Video Editing - my new found talent

Over the past 3 days of Hanna studying for the finals and me making her life miserable by bugging her with my annoying antics, she made face the computer and told me to talk to it.

Ouch.

But I did as I was told. I went downloading songs and videos, - which seriously takes a little longer than it should be per song 'cause people started having their own videos of their favorite songs, which I wouldn't mind only if it doesn't gets on my way of downloading the original videos - checking my email, updating everything that I have to update and editing videos - home videos to be exact.

And I was surprised how good I was in editing videos and putting music on each of them. You see, my family and friends have loads of videos taken from different occasions, and since I'm free - I love the word "free", not bored - I had a good idea: put a little more life on those already lively videos and maybe a some presentation. *laughs* I'm not being too proud or anything, but their actually good. I wonder if I could build a career on video editing one day. Oh wait, does that mean I have to live with computers, too? Maybe, not a career..perhaps, just a hobby.

Well, I'm sorry I can't post even one of the videos I edited as it's sort of personal and I respect my friends privacy.

Courtesy of Hanna trying to get rid of me. :)

Things I Do when Insomnia Keeps Me Awake

Since I was at school, I tend tire myself out before coming back home. In that way, I won't be wide awake like an owl later at night. It's horrible, really, to have to be awake when everyone else is snoozing (I even envy the ones who snores). At 15, I was really convinced I'm an insomniac..not that I confirmed it from the doctors or something. But it happens most of the time that - trust me - you'd end up with same conclusion as well.

I've been wondering what causes insomnia and some sites say it's from stress, depression and some hormonal changes (for women)..and some say because of jet lag, genes, or worse, you temporarily stop breathing while you're sleeping. Wow, that last one freaked me out! *goosebumps* What if you don't breathe the rest of your sleep? (of course, you'd die, I know..it's a rhetorical question alright.) I guess, it was from stress, in my case, from my family's whole moving here and there thing. Thus, I was actually an insomniac, in a way.

And so I tried and tried things to sleep. It's like a good curse at the same time, you know. I get to do things I can't do when my parents are up or even my siblings. I get to a.) watch my choice of TV channel (though, I have to lower the volume and keep an eye on my parents's door every time), b.) eat (this is where "midnight snack" came into my system), c.) write on my journal (which I apparently, substituted with blogging now) and d.) of course, reading. I remember, reading to sleep since I was 15 using only the glow of my phone because I can't turn on the lights, made me short-sighted so early, unfortunately. But it was all worth it because among all things I do to sleep, reading is the best! Can imagine reading the most boring old English books on earth and I swear, you'd drop dead in no time!

Now, my whole "I-can't-sleep" drama is actually my choice. I mean, only studies can keep me yawning but the rest of activities are just too tempting to sleep on, like talking and talking till the sun's up, I didn't even how we could stand talking late at night but it was fun. I was with Nayzar in our study room, once, when my spoon on the bowl was tilted with the unusual "ting!" sound when it was impossible to be moved by not even the wind. We immediately suspected it was a ghost. I mean, seriously, we were the only pair in the room freakishly awake at that time. Who else would do a practical joke on us? We were so scared; we slept on the same bed that night - well, morning, actually.

Loads of things happen when I can't sleep or sometimes, I don't wanna sleep. But it can wait. For now, let me sleep. See you again, Insomnia! :)

This is gonna be a long day

I woke up at 7:30am, Hanna's online, checking her mail and I slept again. When I woke up at 9, she went out or something..but she does that most of the time so I didn't bother to ask. So I started checking my e-mail, annoyed to find that all of them are just going to the trash. Guess no one wanted to send me something fruitful today. I'm still waiting for that frustrating college acceptance letter, though. :(

I slept back, well, who can blame me? I have nothing to do and it's just 9:15. I woke up again finding myself alone again...looking for things to do. Oh boy, this is gonna be a long day. God knows what will happen next.

Who said I hate classics?

I'm not really a fan of classic books like Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" - though Mariam made me read the zombie version of it - and Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". You can just count the classic books I've read and so far, I've managed to read "Emma" by Jane Austen,though, only because I watched the movie first, - and I like Gweneth Paltrow - Anne Frank's "A Diary of a Girl" and "Emily Dickenson's Diary" by Emily Dickenson herself, which I've read ages ago.

But one of my all time favorite would be "Daddy Long Legs" by Jean Webster, 1912. It's about this girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott who grew up in an orphanage and got a full college scholarship to Lincoln Girls Memorial College, from a rich man who visited their orphanage. She writes him letters of her whereabouts at school, calling him "Daddy Long Legs" as she only saw his shadow from far that time he went to their orphanage. Her letters continued to be sent to her mysterious sponsor through her college life...she grew a desire to meet him one day, blinded by the fact that they knew each other all along.


I was swooning pathetically while reading through Jervis's ("Daddy Long Legs") words of confession of undying love for Judy. *laughs* O, enough the overwhelming romance. But yeah, this book is totally a must-read for those little romance-freaks out there! :)

what's in my head

"Sometimes we need to look into the future and know that even when we think we've seen it all, life can still surprise us and we can still surprise ourselves, " from Gossip Girl season 2. It's actually a repost of mine from my Facebook shout out some weeks ago and I still like it. It's basically talking about even if how much we swear not to do something to whatever it is that we swore onto, we will still never know what will happen next. And thus, we might even end up what we were dreading to be. It's kind of moving, really. That's two thumbs up for GG season 2!

Funny because the quote was the reason why I actually made a friend watch Gossip Girl. The whole time, she thinks the series was just about urban luxuries and non-stop, intense making out and oh well, high fashion craze (my personal reason). But after hearing the quote, she considered watching the whole episode and got sweep off her feet.

I've watched the 3rd season already - can't wait to download the rest of it that's supposed to come this month. LOL. Ok, I know downloading is more like committing piracy, but come on..don't you dare suddenly come clean 'cause we both know you're a filthy download-er, too!

Til then peeps!

Thanks, but no thanks.

It's sucks when I cause the problem everyone is facing. Well, not that I literally cause the problem, it's just that they're concern of me so much that they share my frustration, or more. And I'm not gonna let that happen to people I care about. It breaks my heart into pieces - I'd rather die on my own than having them fall with me. When I think about it, it's really sweet of them, probably the sweetest thing anyone have ever done for me. It's nice to have people who listen to you when you're down. Listening because they care, not to scoop a gossip or something. But really, if I'm just gonna make them miserable by just listening to me, trying to solve my unfathomable problem, then I'd rather have my mouth shut. It won't be easy, I know, but as long as I'm not hurting anyone else besides myself the better.

Sorry guys.. thanks, but no thanks.