Liv in a Life Well-Lived

It's the weekend! Yippee! No work, no school, no boss, no pesky students! Plus birthday weekend ng Mummy ko, so I'm going to totally immerse myself in fun this weekend. I hope. :)

Book in Hand: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke Song in Mind: a noisy humdrum of protestations against the setting of the sun!!! Words in Mouth: To live would be an awfully big adventure! Aaargh....... I'm 22 years old. I should be over and beyond this... this...obsession! But I have to meet this guy. I have to meet this guy. Argh. And to have him so available, just right there, one person away is just purely irritating. Spell of protection over house is really weakening and i need to recast it soon. Last night both Ella and I had weird dreams. Bad signs, bad signs. And I sound like Cordelia from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I am going insane. Sometimes, having too much soul isn't such a walk in the park.

Book in Hand: Tithe: A Modern faerie tale by Holly Black (really great read!) Song in Mind: aherm, Broken Vow, (sporadic coughing fit follows) Words in Mouth: Dreading Monday's return Crazy Things Olivia Did This Week: 1) Cried (as in got all teary-eyed) because John Stevens sang so badly during the last American Idol episode (i love the guy, for heaven's sake, vote for him even if he completely sucked!) What did they expect anyway? The guy's a classic Sinatra/Groban/Bautista/Buble. Do people expect John Mayer to suddenly belt out Ain't No Mountain High Enough? Or The Great Sinatra, if he's still alive, to do a rendition of I'm A Slave For You? No, i didn't think so. 2) Went completely jologs (read: watched Star Circle Quest Contestants in their SM Fairview Mall Tour and that's not the worst of it). Wellll, really, it's my sister who likes this stuff, but I sort of want to see Hero and Sandara and Joross (kudos, Mariel's cousin!) and Ro...

Book in Hand: Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding Song in Mind: Hands to Heaven Word in Mouth: Death Yesterday, during Mass, the priest spoke of taking the difficult path as means to reaching heaven. Made me ponder what makes my life difficult. At first, I was just floating around the trivial, like having to handle the projects of Dow Chem, being fat, having very little money, not being able to buy the things I want (mostly books). Then in my mind, I began to step further from myself and I realized that the room was full of people with more or less the same difficulties. And sometimes, some of them even have to deal with a whole lot more. Stuff that makes life difficult for people began to pour into my head: sickness, poverty, depression, desperation, etc. And all these malcontent things surround us. It moves around us, wherever we may go and whenever we take our breath. And every blessed second we have to choose what we think is right. Whatever we think is good. Every choice w...

Book in Hand: Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding Song in Mind: Hands to Heaven Word in Mouth: Death Yesterday, during Mass, the priest spoke of taking the difficult path as means to reaching heaven. Made me ponder what makes my life difficult. At first, I was just floating around the trivial, like having to handle the projects of Dow Chem, being fat, having very little money, not being able to buy the things I want (mostly books). Then in my mind, I began to step further from myself and I realized that the room was full of people with more or less the same difficulties. And sometimes, some of them even have to deal with a whole lot more. Stuff that makes life difficult for people began to pour into my head: sickness, poverty, depression, desperation, etc. And all these malcontent things surround us. It moves around us, wherever we may go and whenever we take our breath. And every blessed second we have to choose what we think is right. Whatever we think is good. Every choice w...

Book in Hand:Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Song in Mind: Run by Litchie Nadal Word in Mouth: Palm A workmate lent me the Da Vinci Code and sure enough, I just couldn't drop the book once I've started it. I've always been fascinated with books or movies that tackles religious conspiracies. It's not as if I'm seeking to destroy my own faith in the Church. Wise men advice against it, but it's almost like a test for me how strong my faith is. It always amazes me when I find out things I don't know, grisly stories about how the Catholic Church became the powerful religion that it is, and realize that it doesn't really change a thing for me. It opens up many questions, but as always, I don't have to rationalize my faith. Or else, it wouldn't be faith but reason. And as Einstein said to much of reason does not make a religion, but a science. The way I see it, there is faith, and there is religion. Sometimes, religion could be made perverse by lost sou...

Book in Hand: Faith of the Fallen (re-read) by Terry Goodkind Song in Mind: Fever by Michael Buble Word in Mouth: Strike Teeheee... it feels nice to act like an obsessed-teen again. It's been so long with Boyzone disbanding and Stephen Gately (the man I thought I would marry) admitting he's gay thereby crushing all my hopes and making me swear off all musician-infatuation. If there's one thing I miss, it's daydreaming. This time around, my favorite past time is once again ressurected by the fact that there's this really great guy I saw on TV. He was in this contest, and at first I was cheering him on kasi UP din siya eh and uber great ang voice. People I knew who knew him kept on saying how nice he was, and how he was like this and that. Pero, what the heck, aminin na natin, cute din kasi, making it easier to work my way up to crushing on him. Anyhooo, i just bought his album and I guess it's just one of those guilty pleasures I had to give in to. I thi...

Book in Hand: Still the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Song in Mind: The Way You Look at Me by Christian Bautista Word in Mouth: Effervescent (the heck if i know why) ---------- I have been reading up on the exquisite Browsing through the masters of rhyme Ev'ry word they've stringed together Resonates with the truthfulness of it -- The humanity. I may never become a master Prose holds no glory for me Or satisfaction for those who read me But I want to keep my one finger dipped In the flowing elixir of life This stream that flows ever through, within and without -- This humanity.

Hurrah! The dreamweaver finally has managed to set up enough chutzpah to create a blabber, eherm, a blogger. I really should've done this eons ago. It's after midnight and my favorite radio station has finally signed off. That means I'd be standing every fifteen minutes or so turning my Josh Groban casette tape for the next three hours or so, while I resist the Sandman's seduction. I realize though that I'm not the only one awake as I hear the neighborhood punks try to raise up enough ruckus to wake those who are already blessedly asleep. I'm actually deciding how best to spook them up a bit. I could turn the porch lights on and off. Or hiss at the dogs so they'll bark at the imbeciles. Or invent a static manipulator so I could mess up their rock station reception. I mean, I like listening to angsty music once in a while, but not at MIDNIGHT!!! What i do listen to at night is Groban. I found it so boring that it took a 180 degree turn and I find it act...

You're Watership Down ! by Richard Adams Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits. Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid .