2007 in 7 Lists of 7
It’s been my tradition here in my blog to post a yearend entry (2005, 2006). I usually post the most memorable things that happened to me from the very first day of January until December in my year ender specials, and in 2006, I’ve also included a list of my favorite entries for the whole year. But this year, I decided to make seven lists of seven. The lists talk about the best of 2007 except for the news category. I’ve also added notes here and there, and some are potential spoilers so be warned!
Most of the things that I have listed below are in either chronological or alphabetical order.
Books
This year, I was able to read 15 books, almost twice than last year. I really had fun reading this year.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — JK Rowling: The ending of Harry Potter’s epic tale was really fantastic. JK ended it with a fitting finale. How I wish there is a sequel to this book, but then, the time has come to end this very fascinating story.
- The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini: I like this book very much. Furthermore, this is the best book I have read in my entire life. Unlike other fiction reads, this book is realistic. I recommend this to all, but most especially to those people who are not hooked into books and to Afghan refugees.
- A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
- The Chinese Cinderella — Adeline Yen Mah: [My Review]
- Youngblood3 edited by Artura, et al: If you’re into Filipino literature, this is the book that you should buy. Very entertaining. And this is not fiction, by the way. [My Review]
- The Dogs of Babel — Carolyn Parkhurst: The weirdest book I have ever read. It’s about Paul, a linguist, who tries to teach his dog how to speak. No, not because he’s out of his mind but because he wanted to know the real cause of his wife’s death. The words Parkhurst used in the ending of the story were really strong. [My Review]
- For One More Day — Mitch Albom: Another tale about death. Yes, it’s a good book, but how I wish Albom would explore other topics. [My Review]
If you have read these books, you would notice that most of them are sad stories, but yeah, the characters lived happily ever after.
Songs
- 1234 — Feist
- Chasing Cars — Snow Patrol
- Here (In Your Arms) — Hellogoodbye
- How to Save a Life — The Fray
- Marching Bands of Manhattan — Death Cab for Cutie
- Samson — Regina Spektor
- Such Great Heights — The Postal Service
Entries
- Faulty Schedule: My craziest misadventure this year. In this entry, I wrote how I spent almost 12 hours… in the mall.
- The Perfect Duo: Chemistry and Zoology: You would fail these two subject if you don’t know how to memorize. And would you believe me that I enjoyed them? Haha.
- The Divine Subjects: A review of my subjects back in first year, second semester. I used Dante’s concept in his Divine Comedy to give the final verdict for each of my subjects.
- Stinks and Sells: I particularly enjoyed writing this. It’s my own version of what’s in and what’s out.
- Big Surprises: The story how I acquired my notebook.
- Let’s Talk About Grades (Part 2): What I realized in these posts was that grades aren’t everything.
- Signs and Symptoms of Stress: The title says it all. I had a good time writing this and rereading it makes me laugh. XD
I know that the title of this entry says that for every list, there are seven items. But I have to break that because I reckon I have more interesting entries this year. And so we continue…
- Shampoo Commercials: A rant about advertisements.
- Enrollment Day Disaster: I don’t want this to happen again!
- Sisa Kalusa: The story of my friend who got insane.
- An Open Letter: I included this not because I like the post, but because the bad experience I related in this entry never happened to me before and I never expected it.
Web Apps
- Last.fm: A cool way to discover music.
- Google Reader: This one is a bit old, it’s been out since like two years ago. But it deserves a spot here.
- Twitter: Who doesn’t love Twittering, eh? It’s enjoyable even though there is a maximum of 140 characters per tweet.
- Sxipper: This one is actually a Firefox plugin. It can automatically input your information in every single form. It can also remember and generate passwords for you. A similar service is Clipperz.com.
- del.icio.us
- Flickr
- Google Apps: Sign up and get your @yourdomain.com mail. All of the essential features of GMail are included. There are also other available applications that you can use.
News
Unlike the other categories, this one does not talk about the bests of 2007. These are the breaking news here in the Philippines. Majority of these are bad news.
- Bus Hostage
- The Glorietta 2 Blast: What’s the latest developement? Have they solved this?
- Mariannete Ampere’s Suicide: A very very sad story
- Erap’s Pardon: No way!
- House of Representatives Bombing
- The Peninsula Hotel Siege: Trillanes, please spare the hotels. Lol.
- Peso’s Increasing Value: How come we cannot feel it?
Bloggers
- Dan Hellbound
- Gean
- Isley: I’m now hosting her blog, by the way. But I would not reveal where you can find her blog yet.
- Juice
- Kevin
- Rachel
- Tammy
I had fun reading your blogs! Keep on writing interesting blog entries!
WordPress Plugins
- Google XML Sitemaps
- OneClick Installer
- Redirection
- Twitter Tools
- Viper’s Video Quicktags
- WP-Footnotes
- WP AJAX Edit Comments
Yes, I know, most of things/persons that I have listed above (Especially in books, songs, web apps, and bloggers) were not published/released or didn’t start blogging this year. But then, this is my blog. Haha.
Well, I suppose, this is my last entry for this year. May everyone have a prosperous 2008! Rock on!
