Second time around

This is my first attempt to write a fanfic :) it sounds boring so I'd better not to finish this one :(



Chapter 1


My name is Shaira Kinsley and my family is living in a small town in England, my mother Clarice Kinsley is working as a manager in a bank. Lately, the company where she working offers her to transfer to their other branch in London, Mom was very happy at the same time sad. Happy because working in London will give her high salary, better than she is gaining here in town because the salary rate in the city centre is higher compare to those in small town. What makes her sad is that London is 6 hours away from our place now and Dad is working here, there’s no doubt that dad won’t come in London. I know how complicated that was for my mom and I myself can’t even decide which to choose.

Mom opens the talk about the offers during our dinner. “That’s good news, go for it!” dad said as soon as mom finished, it was a surprised to hear that from dad. “Plenty of people out there begging to have that opportunity, now that you have it” dad continued thinking what the best word to say next to his sentence. “...go take it! I mean I think that’s the best way. Shaira is almost done with her high school, we need to prepare for her college tuition”.

Mom sighed, relieved for what my dad's reaction, but still she did not comment.

“Yes I know how lucky I am to have this opportunity, but what I’m worrying about is you and Shaira” mom said as she looked at dad and then looked at me when she spoke my name.
“You should take Shaira with you, I won’t let you stay there alone anyway” Dad said in a concern way. “It’s not that I like you both to stay away from me, but we have a house there besides one more year to go then Shaira will graduate on high school. It’s better for her to adjust in a new environment early and it’s easy for her to get some information with regard to her college schools and courses” dad said while looking back and forth between mom and I. He seemed sure about his decisions and what brought him decide to let mom go is because of me, my school, my college, my future.

I’ve been studying in London since nursery till 3rd grader. We only moved from London when my dad reassigned in this town, but we’re originally live in London.

After our dinner, I helped mom to clean the table up. “Mom, just leave the plate in the sink and I’ll do the dishes” I called as I gather the glass off the table. As soon as I’m done doing the dishes, I went straight to my room leaving mom and dad in the living room. Perhaps they were still talking about mom’s work.

“Goodnight mom, dad” I called as I went upstairs.
“Goodnight too honey” mom called after me.
“Goodnight” dad said.


CHAPTER 2

Dad dropped us off to the airport. And they hug and kissed, I kissed him goodbye after mom.
“Bye dad, hope you visit us there in the weekend” I said with a little smile, so he won’t be that sad.
“Yes I will honey if I’m not busy at work of course” he answered a little bit sad. I can see it through his eyes and the way he said the phrase. He put his arm over mom’s shoulder “Call me when you get there” he said looking at mom’s eyes.


As we reached our house, mom took the key from her bag while I’m standing behind her looking up and down and across the garden. I missed this place so much.

As the door opened mom grabbed her bag one by one, I left mine in the porch and help her bag get in first and then she helped me with mine. We stopped in the living room first and we both examining the house. “The house is still the same, isn't it?” she said as she looked at the ceiling. “yeah, it's still looks new” I said.

“Okay, go and check your room see if it’s okay” mom told to me and went to the kitchen to perhaps check if everything’s fine or if there’s any broken or anything that would need a repair. I went upstairs heading to my old room which is my new room now. I opened the door and saw all my stuff; everything is in place aside from the dust. Though the dust is not that thick because mom, dad and I went here 2 months ago and dad paid someone to clean up the whole house. I think it will only take a day to remove all the dust off and fix all my stuff.

After a week of cleaning, I feel relieved though honestly my whole body is paining. It’s already 7:30 in the morning but I don’t want to get up yet, I’m too tired to move. I yawned many times but I can’t sleep again either.

“Hey honey, are you awake?” mom called knocking the door.
“Come in” I answered and then I sat down.
“Good morning honey, ohh I know how tired you are, your breakfast is ready I left it on the table” mom said concerned, she seems noticed how tired I am.
“Oh mom, thank you. I’m okay, so are you going now?” I asked when I saw her wearing formal dress.
“Yeah honey, I have an orientation for my new job, I’ll be out the whole day, are you okay being alone here?” she said and sat down on my bed. I could see how sorry she is living me alone in this big house.
“yeah of course mom, don’t worry about that” I lied, honestly I don’t want her to go at the moment, but it will only make her more sad and worried.
“Okay, I have to go now the taxi is waiting outside” she said and then she kissed my forehead and closed the door.

