hmmmm, okay so, i haven't been true to my word. i've slacked off again and didn't post any messages for ages. i'll update a bit, my birthday has come and gone and now i'm in the grand old age of twenty-eight! i feel no difference though, same ole me here.

i've borrowed the following books and read them recently :
- Redeemed Ambition from the church library (great read! i've photocopied the last parts since it speaks to me and my current crisis [mismatch of gifting and what i'm currently doing])
- Harry Potter 5 by Rowling (borrowed from tec. featured "death" of sirius black. i enclosed it in parentheses because i still refuse to believe it. the changes in ginny are endearing she's gotten to be stronger and assertive, harry on the other hand has become annoying and enormously bratty, in that aspect i'm disappointed, ron as ever is still really funny [i still can't help guffaw when i remember that scene during their exam in divination] )
- Through a Glass Darkly by Gaarder (borrowed from karen, there are so many interesting thoughts here that i thought i'd just go ahead and buy the book also instead of trying to copy my favorite ones in my quotes notebook)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera (borrowed from ernan, another book filled with a slew of interesting ideas, not necessarily ones i'd agree with wholeheartedly but all interesting just the same, with this one i contented myself with dutifully copying the quotes)

current reads include:
- Romola, i'm still laboring over this... almost through though. anlalim kasi but i feel for the main character even if i do not agree with some of her thoughts.
- How to Write and Enjoy it, another borrowed book from the church library, still at the beginning
- To The Light House by Woolf, borrowed this one from ernan. i must admit i'm having a hard time with this one, the characters haven't sunk in deep yet, to borrow a phrase from a manga i've read, i still feel "nothing" for them. which is more than i can say for this other book i'm reading ...
- The Waves by Woolf, this is really beautiful, it's prose but i personally think it should be read aloud like poetry because it flows like one. woolf is indeed a marvel! she makes words flow out deliciously in a strange cadence that lilts ones soul.
- Phantastes by Macdonald (from ebook) , another one of his brilliant works! i loved "the light princess" i hope this one would be just as good if not better. reminds me a bit of "stardust" though, hmmm could it be .. gaiman had ripped this off macdonald ? sabagay he said before naman that he was greatly influenced by such writers as tolkien, lewis, and macdonald
- Lilith by Macdonald (from ebook), not like the light princess and phantastes which arrested my attention at once, this one seems to need a bit of time to grow...

there .... yan muna .. i need to go back to my programming.