Reading habits

i remember back then when it was raining and the classes will be suspended,i would look for a book to read from my collection of books i found in the booksale.it includes some classics,spy,adventure,animals etc.when i became a Christian, the bulk of books i read are on the spiritual,inspirational and self helps.now, i want to read again and try to catch up...

this is from a book meme in facebook,i don't have a facebook account as i won't have time to tinker with it.I find this list interesting.this refers to a list of 100 books that BBC created.It says that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ( )
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ()
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ()
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ()
6 The Bible - (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (*)
11 Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott (X)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (*)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (*)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (X)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (*)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis ()
34 Emma - Jane Austen ( )
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne ()
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (*)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery ()
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( )
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (*) I would start but just can't finish
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (*)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (*)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ( )
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession – A.S. Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White ()
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (X)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ()
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ()
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()

Just read a total of 8 from this list...

Gloomy

gloomy Saturday:

Gary V. - Tayong Dalawa

Kapwa lumuluha kapwa nasasaktan
Bakit tinitikis parin ang isa't isa
Lagi na lamang bang ganito ang buhay natin
Di na matitiis paghihirap ng dibdib
Sanay nadarama mo rin ang paghihirap ko
At sana'y pakinggan ang pakiusap ko sa'yo
Hindi ko na hinahangad ang yaman sa mundo
Pagmamahal mo lang ang tanging hinahanap ko
Maaari bang sana'y patawarin mo ako
Pagkat tayong dalawa ay sa isa't isa

Unload

Tonight's devotional was about Maturity...

in the areas of :
-patience
-faith
-love
-giving
-depth in the Bible etc.

It has been so toxic for me for the past 6 months since I have been transferred here,and sadly a lot of negative thoughts,response and a lot of bad things got stored up in my heart that I lost sight of God.I forgot that the things I'm going through were just part of the ultimate design, knowing that all the days ordained for me were written in the book before one of them came to be.

I have to unload these bad things that got stored up:envy,hatred,impatience,anger,bitterness,pride,materialism and self reliance.

With God's help, I hope that it will not also take 6 months or more for me to learn again childlikeness and purity.

rainy day date and movie time

Yesterday we had an awesome date at the UP grounds...it rained again on our picnic date so we had to find another spot. good thing we were allowed to spread our mats at the Quezon Hall :) hahaha. We had a little chat then off to the movies.after several months, we were able to watch a movie!we watched Wolverine.It has subtle intimate scenes but still really violent.Can't be watched by kids.I like the fight scenes of the half brothers and Deadpool on top of the cooling tower.really nice...\m/

full synopsis and spoilers available at imdb.com

State of Thoughtlessness ...

cookie baking time!

to make our dates more memorable and fun, we had a cookie night date, with Gold and Nestor.It was fun and i was never able to share the recipe with Jesse nor Gold until that date. I started making home made no-oven cookies to give to Jesse to encourage him when we were still not steady dating.Me and Gold have a secret ingredient.

Charity...

my job is charity work...i have to work long hours and get nothing much so it's charity...this is the kind your not gonna feel fulfilled coz your not entirely doing it to help others but you want to get money out of it.

i just hope i'll have other options...

anyway, MV Doulos will be back. Maybe given the chance and sponsorship, i'd like to work there too.that will surely be a fulfilling type of charity work.

www.mvdoulos.org