tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57967631655692172462024-03-05T15:20:19.357+08:00WonderFullthere's nothing too ordinary :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357941060885301587noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796763165569217246.post-56091936075275140352014-01-23T11:10:00.000+08:002014-01-23T11:10:44.603+08:00truth<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #717171; font-family: 'Istok Web', arial, serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 24.937110900878906px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">“Don’t ask what the world needs.</span><br />
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Oh the memories. I remember hanging out at the STC grade school library and reading this book out loud with a friend, giggling over every page. Tongue twisters are the <u>best</u>. :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357941060885301587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796763165569217246.post-7156613990274141212013-10-03T19:05:00.000+08:002013-10-03T21:45:15.280+08:00The Five Laws of MoneyWatched a video of a Suze Orman talk during class yesterday and she really inspired me to take control of my finances. Oh, the world of adulthood. =/ Sharing below the notes that I took with my new phone (finally got a new one! my old phone was dying...) It all makes better sense when she explains it, so if you're curious, do yourself a favor and look her up on YouTube:)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How long will I love you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as stars are above you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And longer if I can</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">How long will I need you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as the seasons need to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Follow their plan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How long will I be with you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as the sea is bound to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wash up on the sand</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How long will I want you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as you want me to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And longer by far</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">How long will I hold you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as your father told you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as you can</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How long will I give to you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as I live through you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">However long you say</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How long will I love you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As long as stars are above you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And longer if I may</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We're all traveling through time together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every day of our lives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All we can do is do our best</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357941060885301587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796763165569217246.post-88654263844540301832013-10-01T08:27:00.002+08:002013-10-01T12:09:02.466+08:00Dream Diary: The Yarn-furred, Two-headed, Koala CatStrange dream last night.<br />
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1. There's this English teacher I don't like. Somewhat snotty but chic and pretty. With really short hair.<br />
2. She knows my brother and noted he does well in her class.<br />
3. My friend Karla told me she bought the "cat" I took a photo with at some bookstore. Oh wait, before that... She complained that we weren't doing anything substantial in class (we were playing some memory game on the big computer screen) and walked out, leaving a message about how horribly the teacher was conducting the class. She came back bringing food. We ate. She gave me a pack just for myself. It was some sort of baked product. In my pack of little caramel bars in extra small cubes, there was a huge slice of some cake. I got it. I offered my teacher some, she took the whole pack and said she needed it because she was going grocery shopping. I don't know, she's gonna eat it while doing her groceries? I was so mad.I really liked those caramel thingies.<br />
4. Back to the cat story... Karla told me she brought the cat and would I like to see it? I said yes.<br />
5. Cat was in a shoe box, looking a bit scary. It looked more like a koala, not a cat. And the surprise was... It had two heads. the koala-like head split into 2. Cool. Its fur was something like yarn. Seriously.<br />
5. I was so jealous of the yarn-furred, double headed, koala-like cat.<br />
6. Went to eat at a carinderia. We wanted to check out something so we left our bags. Stupid me left my wallet and phone as well.<br />
7. I panicked when I realized I left my phone. It's brand new and I haven't paid for it in full yet!<br />
8. Saw a little girl holding my phone and wallet. I grabbed it from her, with a bit of difficulty, and hit her head (gently, I swear).<br />
9. So happy I didn't lose my phone. I really love it.<br />
10. Teachers saw what I did. I worried about my reputation. Lol<br />
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That's it. Highlight was definitely the cat. I woke up to relief that my phone was okay.hehe<br />
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P.S. The cat thing might be an effect of reading Murakami.<br />
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Yes, input from teachers matter, but in the end, it's up to the student to decide how they want to make use of the input, how it comes together with all the other influences and information that they take from the world around them. Teachers share knowledge and viewpoints, they can't actually dictate how a person's head should be (using the term) "shaped" like.<br />
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I wouldn't want anybody taking credit for "shaping" my mind. I decide on what I want to think about and how I want to think, thankyouverymuch. This doesn't mean I'm ungrateful to my teachers, because I am, I truly am, I'm just saying that one teacher alone can't take credit for the way I think. :)<br />
