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CARLA

look whom you dreamed into life! (wink, wink)

About Me


i'm no ordinary girl in an ordinary world

My Interests

music, literature, law, the media, people and Christianity.

I'd like to meet:

people who can scintillate me! :)

Music:

alternative, rock esp Christian rock, pop and a bit of reggae and ska. Plus stuff by Jars of Clay, Switchfoot, Caedmon's Call, Carrie Underwood, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Lisa Ono, Maria Mena, Train, Goo Goo Dolls, Maroon 5, Kitchie Nadal, Barbie Almalbis, Michelle Branch, Alicia Keys, and Usher, among many others (in short, i go for no particular genre. Christian musicians always move me, though). Lately, I'm really appreciating world music because of Rinka! Simply a-mazing...

Movies:

life is beautiful, amelie, frida, the house of the spirits, heaven and earth, the joy luck club, fried green tomatoes, far and away, audrey hepburn flicks like sabrina and breakfast at tiffany's (not the remakes), love story, the english patient, il mare, julia roberts and sandra bullock romance flicks, among many others

Television:

friends, grey's anatomy, sex and the city, house, ally mcbeal, and I'm a sucker for Koreanovelas! Kayanin niyo 'to, fan ako ng Lovers in Paris, Irene, and Endless Love (dati) :p

Books:

Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna, Pramoedya Toer's This Earth of Mankind, Rope of Ash, Suchen Lee's A Fistful of Colours (I like Asian authors), Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha, Erich Segal's Love Story and Man, Woman, Child, Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Ernest Hemingway's Snows of Kilimanjaro, Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Young Man, Audrey Niffeneger's The Time Traveler's Wife, stuff by C. S. Lewis, Ravi Zacharias, Joshua Harris, and the Bible

Heroes:

Jesus Christ!

My Blog

Law school woes

A mixture of anticipation and dread. That makes up the biggest part of my emotions lately. Passing the entire screening process of law school, UP College of Law at that, is a blessing. The t...
Posted by CARLA on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To all my dearest sisters and those who partied at GAG5!

It's such a bummer that I had to fall ill on the most anticipated day for us, Sigma Betans, and the rest of the partying UP community. But my sister and a lot of my friends (whom I invited) were ther...
Posted by CARLA on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

HOW TO WHIP UP SOMETHING AS HEAVENLY AS ME *teehee*

Found this at Romma's space. Here's how: How to make a Carla Regina Grepo Ingredients:5 parts success5 parts brilliance5 parts energy Method:Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. S...
Posted by CARLA on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Which movie superhero are you?


Posted by CARLA on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

PRUNING

Lately Ive been feeling as if Im the oldest nineteen-year-old in the world. Last Tuesday, when my dad, with his face ashen and hand over his chest, was rushed to the hospital, I had a gut-feeli...
Posted by CARLA on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

THROUGH ROSE TINTED GLASSES

The romantic. The swooning, starry-eyed, hopelessly romantic and overly idealistic girl friend. I think just about every group of friends has one.God, Mai, a single red rose for Valentines Day? That...
Posted by CARLA on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST