3 years ago and 3 years later! The top picture is us at the Cathedral of Christ the Light 3 years ago singing in choir for that graduating class. Now it’s our turn! (:
Part 1 of graduation weekend!
Today was my last day of high school! I had my last final today which I think I totally failed but that’s beside the point. I attended my baccalaureate mass today at the Cathedral of Christ the Light which is a beautiful cathedral in Oakland. Tomorrow I’ll be going shopping for some graduation outfits and then on Sunday is when I’ll walk the stage! It’s all happening so fast! Anyways, here are some pictures from this evening, mostly of me and my best friend Chassidy.
Their chemistry <3
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+Happy 86th birthday, Marilyn! Marilyn is one of the most influential figures I have ever come across - many slate her and refer to her as a ‘dumb blonde’ but honestly, she was anything but that. Her eagerness to improve herself as an actress, an intellect and a person is nothing short of inspirational. Growing up without a stable home must have been tough, even more so considering the social stigmas associated without anything but the perfect nuclear family at the time of her childhood - but Norma Jeane had drive. Before ‘Marilyn Monroe’ there was a young, ambitious teenager who rejected the simple life for one full of risk, rejection and possibly failure. Working her way up from simple shoots as a model to roles such as Nell in Don’t Bother To Knock and Roslyn in The Misfits was no easy task and did not happen over night. Marilyn took bit parts regularly and fought to earn better roles (and to simply be respected, too) from 20th Century Fox throughout the duration of her career as an actress.
Outside of film, too, Marilyn was an incredible woman. Doing something many simply wouldn’t dare to do at the time, Marilyn upped sticks and moved from her native LA to New York in 1955 to improve her acting at the infamous Actors Studio and surround herself with intellects. Her dedication to her career was boundless and what some, sadly, confuse as her inability to act in films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is actually Marilyn at her comedienne best - and honestly, isn’t it some feat for her to have convinced audiences so sternly that she was these characters that this façade has stuck, 50 years after her death? Marilyn was, underneath this persona a quick witted, sensitive, funny woman who charmed almost all who met her - including, of course, her three husbands. Her ability to love someone wholeheartedly when she really felt it is obvious from almost all pieces written about her marriages: just like everything in life, she threw herself into her relationships in a way many people can’t.
And yes, it is easy to dwell on the bad things. Of course Marilyn was flawed, she was human after all. She had weaknesses and felt low at times, just like you or I. It would be simple to look at the picture painted in the press of ‘Marilyn Monroe’, the woman in the billowing white dress who seemingly had affairs with every man in America - but in order to find the real Marilyn you must look past this misleading view and past her acting roles - you must look for Marilyn, the avid charity supporter who wrote poetry and rescued animals. You must look for the loving wife, the caring friend, the devoted business woman. You must look at her for what she really was, a person - and that’s what I strive to do as her fan, I try to find Marilyn amongst the madness. So, on what would have been her 86th birthday I wish say thank you, Ms. Monroe, not only for being one of the most visually striking women ever to have graced this earth but also for being a beautiful person inside, too. Thank you for inspiring me to never, ever give up on my dreams irregardless of what obstacles which lay before me. Thank you for being you.
I know KITES (2010) wasn’t generally well liked, but i love the shit out of this movie. It’s gorgeously shot, well-paced, well-acted, with thrilling action and (my favourite) a downer ending! Plus, it has Hrithik running headfirst into a car door!
LOVE IT!!!
Just watched this on Netflix! I loovvved ittttt. Hrithik Roshan is soooo handsome and I want to look like Barbara Mori!
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+Happy Birthday Mr. President!
This was sang May 19th, 10 days before his real birthday! Which is today- May 29th!