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I've been cleaning my phone and I saw all these food photos that I never got to post on Facebook or Instagram. They just weren't pretty enough haha. So now I'm dumping them all here, just for the sake of documentation.<br />
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What I eat when I study:<br />
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What I eat when I'm chillin' at home:<br />
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Life's just better with good food.<br />
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1. <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/07/12/15-young-adult-books-every-adult-should-read/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link&%3Futm_cid=p-fb-ad-all-high-ya-books" target="_blank">Young Adult Books Every Adult Should Read</a><br />
2. <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/05/29/summer-reading-list/" target="_blank">22 Books For Your Ultimate Summer Reading List</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>One thing I can't help but do, even though I know I shouldn't, is to compare Percy Jackson to Harry Potter. I'm not going to say Rick Riordan copied J.K. Rowling. I'm just saying that they're both great stories with some similar elements. Probably the secret formula to a compelling children's series.lol<br />
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<li>didn't know he was from a magical family until he was 11</li>
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<li>didn't
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<li>muggles</li>
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<li>mortals</li>
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<li>Hogwarts</li>
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<li>Camp Half-Blood</li>
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<li>Hogwarts Houses - 4 founders of Hogwarts</li>
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<li>Camp
Half-Blood Houses - 12 Olympian gods</li>
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<li>prophecy - can be either Harry or Neville</li>
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<li>prophecy
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<li>can talk to
snakes</li>
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<li>can talk to horses and sea creatures</li>
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<li>Ron and
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<li>Grover and Annabeth</li>
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<li>has to go home for summer</li>
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<li>has
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<li>Voldemort
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<li>Kronos trying to get
back to life</li>
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<li>invisibility
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<li>Annabeth's
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<li>scary dreams that are not actually dreams but real events</li>
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<li>scary dreams that are not actually dreams but real events </li>
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There are probably a lot more that I missed, but it's pretty amazing how they're both so similar yet so different.<br />
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The verdict? I think both books are great, but I still like the Harry Potter world better.<br />
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And the most adorable girl in the world sums it up here. I can imagine her exact tone of voice as she says it. (And no, I don't post a photo of everything I eat. But yes, there are times when I can't help it. Food's too pretty!)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This past month, I read four good books, each entirely different from the others. No monotony :) Here's a run down of what I thought. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Messenger (by Lois Lowry) </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had high hopes for this book simply because it's part of the "The Giver" trilogy. I am most unfortunate to have skipped the second book, "Gathering Blue," because I wasn't aware of the sequence. Fortunately, the story of "Messenger" stands alone and you can enjoy it even without reading the first two books. That being said, I would still recommend that you read the first two because some characters show up in this final installment and it would be easier to appreciate them if you knew their background.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The story is set in a place called Village, where outcasts and newcomers are welcomed and given a place in society (characters from the first two books have fled to this Village to seek belongingness). People are revered for their unique imperfections. Everyone is accepted and there is always a helping hand wherever you go. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The story revolves around a young boy named Matty who hopes to someday be named as Village "messenger." Because of his familiarity with the forest, he is usually tasked with sending messages or goods to communities outside of Village. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Through time, some people in the village start changing. They decided that they didn't want to continue welcoming the needy, the imperfect, the handicapped. They fear that their resources may not be enough for them. With this,they decide to close off Village by building a wall. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I am this close to giving spoilers, so I'm stopping myself while I can. All I can say is that this book gave me a lot to think about. I had a lot of "why" questions and metaphors I needed to piece together. "Messenger" has that depth to it that usually the seemingly simple books have. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">My only problem with it was the ending. While I was reading through the peak of the story, I couldn't help but notice that there were very few pages left. I'm like, "How can the ending be so near? It's only starting to get exciting." And then it does end, and I wish it hadn't ended that way. That abrupt, and as usual, without the closure you get from knowing what happens to them after. Guess Lois Lowry really wants us to keep us guessing.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This book was a recommendation from my boss. I was a bit hesitant to read it at first because I wanted to take some time away from fantasies and read more real-life types of stories. I'm glad I picked this up though because reading it is a thrill to the senses. