Warning: Rant!!!


Taragisan mo, ang hirap mong kausapin! Wala naman akong ginawang masama sayo so bakit ka ganyan pag kausap kita? Taragisan! Nakakasira ka ng araw. Sana di na lang kita nakita kanina para wag nasisira araw ko. Ang ganda na sana e, sumulpot ka pa sa tabi ko para gawing bwisit araw ko. Bwisit ka! Walang kwenta ka.


*Rant over*


Our room was flooded so we had to evacuate and look for an empty classroom upstairs. Had early dismissal coz by the afternoon we could no longer find any free upper floor room.

Got a test in Anatomy tomorrow. Tinatamad akong mag-aral.

My tooth got chipped. Again. Shit.

Despite that, it would've been a good day had it not been for that... never mind. I already ranted.

Am still downloading previous Furuba chapters. Which reminds me, gotta email Seika-chan the url of where I got the raw scans of chap 96 and 97.

WTF?! Sohma Akito is a woman?! @-@

Okay... now I understand Akito's thing against the female Junishis and the attachment towards the males... plus Shigure's overprotectiveness toward Akito... hahahah!!! my my my...
 

I want to live for at least a year in Manhattan; at least 2 years in London; at least another 2 in Paris; 5 years in Rome; 2 years in Athens; 3 years in Kyoto; 2 in Tokyo; a year in Cairo; another year in Jerusalem; and lastly another 2 years touring the Caribbean and South America.

That amounts to 21 years of my life. Two decades… I’m already 23. I have yet to work and earn my own salary. I still have two more years of schooling, at least a year or two of interning and reviewing for the board exam. By that time I’ll be around 27 years old. If I work my butt off from then on for at least a decade maybe then I’ll be able to save enough to travel and live in the places I mentioned above.

Maybe.

That means I’ll be 37 by the time I get to travel like I dream to do… So technically, if I go ahead with this plan of mine, it would mean that my life would only truly start at around 40.

How cliché… gah…

My other plan is to still save loads of money then buy a huge plot of land somewhere in Tagaytay or Baguio, have a villa built on that land that will double as a library open to the public where I’ll hire a couple of stay-in professors to help me teach street children for free.

That seems like a better goal, isn’t it? A hell of a lot more altruistic than the first one where only I would benefit.

And I’m planning these things without any regard whatsoever about whether I’ll marry and have children sometime during all those years. Well, I probably won’t have a husband and kids. I really can’t see myself going the wifely way. I’m just not wife material, I guess. Been told otherwise by a few guys but I really don’t want to think about their saying so.

Went to the burol of a cousin (on my father’s side) last Friday. He was 39 years old, had a girlfriend of 12 years and they were planning on finally getting married this year. He died of course so that’s that. Imagine… 12 years… then poof, he’s gone, just like that. I never met him while he was alive. Didn’t even know he existed until Mom hauled me to his burol. I’ve a thing about my relatives on my father’s side. My thing is that I couldn’t care less if they’re still alive or not. Long story behind that, some of you know it already. Anyway, my mind got slightly changed about them when I heard about my dead cousin and his gf. Wow. The gf was there, saw her sitting beside the coffin just staring at him. I know, I know… kinda creepy the way she was just sitting there, looking lifeless and all, but the thing is, back when I was watching her I didn’t get weirded out (ngayon lang while I’m typing this, but not that much pa rin). Instead I realized that I don’t think I am capable of loving someone as much as she so obviously loved my cousin. I’m just too… self absorbed. Fine, selfish. I admit that. Hey, I have an excuse: I’m an only child. People like me; we tend to be just a bit self-centered.

Maybe that’s why I have two dreams… one where I want to travel by myself and enjoy life as much as I possibly can considering I’m planning to work my ass off to save money just so I can travel; while the other dream of building the library/villa is my own way of saving myself from my own self-centeredness; sure I’ll still be slaving trying to save every centavo for the next several years but heck, if I spend it all on something that would last longer than me and can help other people change their lives for the better, then who am I to not want to do that?

Errr… am I even making any sense?

I want to be able to do both, but I really think that wouldn’t be possible. Unless some miracle happened – like winning the lottery or meeting a billionaire who suddenly wills everything he owns over to me and dies the very next week after he signs the will… miracles like that.

No classes today and tomorrow. We were supposed to have our Apostolate this coming Saturday but even that is postponed coz of the floods. The school itself is flooded. The first floor classrooms have an inch or so of water on the floor. Not very nice. I doubly miss ADMU, but heard from the news that even the Katipunan area is now not free from flooding. The country is literally and figuratively sinking. Wonder if in the future parts of the Philippines will be like Venice? That would be something to see.

