Boyong's, the challenging conquering

This past few months, I seem to be more indulgent with food. I don't know if it's due to all the stress coming from work or just my innate gluttonous side climbing up another level; but either way, I'm craving for food and trying out new tastes more than usual. Thus, my new past time is to look up and read food blogs.

As of now I am focused with a particular food blog since it's centered with restaurants and eateries and snack places around Marikina, my hometown. [ Marikina Food Trip ]  

This August, I tried one of the places reviewed by said blog--Boyong's.

We Still Don't Know the Name of the Flower We Saw That Day

 あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない。

P L O T

At first I thought it would be all sad and tears and chest pains, but surprisingly—and fortunately—it's not. Ano Hana is more of nostalgia and melancholia. Well, I guess that makes it quite saddening too. But in a sense, or a different angle, it's not. It is a different kind of sadness.

I love how realistic this anime is. [Well, save for the Menma’s ghost part. But I guess, that’s a possibility as well.] The characters seem truly alive to me; and if events like these happened in real life, I guess people would react exactly—or almost like—the same. Others might find some of the characters annoying, but to me no one is. How they turned out and how they act is a product of the past that they just cannot escape from.

コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュR2

I just finished watching Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 this weekend. The ending was very bittersweet that I actually became quite teary. I felt for Lelouch—that in order to make way for peace he had to carry all the hate and lose his comrades’ faith in him. That his raison d’être, his world's centrepiece, had been turned against him at some point. Though good for him that his ever beloved Nunally—and even Kallen plus the other members of the black knights/resistance—came to understand his actions and motives in the end. Well, at least he regained his best friend, Kururugi Suzaku, back and he stayed and helped with putting the plan into action. 

I wonder how it was for Suzaku that Lelouch had to die by his hands and vice versa. 

Truly bittersweet.

SUMMER

i want to be as calm and free as the clouds~
i want to just go with the flow and be wherever the wind takes me~
take me out for an adventure~

Bitter Tea

Everything happens for a reason. And as much as people hate to make mistakes, they still do. One way or another, mistakes are bound to happen. And all of it—as horrible and unfortunate it may seem—also happens for a reason.  Mistakes help and teach us to become better persons. Stronger and wiser. Yes, this stuff may be common knowledge and sounds all cliché-ish, but sometimes, we still need to be reminded of this fact. Especially at times where in we just encountered the problem and/or still in the middle of. -.-

The chain of regrets I’ve just gone through—and is actually still going through—may currently make me feel as one giant heap of fails and stupidity, but I know—well okay, I so honestly pray and hope—that in the very near future [when all is right in my world again], I’d regard everything as some sort of “pre-requisite” in my becoming a more mature and tougher individual. Something I’d see and feel I can be proud of having experienced. A scar that, though ugly-looking, becomes kinda pretty cool because of the amusing story behind it; not to mention a forever reminder and reference of how I should deal with the same/similar situations in the future. An eternal life’s moral.

i was quite disappointed with how the second season ended. i think it is unfair for sebastian that he did not get to have and devour ciel's soul. after all, he did his end of the bargain. thus, he deserves to receive what he so much wanted, craved and worked diligently for.

Kuroshitsuji Quotes

 
"i will follow you, no matter where you go, until the end. even if this body is destroyed, i will not leave your side. i shall follow you into the depths of hell." -Sebastian, ep. 4

"you alone are never to lie to me." -Ciel, ep. 4

"it is quite unpleasant to be stepped upon. doing the stepping, however, feels quite good." -Sebastian, ep. 6

"you should use your pawns in the best way possible and keep struggling to live on. using the madam, myself, and all the other pawns within your reach. even if the empty shells of pawns pile up beneath the throne, once the king is gone, the game is over." -Sebastian, ep. 6

"i order you: do not betray me and do not leave my side! no matter what!" -Ciel, ep. 6

"if you wish, i will follow you no matter where you go, even if the throne crumbles and the brilliant crown rusts, even if the empty shells of pawns pile up, and we rest upon their decaying bodies, i will lie beside your small form. and until the last bell tolls, until that time..." -Sebastian, ep. 6