Au Revoir

Just moved to a new blog!

Reason: none.

But I'm blogging again. For real. Not like this blog was all make believe.

Aaaarrrgggghhhh!!!

Meme from Karen.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?

I was a 16-year old sophomore in U.P. (naming mahal) Diliman then. I probably was finding a million reasons not to study.

2. Five things on my to-do list today:
run a class with Carl

reply to emails (I know that email is supposed to be a noncount noun)

wake Ivan (unsuccessful, so far)
eat, eat, eat
make sure my former trainees will be paid right

3. Snacks I enjoy (for the moment; just because I eat almost anything, have the weirdest eating habits, and crave for a million things all throughout the day):

Gasp! Ho hos!

Krispy Kremes New York Cheesecake

Cream cheese on crackers (toast, or bagels)

Chips and

blue cheese dip

Fruit (because Ivan and I vowed to add more fruit and veggies to our diet)

Muesli without milk (crunch, crunch)

4. Places where I've lived:

Polomolok, South Dakota (da Cotabato)

Cotabato City
Davao City

Santa Rosa, Laguna

Quezon City, Metro Manila

5. Things I'd do if I were a billionaire:

Make sure that Koy gets to go to a great school and gets all the therapy he needs.

Build an animal shelter.

Travel.

6. People I want to know more about (I took note of the presence of the preposition):

George Carlin. His death hit me really hard.

Proof That I Am Above Average

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicise those you intend to read.

3) Underline the books you LOVE.

4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

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 Faulks

18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

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

26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

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 - AA Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell

42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68. Bridget Jones' 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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 - EB 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. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I got this from Gab and I am very thankful that my mother not only taught me how to read, but how to love it. Like I always say, I hardly watch television and can be found with my nose in a book. Reading not only expands your vocabulary and is a good way to while away the hours, it also helps you write and speak well.

Life is still long and I intend to read everything in this list and more. (I know, I'm a nerd.)

The Faery Who Was Kissed By The Pixies

This is my card for the day. I picked it from Freda's Faerie Oracle deck (artwork by Brian Froud), which are the most beautiful tarot cards I have ever seen.

This is Morna, a faerie who is gifted with the magic of love.

This is my reading:

Love given. Love received. Metaphorical open-heart surgery.

Starter Reading: Oh, wow! What can I say here? Love, sweet love. Accept it, burnish it up, add to it, and pass it on. The presence of the Faery Who Was Kissed by the Pixies suggests giving and receiving love and intimacy in any of a wide variety of relationships. She gives notice that this is a time to open and heal our hearts. Different aspects of life may well be flowing happily together, healing separations and hurts from the past. Bonding may take place and deep feeling emerge. Changes for the better may occur in all aspects of life, but especially in relationships, which may be deepening and becoming richer. You may be experiencing love therapy for opening the heart as new relationships begin and old ones develop. Enjoy!

You can also get yourself an online reading from the World of Froud website.

Too Much of Something

too loved
too spoiled
held and kissed too much
too gazed at
told that I look great too much (that I believe it)
too looked after
too pampered

A girl can get used to this, you know. Because too much of something is wonderful.

Generic-Looking

They say I look like:

1. Aiza Seguerra

2. Criselda Volks

3. Tetchie Agbayani

4. Anna of Shaman King

Looking Away

Would I rather be a sinner or a saint?

I'd rather be a sinner because I think it is better to look up to others rather than to look down on them.

Anyhoo, I'm actually neither. I have always been a work in progress.