Lang magawa. Already studied for my exams (Unit test in PHC and Anatomy) so I don’t have much to do but waste time away. Must find a good novel to read or else I’ll go berserk with boredom. I hate being bored. Can’t go to the mall coz the roads are flooded, ayokong ma-stranded.

The weather’s pretty nice though, never mind the floods and the diseases they’ll most likely bring, I love the coolness of the air. Presko.

Anyway… here are some quizzes:


You are the Sun card. The light of the Sun reveals
all. The Sun is joyful and bright, without fear
or reservation. The childish nature of the Sun
allows you to play and feel free. Exploration
can truly take place in the light of day when
nothing is hidden. The Sun's rays fill you with
energy so that you may live life to its
fullest, milking pleasure out of each day. Such
joy and energy can bring wealth and physical
pleasure. To shine in the light of day is to
have confidence, to soak up its rays is to feel
the freedom of a child. Image from: Stevee
Postman. http://www.stevee.com/


Which Tarot Card Are You?
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You have a free soul! As all the souls go, yours is
the most free-spirited and adventurous. You
like camping, hiking, or interaction with other
people. Your a social butterfly, but not
because of your style, but because of your
willingness to communicate with everyone. You
probably have close friends who can rely on you
because you always seem to know whats going on
in the world. You love music and are
free-spirited and someone fun to be around. A
born leader and great explorer-dont ever
change-the world needs more people like you.


What Kind of SOUL do you posses? (For Girls only) Incredible Anime Pictures!
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Took a break from studies today and watched M.Night Shyamalan’s The Village.

It’s not what I expected. From the trailer I thought it would be Dawn of the Dead-like in its plot; but it really is not.

Loved the idea that anything and everything we hold in terror has a logical explanation behind it.

Makes one think, really. What if everything we know of as truth is a farce all along? And the things that make our culture as it exists today are just ways to control us?

I want to read the book, if there’s even a book. I actually like it. Very much. Liked it better than Signs and Unbreakable.

What I hated were those girls who came, in the middle of the film no less, sat behind me all the while making a lot of ruckus and complained that they couldn’t understand what the story was about and why it wasn’t as scary as they expected it to be. Wanted to cement their huge mouths with plaster just to make them shut up.

Feel sick. Am sick. Cold. Cough. Fever. Feels like head stuffed with cotton. Can't smell nor taste anything. Nice... not. Must drink gallons of fluids. Feel bloated. I absolutely hate having a cold.

Won't rant about the A-Party anymore. No energy. Must find info for assignment. Good thing no class tom. Must also study about Nervous System. Bloody great.

I can’t stop smiling whenever I think about it. ^___^

It is slightly weird how I wish for something in passing and then moments, minutes, or a few hours later it comes true. ^__^

That’s more than five times this happened ^__^

Must be a sign, ne? ^___^

God must really be somewhere up there watching over me. ^____^

I really hope He wills it that my wish will come true one day ^___^


(for those of you who can't understand what the heck I'm blubbering about pasensya na. Me just really really happy. I could be happier, but I really am happy about something right now)

A wonderful piece from epilogue. This one by Leonid Kozienko called the "Last Warrior". Somehow makes me think of John Donne's Holy Sonnet #10  

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.


For some reason, I really really love this poem. Makes me accept death as a natural thing and not some evil entity.

Was surfing through epilogue.net when i saw this pic by Vovo Tzeng called "Mature". Good gods! Doesn't she look just like Illu's Faye?  

I feel like I now know a tiny portion of how it’s like with my mom whenever she goes home from work. I feel brain-dead and drained, but kinda happy coz someone learned from me (hopefully!).

Went to the mall yesterday to have a study session with my classmates in Anatomy. After lunch, 7 of them buggered me into allowing them to go to my house so we can continue our review there.

So technically, I’ve been yapping about the fricking muscular system from 10am till 7pm. And to think I woke up at 3am just so I can review myself so I'd know what to yap about when I meet with my classmates.

Paulit-ulit yun. Tinutukan ko sila isa-isa until they finally got our current lesson. We have a long quiz kasi this coming Tuesday and they’re panicky about their grades. I would be too had my grades been like theirs… wait, I wouldn’t be merely panicky; I’d be totally out of my mind. But since I am not, and since I’m one of the fortunate few who seems to be able to get what our prof is trying to teach us, I agreed to lead the review session yesterday.

It was tiring. But very enjoyable and fulfilling. Now I understand Sir’s comment that when his students understand the lesson, he feels like it’s even better than sex. Not that I can actually compare the two as of yet since I lack the experience.

We weren’t able to finish everything about the muscular system, but at least we covered the main parts. Hope they study on their own and not forget the stuff we reviewed.

Hope to God that they’d perfect the exam this coming Tuesday. If not that, then I hope they’d pass it with the least number of mistakes that is possible.