I got up and went to the bathroom while tying my hair. I washed my face and brushed my teeth. I went back to my room and changed my clothes and then went downstairs for breakfast. As soon as I’m done with my breakfast, I watched movie in the living room and then when I get bored I turned on my ipod or find a good book on the shelve. This is what I’m doing the whole week alone without mom.

In the morning I went to school and enrolled myself as a senior student at Harlbor High School.

I’m just finished helping myself when I heard the horn, that was mom, couple of hours ago she called me to prepare myself because she will going to pick me up after her work for dinner.

I gathered my things with me and run downstairs. Mom was sitting inside the taxi. I opened the door and joined her.
“How’s your day?” mom asked after I kissed her.
“It’s good, I went to the school this morning and I’m done with everything. I mean I’m enrolled and I’m only waiting till the class will be started” I said greatly.
“That’s great honey, so when will your classes start?” She said proudly and excited about my new school.
“On June seven, that will be next week” I said.

As we ate, mom and I talked about school stuff, her new work, things to buy and things to do and all that.

From the restaurant mom and I stopped at the supermarket to buy some foods to stock in our house. In our way home, the rain is so heavy and the wind is blowing the tress hardly. I wondered if the driver can even see the road ‘cause all I can see is fog I can’t see the road. But instead of asking him, I preferred to keep it to myself and sit still at the backseat.

Mom and I were both wet and so I took a shower right away and dry my hair and curled up on my bed as the lightning flash through the glass of my window. It’s very cold and it’s so nice to sleep having this weather.



CHAPTER 3

This is it, my first day of school. Mom dropped me off in front of my school on her way to office. I went straight to the information to ask ‘where’s the room 301’ that’s my first subject. When I reached the room 301, I sat on the available seat right at the middle. I sat very still, quiet, shy and nervous. I can’t explain my feeling ‘cause at the same time I am excited, excited to know new people and have new friends.

Most of my classmates knew each other, as they were studying here since freshmen. When I turn my side, my classmate smiled at me, I smiled back.

“Hi, are you new here? Haven’t seen your face before” the girl on my right side asked me.
“Hi, yeah I’m new student here. I’m Shaira by the way” I answered her, bit shy.
“That’s cool, I’m Katherine. Nice to meet you Shaira” She said offering her hand to shake with me.
“Nice to meet you too Katherine” I shake with her and give her a smile.

The teacher appeared at the door and so we stopped talking.
“Good morning class, I am Mr. Wickfrey your English teacher” he said and then smiled. He turned to write his name to the blackboard, for us to know the right spelling of his last name, I think.

Each of us stands in front of the room one by one to introduce ourselves. Some of my classmates are giggling, and teasing each other. I think they were also classmates last year that’s why.

The bell rang and my classmates stood up and walked to the door at the same time. I stood up as soon as I saw a space to get out. I went to my next subject and most of my classmates in English are also my classmates in Science and almost all my subjects. We ended up into introducing ourselves in our first day of school in each subject. It’s pretty boring but this is expectable to happen. I mean this is what we always do in our first day right?


I went straight to house as soon as my class ended. I was tired the whole day at school. I came up alone in the house, mom is not here yet. I headed to my room, put my bag on the study table and changed my clothes. I sat there for a moment and then I went to the kitchen to open the refrigerator to look what meal to cook for dinner. I took the pork chop and put it in the bowl and wait to till it was defrost so I can start cooking. I yanked the oven and put the sliced bread in and then turn it on. I took a bottle of lemonade inside the refrigerator and opened it. I’m about the drink when the telephone rang. I put it down on the table and run to the living room where the telephone is placed.

“Hello?” I asked.
“Shai, it’s mom. Just wanna tell you not to cook; I’ll buy cooked food for dinner tonight”. She said, directly. I know she’s in a rush as she is still in the office.
“Okay mom, take care”. I said after her.
“Thank you. Bye honey” she said and then hung up the phone.

