'Cheap Knock Off' Friends

When you think about how many fake bags, fake makeup, fake clothes, or other fake stuff in the world are produced everyday... Do you also wonder how many fake people are there? Does it reciprocates both? Or there are more fake people to date?

But how do you spot a fake person? With bags, you can easily spot a knock off just by smelling it. The smell of genuine leather and the feel of luxurious craftmanship is way too different than the imitations.

But in real life, how do you spot the fake friends? 'Cheap knock off" friends.

You sometimes tend to wonder, out of the thousand Facebook friends you have or hundreds of Instagram followers... How many of it are those that you could actually count on in times of need?

Five? Ten? or maybe three?

to be continued...

(Sorry gals, really sleepy now... But I have so much in mind!)

x,
C

QOTD

Fantasy over Reality

When she was a young girl, she grew up watching movies where the girl meets the guy on a random place like a coffee shop, a quiet bar, or while walking on the street going to school.

On her teenage years, she fantasized about these movies she used to watch. Being young and naïve, she ought to herself that this will be her love story. 

Fantasy 1:

 

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She is very sure she’ll meet her first boyfriend while having her usual coffee on Starbucks. That a guy will walk up to her and say something like ‘Hey, I like that you put so much vanilla on your frappe. Can I borrow the vanilla?’ with a very charming smile on his lips.

So she spent her days on coffee shops and waited for a guy to approach her. After a lot of frappe and fats, she gave up. Guys in reality will never do that. She realized coffee shop guys are either already in a relationship or gay. If not, she must’ve hanged out on a wrong coffee shop.

Fantasy 2:

 

(Spectacular Now)

She gave up the thought of coffee shops. Instead, she tried hanging out at bars. After school, she went out on every bar on their block with her friends. She tried to have eye contacts and that one-bottle policy with beers (just to keep her sane and not do anything drunkenly stupid).

Alas again, no guy ever spoke to her the way she fantasized. Well, there were couple of guys who spoke to her but there was no spark that she hopes she’d feel. Guys who approached her tend to do it fast or rather shallow.

Fantasy 3:

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The last on her young make-believe love story, she tried walking on sidewalks for weeks hoping to bump with the guy that will make her believe that movie love story that she grew up watching is real.

But after so much sweat and blisters on her feet, she gave. She knew at some point, no boyfriend material will accidentally bump to her on the street. She might just be risking her safety on the streets.

Reality 1:

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The truth is, she already found her fantasies on every scenario she thought on her mind.

 

She already found the guy in the coffee shop because her nicest guy friend whom she met through an online website is the guy who loves to take her to the coffee shop and just stare at her for hours because he was too shy to talk to her. He is nice, sweet and a gentleman in his own ways.

He’d sneak and find time for her even though they were miles apart.

She just didn’t notice.

Reality 2:

(How I Met Your Mother scene)

The guy in the bar? She didn’t really meet him exactly at a bar. But she met him over beers.

He is the deepest guy she knew. She’d adore his choice of words when he speaks. The way he tries to make her notice him is by not noticing her which is messed up cool.

They hang out over beers for hours until the wee hours of the night. She sneaks with her parents just to be with this guy.

Yet she didn’t realize this guy,  is the guy she was hoping to meet at the bar.

Reality 3?

No there wasn’t any third reality. Sorry for expecting.

Moral of the story? Fantasies and make beliefs are okay. But you have to step out of it and face reality. Because you might never know reality already hit you hard you’ll end up not catching it and just bruising yourself. The bruise? Well that will be a scar that might stay on you forever. You’ll end up remembering it every day when you face the mirror and see the scar.

Current Listen

The Tallest Man On Earth's Leading Me Now

By the eyes of the very young
It's a sudden good attack
Born of the weakness my oys and I
Carry anger forth and back
But we'll make it somehow
You've all what's mine
And your leading me now

On the gallop to mother's few
We will lose our breath and fight
And you give me the look of thorns
We get liars every night
But I get you somehow
Leave the reins inside
'Cause your leading me now

Every time we wonder
What we left back in your heart
Could you see we're dreaming
Though our minds just fall apart

To the side where I flew from you
When your pace just scared me blind
We would come back and joke of days
When I sold you to the unkind
We will end up somehow
With a peaceful mind
And you're leading me now

And every time we wonder
What we left back in your heart
Could you see we're dreaming
Though our minds just fall apart
But we will end up somehow
With a peaceful mind
And you're leading me now 

Feeling at peace.

Remember when you used to buy the song hits booklet at a convenient store and cut thru the pages and make a collage of your favorite lyrics? You'll get your artistry and comfort zone for 15 bucks. What a great deal!

P.S.

This song is from Endless Love soundtrack. No, not the Korean film (I don't watch Asian love story). It's the one where Alex Pettyfer is the leading guy.

Cookie's Color Pick: Pretty in Pink

Hello again lovelies!

The Cookie's gonna start to post each week a makeup shade that she actually use.

For this week, I chose a lip pencil and a lipstick that I bought at Mac couple of weeks ago.

Mac in Please Me (Matte)

Hip 'N' Happy Lip Pencil

It's a very light shade of pink that you can wear on a Sunday.

What do you think? Yay or Nay?

x,

C

Dear Shailene

I like her name.

I might include it on my list of baby names.

Can we take a moment to appreciate her beauty...

I can't wait for Insurgent!

Look at her hair!

It's been a year since I cut my hair like that. (Although because I fancied Jennifer Lawrence's haircut a year ago.)

Wow!

x,
C

The Little Prince is not Cookie Monster

Why do we call him Cookie Monster? Grew up watching Sesame Street and I don’t even thought of him as a monster. He’s just somebody who happens to love cookies. Like a kid who loves lollipops. Or perhaps a shopaholic whose eyes glimmers when she sees the 50% discount signage. And maybe an artist and his paint brushes.

Point is, we only see the person based on the label given by the society to him. Forced because needed to.

A quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince

If you were to say to the grown-ups: “I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,” they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. 

You would have to say to them: “I saw a house that cost $20,000.” 

Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house it is!”

Get it?

My heart screamed so loud, my mind answered tonight.

x,

C