On The diary of a young girl

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Remarkably good book. This book inspires me to face tomorrow and every challenge or boredom that is within that tomorrow.

It shows that one can find love admist of war, that one can still be happy though you are hiding in a secret place. Anne Frank here supports Rihanna in saying that "We found love in a hopeless place."

Too bad that  she died in a young age, but at least she had managed to understand things better, see things clearly and be mature & grow up.

It is nice that Anne Frank can keep a journal without it being seen by her parents. I wonder what would happen if her parents saw that journal like my parents has seen mine before - which is the reason why I am not keeping one now.

It is also nice that Anne's wish to live even after death is fulfilled by having a Anne Frank foundation and also by her diary being published.

She sure can organize and write her thoughts well. I'm pretty sure that if ever she lives longer, she would be a great writer or a remarkable journalist.


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On Lolita

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I found the book surprisingly boring. Seriously, it did, big time bores me. I at first did not know the plot, I just heard that this is a "must-read" so I bought it and excitedly read it. And then boom, it bores me to death. I literally skipped pages. I'm sorry.

But all in all, I think it's a good book. I love the story! If my rating of this book would just be based on the plot of the story and characters, I might give this a 5 out of 5, but because of the boring execution of story, and my love-hate relationship with the characters, here's a 3.

Lolita if I may say is such a bitch at an early age. She even say in the book "I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are." OH NO YOU DIDN'T! That part is really heartbreaking. I'm currently having a love-hate relationship with Lo's character right now.

Same as my feelings for Lo, I am also having a love-hate relationship with Humbert. I think it is really nice that you are that in love with a person and that you will do anything for that person. But I think being too much in love and obsessed and too much under that person is really BAD.

I love the story. But no joke, it bores me to death.


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On Aleph

Aleph by Mark Bramhall (Narrator) Paulo Coelho
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The book made me realize that one can really love two different person at a time. You can love another one even if you're committed with someone without being called a womanizer or anything that you can relate to that.


Paulo Coelho's Aleph is about Paulo having met a woman he loved 500 years ago, in the current time wherein he is 59 years old and the girl is 21 years old. He met the girl, Hilal, again in a different time, the now, where in Paulo is already stabled with his wife.


Paulo admitted that he loves Hilal but then he loves his wife. It's just nice that he embraces the fact that he's now with the woman he loved 500 years ago bu then he didn't leave his wife because he's committed to her and because he really loves her.


I don't know, I really love the book. Every Paulo Coelho book makes me don't wanna stop reading. Seriously.


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On Snuff

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

At first, I thought I was just reading porn. Yes, reading, not watching which makes this book a unique one. It's my first time to encounter a book where in porn making is illustrated.

I thought it was just about porn, about a lady trying to be legendary by having sex with 600 men in a day, beating other records.

But Chuck Palahniuk is good enough to put a twist that a boy is one of the 600 males to have sex with the porn star, Cassie Wright, and that boy claims himself as Cassie's son.

The boy, #72, said that he does not want to have sex with her birth mother and that he just want to give his mom a new life. He just want to get his mother out of that life.

And Palahniuk is better enough to put another twist that it turns out that #72 is not Cassie's child that her child is a girl and that she is just saying that its a boy.

Another twist, a big one, is that Cassie's Personal-Assistant-ish Shiela, was her birth child and she knows that since she first lay her eyes on her.

Cassie has been given poison and she realize this that she said to her daughter that she knows she's her child and that she wants to give her another life.

It turns out that she's making all the money so that her daughter would be rich. She knows she'll die one day and that she wants to ensure her daughters future.

I like the twists of the book. I like how Palahniuk makes your mind think that this is what's happening and all of a sudden, changes everything. A must read!


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True story

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Darling,

A friend of mine - whom I call darling - who don't usually blog her feelings surprised me on her recent post about a guy who just broke her heart. Well I am aware that there is this new "someone" in her life and that she is happy. Then one day she began tweeting some i-am-heartbroken-tweets on Twitter and it breaks my heart. So as a friend, I'm there to message her saying that everything is okay and stuffs.

She does not have the time or maybe she don't want to make kwento. But me being likas na chismosa and her, posting the story in her blog, I'm down to my conclusion that the guy is ... sorry darling but he's a asshole.

Sinong matinong lalake ang magpapaasa, magiging sweet sayo tapos kapag may dumating na isa sasabihin mo lang na 'matagal mo na siyang gusto' at feeling mo walang ibang nasasaktan. Sinong matinog lalake ang gumagawa non? Putangina.

That is so wrong. Guys, if you like a girl, before making sweet gestures and making landi to that girl, make sure you have enough balls to stand up for that shit. Kasi putangina, kung hindi mo kaya manindigan, huwag kang makipaglandian. Pakyu ka pala e.

