Tuesday, June 12, 2007

I call this post: 18 UNITS! YATTA! [BGmusic: Blue Skies by Ella Fitzgerald]

Nicked this from Ronald of The Wind-Up Tool Chronicle. When I saw the survey, I knew I had to do it.



Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Oh yes. The biggest crush I had was on Gilbert Blythe of the Anne of Green Gables books. He even made it to the top of my Top 5 Fictional Guys List [click here to check out the list - for some strange reason that I don't remember, the comments on the post aren't visible anymore, which is sad, but oh well].

The last books you bought are...


I'm ashamed to say that I don't remember. Nowadays I just borrow books from friends.

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

  • Kokology by Tadahiko Nagao & Isamu Saito [to entertain myself]
  • Any sudoku/logic book [again, to entertain myself]
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Gael Marquez [because I've always wanted to read it but never got around to doing so]
  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de BerniĆ©res [because it's lovely, and it's the kind of book I can read over and over again]
  • The Bible [because I need it/to keep me sane]

Three books that would have made more of a difference in life had I read them years earlier:
  • It's Not About Me by Max Lucado
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold [even though I read it like, two months after it was published. She should have written it earlier. ]
Five books I borrowed and didn't want to return anymore:
  • A Semester in the Life of a Teenage Dirtbag by Gordon Korman. No, it's not a deep book, no profound life insights, etc. In fact, it's published by Point . This is my guilty pleasure book. And no, I wasn't the one who borrowed it. My sister borrowed it back in grade school and probably forgot about it. I read it when I was fourteen and while I was reading it, I cried from laughing so hard. So yeah, enjoy siya.
  • Er... nothing else. Don't remember. Haha. Maybe the Neil Gaiman books Beau just lent me. Bwa. Ha. Ha.
Three books I want to like more:
  • Anything by Charles Dickens. *rolls eyes* I'm sorry, I just can't, no matter how hard I try, I always give up by the third chapter.
  • Any prescribed economics text book.
  • The Bible. Yeah, it's a hard read. And minsan nakakatamad talaga. Pero it gets easier and easier as I get more and more into it. Just like walking, baby steps first, running later. [I actually do like reading it, but I would LOVE to like it even more.]
Three books I pretended to have read:

I don't remember pretending to have read anything. Er. Maybe prescribed readings. Haha.

Three books I am happy I bought last year:
  • It's Not About Me by Max Lucado
  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 edited by Silver Silverberg [got it for super cheap, super sulit ]
  • Principles of Economics by Gregory Mankiw [we weren't actually required to buy it, but I bought it anyway, and it was actually fun to read - totally unexpected from an economics textbook]
Three books I wish I had written:
  • Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank [but not really, for obvious reasons - i.e. the Holocaust, anyone?]
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
What are you currently reading?

Haha. Andaming nakapila.
  • The Godmakers by Frank Herbert
  • The Sandman: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman [THANK YOU BEAU!]
  • The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman [THANK YOU BEAU!]
  • The Sandman: Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman [THANK YOU BEAU!]
  • The Sandman: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman [THANK YOU BEAU!]
  • Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman [THANK YOU BEAU!]
  • Death by Neil Gaiman [THANK YOU BEAU!]
Yehey. Tapos na. Natuwa naman ako.


Updates!

To those of you who commented on the new smilies I'm using, they're from multiply. I cross-post from there.

Good news. Got all my subjects at last. *happy dance* Will post a review of all of them once I've attended all of them.

For some very strange reason, my internet connection isn't functioning as it should. It refuses to behave. The only thing that works properly is YM. Will hophophop your way when the connection finally speeds up.

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