Reading List

Posted on April 13, 2007 at 6:49 pm | 10 Comments
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So I was not able to attend iblog3 today. I hope I can be there tomorrow (it’s a two-day event). And here I am, stuck in our house.

I was bloghopping this morning, but there were only a few blogs that interested me so I decided to read some of the articles published in the PDI under the column Youngblood that I’ve been able to bookmark but wasn’t able to read until now because I was very busy at school. I really enjoy reading these articles. Last March, finally, I was able to finish the second Youngblood book (Youngblood 2.0), it’s an anthology of essays lifted from the column counterpart.

Now, I’m looking for the prequel of it, The Best of Youngblood. It looks like it’s not available in the market anymore. I’ve been looking for it in bookshelves, stands, and in our library. But I was not successful looking for it. My cousin reckons she have seen a copy of it in a branch of NBS somewhere in Metro Manila. Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of it? Or if you have one, could I buy it? My cousin confirmed to me that she has seen one. And I won’t tell you where. Haha. Okay, ask me in your comments if you want to know. Lol. Youngblood is driving me insane! :lol:

Lately, I’ve been supporting Philippine Literature. Aside from the two Youngblood books that I’ve bought, I also bought Luis Katigak’s The King of Nothing to do. It’s yet another book of essays. I’ve read two or three of his essays and it looks like it’s a great book.

Okay, enough of Youngblood. I have this book called The Prestige by Christopher Priest. It was adapted into a movie last year. But I wasn’t able to catch the movie. It’s not magic that caught my attention1. It was the amazing trailer. I love the special effects! Currently, there are less than 70 pages left that I have to read and I’m really enjoying it. I bet I would just go downtown and look for a pirated copy of the movie. The DVD of it is pricey and sorry, I’m currently broke.

Moving on, I’m targeting to finish rereading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (and if I can, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix too) before the end of summer because — I think you already know it — this coming July, the fifth Harry Potter movie (Order of the Phoenix) and the last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released. This is surely one great July to remember! Cool isn’t it? And oh, I don’t like the cover art of the last book. How I wish Mary GrandPré, the illustrator of the US edition books has used monochromic color scheme like what she did with the last two books that were released.

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Off-topic

Even though I’ve read an article regarding the criticisms against Ajax, I’ve still implemented it in my comments. Yeah, I’ve installed another plugin. No, not the one that posts your comment without reloading the page, the plugin that I’ve installed lets you edit your comments for a limited time without reloading the page.

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How was your day? If you haven’t noticed, it’s the Friday the thirteenth today. As I don’t believe in such crap, nothing bad happened to me today! :lol!:

  1. Oh, it’s not the same kind of magic that you see in Harry Potter. It’s more of a stage illusion. [↩]

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Birthday, mouse, classes, today and TLE

Posted on June 6, 2006 at 5:34 pm | 11 Comments
Filed under Daily Dose • Random Realities • School Sabotage

Okay, I’m not ignoring this blog for the past few days, it just happened that I don’t have something to share with you lately. Yes, I can’t think of a decent entry title for this.

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It was the 18th birthday of one of my high school classmates yesterday. No, she did not have an extravagant party where you have to come in formal attire. Half of my high school classmates were present. She treated us at the nearby Yellow Cab. I had a great time with them. We were so noisy that you can even hear our voices down stairs (we were eating at the second floor). It’s my second time to eat a pizza that was ordered at a branch of Yellow Cab. I don’t like it. I prefer Pizza Hut’s famous pizzas. But my classmates really like them. They were munching their pizzas enjoyably while I was pretending that I like those pizzas. I took two slices of pizzas, bad move. I was not able to finish my meal because I don’t really like them. Don’t ask me why I don’t like Yellow Cab, we have our own preferences. I may like something that you may not like and the other way around.

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A cat has slaughtered my two-months-old mouse. I already threw it somewhere because it’s already malfunctioning. Also, one was raped by a vicious cat and another one was killed by a tabby cat. Yesterday, I bought another mouse. I hope this new mouse will last for ages; I don’t want to spend my allowance for another mouse anymore. Oh, good thing the mouse that I bought comes with a free mouse pad. It’s not a fabulous mouse pad but it will do for me since my old mouse pad is getting a bit gross.

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My classes will start on the 13th of this month — a day after Independence Day. I will be lying if I’ll tell you that I’m not excited but I still don’t want to go back to school. Yeah, it’s really ironic.

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It’s 06.06.06 today. Some says this day is an omen of chaos and the like. It’s the stupidest thing that I ever heard during the past month! Just like with Friday the 13th, if you believe that this is a bad day, for sure, you’ll have a bad day. If you think otherwise (just like me) you can have an ordinary day or an extravagant day full of surprises! Don’t be pessimistic!

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I heard (from my high school classmates) that our English teacher who knows “corridor” as “correidor”, who doesn’t even know how to spell “exorcism” & “ghost” and who we always laugh at because he doesn’t really know what he is teaching is now the current TLE (aka THE) teacher of our school. Most of us were laughing (during the party of my previous classmate) because of this. We just really can’t believe that he’s still in that institution as a teacher. I think the curriculum in TLE will be changed because a male teacher was able to secure this job. We can’t even imagine him doing all of those stuffs that our TLE teacher did when she was still teaching like baking. I also heard that our senior adviser laughed when she told this to my classmates! I think I know the reason why he became the TLE teacher, during the last days of the last school year, some of us were asked to evaluate our teachers, and this new TLE teacher got the lowest score from us… straight six (the lowest grade that we can give).

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