I hope ako rin pumasa or better, ma-perfect yung exam. Sa kakaulit-ulit ko kasi na-memorize ko na yung mga pinagsasatsat ko kahapon. I can now explain the whole process of how a muscle contracts and relaxes kahit nakapikit at inaantok pa ako.

Some things to note about my current classmates:

Colis is good at chess.
Tom’s possibly a bisexual.
Cherry can be slightly callous without meaning to be.
Xavier’s smart even though he denies it.
Ralph P. is IQ abundant but EQ deficient.
Shoks is an orchid fanatic.
Leah’s dream school is ADMU.
Sherwin’s not as quiet and shy as he seems.
Louiese is in love with a girl who doesn’t love him back.
Allen’s a whiz with anything mathematical.

Just realized that I get along better with the guys of the class rather than with the girls. Or at least I get to talk with them more often than I get to do with the ladies of the class. Well, they are kinda easier and more fun to talk to (plus they have the habit of sitting en masse behind and beside me during class), and they make more sense compared with the girls who only talk about boys, clothes, gossip, and etc. They’re more… hmmm… how is it… philosophical, I guess? Not always though. They do also talk about sports, gossip as much as the girls, and talk about girls, but at least their topics don’t just revolve around those few things.

***
Got these from Gem’s journal:

Book List: (highlight the titles you've read)

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon-although this is the title of the British release, American release title is "Outlander"
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
239. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
240. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
241. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. On A Pale Horse, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
262. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
266. A Boys Own Story, Edmund White
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman’s Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic’s Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic’s Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket
305. The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket
306. The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
307. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic’s Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O’Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
365. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
366. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
367. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
368. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
369. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
370. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
371. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
372. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
373. Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
374. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
375. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
376. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
377. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
378. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
379. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
380. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
381. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
382. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
383. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
384. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
385. Jhereg by Steven Brust
386. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
387. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
388. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
389. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
390. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
391. Neuromancer, William Gibson
392. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
393. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
394. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
395. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
396. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
397. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
398. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
399. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
400. The God Boy, Ian Cross
401. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
402. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
403. Misery, Stephen King
404. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
405. Neutronium Alchemist, Peter Hamilton
406. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
407. The Diary of Anne Frank
408. Regeneration, Pat Barker
409. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
410. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
411. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
412. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
413. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
414. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
415. A Severed Wasp, Madeleine L’Engle
416. Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman
417. The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
418. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
419. Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill
420. The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
421. The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien
422. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
423. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
424. Ender’s Shadow, Orson Scott Card
425. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
426. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
427. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
428. The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
429. The Jester, James Patterson
430. Banquets Of The Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov
431. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
432. The Stranger, Albert Camus
433. Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
434. The Fuck-Up, Arthur Nersesian
435. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
436. The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
437. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
439. The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
440. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
441. Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
442. Unless, Carol Shields
443. Confessions of a Pagan Nun, Kate Horsely
444. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
445. The Oracle Glass, Judith Merkle Riley
446. The Solitaire Mystery by Joastein Gaarder
447. Edith Hamilton's Greek Mythology
448. Three Fates by Nora Roberts
449. The Belgariad & Mallorean (10 series of books), David Eddings
450. The Shopaholic series, Sophie Kinsella
451. Smaller and Smaller Circles, F.H. Batacan
452. Bakit Baligtad Magbasa ng Libro ang Pilipino?, Bob Ong
453. The Best Philippine Short Stories of the 20th Century
454. Fiesta/The Sun also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
455. Idoru by William Gibson
456. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
457. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
458. THe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (well… not all of it… does that count?)
459. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Freidrich Nietzsche
460. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
461. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
462. Servant of the Bones - Anne Rice
463. The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
464. Lasher - Anne Rice
465. Taltos - Anne Rice
466. Merrick - Anne Rice
467. Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
468. The Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice
469. Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice
470. The Feast of All Saints - Anne Rice
471. Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires - Anne Rice
472. Blood and Gold - Anne Rice
473. Vittorio the Vampire - Anne Rice
474. Blood Canticle - Anne Rice
475. Blackwood Farm - Anne Rice
476. Violin - Anne Rice
477. The Golden Mean - Nick Bantock
478. The Gryphon - Nick Bantock
479. The Morning Star - Nick Bantock
480. Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
481. Falls the Shadow - Sharon Kay Penman
482. The Reckoning - Sharon Kay Penman
483. Dragonfly in Amber - Diana Gabaldon
484. Voyager - Diana Gabaldon
485. Drums of Autumn - Diana Gabaldon
486. The Fiery Cross - Diana Gabaldon
487. Alexandria - Nick Bantock
488. Digital Fortess - Dan Brown
489. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
490. Shopgirl - Steve Martin
491. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
492. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
493. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
494. The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
495. The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
496. The Lilac Bus - Maeve Binchy
497. The Silver Wedding - Maeve Binchy
498. Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
499. The Waste Lands - Stephen King (Book 3 of The Dark Tower series)
500. Running with the Demon - Terry Brooks
501. A Knight of the Word - Terry Brooks
502. Myst: The Book of Atrus - Rand Miller
503. Myst: The Book of Ti'ana - Rand Miller
504. Myst: The Book of D'ni - Rand Miller
505. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
506. Wee Free Men (a story of Discworld) - Terry Pratchett
507. A hat full of sky (a story of Discworld) - Terry Pratchett
508. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
509. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
510. The Wolves in the Walls - Neil Gaiman
511. Endless Nights - Neil Gaiman
512. Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen
513. The Brothers Grimm's Fairy tales
514. The Dream Hunters - Neil Gaiman, illus. by Yoshitaka Amano
515. Twisted Series - Jessica Zafra
516. Angels in America - I forgot the author
517. By the River Piedra, I sat down and wept - Paulo Coelho
518. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibhran
519. The Oddyssey
520. The Illiad

