I’m nominated for the Liebster Award *whoot whoot* so I did a little research about the award. Thank you for this very helpful post from Lorraine, it seems that she already did all the research work so I just have to read her post about it. Basically, Liebster, which means dearest, sweetest, kindest, nicest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, welcome, sweetheart and boyfriend (?!?) in German, award is like a chain letter for bloggers here on the internet, especially the new ones (like me) to be discovered and potentially have a community to belong to.
Lorraine also published the “official rule” so I’m snatching it up but publishing her poetry blog in return. I bet this is going to be long but hey, I’m in the mood right now so here it goes:
The Official Rules Of The Liebster Award
If you have been nominated for The Liebster Award AND YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, write a blog post about the Liebster award in which you:
1. Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog on your blog.
2. Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”. (Note that the best way to do this is to save the image to your own computer and then upload it to your blog post.)
3. Answer 11 questions about yourself, which will be provided to you by the person who nominated you.
4. Provide 11 random facts about yourself.
5. Nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers. (Note that you can always ask the blog owner this since not all blogs display a widget that lets the readers know this information!)
6. Create a new list of questions for the blogger to answer.
7. List these rules in your post (You can copy and paste from here.) Once you have written and published it, you then have to:
8. Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that they have been nominated for the Liebster award and provide a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it (they might not have ever heard of it!)
So it begins…
Yay. Thank you youcancallmefrance for the nomination, really. I just decided that I should be active on blogging. Again. This is one way of having interaction with the wonderful people here in WordPress.
These are her questions and my answers:
1. What is life?
– A little bit philosophical for a first question. Hahaha. For me life is a series of struggle and success. It is the reason why you continue to pay forward because you’re hungry for what it can still offer you. It is one heck of a ride and you have to enjoy the ride.
2. If you can go to a certain place right now, where would that be?
– I think I’ll go to Bontoc. One time, I was having a drink with my friend and I asked him right up and said “Dude, we have to go to Bontoc,” because I just watched a very striking documentary (Walang Rape sa Bontoc). I want to visit the place because there rape culture doesn’t seem to exist there and the females are being valued as much as the males. It is a concrete example that we can eliminate (and should not tolerate) rape culture and live confidently that no matter what time it is or what we wear, we will never be sexually harassed or abused.
3. What’s your favorite food?
– I don’t discriminate when it comes to food but if you insist, in a snap even when I’m asleep I must say it is pizza.
4. How would you know that you love the person?
– Here comes the ‘love’ questions I’ve been dreading to answer. Lol. Love knows no formula and doesn’t really have the ‘official’ guidelines. Don’t get me started about the handbook crap they try to sell to us. Anyway, for me you’re fucked up already in love if you think about this person most of the time. When talking with friends, you always have one or two things to say about him without even realizing what you’re doing. You just catch yourself thinking about him because you saw a kid with an Iron Man costume, in short, you always remember him/her because of the most random things around you. I think it’s the pile of little things that will make you realize that yes, you already love that person.
5. What’s your favourite song?
– Like my all time favorite? Hmm, tough one but I’ll probably go with ‘Gives You Hell’. It’s classic, catchy and contradicting. Why? Because “truth be told I miss you, truth be told I’m lying…”
6. If you found yourself one day alone on earth, what would you do?
– I’ll run naked and ticked off one by one the things on my Rebel’s To-Do list (not that it exist, as of now).
7. What’s your favorite art piece?
– I wanted to say some fancy pants painter from the Renaissance period but meh. I don’t really have a favorite art piece but I really like the abstract ones, the pieces that makes you feel them rather than see them. I guess that’s what should art be, they must make you feel something.
8. Do you think television is really an idiot box?
– Not really. There are really really interesting things you can find on the telly but we should never just take it all in. We should always strive to be critical about everything people say around us. Most of them have hidden intentions and preconceptions about everything on the table so we must put an effort in order to double check these information. In that way, we can come up with our own opinion (based on facts and gathered information from reliable resources). Some may say that we can never eliminate bias but at least we can try to have much raw data as needed before we make a conclusion.
9. Will you consider blogging as a form of passion?
– Of course, any form of action where you put your heart (plus effort, time and effort 2.0) on it then it can really be a passion. Blogging is not just about writing down what makes you sad, happy or angry. It is more of a community telling each other virtually that you’re not in this alone and there are people out there that share the same journey. If your passion is writing about everything that seems boring and ordinary for others so what? Who says your passion and goal is only to please others anyway?
10. What makes you happy?
– Kids, pizza, park, sweater, free food, lame jokes, my awesome tweets, my witty comebacks and a lot of little things that money cannot really buy. I know that line is very cliche but I’m being practical more than being sentimental. Dude, believe me when I say that I literally stopped myself from wanting luxury cars and fancy houses because that would be very hard for me to acquire as of now. I mean, what else do you want? Free things that make you happy, that’s the real deal.
11. How do you define fate?
– I don’t believe solely on fate itself. I think there are times and situations where you have to act for yourself in order to achieve what you want. If you know that you already did your part then go ahead and take a seat and see what will happen next. Fate is the scene after you played your role. It is when the dice is not on your hands anymore but already up in the air and whatever happens when it landed, is due to the decisions you made and the external factors that influenced it.
11 Random Facts About Me
1. I’m already eighteen. I did not have a debut party because that’s a lot of effort and I don’t see the need to spend that much money for a night just because I turned eighteen. The only reason that calls for a celebration is that I can already drink so that’s what I did, I bought one bottle of vodka and chugged it down like a pro.
2. I was born on January 1, 1997. I know I entered this world with a bang so I must leave this world with as much hype. Hahahaha.
3. I have been blogging since freshman year in high school. From planetalec on blogspot (may it rest in peace) and three Tumblr blogs to this one, alectricenergy. I will try my very best to keep this alive and I shall declare that this will be my last blog (because I intend on keeping it until I’m 83718318371873812 years old).
4. I want to have mind-reading powers. It has to do with me wanting to know everything. It is not just about curiosity (man, nine lives are not enough to satisfy my curiosity) but the thirst to gain new knowledge that you can use to converse with different people every day.
5. I get pissed of really quick about the small stuff. I really try not to but sometimes things get under my skin and I can’t help it. There are times when the world says “Oh, let’s annoy Alec today and the next day and the next.” When that happens, I just let my middle finger to the talking.
6. Jack of all trades, master of none. I don’t how to feel about this. Sometimes it comes very handy but sometimes it doesn’t. When people ask me what’s my talent I always ended up saying a little bit of this, of that and a tad bit of this again. When I’m really really lazy to explain, I just say that I don’t have a talent.
7. One time I tried hitting the gym and for two days my whole body is aching like crazy. I never went back since then.
8. One (major) realization I had in college is that I love and will never get tired eating pancit and fried chicken. When I failed my removals, I ate pancit loglog just to comfort myself.
9. I love watching people in their most natural way. No hint of being pretentious or being someone else. I observe them when they think no one is watching. No I’m not a creep, it’s just people have really nice smile when they do it and feel it for themselves.
10. I love talking a late night walk just to clear my head of things. It is my own cheap version of me time plus I get to watch people and make stories about them. Sometimes, I walk with a friend and talk about anything that pops in our head. It’s nice.
11. I always attract lonely ones.
1. What word (only one) would you use to describe yourself?
2. Do you believe in love at first sight aliens?
3. What is your comfort food?
5. What do you think of gender roles?
7. What is your favorite genre of books?
8. If you could only listen to one song and watch a single movie for your entire life, what would these be? Why?
9. What is the craziest thing you did?
10. Which do you prefer hugs or kisses?
11. What is the thing you like the most about yourself?