Bigla akong napaisip habang sinusulat ang story ni Heidi. Since ibang-iba na ang TBC kahit sabihin pang based sa original concept ng TLSOTE, may itinanong ako sa sarili ko.
Sa mga protagonist na pinatay ko sa Book 1 and 2 ng TLSOTE (kahit sabihin pang wala pa sa kalahati ang Book 1 at non-existent pa ang Book 2), I was wondering kung sino ang bubuhayin ko at magkakaroon ng sariling love story sa TBC.
Just a small note: The names I'm going to post here were the names from TLSOTE and after the slash, the names on its TBC counterpart. Okay?
May ilang linggo na rin nang matapos kong basahin ang gothic romance na ito sa FB. Yes, doon ko lang po ito nakita. Actually, ito rin ang unang pagkakataon na nakabasa ako ng isang gothic romance in any language. In fact, wala pa nga akong binabasang English gothic fantasy.
Anyway, balik sa isyu.
Inabangan ko talaga ito gabi-gabi, though there were nights na hindi nakakapag-post ang writer dahil sa ilang issues. Sa totoo lang, feeling to talaga, nabitin ako. Nagulat na lang ako, nang mabasa ko ang Chapter 21, the end na. Haha! But I like the mystery and the flow of the story. Hindi ako masyadong aware sa mga creatures sa Philippine folklore like the mysina and sigbin (did I mention this right?). I don’t even know nag-e-exist nga sila.
Ms. C.P., thank you for giving me a chance to read another of your books. So this will be the third one I read that you’ve written and now I could give my (not so) random thoughts about this.
Even plus size women deserve their own love story. At least this book told me that. But before I go to that, I owe Ms. Carla an apology for posting this review a bit too late. A lot of things has happened that prevented me from posting this before the release day even though I finished it earlier.Anyway, let’s go back to the discussion.
Yes! I'm filling this blog with more post again. Pero sa totoo lang, ang bagal ko nang gawin ang alinman sa pagbabasa o sa pagsusulat. Hindi ko alam kung bakit. O siguro kasalanan ko rin.
Anyway, hindi tungkol diyan ang post na ito. So this is the second time I'll be writing my thoughts about a certain story posted in Wattpad. Though sa totoo lang, may tatlo pang Wattpad stories na nag-aabang ding sulatan ko ng comment na ganito kahaba. Darating din tayo riyan. Hinay-hinay lang, okay?
I haven't written or posted anything in this blog for the past month because, well... September is something I say that is the worst month for me besides August. I mean, I couldn't encode as long as I want to because the desktop I was using totally failed me. And to think my sister just bought a new keyboard for it.
Anyway, that wasn't the reason why I decided to post something here again. Yes, I've returned to reading Filipino-authored English books. But then I thought that it wasn't really that long since I last read something like this.
This book wasn’t a part of any book blog tours that I participated. I didn’t get to register in time, that’s why. I’ve been meaning to read this ever since I saw blog posts and tweets about this. But since I have no means of purchasing my own copy since I don’t have money, I just waited. Luckily, I managed to get my copy by chance through InstaFreebie. I really love that site.
So back to the topic. This would be the second book that I read written by the same author. I just smiled when I read the theme of the book—second chances that were up for grabs (if you know where and when to look) and laid in front of the people chosen to receive it. Of course, the characters needed to work things out before they could say that it truly belonged to them. That they truly belonged to each other even as time and circumstances tested them and separated them.
If I go ranking which of the three stories in the book that I liked the most, it goes this way:
What’s making Mayumi anxious on her best friend’s birthday party?
Is it her long time best friend Marie? Marie is now in college, and Mayumi starts to doubt their friendship as Marie meets new people and gets closer to them.
Or is it this basketball player named Micah? A guy she recently met and is making every girl fall for him---Mayumi included.
This could be my last Saturday Night Thoughts entry as a 24-year-old. Yes, paniguradong tatamarin na naman akong magsulat ng ganito sa susunod na Sabado. Wala nang bago, `no? Anyway, since topakin ang internet at medyo apathetic pa ako sa mga kaganapan ngayong araw, sasamantalahin ko na.
As usual, monotonous pa rin ang takbo ng buhay ko. at least, it went like that almost everyday. Epekto ng hindi pa rin nagtatrabaho. And I mean work. But I’d rather not mention that. I don’t want to dwell on my miserable working life—if ever I had one, by the way.
Twenty-four-year-old photographer's apprentice Regina has always felt like the plain, dull orange next to the shiny red apple that is her best friend Lana. But then she meets Ben—the first guy to ever break Lana's heart, and the first guy to ever make Regina feel that he only has eyes for her. As Regina finds herself falling hard for Ben, she also finds herself breaking all the rules of best-friendship. Will she give up the love of her life for Lana, or will she finally realize that she deserves her share of the spotlight, too?
When I decided to re-read all the novels I read in order for me to write a book review (or book comment, I should say), this novel was the first in my list. I don’t know. But for me, this is one of my favorite novels I’ve ever read and so I decided to read it again.
I’ve only become aware of Nicholas Sparks’ books because of the movie adaptation of this novel. But it took me long before I finally had a copy of his novels. Anyway, getting back to the topic. Since I’ve watched the movie adaptation of the book first before reading this, I imagined most of the scenes to be in the 90s or 2000s, unlike the 50s that the novel mentioned. But it’s okay. I mean, a lot of things could change as decades passed and yet there would always be things and feelings that would remain the same. At least, this novel told me that.
Gorgeous college senior Val Fabian is a player in every sense of the word. She's the star spiker of her university's volleyball team, and she never runs out of dates. But it seems that this year, she has finally been bitten by the commitment bug. She sets her sights on an unexpected target--the unassuming yet ultra-cute Jake Clementia. Val is used to getting what she wants, and is sure she'll snag him before graduation. But in the process of winning his heart, she is sideswiped by a surprise move that sends her tumbling from her pedestal.
