I am haunted by humans

Jumper - The Warehouse | Skirt - Chicwish | Belt - Vintage | Shoes - Vans | Socks - Glassons.

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Hello! This was the simple outfit I wore to see The Book Thief in cinema with Ananya and Sonny. Though my outfit is a little colourful, I couldn't help but feel like it had the same vibe as the outfits in the movie. Maybe it's just wishful thinking because I really was in love with the fashion.

Let's get into reviewing the movie.

First off, yes I cried like a baby.

The movies started strangely for me because Death's voice was not what I had expected and sad to say, I didn't get use to it throughout the movie. I found Death to be very likeable in a backwards sort of way in the book, but he felt out of place in the movie. I do understand his purpose to the film, because excluding him would be like ignoring the book completely since Death narrated the whole book.

More on the characters; I think Sophie Nelisse did a wonderful job with Liesel and she is very deserving of her nomination for best young actor/actress award. By the way, was anyone else surprised at how her name was pronounced? I'm obviously not an expert on German names so for all of last year I thought her name was said "Lie - cel" not "Lee - sel".  I have to admit I'm more fond of my way of pronunciation because that was the name I used for the character I feel in love with a year ago. Okay back to the serious stuff, Liesel was portrayed perfectly. She was I saw in the book; A little angel but at the same time just a child who was not perfect.

I found Rudy and Hans to be loveable, BUT no way near how much I loved them in the book. It didn't bother me so much but I really hope everyone who watch the film will read the book and fully understand what wonderful characters they both are. I was afraid they would portray Rosa either too mean or too nice which would have really made me annoyed but they some how did Rosa justice! While reading about Rosa I could relate her at an aunty I have, so imagination wasn't hard. When watching the movie, I was looking for that relation again, a tough woman but at the same time very vulnerable and loving. I'm glad they started the film showing us how mean she can get but as time went on they started showing her soft side. Max was wonderful! I really don't know what else to say except for the fact that he was everything I imagined.

Like most movies, a lot of things were left out, it's expected. I'm not bothered by the overall result but it did disappoint me to not see two scenes:
1) Liesel's Christmas gift for Max and the drawing he made for her in return
2) Han's giving bread to the Jew, and Rudy repeating that later

The second point turned on my waterworks in the book so I just assumed it would be in the film. It was also one of the many points that made Hans and Rudy so loveable! They didn't show how Rudy gave the dying pilot a teddy bear...oh god...I'm making myself sad just thinking about it.

Overall I think it captured the suffering and love on Himmel Street (they called it Heaven street in the film for translation). I walked out of the cinema with a puffy face and I would definitely say it was worth it!

After the film, we went to have lunch at the Coffee Club. We kept talking about the film for a very long time because it's one of those books/films that lingers with you long after its closing.

I can not praise this book enough! Usually I refrain from hyping a book too much so that I don't set an unachievable high standard for the person I'm recommending. I find that when I do over-hype a book, the next person reading the book finish very disenchanted. However with how great The Book Thief is, no matter how high I put that standard, I believe when the next person read the books, the result will surpass their expectation. The thing is, not many of the people I recommend it too are interested in the book because they tune out when they hear that it's set in Nazi Germany. I think they're expecting something like the Henderson boys series but they are so wrong. The books doesn't focus on the actually war but the people who have no choice but to be apart of the war. It's happen how they can be beautiful and ugly at the same time and it's about finding love and friendship even in bleak times. This isn't a typical teen novel where there has to be a romance to capture audience, it used pure human emotions. Well if you don't count Rudy and Liesel's relationship to be romantic because I don't. I understand they love each other but they were barely fourteen. I don't doubt they really did love each other to bits, they had a wonderful friendship (which was shown in a greater amount of details in the book). I just don't think it was a romantic story, it definitely was not the aim of the whole book.

In conclusion, everyone needs to read the book, stab your heart out and then repeat the whole process when you go see the film.

ps. this photo set killed me

And he was a month from his death.

