amelia by Matthew Perryman Jones

dload zip file here.

Title: X Marks the Spot

Rating: K for Kaleidoscope

Warning: Fluffy, FutureFic.

Pairings: NB, hints of past CB

Author's Note: Thanks a bunch to jordan_alexa  for being my beta and to those three cups of coffee I had to finish making last minute corrections. Thanks also to everyone who's commented in the past, I really really do appreciate it! 

To my friends, I know I posted this before but I've made changes that make this so much better in my opinion. It's a different experience reading this again, I promise.

Summary: Here she is, twenty-five years old, her entire world ready to fall into the abyss (again), and who else could possibly be standing in front of her but Nathaniel Archibald, his timing just as perfect as it's always been.

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Hungry as starving fire killing to feed despite.
What do you do?
We're born into vanity, bones feeling everything
Are we alone?
-- Amelia by Matthew Perryman Jones

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( snippets of lyrics + DOWLOAD LINK! )

a) Oh, Chace, you hot bastard ;) It doesn't matter if you're pretending to be from the West/East/No Coast, I still want you ♥

b) A BIG SHOUT OUT TO NEW FRIENDS! I'm sure most of you were drawn to me mainly cause of the Dorota GIF I used, so I shan't disappoint and bring her back for an encore performance!



MULTI FANDOM FRIENDING MEME HERE! GO AND DO IT K.

c) I completely underestimated my level of laziness this summer. So much for living in the moment before summer classes start. FUCK. THIS. All Past!Sam has done in the last 3 weeks was go have series marathons (Futurama, Skins S1&S2, and American Dad S1-3), get drunk (as always), miss Tony/Michelle and NATALIE DORMER, and completely ruined her hair before rushing to Marlon--new amazing stylist!--who did an excellent job fixing that mess.

My only complaint is that some people think I'm copying Alice Cullen...or that Countess from Real Housewives of New York.

( my AFTER pic! Thanks Marlon for the new cut! <3 )

  

NOT EVEN MY IMPENDING FINALS ARE ENOUGH TO KEEP ME AWAY! 

  
   
  
  
 
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NB SPOILERIFIC ICONS AHOY!
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thanks to revertigo  for posting these screencaps! Will add more asap once I have more time! Enjoy ladies :)

  
  
  

Is it just me or are Leighton and Chace getting hotter and hotter each day!? My theory is that with them filming so many scenes together and hanging out a lot more on/off set, their hotnesses are affecting each other, feeding off one another to become even greater than before!

Someone call Al Gore, I think I figured out Global Warming ;)

OH! AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH A MINUTE (OR MORE) TO SPARE, CLICK!

  
  
  
  

Alright, so my birthday isn't for another five months but you must keep in mind that this is going to be my 18th birthday. Not only does this entitle me to the biggest party I want (thanks Dad!), but this is also the one chance that I'll be able to get away with asking for the biggest, most extravagant, most expensive gifts ever (thanks again Dad!).

I need all of you to help to make a list of stuff that I should ask for from my parents. Obviously they won't get me everything on the list BUT at least they'll have a whole lot of good stuff to choose from!

Here are a few guidelines:
1) I'm not a techie but I'm open to using stuff that's easy to understand (i.e. has a Help/Ask option)
2) I'm still in uni so as far as shoes go, it'd be better to stick to something I can walk around in
3) CLOTHES & BAGS<3
4) I already have a car so no point asking for another one
5) I like the colors purple, blue, red, and black
6) Traveling is a WIN!

I'll be posting the final list come June/July ;) 
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
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2. LEIGHTON MEESTER'S LEGS >> SRSLY SO PERFECT. 

A bunch of pics from yesterday and today :) Enjoy ladies! -- I'M SET TO ADD AT LEAST THREE MORE WITH THE WHOLE GANG!
(p.s. i might make another picspam from a few of this so watch out for that as well)

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Photogpab
likeohmygod_x 
amouriss 
meesters 
and a bunch of other places [SORRY CAN'T RECALL!]