It’s a freakin’ cold Sunday and I really hate it. I can’t write faster because of it. And yes, you guessed it (or not)! I’m going to complain about the keyboard again. Apparently, I can’t do anything about it. So I might as well do everything to remain patient about this. Who knows? Maybe something will happen in this coming month of August. Though I must say, this is the month that I came to dread since I graduated.
It’s the end of the month of July, which means a new life or chances awaits tomorrow. And yes, here we are—or at least I was, totally hating the rain. I haven’t really come to love rainy seasons at all. Seriously. But anyway, I can’t do anything about that one. That’s Mother Nature.
Windang pa rin ako hanggang ngayon, sa totoo lang. Hindi ako makapaniwala! Na-release na rin ito, sa wakas! Feel ko talagang magtatatalon sa tuwa. Pero saka ko na gagawin iyon. Sa ngayon, gusto ko munang i-relish ito. Like what I promised—at least I did on Facebook, magpo-post ako ng mga trivia about this newly-released book written by yours truly.
Oo na, ako na ang hyper! Pagbigyan n’yo na lang po ako. First approved manuscript ko ito, eh. And of course, ito rin ang first published manuscript ko. Hehe! At least ngayon, alam n’yo na kung gaano ako kabagal magsulat ng manuscript. Minsan, lumalampas pa ng isang buwan bago ko matapos isulat iyon. Hay…
Marami rin akong pinagdaanan bago ito na-approve. Sa ngayon, e-book form pa lang ang meron nito. Hindi ko alam kung may paperback version ba ito o umaasa lang ako. Puwede rin na hindi ako aware na may released na palang paperback version nito. Pero sa ngayon, you can buy the e-book form sa Bookware site.
It’s 8:45 in the evening. As usual, I’ve been doing a lot of contemplating. And at the moment, I’m also getting worried about my sister. She hadn’t arrived home yet. I hope nothing bad happens to her. She wasn’t supposed to stay out later than 7 PM.
I was just done eating dinner and I couldn’t proceed with typing down the rest of the 5th chapter’s 2nd scene since the keyboard was acting up again. Grr!! I could really destroy it because of frustration. But since I don’t have anything to use as an alternative or even replacement, I’d rather be patient for now and bear with it.
Blaze Romano’s life has gone exactly according to plan. He managed to get away from his miserable life on the streets of Manila. He won the heart and married Luella, a wealthy heiress of the Mondragon family from Cebu City. There’s just one thing left, kill Luella, and get all that wealth for himself. Things were going smoothly, but Luella’s half-brother, Cidro’s unexpected return from Spain ruined years of planning. Everything went downhill for Blaze, and he soon found himself in a sticky situation. But as his life flashes before his eyes, someone he least expected appeared in his mind. Luella, the woman who changed his life and started it all.
Hi! It’s me again. I’m trying to keep up posting something like this every week just to update myself of what had happened over the past 7 days. Despite the terribly depressing week, which I tried not to show in every way I can, I’m still here. You know what I mean. I can’t say that it’s boring and all that. But somehow, things had gotten a little bland lately about my life. I know that it’s really hard for me to keep up now with what my life has to offer. Missing a lot of chances, whether intentional or not, did this to me.
I guess that means I only had myself to blame, huh? But I’ll think about that later on. Right now, I got to focus on the things I still want to do despite what happened over the week.
Okay. It’s Friday night. Pero two days ago, may isang bagay talaga akong na-realize nang husto. Alam n’yo ba kung ano `yon? Malas talaga ang number 13 sa buhay ko. for the most part of my life, iyon ang isa sa mga bagay na napuna ko. It has something to do with dates. Aside from this, I tried doing my best to avoid this number for some weird reason.
Hindi ko naman masabing mapamahiin akong tao para ma-realize ko ito. Pero inaamin ko na naniniwala ako sa mga pamahiin. Most of the time, consciously or not, sinusunod ko ang karamihan sa mga iyon. Avoiding the number 13 was one of them kahit hindi talaga ako sigurado sa mga pamahiing kakabit ng numerong ito.
…and again, I’ve missed a few weeks of posting entries for The Sunday Currently. I know, I’ve always been the forgetful one at my age. I can’t do anything about it. I think this is the effect of not doing too much outside of my usual routine of writing and helping with the small food business my family had started last month. I don’t know. I could feel that, in one way or another, I’m regressing—at least mentally speaking. It’s just a feeling.
For one thing, this week turned out to be a bad dream for me. I’m not sure if I’d be able to forget about it and leave it as such in the next coming days or what. But I guess I’ll deal with that later on.
Since there would be a power outage from 9 AM to 5 PM and I had nothing else to do besides eating rice crispies without milk, I’d rather do this. I was just done reading this last night after a week. Yes, I’m not exactly a fast reader when it comes to novels. But that doesn’t stop me from loving to read those books.
Anyway, this is just a short thought about this book. I’ve only become aware of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles Of Narnia when I watched the 2005 movie adaptation of the second book in the series. Since then, I wanted to read the entire series. The only problem was, it’s hard to find the books of the series. Thankfully, though with a slight difficulty, I managed to find them all.
He didn’t just want her, there was something else in this woman that made his heart and mind go crazy.
Nanganib ang buhay ni Keira sa mga kamay ng mga taong pinagkatiwalaan niya kaya tumakas siya mula sa kanilang hacienda. Napadpad siya sa katabing hacienda. At sa gitna ng taniman ng mga tubo ay natagpuan siyang marungis at sugatan ni Jeremy Fabella. Keira knew she had found her safe haven in Hacienda Fabella. Umisip siya ng paraan para hindi mapaalis doon. Nagtago siya sa ibang pangalan at sinabing nagdadalang-tao siya. Tutol si Jeremy sa pananatili niya sa hacienda pero wala itong nagawa sa pakiusap ng mabait nitong ina. Gayunman, hindi nangingimi ang binata na ipakita kay Keira na hindi siya welcome doon. Palaging masungit at arogante si Jeremy sa kanya. Pero isang gabi, natagpuan ni Keira ang kanyang sarili na nakapaloob sa mga bisig ng guwapong binata at ginagawaran siya ng mainit na halik sa mga labi. Dala ng bugso ng damdamin, ipinagkaloob ni Keira ang sarili kay Jeremy—hindi alintana na sa ginawa niya ay mabubulgar ang mga itinatago niyang lihim…
Finally! I found time to write another of this entry after two weeks. Wala naman kasi akong matinong sasabihin last week, eh. Idagdag pa na talagang nakalimutan ko na may isusulat pala dapat akong ganito. Hehe!
