'green' and bear with me

okay, so i finished this books months ago, but i still havent come up with a review for it. first off, this book talks about the infamous vampire, dracula, now you guys probably think that its old news, but the book takes a new look and twist to the age old myths and legends about him. the story is riveting, exciting and all the elements of a good read are in it. the resolution at the end was kinda disappointing though but its still a great read.

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yuck.. what a lousy review... anyway, september is just around the corner and i (we, jen and i) still need to do my (our) article for visionmag.... arggghh...

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is anyone halfway done with the plate? a decent halfway mind you... i am not stressing at all abou this plate 'coz of the partner/group thing but it seems like we're not making any progress at all.... haha... and to think its's only two weeks away before submission...

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i haven't gone out with my high school friends for the longest time... i don't even know whats happening in their lives right now...i guess its because almost all of them are already graduating and are doing their own thesis's and defense's good luck you guys! argggh... but that would mean that i'll be the only one who's gonna be studying next year... hehe...loser!

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btw, im back to my usual self... forget her, and all things connected with women...haha.. bitter! but seriously, im okay now... never better (to quote hermione granger) haha....now off to hogwarts... "how to turn enemies into toads" joke

okay.... i finished the book in two days, more like my old self again. it was a good read although there were parts that were really, really boring and that were already mentioned in passing or in detail in the other books in the series, albiet now told in armand's point of view. this is the last book in the series -- i think -- and it was a cool way to end it. rice brought up all the old vampires in the series and have incorporated into armands' life journey... they're immortals, so they are bound to see each other now and then. hehe...

really really good read...

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i am not really fond of my parents' books -- hello, "business strategies.... -- but i started getting hooked on some of the more fun books that they have... "the good luck book" and "sniglets"... really really fun.... one, obviously is about luck and all the things and rituals associated with it and the other is about "words " that should have been in the dictionary but was omitted -- not really sure if the words are true, but it sure is fun to read.

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good luck book. if you add up the numbers on the date of your birth and divide it by 7, you're considered to be lucky.

5/15/85

5+15+85=105/7=15

yey!

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sniglets. orqo - n. the little squiggly line that turns an O into a Q...

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really, really cute....

i'm really not a fan of scary/horror books, but my interest was piqued when 2 of the vampire chronicle books were turned into major movies -- interview with the vampire and queen of the damned. usually i read the book months or years before the movie spin-off, and it was a really weird experience for me to actually know what will happen next in the book since i kinda remember what happened in the movie, usually it is the other way around for me.

queen of the damned. man, it was a really, really, really long read. and do i mean it. i average about 2 books a week when it is all that i do and about 1 when i go out and actually do stuff. and with that statistics i thought i would be able to finish it in about a week. i was so wrong! it took me about a week and a half. it was kinda boring since i already knew some parts and so i didn't really make time for it. what speeded up my reading was when the history of how they, the vampires, began was told. really, really cool, how rice was able to incorporate all those facts and fantasy together to make a cohesive whole. does that make sense? anyway, some of the points that were written were facts, i'm sure of it, but some of it were pure fiction and the the line between them was kinda hard to figure out. she was that good!

the book is a good read, you don't really have to read the first books in the vampire chronicle series to actually understand the book. although reading the whole series would greatly help in understanding why some of the characters act the way they do.

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currently reading the vampire armand... hehe... i think i'm hooked on the series...blech.

i have recently finished "the minotaur" by christopher coonts and it was all about espionage and counterespionage and spies stuff that some of the details just didn't get in my head. all in all it was a great read although you really have to be patient with all the A6c's and the HUD's and all the other jargon usually used in the pentagon/ army/navy. whew!?!

yikes!? it's only been a full week and i've already finished a book. plus i finished the game i started on my younger sister's psp... really cool.. hehe untold legends?!? i really don't know the title...

my parents are redecorating my sister's room and mine... of course i have to butt in... me the know-it-all in lighting, paint, acoustics... hehe as if... now, because of my suggestions and added flavor to the overall effect of my sister's supposedly new room -- she wants it to be beach-y -- i now have to help the carpenter in repainting and moving the furniture... hay.... life!?!

i met up with some of my high school friends over the past few days and we all had a blast... i haven't met up with all of them.. just some of the closest ones.. my bestfriend and the bf-ters.. ahaha...i miss you auj!?! first off, my friends and i are really pigs.. so we never stopped eating all the while catching up on each other.. so that we wouldn't be too obvious in our never-ending food trip, we ate and moved and ate and moved again and again.. i never knew that town has so many dining establishments and food kiosks.

we're currently planning on going to redbox, the videoke place in greenbelt, really hoping it pushes trhough... hehe haven't sang in a long, long time.

the 6th installment in the harry pottter series truly deserves all the attention and hype it has gotten over the past years. it has closed off some back stories and opened some new ones. the plot thickens as the prohecy sinks in and as a new twist develops on how to go about killing voldemort. the story and the way it is written is also getting, if i may say so, "darker." the book is still filled with magic and the usual incantations that i have grown to love and memorize over the past years but book 6 now deals less about them and more about the characters and how each interacts with one another.

*spolier. i really hate the fact that dumbledore died in the hands of snape. arggh...

i wish it was someone else who did it. it makes me feel sad that someone you trust betrayed you. but of course, if it's for the good of the story and its outcome in book 7 then be it.

*spolier. i hate the fake locket horcrux arggh...

for all the time and trouble that dumbledore and harry took in retrieving the locket, only to find out that somene else got to it first and that it was not the real one.

i am excited to read the 7th and hopefully the last book. though i still can't figure out why the half-blood prince. i know it's snape. but why does the book have to be titled that way. it's not like the story revolved around the half-blood prince. anyway i really have to read the whole book. i don't think much of it stuck in my head as i was reading every page in a hurry. i was excited to finish reading, it was already 6am, and at the same time i haven't studied for my tests that afternoon.

the story is unique. kudos to neil gaimann, he really has a penchant for writing weird and yet gripping storylines. the story is basically about the war of the gods -the old gods of mythology against the new ones of technology. it may seem cliche to have this god fight over that god for supremacy, and i really think it is. but what makes it interesting is the little plot twists and side stories that, although a little bit misleading, are actually integral to the development of the story.

this book has one twist after another, which makes it a hard book to put down. and when you think that you have got it all figured out, another side plot comes in to make you think twice. it makes you think whether the antagonist is actually the good guy and the protagonist is the bad one or vice versa.

what i really like about the story is that it makes you think. about your life, society -basically everything around you. it makes you wonder about the old gods, and how they must be 'faring' in this world wherein science and technology reigns supreme. whether we have actually forgotten the gods or just forgot the rituals and practices associated with them is a big question for me.

this is a good read, though it is a bit long, i'm sure you won't be able to put it down once you start reading it.