where the moon shines

Tonight, teleserye viewers will be saying goodbye to miracle boy Santino, of the soap “May Bukas Pa” Yesterday’s scene ended with the little boy falling through a flight of stairs and hitting his head in the process. His brother, who was also having visions, saw him with a pool of blood under his head. We are left hanging… Will the police get to him in time? Will Bro intervene and save the young boy’s life? Or will He heed his prayer to join his parents in the after-life?

I wonder how many people will be tuned in to their TV sets tonight to find out?

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We have a flatbed scanner, but because we don’t have much space here, I don’t keep it out all the time. Right now, it is stowed away somewhere in my room. That isn’t really good because you have to go through all the effort just to scan one picture. I wanted to scan the map we got from our visit to Enchanted Kingdom, but I’m not even sure if the entire thing will fit? Hmm… I think what we have is an a3 scanner, Canon brand.

Another thing that’s ticking me off right now, aside from the fact that my eyes are having an allergic reaction to whatever and are watery and itchy all the time, is that I cannot find my Bamboo pen tablet. As in. It was in a paper bag on top of the box of vacuum cleaner last time I saw it. But my dad had to rearrange things and now it’s nowhere to be found. Grr. I had a Pen Tablet class at JessicaSprague which started on Monday that I haven’t even started yet.

I don’t know the artist who sang the song but I have been listening and singing to this for the past three days The lines are sooo cheesy and you’ve heard them before as the cheesiest pick up lines, Pinoy style. Everyone can relate!

If I were to have a prenup video, this would be a fun background music. Haha Enjoy!

I know I said that I would have to consider giving away (or selling) books after I’ve read them, but I don’t think I’ll be doing that for Inkheart.

Yes it’s a novel written with young readers in mind, and I think that’s my absolute favorite genre of all time Anyone who loves reading, and has a heart for books would definitely appreciate this novel. I guess it would be accurate to say that books are in the heart of this work of fiction.

However, I was a bit confused in the beginning because I couldn’t quite put a finger on what specific time the story was set to. 12-year-old Meggie and his book doctor father Mo seemed to be living in this world and this time, but what age specifically, I could not understand. The way the countryide was described, and how Mo makes a living, sounds so medieval. And why doesn’t Meggie’s dad have a real job like everyone else? Come to think of it, in all the characters in the book, it is only Fenoglio who has a “job” that is still relevant upto this day. Oh okay, maybe there are book restorers but I highly doubt it. I mean, if you were searching for jobs in Philadelphia for example, will you find a book doctor on the list? I don’t think so. Are there still jugglers and fire eaters that just go from town to town to earn a living? Okay, maybe there are. Yet, there are also elements of their setting that says they’re in the 21st century. Hmm. But you’d get over that confusion, or decide that it isn’t essential to the story after all.

I don’t normally review plots, characters, and other stuff you’d expect from proper book reviews, so if that’s what you’re after, go ahead and Bing it.

So why I do like Inkheart?

It tells about how reading takes you to places and allows you to go on adventures that otherwise would have been too dangerous for you. If you devote time to your reading and cherish each word, you can almost smell, touch and see into that world. Books feed the escapist in us, just as movies and TV shows do.

Each book is its own world and taking a character out and bringing them here would be like taking fish out of water. Pero, just like each person is different from another, some characters may be able to survive and adapt to our fast-paced world and make it their own. Malas nga lang kasi, it’s the bad guys who seem to have thrived in this world (dun lang naman sa book).

I envy Elinor and her house full of books. I’d always thought that when our family finally builds our own home, we’ll have a library or rows upon rows of bookshelves. But here we are, in what seems would be our permanent residence, and it’s too small to contain all the books we’ve every owned. But that’s okay.

We can’t choose the world we are born into, but we can definitely change our story.  Diba? In Twilight, if I remember correctly, Edward said something about just playing with the cards you’re dealt with. But we can play the game to win, even if we have the losing hand. Parang ganun din yun, it’s not too late to change the outcome of your lifestory. Is this what Inkheart was really trying to teach us? I don’t think so. But that’s what I was thinking of by the end of the novel.

Have you read it? What are your thoughts?

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Had I known that this series has been out since 2008, I’d have looked all over the net to watch it. I was finally able to watch the catch-up marathon at the Sci-Fi Channel the day after Christmas. My dad suffered through the day watching with me, LoL.

The series is loosely based on “The Sword of Truth” series by Terry Goodkind. This series is one of two epic fantasy series that my brother and I followed through the years, the other one being “The Wheel of Time” by Robert Jordan. I used the word loosely because they didn’t strictly adhere to the books for the serialized TV version. Once you reconcile yourself with that, a true fan would be able to sit back and enjoy the shows. Of course, I’d still would prefer the original, but it isn’t so bad really.

Seeing this fantasy world on-screen made me want to reread the books. I haven’t even read Phantom and Confessor, the last two books, partly because I don’t really want the epic to end yet. Haha. My brother lent the first book, Wizard’s First Rule, to a friend and I don’t think we got it back so if I want to read them again I’d actually have to make another purchase. I wouldn’t mind that. Perhaps I’ll try looking for it in second hand bookshops

Anyway, I can’t get enough of Bridget Regan; I love Kahlan, even when I’d much prefer to pronounce her name as Kah-lan, rather than Khay-lan as they do. They picked the perfect actress. I might just go ahead name a future daughter after her.

Here’s another fan-made vid:

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Where do I start with this movie?

I loved it. I don’t know how close it was to the real life Julia Child and Julie Powell, but I so so so loved the movie

They both had very supportive husbands, and my guy can definitely learn from their example (LOL). Nah. Alfred is actually very supportive of me and my baking exploits, and I am quite sure he would want me to learn cooking as well (oh he would definitely love that). My dad was able to catch some of the movie with me, and he was saying I should do that too – go through my baking books and blog about them. That’s what I’ve wanted to do for a long time, a lot of people are doing it anyway. I just can’t seem to commit time each day to actually do any baking (I think I’ve mentioned that at least once before).

Last week, they had the book on display at the bookstore, along with Julia Child’s memoirs and copies of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I was tempted to buy them. But then I had to think – will I use it? Will I finally cook? Remember what happened to my beloved Sur La Table baking book Art & Soul of Baking? It was submerged in the flood without me actually cooking anything from it

Like Julie, maybe I need a deadline to force myself to complete tasks that I set out to do.

Or not.

It was fascinating how Julia Child willed herself into getting into le Cordon Bleu. You could really see how much passion she had for food – both in preparing it, and eating. And what was her age when she started in all that? I still have a lot of time!

I have a feeling that the extra money I’d be getting from my very recent promotion (yay me!) won’t be going to any additional life insurance quotes, but would be instead spent on baking/cooking ingredients or even maybe additional gear. Woohoo!

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