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Say what? Say hotstuff!!

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:41:53 PST

Say what? Say hotstuff!!

I love this one, but I look weird. The dark compositions look...

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:33:32 PST

I love this one, but I look weird. The dark compositions look great though.

Missing the tequila shots with my best friend.

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:26:51 PST

Missing the tequila shots with my best friend.

At the park with the boys last year.

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:16:18 PST

At the park with the boys last year.

I still have millions of rolls to be processed. Even from last...

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:11:03 PST

I still have millions of rolls to be processed. Even from last summer, this is crazy. When the hell am I gonna get around to do it.

sergeantkero: Kirsten with Michael. yay or nay? Obviousy the...

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:00:07 PST

sergeantkero:

Kirsten with Michael. yay or nay?

Obviousy the most yay. Rather than Robert Pattinson. They’ve been together for a long time, let them be that way.

WANT.

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:40:00 PST

WANT.

crochetfrocks: (felt the need to include some more crushes, they...

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:34:06 PST

crochetfrocks:

(felt the need to include some more crushes, they just had to be mentioned.)

Thanks tumblrs for keeping me sane and entertained. :)

Girl, I love your tumblr crushing system. Thanks for including me! <3

My favorite twins on TV: Charles and Max Carver aka Porter and...

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:26:39 PST

My favorite twins on TV: Charles and Max Carver aka Porter and Preston Scavo.

I’m reading books again!

Kevin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:59:24 PST

Yep, I’m starting to read books again!

I’ve finished Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (which was lent by Shari, thanks a lot) and I must say it wasn’t a satisfying read. It was fun, sure, and I don’t really care about the controversies of whether or not it’s non-fiction (but of course it would be nice if it’s non-fiction, ‘coz if not I’ll shred the author to pieces by inventing everything in it).

It was about Augusten’s childhood and his hatred for his father, and his being gay, and his being engaged with a thirty year-old Neil Bookman, and his living in a crazy house. It’s his world, and in his world you can throw stones at the ceiling or eat dog food (one of the characters liked it, and they all liked it actually). It’s… preposterously funny.

One thing I liked about this book is Augusten’s (the protagonist’s) disgust over the things that society dictates us. It’s probably Taoist, the way he considers society as some sort of an evil, but in my own opinion, he’s somehow true. He’s a carefree, damn-the-torpedo kind of a guy who isn’t even scared with what he might look like. Somehow, this book taught me the idea of how society manipulates our life, and how–in one way or another–it affects our dreams and perceptions, and ourselves as well. I mean, I’ve read The Catcher in the Rye and all, but I think this one sort of polished that perception.

It was hilarious, though I can’t help but think that it’s so fucking absurd and hilarious to the point that it’s too good to be true. You do have the right to cast a doubtful eye on this book (the way I did) but after some point, I thought it wouldn’t make such difference.

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I still haven’t laid my eyes on the other books Shari lent me (The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski and Seymour, An Introduction–though I’ve read Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters, both by J.D. Salinger). I’d rather write a back-to-back book review about that. Seymour is hard to comprehend, really!!!

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Another book I’ve read (after two months, LOL) is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. I found it at Booksale and was shocked after picking it at the bookshelf, since I’m very certain it’s one of the titles Time Magazine enlisted as one of the Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. I knew it would be a good read!

Bromden (a half American-Indian) is the narrator of the story. He faked his being deaf-mute, since he knew being “cagey” (one word I would always remember in this novel) is the safest thing to do, and that it was harmless. The story is set in an Oregon asylum (this novel included two suicides, bah!) with Bromden living for three years there, when one day, Randle Patrick McMurphy–donning his cowboy attire and his passion for gambling and sex–entered the ward and defied every rule the Big Nurse (the antagonist) provided for the pseudo-betterment of the ward.

The book tours you along hundreds of pages of human behavior, like a crash-course in Pscyhology (only, there were no technicalities in it). It was a life in the asylum. The life before and after McMurphy came around.

The climax was–in every sense of the word–shocking. A twist I hadn’t really expected.

What I wanted to know is: why delay the climax! It’s at the fourth part of the book (the book has four parts) and twenty pages to go before it ends!!! It’s crazy. You have to go through everything that’s happening in the mental ward and how tough McMurphy is becoming as days go by and bets go high, until the flashbacks of his childhood had burnt a hole in his manly figure, that it had left an inescapable void of nostalgia and loneliness that markedly leaves his face pallid and sorrowful.

But still, the climax wiped away my remonstrations about the book. It wasn’t dramatic. It was abrupt. It was all in a sudden, boom! and all the strength McMurphy ha

The book was incredibly long and the font size would kill you (or at least, in the version I bought). One kick of your bedpost and you’ll get headaches from dizziness, seriously. It’s the type of a book you had to squint just to be able to check if what you’re reading is right. The font size suddenly killed my desire to read the book–any book, actually–and decided to shelf it first for days… and the days became months. Two months after I decided to pull it out from the shelf.

Now, I wanted to blame myself for delaying to read such a wonderful book.

Revisiting old songs,

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:48:08 PST

thanks to geekyrappinghood!

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Heart of Rachel — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:38:55 PST

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If you think you're better than everyone else, screw you.

(author unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:01:52 PST

rentedsurroundings: Order up. I can make a mean mojito....

(author unknown) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:27:07 PST

rentedsurroundings:

Order up.

I can make a mean mojito. Let’s drink sometime? =)

At Strategic Marketing class with sergeantkero. We are SO bored,...

(author unknown) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:25:06 PST

At Strategic Marketing class with sergeantkero. We are SO bored, we are literally 10cm beside each other and still Bonjour-ing.

Joe Jonas shirtless. Enough said. I can’t make up my...

(author unknown) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:12:58 PST

Joe Jonas shirtless. Enough said. I can’t make up my mind!!!

Photo

(author unknown) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:46:15 PST

geekyrappinghood: XR2 - M.I.A. Quit reblogging and...

(author unknown) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:28:07 PST

geekyrappinghood:

XR2 - M.I.A.

Quit reblogging and D.A.N.C.E!

Where were you in 92, where were you in 92!! Goodness, this was one of my dance anthems last summer. Missing dance camp 08 now.

You know I'm not usually a "reblogger"

(author unknown) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:28:00 PST

..but your posts are just too amazing not to reblog.

franklieu: “Bruises” by Chairlift i grabbed some frozen...

(author unknown) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:42:00 PST

franklieu:

“Bruises” by Chairlift

i grabbed some frozen strawberries so i could ice your bruising knees
but frozen things they all unfreeze and now i taste like…
all those frozen strawberries i used to chill your bruising knees
hot july ain’t good to me, i’m pink and black and blue for you

This was my alarm in the morning (and every Tuesday from now on). I wake up better.