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">"The Night Circus" is about Celia and Marco, magicians trained from childhood to eventually compete against each other. The problem is *surprisesurprise* they fall in love. The circus was to be the venue of their "battle."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Morgenstern is an expert at creating magical atmospheres, beautiful imagery and mysteriously interesting characters. She probably knows this, which is why practically half of the book </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">are</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> descriptions. It is not a book to read if you're into fast-paced stories. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">To give you an idea about how slow the story is, Celia and Marco don't meet until about halfway into the book. My hair turned white just waiting for them to finally meet. When they do, the story picks up, but not in the way I expected. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I guess I expected it to be exciting and action-packed, as the summary talks about some sort of competition between magicians. However, there wasn't much action at all. In fact, I think the story just kind of "faded" towards the end (pun intended, but you'll only get it if you've read the book=p). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I did like reading about the (somewhat shallow) love story though - it entertained me, and the circus and all it's aspects mesmerized me. I desperately want to go to the night circus right this minute. Now that I think about it, The Circus </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">was </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">the main character of this story, not Celia and Marco.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: inherit;"><i>“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Le Cirque des Rêves</span>, and it is only open at night.”</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Second to the circus, my favorite part was reading about the "midnight dinners."</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #e06666; font-family: inherit;">“But the Midnight Dinners have an air of nocturnal mystery already, and Chandresh finds that providing no menu, no map of the culinary route, adds to the experience. Dish after dish is brought to the table, some easily identifiable as quail or rabbit or lamb, served on banana leaves or baked in apples or garnished with brandy-soaked cherries. Other courses are more enigmatic, concealed in sweet sauces or spiced soups; unidentifiable meats hidden in pastries and glazes.”</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: inherit;">"The desserts are always astonishing. Confections deliriously executed in chocolate and butterscotch, berries bursting with creams and liqueurs. Cakes layered to impossible heights, pastries lighter than air. Figs that drip with honey, suger blown into curls and flowers. Often, dinners remark that they are too pretty, too impressive to eat, but they always find a way to manage."</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And that is how you describe food. </span></span><br />
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I therefore conclude that this book 1)makes you wish this fantasy circus existed, 2)makes you hungry.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)</span></b><br />
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Finally finally finally. It took me ages to finally read this, and I put off watching the movie because they all say you have to read the book first. So now, I've read it <i>and</i> watched it, and I can't decide which one I loved more.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Honestly, it wasn't that easy for me to get into the groove of Chuck Palahniuk's writing, especially when he was jumping from one thing to another after every sentence. Once I got past the first few chapters though, it got better.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">It's about a guy living a mundane life who's reality changed after meeting Tyler Durden. Together, they started Fight Club, where men of all backgrounds fight their nights away and go home with a renewed sense being able to handle anything life throws at them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><i>"After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off."</i></span><br />
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I can't really say much about this book, except that it blew my mind. Reading it is an experience in itself. It's dark and witty and not as focused on violence as I originally expected. It's more about breaking away from the traps of society and renouncing consumerism.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: inherit;"><i>"You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need."</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">It's really good storytelling, a story that's hard to forget. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">""</span></i><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Because everything up to now is a story," Tyler says, "and everything after now is a story."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #e06666;">This is the greatest moment of our life."</span></i><br />
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What Palahniuk book should I read next?<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. The Fault In Our Stars (John Green)</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: inherit;"><b>rating: </b></span><span style="background-color: white;">5/5 stars</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>thoughts: </b></span>So here's the thing. If a book makes me cry buckets, it automatically gets 5 stars. (Following this kind of logic, this book should probably get more than 5 stars.haha!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This is the story of Hazel and Agustus, two teenagers who fall in love. It's just like any other young romance, only, these kids have cancer. For that, they have a deeper understanding of being alive and being in love, which is evident in the way they talk.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Even though cancer plays a major part in their lives, they don't let it control them. Hazel aptly words it as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #e06666;"><i>"living with cancer, not dying of it."</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I like that the characters are smart, witty and very likable. They're not cheesy or melodramatic, and they're like regular teenagers in a lot of ways. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><i>"Flirting was new to me, but I liked it."</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">For a book that initially seems daunting because of the theme it tackles, "The Fault in Our Stars" actually made me laugh a lot.</span><br />
