Music Monday: Bullet Dumas
Man, I had this post drafted up months ago, but didn’t have (or make) time to finish it. Well, lookie, it’s finally up. So, have I told you about this guy yet? Wait,…
This week’s pasta adventures. Or not.
Can you eat pasta for lunch for four days in a row? Well, apparently I can.
So, we Filipinos love to eat rice in almost every meal, right? I’m home all day, left to my own devices, so sometimes I do cook rice and sometimes I don’t (usually when I’m too lazy to thaw something from the freezer). Anyway, we ran out of rice and didn’t have time to hit the supermarket. I really don’t get out much on weekdays ’cause I’m supposed to be workin’ at home like a good work-at-home person (hah!). Luckily, I bought a bag of penne the last time we were at the grocery store. Hurray.
I decided to make the easiest thing – and the only pasta thing – I know how to make: tuna pasta!
The World’s Longest Chain of Literary Tattoos by Litographs
I wrote about this project recently and I really loved the whole concept. It involves things I obsess about – literature and tattoos. Plus it’s a project by a company that creates damn cool literature-inspired graphic tees, tote bags, and what not.
Litographs has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its World’s Longest Tattoo Chain project. The company has broken down the entire text of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland into 2,500 unique temporary tattoos. The goal is to get all these 2,500 literary tattoos on the skins of Kickstarter backers and then showcase the photos on Litographs’ tattoo gallery. It’s certainly a unique way of reading the classic novel – a book that, I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve never read before and I’ve had it on my Kindle app for ages.
$100 Book Blast – Contact by Laurisa White Reyes
Just helping get word out about the new book by Laurisa White Reyes. I read two of her books last year – The Rock of Ivanore and The Last Enchanter – and they were pretty fun to read.
About Contact by Laurisa White Reyes
Mira wants to die. She’s attempted suicide twice already and failed. Every time she comes in contact with another person, skin to skin, that person’s psyche uploads into hers. While her psychologist considers this a gift, for Mira it’s a curse from which she cannot escape.
To make matters worse, Mira’s father is being investigated for the deaths of several volunteer test subjects of the miracle drug Gaudium. Shortly after Mira’s mother starts asking questions, she ends up in a coma. Although her father claims it was an accident, thanks to her “condition” Mira knows the truth, but proving it just might get her killed. – Get this on Amazon
Review: Eleanor by Johnny Worthen
Aw man, this is the first book I finished this year. Holy crap. I can’t believe I went from blog tour maniac to zero books in about a year. I feel sad about it really, but it is what it is, and hopefully, this book is just the beginning of more books. Yayyy.
Anyway, here’s what I thought of the book. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway at the end of this post.
We’ve moved house!
Since our wedding, Carpet Head and I have been staying at his bachelor’s pad, a 30+ square-meter apartment that was just right for two people. Well, I don’t think there was enough space for all our shiznit combined, but it was nice and cozy and incredibly convenient, and I had grown attached to it. So attached that I was all, “Boohoo, bye condow” in the last couple of days before we were scheduled to move out. Anyway, a couple of months ago we started renovations at our future nest, which is a little bigger and more hey-there’s-an-extra-room-for-a-future-baby-friendly, so to speak. As with the case of most newlyweds, everybody’s expecting us to bring forth babies any day now. Not happening yet, but we might as well move to a bigger place.
Sooo, the new apartment is done and we’ve moved house! YAY. We had the house blessing yesterday to, you know, keep us protected, usher in the good vibes, keep the bad vibes (or ghosts!) away (You have no powah heyuhh!!), and declare the place our new home. After the priest did his part , which was quite quick, mum-in-law gave me a bowl of shiny coins which I – as lady of the house, I suppose – had to toss in every room of the house, starting from the main entrance, and everyone else scrambled to get their hands on as many coins as they could. The “throwing coins” thing was new to me, but it apparently symbolizes a shower of blessings, prosperity and luck, and you’re basically sharing it with those who manage to grab a coin or two (or a fistful even).
The Circle Hostel, La Union
This is a really late post. Last February, I got to visit La Union for the second time. The first time was with the Warriors back in 2007. This time I went with a different bunch of my frisbee teammates to play ultimate and have some fun under the sun. Carpet Head had a thing during that weekend so that was actually the first time I went out of town for frisbee without him. Pretty exciting stuff. Hah. Actually, I wanted to go because the poster said a lot of pretty cool bands would be playing at the party. That turned out to be a faker because none of those bands showed up. Apparently, there was some sort of misunderstanding or what not and it was a different set of performers who went onstage. No biggie though, we still had fun.
Blog Tour & Giveaway: Fractured Truth by Rachel McClellan
To celebrate the release of the third and final book in her Fractured Light series, author Rachel McClellan is doing a blog tour and an awesome giveaway. Read more about the series and don’t forget to enter the giveaway!
T-House Tagaytay
Carpet Head and I headed up to Tagaytay last Thursday to stay for one night at this place called T House. We just wanted to go away for at least a day for the Holy Week and wanted to stay at a nice place. We were choosing between T House and 8 Suites. What won us over was the food selection at T House. Hah. Show us the noms and we’re there!
The place is just along Calamba Road in Tagaytay City. Coming from Sta. Rosa Road, you turn left on Calamba Road. T House is on the left side so you don’t get a view of the lake and all that, but it doesn’t matter really. The place is really nice, even sans any stunning landscape view.
Can’t say any more so just check out the photos. Yayyyy.
How to beat the heat while working at home
DAMN it’s getting hot in here. And by that, I really mean, holy crap summer’s here to toast us all.
Maybe it’s because we went to Boracay island early in March that I feel like summer has been going on forever. I’ve forgotten that the season of beaches and bikinis only “officially” starts around this time. Luckily, the maddening heat reminded me that school’s out and it’s time to bask (or burn) in the scorching heat and revel in the “YAY no more school therefore there are less cars on the road YAY” traffic. I don’t drive, but, hey, I’m a passenger and sucky traffic gets to me, too.
Things I’m thankful for and loving today
Because it’s Friday and I’m stalling before I need to get to work.
1. Kat Dennings and Eric Andre from 2 Broke Girls
Kat Dennings – I’ve had a girl crush on since I discovered her gorgeous blog header some years back. I know, I’m weird, but that header photo is gold. Plus she’s really funny on 2 Broke Girls. Eric Andre – I just discovered him on that show, too, and he is frickin’ hilarious. I’m loving them both right now.
Check out this clip from the show. A little background – SPOILER ALERT! – Deke (Eric Andre) is trying to win back Max (Kat Dennings) who doesn’t want to date him anymore because he turned out to be a rich dude.
So funny. I haven’t seen any of the episodes from this season.
Spotlight: Apocalypticon by Clayton Smith
I decided to join this book blast because this book reminded me of the movie Zombieland, which was pretty funny and cool. Wish I had the time to read and review the book for this post, but I guess the next best thing is to help spread the word. Checkitout, folks!
By the way, the author will be awarding a $25 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour, and a $25 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn host. Check out the other tour stops and leave a comment.