Anyway, as usual, nothing much happened. Siguro, ang masasabi ko lang na importanteng nangyari sa akin, nakatapos na ulit ako ng isa pang manuscript. Tuwang-tuwa talaga ako dahil ang dami ko ring “magulong utak” moments pagdating sa story ni Akio. Ilang beses ko nga ring itinigil ang pagsusulat n’on, eh. Mabuti na lang talaga at hindi ko sinukuan. By next week, ipapasa ko na iyon.
Last day of the month na! Last day for the first half of the year na rin. Ang bilis, `no? Parang kailan lang. Pero ang progress ng buhay, heto. Nganga pa rin. I still remained as a girl who daydreams a lot. That is, if you still consider someone who’s about to turn 25 in two months’ time as a girl. Pero siguro nga, girl pa rin akong maituturing kung ganitong isip-bata pa rin ako in more ways than one.
But two nights ago, I realized something. Hindi pala ako magaling na mediator pagdating sa mga away, `no? Actually, matagal ko nang napupuna iyon. Pero ngayon ko lang talaga na-realize nang husto iyon. Nagkaroon lang naman kasi ng kaunting “sitwasyon” dito sa bahay namin that night kaya ko nasabi iyon. Thankfully, naresolbahan naman kahit papaano. Wala nga lang akong masyadong nagawa kahit ako pa ang naturingang panganay. And I guess I’ll never be a good mediator at all. Hanggang sa imagination ko na lang mag-e-exist ang ako na magaling mag-ayos ng gulo ng ibang tao.
Effect ba ito ng pagiging introvert ko ever since? Hindi ko masasabi. Even though I’ll be turning 25, I still feel that I don’t know myself that well. I’m not even sure of what to do with myself anymore. I keep wishing for progress pero ako itong walang nagawa. Feeling ko nga, huli na ang lahat para sa akin, eh.
Ewan ko lang kung tama ba `tong nararamdaman ko. Basta, ganoon na iyon. Mahirap nang ipaliwanag.
And finally, they showed the full trailer of the movie. In fairness, ha? Kahit ilang beses kong panoorin `yong part na aalis na si Gara sa Italy, `yong line na sinabi niya as an answer sa tanong ni Andrew, laging nangingilid sa luha ang mga mata ko. Feeling ko talaga, medyo masakit `yong kung ano man ang itinago ni Gara para sabihin niya iyon. Wait, may sense pa naman itong pinagsusulat ko rito, `di ba?
Anyway, over all, I liked the movie trailer. Ang problema lang, wala akong pera pambili ng ticket para makanood ng movie na iyon sa sinehan. Bukod sa nagtitipid ako, wala akong source sa ngayon. Hehe! Kaya bahala na kung saan ako magre-rely para lang mapanood ko `yon.
Hindi ko rin napigilang ma-curious sa nakitang ending ni Lola Nidora patungkol sa pelikula. May kissing scene nga kaya? Who knows? Basta ako, abangers ang peg ko nito. No choice, eh. Hehe! Kahit pala kulang ang JoWaPao sa ngayon, kahit papaano ay nagagawa ko pa ring i-appreciate ang pagpapatawa nina Jose at Wally. Of course, nakaka-miss din si Paolo. Pero wala tayong magagawa kung binigyan siya ng sanction. Kaya nga hindi ko talaga maintindihan kung bakit ang daming mga taong galit sa kanila at bina-bash sila.
O siguro may kanya-kanya lang paraan ang mga tao na mag-appreciate.
What happened to Beatrice and Benedick? They used to be in love. They used to be together. But something got in the way and its turned them into angry, bitter rivals that can't get along, much less work together on a project that could change everything for Bea and Claudia's little paper company.
Bea isn't going to let Ben ruin her mood. Ben isn't backing down from Bea's barbs without a fight. But why is Claudia telling Hiro that Bea is head-over-heels in love with Ben? Why is Hiro convinced that Ben is in love with Bea?
Set in Washington DC, this book is a modern adaptation of WIlliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
It’s 11 PM, just sitting here on my bed, listening to Maine Mendoza’s “Imagine You And Me” and currently thinking of what to write next to be able for me to proceed finishing my manuscript. Okay na sana, eh. Typical scene na ito para sa akin. Kaya lang, ang problema, hindi ko pa tapos basahin `yong e-book na dapat ay gagawan ko ng book review para sana sa blog tour.
And seriously, nagpa-panic na ako dito. Grabe lang talaga. Bukas ko na dapat ipo-post `yong book review sa blog kong ito, eh. Pero heto, nganga pa rin. Inaantok na ako’t lahat pero hindi ko pa rin matapos-tapos basahin `yong libro. Ang title pala n’on ay “We Go Together” na isinulat ni Carla de Guzman. It was an English story written by a Filipina. Hindi ito ang first time na magsusulat ako ng isang book review about Filipino-authored English books. Doing this was a really good experience for me. Dito ko napatunayan na kaya ring makipagsabayan ng mga Pilipino pagdating sa pagsusulat ng English novels.
Pero hindi lang tungkol dito ang topic ng Saturday Night Thoughts post ko na ito. Actually, milagro kong maituturing na naisulat ko pa ito dahil nga ilang Sabado na rin akong hindi nakapapagsulat nang ganito. Probably because I’d rather keep those thoughts to myself than write it down. Ang dami na kasing nangyari. May weird, may malungkot, may nakakainis, may nakakabuwisit, at may masaya rin naman. By the way, our family started a small food business. Pero ang mga customer pa lang namin, `yong mga officemates ni Mama.
