Novels and Fiction
July 21, 2007
Transformers YAY! (Comments Off)
I cancelled practice today because EJ, the trombone player, Mimi, and Jackie won’t make it YET AGAIN. My patience is almost at its limit. Please don’t let me get pissed off at you guys. It’s not only you who has to make to make sacrifices of your time.
I then spent my afternoon sleeping, surfing the net, checking emails, and installing Adobe Flash Pro CS3. The latter was unsuccessful. The setup file kept looking for the CD installer in which, I believe, wasn’t supposed to be asked for. I might have to buy the CD tomorrow. What’s the trial download for, Adobe!? GRRR~ You just wasted my precious download time. Ack, I didn’t know that Ayumi Hamasaki and Nagase Tomoya dated. I only found out after reading this news regarding their break-up. I’m that behind.
But I just knew of Nagase Tomoya after watching Tiger & Dragon recently. If I didn’t watch that, I wouldn’t have seen that pretty boy. *_* I must see more dramas with him in it.Ugly Overload — the counterpart of Cute Overload. You should see this axolotl. It doesn’t look ugly to me.
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Airliner crashes in flames in São Paulo — It’s scary to think that this could happen. Tsk~
I stayed up until 6AM last Thursday to read the Transformers (2007) movie prequel and adaptation comics. :3 Mac, Maru, and I finally got to watch the movie the day before. I surfed about Transformers in the net when I got home and discovered that there’s a comic sequel to the movie. Thank goodness for BT.
There are only 4 issues in both the prequel and movie adaptation. The script in the movie adaptation is slightly different. There weren’t much humor compared to the movie. But both are great to me except for the kissing scene in the movie comic adaptation. This gave me goosebumps:
>_>
Transformers - Official Movie Prequel Issue #1 is available for download via this link. If you intend to share the file, please forward them to my site or this post. The zip file is password-protected btw. The password is hyukta.net.
I’ve started watching Lucky Star a few days ago.
I’m already on episode 8 and will watch episode 9-10 later. Maybe episode 11 too once my download is done. Download speed has gone really slow recently. It’s only fast around 3AM. Because of that, I haven’t downloaded much lately. *sighs* I feel like I’m behind on a lot of anime and manga.A sms pranskter sent me a message last week about winning a Toyota Altis + Php300,000. I deleted the message, but I remember he/she said I won last May 14, 2007 as a homepartner.
This is annoying. The first time I got this, the message stated that I won last April 21, 2007. Then I got a text from Angel Santillian asking for monetary help, so she could go to the city and get the job she was offered in Ortigas. My Mom got a message like that years ago. I think I did too. There’s also another text message inviting me to a Strategic Marketing Conference. Whoever’s selling out numbers should be beat up. GRRR~ Isn’t it enough that we already get spam in our email/s? Why through sms too!? Aside from Pinoys with nothing to do and sending out stupid SMS, I heard about a swindler using Friendster. GMA’s Saksi covered it. You can watch the video here. The news is in Filipino, btw. If there really is a need to send money to other people, send it via Western Union. Have it for pick-up. WU will have to ask for an ID, right? That method is safer somehow.
Miyabi’s new look? She’s now sporting a cornrow and also got her eyebrow/s shaved.
November 22, 2006
1001 Books To Read Before You Die (Comments Off)
Saw this list in muscatlove’s LJ. I think I’ve only read like less than 1% of the books listed. ^_^;;;
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June 7, 2006
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho (Comments Off)
I also knew that from this moment on, I was going to experience heave and hell, joy and pain, dreams and hopelessness; that I would no longer be capable of containing the winds that blew from the hidden corners of my soul. I knew that from this moment on love woud be my guide — and that it had waited to lead me ever since childhood, when I had felt love for the first time. The truth is, I had never forgetten love even when it had deemed me unworthy of fighting for it. But love had been difficult and I had been reluctant to cross its frontiers.
This the first time I’ve read a book that is related to the Catholic faith except the Bible, of course. The book doesn’t merely concentrate on the 3 high beings we Catholics are aware of. It discusses about the feminine side of God — the Goddess — which could be the Virgin Mary or other female religious figures that other religions have. The female protagonist is torn between her love and her love’s strong faith. It was either he become a priest and share the gift he has or marry her and live a normal life. They were childhood friends and they haven’t seen each other for a very long time. She didn’t have any idea where he has gone to though they kept in touch by exchanging letters. It was hard for her to be with him at first, but, later on, she learned to accept him and tried to be open. As she did, she found out a lot about him. Instead of being greedy of wanting him all to herself, she decided it was best for him not to leave his seminary and continue spreading the gift… But she still didn’t want to lose him.
They made a very good decision in the end. If you want to know, you should read the book.
There were parts that barely made sense to me. Some I just had to skip. I was more interested of knowing what will happen to the two; what decision will they make. This book is really worth reading. I would have to see the other books written by the same author.
Since this so-called “review” is just plain nonsense, I suggest you head over to — http://bookreviews.nabou.com/reviews/bytheriverpiedra.html — as it has a good review about the book that you’ll be tempted to buy it.
