Chicken Sopas for the Reader's Bowl

My New Year’s Resolution is simple: To read more. Just check out the list of the books I actually finished this ’08:

My Antonia – And I only read this because it was a required read back at 4th year. It was amazing that I successfully crammed read this in one sitting, just in time for the quarterly exam on the following day. If you know me, you’d agreed that getting through that book in just. one. sitting. could be one of my life’s greatest feats.

Messenger – This was the only book I actually bought for the purpose of leisure. You could say that I've enjoyed taking trips to the Worlds of Lois Lowry. The novel was no The Giver, though it was a fitting end to a trilogy that easily became a favorite. Then again, I’ve read so little to actually say that it’s my kind of book. LOL.

The Little Prince – A birthday gift from a classmate of mine this year, I tell you, Baobabs... Asteroid B-612... Boa constrictors digesting elephants... What a weird read this is. I'm not sure if I interpreted almost everything correctly, but I think that I may have so. As strange as the novella was, I actually liked it.

I did manage to have attempts for other books, though they all went thwarted because of reasons this and that:

Island of the Blue Dolphins... Someone gave this to me 2 years ago. And I don’t know why 'til now, I can’t make through the 2nd chapter. So, it's a cycle of reading it, then eventually forgetting it, then reading it again, and - You get the point.

Youngblood 3... A book that kept me company on those nights I was fetched late. I read part by part when I dropped by National - until the day all the stock of it got sold out.

Twenty Questions... It’s one of those super thick Philosophical books in the college library. And even though I don’t have any Philosophy class, I started reading it. Apparently, anything ‘questions about life’-ish intrigues me. Eventually, I stopped waiting my hours off in the library in the early part of the semester. So, I never passed page 7. Maybe, next term.Adding it all up, I technically read only 3 books out of the 365 days I had. If you stack them up on top of one another, they wouldn't even be as thick as one of those Twilight books people are reading nowadays. So, yeah, I guess that I really should start to read more.

Maybe you should get me a book for Christmas. Haha Biglang ganoon.

Labels: A List of Some Sort, Books

You know that your mind's been too occupied when you keep looking at the sky and it keeps smiling at you. But you don't even realize it did until you read about it on the 'net days after.

It's crazy on how I've been thinking too much these past days. And I'm not sure if things have really been hard for me lately, or if I've just been putting all this on myself. I remember writing in my Friendster About Me once, "If only, though, I would just stop worrying too much and stressing on big things & small things alike, then things would be a whole lot easier for me." That is so true. I'm learning, though.

Sorry if I wasn't able to update for almost 2 months after my last post. But no, my life hasn't been that serious. In fact, last week, we had a field trip for JPRIZAL (where the pic above was taken). The week before that, we went to Star City. And right now, I am currently enjoying a four-day weekend.

Here's a great time to catch up, and do the things I must and want to do to stop stressing myself. I am convinced that I need to.

Labels: College