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19 November 2013

The BIG One Nine

19 November 2013

The BIG One Nine

Guess what…. IT'S MY BIRTHDAY and today I turn 19 years old.

I am just so thankful that I have been able to walk and live on earth and meet so many great people in my life! It has been a great 19 years so far, and I am so excited to see what is in store for my future and what I am going to do with the available opportunities.

It is just crazy to me to think my life is shaping on its own where soon I'm going to be 20, and eventually be finished with university, have my career in set, and possibly get engaged or even married… So many things can happen in the next decade of my life.. and it is just crazy to think I've been alive for almost 2 decades…

To show you how exciting my birthday is, I decided to share pictures of my day so you can see how well I spent my 19th birthday!
Enjoy my lovely iPhone quality pictures!
Had my sister drive herself to school.  Afterwards, took the car and drove myself to school.
What a great way to start off my birthday with some morning selfish on my way to school!
After my 10 am class, I'm in the library reading the book for my socio anthropology class later at 2 pm ("Righteous Dopefiend" by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg)
In my socio anthro class, decided to buy a large sweet apple cider before class! It felt so great to have something warm for the cold weather!
Jay took me out to Kelsey's Restaurant!
Picture of the birthday girl!
Appetizer: Nachos … hmmm yummy
7 Layer Hamburger! 


My birthday cake from my lovely family <3 td="">
And to end off the post, here are some of the pictures my friends posted on their instagram (As a caption, I included their personal caption that can be found on their instagram)
@isaacramoss: Happy birthday to my Bestie @oulalanessaa you are such an amazing girl with so much ahead of you.  with all those memories I feel so blessed that our friendship has stayed strong.  You're officially legal.  Live it up and see you on Sunday :)
@nivesh17_: Happy birthday to my sickest cuzzin @oulalanessaa have a blessed day. Old pic but.  Enjoy vanessa!

@neeisha17: Happy 19th Birthday Vanessa! Hope you have an amazing day today because you deserve it.  You're absolutely my favourite cousin and we've been through so much such as cleaning blood in the hallways and applying toothpaste on burns LOL. Only we would understand. & let's not forget the day we received yellow envelopes home. "Because I'm dumb" shah and oh yah remember our "intelligent" plan of sleeping in the backyard.  And maybe this year we can finally fulfill our wish since we're both finally freaking 19. xoxo love yah hoe.
@jay_young_94: happy birthday to my best friend and girl. I love you with all my heart.  ur always got my back and I always got urs.  even tho we piss each other off we will fall back and make up.  happy 19 birthday!!!!!!!!!!! @oulalanessaa
Hope you had an amazing Tuesday, tomorrow is Wednesday, then almost Friday!


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21 September 2013

Don't be fooled by a Perfect Picture.

21 September 2013

Don't be fooled by a Perfect Picture.

Scrolling down Instagram, whether it's my account, or others peoples account, I can't help but notice the amout of cute couples I see.

When I was younger and used to see my friends post up the amazing pictures of them and their boyfriends, I won't lie ... I was actually jealous.  I remember Fabiola stalking some of them and secretly hoping one day I find a guy to have a perfect relationship with. 

Correct me if I am wrong, but I am almost 99% sure that almost every girl experiences this. But who could blame us... We are always surrounded with media and movies portraying the perfect love story ... Why can't I have that, I remember always questioning to the Love Gods everytime I watched some romantic movie. 

Anyways ... So I grew up, and actually had guys interested in me, you don't understand the amount of pictures I wanted to take with them all them to show my friends. 

There was this one relationship, where I honestly thought he would be the one. Everytime I posted a picture of him and I on Instagram, I was always excited and happy about all the comments I received saying "my favourite couple" or "you guys are just too cute".  And I guess we were. It was usually a good day if I ever posted a picture of us, either I felt I was loved or we genuinely had an amazing day together, and I just wanted to take pictures and we happened to look really good in them. 

But as time past, I realized first hand how a picture definetly does not tell the entire story. Believe it or not, no matter how perfect we looked together, we always had problems, always. 

Looking back, I always blamed him ... But we both had a part to share, it's never just one person. From first hand experience, I know we weren't the perfect couple. Trust me when I say, we had a lot of issues and problems. 

Whether it would be my jealousy, over caring, over protected, or his lack of interest in me, too much time on his car or him being a complete jerk, somehow we managed to fool everyone into thinking we were so happy together. 

Don't get me wrong though, we obviously had more up days than down ones ... But the down ones hurt the most, and the hurt u experience, is the one you remember for a long time. 

We are in love, and there's no doubt in the amount of love I have for him, and the love he has for me. We may take the best pictures together, and look so good with each other, we are only human and we do have a share of a lot of problems. Problems that I am sure may seem so dumb to an outsider, but to us... We made it become our entire everything and jus never let it go. 


But things always change ... So I'm honestly hoping we start to slowly understand each other to walk into the right path with each other hand in hand. Because (and he knows this), if I didn't love, care and appreciate him as much as I do, I wouldn't have been there for him from beginning until the end yesterday.

Wishing for the best, but expecting the worst..





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