Ang sabi ko nga, mabuti na rin na may ganito kaming pinagkakaabalahan. Hindi na ako umaasang magagawa pang ayusin ang problema ng birth certificate ko na talaga namang malaking tulong sana para makahanap ako ng maayos-ayos na trabaho. Hindi na madaling mag-asikaso ng mga document at requirement na kailangan ko nang walang birth certificate. Hindi rin enough kung baptismal certificate lang ang gagamitin ko as one of the substitute documents. Ang dami pang tsetseburetse pagdating naman sa mga required na ID’s.
Kaya heto ako ngayon. jobless and still struggling to become a writer. Magkaroon pa nga kaya ng progress ang buhay ko kahit ganito ang sitwasyon ko?
Just another night thought kahit hindi pa naman Saturday. Wala lang. Naisipan ko lang. I mean, though not much had happened today, may mga gumugulo pa rin sa isipan ko. Minsan lang akong maglabas ng saloobin ko sa blog kong ito kaya pagbigyan n’yo na lang ako. Okay?
Hindi ko alam kung bakit. Pero kahit ayokong isipin, nag-uumpisa nang hindi maging maganda ang pakiramdam ko tungkol sa hinihintay kong feedback sa evaluation ng story ni Aeros. Part iyon ng first ever collaboration ko with Raye Amber at Sharmaine Light. Both are writers from PHR. Sana lang talaga, huwag namang negatibo ang kahahantungan ng hinihintay kong resulta. Mahirap magsulat ng tungkol sa pagmo-move on from a heartbreak, ah. Kahit sabihin pang naranasan ko nang ma-heartbroken noong high school pa ako.
Here I am with another rant for the night. Pagpasensyahan n’yo na lang po ang magulo kong utak ngayong gabi. Anyway, I decided to post this as a sort of notice. Minsan lang po akong magsulat ng ganito. Palibhasa, takot matengga ang blog ko. Hehe!
The change I was truly referring earlier was about the title of one of my favorite stories I’m writing and really struggling to finish. Dahil sa ilang araw na pag-iisip at ilang buwan na rin na pagiging indecisive ko tungkol dito, nabago na ang title ng “The Last Sky Of The Earth”. Sa totoo lang, medyo mabigat din sa dibdib ko ang change na ito. Napamahal na sa akin ang story title na ito. Pero dahil alam ko at aaminin ko sa sarili ko na hindi ko magagawang panindigan sa ngayon kung bakit iyon ang title na naisip ko, I decided to change the title.
Kaya ngayon, ang dating minahal ko na “The Last Sky Of The Earth”, naging “Five Thorned Blades” na. At least, alam kong sa title na ito, magagawa ko na itong panindigan. May kinalaman sa history ng limang angkan ang title na ito at magagawa ko naman na sigurong i-explain ito nang maayos. So that means Kourin’s codename will be changed, as well.
In fairness, ha? Hindi lang pala part lang ang mababago sa storyline ng TLSOTE. Hindi ko akalaing darating ako sa puntong pati ang title ng trilogy na ito, mababago rin. Hopefully, I made that decision for the best. Gusto ko na talagang matuloy ang mga series na plano kong isulat.
Oo na. Ako na ang dakilang asumera sa pinagsusulat kong ito. Aaminin ko, hindi ako ganoon kasipag na writer. In fact, I procrastinate a lot of times and I know that it’s a really bad habit. Likas na nga yata sa akin iyon. Pero sinusubukan ko namang labanan. So far, sa tingin ko naman, may pinatutunguhan ang ipinaglalaban ko.
Okay, this post is turning weird. Saka na ako magda-drama ulit. As for this post’s title, sabihin na natin na isa ito sa mga pangarap kong gawin. Ang magpa-game sa mga magiging readers ko kapag nagtuloy-tuloy na ang journey at (hopefully) success ko sa pagsusulat. Dadalawa pa lang ang approved MS ko as of this post. Sa magkaibang publishing company pa. May dalawa naman akong for revision ang feedback na hindi ko pa maituloy-tuloy dahil sa topaking keyboard ng isang desktop na gamit ko sa pag-e-encode to the point na para akong nakikipag-away sa tuwing pipindutin ko ang mga keys. Pero puwede pa namang pagtiyagaan kaya okay lang.
Okay. I’m feeling a little weird today. Actually, hindi lang ngayon, eh. May ilang araw na akong medyo hindi mapalagay. Ako lang ba o talagang nalalayo na ako sa mga naging friends ko sa FB? O baka epekto lang ito ng hindi masyadong nagpo-post ng mga status sa FB? Well, sorry. Hindi sa lahat ng pagkakataon, gusto kong i-post ang saloobin ko. Kahit kating-kati na talaga akong mag-post, wala pa rin.
Maybe because I got used to keeping things to myself. Kahit sabihin pang age na ito ng social media kung saan marami na akong puwedeng pagsabihan ng anumang bumabagabag sa isip ko, hindi ko pa rin magawang ilabas ang anumang saloobin ko. Kaya nga minsan lang akong mag-ingay kahit dito sa blog ko. Kahit na talagang marami akong gustong sabihin.
Anyway, ito lang naman ang feeling ko, eh. Pero kung ganoon nga talaga ang sitwasyon, wala akong magagawa. Ayoko namang ipilit ang sarili ko sa kanila kung gusto na nila akong iwanan at kalimutan, `di ba? Never akong nag-demand ng atensyon nila. Minsan na akong nagkamali nang gawin ko iyon. Sa huli, ako pa rin ang nasaktan.
