Amazing infographic from Goodreads! I like how they really put an analysis to the influx of dystopian literature through the years! Among the themes, I can say World War II and Post-apocalypses are my favorites!
This is an instant addition to my LOOOOOOOONG list of books to read. Come to think of it, this one’s my favorite genre. I like reading about dystopia and how people would actually survive the war/government/apocalypse.
I’ve just sold my Hunger Games book to Rsen (thank you, friend) because I’m buying the whole boxed set. I could actually settle with just buying the UK version, but I had the US, so I have to have the same versions. Yeah, I’m OC like that.
Please let me go giddy over the HUNGER GAMES FILM. We’re watching it tomorrow already!! PEETAAAAAAA!!
Oh I still have to have my Panem ID printed! *fanboys*
I can’t wait for the 22nd!!!! My birthday week (and month for that matter) is really getting better by the moment! I’ll stop blabbering before I spoil any detail, but all I know is that Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) is mine (lawlz!) It helped that I got to read the book when I already saw who’s playing Peeta, though I’d prefer Gale to be a hotter character (Liam Hemsworth is a wrong choice.) But having Peeta look like this —
— helps my imagination immensely. Magkasala na kung magkasala haha! GAD PEETA Y U SO HAWT?
I’m printing this ID Card before I watch the premiere!!! District 4 represent yo! Am zeh hottest fisherman alive.
So yeah, forgive the unnecessary fanboying, aside from a hot guy playing Peeta (and that jaw porn, gawd) Hunger Games is really a fast-paced riveting pageturner.
P.S. This is the fastest book I’ve ever read, considering that I’m working and that I have the attention span of a three year old. No, really. Seriously.
P.S.S. Ok. Back to Peeta… PEETAAAAAAAAA —
I didn’t need to find work, work came to me (which I thank GOD for a million times. I’m truly blessed)
Not to mention the people I’ve met and worked with this year are incredibly amazing! Twestival, Juanxi, PdP, Moonleaf plus the countless, albeit absolutely fabulous, events that I’ve been to. My most heartfelt gratitude to the plethora of PR agencies that kept on inviting me. I heart you, guys!
Started up my own venture with the best of my college friends. You should watch out for Stereotyped‘s next collection!
Thank you all for being a part of the adventurous year, that is 2011. The adventure hadn’t stopped, but it only have just begun… again! Though I’ve been concealing, in this blog that is, I was jobless and no longer in the PdP team. No it’s not them, it’s me. As much as I love to continue working for them, believe me if I could, I would… but some things, as I always say, have to meet their conclusions. Fortunately for me, friendship never dies and I still get to work with them at times. *cheese alert* It’s just that I miss my team badly.
Here comes 2012, saying hello to me. I think my two-week unemployment starting last Christmas season was necessary to open my eyes to a lot of things – especially to those that I really want to do achieve in 2012. Yeah I know, kinda foolish. Christmas and jobless. A perfect match. *basks in irony*
But thank God, because up until now, I still can’t figure out how come these things are happening. I have my plans… but definitely His plans are way bigger than I thought they are. I’ll start work in a few days, and you bet I can’t wait to start… TO START A LOT OF THINGS. I won’t (maybe can’t) disclose for now, but it is indeed an exciting turn and it’s just the START of 2012.
This post is growing in length already, but before I forget, I wanna list down 12 things I want to do in 2012.
SAVE. If last year, this was in the last, now it’s coming in first.
ACQUIREa domain name. How does jonverdavid.com sounds to you?
TAKE a lot of photos… again. Rediscover photography.
TRAIN. I’m so excited, somebody’s funding my social media training. I’ll make kwento soon!
READ. I’ve been reading, but I’m not satisfied with the rate I’m running. This forcibly and partly justifies the next goal (haha) —
BUY an iPad. So I can read more (!) and mobilize my job.
TRAVEL the Indochina Southeast Asia trail. At least even before the year ends. Vietnam – Cambodia – Laos – Thailand and maybe a ferry to Indonesia, Malaysia, and culminate in Singapore before going back to Manila. My good friend, Hanna Samson of 1 Week and After, and her tips are especially noteworthy!
PACK lightly, traveling far away or not. Or at least learn how to.
FIX my room, errrr… space. No matter how asthmatic I can get.
SLEEP at night, wake up in the morning and work in between. Read this somewhere but I forgot where. I like the idea.