*Edit*

Alternate endings will be the death of me:

The Book Thief AU - Rudy Lives When Liesel decides to go to Australia, Rudy follows. They start fresh, a new life, but remain together and become closer than ever. They learn English but never fail to use their favourite nicknames and when Rudy knows he wants to propose to her, he assumes it will take years for her to agree. But, much to his delight, the very first time he asks she just grins and says, “Of course, Saukerl.” - source

Extremely lazy and tired

In the last photo are the two tops sent over to me from my cousin in Cambodia. She bought them while on holidays in Thailand and I'm a lucky bunny.

This term of school (12 weeks) sure have been long, the effects of it is starting to show up. I just slept like a baby for 2 hours and I'm not a napping kind of person.

I had a math test this week. The amount of stress I invested into the test was too much to get a refund. As it turned out, the test was a breeze. I know I'm pushing my luck by saying that as I haven't got my result back. It either was a breeze or seemed like a breeze after all my stressing. I finished in under 45 minutes in the given 90 minutes and I sat there going over and over my paper to see if I had misread something and that's why I found it easy. It was doing my head in and I kept stealing glances at Brendan and Shreyan and they too were given off very confused looks at me. As soon as we came out the first thing we said was "I think I failed that was too easy". Mrs Moss had hinted me that my grade is what I want. I'm just hoping she's not playing with me an assuming I want Merit or Achieve.

Most of my assessments are done, just physics to go. I am greatly regretting physics. I never chose it because I need it in my future career path. I chose it because I enjoyed it at level 1. Level 2 is a completely different story and I am finding myself dreading every class. I hate physic experiments because of the report writing. I enjoy the equation side of things but I guess I'm just not a practical type of person when it comes to physics, which is strange because in every other aspect I love the practical side of things and hate theory work. I'm hoping next term will be better.

I went out shopping with Shakira yesterday. My shopping list have dramatically increased as Shakira introduced me to so many new things. I laughed a lot that night and it was very well needed after my stressful week.

I had work today and now in a state no fit to do anything productive at all. I think I shall go and watch more episodes from season 6 of Supernatural.

Before I go however, I'd like to share two books I'm currently reading.

THE LAST NOVEL IN THE INFERNAL DEVICES TRILOGY! Spoiler alert: My heart has already start to break piece by piece as I read it. Cassandra Clare always do this to me. I enjoy the Mortal Instrument series but the characters in Infernal devices are much more noble and honorable. It is their noble and honorable acts that break your heart because they put those they love so highly above themselves and are willing to suffer in silence. I nearly died when Will explained why he could never be with Tessa. How even if Jem dies he cannot be with her because it will be like he's profiting from his death. WHEN WILL STUCK HIS HAND IN THE FIRE IN AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE YIN FEN FOR JEM. Dammit Will get your self-destructive shit together. I can already guess how the love triangle would end. I am 99% sure. Since Jem knows of Will's love fore Tessa now, being noble as he is, would give up his love for her and become a Silent brother as he knows he is dying and marrying Tessa would only result in her becoming a widow. Once becoming a Silent brother, it will link with the Mortal Instruments series when Clary met a Silent Brother who had told her he was once loved two people, two people being Will and Tessa. I'm still shaky on how Will would even agree to this because he too is noble? Unless we're going to go with the all to cheesy love-is-too-power-and-he-couldn't-hold-back-any-more theory. Either way the two have to end up together to carry on the Herondale blood line all the way to the Mortal Instrument series because something tells me Cecily will not be the direct blood line to Jace Wayland in MI. (Ps I ship Sophie and  Gideon soooooo hard and also Cecily and Gabriel *now kiss meme*)

Delicacy with a very airy fairy love and life kind of book. Even though her husband died I didn't feel to sadden by it, it was too early on in the book for me to become attached to him. The things she does just screams out FRENCH WOMAN. The book is dripping in French-ness. It's kind of nice.


Will be back tomorrow with an outfit post! x

Another Wednesday

My bedside table at the moment. Yes I changed my lamp again. Indecisive, I know. 

I got my usbs back as you can see and have been watching a lot of Supernatural thanks to SS. I am one happy girl.

I'm trying to balance homework and doing nothing, it's not going so well.

 Another happy note to add. My favourite author replied to me on twitter! It's so nice to see he takes time to reply to his fans. I can't imagine how many tweets/emails/letters he gets! It has won so many awards and have been published in so many languages. I squealed in school when I saw the tweet. I'm your average fan girl so it's understandable.

