This year flew by, seeing that it's ending in a couple of hours, and many would beg to differ, but I could say that this year's probably the most eye-opening, amazing, and at the same time, terrifying years of my 13 years in existence and I'm really looking forward to more years like this one. In all honesty, I believe that I'm a slightly better person than I was when the year began, and happier, I think (or hope).

From turning thirteen, braving uncharted territory called "socializing", meeting loads of new people, and discovering myself even more, there are obviously a lot of things that I've taken away from these kickass experiences, let me share them with you here:

Hello, again!

I never really thought I'd ever get stuck in the cycle of: Blog > Leave blog for a long time > Return to apologize for absence > Blog > Leave blog > Return to apologize for absence for a long time. I've had several, what you could call, "blog-worthy" experiences the past few months (DesignHerStory, I Know Write, Art HOHOLs, Lettering Workshops, etc.)  but I never managed to gather enough motivation to actually blog about them. Like what Maine Manalansan stated in DesignHerStory, having inspiration doesn't mean having motivation, and the same goes vice versa.

atoms

But as beautiful as these stars are, their beauty can't compare to yours.

Liebster Award

So, it's been a while since I last posted on here, whoops? But just recently, I was nominated for the Liebster Award by two absolutely amazing people:

 Julia of in my thoughts forever and 

Kennard of Kennard Diaries

Their blogs are a-ma-zing, I absolutely recommend you check them out!

I was surprised to find this still going around since I first saw this a  few months back (from the time I didn't have a blog yet, actually), but here it is! I actually still cannot grasp the fact that live, breathing people that aren't me read the text I wrote. Not to mention, live, breathing AND absolutely fantastic people. Again, thank you so much to both of you! I'm very honored to have been nominated by two fantastic bloggers (✿◠‿◠)

The rules to the Liebster Award: 

1. Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog on your blog. 

2. Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”. (Note that the best way to do this is to save the image to your own computer and then upload it to your blog post.) 

3. Answer 11 questions about yourself, which will be provided to you by the person who nominated you. 

4. Provide 11 random facts about yourself. 

5. nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers. (Note that you can always ask the blog owner this since not all blogs display a widget that lets the readers know this information!) 

6. Create a new list of questions for the blogger to answer. 

7. List these rules in your post. Once you have written and published it, you then have to: 

8. Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that they have been nominated for the Liebster award and provide a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it (they might not have ever heard of it!)

Summer Is Over + Playlist

As mentioned in the title, summer is over,  and I thought I'd present to you all in the form of photographs a few highlights of mine.

May 2-5, 2014 San Juan Surf Resort, La Union

Haha, beat the heat with some Zumba!

Me + Mom ♡

Trying to kayak despite my super weak arms, haha!

Our pups definitely didn't miss out on the fun!

I Know Write Manila

Quotable quotes from I Know Write MNL's guest speakers.

On the 29th of May, I joined the army. Army? The I Know Write MNL army, of course! IKWR MNL is basically an army of teen bloggers committed to effective blogging. On the aforementioned date, they held a Summer Workshop which I fortunately had the privilege to attend (Thanks, Mom!).