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Me: *reading*<br />
Boyfriend: What are you reading?<br />
Me: A book about kids with cancer who fall in love. *continues reading*<br />
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Me: *giggles*<br />
Boyfriend: Why are you laughing? Aren't you reading about cancer kids?<br />
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And of course it made me cry, too.<br />
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Me: *crying*<br />
Boyfriend: Why are you crying?<br />
Me: *still crying, can't talk*<br />
Boyfriend: WHYARE YOU CRYING?<br />
Me: Someone died.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">(Well, you can't read about cancer and nobody dies. This is not a spoiler because I'm not saying who died.)</span><br />
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See. You go through the whole range of emotions. Never has the word "okay" meant so much.<br />
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It's a beautiful, beautiful book. One that can only be truly appreciated if read because summarizing it would not do justice to the words John Green put together.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><i>"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in the world, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."</i></span><br />
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Favorite book of the year, so far. :)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Early this year, Brain Pickings posted an article on the </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/30/writers-top-ten-favorite-books/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors</a>. It's from a book called <span style="color: #333333; font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro-1, ff-tisa-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro-1, ff-tisa-web-pro-2, serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393328406/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0393328406&adid=19W3GRHWN0ZX90304ZEC" style="font-family: ff-tisa-web-pro-1, ff-tisa-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;" target="_blank">The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books</a><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span>and it sums up what writers consider as the "greatest books of all time." I find this interesting, because why wouldn't it be? Who doesn't want to know what writers (who write the books we like) read?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;">TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY</span><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679723161/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0679723161&adid=0HVE8JX53V0T3V57FNZ4&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Lolita</em></a> by Vladimir Nabokov</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743273567/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0743273567&adid=0PG1XZCW44WRJPNN6QPN&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Great Gatsby</em></a> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812969642/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0812969642&adid=02PBW49F19QDCT0EXTME&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>In Search of Lost Time</em></a> by Marcel Proust</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Ulysses</em></a>* by James Joyce</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Dubliners</em></a>* by James Joyce</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060883286/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0060883286&adid=1852ZRCFZMPZNAD0YXXH&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em></a> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679732241/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0679732241&adid=1J4JD6S89BDAB184N0YF&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Sound and the Fury</em></a> by William Faulkner</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0156907399/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0156907399&adid=15QGZRE4JTJK5PSYKYN5&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>To The Lighthouse</em></a> by Virginia Woolf</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374515360/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0374515360&adid=1QQ29YRNDRSZGH7SZEPR&" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The complete stories of Flannery O’Connor</span></a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679410775/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0679410775&adid=017Z1R9NGD1HK17NPGZR" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Pale Fire</em></a> by Vladimir Nabokov</span></span></li>
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TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 19th CENTURY</span></span></h5>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Anna Karenina</em></a>* by Leo Tolstoy</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Madame Bovary</em></a>* by Gustave Flaubert</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>War and Peace</em></a> by Leo Tolstoy</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em></a> by Mark Twain</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553381008/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0553381008&adid=08DFG5J5PT8BT5JCWQ7Y&" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The stories of Anton Chekhov</span></a></li>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553381008/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0553381008&adid=08DFG5J5PT8BT5JCWQ7Y&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553381008/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0553381008&adid=08DFG5J5PT8BT5JCWQ7Y&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/145" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Middlemarch</em></a>* by George Eliot</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003GCTQ7M/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B003GCTQ7M&adid=016A68SGC4YNY0YSP2EK&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Moby-Dick</em></a> by Herman Melville</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Great Expectations</em></a>* by Charles Dickens</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486415872/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=braipick-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0486415872&adid=01D8DBFC9JZH9AS0TN40&" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Crime and Punishment</em></a> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/158" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Emma</em></a>* by Jane Austen</span></span></li>