STARTthe NYC project. Employ the Law of Attraction.
One of the goals I intended to accomplish is to clean my room. This happens only twice a year due to the fact that I can’t breathe every after cleaning. Bronchioles constrict, rashes appear, itches, well… itch. You do not want to see me after cleaning. More so, you do not want to see my room before cleaning.
What I do enjoy about cleaning though is that I get to browse some of my old stuff – magazines, books, notebooks, planners, etc. Ah, the memory and happy times. I just wish they didn’t accumulate nasty dust that can give me serious asthmatic attacks.
Old magazines: Celebrity Houses, Him Style Guide, Yummy, Bounce, Roam, Reader’s Digest, and some freezines – Juice, Circuit, Sip and the Fully Booked newsletter
To-read’s: Asian Traveler (done!), Monday, Status, Digital Photography Philippines, GQ, Details, August Man, Homme Designare, and American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
Monday, Status, Garage, LIFE Guide to Digital Photography, The Prince by Machiavelli
Former Starbucks Planners. Planning for something different next year. Nothing sure though :P
Bunch of K-Zones and Questors. Those are really old! Above: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (I have to find a way how to understand this book), Falling Man by Don DeLillo, Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff, Bakit Baligtad… by Bob Ong, Deception Point by Dan Brown, and Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coelho
Acads, self-help, devotionals, business
Mom gave me this on the day of my graduation
I so love this bedside clock from Levi’s! It’s 11:30pm. I don’t clean in the mornings. Allergy issues.
Ah, nostalgic. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to take a long, deep breath. My lungs are still not cooperating.
We are shallow because we don’t read. I go to the hospital on occasion — the long corridor is filled with people staring into the cosmos. It is only I who have brought a book or a magazine. In Japanese cities, in Korea — in the buses and trains, young and old are reading, or if they are not holding books and magazines, they are glued to their iPhones where so much information is now available.
In these countries and in Western cities, the bookshops are still full, but not so much anymore because the new communications technologies are now available to their masa. How I wish my tiny bookshop or any Filipino bookshop for that matter would be filled with people. I’ll make an exception here: BookSale branches are always full because their books are very cheap. But I would still ask: what kind of books do Filipinos buy?
My utter fluctuating habit in reading (I hope not to the point of disinterest) because of my short attention span was called to attention when I read this particular part from Mr. Jose’s article. Though I’m still glad I regularly read short snippets every time I have the moment to stop, flip a page (or click a link) and read away, it’s really bothering how reading has become repulsive to some.
Reading now: House Rules by Jodi Picoult in the morning, and Arena Homme + in the night.
I still think reading is the habit of the learned. And I am in a battle to fight disinterest in reading. And so should you! So here are some tips that I got from friends and the ever-helpful interwebs to help cultivate in us a habit of reading:
Set a realistic goal. Like, when to finish a certain book for a certain amount of time. This is an important first step if you are training yourself for a lifestyle of reading. It gives you some kind of sense of direction.
Pick up that book/magazine/e-book/any reading material.Because It all starts with one thing.
Keep focused. The problem with everything being so fast, is that we lose our focus along the way.
Keep the phone, the iPad, or anything that may distract you from reading. Reading requires a lot of focus. Take it from the almost self-diagnosed ADHD blogger writing this post.
If you have excellent focus or if it helps you to, then you may use music. Personally, I am in inconsistent conflict with this.
Read snippets, like a chapter, or an article, everyday. This will train your attention span.
Set a definite time of the day for reading. Like for me – I have my mornings and before bedtime. It is a habit that needs to be formed, so one needs a consistent time of doing it.
Have your corner for reading. The setting you are in must be conducive for focus and flow. My conducive setting is while on the way to the office. There is something with a ride that makes me read.
Have someone to read with. It does not necessarily mean that you need to be physically with each other, but knowing that someone is doing the same thing with you makes it more fun. You can even put up a book club if you like.
Do not be disheartened if you cannot read as fast as somebody can. It doesn’t matter how fast you finished, but how much learning you incurred in doing so.
Lastly, make sure you enjoy what you are doing/reading. After all, reading, and learning for that matter, should be fun.
There you go, some tips that I picked up from several reading endeavors. As you can see, mostly of my tips are on how to focus while reading. I think it is the most difficult part, and therefore should be trained – especially for people like me. It can get frustrating (I attest to this) but the good thing is, we can always train ourselves. There are a number of ways to get into reading. All we have to do is to pick up that book and flip through the pages.
