✿things you probably didn't know about me✿ (V)

                         

Hey guys! I decided to make a video about things I thought that not much people know about me. xx
(Pardon my awkwardness and the music is messed up a bit.)

☯ a.d.i.d.a.d ☯ (PB)

YOOOOO 'SUP Y'ALL! Although I haven't exactly danced in competitions, or in front of anyone, really, I made up my own stage name! B-girl Mayhem. B-girling (or b-boying) is just short for breakdancing, a style of street dance. I started dancing ever since I could remember. When I was little, besides my older brother, dancing was the only friend I had. My room was my playground and the music was my sun. Dancing was a way to express my feelings. I danced when I was sad, mad, happy, etc. You really can't control when I start dancing or not. I can't even control it! I danced in like, the most random places ever like in the grocery store, in public bathrooms and even at church.. (LOL)
Growing up I watched things like Power Rangers, Pokemon, stuff like that, but a show that really caught my eye was America's Best Dance Crew. Basically groups of incredibly talented people showcased their talent on this show, competing for $100,000. My dream was to go on this show and show people how awesome my moves are, (just kidding, but I really did want to go one the show.) but they canceled it! It tore my heart to shreds.

 A few inspirations for dancing would be Chachi Gonzalez, Lydia Paek, and Victor Kim. (Mostly Victor Kim ehehehe.) They inspire me to keep on dancing. Each and every one of their choreographies are phenomenal. When they dance you can feel what they're feeling. Their movement are just so precise and it hurts my heart. That's how good it is. 

Brian Puspos is an example when it comes to immensely flawless work. You can feel the emotion he feels. I love how he hits every part of the song and it's just so perfect. Nowadays, people just dance or learn how to dance because of the 'swag-factor' rather than just for the passion of it. Dancing is a part of my life, which brings up the title of this blog post. a.d.i.d.a.d is really cheesy and weird, but I came up with it in like, five minutes haha. It stands for All Day I Dream About Dance.
All day, every day I dance.. but not exactly where you would expect. The only place I have to dance is my bathroom! I practice whenever I get the chance and I absolutely love it, obviously.

    In conclusion I am very passionate about dancing, I have joined some Filipino Folk Dance events, but other than that, I have never showcased my talent in front of anyone.

"Human-mean" (FC)

To whoever is reading this, I want you to know right now that I am 101% against any kind of bullying. Growing up of course I have dealt with bullies. I've been called names like "Chink" and "Loser", but that's not exactly the point I wanted to talk about today. I would like love to talk about a poem called To This Day by Shayne Koyczan.

One part that I think is special and important is

"If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself ; get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer."

I think that quote applies to most girls in our society today. They undervalue what they are and overvalue what they're not. It's really only about you're mentality, which brings up the title of my blog; Kingdom Mentality. If you continue to believe and label yourself as "Ugly" or "Fat" then that's all you'll ever think you'll be. Although, bullies are the main cause to this mentality. At least three times a day I hear people getting called names. One that really bothers me is "You're so gay." Humankind? More like humanmean.

One of my favorite and one that hits me most is when Shayne compares a Circus with School metaphorically and says, "At night while others slept, we kept walking the tightrope. It was practice, and yeah, some of us fell." This is a reference to suicide as a result of bullying, which is becoming increasingly prevalent. Though they’re all suffering and walking a tightrope to survive, not all of them do, and I think that everyone needs to get the message to stop bullying.

In my opinion bullying will never die down. Although I really wish it would. A solution for this would be teaching the younger upcoming generation to be nice to one another, to see beauty in everyone.

"Our lives will only ever always
Continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain,
And more to do with beauty."

Get yo' "Crayon" (Ha-ha, get it? Cray-on?) (CRR)

 As a kid, reading picture books was the "bomb-diggity". I read books from Caillou, to Where the Wild Things Are, but my favorite out of all was Harold and the Purple Crayon.  That book had a very special place in my heart. First of all, purple was my favorite color, and who wouldn’t want to read a book about a little boy creating his own world with just a simple crayon? I loved the book so much; I thought I could make my own world with a crayon… By drawing on the walls. (lol) I was alone a lot when I was little, and it looked like Harold was too, so I learned that it was okay to be alone, as long as you have a huge imagination.

Harold and The Purple Crayon taught me things like; how to use my imagination. Every night I would go to sleep and create my own world in my dreams, but with a blue crayon! There would be everything I ever wanted. It was my own perfect world. It also taught me that it’s alright to be alone. I actually prefer being alone nowadays, and just like Harold, I draw.

My mother would read to me a lot, but because of her heavy Tagalog accent, I wasn’t too fond of getting read aloud too. I love reading alone, and I did that most of the time. Even though there were pictures, it gave me a chance to visualize and make a little movie in my mind. When teachers read to the whole class I would always fall asleep and would rather be reading by myself! My family has had the huge misconception that I’m allergic to books or something. They are so wrong. I was quite the book worm, and still am. In conclusion, I obviously still read picture books. I get that huge breeze of a nostalgic feeling and I just love them.

                                 Testing! Testing! 1, 2 ,3!~ ^^