Claire: I think yours is cooler. Anytime your parents get annoying, you just open the window and take off.
West: Are you kidding?! You’re indestructible! You could sky dive without a parachute!
Claire: You could sky dive without a plane!
—Kindred, Heroes Season 2, Episode 3.
Archive for October, 2007
Quote of the week.
FCB’s got new kits.
I haven’t been updated on football these days what with my schedule and everything. But I caught a glimpse of their new away kit on a UEFA Champions League game against Stuttgart just before I went somewhere last week. Of course, I searched for it over the Internet and found out they’ve got a new home kit too, and I like them. Yay, Thierry Henry!
FCB’s new home and away kits, photos from FCBarcelona.com
Me likey the new away kit, photo from FCBarcelona.com.
Much as I love Barça, the orange kit was just a hideous color.
Bookworm.
Harry Potter isn’t the only book about magic that I love to read. When I started out working in Cebu City back in 2005, I had no television for several months. So books were what entertained me the entire time I had no TV. I picked what I thought would be a good read.
I got The Amulet of Samarkand, and I found out it was a trilogy (The Bartimaeus Trilogy). I was already in Bacolod when I got my hand on Eragon (also a trilogy, The Inheritance Trilogy), which was recommended by my friend (I forgot if it had beenTalia or Rex). What we didn’t know at the time was that it was going to be made into a movie. (I have to admit, though, Eragon the movie was quite off track. I don’t know how they’d be able to create the the second book into a movie—if they were to—without messing up the storyline again!) Along with Eragon, I got the second Bartimaeus book, The Golem’s Eye. Then came along Eldest, the second Inheritance book.
The only thing I can remember about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is that I’ve read about it in the paperback and I’ve been trying to get my hands on it for a long time (since the hardbound copy as close to PHP 2,000!), even going as far as bidding on it on eBay.ph. Fortunately, I happened to drop by National Bookstore recently and got it on sale, along with the third Bartimaeus book, Ptolemy’s Gate (which I haven’t had the chance to crack open yet).
These are just a few of the books I’ve collected overtime (and I plan to post some sort of review for these books later on). But why these specific books about magic and dragons and fantasy? Because you see, being the geek that I am, I do search about these books online as well, find out about other people’s opinions and insights on it, etc., etc. And I recently just found out that both The Amulet of Samarkand and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are movies in the making. How cool is that? I’m not yet done with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but so far it’s a great book, and I can’t wait to see both in the big screen!
New seasons on the tube.
Premiering on September 17th was Prison Break on its third season. It just didn’t “grab” me like the first two seasons did. I don’t know about you, but even though it has that same cliffhanger ending for every episode, I feel like I’ve had enough of it. It’s like there isn’t really a definite ending to all of this running around (well not too much of this now though), killing off extras, holding people hostage, breaking out, blah blah blah. Or maybe I’m just too eager to find out what the brothers’ fate is after all of these. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see how everything ends up, and keep myself tuned in to this final season.
Premiering the week after is Heroes Season 2. This, I anticipated so much more than Prison Break, believe it or not, probably because this revolves around the lives of several people who have super powers rather than just two brothers trading places in the slammer and out of it. I guess it’s just more interesting to watch superheroes (who don’t have to wear costumes!) trying to “save the world” and now trying to save themselves! And since there are a lot of people involved, there are built-in plots intertwined to make one hell of a show. Then again, maybe it’s because of this certain empath and that flying (new) kid… hmm… 
Okay, okay… so I do love Heroes more than I love Prison Break. Good-looking cast aside, seriously, if I were to pick one, it’s gotta be Heroes. I know, it may seem subjective, but maybe a lot of people who watch both might just agree with me.
I’m back… again.
I don’t know how many times I’ve gone on hiatus without warning (are there any people to warn at all?), but yes, I’m here again. The last couple of months have been pretty hectic. I’ve been swamped with work. Oh yes, I’ve been unofficially promoted as a team leader, mind you. By unofficially, I mean that I’m still being “observed” and “monitored”. Nothing written in stone. Psh. How sad is that? I’ve got twice or thrice the workload of an agent (that’s what voicemail transcriptionists are called), yet salary-wise, I earn as much as they do. Incentive-wise though, I earn the TL’s rate. But whatever. The point is, somehow, after all this time, I finally got “half-promoted”. Something to celebrate about, perhaps? Bah.
Ads, would you believe I just read your comments (and James’) on The Order of the Phoenix? How pathetic can this blog (or maybe I?) get? Oh well. Like I said, I’ve been busy. And yes, I will post a long overdue “review” on The Deathly Hallows. I am so lagging behind. So many things to blog about, so little time.
Well, anyway, to start off… Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I was thinking twice of having one reserved in advance and I felt the effect of my, um, thinking twice, on July 21st, when Talia sent me a text message, “Today is the day!” Oh, yes, I remember that. I hurried off to National Bookstore with high hopes of being able to procure an “extra” one. But of course, all the stocks that came in were reserved. I had one reserved on that very day, July 21st, and got it on, I believe it was, Tuesday following it’s worldwide release. So anyhow, that’s how I came to have my very own Book 7. ***Ads, I did laugh when Talia told me you began to weep when you opened the book to start reading.
At the open, I’m not quite sure I was completely taken away as J.K. Rowling seemed to have written the book in a different tone—or maybe it was just me. There were some parts that seemed dragging, but despite that, I couldn’t put the book down. I wanted to just get it done with. I am partly happy, partly sad with how the book ended. The biggest anticipation I had was Snape’s redemption. I wanted him to have been misjudged and wrongly accused so bad that I cried at the revelation on the Pensieve, and on the epilogue where Harry reveals to his son that his namesake were two of Hogwarts’ greatest headmasters. Snape was the hero—that’s the happy part, and I wish he didn’t have to die—that’s the sad part. I also didn’t want Lupin, Tonks and Fred to die. The only person I wanted out of the picture was Voldemort.
Overall, I’m just sad because as far as J.K. Rowling is concerned, there will be no more Harry Potter books. That’s the saddest part. Reading Harry Potter always makes me want to be a kid again.