Pasensiya na sa biglang pagpo-post ng kung anong kadramahan dito sa blog ko. Minsan lang ito. Palibhasa, hindi ko pa matapos-tapos ang pag-e-encode sa ongoing MS ko dahil sa topaking keyboard at sa keyboard na nginatngat ng daga ang cord. Ang sarap lang nilang kutusan at pagtatatagain, sa totoo lang. Urgh!
So this is another post for this entry. Well, in case you’re not aware, I’ve written this post first on paper before typing it down and posting it here. My sister was kind of busy watching anime shows saved on our desktop’s hard drive. That’s why I settled writing it this way for now.
Nothing much happened, except that I’ve been trying my best to finish my on-going manuscript before this month ends. Trust me, it’s a struggle. Especially if you really want to write a new one right now but can’t since you have to finish the on-going one first.
So when was the last time I wrote something like this? I can’t remember at all. Urgh! I’ve been busy—or at least my mind was for the past weeks. Yes, I haven’t written a Sunday Currently post for weeks. I don’t want to count because it only irks me. It also reminds me of a lot of things. I couldn’t think properly. A lot had happened and I don’t even want to elaborate that. How did everything goes like this? Honestly speaking, I’ve never felt so useless in my life. It really irks me to the core, yet here I am, I can’t even do anything.
I guess what they said about me was true, after all. Even though I hate to admit it, I really feel that I don’t have the initiative to do something that could really help. I can’t really say that I’m a selfish person since I want to do something that would help my mother in some ways with regards to financial problem we’re facing. But I want to do it using the one thing that really makes me happy, and that’s writing. And yet circumstances don’t even want to help me with it.
In my current situation now, where my father can’t even do anything about fixing my birth certificate’s problem, I really don’t know what to do. I need that fixed birth certificate so I could find a decent job. Most of the companies or even just a simple job these days usually requires birth certicate issued by National Statistics Office (NSO) aside from other requirements. But my birth certificate hasn’t been fixed in a long time. Either my father was really busy or he’d just forgotten about it. I kept reminding him and yet, no results show up. Not all who hires someone for a job would be very understanding about my situation and they would insist on submitting the requirements down to the letter.
Okay. Since nagkaroon ng medyo malaking pagbabago sa TLSOTE plotlines, especially the names, I might as well do this one.
Sa naunang plano ko sa plotline ng TLSOTE trilogy, the Eight Celestial Points were all locations where the Yasunaga clan leave parts of their treasures to guide the future generations of the clan about the upcoming battles to greet them with regards to the Black Thorns. Ang treasures na iyon ay tinatawag na “Eight Treasures of the Imperial Rose”. May Eight Celestial Points din ang Four Families pero lahat ay located sa Japan. Unlike sa Yasunaga clan na sa Pilipinas lahat nakalagak. Now that a certain change was done in this trilogy, heto ang (hopefully) matinong explanation tungkol sa legend ng Eight Celestial Points sa version na ito.
Ewan ko ba. Medyo nagulat din ako sa sarili ko kasi hindi naman normal sa akin ang mag-isip ng ganitong klaseng story plot, eh. Oo na. Weird na ako kung weird. Pero hindi ko mapigilan, eh. But anyway, since nandito naman na ito, eh `di go na lang. Ewan ko nga lang kung kailan ko masisimulan. So I decided to write the idea down para naman hindi ko makalimutan. But if someone would actually decide to adopt this story idea for me in case I forgot about this, just comment below. Okay?
This is the short (and maybe a more detailed and spoiler-filled) profile I made for the original characters to appear in my new Kyo Kara Maoh fanfic titled “Beast Knights” that can be read in Fanfiction.Net and my Blogger account.
A werewolf chef, a cursed family, a spell to forget. You’ll meet these and more in the ten stories of the KILLER SEASONS installment of #StrangeLit, featuring:
“The Forget You Brew” by Tara Frejas
For 20-year-old Kyle Thomson, nothing in the world is more terrifying than the prospect of telling Allison Jeon that he loves her. That is, until he finds out that this mystical café in a peculiar place called Nowheretown had served her a cup of afforgeto—a brew for forgetting—a drink she ordered intending to forget him. Hoping to reverse the spell, Kyle reluctantly teams up with a bunny-eared hopeless romantic and a badass barista to retrieve Allison’s memory jar from the Repository of the Intangible. But when stealing back forgotten memories doesn’t quite turn out as expected, Kyle is left with no choice but to conquer his biggest fear. Can the magic of Nowheretown supply him a fixer-upper, or will the magic in his steadfast heart be enough to grant them their happy ever after?
Other stories included in the bundle:
Resto Rescue by Maita Rue
The Last Night Of Her Wake by Chrissie Peria
House Of Silver: A Cursebreaker Novel by C.P. Perez
It was truly a fine afternoon At least, I don't mind the scorching heat that day I just kept on walking the usual pace As I let my mind travel in search for inspiration Not knowing that, near my alma mater I would encounter you after about a decade And it happened on that unknowing April 2
An ordinary day, that's how I initially greeted it And a plan for an early birthday celebration was set I did my job as a "dutiful" older sister I wasn't particularly thinking about you Just like how I did in the past At least, not as frequent as I do now After our paths crossed that one April 2
I want to hate you, to be honest I don't want to frequently think of you again I don't mind the occasional ones, though Since I know it would just come and pass me by It was just a short encounter, anyway That happened one afternoon on April 2 But the thoughts I had after that seemed to linger Much longer than usual
I'm recalling it now as I write this As questions were left stuck in my head since then What in the world happened to me after that? What did I feel after seeing you again like that? Did I become numb and unfeeling after that short moment? Or could it be that the feelings I had for you back then Disappeared in time before I realized it?
