D’Arvit!

I just finished reading Eoin Colfer’s 4th installment on the Artemis Fowl series: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. My siblings and I went to A Different Bookstore and scoured the Shire–err–the store. And guess what? A hundred other Fowl kids–with pun intended–beat us to it.

“Out of stock,” the shopkeepers sheepishly told us.

Yeah, like, duh, as if you had to tell us that.

Honestly.

Due to this unfortunate event, big sis and I resorted to our “secret” bookstore yesterday.

Yay.

A dozen Opal Deceptions were in stock, quite ignored. Thank God for this secret bookstore. [HAha, I won't tell you where it is..] My Dream House would be located beside this bookstore–if not inside it, altogether.

One thing I’d like to blurt out to AF readers and non-readers alike: someone dies in the book… and the Book will NEVER be the same again. Ever.*sob*

My rating for this book: 5 LEP Acorns out of 5. Or 20 trolls out of 2 goblins. Or 2 Richard Geres out of 1 Johnny Depp. Weird. But hopefully you get my drift. Five stars out of five.

Eoin Colfer [pronounced as "Owen"] did a fine job writing this book. If you’ve mastered Colfer’s writing style in a sense that you can predict how he builds up his characters, or how he puts on his twists, turns, and climaxes, then I bet that you will find some parts of the book a tiny, tiny bit predictable. Nevertheless, Eoin Colfer never fails to amuse us along the way. Foaly, my favorite darling centaur, upgrades the LEP System, thus–Wait a sec. Why am I writing this book review in the first place? You guys don’t even know what the hell I’m talking about. Ok. So I’ll shut up for you.

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I juust read this post at Lavender Butterflies, and I’m a bit bothered about that blogging thing. The reason why I haven’t been updating regularly [aside from the fact that my Mom has been quite strict with my PC use] is that I want to write something….. great. Something… relevant to society. Something…. applicable to my readers, and not just to me.

Lebs and I had this series of conversations about blogs last year, every Physics Lab time [haha!], and she said something like: “Ang tingin ko dati sa mga blogs… Para sa mga KSP. Yung mga papansin sa internet…”

This comment was backed by a statement from my good friend, Riza Halili, one day, at our morning table: “Ikaw din, may blog ka, Pam?! Anong sinusulat mo ‘dun? Kasi yung alam kong blogs, puro tungkol lang sa buhay nila, tapos marami din dyan yung nagpapapansin o nagpaparinig sa mga crush nila… Tapos yung mga kaklase ko nga, palaging ‘Uy! Basahin mo yung blog entry ni ____! Tungkol yun sayo!’ Ganun. Papansin…”

Haha. That is the type of blog that I am trying hard to avoid. That is the type of blog writing that I am trying my best to run away from, but I think, slowly, my entries are falling into that pit of literary mediocrity.

I don’t want that to happen. But I guess, being personal in my entries wouldn’t be a BAD thing, right? I mean, just as long as I make sense.

Wait a minute, do I make sense? At all?

PS: I feel POOR. I need MONEY. I’ll post something on that concern on my next entry [w/c is in this PC--a MS Word file... a draft..*LoL*]
PPS: To satisfy the curiosity of those who keep asking, no, the UP Manila results were NOT released yesterday. Damned UP-M will release everything by April 27. I will just enroll in UST, and later on, get a refund if ever I get in UP-M. I hope I get in. I really do. . .