Go now and read away, kids! And feel free to share your reading/focus/book/whatnot tips below. Who knows it can help a fellow reader.
P.S. I remembered The Traveling Reader while doing this post! Check out her blog as well for book recommendations and reading tips!
In between searching Lourd de Veyra‘s book signing in a wrong date (read story here) and desperation over dirt cheap good books, my friend Pat and I rushed over Teacher’s Village with hopes that Bookay-ukay is open on a Sunday.
And it was! Good thing, because I was really meaning to review this place. One, it’s a thrift bookstore, and two it’s in Maginhawa. I need no other reasons.
Drowning in an ocean of cheap, albeit very good, books.
Toys are around as well.
You can never miss this from the shelf.
Pink on pink.
Awesome wall! I like this on my room!
Appropriate.
Oh love.
Yeah. For PhP 10 each.
Struggling book (shelf) model.
And look who we’ve found. Bookay-ukay owners AND apparently Tunay Na Lalake (TNL) moderators. Pat was a huge fan! Eh di mega tumbling lang si Ate Patring ng bonggels!!!
Yeah baby! RAKENROL!!!
Memories of a good Sunday.
Meet my current hairstyle. Lakas maka-high school!!!
The Womenagerie (Jessica Zafra) book came with a note for its first owner. Was stupefied when I saw it.
My second helping for the day already. Can’t help to stop.
Wasn’t a milk tea virgin anymore. Actually. PEACE PAT! :P
Bookay-ukay
55 Maginhawa street
Teacher’s Village, Diliman, QC
(+63) 905 428 3125
This one is my favorite. You wouldn’t know though why is it crescent moon if you still haven’t read/watched Alice in Wonderland.
If I will have a design aesthetic, I will say that I am a minimalist. These posters by Christian Jackson are just superb. The utter lack of elements is the presence of design itself.
We’re actually in TV, not watching TV. My classmates thought of watching the late morning-turned-noontime show Showtime in the ABS-CBN studios, and yes though not really a fan of, I came.
The 110 Gang!
This one's for my sister who loves Ryan Bang!
JNVR x Karylle Tatlong Hari. She actually had to bend, has skyscraper heels kasi, teehee.
I actually realized the effort put in TV shows like these. Not only by contestants, but by crew and staff also. The effort to keep people alive and happy, to also keep the viewers in the other end of the tube alive and happy. Bored at some points, but with friends, it was a pleasant experience all-in-all. It dawned to me, however, that I can’t stand to watch a straight show without looking at my tweets and SMS. So yeah, watching again would take quite some while now.
Fin.
Bookstore Therapy.
I am tempted to buy but I still have unopened ones.
Addition to the growing book wishlist. Refer to Pageturners section please :)
The bookstore never fails to soothe my senses and/or keep me occupied especially when waiting for company. While waiting for Nechane, my eyes were again at the shelves, and always tempted to break a rule and snap shots of titles I plan to buy. Worse, I finished skimming cover to cover Photo You Magazine. *Now which reminds me, dSLR… sigh* Aaaah, the smell of paper and ink. Indeed, random trips to the bookstore is a treat to your soul. Chos!
No to vampire-undead fiction anymore. Please.
F&F Therapy.
Galit sa grill?! Haha!
Friends and food is always a good idea! It’s the Holidays, and all we can think of are reunions, catching-up dinners, shopping-then-dinner-dates, Dinner-then-parties; whatever it is in between, it will always be food – brunch, dinner, merienda, tusok-tusok, name it. We Filipinos love to eat. And you just can’t hide it!
Japanese a la Jonver, feeling chef at Yakimix, Tomas Morato. Chos!
Strawberry x Chocolate x Marshies
We were planning to grab Matcha Korichio from nearby Kozui, but would never want to be a glutton, wouldn’t we?
This Holidays, whether you’re working, studying for boards, having classes, or just bummed to the brim, take a break, indulge in a DIY therapy. Go out for once a while, catch up with friends, have fun. Be creative, there are tons of things to do, even in minimum expense. After all, it’s what the Holidays are for – Reconnecting.
So I had a very rough day, still awake at an ungodly hour, watched a movie and is currently reading blogs when I should be hitting my textbooks. What can I say, I’d really love a life outside nursing. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you’ll probably know this.
