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Have you read these books?

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Have the books yoou've read in bold while those you are planning to read in italic.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [The Philosopher's Stone to Goblet of Fire]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [As You Like It, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 
34 Emma -Jane Austen 
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 
52 Dune - Frank Herbert 
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding 
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read 5 books plus 8.

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Busy Weeks

Mika

I've been really busy lately, thanks to Football. I haven't joined Rugby training for weeks too. Thank to Football, again. I don't like it. It seems like our meetings and such are taking a lot of time. I don't hate it. I do enjoy the company of my fellow hard-core fans and fellow Kaholeros. I guess it's just the melancholic in me longing for a lot and more Me-time.

We were in La Fete de Musique last week and I saw [info]velvet_delirium  and her mum. They were there to perform, and I did enjoy their performance. The trouble with the sound system is not counted. I was quite dancing on my seat while my imagination put me on a beach doing the real dance in tune with the music. I'd love to do that. Just showcase freedom through dancing with a great music.

December 2010

Shoot!
This month seems different than those that past. There were good things, but there were also bad ones. And one of them is my lack of motivation and creativity to write a sensible blog entry write now.

Random thought on sports in Pinas

Gong-gil
 I still get surprised when people wonder why I am into Baseball and Football. It seems like I am some kind of an alien here in the Philippines. But think of it. In USA, it is very normal for girls to like Baseball, although some are still cynical that girls can really talk Baseball. In Europe and around the world, except in Archipelago de San Lazaro and US of A, Football is part of their life.

If I am living in any of those countries, I'd be like a commoner, but not here in my own country where most people only appreciate Basketball and Manny Pacquiao. Yeah, not Boxing. How many Pinoys can you get who will tell you of another boxer besides Pacman? I'm not even one of them, for I bother not remembering their names.

Not every boy here in Pinas are even capable of real Basketball talk. I sincerely believe that although they may be rooting for a particular team.

There was an incident in the clinic a week ago when one of my colleagues asked our MIS if he was able to watch the Dec-4 Alaska vs. San Miguel game. The guy he asked was clueless about the game, but I made a comment about it. What did he do? He became silent and no longer pursued the topic. I then came to two conclusions: 1, He was being disrespectful and didn't want to talk to me about the game; 2, he was concerned I might have a lot of info about the game.

The latter sounds sensible. Truth is, I don't speak Basketball that much. I'm not fond of the game unless the Alaska Aces are playing. I wonder if people think I can about every sport there is.

I've been brooding on the sports status here in the Philippines. Not everyone is into any sport when Filipinos can actually excel. I must admit that I don't play a particular sport, but I at least am a fan. A passionate one.

So I thank what the Azkals have achieved so far. They're bringing awareness to our people, especially to our public servants who were ought to be first to cheer for our athletes.

What we have now for Philippine Football is good. It's a good start.

Writer's Block: A charming defense

Shoot!

If you could conjure an animal spirit protector, which animal would you choose, and why?

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An eagle. It's a very determined bird, which aims to soar high. For me, it goes synonymous with aim for excellence, including protecting what is important for it.
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 It feels weird having no "appropriate" blog to post my random thoughts. I don't do it Multiply, for it is quite public. I used to have "private" blogs, but I've already closed them. My other active blogs have specific purpose and I don't want to add an unrelated entry to them. So I now come to my LJ account.

As I was bothered where to post my random thoughts, I have come to forget what they are. I really can't remember. What is it that I wanted to post? No trace of memory is available. I guess I'll just stick to the purpose: Write my random thoughts.

Since Plurk Twitter, and Tumblr came to my life, I spent less and less time in real blogging. Work also made it harder for me. I wish I'd have more time to write about sensible ideas.

Another random thought: I want to make more money.

Of online accounts..

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I can't remember my other blogs' passwords, (Nursing) Medscape account included. x_x My brain is stubbornly resisting to remember. Is this part of the major, major clean-up? It's good news though, because it's like saying, I'm willing to leave those other (already closed accounts excluded) blogs behind.

That makes the load lighter. Btw, I'm still hanging around in Multiply.com, MLB.com, and always around Tumblr, Plurk, and Twitter. Tumblr is definitely my favourite.

This Coming Week.

Younha
 What's with the new complicated deviantArt?

Oh well, tomorrow will be my first temporary-regular post at the TMC as a CCR. Customer Care Representative, I believe. I'm quite excited. Hoorah!


Monday. I have to submit my DTR tomorrow.
Tuesday. Monday will tell me.
Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday will determine.
Thursday. It's Phil Hughes' birthday! I'm going to cook. I also have to do a lot of reading.
Friday. More readings must be done.
Saturday. I hope to have a post on this day.

Wednesday Chores.

GB
It's been a month. Thanks to Tumblr.

I did laundry works yesterday because our helper had her tooth extracted. One of our strikers helped me so the work load was easy. But man, I almost had my eyes popped out when I saw how he did laundry. Oh men! Boys are boys. You can't entrust laundry to them. You'll run out of detergent powder and your water bill might exponentially increase. I'm not going into details. Remembering is tough.

I also made dinner for us. My Tita wanted to give our helper rest. Besides, she could hardly move around with a painful gum.

I made a personal version of Beef Stroganov. I can't cook Filipino dish so I had to think of something. I sought the internet's help. It was my first time though making that Russian dish. I know it wasn't too good. I'm glad they liked it. My cousins, two of them, said it was delicious. =) I thought it was quite salty. I have a low tolerance to salty foods that's why I rarely use salt. And I don't know how to use salt. Haha!

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Pagbabalik sa LiveJournal..

Mika
May LiveJournal account nga pala ako. 24 March pa ang last post ko rito. Pangangampanya pa for a party list. :D

Ano nga kaya ang mga isusulat ko rito? Hindi ko na ginagamit ang iba kong blogs. Multiply na lang ang madalas kong magamit; 'di ko rin naman madalas masulatan.

Nanagalog yata ako. Nakakaaliw naman. Kanina may kausap ako sa telepono. Bisaya naman ang ginamit ko. Naaaliw ako kapag may kausap ako sa Bisaya. Ibig sabihin kasi nun hindi ko pa rin nakakalimutan ang unang wika na natutunan ko.


PHILIPPINE 2010 ELECTION
Today is Philippines' national election. It's my first time to vote and I've been anxious and excited. Reminds me of my board exam. But this election gave me less than four hours of sleep.

I came to the precinct before 7AM, the time the precinct opened. I was glad that the precinct opened on time. It was such a relief. It took me an hour and 10 minutes from entering the school building to leaving the precinct. I'd say that was pretty fast. My ballot was the twentieth in the PCOS machine. I was so happy, that I was smiling, when PCOS said: "Congratulations! Your vote has been registered." I'm not sure if "registered" was really the word.

I did my part. I leave everything to God.