'green' and bear with me

I realized that even after all this time, I still dont know how to read text language. I do get to understand the usual 'K' and all the other shortened words that people use. But to compress a 5 syllable word (or more) or a very long word into 3 letters, that I wont be able get at all. No matter how many times I try to read it. I wasn't wired that way. I don't even text all that much. I remember way back in high school and up until second year college, my friends would all hate me because I wouldn't text them, and that was the height of texting, texting random quotes and jokes and what have you. Well, I;ve since learned to how to text and reply to the more important messages but I still opt to call if its really important or just dont mind it otherwise.

Mind you, I hate talking on the phone, as was stated in my earlier post about wiretapping. But I do like to get my messge across so I'd risk calling than to get my messgae misinterpreted.

In conclusion, don't go texting me in text language especially in Filipino, that one is harder to decipher, because if I dont understand it, then sorry, I wont be replying. 

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I have a lot of backlog entries that I haven't started writing, but the idea and the title is there... I just cant seem to find the right time and the right words to make it all happen. Some of those entries lined up are worth reading (at least it has a topic, instead of my usual ranting) and I dont want to waste it on an incoherent blog. so bear with me.

so after like 7 years, that is how long ive had this blog... who knew i finally decided to update its look... and i like it.. its light, airy and 'fresh' as a friend would call it...

hopefully i stick with this layout.

i've also deleted some links that i dont usually update, like the books section, i've moved on to tons of other books while i'm "still reading" those same five books for the past 3 years or so.

im now using the albums page, hopefully i can place all my photos here and untag all my photos in all the other social networking sites that i have. check out the albums i have thus far.

 

since we're all trying to revive our respective blogs, and i have already 'redesigned' the layout of my blog.  what im doing right now is putting tags on all my previous posts, so that they can all be recalled immediately. anyway its not a biggie, but i do get to read all the posts ive done over the course of my blog. 

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its funny how even after all these years, with the way i write, you would absolutely know, just by reading, what im feeling at the exact moment that i wrote that entry. or maybe thats just me - because i did write it once upon a time. i cant believe i had an emo phase. i guess everyone goes through that phase at least once, im just thankful i didnt dress or act like it.

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reading back entries does bring back the emotions and memories associated with that particular post. or maybe thats just me. i wear my heart on my sleeve - proudly. and it shows in my writing. i have to admit that i did get sad reading most of my entries during those trying times but i guess im okay now. 

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im irritated at the facebook timeline especially now that theyre forcing it on everyone come 12th April. Anyway, good thing my blogsite has an option to on putting albums.. so i think ill post pictures here soon.

on the same note, im also connected twitter, which basically means that i can send out a tweet telling the world - or at least the people who are following me - that i have a new entry up, the exact same time that it goes up. cool eh...

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: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

 

 

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 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

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’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 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen fictional characters (television, films, plays, books, video games) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what characters my friends choose

 

1.   Dumbledore

2.   Gandalf

3.   Professor X

4.   Peter Pan

5.   Captain Hook

6.   Legolas 

7.   Galadriel

8.   Wolverine

9.   Storm

10. Cyclops

11. Zeus

12. Connie & Carla

13. Robert Langdon

14. Aslan

15. Frodo

 

*ang konti ng 15! haha.. i love a lot of fictional characters!