My January

I love reading and I love watching movies. The first “book” I started and finished for 2010 is a “Kikomachine Komix”. It’s the 5th installment, titled “Alab ng Puso (Sa Dibdib Mo’y Buhay)”.

Kikomachine Blg. 5 Alab ng Puso (Sa Dibdib Mo'y Buhay)

I love reading Kikomachine because it never fails to make me laugh. I find myself laughing so hard every page or so. My mom often checks in on me, thinking I’ve gone totally bonkers. It’s a great stress reliever.

*Thanks Marjun for lending me this.

Funny that I haven’t been to the cinemas for this year yet. Last weekend I decided to watch a movie on my laptop. My movie collection keeps on growing in number but I always lack the time to watch any of them. I decided on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, which stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

At first, I was really confused (those who already watched this would know what I mean). I was really lost so I had a eureka moment at the end of the movie. What can I say, it’s a great film. And I love the thought that even if they erased each other from their memories, they still met, and fell in love. The power of love: if you’re really meant to be together, you will find your way no matter what happens. You cannot escape it.

Wish List

I’m a self-confessed bookworm and I want a mini-library in my room. So here is a list of the books I want to acquire. Anybody willing to give me a gift, just refer them to this list. Those in bold are at top priority.

1. Have a Little Faith – Mitch Albom
2. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
3. Chasing Harry Winston – Lauren Weisberger
4. The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
5. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho *
6. Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho *
7. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Paulo Coelho *
8. A Place Called Here – Cecelia Ahern
9. The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
10. The Te of Piglet – Benjamin Hoff
11. Best Friends Forever – Jennifer Weiner
12. Boy Meets Girl – Meg Cabot
13. Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult
14. Collected Stories – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. How To Be Single – Liz Tuccillo
16. I Take This Man – Valerie Frankel
17. If You Could See Me Now – Cecelia Ahern
18. Kiss an Angel – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
19. Last Chance Saloon – Marian Keyes
20. Laughable Loves – Milan Kundera
21. Life Before Man – Maargaret Atwood
22. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
23. Life: Selected Quotations – Paulo Coelho
24. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
25. Love The One You’re With – Emily Giffin
26. Making Mischief – Elizabeth Young
27. Match Me If You Can – Susan EliZabeth Phillips
28. Me and Mr. Darcy – Alexandra Potter
29. My Best Friend’s Girl – Dorothy Koomson
30. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
31. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
32. Nights in Rodanthe – Nicholas Sparks
33. No Time for Goodbyw – Linwood Barlclay
34. Of Love and Other Demons – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35. One Fifth Avenue – Candace Bushnell
36. Persuading Annie – Melissa Nathan
37. Sam’s Letters to Jennifer – James Patterson
38. Slowness – Milan Kundera
39. Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – James Patterson
40. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
41. The Boy Next Door – Meg Cabot
42. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
43. The Fifth Mountain – Paulo Coelho
44. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
45. The Girlfriend Curse – Valerie Frankel
46. The Judas Strain – James Rollins
47. The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
48. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy – Tim Burton
49. The Not-So-Perfect Man – Valerie Frankel
50. The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
51. The Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman
52. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
53. The Vagina Monologues – Eve Ensler
54. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
55. There’s No Place Like Here – Cecelia Ahern
56. Then We Came to the End – Joshua Ferris
57. Watchmen – Alan Moore
58. You Don’t Love Me Yet – Jonathan Lethem
59. Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
60. Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid – Lemony Snicket
61. Eragon – Christopher Paolini
62. Eldest – Christopher Paolini
63. Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
64. Why Do Men Have Nipples? – Mark Leyner

* I already had these books but weren’t returned when borrowed.