HIHI thank you, you are so sweet! You can buy some of my merch here http://www.formspring.me/thunderpopcola I'll see if other people will like it so I can sell more :)

Calvin Klein! :)

February-May and it was :) Learned a lot about starting from the bottom and met a lot of truly wonderful people! You should try it!

Hi! I just upload the music from my files, not really from 8tracks, soundcloud or whatever. Can you try it again? :)

Hello, dear! Sorry for a terribly late reply! Thank you for your compliment, it is very rare that people say that my writing has improved. It means the world to me :) And yes, I changed it now with my makeshift layout. :)

Thank youuuu haven't "illustrated" in a loooongggg time! Draw it by hand, photograph using my camera then paint bucket tool my life away on Photoshop :]

HUHUHU SORRY I promise to go back to that girl after finals! I promise! :) Thank you for remembering! Your memory overwhelms me hahah <3

HALLOOOOOO <3 Thank you! :) UMMMM from God hahahaha seriously, and tumblr dashboard, magazines (I have a lot!), book covers (I love going to Fully Booked to just look at the books and their covers and daydream about living there hehe), album covers, and everything and anything I see! :]

The beauty editor follows my blog and is a friend of my friend so I got the opportunity for an interview because of her hehe

You're welcome! Excited to see more of your stuff! :]

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Oh my goodness this is 3 months late :(((( I am so very sorry! (Promise yung iba dito mga 1 year 'di ko pa nasasagutan HUHUHU) Hehe thank you so much for your encouragment! Kilig! You are lovely! Nako, one week na lang ako sa school </3 I hope to see you :)

Thank you honey. Means the world to me! One of these days, you will know :)

Hi darling sorry hindi ko pa narereplyan kailangan bigay na bigay ang lahat ng parts of my heart hehe <3

Photoshop CS5 :D I play with curves and layers, very minimal lang!

Canon 450D and 50 mms :D

Photoshop!

Mega Publishing Group, Heima :) Both had internships there :D

Hello, I'm sorry it took a month to answer this (believe me, some of the things here has been here for a year haha) been so busy. Anyway, this is going to be LONG. This is what I wrote for my theology midterm paper :)

