inkspell, hp4, and others

my friends and i tried to get our pictures taken from
a neo-print booth last week. it was our first time to
use one and we kept giggling and laughing all the
time. i'd like to try it again, but with my siblings this
time.













haven't been able to post anything here for a while
and a lot have happened. i still keep thinking how
we are already on the second half of november
when i feel like it's still september. where have all
the days gone? as i grow older, the days go faster
and shorter. my brother left yesterday for japan
and he'll be boarding his ship from there and will be
gone for at least 6 months again. my sister has just
finished defending her research project and i'm proud
to say that she's got a 97% grade for it! our
japanese spitz, champagne, is now pregnant
and will be giving birth to puppies soon. my
grandfather was taken to a hospital but is now
getting better. my mom has had her hair dyed a few
weeks ago and i think she needs to have it dyed yet
again. my dad was interviewed by our president,
GMA, last saturday coz the topic of the discussion
was about seafaring jobs. my other brother is still in
college and doesn't want to get a side job even
though he spends only 6 hours a week in school.
our movie's trailer is now being shown on the web.
still can't believe that it will finally be shown in the
theaters! well, in the US anyway, we're still not
sure if it will ever be shown here in the
philippines.my birthday's just around the corner and
i'll be a year older again. whew! time sure is a fast
runner!


i'm nearly finished with reading "Inkspell" by Cornelia
Funke though i really wish that i'm still in the middle
of the story. it's such a wonderful book that i wish
it would go on and on. well, it still has another book
coming(after all, it's a trilogy) but i can't wait! it's
just so wonderful!!! i remember reading the first
book of the trilogy, "Inkheart", and it instantly
became one of my favorites. when i found out that
it has a sequel, "Inkspell", i couldn't stop myself from
jumping up and down in the bookstore with
excitement. i was just so happy that the story of
Inkheart still continues and that it still has a third
book coming. and i was never disappointed even
once while reading the sequel. i just love the stories
of Mo, Meggie, and Dustfinger. i wonder when the
third book will be released?

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has been
screening here in the Philippines since wednesday,
16Nov, 2 days earlier than the release in the US.
but i haven't seen it yet (i don't have the luxury of
spending the night out watching movies because of
my second job). but tomorrow's a saturday so i
hope i'll get to see it then. however, some of my
friends who have seen it already said that the movie
was too fast paced and a lot of the things in the
book were not included. well, we can't really include
everything that happens in a more than seven
hundred-pages-long book into a barely 120-minute
movie. and i think i've read enough about the
making of the hp movies from their preprod to post
prod days from the web that i think i already know
what scenes they retained for the movie. whatever
my friends say, i'm planning to enjoy that movie
when i see it. ^_^.

comparisons between myself and a character from a korean soap

had a much-needed rest yesterday. though i still
wasn't able to get a full 8-hour sleep, i got to lay
around the house all day and do nothing but watch
another korean tv series, "My Name Is Kim Sam
Soon".

it's a good enough soap for me and it was rather
surprising that i did not shed a single tear for the
entire series(i usually cry whenever there's a
tear-jerking moment in an episode). but i think i
would have enjoyed it more if i watched it with my
sister. lots of funny moments and i guess it's
because i can relate to the heroine of the series.
well, the main reason why i asked my friend to buy
me this series is because i've read from korean
websites that the heroine, Kim Sam Soon, is chubby, not so
pretty, already 30 years old and still doesn't have a
boyfriend. i was kinda curious at first if the main
character would be a lot like myself. i'm not yet
thirty(but getting there), i'm chubby, and i also don't
have a boyfriend. i think i also act the same way
that the main character acts sometimes though i
think that she's more sensitive and more feminine
than i am. oh, and she also cries a lot (i only cry
when i watch a movie, a tv program, or when i read
a book). but the similarities end there. i'm not as
unfortunate as her situation in life and i'm not as
desperate to find a boyfriend. unlike her, i have
friends who i spend my free time with aside from my
family, i'm the eldest among four siblings, i don't have a funny name , i'm not as
loud as her in public places, and i can't bring myself
to wear girly clothes hehehe(she's always wearing
skirts and high heeled shoes). so i think that if i
were in her shoes, the things that have happened to
her wouldn't have happened to me. i still envy her
though...getting herself a handsome, kind, rich,
sensitive and funny enough guy who's crazy for her
and doesn't mind if she's fat or not. sigh!

sometimes i feel depressed after i watch feel-good movies or tv series like that. i get more convinced each time that good things like that only happen in the movies and not in real life. from my position, i can't tell if i were to end up with a richer, cuter and smarter guy or with a less fortunate, not-so-handsome and not-so-smart guy. i know, i get too picky most of the times. one of my friends even told me to "lower my standards". but i also know that though we always set standards for our ideals, the ones we end up with are always an exception. crazy, crazy world. all i want is to experience something romantic and out of the ordinary before i turn thirty! (like being stranded in europe and meeting the man of my dreams there harharhar!!!)

...........i'm starting to babble.........
.........ookaayyy.....
.......enough for today...........