1. Walking to school (not posted on instagram but...). 2. Matching key rings! 3. I used my Teza bottle to fill up dried flower petals. 4. My current pencilcase I use for school that I made.
Find me on instagram @serynaa

Just a quick post to last til my next outfit post! See you then. To the anon on ask fm please understand I wear uniform 5 times a week and schooling life isn't very exciting, I wouldn't want to bore you with...me complaining about homework with daily posts. I do appreciate that you read my blog though, I do try and update as much as I can.

P.s there might be a post earlier than the outfit post, just a maybe.

Daily dose of inspiration

By Andy Virgil.

Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

(Source)

“How about a kiss, Saumensch?” He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments longer before climbing out and handing her the book. His pants clung to him, and he did not stop walking. In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief’s kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.

"She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on..." 

(source)

"I carried softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."

(source) Gillian Zinser is amazing.

"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both." 

(source)

At first, Liesel could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.

(source) I just found a blogger who loves the gypsy style and has Greece as their top places to visit! I think I just found my twin haha. Greece along with Italy is some of the places I want to visit most. Greece for, well just look at the houses! They're all white and have blue accents, not to mention the ocean. Italy for their food and they have Venice, a floating city.

 You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’. -Diana Vreeland

The unspecified quotes are from The Book thief by Markus Zusak.

I urge all to read the book! I wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for light reading though.

The book filled my heart with so much sadness and the sadness was beautiful because it only took words to make me feel that way. Words. Liesel knew the power of them.

I love Liesel so much. The book didn't glorify her like most books do with protagonists. She was a kid and it just amazes me how mature she was, how loving she was and how she didn't let propaganda wash her innocent mind. It's strange that her stealing is justified, I did not feel it wasn't right. Reading the book it felt like that was her destiny, she was to steal those books. She's completely badass and won me over at the part where she beat up a boy for calling her stupid.

Rudy! The way Death described him is exactly how I feel about him. The sweetest 14 year old boy. I love how he painted himself black and ran as Jesse Owens. I love that he gave bread to the Jews. I love how he jumped into the water to receive the book thief's book. I love that he gave a dying pilot an old tattered teddy bear. I love how he moved Liesel of the street. I hate how he broke my heart in the end. I hate how he never stole a kiss from Liesel. It broke my heart to know he laid awake at night imagining the kiss while Liesel wanted the kiss. I hate how in the end he got a kiss from Liesel but she didn't get one from him. I hate how he died while he hugged his sister in a oblivious sleep.

I love Rosa. I love her. I love how she held the accordion to her chest while Hans was away. I love how she swore like a sailor but you can tell, she loved Hans and Liesel so much, even Max.

Hans, the most beautiful old man to be put in a book. He's amazing. I cried when he rushed over to hand that Jew a bread. It was beautiful and he was whipped. I love that he stayed with Liesel night after night and never complained once when her screamed of nightmares.

Max, how my heart broke as it smiled at his drawings.

I hate that this book makes me so emotional but that's why I love it so much, because it moved me.

The book is beautifully written. There were no cliche. Not even surprises. Death jumped ahead of chapters a few time to tell you what would happen but no matter how prepared you think you are, you heart will be exhausted and gives out a cry when you read the words.

Gah I can't describe this book with enough words. It's just amazing. My favourite book by far. I just hope that someone I know reads it soon so we can discuss the book. I don't want to force anyone to read it because the book is so much better than that. I want those who read it, to read it because they want to, not because they're told. I just hope I gave the book enough credit that others would want to read it.

So I kiss goodbye to every little ounce of pain

♥Beanie - Not sure how it came in my possession....

♥Necklace - Diva

♥Shirt - Jayjays

♥Shorts - Dotti

♥Socks - Assie's socks

♥ Platform sneakers - Hannahs 

So I kiss goodbye to every little ounce of pain click here for my lookbook.

On more than one occasion I've been told I look like a boy when wearing a beanie. Though it may not be what every girl want to hear, I still refuse to give up this head gear. I figured if I do look like a boy, I'd be a dam petite boy and .... okay that's not even a good thing. I'm still trying to find an upside of looking like a boy.

