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Kapitan Sino @ National Bookstore Mango!!! Weeee!
To all members of the Bob Ong kulto! Let’s celebrate the Christmas season with this kumukutikutitap new book of our ultimate leader entitled KAPITAN SINO!!! 
Kapitan Sino. Who is he man bah? Kinsa sya? Sino sya? Mao ni ang pangutana sa kadaghanan… So para makaila mo nya, palit namo sa iyang latest book nga available at some bookstores. Actually, nakit-an ni nako sya sa National Bookstore Mango branch, tag 195 million dollars… So affordable ra. Azzin!
Actually, nice sya ug cover.. Silver ang color… Nindot i-gift sa Christmas (padungogdungog mode) hehe ^_^ No need na i-gift wrap kay shiny shiny effect naman ang cover. Makasave pa mo sa Earth kay dili namo gamit papel for the gift wrap! Diba bongga!!! Papilitan nalang ninyo ug ribbon den butangan ug “To: Joann Merry Christmas From: Your LOVING friend”. Ayos na kaayo!!! Weeeee!
I don’t know what to expect from this book. Hmmm… Obviously, funny jud ni sya for sure pero ambot lang sad if unsa ni about. Ang description sa Wikipedia about sa book kay kani…
“The story revolves around Rogeligio Manglicmot, an electrician in the small barrio of Pelaez.“
Then.. mao sad ni ang nakasuwat sa back cover sa book…
“THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD… Naunahan na naman ang mga pulis sa pagtugis sa mga holdaper ng isang jewelry shop. Bago noon, may iba na ring nakahuli sa isang carnaper; sumaklolo sa mga taong nasa itaas ng nasusunog na building; nagligtas sa sanggol na hinostage ng ama; tumulong para makatawid sa kalsada ang isang matanda; tumiklo sa mga miyembro ng Akyat-Bahay; sumagip sa mag-anak na tinangay ng tubig-baha; nag-landing nang maayos sa isang Boeing 747 na nasiraan ng engine; at nagpasabog sa isang higanteng robot. Pero sino ang taong ‘yon? Maililigtas nya ba sila Aling Baby? At ano nga ba talaga ang sabon ng mga artista?”
As usual, dili kaayo magets if unsa jud ang book about… Better read this soon…
Twilight Journals @ National Bookstore!
Me and my friends were at the mall (SM), roaming aimlessly and doing nothing particularly helpful to the earth. So we decided to kill our time inside National Bookstore. And it is there that we come upon the the new offering for all Twilight series junkies out there!
FOUR TWILIGHT JOURNALS WITH A RECTANGULAR-SHAPED TIN BOX!!!
First thing I noticed. The tin box was cool! 
It’s black with intricate details on the box cover. It definitely looks mysterious and durable. The four journals fit inside the tin box, so just imagine the size of that box. I mean, it could probably hold a paperback copy of the Twilight book.
I never found something special about the journal, I mean, I didn’t have a chance to check the paper quality and all that since it was covered in plastic. All I noticed about them is that the cover of the 4 journals correspond to the book cover of the Twilight series.
The journals with the tin box costs 985 pesos. Hmmmmm… It’s definitely not a bargain but I am sure that many fanatics would not balk on buying this set as soon as they see this on display. Unfortunately, I’m not one of them. But I think the price is quite reasonable, with that nice looking tin box… But again, I have my doubts on the journals… But still, a collectible is a collectible, this might not be available in the future so why not grab the chance!
Looking For A Reason…
It’s been a long time since I’ve read a Neil Gaiman book, so I’ve decided to buy one today. Hmmm.. But I’m confused. Should I go for the surreal love story between a clumsy falling star and an ordinary boy whose madly in love with the town’s beauty or the more unusual story of a curious and adventurous girl whose name is always mispronounced…
So I’ve ardently searched for reasons why I have to read which book. And I’ve found it!!! I’ll go for Stardust. ^_^
REASON 1: the idea of the book
I simply love stars!!!! ^_^ and love stories and magic and everything that involves witches.
REASON 2: the lines…
"You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn’t true. I know a lot about love. I’ve seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate… It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves… You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and… What I’m trying to say, Tristan is… I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I’d know it for myself. My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me anymore. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange – no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine."
"…So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o’ the wisp. Not long ago you burned–your heart burned–in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim, and now it is not there at all."
"Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own? …I have given my heart to another."
"The boy? The one in the inn? With the unicorn?"
"Yes."
"You should have let me take it back then, for my sisters and me. We could have been young again, well into the next age of the world. Your boy will break it, or waste it, or lose it. They all do."
"Nonetheless, he has my heart. I hope your sisters will not be too hard on you, when you return to them without it."
"He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does."
"She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn’t bring them any closer, that they wouldn’t scare the birds away.
Somehow she knew that you didn’t get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered.
She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever."
REASON 3: the movie
I’ve watched the movie version of the book and I love it. Now, I want to know which is better, the movie or the book.
