summertime clothes

animal collective


uglyuglyugly f21.

white sky

vampire weekend


i finally watched new moon (by the way, i think it looks stupid when they are like twilight: new moon. the movie is called new moon, isn't it?) and it was HILARIOUS. and kinda boring, but the acting, the comic lines, plus the dazzling made up for it. unfortunately, my favourite part of Twilight, was not really included in this film -- Jasper's constipated look and actions.

also, yesterday was the last day of finals, fortunately, and i went to UO with several people (and then Starbucks for WHITE CHOCOLATE MOCHAS), but i tried the dress in the picture posted and i absolutely loved it. The blue version looks so Alice in Wonderland-esque. I love it so so so so so much.

and SKINS? I saw the fourth season today!! it had a killer opening (pun intended, if it is a pun?)
no, really though. they started off with a new character, Sophia, who they didn't really introduce, and we see her weaving her way through the crowd (looking zoned out), and along the way, we see familiar faces from Season 3 minus Effy. and then sophia commits suicide.
it was thomas's episode, and the party where sofia commited suicide, was the night where he deejayed.
he starts questioning if his friends are really friends with him AND he cheats on Panda! THOMAS WHAT THE HELL?

anyways, it was an okay episode, hopefully better to come. though, tres dramatique.

ichthus hop

talbot tagora


i just really like this one. it reminds me of a short story a friend of mine wrote.



hannah murray aka cassie from skins. i find her too pretty, and i like the way she dresses.






finals next week. studied all day. taking a break.

elephants

warpaint

i went to my old middle school for a year. I only went there for a year -- eighth grade.

I was there to recruit eight graders. To get into my high school, you have to apply.

The whole experience was weird.

It was only 3 years ago that I walked those hallways, opened my then locker, sat in those classrooms.
Only 3 years ago. As I was looking at the eighth graders before me, I felt so aged.
Only 3 years ago was it that I sat in those chairs, listening to what the High School kids were going to say. And now, the tables switched. Now, it was me who stood before them.

As I was walking down those hallways again, perhaps for the last time, I told the person walking beside me that I could remember where my locker was. She laughed.

The one thing I'll always remember about that middle school was how ugly it really was. And smelly.

Oh, how the years go by.

i knew

lightning dust

argh, finals week. STRESS TO THE MAX. argh. junior year. HATE TO THE MAX.

i'm making soap tomorrow. its going to be loads fun. totes. my group is making honey-cinnamon soap. it's going to be amazing. we're using palm oil and avocado oil among many others. and we're making patterns! tres cool.
and if we bring crayons in, we can color them with it! so excited.

and, i'm in amour with this dress from the zac posen for target lookbook.

omid (hope)

thievery corporation

there is no school today, so i will be doing all the homework that i would normally do sunday night, today!
i have a lot to do due to my unbelievable procrastination skills. it gets frustrating after a while.
i have to do science, and anatomy, and math, and civics, and maybe some extra cred for world lit.

i'm procrastinating right now, actually.

i don't actually have anything to say, except that facebook is getting creepier,
zac posen is designing for target,
this song must be listened to. 

and that i really want to watch the movie Dear John

mr. bojangles

cat stevens



this is liu wen and she is very beautiful. i showed some people this photo and most only commented on how thin she was, rather than the photo itself. i love the 'v' shape being made, and the blissfulness of her face. i like her cheekbones and shoulders. i think its very elegant, and very gorgeous.

j'aime pas l'art

data

writing this blog is such a great way to waste time, but still be doing something that will help you (emotionally, i guess. because you are able to write down your feelings?). and being stressed like crazy lately, this blog helped me feel better! :)

anyways, GET HYPE!
JANUARY 28th is coming up, and it is going to be great. Why?

SKINSSSS <3333333333

so great. must be watched. especially the first 2 seasons. i just finished the first season over the christmas break, and started the second season, and OHMYGOD. its so great, so so so so so so so so times infinity great.

i do not like the promo pics for the fourth season, but the trailer is pretty good!

photo from the skins e4 website

time flies

time flies - lykke li

time does fly. i still can't get over the fact that i'm a junior. I remember the very first day of high school, just a freshman, and now a freaking junior? Where did this time go?

I feel completely different than I did freshman year. i really wonder what freshman me thought junior year would be like. i wonder if freshman me thought i would change. i really want to know what freshman me thinks of me now. would she be intimidated? flabbergastered? think that she would be really smart in the future seeing that i had to have invented some sort of time machine to actually go meet her? i don't know.
would she like me? am i what she saw herself wanting to be? or will she be disappointed me?

i like how i keep referring to freshman me as a completely different person, but the thing is, i think we are. freshman me was so naive, stupid, STUPID, and had no idea what was coming for her. i wonder is she knew that in two years she would be freaking out about standardized tests and gpas, instead of twilight.
i wonder what freshman me would think when she realized that junior me didn't like twilight anymore.

what i want is a time machine. at the end of senior year, i will travel back to the beginning of freshman year and meet her. i want her to see how she would turn out, and maybe that will make her make better decisions, maybe?

and also so i can see what i was like from another persons point of view. because we are different people now.

just a thought.

WWFF

Will Work for Food (WWFF) is a humanitarian relief organization to fight hunger, specifically in the Darfur region. Being a representative of WWFF for my school, I decided that it would be cool to do a blogpost about it. Maybe whoever reads this will get motivated to help this cause!