If you'll make landi, be sure na sa isa lang. And if that person is making landi back at you, alam mo na, may feelings na yan. Wag ka na mag inaso na kapag may dumating na bago aayaw ka na sa isa. Gago ba you? Hindi ito laro okay. Bawal reservations. Bawal substitution.

Mga lalake talaga o. Kuplikado ng buhay e. Hindi uubra sa buhay yung "Sana dalawa ang puso ko" okay? Isa lang yan and deal with it. Makuntento ka. Guys, okay lang lumandi pero know your limits naman. Wag naman sobra. At kung lalandi man, alam mo dapat yung mga kaakibat ng paglalandi niyo. Kaloka.

At darling, wala na akong message sa'yo. Na comment ko na dun sa post mo. Sorry for this, kailangan ko lang din ilabas nararamdaman ko. Haha! I love you. Smile!

Light in Black and White

I don't mean to give a deeper meaning on the title because all I'm trying to say is that there is really light in this black and white picture. So yesterday, we've been to Enchanted Kingdom - I'm with family and relatives (FUN) - then I've set my camera's settings into BNW. Sepia later on. It's cute kasi. 

Though Black and White is good and simple. Standard is still better...

Thank you EK for that fun experience! Never fails. Way better that Star City, sorry hihi. 1hr to 2hr na pila for every ride but it's really worth it. Super daming tao. 12 o'clock nag close. Tapos 1st time ko hindi na-wet sa Rio Grande. AS IN. Super dry ako. Waduup. In the meantime, I'll post an irrelevant photo of the carousel. Sorry. Haha! Cute kasi ang sepia.  Lol.

Trash all the stash

So tomorrow I'll be throwing away all my stash, lighter and cigs all because of a incident that happened earlier. My father asked me "Bakit may lighter ka sa bag mo?" And I answered "Kapag brownout" And I'm like what kind of answer is that. Tanga tanga tanga!!

Every time I see my mother and father I can't help but to think if they are thinking of me, smoking; if they think I drink then I smoke. I don't know, I think they are judging me know in their minds and I hate this feeling.

This is also the reason why I am so paranoid and freaked out about me to make pa medical most especially the xray result because I think that they will look at it closely to see if I am smoking or not. (See recent post)

It's a good thing that classes starts January 3 because I can have the privileged to not take my medical exam with my father. If that happens, I am so dead. Good thing that there is the UST hospital and that I can make this as a reason for me to take my medical exam at Manila.

It all starts with a lighter. With this, I'm throwing my lighter away. Fuck you lighter.

I'm so dead

So I need to have my medical certificate for papa's work shit and because of this, I'll have to go to the hospital and be checked of course. So I'm nervous about my Xray result and drug test.

I planned to buy a clean result XRAY film but then my friends told me that they don't have that shit and that they doubt if they are selling it. So now my plan is to have my clean friend "XRAY-ed" then I will use that as mine.

I then planned to go to Recto to make pagawa a fake medical certificate. But I'm really nervous that if they realized that it's fake then I'm so so so dead. So I think it would be better if I really go to the hospital and got myself checked.

I asked my friend who have taken weed, cocaine and LSD if he's negative in his drug test and he said yes, he said that milk and water therapy really worked for him.

I'm being paranoid all over here and he's laughing at me saying that I'm paranoid and that "Tae" daw ako. What can I do? I'm so dead if they found out that I've turned into this... I hate myself now. Which reminds me that this might not be a good time to write that About Me paper for Marriage and Family.

Anyways, I'm down with this plan. I'll bring a friend to have her XRAY and then I'll make pa medical na and if the drug result is negative, then I can breathe again but if its positive, I'm going back to the original plan: Oplan Recto.

Milk. Pineapple Juice. Yakult. All for the medical certificate.
Pray for me, guise.

Christmas 2011

Christmas Eve


It's kinda sad that we have to celebrate our Christmas Eve here at our house because of the new born baby and not the way it used to be where in we go to Batangas and celebrate Christmas Eve with other relatives. But on a brighter note, at least we've got the chance to go to Batangas on Christmas day up to Dec 26.

Christmas


At the age of 20, this Christmas is the first Christmas ever where I have been able to be with my friends and drink with them. Even though I don't have my parent's permission, I feel light that I have fulfilled that thing. I really want to drink on Christmas Day!! Anything wrong with that?

It's also nice how my parents give money and things to kids they know and even to the kids that they don't know. Made me proud that we're related.

This is also the first Christmas were I've given gifts to my relatives. But I have not spend money. I'm broke. I just give them books (my books) because I believe that 'It's the thought that counts!' My books are important to me, they know that, so I think they have received the message.

Though it's better to give than to receive, it is really really nice to receive!!
And the highlight of every Christmas: Gifts, baby!

These are from my relatives. Thank you. I love you all. Merry Christmas!