I just smiled, chuckled and shook my head It was just a short moment, I keep on saying But it sure stayed in my mind much longer than the others What in the world is happening to me? Why can't I forget that one moment? I'm not sure if I wished for this moment once before One thing I knew, I was left wondering
How could a single moment that happened in April 2 Made me think of my feelings for you again? Was it still there? I don't know, to be honest But I think it's the truth That would leave me pondering about you again For more years to come
Rain De Castro has been in love with her best friend, Mark Velasco, for almost the entire time she has known him, but she’s clearly in the friend zone because he’s happily in a relationship. Or so she thought, until the news of his break-up reaches her. Now that Mark’s single again, she decides that it’s time to step out of the zone. But when her cousin Lissa comes into the picture and sets her eyes on Mark, Rain feels troubled when he gets a little too friendly with her. Rain is determined to fight for what she feels this time, but is it worth the effort if it’s a losing battle from the start? Will she back off to give way for her best friend’s happiness, even if it means losing him to someone else again?
Celia has dreams. She dreams of going to Seoul for that scholarship she never took, of leaving everything behind and moving to New York. In all those dreams, she finds herself attached to Benedict, the boy she has always loved, who didn’t love her back.
Ben believes in parallel worlds. Worlds where the things you didn’t do come true—worlds where he went to London and fell in love with Celia, where he shows up on the day she needed him most. He believes that dreams are glimpses into that parallel world, and it’s not a coincidence that Celia’s been having them too.
It’s the day of Ben’s wedding, in the middle of a typhoon in Manila. How will these dreams and unmade decisions change their lives? Will they bring them closer together, or just drive them further apart?
By: Jay E. Tria, Madelyn Tuveria, Myra Mortega, C. J. Edmunds, D. A., Motzie Dapul, Therese Barleta, Yeyet Soriano, Chen Cabaluna, Mikael Javellana
Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy
Book Bundle Description:
This is what happens when you allow yourself to unlock your dreams: You may just find the darkness that lurks there. Explore the tragic, the romantic, and the comedic side of our darkness in these stories.
“Majesty” by Jay E. Tria
What would you do if the ghost of someone you love appeared in front of you?
Majesty is a beautiful ghost, with her hair of fire and eyes gray like smoke. That was Andy Fey’s first thought when the ghost of her best friend Majesty Hall appeared in her bedroom, only two months since her death. Majesty doesn’t know why she’s there, why only Andy can see her.
Andy wasn’t sure if she could tell Gale, that boy who claims that he and Majesty were in love. Funny, sarcastic, and a self-proclaimed serial heartbreaker, Gale is proving to be a good friend in grief, though his trail of broken hearts could soon include hers.
As Andy and Gale wade through their sorrow, Andy wonders if Majesty is here to help ease her into this new, complicated friendship, or if she has a mission all her own.
Ana is in a rut. For years, she had been focused on trying to carve out a niche for herself in a competitive, male-dominated, scientific world. On her 32nd birthday, she finally takes a step back and realizes her life is . . . boring. With a little prodding from her friends, she decides to shake things up. She vows that this is the year she’ll finally capture the heart of Daniel Sato, the research associate she’s secretly loved for ages. So she makes a birthday wish—to finally fall in love with someone ('with' being the operative word). But then, she hadn't counted on crossing paths with hunky and opinionated actor Ken Nakamura. Be careful what you wish for—Fate always answers—even if it isn't exactly the answer that we were hoping for. Find out how even the best-laid plans go awry when the paths of two very different people suddenly collide.
Maybe once upon a time we all were ordinary, until the day life took a fateful turn. Do we accept this, or run from it? Explore the path of extraordinary choices in these stories.
Okay, so I ended up deciding on something with regards to “The Last Sky Of The Earth” trilogy. Of course, itutuloy ko pa rin iyon. Pero pansin ko lang, major editing yata ang mangyayari doon. I might focus on three POVs only (Seiichi, Kourin, and Raiden) kapag itinuloy ko ang desisyon kong i-overhaul iyon. Matrabaho, oo. Pero kung gusto ko talagang matapos iyon, kailangan kong gawin. The story will be told in those three characters’ perception. I might even write it in 1st person POV.
For now, I decided to unpublish it from Wattpad. It’s still there. I just want to write it the way that it won’t be hard for me. Ayokong iwan ang story na ito dahil lang hindi ko magawang i-update nang maayos.
Source:ARC provided in exchange for an honest review
Description:
It's harder to get over someone who was never really yours.
They say rock stars get all the girls. But Miki knows that's not always true. He, for one, though the guitarist of popular indie band Trainman, just can't seem to get the girl. It's kind of his fault, really. No one told him to fall in love with Jill. No one told him to stand still and watch as she moved on from a terrible breakup into the arms of another guy—a Japanese celebrity with the face of an angel and the body of a god.
So when someone else comes along, someone who finds him cute, smart, and funny (sometimes in the haha sort of way), will Miki finally move on? Or will he continue to pine for Jill?
When Gianna wakes up on a cloud, she is disoriented yet fascinated. She thinks she’s only dreaming until she gets a storm of paper planes. “They’re thoughts of people who remember,” a man on another cloud tells her—each pleading her not to leave. The man tells her these planes are the key to get out of there, and while she thinks it’s hard to believe, she decides everything is worth trying if it meant finding her way back home.
Okay. Yes, I know. I missed another Sunday that I was supposed to post something like this. I got busy with other stuffs, that’s why I forgot writing something like this. But thankfully, I got another chance to write another volume of this blog post. I haven’t been posting my Saturday Night Thoughts blog post for how many Saturdays now. So I don’t want to miss another Sunday Currently blog post.
Well, at least I can say that the past two weeks had been pretty okay to me. And yes, I finally got the feedback for my manuscript that had been under evaluation for almost a month and a half. I got a revision. At least, it’s close to being approved, right? I just need to revise it using the pointers they gave me. Hopefully, when I’m done and I submitted it again, it won’t be returned to me.
It’s a cold February here in Baguio, I must say. But that doesn’t actually stop me from writing more stories as soon as I’m done with one. And I started joining blog tours. Well, I just joined one for now. But I participated in Ms. April’s little project called #FilipinoFriday that aims to support English novels authored by Filipino writers. And I like it, to be honest. I already posted two of the book reviews for #FilipinoFriday and I hope if you have time, you can read it. Who knows? Maybe it’ll spark your interest and will make you purchase those books one day.
