I’m still in the process of searching for my niche when it comes to photography. But I am really drawn to landscapes. As a child, I only have my imagination to escape the reality I grew up in. And now, being able to capture scenes like this, somehow made scenes in my mind a reality. A reality that life can be amazing and not only for a moment, as I can preserve it- frozen in a timeless image like these.
To the children of broken homes, working students, youth with broken dreams, just keep on pushing. Don’t focus on the prize anymore, just do your best and God will do the rest!”
Sherisse Condenuevo
Allow me to fulminate some childhood memories. 20 years ago, I was struggling as a working student, I couldn’t afford to buy a book so I used to rent. When the-most-talked-about-book came out, I went out to rent it. Deposit was 300php, 100 to rent and number 30th on the long que lol. I couldn’t imagine I would ever be coming to this magical place. It’s just surreal.
To the children of broken homes, working students, broken dreams, just keep on pushing. Don’t focus on the prize, just do your best and God will do the rest!
“Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14
I finally had matured enough to realise Hogwarts school is never real. It was so good of a story it’s hard to believe it just didn’t exist. But what I discovered is it was patterned to George Heriot School. It is amazing how people all over the world stand outside it’s premises just to get a piece of that Hogwarts experience.
At the end of Goblet of Fire we saw an analapsis of Voldemort’s old spells, which were murders. The spell is known as Priori Incantatem, where a wand forces another wand to reveal the spells of its past. How? Because Harry and Voldemort’s wand share the same core, a tail of the Phoenix Fawkes. And this is where it all started, the inspiration behind Diagon Alley.
Seeking immortality, he thought he’d split his soul into 7 pieces and conceal it in objects with symbolic value. If someone destroys his body, he can revive himself from the parts of his soul embedded in the objects. But in the end he died and all 7 horcruxes he made was destroyed. He was buried in the place where no grass will grow. Tom Marvolo Riddle, an anagram for his titled name “I am Lord Voldemort” was inspired by real life Thomas Ridell.
Even as a struggling single mom living on welfare, she never gave up on her childhood dream. She wanted to be a writer. She wrote her story for around 6 years only to be rejected 12 times. Finally she got a deal and was paid 2500pounds as advance. And now, following her footsteps to the cafe “The Elephant House” where she mostly wrote her breakthrough book. I wish to find that same fire she had to keep pushing forward to reaching her dreams, unfortunately it was closed during my visit.
Edinburgh is the home of the greatest writers in Scottish history: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Prof William Macgonagall is also not left out. Made famous by JK Rowling. His last name was adopted to be one of the famous characters in the Harry Potter series. He was originally the worst Poet ever, and even having this title surely didn’t hinder him from being celebrated till this day.
Note to self: keep on writing even if you suck at it!
For most people, The Balmoral Hotel is an icon of luxurious and privileged lifestyle. It has also been the shelter of a rags-to-riches-author, JK Rowling. Whilst the first three books of the best selling novel of all time, the Harry Potter Series, was written mostly at The Elephant House, the last books were written in one of the suites. Who would have thought a single mom, living on welfare, and almost homeless would be the world’s first billionaire author. All it takes is one WILD IMAGINATION!
Sherisse Condenuevo 