“The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are currently 20 million young children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.”

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a huge epidemic that people confuse with hunger. Malnutrition is the lack of essential nutrients that the body needs to survive. While, on the other hand, hunger is the lack of calories. SAM is often known as the "Silent Killer" because it is not receiving the attention it deserves.

"1 in 7 kids in Darfur are severely malnourished. This means that without our help, 15% of the children in Darfur will either starve to death or suffer from weakened physical and mental development."

To help fight malnutrition, is a bar known as Plumpy'Nut. WWFF's website states that "In the past, milk-based nutritional supplements had only a 25-40% recovery rate. When recently used in Niger, children given Plumpy'nut® had between a 81% to
95% recovery rate," which is amazing.
Plumpy'Nut is a 500 kcal mixture which includes peanut butter, vitamins, minerals, powdered milk, sugar, and vegetable oil. It is sweet-tasting, and can reverse malnutrition in half the time it takes for the products used before.
A 3-weeks supply of this bar would be enough to save one child's life. To learn more about Plumpy'Nut, click here.

What can you do?

Go to the website, which I linked to above, and sign up! See if there are any groups in your area, and if not, make one!
What you would need to do is to get sponsers for you (i.e. parents, other family members, businesses?) and ask them to donate around, say, 5 dollars for every 1 hour you volunteer. It is as simple as that!
For example, the WWFF at my school is having a scarf drive -- we're asking around local businesses to support us and donate money for every scarf we knit/or the hours we spent on making it.

They also have a blog, so you can check that out as well.

(all the quotes are from the WWFF website)

zero

zero - yeah yeah yeahs

i don't think i ever really introduced myself on here. my first post that you can see is about my boring halloween night, last year. so, this will be a belated introduction.

i'm sometimes known as vani. and i go to an 'alternative' high school in michigan. i'm a junior, and i hate it -- i wish i was an underclassmen again. less to worry about. i feel that since you can't see my face in my photo on here, it gives me some anonymity, i like to think.

at this very moment, my favourite song has to be daylight by matt & kim, but it will change within a couple of days
i absolutely adore jhumpa lahiri, nikolai gogol, marjane satrapi, and haruki murakami.
movies that i always want to watch include donnie darko, clueless, the science of sleep, the squid and the whale, and charlie bartlett.

i like to keep my room in a mess, but it distracts me from doing homework. i recently found my polaroid one camera, but i have no film unfortunately. and i enjoy to make cds, though it takes me forever to make them.

and pleaseee do comment! it makes me feel happy! :)

tik tok

tik tok - ke$ha

the video for this song is so great.

the best part: MICK JAGGER. those white short shorts, the hair, the headband, the too-tight tshirts, and the best of it all -- the moustache. So hot.

i think its funny when she goes "or the police shut us down, down. the police shut us down, down. po-po shut us..."
especially the 'po-po' part!

and how do you pronounce her name? i don't know if its pronounced 'keysha' or some other way.

movies worth seeing: psycho

this movie had me hiding behind my pillow, afraid to even look. the shower scene made me cringe. the way that norman bates just seemed to be everywhere freaked me out. and the very last scene, where norman bates other personality had taken over, has scarred me.



pyscho was my first hitchcock film, and i'm eagerly awaiting the next film i watch of his -- north by northwest!

god of thunder

god of thunder - m83
i think the songs name should be changed to 'god of snow'. GOD, LET THE SNOW POUR AND POUR AND POUR AND POUR. Well, at least enough for school to be called off.

i'm pretty psyched for this film, the single man! i think it already came out, but look at the cast. NICHOLAS HOULT? COLIN FIRTH?

and speaking of tony stotem (sp?), SKINS 4 is coming out at the end of january! i have the strong urge to say January 28th, but i am prolly mistaken. please correct me if i am wrong!

those new promo pics, though. not so great.
i finally finished season 1 over christmas vacation, and that finale was "cray cray". VRAIMENT.

and look at this, facebook revenge at its best.

thank you

my girls

all my titles correspond to the last song that was playing while writing, and today it happened to be my girls by animal collective. this song is a must listen, it is absolutely beautiful. yesterday, it was what else is there by royksopp.

ahrgh, life is too stressful for its own good. i also hate math. i mean, when do we really need to use logarithms in real life? i know, a lot of places. so confusing.

because i don't know what else to write about, i will give you a few of my favourite songs at the moment, including the two i mentioned previously on this post:

sleepyhead - passion pit.
zero - yeah yeah yeahs
xr2 - m.i.a.
wild world - cat stevens
alice practice - crystal castles
my delirium - ladyhawke
my, my metrocard - le tigre
i'm good, i'm gone - lykke li

i would like to know, whoever you are, what you like to listen to!

thank you (:

what else is there?

reading through all my previous entries after being reminded about my lackluster blog, makes me laugh. yay for the ability to delete! umm, so i don't want to write a lot, because then i'll end up not posting anything.

i really enjoy the hilarity of the stuff that happens on facebook. right now, its this one. 

i also really like clothing. and shoes. i want that dress. i also want marc by marc jacobs love mouse ballerina. its so cute. 

and go check out uniqlo because it is a really great store. now, if only they decided to ship to the us. :) 

thank you.