October 18, 2004
FF8 kink and smut fics (Comments Off)
Scarlet Seduction has a good collection of FF8 fics. I only read those with NC-17 content, but not all of them. The titles I read:
Submission by dragons78061
Lonely Together by Krystal Epyon
For Keeps by Garden’s Gnome
Laundry Hamper by Clueless Psycho
Tension Relief by Moonriddler Mim
Morning Ritual by Keishi
Laundry Hamper’s ending just… Uhhh… Sucked. I was already enjoying how Squall was _not_ being OOC. Clueless Psycho ruined the fic by turning Squall into a girly slut in the end. *bleh*
To the Winner 2.6 by Garden’s Gnome
I’ve read too much IrvinexSquall and SquallxIrvine that SeiferxSquall doesn’t appeal to me anymore. I think had a liking to them before. Heh~ Blame Scarlet Seduction.
More ficcies:
Cowboys and Cream by Garden’s Gnome
I Know a Movie Star by Wandering Tonberry
Love of Ice by ChangingTimes
November 3, 2003
I Love You (ch. 1-12) (Comments Off)
I Love You by Lizzy5
Storywise, it’s hard to determine what the story is really about. Every chapter relays different stories per character although it started about Doumyoji and Tsukushi then Tsukushi leaving her homeland to study in Boston. Now it’s confusing me about what the fic is about. It pretty much doesn’t concern the two or Tsukushi alone, but the love stories of the others as well. My next read will start on the 13th chapter and I dunno if it’s the wrong time to say those. Aside from all the confusion, I find it still interesting.
October 14, 2002
Hi minna~ I hope this gets posted (Comments Off)
Hi minna~ I hope this gets posted. Blogger is really freaking up again, so I’m thinking of transferring real soon. You might think I’ve abandoned this, but I didn’t. Here’s one review for tonight:
I Love You (Chapters 11-13) by Lizzy: Hana Yori Dango
I don’t think I caught the part of Shizuka being Rui’s fiancee.
I still think Rui looks better with Makino, but there are times he’s like a brotherly image. A lot of things going on in just one fic…or so it seems. There’s the thing on Soujiro’s past, TandT’s problem, Tsukasa’s mother, and Shigeru’s part. It’s a bit slow-paced on her story though. This is a dramatic story, as it says on the genre, but I hope good things will happen, ne? I don’t think I can handle heart-breaking stories now. 
The story is well-written, as usual, but the conversations should be separated per line and not in one single paragraph. I hope you guys get what I mean. It’s kinda getting hard to read plus it’s like reading an article from a science material. I Love You can be found at FFnet.(Originally posted on facing reality — strawberry.yoll.net)
September 25, 2002
A Million Reasons by dementedchris (Comments Off)
A Million Reasons by dementedchris: Hana Yori Dango
This is soO cute!!! It’s a story of how much Doumyouji loves Makino, how many things he would do for her…for a million reasons…aish…aish…soO sweet~~~ I wish I have a guys like Doumyouji. Mwahhahahaha!
Oops…back to the fic! …It’s nicely written. Didn’t find any misspellings or even grammar errors. I must say, the author is a talented writer. I wish to see lots of HYD fics from her. Btw, the fic can be found on fanfiction.net. Her penname is dementedchris. Search for her. -Untitled fic- by sparkienewt@hotmail.com: Fushigi Yuugi
Good story for a first timer. I don’t think I could write something as nice as this. The Suzaku gang is up for another action-filled adventure as another evil awakens. They’re currently going to find the reincarnations (or so I think) of the dead seishi’s. It’s too bad Yui isn’t the Seiryuu’s miko anymore. Pretty lot of exciting stuff going on. Aside from the content, several grammar errors and misspellings were found. I already told the author about it. I hope this wouldn’t be one of those fics that would be left hanging or unfinished.
Saga of the Western Phoenix by athena_muse16@hotmail.com: Fushigi Yuugi
*sweatdrop* Welps, they didn’t place their names or even pennames so…
A very unique AU and a good one. Really promising, so I hope to read more of this. It’s been a while since I’ve read any AU’s. No complaints on the grammar stuff. Really nicely done on that part and I think I’m going to get hooked on this fic.
I can’t wait to read more. Love So Blind by Xiora Li: Sailor Moon
Waffy~!
Kawaii fic, but some parts really got me confused. Like where they were conversing. I kept going back to the start of their talk just to figure out who said this or that. I guess this story came out…unedited? As I said, the fic is good. It just needs some editing here and there. It would have been a great multi-part story…welps…a bit predictable though. Darien being _that_ rich surprises me too. 
How did that happen?! He’s blind, ne? I wonder what he does… Into the Fire by Elysia: Sailor Moon
Ack! SoO good, but I don’t like such cliffhangers!!!
And to think it’s only a one-shot! Tsk, tsk! I want more of this! *demands for more* Mwahhahhahha~ As if! I guess our imagination would have to do the rest. All For the Love of Coffee by Xiora Li: Sailor Moon
Stupid Mamo! Andrew couldn’t get him to stop. Aigoo…I even love coffee…but I don’t remember getting all that hyper. It would be fun to be _that_ hyper. Ehehehe~ The fic is funny, but it kinda lacks something. More added humor I guess…let’s just say this is more of a weird story. I mean that in a good way!
Desperado by Lelu: Sailor Moon
This fic is part of smrff ml’s lyric wheel. Angsty type of story. Err, who is Demando? Ara, my memory is failing me again. I thought it was Mamoru going lovesick on the story. I was beginning to wonder what had happened between the two that Usagi would leave him and stuff. Ah, but it was Demando so… ^_^v
(Originally posted on facing reality — strawberry.yoll.net)