I know I’ve read more books than I’ve actually highlighted, but they’re not in the list and I really don’t want to add them to it anymore.

New goal: to read every book listed above before I turn 30.


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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Copy this whole list on your journal.
2. Bold the things that are true about you.
3. Type your comments after the statement if you feel like reacting to them. Just enclose them in parentheses.

01. When I was younger I made some bad decisions.
02. I don't watch much TV these days.
03. I love psychodelic mushrooms.
04. I love sleeping.
05. I have loads of books.
06. I once slept in a toilet.
07. I love playing video games.
08. I adore marijuana.
09. I've watched porn movies.
10. I watch them with my father.
11. I like sharks.
12. I love spiders.
13. I was born without hair and I still have no hair.
14. I like George Bush.
15. People are cool.
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
17. I have jacuzzi and a Porsche.
18. I have a lot to learn.
19. I carry my knife everywhere with myself.
20. I'm really really smart. (hahaha!!!)
21. I've never broken someone's bones.
22. I have a secret.
23. I hate snow.
24. I drink only milk.
25. Punk rock rules.
26. I hate Bill Gates!
27. I love Chinese food.
28. I would hate to be famous.
29. I am not a morning person.
30. I wear glasses.
31. I don't need glasses, except sunglasses.
32. I have potential.
33. I'm pure Japanese.
34. My legs are two different sizes.
35. I have a twin.
36. I wear a padded bra.
37. I can ramble on about absolutely nothing.
38. I'm left-handed.
39. I hate llamas, but I'm one of them.
40. I don't like horror movies.
41. I suck at climbing, but I love it anyway.
42. People hate me usually.
43. I love pop music.
44. I hardly ever go to bed before midnight.
45. I hate parking fines.
46. I know the National Anthem of my country by heart.
47. I know more than two languages. (Pampango, Filipino, English, and a bit of Jap )
48. I spend too much time on my computer.
49. I often want to throw out the computer in a window.
50. I live on a ground floor.
51. I don't like chocolate.
52. I'd like to be more original.
53. I've lied.
54. Cocks are my favorite birds.
55. I want to conquer the world.
56. I wonder what happens when you die.
57. I've read all Harry Potter books.
58. Eat your dog!
59. I love to exercise.
60. I hate chemistry with a passion.
61. I love to write.
62. I like changes.
63. I hate going to class.
64. I am afraid to die.
65. I hate dish washing.
66. My hair is long, brown, and incredibly curly.
67. My nails are nine inches long.
68. My favorite color is black.
69. I like to sleep on the floor.
70. I am hopeless at cooking.
71. I sucked my thumb when I was little.
72. I should be doing something else rather than writing this.
73. I am online a lot, but not on MSN.
74. I hate government.
75. I don't have a boyfriend.
76. I'm too nice for my own good.
77. I love to read, I read as much as I can.
78. I don't trust newspapers.
79. I like debating.
80. I live in a lagoon.
81. I clean my room once a month.
82. I'm scared of American fast food.
83. I am prying open my third eye.
84. I love Mozambique.
85. I don't trust any religion.
86. I used to play with Barbies because all the other girls were doing it.
87. I wanted to be a super hero when I was little.
88. I like listening to wind chimes.
90. My hair is long and straight.
91. I earn a lot.
92. I don't like spicy food.
93. I keep a diary.
94. I can't do cartwheels.
95. I am very lazy.
96. I'm sarcastic.
97. I think my hair is annoying.
98. I'm very sensitive.
99. I love being "ab-normal".

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Watched Catwoman yesterday. Chipped my front tooth on some popcorn so had to go to the dentist. Didn’t like the movie that much. I got bored watching it.


Watched it, and I don't recommend it.