Word for the Day

PEANUTOPOLIS (noun). 
A state of mind making you feel very strong and powerful, almost mayor-like.

I got this from the inside pack of a Sneakers bar :-P

BOOKS 

(Read, Not Read, Want to Read, Owned)

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Plus, underline books that you own. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I'll see your responses =)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Now Reading)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Got bored at Chap 5!)

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac  (I MUST FIND A COPY NOW!)

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Hungover

One of my beyotches had a party.

Open bar, baby!

My drinklist included

Two glasses of wine,

Three glasses of frozen margarita,

A shot of blue Hawaiian, AND

A glass of rum Coke

It's a wonder how DH and I got home.

I can't even remember which one of us drove.

He had three glasses of extra strong Black Russian.

O.O

Now our room reeks of some weird sh*t

I swear I am never drinking again!

*crossing fingers*

Drought.

I miss R/K.

300+ days until BD Pt 1.

Sigh.

Little Miss Nurse.

That's me.

Although, little, I am not.

One of my dad's sisters is in the hospital.

My aunt is 66 years old.

She used to be a nurse, too. 

She's retired now and has been married once.

She's suffering from difficulty in breathing,

She has high blood pressure.

And she's a diabetic.

She smokes, too.

Been at it for some 20 years.

Death sentence, anyone?

Medical mode kicks in.

I hate being the folks.

Folks is the term used when medical staff refer to the patient's family.

As a nurse, I am a separate entity from my clients.

I see them as people and I empathize with them and their significant others.

But it feels differently when it's one of your own.

Your flesh and blood.

Suddenly, I'm not so sure anymore.

Scenarios like this make me realize how time goes by so fast.

I'm 25, and I'm still stuck in a rut.

As Belle goes, "there must be more than this provincial life."

But family is family.

One foot forward, two steps back.

Makes me want to pull at my hair!

Friday Musings

I had a busy day.

Drove kiddo to and fro school.

Fetched my dad from the ferry port.

Paid a visit to my old school.

(CPU - my alma mater)

The place looks so different now.

I remember it being so much bigger.

But then again, from a six-year-old's perspective, 

I guess, it was very vast.

I spent a total of 12 years in that institution.

From the time I was 5 until I graduated from high school.

I met a few of my old teachers.

Amazing how they still remembered my first name.

It's been over 10 years, huh.

(Just gave away my age there! LOL)

My university (UP) may have taught me how to face life's challenges head on,

But one thing is for sure.

CPU shaped me to the person that I am today.

I formed relationships that will last me a lifetime.

Best of all, it is the place where DH and I met.

And fell in love.

When we were just seniors in high school.

Who falls in love with their soul mate at 16?

I did.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

(But that is for another day's post.)

*wink*

Bye for now.

Honeymoon in Paraty, Brazil

Well, if it isn't Mr and Mrs Edward Cullen! Honeymooning in Brazil!

I have no words and I absofreakinlutely cannot wait! 

I tell you, I cannot wait too see this in the big screen!

Can they get anymore adorable?

And to think we have six, six more months of all this?!?!

My gah!

By April, we would all be dead with anticipation!

They are hot!

The chess pieces are a nice touch, too!

I'm beginning to love you, Mr Bill Codon!

Thanks, Twilightish! <3

Eoin Colfer and ARTEMIS FOWL

2001. 

I was awaiting the next installment of the Harry Potter series.

Since I live in the province, we didn't have access to a lot of book stores.

My options were very limited.

One store stood out. National Bookstore.

Stupid name, I know.

As I said, I didn't have many choices.

It was that or Diplomat.

I'm not even going to start on that pathetic little place.

My all-time favorite book stores are

Fully Booked (PowerPlant Mall and Bonifacio High Street)

Power Books (Greenbelt)

But I digress.

Anyway, as I was scanning through the YA section of the bookstore, 

I found a silver-lined book that showed promise. 

Artemis Fowl. 

Hmm, I thought to myself. Joining the Harry Potter bandwagon, are we? 

Nevertheless, I read the synopsis. I was fascinated! 

It was a story about faeries and leprechauns, and a boy. 

Yes, Artemis Fowl was a 12-year-old boy and a criminal mastermind who 

concocted a plan to steal some faery gold!

I was giddy with anticipation and couldn't wait to go home and read it!

My Artemis Fowl shelf

Artemis Fowl is a series of books by the severely underrated Irish writer Eoin Colfer.

I absolutely adore Eoin (pronounced Owen) Colfer.

He has been compared to JK Rowling many times but I think I prefer the 

Hardcore world of Faery that he has created in Artemis Fowl.

I find myself having a fascinating time following 12-year-old criminal mastermind, 

Artemis Fowl II as he battles and befriends faeries, dwarves, centaurs, imps, and warlocks and other supernatural beings in the 7-book series.

The best part of each book is deciphering the codes found in each page!

It took me the entire summer to decipher the codes in the first book alone!

If you like hardcore faery stories that promise adventure in all aspects, then

 I highly recommend the Artemis Fowl series.

Artemis Fowl Series

(in chronological order)

Book 1. Artemis Fowl

Book 2. Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident

Book 3. Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code

Book 4. Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception

Book 5. Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony

Book 6. Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Book 7. Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex (latest installment)

Sunday Boxing, Ben Barnes, and Fanfiction

Totally random thoughts.

Manny Pacquiao beat Mexican boxer Antonio Margarito.

Pacquiao broke his own record of being the best in 7 different boxing categories. 

Another proud day for Filipinos all over the world. #PinoyPride

Emancipation Proclamation. The fanfiction.

Chapters 43 to 45.

Girlpal tells me Kharizzmatic will pull it down in a few months' time.

Some 35 chapters to go. Better hurry up.

Ben Barnes

My other boycrush.

But he isn't really a boy. He's 25. Like me.

I found that he's doing theater in London.

Birdsong.

I would give an arm and a leg to watch him.

Rob in his underpants

Kristen in a bikini

I think I have died and gone to smut heaven!

I better turn on the air conditioner because the temp just rose by some 100°!

Bye for now.