I've been meaning to post something for several days now but been kinda preoccupied with stuff lately. I got a new toy and I have been doing nothing but tinkering with it since last week. I will write all about Kourtney next. :)

Oh, something exciting happened to me over the weekend but that is for another post. For now, just wanna say - I am still alive. 🙆

Sent from my iPod

TIA

For those who have no idea what this means TIA stands for This is Awkward. :)  Yep, I am hooked!  I am all caught up with this MTV series, thank you very much.  I love Jenna and it is absolutely possible that I am in love with Jake. :)  It is totally high-school, super fun to watch.

2nd season will start next year. I cannot wait. Woots. 


BTW, I am seriously running out of series to watch.  :|

Friday. Friends.

 

Gracie and Marl moved to the Eastwood site which makes my daily grind way less sucky.  Actually, it had been pretty awesome the past few days.  I miss laughing this much!  We would laugh about the silliest things and mostly I love having friends in the same building. :)


  This week we realized, now that the three of us are together in the same site, it could be challenging to keep within our budget! Yes! We find ourselves roaming the Eastwood mall to find which restaurant would bust our pockets next every night.  This is not good.  So over dinner last Friday, Marl and I made an agreement that we would only splurge during Fridays.  Gracie quickly agreed when I told her about this plan :)  Also, this way there will be something really nice to look forward to at the end of the week.


  To start the Friday habit, we ate at Pasto.  I really enjoyed the food and the price won't break the bank.  It is an Italian cafe that serve pizza and pasta the way I like it.  I can't wait to bring my other friends here.  It can be an after drinks kind of place - if you're sick of good ol' chinese or starbucks.  :D   I wish I had a better camera or just the good sense of taking more pictures, but here are the things that we ordered to share because we wanted to try different things as much as we can. :)

Spaghetti Alfredo with shrimps.  This can be ordered with chicken if you are allergic to shrimp.  Creamy parmesan sauce with black pepper.  Good.  

Arrabiata.  Now, this I really love! :)  Mildy spicy but really good - ooh, and it has bacon. *swoon*

Greca.  We were suppose to order Vegetariano but we realized Gracie might not like it.  So we opted to get this - which is also an all vegetable pizza. So, that kind of confused me a bit. :P  This is really yummy.  It has olives, capers, artichokes and feta cheese -which Marl loves. :D

To round it up, we ordered Raspberry iced-tea - REFILLABLE.  Yey!  I just wish we tried their antipasti too but we can always go back, no?

2011 Reading Challenge



As you might probably guess, I like reading.  I've always been in love with the fascinating opportunity we get, to be part of another universe - a different life while reading.  Beginning of this year, I took up a reading challenge over at tumblr.  I love this challenge!  It actually gave me an excuse to read as much as I want; not that I need an excuse anyway. :)

A couple of weeks ago, I just completed my challenge of 50 books! woots!  I read all sorts of stuff - but of course my all time favorites are Memoirs, Period Novels and yeah, YA books. I also found myself liking the dystopian novels which took me by surprise quite frankly because I like reading how things were before my time and not how it would look like in the future.

I read 50 wonderful books and the year is not even over yet! Isn't that exciting?! :)  Some of these books are beyond awesome, some I almost didn't finish because I lost interest halfway through but ultimately - books are LOVE. :)

Just like any other reader, I have favorites.  My top ten are as follows:

10.  Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
 9.  Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
 8.  Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler
 7.  One Day - David Nicholls
 6.  Looking for Alaska -  John Green
 5.  Divergent - Veronica Roth
 4.  The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
 3.   Dash and Lilly's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
 2.  A Thousand Splendin Suns - Khaled Hosseini
 1.  Millenium Trilogy (Girl with the dragon tattoo, the girl who played with fire and the girl who kicked the hornet's nest) - Stieg Larsson



I know my number 1 choice is kind of cheating but I don't really care! LOL.  I love these novels!


Oh, and before I forget, the books in this challenge, they are all ebooks. :)  I still love the old school books, but ebooks are easier for me to carry and I have several choices whenever I need a quick read fix. So, I don't hate ebooks at all! :)

Meanwhile in TV-landia

I have always been a TV junkie.  I watch all kinds of things on TV and lately I have been hooked on new shows. :)


NEW GIRL - Zooey is love.  The cast is hilarious and true to its tagline, the show is ADORKABLE! :)

2 Broke Girls - When I grow up, I wanna be just like Max - BADASS!

Jersey Shore - okay, this one I did not see happening! haha.  One day, I was staying at home and there was a rerun and I got addicted.  I can't even understand half of what they are saying because of all the accronyms they use. But I am ADDICTED. :|

50. Fixing Delilah

And my 2011 50 Book Challenge is ovah!  This is the last book to complete it. :)

Fixing Delilah is a novel by Sarah Ockler about a girl trying to piece together her past in trying to move on to better future.  I love that the story revolves around the Hannigan girls and how they find themselves challenged when it comes to talking about their feelings and the things that happened to their families.  My favorite character of course is Patrick. I got really giddy when I read the love story between Patrick and Delilah. ♥


♥  It‘s complicated. I think when bad things happen—whether someone dies or people argue or split up—you get to a point where it‘s just too hard to go back. There‘s so much lost. So many versions of the truth. So many versions of how things might‘ve turned out differently. We all long for what could have been. For some people, it‘s just easier to move forward and try to forget.

Lately

Lately,  I've been having a fantasy of quitting my job and not caring.  I have this fantasy of quitting and just working in a library, or a bookstore or a specialty coffee shop.  Life would probably be easier. *sigh*

Train Love

Got tickets for the Train concert! I am sooo excited. :D  I cannot wait.  Here's my song till then..

Oh October...

You have been quite rough with me. I think it is only now that all the things that happened are settling in my mind. You have emotionally drained me, I am guessing. Today, I am very tired trying to figure out how to make things not bother me – and I am losing that mind game.




Breathe in, breathe out. One of the things keeping me together now is the knowledge that everything is working together for my good. God is wise and has a purpose for all these. I trust Him and I claim victory in His magnificent name.

 

49. An Abundance of Katherines

An Abundance of Katherines is another book by John Green.  I saw this book before but only started reading last week.  It is pretty interesting how the plot was written, about one boy falling in love with different girls with the same name! :)  I actually have no favorite character in this book but I kind of wish Lindsey's middle name is Katherine too. 


♥ What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?