I went back to the kitchen and yanked the oven door open. I took the bread and put it on the plate and turn to the sink to take the pork chop back to the refrigerator. Perhaps mom knows that I’m tired on my first day of school that’s why she let me free from cooking tonight. I don’t mind cooking though, I’m tired but I’m okay I can still cook.

When I opened my eyes I saw the light coming in through my window, I thought I was late already. I took my mobile and check the time, it was 6:50am I am not late. I had my alarm at 7am, it means I woke up early than my alarm; I got up and went to the bathroom.

On the second day of school, I got Katherine and Jeanna and Mitch as my new friends. I shared my lunch with them.

As days passed by I got to know all my classmates better and better.



NOTE: I will continue this story later :P
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My new hobby?

Yesterday was a boring day and I don't know what to do. I just stayed here in my room thinking what to do, there's a lot of things to do but I don't know which one to start. Early this morning, I was like "what if I write a story" like a fan fiction, s short story - something like that. I woke up having this thoughts on my mind. As soon as I'm done doing girl stuffs, I turned my computer on and started writing a story. Of course before I started to write I have to think first, what to write, lmao.

I wrote 6 pages this day and I'm way too far to the ending. I'm actually on the beginning of the love story 'cause I mean the two characters haven't met yet.

I realized how hard making a story, haha. Every minute I changed my mind and I have to delete the story again. The situation is keep on changing. I guess this is just normal, this is my first story to make so I know this is going to be bad. Someday if I reread the story again, it might be sounds funny and awkward. But anyway, I am hoping that this story will be finished sooner or later. I know I could finish this if I continue to have this enthusiasm.

I think it's awesome to have your own story.

I think through this I can learn and improve my english and at the same time I can improve my skills in writing.

Wish me luck people, haha

My IELTS result

The day my IELTS result was posted on internet. Here's the story.....

I can't forget that day, it was Friday of May 21, 2010. The day of releasing our results. I can't wait for this day to come, I was very anxious and nervous what the result might be. Thursday afternoon, my mom told me that tomorrow we will going to your uncle's house, 'cause within that week my uncle died and mom has already planned to go there that day, perhaps she made a promise to come there in Friday.

During that night I can't sleep, I'm really nervous 'cause I know how tough the test were. I can't convinced myself to at least calm down as the result is yet to come. I really need to sleep 'cause I'll have to drive long hours in the morning, I fell asleep around 1am - not that bad. I woke up early in the morning, 6am to be specific and right away I turned my computer on and went directly to British council org wherein the result is posted.

Unfortunately, the result was not yet posted. I'm very disappointed, I tried many times and ended up in the same result. My mom called me to take breakfast and get ready 'cause we need to leave early so we could get back in the afternoon. I shut my computer down disappointed and help myself before we took off.

As soon as we got to La Carlota, one of my classmate in review school text me. She said, hey Arlene the results are already posted, go check your result now I have seen mine already. After reading her text, I was like "shit!" and then I asked her, what is your result? and she said 6, she needed 7 but her grandmother said, 6 is okay she can go to London as soon as her papers will be finished.

Again, I don't know what to do. Some of my relatives asked me and I don't know what to say. Most of the time I'm just answering the question without asking them back, like you know entertaining them since we've just seen each other again after a long time. My mind was occupied by my result.

As soon as we reached the house, I went straight to my room and turned on my computer and went directly to British Council org. I typed my candidate number, passport number, birthday and date when I took exam. The result automatically appeared and wallah! hahaha, can see my result now. I'm so happy and satisfied of what I've seen I got 6.5 bandscore. And for me 6.5 is more than to what I really needed. God is really really good.

I told my result to mom right away and I text my sisters in Australia and they're all happy and very proud of me. hahah. I know this is just small for some people but for me it is big. May God continue to showing his blessings upon us!!!!

Page problem

I kinda like this template for my blog, but there's something wrong with it and I can't make it work right. The post-time box is not working, seriously it's disgusting, it took time for me to change the code but I didn't succeed. As long as I love this template, I will use till I decided to change it to a new one. I will just ignore that failure though I really want to see my site perfectly well and organize.

