Balik Aklat Project #03: Buwan, buwan hulugan mo ako ng sundang

Dalawang Dekada ng Maiikling Kuwento ni Lualhati Bautista

Balik Aklat Project #02: Ang Huling Dalagang Bukid at ang Authobiography na Mali: Isang Imbestigasyon

Patok na patok sa mga bagets si Bob Ong. Nung minsan, sa office, may nagtanong sa akin kung ako raw ba si Bob Ong - pareho raw kaming sumulat. Aba, sumirko ang puso ko pero may kirot. Sayang, hindi nakilala ng lahat ang nagpauso ng writing style na kinasikat ni Bob... Si Sir Jun Cruz Reyes. Hindi si Bob Ong ang peg ko. Si Sir Jun. Forever yan.

Highschool ako noong una kong nabasa ang "Utos ng Hari." Para sa bagets na naghahanap ng boses at kakampi sa mga tanong na walang gustong sumagot, malalim ang impluensya ni Sir Jun. Noong nalaman kong professor siya sa UP, araw-araw akong nagsi-sit in sa klase niya kahit tapos na ako sa Humanidades. Cult following ang drama.

Manunulat, pintor, iskultor, hard core bookworm. Hindi mahilig mag-ayos (akala nung mga kaklase ko, noong unang araw siyang pumasok - janitor na tumatambay sa classroom). Walang ere. Walang kinikilalang batas sa proseso ng paglikha.

Sa halos isang semestre na ako'y salimpusa sa klase niya, sa ilang libro na hiniram ko (walang pera guysh) o iniregalo sa akin (nakuha sa pagmamakaawa), mga kwento, pagninilay-nilay at pangaral niya ang aking utopia.

Kaya nung makita ko ito sa Powerbooks, hindi ko na binitiwan (uy, may pambili na!). Matanda na ako para kumapit sa pangarap na makasama siya sa mga writing workshop o bumuntot-buntot sa kanya kahit saan siya magsuot. Pero lagi pa rin akong burara. Alam na niya ang ibig sabihin non. At balang araw, kahit di ko pa alam kung paano, magagawan ko ng paraan na ikarangal niyang ako ay isang fan (mapapangiwi siya rito).

Balik Aklat Project #01: Alice in Wonderland

With great power comes great responsibility... and less time for reading. I hope this new chapter in my life gives me more time to feed the famished mind.

Currently Reading: Out of the Blue

Great news (for someone very dear to me) got me devastated. I asked some friends to go drinking but our conflicting schedules are bitches. And so like so many years ago, when I needed some listening ears but I didn't have friends, I turned to books. There's a little library at work, thank God. This one seemed like good company. I totally get her.

"TV weather presenter Faith is very good at forecasting the weather, yet can't predict the big cold snap in her own life that's heading her way as her husband Peter starts to stray. Faith's two teenage children are behaving very oddly, Faith's best friend, the brilliant but bitchy magazine editor, Lily Jago, is seemingly supportive, but is following her own selfish agenda. Only the family dog, Graham, offers Faith the fidelity and reassurance that she craves. But then Faith meets Jos, a handsome theatre designer, but is he all that he seems to be...?" Buy it here...

Author: Isabel Wolff (http://www.isabelwolff.com/)
Published by: HarperCollins 2001
ISBN: 0-00-651341-7

Blessed by Book Gods

I've been wanting to get a copy of this book for the past six years... ok fine, been waiting for anyone to give it to me as a gift too. Last night, I saw it on display in Books for Less (3/F RCBC Plaza). It glistened in the dark! This morning, I got it! I got it! I got! I'm the happiest wife today - for only PhP298.

I love the core concepts presented in this book. I love it so much, that I feel that it should be a required couple reading - before that one big step towards being a couple. Again, COUPLE READING. It should be read by both parties who wish to pursue a long-term fulfilling relationship.



"The 5 Love Languages® has helped countless couples identify practical and powerful ways to express love, simply by using the appropriate love language. Many husbands and wives who had spent years struggling through marriages they thought were loveless discovered one or both spouses had long been showing love through messages that weren’t getting through. By recognizing their different love languages, they witnessed the rebirth of the love they thought had been gone for good."

~read more about the book here

This nasty routine

Must STOP.

1. Post blog entry for the day (with net surfing)
2. Process work emails
3. Work
4. Watch FRIENDS
5. Repeat 1-4 when I wake up in the middle of my "night"

This is what I should be doing after shift:

1. Post blog entry for the day
2. Shut down laptop
3. Read book

And I start today with this chick lit title.


He's Just Not That Into You:
The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
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