Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Song

I saw this on Tumblr and went laughing out loud. If you're a Harry Potter fan, you MUST watch this and DON'T, under any circumstances, ignore this or you will miss the laughter. This video was made and uploaded by AndyWithAnM on YouTube. Check her Channel out.

This video made my day.

RIP LG Ice Cream Phone

It broke into two pieces! It's a flip top phone as you can see and it died the other day. I bought this phone 2 years ago with my very own earnings for 700SR or less than $200. I loved it so much that even though the time came that I had to change my cellular phone into an iPhone 3GS 32 GB, I still used it. I bought another sim card just to use it. It's a very user friendly phone and it has so much of my sentimental value in it. It has been with me through rough times, yes.

I remember using this phone to go online at night, when my laptop is already shut down and everyone's asleep. I also used this phone to take photos of me and my friends when we were in 3rd year High School (check out my flickr). And yes, I took videos with this phone too and I posted it all over the internet, particularly on Facebook. And just the other day, when my mom decided to borrow it and use it as an e-loading phone, it broke into half and fell on the floor. I expected that I'll cry and be depressed and all but I didn't. We laughed about it. I guess I saw it coming.

I posted the photo above immediately on Facebook right after it died and I a lot of people sympathized with me.

To my LG Ice Cream phone, you will always be remembered. May you rest in peace.

A Night with Karla on June 30, 2011

Yours truly, Karla Carreon, is going to have a concert on the 30th of this month! This will be my 2nd concert here in Saudi Arabia and the objective of this concert is to gather a certain amount of funds for me to be able to go to America for the International competition I'm gonna join, which is the World Championships of Performing Arts, wherein I will represent the Filipino Community here in Saudi Arabia.

The said event is 10 days away, yet I haven't rehearse ANY of my songs. LOL! I guess I have to cram once I got the list of expected songs I'm gonna sing on that night. Fortunately, there will be a lot of guests! Most of the talents of FAME or Filipino Artisté Migrant Ensemble, an organization here in Jeddah which handles me and everything, will be singing with me and will have a solo spot on that night.

Last night, we were roaming around and visiting houses of friends and colleagues of my titos in FAME to sell tickets for the said concert. Supposedly, I should have been outside now instead of writing this entry since we are also scheduled to sell tickets today. But I think it's canceled.

Any how, I was practicing my contest pieces a while ago and I had a bit of a hard time singing 5 songs consecutively. I guess that's the result of not practicing seriously for a week. I feel sorry. I'll make it up to it. I'm gonna practice everyday from now on. I don't want to embarrass myself in the US. That would suck. And if that happens, I know I can hardly face all the people who supported me. I have to do my part. :)

Thank you to all the people who supported me ever since I knew how to sing and up until now, when I am a step away in reaching my dreams. You became God's instrument in making my dreams come true and my motivation in doing everything I'm destined to do. Thank you so much and I won't let anybody down.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters

by Rick Riordan

I finished reading this book the other day and I really, really love everything about the story. From the characters to the adventures, everything is so damn creative. I love how Rick Riordan twisted the story and how he wrote it with humor.

I won't talk about it anymore because I don't want my post to be a spoiler to those who haven't read the book yet. But for me, The Sea of Monsters is better than The Lightning Thief. Just saying.

Anyway, I'm more than excited for the movie of this book and I hope they don't remove too much scenes because really, every scene from the movie counts and completes the story.

The Bermuda Triangle

Spoiler Warning.

I was reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters and I'm in this Chapter where Percy had a dream about Grover wearing a wedding dress and telling him that he is trapped in the sea of monsters. When Percy woke up, she told Annabeth about it and they talked about the Bermuda Triangle. I was a bit thrilled about the thought of the triangle because I remembered researching about it in the past. So I happen to research about it again to find out what I'm expecting to find.

According to Wikipedia, the boundaries of the triangle cover the Straits of Florida, the Bahamas and the entire Caribbean island area and the Atlantic east to the Azores. I don't know the places but I'm pretty sure it's damn far away from here. All I'm wishing now is if ever I'm going on a trip somewhere riding a plane or whatever, I don't pass that triangle. Does the triangle has something to do with this illuminati bullcrap?

Anyway, some say that the reasons for the disappearances in that triangle are the UFOs, the mythical place Atlantis, a wormhole or some other natural reasons. I don't think it's the UFOs. And so is the wormhole but I have the feeling of agreeing with Atlantis. I sound funny, believing in Atlantis but I don't know, I love the thrill of believing these pieces of non-sense theories and myths. Did I mention I love myths? LOL.

Whatever is in there, I really wanna find out. When I'm a Journalist, I swear that would be the longest article I will ever write about. Might as well write a book about it.

Check out this site:

http://bermudatrianglefacts.com/

Food for the Brain.

I just discovered this website yesterday and I'm loving it. It's a really good exercise for the brain this summer. Since I'm not attending school for this year, I decided to spend my time studying at home on my own using the internet. I have all the resources, why not use it?

The website, Vocabulary.com, is obviously a site where you can fully enhance your vocabulary by just playing The Challenge. They also have "the quickest dictionary" around. It's a good exercise and really fun 'cause you get a hundred points with every correct answers and when you reach a certain number of points, you get to proceed to the next level and that's exactly what I was looking for! Every level up motivates me to play more and enhance my vocabulary in no time.

For just one day, I've already got some of the achievements! Check this out.

The highlighted ones are the achievements I got. And the others are what I'm still aiming for. :) I dream to reach the Walking Dictionary. >:) I'm doing this to prepare myself for next June because I don't want my brain to rot during my idle this year.

I recommend you check the website out!

Visit my profile here.

