Retail Therapy?

I had some retail therapy today at the Power Plant Mall in Rockwell. Sale eh. Gotta take advantage of that! :)

• I bought this cute, asymmetrical black top with silver stars at Mango (50% off!). Perfect for nights out. Though I really can't imagine myself having a gimik night any time soon. Helps to be prepared, though.

• I bought another black top, this time at Zara (regular price, though). It has this art work in front, of a 20's-era couple. It's my I-feel-like-a-rocker-chick mood shirt.

• And i bought a white top, also from Zara. It has some words (etched in silver) that say: More Love Because It's Good and It Makes You Happy. Haha. Can't argue with that. Bring on the luuuuurve. *sigh* It's my optimistic shirt. Gotta wear it when I'm depressed so that I exude an image of sarcasm – I mean, happiness.

• I also bought fashion tape from Beauty Bar, just because I had to. The top I wore for the day was very "accident-prone" if you know what I mean. Maybe I should have bought 2-sided tape at National Bookstore instead. That fashion tape is horrendously overpriced! But desperate times call for desperate measures (and desperate measures do not let money get in the way).

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So...did it work? (The retail therapy, not the fashion tape)

Eh. Not really.

Instead of mending that big, gaping hole in my chest, I just acquired an even bigger hole in my wallet. Boo. :( I hope I don't regret this when the credit card bill comes!

Thanks to my seastarr, by the way, who has been patiently accompanying me to my spur of the moment escapades. :) Dahil sayo, nauubos pera ko. Hahaha. Just kidding. Mwah.

First Time

Lifehouse has done it again. :)

Their new single, First Time, is something that could fit perfectly into a romantic comedy (which is a good thing, by the way). Its melody exhilarates you, sweeps you off your feet and brings you along for the ride...just like being inlove for the first time. Hay.

Never mind that listening to it makes me puke because my vivid imagination sees it being sung by an imaginary antagonist. Never mind that.

If you're in the zone, though (the zone being the happy place), this is a very nice song.

Here are the lyrics. Download the song and drown yourself in its sharp sappiness. :P

I love you, Lifehouse.

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First Time
by Lifehouse

We're both looking for something
We've been afraid to find
It's easier to be broken
It's easier to hide

Looking at you, holding my breath
For once in my life
I'm scared to death
I'm taking a chance letting you inside

I'm feeling alive all over again
As deep as the sky under my skin
Like being in love, she said, for the first time
Maybe I'm wrong, I'm feeling right
Where I belong with you tonight
Like being in love to feel for the first time

The world that I see inside you
Waiting to come to life
Waking me up to dreaming
Reality in your eyes

Looking at you, holding my breath
For once in my life I'm scared to death
I'm taking a chance letting you inside

I'm feeling alive all over again
As deep as the sky under my skin
Like being in love, she said, for the first time
Maybe I'm wrong, I'm feeling right
Where I belong with you tonight
Like being in love to feel for the first time

We're crashing
Into the unknown
We're lost in this
But it feels like home

I'm feeling alive all over again
As deep as the sky under my skin
Like being in love, she said, for the first time
Maybe I'm wrong, I'm feeling right
Where I belong with you tonight
Like being in love to feel for the first time
Like being in love she said for the first time
Like being in love to feel for the first time

For Good

I've only started reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire the beginning of this month. I also have the Wicked Musical soundtrack on repeat in my iPod.

It's a very witty story: it redefines good and evil, and gives you a view of the paradox that surrounds it. I haven't advanced substantially into the book yet (but I've read enough to know that it's not a children's book - parents beware), but I have heard the whole soundtrack a few times already, so I have an idea of how the story will turn out. One song in particular caught my attention (and caused a sentimental ache in my heart in the process. Hehe): "For Good." It's the 2nd to the last song in the musical. Shows you how sad the ending is. :( I have it on repeat now as I write this.

You can apply this song to friendship or love, or both. It's very sad. Kinda like "I Love You, Goodbye" but in a mutual sense (excuse me while I get a tissue. *sniff*).

Listen to it, please. Listen to the whole soundtrack so that you can better appreciate the story. Listen to the song so that you can hear for yourself the sadness of its melody (sorry about the mushiness, I think it's the hormones). Listen to iiiiittt. :)

Excuse me for now. Magsesenti muna ako..."Because I knew youuu..."

My goal is to be able to watch the musical within the year! Puwede kaya yun? :) Somebody send me tickets to the States...or to London! :)

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For Good
by Elphaba (Idina Menzel) and Glinda (Kristin Chenoweth)

(Elphaba) I'm limited
Just look at me - I'm limited
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn't do, Glinda
So now it's up to you
For both of us - now it's up to you...

(Glinda) I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba) It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you

(Glinda) Because I knew you

(Both) I have been changed for good

(Elphaba) And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for

(Glinda) But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share

(Both) And none of it seems to matter anymore

(Glinda) Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood

(Elphaba) Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood

(Both) Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better

(Glinda) And because I knew you...

(Elphaba) Because I knew you...

(Both) Because I knew you...I have been changed for good.

Musing Out Loud

Is it considered tacky for a woman to drink in public by herself?

Those girls in Grey's Anatomy do it all the time at Joe's.

Hmmm.

Hehe. That would be pretty interesting.