Roller Coaster Diet

It's not something to be proud of, but I've been on a kind of roller coaster dieting since May of this year, in hopes of losing weight and getting rid of my flabby tummy and arms. I call it "roller coaster" because I've developed an unhealthy pattern of not eating almost to the point of starvation, which I'd be able to pull off for three weeks or so..and then around the time when I'm about to get my period, a wicked attack of food cravings would kick in and I'd spend about a week binge eating on sweets and rice meals. When the cravings subside, I'd be filled with so much guilt that I'd stop eating again. And the cycle repeats itself...

I always tell myself that I would exercise but I always end up quitting after one or two tries, because it's so damn hard! 

Right now, I'm at the end of another epic week of binge eating. I looked at my kitchen cupboard this morning and discovered that I've consumed most of its contents, and to think that I only stocked food in the house in case of another emergency flooding situation in which I might get stranded at home again, because when it happened almost two months ago I was caught unprepared. So now, I have to go to the grocery again and re-stock my emergency food supplies.

I think I really need to start exercising instead of keeping up with my ridiculous eating habits.

Imaginary Friends

I don't remember having imaginary friends when I was a child, but maybe I did have them. I'm not entirely sure if kids who had imaginary friends would be able to remember having them when they're grown up. I think I have to research on that.

Anyway, I do have a lot of "imaginary" friends now that I'm older. Only, they're not just inside my head. I did not create them. They are real people who live somewhere on the other side of the world. I met them through this square-ish screen called The TV. And I have an amazing imaginary relationship with them. Come to think of it, I don't just have imaginary friends, I also have imaginary family members, imaginary enemies, imaginary neighbors, and best of all, imaginary boyfriends/husbands/love interests.

I stand corrected, I just realized not all of them are real. Many of these imaginary people in my life are fictional characters who were created for TV or books or movies. But still, my life is a lot better having an imaginary connection with them, even if the love is always going to be aimed one-way. Haha!

My Imaginary BFF: She's super fun to hang out with, makes me LOL and LMAO. Plus, she's very kind, loves dancing, loves singing, loves giving, loves talking. She likes random funny stuff and random heartwarming stuff, appreciates talented people, and loves animals especially cats. She's my best friend for life!

She's the only real person on this list.

My Imaginary Families: I care for them like my own parents and siblings.

Modern Family

Raising Hope

The Starks, Game of Thrones

My Imaginary Girl Friends: They're like my soul sisters!

Max and Caroline
2 Broke Girls

Blair and Serena
Gossip Girl

My Imaginary Pals: The best bunch of people to hang out with!

That 70's Show

How I Met Your Mother

Chuck

My imaginary schoolmates: My real high school experience sucked so I re-live it vicariously through these folks.

Dawson's Creek

Glee

Teen Wolf

Awkward

My imaginary neighbors: Observing the daily drama in their lives amuses me to no end.

Revenge

Breaking Bad

Suburgatory

Once Upon A Time

The Walking Dead

My imaginary office mates: I'd rather work with these people. 

Suits

Drop Dead Diva

Outsourced

Grey's Anatomy

My imaginary boyfriends: *Swoon*

Damon Salvatore
The Vampire Diaries

Nate Archibald
Gossip Girl

Jon Snow, GoT

Mike Ross, Suits

Isaac, Teen Wolf

*I do not own any of the images in this post, all were borrowed from Google.

Letting Go of Harry Potter

So Daniel Radcliffe is currently the poster boy of the Toronto International Film Festival, with three new films this year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/harry-potter-actor-evolves-bold-roles-20191286#.Ui05sBJ92eg.twitter

I realized that I've been neglecting Dan, and I feel really bad about this realization. I mean, he's made other films after--and even during--the Harry Potter series. But I've never seen any of those other films. I downloaded December Boys a long time ago, but never got around to watching it. I sometimes think about seeing The Black Woman but I always talk myself out of it, making lame excuses like, "It might be too scary for me."

The truth is, a tiny voice inside my head is preventing me from seeing Dan in any role other than Harry. I just have this feeling that if I let myself see him as another character, or even as the real Daniel Radcliffe person, that would really bring about the finality of it, that the Harry Potter world I live in is done, over. I refuse to move on. He is Harry. He doesn't have any business being anybody else. 

But that's unfair, I know. I mean, I've fully supported Emma's works after she shed the trappings of Hermione and moved on to become Sam in Perks, and I fully intend to see all her other upcoming films too. So why can't I give Dan a chance, eh?

Well, I think I'm finally getting there. I am currently reading this book called Horns, written by Joe Hill. It's one of the films in the Toronto festival that Dan is starring at. I got mildly intrigued when I read about the story, and especially after I've seen pictures of Dan in character as Iggy Perrish. I immediately reserved a copy from Fully Booked, and thanks to the rainy weekend, I am now halfway through it. On the first few pages, I had an internal battle within my head, because my brain kept picturing Daniel as the main character, but I keep catching myself in the act and I try to erase the picture because it's painful to let Harry Potter get lost in another book. But now, I think I've resolved my inner conflicts and am now able to let Harry and Iggy co-exist in my fantasy world, telling myself that they just look similar but they are two very different persons.

Dan as Iggy Perrish in "Horns"

So yeah, Dan can move on because he deserves it. But I hope he wouldn't mind if I say this: For me, you will always be Harry. Always.

Christmas Came Early

It's a Friday the Thirteenth today, and as luck would have it, I received bittersweet news at work about a new role that I'll start doing a week from now, and for some reason I don't feel like I have the time and strength to process it all yet, so when I got home I threw myself into a weekend coma. 

When I woke up tonight, my semi-crappy day took a turn for the better, if not for the best! Lo, and behold!! The news that my broken-Potter-heart has been longing for ever since the closing credits of the last Harry Potter movie rolled in front of my tear-stained face: A Potter world movie spin-off! (Cue trumpets and drum rolls and all joyful, exalting music here.) And J.K. Rowling herself will be doing the screenplay for it! My heart wants to burst with so much excitement right now. My inner Hogwarts witch is doing back flips and cartwheels and just dancing with glee! 

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/09/12/jk-rowlingharry-potter-fantastic-beasts/

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/12/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-everything-we-know-about-j-k-rowlings-new-potterverse-screenplay/

http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/09/12/harry-potter-jk-rowling-fantastic-beasts/

Too true, Luna Lovegood!

The magic lives on!

The new adventures will be based on this Hogwarts book.

Oh, you fantastic beast of a woman! I love you, my witchy godmother!

Let the Countdown Begin!

It's the first of September, which means that Hogwarts students are packing into Kings Cross station once again, on their merry way back to school, while I sit and rot here, still waiting for my Hogwarts letter to arrive...

It also signals the start of the longest Christmas season, only here in the Philippines! As soon as the -ber months kick in, we Filipinos go Christmas-crazy! Never mind the fact that we still have All Souls' Day coming up in November. We put up holiday decorations, we play Christmas carols, and we start Christmas shopping!

But for me, it's time to sing that seasonal song that only becomes appropriate every time September rolls in!