Okay… So for now, I’m still typing down the second scene of TLSOTE’s Hunt 38. At this point, though, nag-report na si Tetsuya kay Mamoru tungkol sa mga natuklasan niya sa bayan ng Casimera. As I’ve previously mentioned in the other TLSOTE chapters, isa ang Casimera–particularly ang templo roon–sa kabilang sa Eight Celestial Points ng Yasunaga clan sa Pilipinas. But in the story, the exact names and locations of each point weren’t explicitly mentioned. In fact, medyo vague pa ang pagkaka-describe sa mga ito.
Lahat ng descriptions ng Eight Celestial Points, nakaukit sa templo sa Casimera na pinasabog nga lang ng Dark Rose. At dahil pinasabog ang templo, nasira rin ang pinag-ukitan ng mga descriptions na iyon. That is, until Akira found a way to combine the broken codes and descriptions together again.
EIGHT CELESTIAL POINTS and its descriptions:
1. Aeraven Lake - The moonlit mere guarding the will of the four roses. 2. Argatha Forest - A shrouded woodlands guarding the sword of time. 3. Eirene Tower - The sun-colored stronghold guarding the symbol of the dragon. 4. Lorlea Valley - The valley of the golden sunrise guarding the secrets of the sky. 5. Mt. Cleantha - A majestic summit guarding the stone of memories. 6. Quivira Lighthouse - A guiding light guarding the spirit of the white ocean. 7. Shiasena Temple - A sacred temple guarding the passages of hidden history. 8. Town of Casimera - The ethereal haven of the roses guarding the proofs of the last king.
Honestly speaking, ito ang napapala ng walang maisip gawin kapag hindi makapagsulat.
1) She has amnesia. 2) She’s on the run from her father’s creditors. 3) She’s enjoying her last days on earth.
Ever since Jang Min Hee walked into Gio’s small museum, she’s given him one excuse after another about why she’s vacationing at scenic Boracay Island. Rarely has Gio’s neat and organized world been shaken like this. Soon he finds himself scrambling over rocks, hiding in dressing rooms, and dragging her out of bars. But how can Gio tell what's true from what isn't? Their worlds are getting unraveled -- one story at a time.
Rianne has lost her memories of the past two years due to an accident, but letters from a mysterious “Sparks”—found in a pile of unread mail at home—have been helping her cope. The letters tell her of a couple’s love story, making her hope to find the same unconditional love someday.
Rebuilding her life has been a mess though: her guy best friend is claiming to have been her boyfriend that time, but she seems more at ease with a mysterious stranger. Does she trust the past she can’t remember, or take a chance with a more uncertain future?
Can your heart also forget what your mind could not remember?
These are the two sentences that bothered my mind for quite some time now. It’s making me crazy, I must say that. It really degrades me even though these are the words that one of my characters would say to the person he hates. Now I couldn’t help thinking. Am I really like this? Am I really someone who doesn’t know anything?
I’m naive, yes. Even at my current age of 24, I’m still someone who practically “lives under the rock”. Or as I’d like to call myself–a hermit. I’m quite contented being confined in my own world inside my head. I guess that’s one reason I never got to grow. I’m always scared of facing the world on my own.
For now, I’m truly clueless as to what I need to do. Even when people tell me what should I do, it seems that I can’t find myself having the guts and the drive to actually go through it.
Seriously speaking, I hate it. Only because it just proved, in some ways, that those words mentioned above were all true…
Okay, so I missed another Saturday Night Thoughts blog post (that was supposed to be posted yesterday). But that doesn’t mean I’m going to forget writing this one. Not much had happened over the week, if that’s what you’re going to ask me. I’m still waiting… and waiting… and waiting for something to happen. And it did.
At least on the part about my very first approved manuscript last October 2014. It would be released soon. In fact, www.ebookware.ph already posted it as part of its advance release in e-book format. And… I finally have a penname—an official one under My Special Valentine. So many feels about that, to be honest.
As for the other one I’ve been waiting for (okay, make that two), na-dah! So I really need to stretch my patience on those two if I want to acquire the result, whether positive or negative.
Oh, right. It’s Saturday today. And here I am, completely forgetting about it. I know I haven’t written any Saturday Night Thoughts entry for two consecutive Saturdays already after the one I posted on the first Saturday of the year. And now I just noticed that I wrote the word “Saturday” three times in one sentence. But that’s beside the point. I couldn’t recall why I haven’t written anything for this post category for two Saturdays now. It’s not because I don’t have much to say. To be honest, I have a lot to say. It’s just that I think I couldn’t put everything in words and I decided that those thoughts shouldn’t leave my mind.
So the result of that, I ended up forgetting them. Hehe! It’s not like I meant to forget them. I think I just buried those thoughts at the back of my mind when I decided to focus on my manuscript that, until now, I still haven’t finished. Urgh! Procrastination—definitely a bad habit. I hate it.
It’s a good thing that the desktop I used was fixed after it crashed. I don’t know what I’ll do if it took longer before I managed to find a way to fix it. And to think I had a lot of writing plans set for this year—especially this coming February.
And just like what happened to my Saturday Night Thoughts post, I ended up skipping two Sundays on this one. Sorry for that. I’ve been busy doing my writings, to be honest. And then the desktop I’ve been using crashed, which truly irked me. Thank goodness, I managed to find a way to fix it. So today is the last day of January. How time flies fast, huh? I can’t believe it’s already a month since the start of 2016.
I haven’t seen much progress over my life since I’ve decided to remain a hermit as I tried to finish my pending manuscripts that I’ll be passing to a publishing house and updates for my Wattpad stories. And seriously speaking, it doesn’t really have a good effect on me, especially if the weather here is totally enough to give me a headache, literally. The weather’s cold here in Baguio, by the way. It’s already a usual scenario, and the usual coldest months here starts in January and ends in February. Just this month, the lowest temperature recorded here was 6.3 degrees Celsius. Trust me, that’s enough to give me a headache in more than one occasion.