I've started reading a new book at the moment. The last one was Marley and me and I shamefully admit it's now one of the three books I've cried in now. The new book is called Remember Me by Christopher Pike. It's about a dead girl looking for revenge. It's a little thrilling I suppose because I'm still working up to how she died. So far she seems like such a superficial person but in her ghost form she admits just that so I'm still deciding whether or not I like the protagonist. I know for sure I don't like her personality alive, but dead, she notice more and admits to her faults. As a rule of thumb as a reading teen, the protagonist should be older than you, so I've been told by many English teachers. Most books I've read the protagonists are 16, now I'm 16 myself it make sense to read a book with a protagonist who's 18.
I refrained myself from reading the reviews on goodreads because whenever I do I always spoil the book but I did quickly went to look at the star rating. This book noticeably have very very very high rating considering how criticizing reviewers are on goodread, scoring 4-5 stars on most. In fact I only scroll passed one rating with 2 stars, the rest are 4-5.

My best song find this month, highly recommend.

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New shoes case

The new member in my bedroom residency I spoke of in the last post. Isn't the thing gorgeous? You always have more pride over an object if you can say you built the thing, or contributed in my case (pun not intended).

 With the clothes Anh gave me, I took a ripped shirt and turned it into a skirt. I love a lot of colours but just look at this minty green!

I wore this skirt to my interview this morning for my NZ citizenship. It was very quick and pretty much a waste of time for both parties considering my English in fine (what was the point of  asking for a letter from my English teacher vouching that I Seryna Veng can speak da Engerisher vedy vell). It'll be worth it once I receive my NZ passport.

 A bath because I have way too much time on my hands right now.

 I love the bubble bath soap from The Body Shop.

Cringing at how dramatic these girls are but it's a book that doesn't require much thinking so it with the bath is an okay combination. I've also read Fallen (I may have mentioned it some time ago) and I would not recommend it, the protagonist was so painful to get to know. I don't even would to think that there's someone in the world that's exactly like her (minus the supernatural part), because I pray for her sake that she will be able to open a box of cereal and have breakfast without breaking down at the thought of her love interest.
Oh and yes my nail are chipped horribly but I'll get right onto to fixing them...when I feel like it.

Constantly on replay lately:

 I am not a robot - Marina and The Diamonds


Are You Satisfied - Marina and The Diamonds



The Fear - Lily Allen



Mexico - Dave Moisan

What my life could have been

 Call me crazy but I have already bought my exercise books for next year. I wasn't taking physics originally and so now I need to get a forth book but these are the three I have so far.

 I was inspired after seeing a post on tumblr where words were made into waves and so I decided to try and draw some waves myself for the first time. The mermaid's pose is of course was taken from my memory of Ariel. The words falling down are lyrics from Saltwater room by owl city. Originally I wanted to do lyrics from Frank Ocean, get it? But that seemed to cheesy.

 I hardly ever draw without a reference because I thrive of inspiration. I saw an illustration of a girl in this pose, I changed the hair and dress, took out the face and added roses, and viola, it's Lana Del Rey incorporation. The lyrics of the Queen herself.

 Feeding my dream catcher craze, this was born. I saw a drawing of a dream catcher and was going to use it as reference but the picture was too small for me to see details (picture was on polyvore so if you use that, you'll know what I mean) and so I took my own take on it. It's not very detailed but it'll do. Lyrics are from We'll be a dream by We The Kings. Never realised how short the song is until I couldn't even finish the whole page with the lyrics, I had to end up repeating the lyrics from the beginning again.

 These were the books originally.

 I scratched these of the plastic covers with a ruler.

Side shot, because they're the best shots.

