Ruth is a full-time writer. Foodie. Happy camper. Wanders a lot. Used to have the worst taste in men. A reformed swipe-a-holic. Reviving her blog after its death.
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
It’s like four days since the last time I’ve been online. It’s not my own sabbatical leave from the web, it’s more like, it’s prelims-and-I’m-extra-lazy-and-anything-is-better-than-openning-a-book. I don’t know if I’m back from good. But I am trying.
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Yesterday, I’ve been living off from leftover chocolate cakes and ice cream from Sunday’s party. To heck with calories…I’ll probably burn them the next time I watch UAAP. Just thinking about those sinfully sugar-rich brown confectionery divided by caramel makes me wanna run to the refrigerator and sink my teeth on the last plateful of them.
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Bought myself four book from the annual National bookstore sale. My mood yesterday in buying books was, if-it’s-under-50-I’ll-take-it. Four books for a hundred and one pesos. One of the author that I bought was C.S. Lewis. My God, C.S. Lewis at 30… real bargain.
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There were books that I definitely wanted to buy but had to restrain myself from taking them were that coffee table book about dried flowers (it would have been a good buy except I am not the artsy type, and remembering that my home does not exactly satisfy the requirements for being arts and crafts-friendly), that book about a sorcerer’s fight against the kidnappers of her student-mages (So what, I like dragons and witches in broomsticks), that best-selling spiritual novel (but I remembered another best-selling spiritual book that put me to sleep every after 3 pages), and that Harlequin (I’m a woman with a wide variety of taste when it comes to books).
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I was considering to buy another copy of Isabelle Allende’s Eva Luna , after all I loved that novel. And at fifty, it’s like having both peach mango pie and chocolate mousse for dessert. But I couldn’t. There are other books waiting to be discovered. Like puppies in a pet store, begging prospective owners to take them home.
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I am hoarding books. Books that will last me till the next booksale season. Till my next allowance. Till I finally need a new bookshelf for my new books.
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I have a goal in life: Beat Jose Rizal’s 1000 books collection. He died what? 33? Well, I have news for you Joe, I’m only 20 and I’m over the 500 mark. Textbooks not included.
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Last Sunday, while Gabby and I were on our way to school for our ROTC interviews, we daydreamed about the time when we would both could sit on the front without anyone moving to control the steering wheel, the pedals, and the shift. The car will do driving. And it would be very safe because it will have powerful sensors that will avoid bumping against other cars.
That imagination triggered other ideas for inventions that, I hope, will finally come true in the future (I’ll probably rip some of these from my friends’ ideas).
1. Eyeglasses that tells you where you can find it in a mess of a room (Believe me, this would be a best seller amongst people who use them. What’s the point of having a correction eyewear if you can’t find them in the first place?).
2. Shoes with adjustable heels. Very important. Corporate success depends on this.
3. Since everything is smaller and lighter these days, how about cars that you can carry around your pockets. Like capsules in Dragon ball Z, you pop them when you need them. This will solve all the traffic problems in Metro Manila. The saved street space will be used for the actual flow of traffic.
4. Clothes that mutates into whatever you want them to be.
5. Remote control for everything.
6. A pre-cut plastic cover for books. Can’t cut those stupid plastic straight.
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