Jar of Hearts Acoustic Cover

Check out our acoustic cover of Jar of Hearts, together with my friend Fai.

It all started with a simple idea like "Hey, why don't cover a song?" and then it went like this. I didn't expect it will be like THIS but I think it turned out really good. We recorded this last June 9. Fai only heard the song for like 4 times and he still doesn't know his way around the song but he was as professional as THAT so he tried his best to finish playing it like he's been hearing it for years. While in my case, I have been listening to the song for at least 2 weeks and been loving it ever since.

The song is full of deep emotions put into words by Christina Perri herself according to the internet. She wrote the song when she split ways with her husband. And I recommend this song to everyone, especially those who got their heart broken. :)

I hope you enjoy our cover and if you have any comment, please feel free to let me know!

The Weirdest Dream.

The other night, I had the weirdest dream EVER. It’s not your ordinary dream where you’re just there watching yourself and not feeling anything. It’s WEIRD. If you are familiar with the movie Inception, I sort of had a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream. I can’t remember how many layers my dream went but it felt like I was there waiting for YEARS before I wake up.

It started off when I woke up in the dream and immediately knew I was dreaming. I was in our old house in Bulacan in the Philippines and I was there, lying on my bed and I saw my sister and my mom lying on the other bed inside our bedroom. At first I was like “Oh great, I’m lucid dreaming.” A Lucid Dream is a dream where you are actually aware that you are dreaming. So whenever I get a Lucid Dream, I always do the things I wanted to happen in real life. Like fly, drive a red sports car and run over the civilians (I know this is evil as crap), eat a gallon of ice cream, ride a broomstick and fly like Harry Potter, hug Skandar Keynes etc. Name it. But the dream I had the other night was not like any other Lucid Dream I had. It was different. The feel is different and it’s not like fun to do shitty things at all. It has a dark sense in it. I got scared so I decided to try to wake myself up. I slapped myself a few times but it didn’t work. I banged my head against the wall but it didn’t work as well. I was freaking out. I tried all the things that can hurt me but nothing worked. So I went back to bed and tried to sleep to dream another dream that is at least better than this one. Then again, it didn’t work.

After a while, I found myself waking up. I was a little bit happy about it only to find out that I woke up in a dream again. It happened so many times that I’m getting so crazy and really freaking out in the dream. Then I decided to hug my mom because I thought it will make me less scared. But it didn’t. Next thing I knew, she was laughing real hard and when I looked at her, she’s not my mom anymore. She morphed into something that looked like a Minotaur, or something like a devil. But something tells me it’s a devil that snuck into my dream and scared the crap out of me. The devil took hold of my wrists and kept on laughing. I don’t know what’s so funny but it didn’t stop. Its laugh got louder and louder every moment and I got more scared. So I closed my eyes and prayed to God and ask him to get this devil away from me and when I opened my eyes, the devil turned into dust as it let go of my wrist.

But that wasn't the end of it. After the devil turned into dust, I fell back to sleep and woke up in ANOTHER DREAM! Now, it gets creepier and creepier. I woke up crying in the dream and I looked for my mom. Although she turned into a devil in the previous dream, I still thought that she was my mom so I hugged her real tight and shouted at her ear "Mom if you can hear, wake me up NOW! For goodness' sake WAKE ME UP!" But she just opened her eyes and laughed again. She turned into the devil again and the devil stabbed me not once, but many times in the chest with its sharp nails. And this time, I woke up.

I woke up in our bedroom here in Jeddah and I was so relieved about it. I pinched my cheeks and got hurt and I knew I was really awake. I'm in the reality. I thanked God for still keeping me alive after that dream because really, I thought I was gonna die and I thought that devil was Satan. That night before I went back to sleep again after waking up from a nightmare, I was thinking of writing a goodbye letter to my family because I thought that if THAT dream comes back again, at least I've written my goodbyes.

Vacation in the Philippines

HEYYY GUYS. I'm sorry for not updating so soon after my vacation in the Philippines. Let me make it up to you!

So the picture over there ^ would be me and my long time gay best friend, Louie. We were friends since 3rd Grade and we met again after staying for 3 years here in Jeddah. WHEW Boy that was fun, seeing your long time friend after a while.

We left Jeddah last April 26 and arrived in Ninoy Aquino International Airport the next day. We had a stop over in Riyadh for 2 hours by the way. My aunt and her son, basically my cousin, went to fetch us from the airport. When we came to our house in Pasig City, I noticed that the place was quite different from I thought it looked like 3 years ago. But of course, time passes and things change inevitably so yeah, I got the hang of it.

I also noticed that in the Philippines, there occurs, according to me, the scarcity of space. I'm not stereotyping like "If it's the Philippines, then it should be snug-ish" or something of that sort. We live in Rosario, so it's the type of place where you can hear the noisy streets, noisy people outdoors, noisy Jeepneys and trycicles and all kinds of noises all day long. ALL. DAY. LONG. It's a miracle if by any chance you went there and Pacquiao is in L.A. beating the hell out of the Mexicans. That way, Pasig is quiet and peaceful. LOL. Enough of the blabbering. Here are the photos from my vacation. :)

My cousins (left to right) Ched, Makong, Jastine, Ian, my sister Pam (at the back), my cousin Joshua, Abby and Mariel.

And while waiting outside Club Manila East..

Then after 34534875237423985093485034 years, we got inside at last. What do you expect the first thing we did? CHANGE INTO SWIMSUITS! YAY. And then we jumped to the nearest pool we can spot. LOL.

It was really fun. No words to describe it. Spending your time with your family along with your bestest friend, my life is complete. I love them all and I wouldn't change a thing.