Before going home, mulling over what horrendously happened, I ate and went to the bookstore. I find it calming and peaceful inside it – I wanna be trapped in a building full of books… well, interesting books to bid. And for the nth time (exaggerated) I must have posted books I wanna read. Here are some what I saw and added to the list:
Religion and Society
About a child with Asperger's Syndrome. Reminds me about...
SHELLY! :)
Anne Frank’s Memoirs through Miep Gies. I’ve been so hooked to this!
A dissertation on haute couture, money, and society involving Prada, Chanel, and Burberry.
Yeah, that was pretty academic and boring. I’m even surprised my eyes even caught them in the bookstore. I guess I’m getting old also on book choices. I am now, by the way, currently reading:
9/11 story
I think I need to get away from dark stories – books, films, blogs, anything dark. Or maybe not. Yesterday I watched Requiem for a Dream. Today, I just watched Brick starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. See for yourself.
I am fulfilled, somehow.
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P.S. There were too many people in the mall yesterday. Christmas decor is also up. I’m just being the grinch, that’s all. P.P.S. Or the Philippines is just crowded and the RH bill should be passed, instead of wasting time on PKG which brings more people in the overpopulated country that we are. P.P.P.S. Nevertheless, it’s November, and I believe Christmas decors should be set up by December 1st and not any other -ber month <— Grinch.
1. It’s my last semester in the university, and I only have one subject. It runs from 7am to 5pm. And I mean that. My sched reads boredom, and my serotonin levels are so high, I can’t keep my head up for neuron-killing didactics on nursing leadership and management. Gawd, how far is March?!
Huling first day high ko sa Piyu. Bakit andameng taooo?
2. I got a postpaid line. In the benefit of the promo WiMax that I acquired last summer, the requirements for me to have a postpaid phone line goes down to having a valid ID. No proofs of billing and financial capacity needed, thank God! I’m just saying. It’s actually tipid to have Super Plan (Php 349 for Unlitxt all month) than having to register to Unlitxt80 for six times a month, which would be Php 480.
3. It is the last week of NU107 on air. I’m actually listening to it right now, the home of all things rock. I’m really not a radio person, I learned to listen to the radio when stations began giving away concert tickets and I realized Rock Ed radio was actually fun. I am listening through my new Samsung E2121 which came free with my postpaid line. NU107 plays such good thinking music. Follow them here.
My radio and music player
4. I actually overspent in La Union and Baguio. So I’m staying indoors up to the next two weeks, ’til I get my allowance. It’s actually nice to stay at home with the weather, Grey’s Anatomy Season 7, and NU 107. I need financial management skills.
5. It’s November and everywhere is so Christmassy. Can’t we Filipinos just be in time? LOL. I’m so the grinch. It’s too soon I think, and Christmas songs make me sad more than it makes me the other way around. I’m so the grinch.
Forest House in Christmas mode. So sooooon. This was Halloween.
6. I will finish the Diary of Anne Frank in a while now. Then I can read Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. I hate to but I hate leaving books I bought unread also. The Twilight series can be a mindf*ck if you’re no longer love drunk. I can’t wait to read classics after though.
I have a thing for the holocaust.
7. I ranked 38th in class. Out of 44. But as far as I still have a big chance of bagging a Latin honor, I’m happy. And I do have! I don’t care for grades, ’cause it’s so high school, and what’s the use if you lose all others in expense of it. For my last semester in college, I choose to continue to have fun with actually learning. A striking balance between work and play, but of course, we’ll see. Basta never akong magiging GC. Because, again, it’s just so high school.
8. What do you think of my blog? It has been one of the causes of midnight depression for two days now. I wish it has not been a bore for y’all readers. Oh-kaaaaay. It’s not yet midnight, save that for later :(
9. I ate McDo chicken fillet for dinner last night. And breakfast, and for lunch early today. Don’t stare at my hips, it’s cheap, and it’s filling. And it helps me get over spontaneous depressions. Please cholesterol, do not block my arteries :)
Death by McDonald’s Ad
10. It’s planner season once again. Even though I told myself, I will find new planners for this year, I think I can’t resist these babies. I just have to have the metal-ish one! Here goes Starbucks diet.
Sixteen to go!
My Holiday Tradition
Aside from the Starbucks Planner 2011, Christmas season officially starts December, please?
Oh! My download just finished. Grey’s Anatomy S07E01!
