Dona's last quarter of 2010 list

I have been drooling for things that I really have no time to do it with. There are so MANY – I definitely don’t want to miss, for the reason that the feasibility study is on its peak, It feels like spare time is worth sleeping for.. haha. My mind is on a rollercoaster deciding which book I’ll buy first or what movie will go first. To the fact that I can’t decide, time is running, i think I should make a list and I’ll share it to you.

Okay, there were only two things for sure: I want to WATCH MOVIES and READ.

Dona’s list of books:

Stieg Larsson’s books – the man behind Lisbeth Salander – this author finished 3 books for his entire life; “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". They call it the millennium series – a trilogy. I just can’t get enough to thriller reads!


Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger – another thriller, from the author of Time Traveler’s Wife. You will usually see this book on bookstores in this cover. But surprisingly, while browsing I found out that it is already available for free online, you know! Ebooks  I even found one in google books. So there’s no reason for buying 
 

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown – the last in my list and the only one I haven’t read for DB’s works. And now, my wish is granted, softbound is now available in national bookstores!  only P255! Before, only hardbound is available and it cost me P995, so I should really wait for softbound  we are meant to be, I never thought it is very soon.

 

Eat Love Pray – Surprisingly, I have seen its movie poster starring Julia Roberts
 

Jodi Picoult – I’ve watched My Sister’s Keeper which is I found very creative. I have a book of The Tenth Circle that until now I still haven’t found any time to commence reading it.

 

Dona’s list of movies:

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – I’m such a fan of classic in any forms, and when I hear that word I think of Audrey Hepburn. I found a compilation of her movies in record stores, including my fair lady and Sabrina – the 1st ever one and three other more. Im so sad I am unable to buy it. It’s a hard find for sure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQVzgEO_w8

Easy A – I found Emma Stone uniquely pretty. I have watched her before in The House Bunny and Superbad, and she is funny too. I just love her! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7W6pEuAW0

Letters to Juliet – Okay. This is the movie every girls are talking about. I’m surprised Amanda Seyfried is bagging major roles after the first I saw her in Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz43rtBUVA0

The Last Song – I don’t like the cast of characters in this movie. I’m interested just for the reason it is one of Nicholas Sparks works.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joCwQ2pjfjw

Inception - they say it's a high IQ and should watch many times to be able to understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66TuSJo4dZM

The Expendables – you know that I’m the only girlish type who drools with action stars and action movies. This one I should never miss. Because it’s allstar! BIGTIME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RU5y2fU6s

Sherlocke holmes – this movie is how many years old? They say it’s nice. And I;m a big fan of Iron Man – Robert Downey Jr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7aROdTxt6M

Shrek 3 – my most favorite animated movie, especially the second one. You should watch it! haha Pinocchio is sooo FUNNY!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7__TG7swg0

The Last Exorcism – with its trailer I can’t watch alone! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhdCcYHZZM
 

Hopefully, I'll be up for all of this before the end of the year, then another list for next year ;)

it must be holy

I guess I wasn’t the usual blog owner that regularly post everyday events (I’m actually negative to sign up for twitter). But spending here in this very obvious “temporary” vacation is making the two weeks - only in our house, to be long enough in not to be busy on anything. I got backed to my older posts and it seems this blog really contributes to the other side of my being. I barely have more than 2 posts in every month and its like I’m mentioning some things only me who will understand hahaha, so now I’m aiming to have at least 3 consecutive posts on the next days w/ a concept on making it a little of shallow.

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I’ve updated my multiply account, its layout making me edit it every now and then; for the reason I’m not contented. But now it’s okay! plain and simple – blends well in this blogger account. I hope it will be final for the next 2 years. Sometimes I really want to graduate na. Only for the reason that I would be able to upgrade my accounts to premium here and in multiply (very reasonable huh) because I can’t afford losing this two, especially in multiply all of my pictures are there, no copy or hardcopy whatsoever. (I don’t even upload for facebook)

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Today is within the parameters of holy week. No one can be insensitive to it, this is a catholic country. Everyone can feel it everywhere, seeing it on tv having live broadcast of masses, hearing the pabasa on the streets from the place you live, seeing people who spend their long weekend for visita iglesia. Its spirit is count less, you’ll even see the local palengke selling not too much meat. But me:

I’ll state a little secret: I’m not into “no meat for awhile” it is known for the term “fasting”. It seems I still fry some processed food (as in hotdog, bacon, sausage, etc.) hmmm yum yumm! just like in normal days. I think I have been doing this off the guard policy for years. Christians restricts it as well as those religious persons. And anyway, no one restricts it in our house.

I decided to be fully homebody in this week, this plan was something I generated when school is on its peak – so tiring and embarrassing because I barely possess the luxury of time. So NOW I fully stayed inside the house. No exceptions. But well, not saving any money for free days ahead are a good idea, it helps you keep your own promise.

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OKAY so you want your holy week to be a rest day. My usual rest day includes reading a book. Be proud of me! Finally I have read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Very impressive and they say high IQ. I like its factual content together with its suspense story that compliments the fiction very well. This book is actually the most controversial book of this author because of its idea of history for Jesus Christ.

(done with this four: in order: and in by cover)

Now the only Dan Brown book I haven’t read is The Lost Symbol

(remaining one)which is the latest, and I find it expensive in national bookstore it costs 1k. Every one who knows me well that I’m a very fan of Dan Brown and I’ll be glad to be not kuripot enough in spending 1k for a hard bound book you’ll only once read (I’m still thinking about it lately). I actually recommend it to my mom – who I know is very tired reading books.And I also recommend it to all of you!

Oh I almost forgot. Not at this time. It is Easter.

really

Some of my favorite lines from the works of my favorite writers.


Paulo Coelho

"What is the real I? It's what you are, not what others make of you."

"A man has to choose. This is where lies his strength: in the power of his decisions."

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

"When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward."

"An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely."

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

“A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.”


Mitch Albom

"Learn to detach. Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate fully. That's how you are able to leave it. Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that love entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right, I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment."

"But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

“You have to work at creating your own culture.”

“People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.”

"As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, its also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."


Dan Brown

"Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true."

"Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."

"Smart people don't have the luxury of playing stupid."

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer."

"Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us."

"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."

“That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”

“Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problem arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”