I think this template fits with my blogs, since I titled it "a diary". I like brown background, just like a rip off pages of a notebook it's pretty cute and romantic.

How ridiculous to post your diary online, right? diary is suppose to be private, but since I prefer to show it publicly then there's no problem about it, I mean there's really nothing wrong with my writings at all. It's just for fun, I don't care who reads it and what they think. But I'm hoping they will enjoy reading some if it. It full of happiness, hatred, sadness, to mention a few.

Today's weather

The weather these couple of days are not quite good. It’s cold and it’s raining continuously, though I always said I love cold weather. This time the wind is blowing so hard and it is noisy, especially during night time, I feel like the roof is gonna fly somewhere. I’m afraid we woke up so bright tomorrow knowing the sun light was finally came out, but the fact is our roof was blew by the wind. haha. That’s horrible.

Anyway, yeah, I am wearing my jacket and pyjama now. I am fully covered, I feel like I want to sleep, but I have to stay awake anyway or else I can’t study my lessons, I’ve wasted my time so much so I think it’s enough. Time to discipline myself before anything went too late. I still have a Month of review for IELTS.

Life after holiday

God damn, I hate being far away from internet. Three weeks without studying english is like a big flop, so here I am now can’t write quickly and automatically because of long absents. I lost lots of words and forgot how to use lots of english slangs and new words I learned before the holiday. So hard to adjust again, my mind is still focusing and remembering those happy days I had with my old-friends last Christmas (I missed it already).

Anyway, I’m just forcing myself to write atleast one blog right now, so my mind will slowly work and back to normal. It’s quite frustrating to realized that I’m going to be clumsy after the holiday break, but anyway, I have to clam down and start studying again. Oh no back to base again:(

What is your new year resolution by the way?

Mine?? Improving my english and make it better as I could. Second, to unleash the power within and becoming strong in every thing that will come into my life this year. And lastly to be good with my family, I will make them happy while we’re still together, who knows tomorrow I won’t be with them:( right? (Hey! I’m not talking about dying huh?! hehe, but we can conseder it) Anyway, Living in other country without my mom is my big problem, it’ll kill me. After all, who will takes care of her? I still have a family left behind for her, but my care is defferent. I don’t want to talk about this for now, it makes me sad:(

How are you doing up there my friends? Are you having a great weekend? Anyway, Wishing you all the very best this year.

7days to go before X-mas

Christmas is just around the corner. I wake up early in the morning since wednesday December 16 to attend the dawn mass or we call it “Misa de Gallo” for nine days, that is our christmas costum here in the Philippines. And on the 24th midnight of December I will attend the midnight mass to welcome the birth of the saviour, that is our annual tradition.

That is why my dear friends I’m pretty tired these days, I don’t have so much time to join social networking, my schedule is too hectic but I love this, being busy is much better:)

I hope you guys are having an upbeat week. Cheers mate!!!

Person I admire most

I have learned some motivational and inspirational words from the world-renowned inspirational life success coach Anthony Robbins. He is a good motivator and a good adviser. He is very successful in his career; he helped a lot of people including those famous athletes, actors, CEO’s and leaders of different organizations, even former president Bill Clinton asked his advice. And some of the most successful and famous internet businessmen like John Reese and Frank Kern asking his advice.

Tony Robbins is helping people to find their gift, how to become successful and to achieve their goals, in whatever fields or class. That’s the good thing about him, he is random and very smart . Actually, I haven’t read any of his books yet, but I’m hoping to read it one day and of course his seminars are very useful, I also want to attend one of his seminar one day. He is the famous person I admire most; he is very successful and kind to everybody, he is willing to help and share his knowledge to everyone. He is a good model to everyone, he shows people that every one of us has a potential to become successful in any way. He inspired me most, he taught me to fight against the fear, to unleash the power within, to make a plan and follow through to reach your dreams.

Now I have an idea that whenever I’m feeling down or insecure I have to find a successful model and copy their technique, know what they did when they were in my situation and how they faced it. That’s the leason I learned as I watch one of Tony Robbins’ videos. He is amazing man and very strong. He is not afraid of taking risk and he set aside his fears, that makes him very successful in both ways – career and family. Like Tony Robbins, we should unleash the power within!