another book meme =)

99 Books Meme

Here’s a list of 99 books that I may or may not have read (or even desire to read). The rules are as follows;

- Bold the ones you’ve read
- Italicize the ones you want to read
- Leave unaltered the ones that you aren’t interested in or haven’t heard of

And away we go…

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (JRR Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (JRR Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (JK Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (George Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
68. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
69. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
70. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
71. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
72. Shogun (James Clavell)
73. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
74. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
75. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
76. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
77. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
78. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
79. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
80. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
81. Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck)
82. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
83. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
84. Emma (Jane Austen)
85. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
86. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
87. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
88. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
89. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
90. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
91. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
92. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
93. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
94. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
95. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
96. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
97. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
98. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
99. Ulysses (James Joyce)

of nerds, dorks, geeks, and big bang theory

I’m a geek at heart. And I have this thing for nerds. These two reasons dictated my desire to watch The Big Bang Theory. The show is centered around two brilliant but socially awkward physicists (geeks, in short). They have this sexy, blonde neighbor who moved across the hall. These two geeks have two friends that are even geekier. How’s that for a storyline?

The scripts are filled with scientific references some people might not understand. But really, you don’t have to be a nerd to appreciate the science rumor. The jokes are delivered with dry humor which makes it even funnier. Just the right dose of geekiness and hilarity that I need.

a little something from the show

Finally, a TV show for me. A comedy with wit and heart, and for a change – lovable geeky brains too.

the bookworm edition

1) What book are you reading right now?

Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill, by Napoleon Hill.

2) What is the fourth sentence on page 133 of that book?

Energy cannot be organized without the habit of concentration of all the faculties on one thing at a time.

3) What is one book that changed your life?

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Made me a think twice before saying/doing something.

4) What is one book that you read again and again?

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

5) What three books would you want on a desert island?

a) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
b) The complete Harry Potter Series, by J. K Rowling
c) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

6) What is the funniest book you’ve ever read?

Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams; Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

7) What book made you cry the most?

Hmmmm, A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

What book do you wish had been written?

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt.

9) What would be the title of your autobiography?

Why do you have to negate everything?

10) What book do you keep meaning to read?

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie and Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

11) What five books should everyone be required to read?

1) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2) Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
3) How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
4) The Street Lawyer, John Grisham
5) Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger

12) What book was the biggest waste of your time?

I can’t remember the book title and author. It’s about this agent who saved the Prince Charles and Princess D’s lives. Arrrghhh.. Can’t even remember the entire plot.

(I think the book was authored by either Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum)

13) What was your favorite book as a child?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl. I loved it so much, in fact, that I pocketed my cousin’s copy, and I still have it.

14) What book have you read the most?

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

15) Is there any book’s ending that you would like to rewrite? What would you change about the original ending?

Would change and have changed. Harry Potter should not have married Ginny Weasley. For me, she’s just and always be a swooning Harry Potter fan.

of lawyers and the things they do

Lawyers, dry humor, easy sexual bantering, biting sarcasm, eccentric characters, offbeat sensibility, great writing, and gorgeous girls sum up what I like in a show. I’m talking about Boston Legal here. Aside from the reasons I just enumerated, I love the show because of James Spader and William Shatner. Putting the two together in one TV show is one of the most brilliant decisions ever made in the history of TV (this is an according to me statement). Just so you would know what I’m talking about, here’s a clip from the caves of Youtube:

And yeah, I have a DVD of the series.

59 things…

another episode of my lists.

1. learn how to drive. I know I need to have a car to actually think about learning how to drive.

2. watch all episodes of each of the seasons on my list of favorite TV shows.

3. learn how to LET. THINGS. GO.

4. learn and actually speak five words from ten different languages.

5. read 5 books on subjects I know nothing about.

6. learn the stock market. I don’t want to be an investor or a trader. I just love the idea of me talking in numbers.

7. take a photo everyday. Something to document the passing of time.

8. live in another country.

9. do 10 things that scare me.

10. backpack in Europe and visit all the museums, churches, ruins, etc

11. ride on a train

12. see Kaka play in person.

13. donate blood.

14. bake someone a birthday cake from scratch

15. help out a complete stranger.

16. put all Usernames and Passwords into a notebook.

17. take family portraits with my mother’s side, and my father’s side.

18. watch all Academy Awards winners in the Best Foreign Language Film Category.

19. watch the films that won/were nominated in the Best Picture category.

20. read Time magazines top 100 books. (95 to go)

21. send flowers to my nanay for no reason

22. Ride in a hot air balloon.

23. watch Coldplay, Jason Mraz, Nickelback live.

24. be a tourist in my own country.

25. ride a police car.

26. go skydiving.

27. solve a sudoku puzzle in less than 10 minutes. (my average time is 13 minutes)

28. have my own library.

29. create a time capsule. (any suggestions on how to start one?)

30. ride a wave. (aka surfing)

31. play Your Love by Alamid on the guitar.

32. give 100,000 grains of rice @ freerice.com

33. sleep under the stars.

34. watch a meteor shower.

35. start a business

36. spend an insane amount of money in one day. (not my money though..nyahaha)

37. run a marathon for a good cause.

38. impersonate a famous person.

39. buy a domain

40. visit a strip club.

41. drink like there’s no tomorrow

42. beat some at a game of chess. (I know! I’m stupid!)

43. sleep for 12 hours straight

44. take a boxing class

45. learn how to swim.. WHOAH!

46. take a self-defense class.

47. memorize a poem.

48. completely eliminate SH*T from my vocabulary.

49. go rock climbing.

50. learn a new word everyday.

51. not speak a single word for 1 whole day

52. Watch a sunrise from Machu Picchu

53. reconnect with old friends.

54. teach someone to read.

55. pray for someone.

56. learn to speak Cebuano

57. learn sign language

58. get in a fight and win it!

59. persuade someone to make a list.