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TOP TEN AUTHORS BY NUMBER OF BOOKS SELECTED</span></span></h5>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Shakespeare — 11</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Faulkner — 6</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry James — 6</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jane Austen — 5</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Charles Dickens — 5</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fyodor Dostoevsky — 5</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ernest Hemingway — 5</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Franz Kafka — 5</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(tie) James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf — 4</span></span></li>
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TOP TEN AUTHORS BY POINTS EARNED</span></span></h5>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leo Tolstoy — 327</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Shakespeare — 293</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">James Joyce — 194</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vladimir Nabokov — 190</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fyodor Dostoevsky — 177</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Faulkner — 173</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Charles Dickens — 168</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anton Chekhov — 165</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gustave Flaubert — 163</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jane Austen — 161</span></span></li>
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Saw this on Facebook and it just brightened my day. Literally impossible not to smile at the sight of a gleeful baby in a Marilyn outfit. </div>
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When it comes to living our lives, we really ought to take our cue from children. We were all children once, why have we forgotten?</div>
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Last night, I took the<a href="https://www.gagomatic.com/survey.php" target="_blank"> "In Which Game of Thrones House Do You Belong?"</a> quiz that a lot of people seem to be taking on Facebook. I met disappointing results because they placed me in the Night's Watch. Yikes. But I thought only men were allowed in the Night's Watch?? Then again, Lady Yza Urgel doesn't sound lady-ish. The only redeeming quality of the Night's Watch is Jon Snow, the cutest of all the GOT characters, in my opinion. That being said, I'm still not happy with the results, boo this quiz.lol</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Question is, where was I at 15??? Why couldn't I come up with a science project that could change the world? (hahaha)</span><br />
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I went to a (public) science high school and yes, we had to come up with investigatory projects for the annual science fairs, too. I remember going through the motions, swabbing bacteria samples, testing the anti-bacterial properties of some seaweed and not really feeling the gravity of what I was doing. It was a requirement we simply had to complete. Wish we had more encouragement back then.<br />
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If anything, I really wish our educational system put as much effort in promoting sciences and not just the arts. We need good science programs, not just schools passing off as "science high schools" and not having the proper equipment and the facilities to support our advanced science classes.<br />
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Anyway, I'm not saying that my life would be any different had we had the proper program and facilities. But it could have. Maybe I'd be a forensic scientist <span style="background-color: white;">by now</span><span style="background-color: white;">(one of the many things I wanted to be, growing up), investigating murders everyday. And maybe there would have been less kids confused about what they wanted to do and who would eventually end up taking nursing (as was the popular course for the undecided during my time) instead. I have nothing against nursing, I just feel that a lot were pressured into taking it because it was popular, but without any real desire of actually being a nurse.</span><br />
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Going back to this genius kid... How could hundreds of older, more experienced scientists not have figured out what a 15 year old could figure out? I guess there's really a lot that a young, simplified mind can figure out. Must really start them young, I suppose. Out of coincidence, I found a very apt bible verse in my email a few days back. <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“For although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.” – Matthew 11:25</span></i><br />
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Here's to young scientists:)<br />
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Someone posted this video on Facebook and I watched it because I recall my brother mentioning that he saw the X-Factor auditions live in Cebu (to support one of his friends) and there was this girl who kind of sounded like Mathai from The Voice. I love Mathai - hence, the curiosity.<br />
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Quick comments: Angelica looks like Jessica Sanchez, her voice is unique to the Philippine music industry (which is great for her), and well, Charice has certainly developed a new personality that's <strike>somewhat</strike> annoying. Totally putting the blame on her management team.<br />
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I am posting this to immortalize my baby brother's <u>one second</u> of fame. Yahoo! Watch the video, please. It's at 2:12, and he's the bibo guy in black, jumping up and down. Hahaha!<br />
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Hey, Mic! Ma discover gani ka!:))<br />
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