What is spontaneity?

Spontaneity is an noun that is defined as "the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint." Yeah. Whatever. I did it today.

I was spontaneous.

If you could call them spontaneous.

Well, first, I did not sleep in my abnormally normal hours of sleeping (6 am - 2 pm) when I'm on night shift because I was finishing this book about a nerdy girl and a slacker boy falling in love in senior year. When I finally had the sense to sleep, I was awakened by a text from someone that I have to meet later. My deep slumber abruptly came to an end. I don't really want to go but I have to because it is one of those things that my mother will definitely nag me about if I miss this appointment. After meeting her, I still have like two hours until I have to go to work. I really hate being idle in the mall. It sucks. I mean there are so many things you could do there but then most of those things involves spending your hard-earned money of things that will definitely not give you much satisfaction. So to avoid ruining my budget, I went to this part of the mall where you could sit and listen to live acoustic music.

Surprisingly, the things that I have done today that I categorized as spontaneous were actually useful.

First, because I had this absurd idea that I really have to finish what I was reading or else the world will end. So there I was, reading and wondering if it would be a great idea to continue when my sister went online surprisingly. So we chatted for like 15 minutes. I really was not expecting that to happen today. It was a good thing I was spontaneous between 6 am till 9:30 am.

Next thing, while listening to this band which I forgot the name. It's like this uncool and unimaginative name that most bands give themselves when they are (the band members) not really that close enough to hang out with each other and think of much cooler names. The band basically called "____ (somebody's name, probably the one on vocals) and The Band". How lousy is that! I mean, aside from the name, the band was quite good. The vocalist looks like Jessica Alba so the men there are probably salivating over her and they really have a cute guitarist. So I was there, chillin' when I heard this very familiar intro of the song they are singing. Surprised again! They're playing Boys Don't Cry by The Cure. How rad is that! I totally dig this band after that song. Another spontaneous act that led to me to decide that I would come to the mall once a week a just listen to acoustic music for free.

Spontaneity definitely rocks!

Why make a list?

I need to make lists. I can't function properly without them since I am a 100% pure blooded selective amnesiac. Like, I always forget the things that I've heard and sometimes the things that I was thinking even though I heard or thought of them for like an hour ago.

So the question is: What's on my mind today? And the answer is.... (drum roll) Naomi and Ely and the fact that I really love them. So I'm creating my WHY-I-LOVE-THE-NAOMI-AND-ELY-BOOK List.

WHY-I-LOVE-THE-NAOMI-AND-ELY-BOOK List

(1) Music Mixes

So love them! I always think that making a music mix for someone you like is way better than telling them in the most boring, old and conventional way - telling it in their not-so-shocked face... But it's even more better in the book since all the songs in the mix has those cute reasons why they are in the mix. So totally brilliant.

(2) Gabriel

What can I say. I wish I could meet someone like him... (sigh) He's an original. He's cute and hot but then he doesn't use his hotness to be a jerk, he knows how to feel and he thinks too. He's perfect in a not so perfect way.
He's made the mix for Naomi... I wish I was Naomi... (sigh)

(3) Naomi

Really love this girl! Period.

(4) Ely And Bruce The Second

I hated Ely while reading this book and I pitied Bruce The Second throughout the 200 something pages but I later realized that they are real. I mean, they could exist. There could be someone in this cruel world that is about to experience or experiencing or have experienced what they have experienced. So I incinerated the hatred and pity.

(5) Starbucks

If you are in a setting like New York, there's no way Starbucks is not to be mentioned. It's one place New Yorkers has a chance of feeling like they're boring people. It's actually Naomi's favorite hang-out but the odd thing is she never drinks coffee from Starbucks.

(6) Queerdom

I love queers! I'm sorry if it's not a politically correct word to use. (peace) And being able to get a glimpse of what they are thinking (through this book) is an enlightenment.

(7) Book Cover

As what I have said, it's unpretentious. Need I say more? Well, I'm partial to yellow... (It's practically the cover's color... :D)

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Where can I find a gay bestfriend?

First thought. So liked the cover of the book. It's so unpretentious that you could guess that there's really something deep within those covers.

First reaction. Okay. The book contains such pretty and radical slang that only true blooded New Yorkers could actually comprehend. I really had a hard time understanding it and yet I can't stop reading it. Its not-within-this-world plot and the never-thought-of turn of events made this book soooo good that you have to forgive the ones who have invented those NY street words. This book is definitely profound and not to be taken without a whooping amount of seriousness.

I know. I've been raving about it but you don't actually know what I'm talking about. It's this book titled Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. So the story goes like this. Naomi is a straight girl who's forever in love with his bestfriend named Ely who is unfortunately gay. They've shared their lives together that they are not regarded as individuals but as an institution. If there's Ely then Naomi is probably around within the 5-meter radius. Really. That close. To avoid jealousy that could threaten their friendship, they created a NO KISS LIST. It is a list of all the boys that they could not kiss in any way possible. But then, Ely kissed Bruce The Second, Naomi's boyfriend and it was okay for her (she doesn't like Bruce The Second as much as he likes Ely) until Ely falls in love with Bruce The Second and that was the time the institution of Naomi + Ely starts crumbling. And that's the start of discovering their individuality and starting out a new kind of friendship, a better one.

Last thought. I'll never change anything that has happened in this book. It's perfect as it is. An enlightening read for girls who have male bestfriends (gay and straight) and an interesting read for boys who also have female bestfriends (straight and gay). And a must read for all who doesn't have both!

What is Bob Ong thinking?

This blog contains my reactions and oppositions to Bob Ong's writings (Ang Pabloritong Libro Ni Hudas) about cellphones. It's in Tagalog so for English-speaking people, bear with me. I might translate it into English soon....

