Soulmates

I've just finished reading Perks of Being a Wallflower last week... which I consider as a very big achievement. I started reading the book way back in 2010 but I put the book down only after the first few pages. I know Charlie (protagonist) would understand. Come on, he once left Ian (from the book The Fountainhead) for a while because he was starting to get mad at him. Except that, I didn't get mad at Charlie. It's more like I was in a boring mood when I read the book, i.e. when everything seemed boring even if they weren't.

Or so I thought. Because I've tried picking it up for a few times, during my happy times, and got the same results: I've always stopped after the first few pages, chapters, or one time even after midway. Don't get me wrong, it is a good book. After finishing the book, I can say that it has a good narrative, well-developed characters, unique style, and ofcourse, a very thought-provoking plot. Just not my cup of tea, though.

This "cup of tea" issue made me think.  We all have our own set of preferences. Books. Movies. Television Show. Music. Sports. And I realized, maybe this same concept also applies to the people we meet and interact with. There are many psychological and sociological concepts that can be attributed  to forming relationships and how really it is different liking living things from non-living things haha.

But for the sake of this short blog post, let's make it this simple: Just like how we can't like every book, every movie, every TV show, every song, or every sport... not everyone we meet has this certain "click", or as my friend calls it, "spark". Not everyone we meet leaves us with this unexplainable connection. Some people come and go, and we don't care. Yet there are some people that we want to put in a safe lock and keep forever. These people may not even matter to other people, yet to us, our world won't be just as bright without them.

Be thankful if you found yours. :)

I've Met an Angel!

I've started this blog a few weeks ago and since then, I've been thinking of a topic to write about in my first post. I could've written a simple, "I'm blogging again, bitches! Muahahahaha." Then I could've proceeded with a very long narrative about my short-lived experience as a "feeling" blogger and how I suddenly just stopped blogging and how I attempted to blog again for a bunch of times but failed 90% of the time and how this blog has a large probability of being included in that statistics. Except that it'd bore you big time.

I really want to start off with a feel-good entry. You know, just to set the mood for the future posts. I really want this blog to be a happy blog. I want this to be one of the places you visit when you're feeling down and you want to be inspired and be happy and get a cyberhug from me and then your mood would instantly be better. Hehehe, wishful thinking (see blog description).

But since the past few days has been, well, not so kind towards me, I've had nothing to share. If I was forced to write those days, this would be filled with rants about how life is so unfair and cruel. It was that bad. Although I have a few moments to be thankful for, the real FEEL-GOOD moment happened last night and I really just felt the need to share this.

I got locked-out of our building last night.

I had dinner with my friends in a far, faraway land and got back late at our neighborhood. I went to our gates and being a fan of signage, I first checked if there were new announcements and what I read next made my eyes widen. There was a notice. The building's management has finally decided to change the locks (it has been semi-broken since God knows when). I wasn't informed. Why wasn't I informed? When was that notice posted?!

Still not believing my luck, I tried to open the lock of the gate with the old key... and *insert drum rolls here* it didn't open! When I inspected it, it was indeed a new lock... all new and shiny. I panicked.

The first logical action should have been to call one of my housemates to come and get me (the gate can be opened from the inside). But my relationship with them was purely "Hi-Hello" and nods and smiles so I didn't have any of their numbers stored in my phone. Second option: Go to my landlady's house which was some blocks away. But it's already really late and what if she's not informed about the new lock too?! Third option: Spend the night at McDonald's. Who wants to stay at McDonald's alone?!

There's a fourth option: Wait and pray to the deity that one of the tenants of the other units also had a good time with his/her friends and had to get back home as late as me. :P

I looked around. No one's coming. If only few people roam around our area during the day... imagine the number of people at night. Almost none. Therefore, goodbye option 4. I was starting to lose my hope. I went for a modification of option 2-- I planned to call my landlady.

I was about to dial her number when I saw him approaching. He was looking back at me. For a moment, I thought he was just passing by our street... but *insert drum rolls here*... he stopped infront of our gate and I saw him produced a key from his pockets. I couldn't even remember who between us asked, "Dito ka?" If it was me, that was stupid of me to ask. If it was him, ermmm, did he think I was a thief or something? Haha. But surely, it was him who said, "Pinalitan na kasi 'yung lock, kunin mo nalang bukas sa Unit 1132 'yung susi."

Never have I imagined that the sound of the lock unlocking and the sound of the gate opening would make me smile. I entered and surely, the tone of my "Kuyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" reflected how happy I was.

I don't know about you, but I believe in angels. In my belief though, they don't always have their wings with them, or their halo. Many times, angels are human beings whom in their simple actions helped us big time, who made our lives better, and unknowingly to them, saved us. Parang si kuya. :)

How about you? Have you ever met an angel?

