Weekend Shenanigans

National Bookstore Php595 | US $16.99 |
Canada $21.99

I finally scored my copy of Lang Leav’s fourth book “The Universe of Us” today yay! Am I stoked? Yes of course. I waited couple of months since the book was released in the U.S to get a copy (no matter how squeamish I was) but I waited...and waited in vain. I had the chance to pre-order online but I figured it’s much more expensive that way than pick up a copy myself plus the long wait made me feel t’was all worth it as soon as I got my copy. Lang Leav also showcased some of her pencil drawings in “The Universe of Us” and the book’s content is worth more than it cost.  So, I guess I’d be busy in a while, my perfect read while drinking a hot cup of cocoa or strawberry tea.  

my sappy looking christmas
tree and I'm proud of it. 

Moving on, it’s 78 days to go before Christmas and our tree is all dolled up except for the string lights because I used them for my diy cloud project lol thus I need to pick up new ones to make the tree sparkle. It wont be Christmas without the Christmas Tree yeah?

Japanese Teriyaki rice bowl

Oh by the way let me just share that I love KFC’s Japanese Teriyaki meal (Food Trip: Rice Bowl series) because I love veggies and it’s affordable as well. I don’t usually like fast food but KFC’s Japanese Teriyaki meal made the cut. The monsoon rain is making me hungry. I tried by the way to go back to just eating wheat bread and apple for lunch but the low on carb diet made feel so down and low. I guess the chemical imbalance in my body is badly affecting my mood. I felt so under the weather these past few days and I realized I started feeling that way since I cut down on carbs so I figured I need carbs to fuel my body and mind. 

Ok, nuff of my shenanigans, I have a book to read so I’ll shut up and leave lol. 

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a review: ocean at the end of the line by neil gaiman

setting: sussex, england

characters:

• the hempstock ladies - old mrs. hempstock /gran (the gradma) ; ginnie hempstock (lettie's mom); lettie hempstock, youngest hempstock

• main character, the boy 

the main character of the story came back to his hometown to attend a funeral and that's when he went back in time as a little boy in sussex, england.

his mother decided to accept tenants to their family home to get by financially which was to his dismay because he dislikes strangers invading his attick room. they once had this opal miner tenant who accidentally ran over the his kitten.

the opal miner was found dead in a car close to the hempstock's farm down the road. while the police investigate the crime scene, lettie, the little hempstock, approached the boy to veer him away from the scene. 

the hempstock ladies claimed that all the hempstock men already left the family which left him bewildered. 

along came ursula moncton, the newest tenant at his house. i'm sure that the boy's name was ever mentioned in the book but i can't recall which chapter it was so i guess i'll just suit myself calling him the boy geez. he hated ursula but his family adored him. ursula became his arch enemy. 

the story was strange i think cuz the hempstock's had powers of some sort. ursula happened to be his enemy and eventually lured his father. she almost drove him out of his own home until lettie and family interfered. ursula is a witch of some sort i think as well because she can fly and bully the poor little boy.

ursula was vanquished by the hempstocks and he was safe again except for the vermits (flock of raven black birds) chasing him and claiming that they need 'something' that belongs to them from the boy. lettie defended him and almost died from the battle with the vermits. the hempstock women made it appear that lettie is bound to australia for good, returned the boy to his family and they never saw each other again until he grew up. 

lettie beforehand taugh him that the pond at the farmhouse is an ocean which i think she meant figuratively. 

moving on, lettie never showed up after the night that she almost died until the day the boy, who's now a grown man paid his childhood home a visit and noticed then that ginnie hempstock, lettie's mom, did not age. 

the end.

the book is profound because there's this intrinsic meaning to everything. the story is hard to decipher really because it's not superficial. NOT your mediocre chidren's book. expand your horizon :)

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beautiful disaster

beautiful disaster 

by jamie mcguire

it took me a while to finish the book because i was busy again with tons of things such as preparing for my sister and i's birthday (hotel reservations, buying stuff for the trip etc.) so, finally, i finished the darn book with a rock on cover. i never thought t'was a love story.

characters: 

• travis maddox--fell madly in love with abby/pigeon
• abby abernathy--the virginal love interest of travis
• america--abby's bestfriend
• shepley--travis' cousin and america's bf

travis and abby met at eastern university. travis join fights to raise money for himself thus spends them lavishly. when i say 'fights' imagine robert downey jr. in sherlock holmes, that kind. travis and abby made a bet on one of travis' fights, eventually the later won. abby, as a result of losing the bet was left with no choice but live on travis' condo, same room, same bed to abby's dismay. travis & abby's love story was exhausting to read: lots of fighting, travis stalking abby, abby holding back but in the end was not able to fully ignore travis. love is a strong force eh? the two went back together, amend their differences, kissed and made out. happy ending amidst the two's prolonged enforced agony. they got married and abby had a tattoo (not to mention travis was a tattoed bloke himself.)

--the end

i am a fan of suspense thrillers so beautiful disaster isn't really my kind of book but whaddaheck i enjoyed reading it and at one point got engrossed with it for some reason lol. love is an element in every book the readers cannot find not interesting no  matter how cheesy the story is. next read---infinite sky by c.j flood :)

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