And when I take a bath, it’s like I’m taking an ice bucket challenge because of the cold water. Brrr!! But then, that’s just me complaining about the cold weather even though I was born and raised here. So you might not as well pay attention to that.
So this Sunday, I’m currently:
READING
A Filipino Wattpad story “Seventh Sense” by purpleyhan, which is the prequel of “Tantei High”. Somehow, I got intrigued about the tweets I read about Seventh Sense so I ended up reading it, only to be reminded that I should read Tantei High first for me to understand the story. And so I did. I’m really happy that the anime “Detective Conan” really inspired the author to write this story.
WRITING
Chapter 6 of one of my pending manuscripts “Yuna’s Tulip: Believe In Me” which I’ll be passing to a publishing house once I’m done writing and proofreading it. Of course, that’s beside writing this 9th Sunday Currently post.
LISTENING
A Korean song titled “Only With My Heart” by Lena Park. Recently, I’ve been listening to sad ballads in Korean and Japanese, which I considered really weird of me somehow.
THINKING
Of how I’d be able to finish writing the stories I’ve posted on Wattpad and of course, that includes my planned stories to be passed to a publishing house. Urgh! The struggles of a writer.
SMELLING
My right hand every time I stopped typing for a few moments. It actually still has leftover calamansi scent on it, that’s why. I don’t know why I love citrusy scents on my hands.
WISHING
For my manuscript “Guia’s Lotus: Be With Me” which is still under evaluation to be approved.
HOPING
That my wish would come true about my currently evaluated manuscript. That’ll give me a head start on my writing goals this year.
WEARING
A blue sweater and gray pants. I hate it when the weather gets cold like this.
LOVING
The fact that I’m inspired to write two of the romance stories under “The Last Sky Of The Earth” side stories. But I’ll only be able to do that once I’m done writing TLSOTE trilogy.
WANTING
To buy more pocketbooks to be read in the future, especially those stories from the authors I admire.
NEEDING
Pocket money for me to buy the pocketbooks that I want to buy. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if it’ll come true soon.
FEELING
Sleepy, but my mind’s still hyped up to continue finishing my manuscript’s Chapter 6. At least, I need to finish that chapter tonight. I’ll try.
CLICKING
On my Twitter accounts and reading a few random tweets from those I followed. Mostly from the indie Filipino romance authors.
What's with the title? That's the time I'm typing this down. I don't know. I just want to put some random thoughts here since I haven't done that in quite a long time. Sorry. I've been busy figuring out how to finally get myself together to write and write in order for me to achieve my writing goals this year.
But for now, I'd just finish readingpurpleyhan'sTantei Highsince I was intrigued by the tweets I kept on reading on its prequelSeventh Sense. Along with that, I really need to finish reading Venice Jacobs' The Breakers Corazon Sociedad series which have been stuck with me for almost a year and I only read two out of the series' ten books.
Great! Talk about being completely unproductive. Urgh!
So this episode of the podcast was a little different. Not to mention that it took me more than a week to write something about this particular episode. But since it’s a special episode and still a part of the Romance Class podcast, I might as well write my thoughts about this. Just to be fair. Hehe!
One thing I noticed, though, was Ana’s voice. I don’t know if she was a little sick during the interview or something else. But I noticed that her voice was somewhat cracked, similar to a person who’s having a slight throat problem. Of course, maybe that’s just me. And yet I focused more on listening to her answering the questions thrown at her. The one I liked the most was when she answered the question about Rachel and Gio’s delivery of the excerpt. I mean, I really thought of the same way. I also like the two actors’ delivery of the lines and narrations. Seriously, I agree with her when she said that it’s really a different feeling when these two read the excerpt of the book. Their narration made the story even more beautiful when you imagine it and I could really see the scenes came alive—at least in my mind. It’s clearer than just how I read a book.
So this will be my first Sunday Currently entry for the year 2016. Happy New Year, everyone! It’s already been three days that passed since the last day of 2015. I’m not really sure how I greeted the New Year, though. But I’d like to say I was quite neutral about it. I want to allow the good vibes to enter. Yet somehow, I guess some bad vibes could really find a way to penetrate you.
It’s Saturday and this will be my first Saturday Night Thoughts entry for 2016. I can’t believe it’s already two days since the last day of 2015. It’s nearly 10 pm and here I am writing this while researching for Asian shows and movies to download from my mobile phone. Well, this is better than to dwell with another job hunt issue thrown at me. It actually started when I refused to meet up with my father who haven’t actually gone home since last December. It’s not like I’ll gain something from it.
I hate it when they’re forcing me to do something I don’t really want to. I know people will hate me for that, especially if it actually concerns more on my decision not to find a job anytime soon. Of course, my mom kept on nagging me about it which I understood somehow. I mean, we’re the only ones who needed to support each other. My father won’t be helping us anymore with paying the house rent since it was all part of their agreement two months ago. But I can’t really force myself or I might end up getting fired from whatever job I’d find again.
They’d thrown me away and I could understand that. I wasn’t dedicated in fulfilling my duties, anyway. I still played around like a high schooler. You know, come to think of it, that thought only made my neck hurts. But seriously speaking, I want to ask this question.
Am I actually regressing? I don’t know. It’s like I can’t face the world seriously and I tend to daydream a lot. It’s like I’m doing the things that was somehow robbed from me during my childhood. I can’t recall myself having fun when I was a child. All I can remember was me crying in one corner because of some relatives hitting me and scolding me. I could still recall my father hitting my butt with a stick when I was young. I don’t know why the sad memories were more prominent in my mind than the good ones, though. And I’m starting to hate it. Can’t I just recall smething good for most of the time?
I don’t really want to welcome bad vibes on this second day of 2016. But with what happened today, I really can’t help it.