The Greatest Decision Of My Life

Being a Christian and having a committed walk with the Lord has proven to be the most challenging yet fulfilling decision I have made in my entire life. I have recently rediscovered God this past year, having had my faith reawakened and really learning about what it means to be a follower and disciple of Christ. Beyond simply a personal relationship with Him, I have discovered that it is a way of life—the best kind—and it is a covenant with Him.
All throughout my life, I always thought I knew God. What has been revealed to me is that I only knew this farfetched and abstract idea of Him—as my personal Savior, Father, Friend and Lover—but never truly Him. I was stuck in that detached and impersonal state merely fueled by obligation, and never out of pure love. I knew He should have been the center of my life and that I should love Him more than anything and anyone in this earthly world but I did not know how that could be possible. To me, that was ridiculous.
He was introduced to me at a very young age. I was born into a Roman Catholic family and was immersed in traditions such as Sunday mass, Holy Week and more. That was the extent of my relationship with the Lord—through practices, which I never fully understood and only did for the sake of duty. As I grew up, I got used to that kind of life—never going beyond what I have always learned and knew. I was in my comfort zone. I preferred to be ignorant because if it were not the case, I knew I had to do something and it meant taking a risk and giving up what I have always known my entire life.
I knew that He would always be there for me and I believe that this very fact has also been the main reason why I took advantage of Him. In my head, I always thought I would be one of those people who would only truly have a relationship with Him and commit to Him when I would be old and to put it bluntly, have nothing better to do with my life, that is until I started rediscovering Him.
There is a song entitled “Rediscover You” by a Christian worship band called Starfield and it goes, “I need to just admit my faith is paper thin, I'm feeling so burned out on religion. I say an empty prayer. I sing a tired song. I need to just admit that the passion's gone and I wanna get it back. You told me, ‘Look for You and I will find.’ So, I'm here like I'm searching for the first time. Revive me, Jesus, make this cold heart start to move. Help me rediscover You. I wanna learn to pray the way that David prayed. I want my soul to burn when I hear Your name. I wanna feel like new, I wanna hunger for You. Bring me back to life like only You can do 'cause I don't wanna stay the same. Lord, I wanna be Yours today. I wanna know the passion of the saints and how they were changed. ” This was exactly what I felt months ago and I knew I finally had to face my fears, act and seek Him.
The past year has been so surreal. I feel like a child, learning about Him for the very first time. My spiritual life, as of the moment is at the highest I have ever experienced. It is in such a beautiful stage, having made the best decision of my life to finally commit to make Him the center of my life and have a personal relationship with Him. One of the best things about God is that we can be five, or we can be eighty-five—it really does not matter how old we are—but He will always allow us to make things right. He is gracious that way. He does not care if I spent half of my life feeling indifferent about Him and breaking His heart because there is nothing that will stop Him from loving and pursuing me. There are no expiration dates of His love because as long as I am His, He will find countless of ways to touch my heart and to reveal Himself to me.
My life has been changed in countless of ways that I never thought could be possible. I went through metanoia, a change of heart. My life has been transformed ever since that day when I finally said a resounding, “Yes!” to the Lord. I feel like a completely new person given a new life.
With all honesty, following has been the most difficult decision of my life because it meant leaving so many things behind and hurting the people I love the most—by loving Him in a new way so foreign to every one around me I could only understand. But, as He said in Matthew 16:24, “Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me.”
The thing I have been learning every single day is to focus less on me and more on Him. Every relationship requires communication and I have started reading the Bible and doing my quiet time—a time to converse with the Lord and hear what He has to say to me, listen and contemplate—which have both been crucial to my rediscovery. The great thing about our God is He is a personal God who wants us to get to know Him. He has done this by putting down into our vernacular—something easily comprehensible—His words so that we may know His promises to each one of us. It is different to just hear about His words in Sunday mass, from lessons in school and so on, than to personally allot time to get to know the Lord by reading the manual He has created for our lives, which is the Bible. My senior design thesis actually focuses on this. The Bible Project is an online platform, which helps college students get to know the Lord and enrich their relationships with Him through more modern and creative means of knowing the Bible. In line with this, Verses is the counterpart design component, which displays scripture on merchandise, relatable to the youth. It is my way of bringing people closer to the Lord and get a chance to experience Him the way that I have. Aside from this, I have been attending youth worship and streaming Sunday worship every week (since I can only attend Sunday worship after I graduate.) I have also joined Jzone, which is the high school and college movement of Christ’s Commission Fellowship to make more disciples of Christ. I have been sharing the gospel to others, for this is what we are called for, and am part of my own disciple group. My disciple group helps me to be more faithful in my walk with Christ and they help me learn about Him more.
Beyond this, I have really undergone a change of heart. There is just so much unexplainable peace in my heart. I experience God everywhere and the peace that comes with knowing Him. He has been revealing Himself to me in all possible situations and circumstances, as well as all the people I meet who I get the chance to share His love with and in return, share His love to me, through them. His footsteps and fingerprints are so evident that I am just so consumed with so much passion and love for Him.
Still, there are many days when I feel so “dry” and I am fearful that this flame igniting in me will be no more but, I know that He is faithful and He will continue to reveal Himself to me in ways I cannot imagine. I am so excited for this beautiful journey with Him.
I end this with an excerpt from my faith journal, “ How is it possible to be loved by You, above all else? How can I even comprehend all the possibilities you have laid out for me, simply because You love me? Through Your love, I experience freedom. I experience how it is to disappoint, to fall, to hurt and to be so far away from You? How can You constantly love and adore someone who constantly rejects You? I cannot comprehend this unchanging, unfathomable and pure love You have for me. It is beyond any of my wildest dreams and fantasies—to be loved, sometimes unknowingly, amidst all my unlovable traits, flaws and imperfections. Your love surpasses everything. It is a privilege to know You. It is a privilege to be oh, so loved by You. Forever I will bask and remain complete in You."