WANTED: EXPLANATIONS OF THE TWISTS

I've finished reading Wanted last night. It's the last in the series of eight books of Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars. I think it only took me less than two weeks to finish the series, because the books can actually be categorized as easy-reads. It was kinda chiclit-ish, with mystery as its central theme. I won't go around telling the plot again, because I've already said it when I reviewed the fourth book Unbelievable that can be found here.

So okay, since the first four books of the series tells about A, and the fourth book reveals who A was, the other half of the Pretty Little Liars series focus on solving the mystery on who killed Ali. Plus, a new A appeared. So, as usual, it was a page-turner.

There were many unexpected twists too. And when I say many, I really mean it. Haha. Halfway reading the series, I've read a review that unfortunately contains a spoiler. I felt like I'm going to die, because it won't be exciting anymore. But really, that twist was only one of the many. After reading all, I was mindfucked, because the initial twist was again twisted. Twist within twist. How cool is that?

The twists were really great. I didn't expect it. Even the littlest idea of some twist didn't occur to my mind. And that is again my problem with the series.

The twists were surprising, such that it seems impossible. Not that it can't happen in real life, but in a way that when you read the series, the facts relating to the twists were loosely given. Some facts just don't go along with others. Plus, there were a huge blackhole. I mean, I'm looking for more explanations. How did A do all that? Things like that.

Like what I've said in my previous entry, I still recommend you to read the series because the characters are interesting. Plus, it is really a huge page-turner because of the twists. :)

Unbelievable is... unbelievable

Because I've been a bum for four months already, I'm running out of things to do. Thanks to my Tumblr dashboard, I happen to be informed about a TV show that had just finished showing in US called Pretty Little Liars. I got interested, the title is catchy, right? My internet connection at home is so slow, such that to finish downloading 10 episodes of Pretty Little Liars (each ep is almost 350MB) takes years. HAHAHA, just kidding. So... I decided to read the books first.

At first, I thought I wasn't going to finish reading even the first book, I just finished re-reading the Harry Potter series that time and I'm still in a harrypotter-is-the-best-bookseries-intheworld mood. But Pretty Little Liars got me. I was hooked by the book. It's a mystery novel, and I love solving mysteries.

The author, Sara Shepard, trully made it to the point that the readers will buy the next book, because the mystery wasn't resolved in the first book. I quickly read the second book Flawless, and the third book Perfect, each page increasing urge to get the next book so I'll know the ending. Interesting as it was, I paused after the third book and watched the TV episodes. The TV episodes weren't a copy of what's in the book, but I enjoyed watching the series because it's equally mysterious.

The plot is simple, there are five friends, one dies. Then the remaining four receives threatening messages after four years. These messages contain their deepest secrets. The sender is only known as A. And yeah, the book slightly revolves on them questioning who A was and resolving the issues that A brought.

The first three books make me suspect certain people as A. I was dying to know who A was. But I didn't expected that A will be revealed on the fourth book Unbelievable, which I finished reading last night.

I really thought that A will be revealed on the last book, or if not, on later parts of the series. But nevertheless, I was happy that I knew at last who A was. The feeling lasts for only a second because my immediate questions were: What? That's A? Why?

I know, I suspect that character as A, but I really can't believe that she's A. It's as if the author hasn't decided who A was until writing the fourth book. It's as if, the author picked from the characters, see who matched and voila: You're A!

I mean, it was somehow obvious, the facts match, but it wasn't explained how A did all those things. I guessed how A knew the secrets. The reason was acceptable, but I think her character's not introduced much as that.

Okay, the character is capable of being A, the character is really there when things happen, but there were no hints!

I've read other novels with surprise endings or characters, but when the secret was revealed, I'll realize something that makes me think that: Wow, yeah. That's why he acted this and that or something!!! You know, hints that don't tell you what the secret it, but hints that are there somewhere. Hints that might say: Hey, I was there. But you ignored me.

Anyway, I'll still read the remaining books of the series because there are still unknown mysteries. Plus, the characters are really interesting. Each is unique from others.

I Think I'm Not Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader

My cousin asked me what the 7 continents of Earth were. I said it was an easy homework and confidently recited these names: Asia, Europe, Africa, N. America, S. America, Antarctica & Arctica.

And he was like... "ARCTICA?! You sure? Isn't it just Arctic?"

I said, "Duh! I've read a trivia once that says all the continents have the same first and last letters... minus the South & North of America. So it has to be Arctica."

We checked it on the net and I was really dumbfounded.

There was no Arctica! It wasn't also Artic!

HOW IN GOD'S NAME I'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT AUSTRALIA?! HAHAHAHA.