I'm reading For Keeps by Natasha Friend at the moment. Is it just me or do authors like making the protagonist as an only child to a single mother who's husband/boyfriend bailed from the beginning and so the daughter has daddy issues and somewhere in the book the protagonist herself says or get told that her love interest is nothing like her dad? That's a lengthy description but you'd be surprise how many books fit that. It's like people with two parents aren't interesting enough, well...which is true if you take me for example:

I'm 16 living in a house with my parents and two gaming zombies as younger brothers. Every morning I wake up to arguing in the kitchen about something to do with food, which will play as background music as I wash the sleeping dust of my face and get dressed. I will go downstairs to eat breakfast and pack lunch, then dad drives me to school that is 5 minutes away, my parents are sensitive about "letting our poor children walk in the -insert weather-". I go to school, hang with my boyfriend while we study and tease each other, but mostly tease each other. We stress about school then we'd share lunch and sit with our friends. Another day done and I'd walk home and take shower to wash of the grime off from the day. Dinner is served, we eat as a family and talk over each other. A lecture here and there while we watch tv and I'm back in bed ready to hit the repeat button.
~

Yeah, it's just isn't as exciting huh? See if I was an only child to a single mother things would be different:

I'm 16 living is a house with just my mum. I never knew my loser dad because after knocking my mum up in highschool, he dropped of the face of the earth. People always tell me my mum looks like my sister, which is quite annoying. Mum is truly my best friends, her motherly lectures kick in sometimes but most of the time I can talk to her about cute boys and what Miley Cyrus is wearing. Every morning we'd eat a breakfast of a 10 layer cake with meatballs in the center together because it's our tradition. Then I'd mount my unicorn to school. Mum works at McDonald's or something where she gets hit on by so many guys since she's so gorgeous. There's my best friend, Rory, she's totally crazy and I love her. She's the fashionable one, one day she'd show up to school in a neon green space suit and the next a rainbow coloured bikini, I wish I was brave like her. My love interest is this guy named Brad KitsumolollisprarkleMacHandsome, isn't his name just so exotic? He always make eye contact with me every time we pass each other, I'm so confused and have no idea how he feels. Rory is always saying how I should just say hi but I prefer to admire from a distant. Today was just like any other day but at lunch time Brad burst into the cafeteria and broke into a musical confessing his love for me. It was awesome.
The lyrics were "Kelly you're are the prettiest girl ever, I wish to be together. My love for you will only grow as the days go on, it's my heart that you have won. Would you please be my girl? I promise to give you the world. If you say yes then I have all the luck, so tell me girl, are you dtf?". He's a born poet I swear. I said yes and he promised to buy me pizza. I went home and had to tell mum everything so I text her the full story while I was in my room and she was in her's. She replied back with, "csb", my mum is hilarious. Everything in my life seemed to be going perfectly until a wizard appeared in my room and told me something that changed my life, "Kelly Gots Sim Buttes-"
"OH MY GOD YOU CREEPY CREEPO DON'T SAY MY FULL NAME."
"Okay, Ms. Buttes, there is something really important you need to know about yourself", and then suspense music blared out of the stereo his was carrying.
"You are part rhino and it is your mission to harness your abilities to be a rhino whisperer and start your own hit tv show about it, p.s I'm your dad and to harness your power you must go on a series of tasks to find me and then I'll teach you the ways of the rhino warlocks", and just like that, he twerked out of my room.
I was completely freacked out but this is my calling in life so I packed my bags and made my way to find my twerking rhino warlock dad to learn how to whisper to rhinos and start a new tv show that will be more successful then the Kardashians.
~

Essentially, my life could have been this exciting.

Nostalgia is just a side effect of dying

The adventure of Seryna and friend, and by friends I mean food.

Maybe it's my teenage bodily functions but I'm always hungry. I can eat and eat and eat. After my noodles after school I went to make avocado on toast with scramble egg. I told myself I'd retrain myself from dinner but that didn't happen as I gobbled up one chicken piece after another. I swear I'll get my eating habits sorted one day.

I finished reading The Fault in Our Stars and it is as of now my favourite book. I was welling up at school because I got the the most heart breaking point. I literally had to stop reading for a moment to force my tears back in. I think that made my friends excited though. I'm not sure if they took me seriously but during the time I was trying not to cry in public, they kept asking me questions and I'm like, "wait guys omg omg omg *fans self*". Knowing how much it broke my heart I still had to finish the story and so I soldiered on. I finished it quickly in business class (naughty, I know) and after the class I went to return it so Shahrzad could get it out. I opted for Paper Towns right now. I really hope this lives up to my high expectations.