Haayyy... Hindi naman pala ganon kagaling si Bob Ong sa pag-iisip tungkol sa cellphone. Bakit? Anong nagawa nang cellphone sa kanya nong bata pa siya kay ganoon nalang ang galit nya sa mga cellphone dito sa mundo?

Sabi nya, more or less, eh, kinu-control na raw nang cellphone ang buhay ng mga gumagamit nito. Heller! Eh kasalanan ba yon nang cellphone? Bakit ba, may utak naba ngayon ang mga cellphone para i-hypnotize ang mga gumagamit sa kanila para gumawa nang mga hindi dapat gawin? Kung ganon na nga, bilib na talaga ako sa teknolohiya. Hindi naman kasalanan nang cellphone yan eh. Kasalanan nang mga gumagamit at nagpapagamit na mga tao. Sa totoo lang, malaki ang pakinabang nang cellphone sa mga buhay natin. Hindi lang naman sa masama nagagamit ang cellphone, pati na rin sa kabutihan. Halimbawa na lang, yung mga fundraisers na ang ginagamit pang raise nang funds ay through text. At kung meron kang ka-meet sa mall or sa daan ay hindi na sasakit ang ulo mo sa pag-alala kung nasan na yung ka-meet mo kasi may text at call na. At pwede na rin gamitin ngayon ang cellphone para makapagpadala nang pera sa mga nangangailangan. Ito rin ang ginagamit nang magsyota para ayusin kung anumang away na namagitan sa kanila. Hindi mo ba nakikita? The cellphone builds bridges and not gaps!

Hindi dapat isisi sa bagay ang mga kaguluhan dito sa mundo kundi isisi sa tao. At hindi rin sa service provider dahil nagtratrabaho lang naman sila ahh. At lalong hindi natin dapat isisi sa mga cellphone companies dahil ang gusto lang nila ay magatulong sa pandaigdigang kaginhawaan. Gusto lang nilang sumaya at guminhawa ang buhay natin sa pamamagitan ng mga teknolohiya.

Ang sekreto lang sa paggamit nang cellphone ang ang tinatawag nating "moderate use". Kailangan lang na i-control ang paggamit nito. Hindi ka dapat nagpapa-apekto sa mga sinasabi nang service providers.

Ako nga, ginagamit ko lang ang cellphone ko sa mga importanteng bagay. Hindi ako nagtetext tungkol sa mga tsismis at hindi makabulohang bagay. Dahil din sa cellphone eh nakukumusta ko yong mga mahal ko sa buhay dito sa Pilipinas at sa New Zealand.

Tandaan lang natin na tayo ang dapat may control at hindi ang bagay na dapat kino-control. At gamitin nang sakto ang mga teknolohiya, huwag i-abuso at gawing masama sa paningin nang tao.

This is only an opinion. I don't have anything against Bob Ong. I actually find him funny and I'll be buying his other books. Peace out Bob!

Would I survive living in a graveyard?

One cold foggy night, a silent murder happened in 33 Dunstan Road somewhere in the Old Town. Three people were killed. A man, a woman and a girl. At the time of the murder, in the attic of the house in 33 Dunstan Road, a little boy was unknowingly making the greatest escape of his life. Armed with just a rubber pacifier, the bored toodler who just learned how to walk, went out of the house and up the hill. Being silently chased by the watchful and talented murderer, that boy fund refuge in the most unusual and safe place in town - the graveyard.
And the adventure in the graveyard begins...

-My own introduction to The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

(Just trying to be like Gaiman... hehe...)

I'm really amazed by Neil Gaiman's imagination. Who? Yeah, who could think of writing a book about a boy living in a graveyard? I can't think of single sane person who could.

The story evolves around the orphaned boy appropriately name Nobody Owens (made me think that maybe Gaiman used the phrase "nobody owns" as basis for this...), Bod for short. Being given the Freedom of the Graveyard, Bod can talk and see the ghosts living in the graveyard. With ghost parents and a not-dead-and-not-alive person as a guardian, Bod's adventures in the graveyard is unexpected and at the same time sad. If your expecting to be scared while reading this then forget about it.

Being my first Gaiman book, I really don't know what to think of it aside from the fact that many people love it. Reading the first few pages of made it me realize that this is not your normal children's book with the almost perfect hero or heroine. Bod has issues he needs to deal with and lessons learned through hard experiences. It is a serious book with a wee bit of humor (really love the inscriptions on the gravestones!). This book is a fast and entertaining read. It made me think that living in the graveyard is really like living in the normal world.

I just thought that it should be a longer book, maybe a series. It is not detailed enough. I was actually curious on what the Honour Guard and the Jack of All Trades is all about. I think Gaiman should have delved deeper with the war of the Guards and the Jacks.

All in all, really enjoyed the book. I'll be buying more Gaiman books.

I'll leave the phrases or sentences that I love in the book....

"The treasures of ten thousand years ago were not the treasures of today" -Nobody Owens

"You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over." -Silas

"Of all the organs, the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste the sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue." -Nehemiah Trot (the poet)

"Dish best served cold. Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. Instead, wait until the hour is propitious" -Nehemiah Trot (the poet) on REVENGE

"It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you." -Silas

Guess who designed my blog?

Noticed the changes? You can't if this is the first time you got lost in here.

Ok. I changed my blog design. And guess what. I was the one who designed it. Kudos to me! I actually have a pink blog and now I have a green one. This would be the first of the future designs that's gonna come out. hehe

I'm actually thinking of giving out free blogger design templates since I really found it so fun making them but it has to wait since work comes first (sigh).

Ok. Gotta go! Au revoir!